HELLO! The story is being updated… FINALLY. I had lost my writing mojo there for a while, a real long while. But I hope that this chapter makes up for the wait. I really have no excuse, I really don't. So for that, I am extremely sorry. So on with the reason you even clicked on the title.
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Alex led Jack through a maze of people, periodically looking back at him to make sure he was still following. He laughed internally to himself as he knew that Jack had not a clue that he was just simply being messed with. Truthfully, Alex had no clue what treasure, or weapons he was talking about, but wasn't about to miss an opportunity to mess with someone.
Alex was suddenly pulled down by Jack who was looking quite panicked. "What the hell are you doing! Alex demanded as Jack pulled him to the side of a building.
Jack pointed out to some more very touristy looking people as he explained. "I have to beat those people to the treasure, because if they get I won't have any respect without."
"Oh." Was all Alex managed to say. He was starting to feel bad for Jack, but soon any feelings of sorrow or remorse left his being as Jack opened his big mouth.
"I wouldn't be able to rule the world without that treasure, and be Evil Lord, Jack Spicer! Then I will crush my enemies like worms!" He then followed with his attempt of an evil laugh, but started coughing in the middle.
Alex looked at this guy in disbelief, as he then started to restart his evil laugh, this one much worse. "Can we go now?" impatience evident in his voice. "We after all need to beat them to the prize."
"Onward!" Jack then exclaimed, pushing Alex back into the throng of people.
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Izzy and Rai walked in silence along the private land, to talk less out in the open of curious eyes. Kimiko followed silently behind them, feeling awkward enough for both the brothers. She couldn't put her finger on why she felt awkward, she just did.
Maybe because she didn't know the reason he hasn't spoken to his family in so long, or because she felt out of place with them. But then again, maybe it was because she now felt like the third wheel, which isn't really noticed, or acknowledged till it needed to be. Kimiko didn't completely mind that though in this situation. She wasn't the one who needed to fix this. She was pulled out of her mind when the two brothers stopped suddenly in front of her, and she had to skid to a halt to keep from running into them.
Taking in her surroundings, she realized they were now enclosed in tall grass, and a much clearer cut path, was paved in the middle, leading to a clearing. In the circular clearing, a tent was set up. Kimiko then studied it more, and came to realize it was actually a teepee.
"So, tell me what happened?" Izzy spoke up, breaking the long silence. He stood there with his arms crossed, looking sternly at Raimundo.
"I ran." Rai said, breaking away from the gaze of his brother. Guilt was consuming him. He felt guilt for leaving without telling anyone, without telling anyone what happened. "I was made a deal I couldn't refuse. It's probably the best decision I made though Izzy, and I don't regret it."
The conviction in his voice shocked both Izzy and Kimiko, but Kimiko recovered first, because she could tell how happy he was training under Chase. But she asked the question she had been wondering since she met him, and the one Izzy had been wondering since he left. "Raimundo, why did you just leave though? How could you tell no one?"
"What she said!" Izzy followed behind her, his anger bubbling up.
"I..I.." he stuttered out, finding his mouth dry and his words a jumbled mess in his throat. Fortunately for Raimundo, they were lucky enough to be interrupted.
The voices were the first clues that someone was approaching, causing Raimundo to pull his hood up. Soon the sound of footsteps on sand joined in, as the mystery people came closer. Then just as suddenly, the voices stopped talking as they looked up to see other people already in the clearing.
"Que diabos Lina!" Izzy then yelled out.
Kimiko looked at the girl, and did in fact recognize her as Raimundo's sister. But it was clear that she grew up since the picture. Her hair was much longer, and Lina was taller than she was. Her hair seemed to be a darker shade of red now, but still natural Kimiko could tell. Anyone could tell she easily belonged in the Pedrosa family.
Although it appeared that Izzy was more upset by the sight of her companion. Some guy, who was kinda cute, was with her, but was quite the hands on type. His hands didn't move from Lina's hips even as her brother glared daggers at him. He had shaggy light brown hair, with his bangs just covering his eyebrows that complemented his light brown eyes.
They soon started yelling in their language leaving Kimiko annoyed, because she always did like hearing about drama, she wasn't sure why. She made a not to herself to have Raimundo teach her Portuguese, so she could understand what was going on if such a situation ever presented itself like this again.
Raimundo then came up behind Kimiko, but didn't say anything to her. He was pissed off by the conversation he was hearing. She could tell by how tense he was when she looked back at him.
What Kimiko was not expecting however was for the conversation to turn on her, and in English. "You are here with her!" Lina yelled pointing a finger at Kimiko. "So clearly I am not the only one who ditched the stupid festival to have more fun!"
"Excuse me!" Kimiko barked at her, but didn't get too far before Izzy yelled right back at her.
"Maybe you missed a third person here!" he defended motioning towards Raimundo, who was still wearing his hood, avoiding looking at Lina. "And maybe you forgot that you are not even supposed to be talking to this idiot!"
"He isn't an idiot. His name is Dev!" she screamed, before putting a smug smile on her face. "It's not like you control my life, I can make my own decisions. I wasn't the only one who thought that way."
Izzy then turned towards to Rai and Kimiko. "This is your fault. You created this."
Raimundo pointed to himself, as his head tilted to the side, but Kimiko spoke up again. "He is right you know."
"Thank you!" Izzy said exasperated. "You created a monster here."
Lina looked at her brother and Kimiko very confused. "Why are blaming other people for problems that don't even exist?" she then looked Kimiko up and down. "Who are you?"
Kimiko didn't like how snotty she asked the question, and was starting to get the slightest bit defensive. "My name is Kimiko." She stated no emotion in her voice.
"Kimiko, what a pretty name." Dev then said his first words of the night, which could have easily been his last, but Kimiko didn't feel like starting a fight, yet.
She instead settled for glaring at him, but Lina was giving her an equally powerful stare. She wasn't happy about the fact that her 'boyfriend' was hitting on some other girl in front of her. She was even more pissed off that he seemed to be practically undressing this girl with his eyes.
Of course this wasn't lost on Raimundo either. Anger and his protective streak were starting to kick in, as he stepped up more protectively nest to Kimiko. He wasn't sure if he would be able to avoid punching this creep. He actually wasn't sure how Kimiko didn't start some sort of fight yet.
"You better watch your step here Dev." Izzy threatened, knowing his reputation of being a man whore.
"Izzy stop it!" Lina ordered, but only got an eye roll from him. She instead decided to shift the conversation from herself, and the possible trouble she could get into, to the strangers with her brother. "Who are you two exactly anyway?"
Izzy then turned to Raimundo and gave him a look that pretty much said take the hood off. Kimiko then enforced the look by hitting him on his shoulder. "Well!" she barked impatiently.
He let out a very heavy sigh. He already met one more sibling than he would have liked for the night, but knew that if he didn't take his hood off, Kimiko or Izzy would, possibly taking a chunk of his hair with the hood. He then decided that taking off his hood might also scare off this Dev guy that was apparently a snake.
"Oh my god!" Lina spoke out in disbelief, as she soon recognized her older brother before his hood was completely off. She jerked out of the hold of Dev, and ran up and jumped onto her brother.
Questions flowed out of her mouth, as she clung to him, still not completely sure he was there. But he was, and she was so happy. She had always looked up to him, and wanted to be just like him, and when he had left, she was broken, and started to act out, as if she was filling in for him well he was gone.
"Um, who are you?" Dev asked stepping closer to where everyone else was standing.
"Raimundo her other brother." Rai spat at him, venom in his words. All he knew was that Izzy didn't like this guy, and that usually meant that the no one else did either.
"How nice." Was his sarcastic response. "Thanks for killing the night for me."
"No problem." Kimiko then responded, her own sarcasm working overtime.
"Maybe you could turn the night around for me?" he then winked at her, putting a hand on her arm.
Kimiko stepped back, yanking her arm from his hand, and was all ready to hit him, but Raimundo beat her to it, literally throwing Lina at Izzy before stepping in front of Kimiko. He landed a solid punch to his gut that made Kimiko flinch as she heard the impact. Raimundo whispered something to Dev before pushing him to the ground, and turning back to everyone else smiling innocently.
Kimiko saw Dev stand back up, and he looked menacingly at Raimundo, and started to walk up to him. Kimiko, wanting a fight now, and wanted to hit him too, pushed passed Rai, before Dev could attempt his sloppy attack to Raimundo, who wasn't facing him.
She blocked his right hook with her forearm, before punching him square in the nose, giving him an instant bloody nose. She then grabbed the material of his shirt, and drove his already aching gut down on her knee, before dropping him to the ground.
He was yelling at her in Portuguese, but she didn't care. She walked up to Raimundo, and gave her own innocent smile. "I couldn't let you have all the fun. I like hitting people too."
Raimundo laughed at her, but Lina broke up the moment. "You can't just do that!" she yelled at the two of them before she started rambling at them in Portuguese not realizing the eye rolls she was receiving.
"What did you say to him?" Izzy then asked looking at Rai.
Rai gave his devilish grin as he answered. "I told him that if he got back up, he would only experience a world of pain, and a bloody nose." He then put his arm around Kimiko's shoulders and puller her against his side. "And he sure as hell got it."
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The dragons in training had finally managed to drag themselves out of the crowded streets of the town. They needed to regroup and figure out the most logical place for the weapon, and hopefully be on their way to the treasure soon after that.
"Well let's think." Jermaine then stopped, as they neared a beach. "Omi's element is water, so I am guessing that it will most likely be by water, or even in it."
"The ocean!" Omi yelled in excitement as he was about to charge down to the water front but Clay grabbed him by his abnormally large head before he could.
"It ain't gonna be that obvious though Omi, but it will be obvious, as confusing as that sounds." Clay said gently to him, trying not to make him to upset.
The monks then went into their own minds to think of where to look, that would be obvious, but at the same time hidden to a normal person. After all water is pretty much everywhere. There were water fountains, fountains, a pool, ponds, and bird baths. The list could go on and on if allowed enough time to think. The monks didn't have that kind of time though however.
Omi then perked up as a thought struck him. "There was a fountain in the center of town, a very big grand one." He said pointing to the town, where you could indeed see the water bubbling out the top. "It is obvious, but not."
"Well what are we waiting for, let's go get the little guy his weapon." Jermaine said stomping off through the sand back to town.
"I don't think it is going to go as smooth as jus' that partner." Called Clay after him as he started to follow him.
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"Now Jack, the treasure was just a simple legend around here. All the locals know about it, but never bothered searching for anymore, it made quite a few people go nuts." Alex easily lied to Jack. "There was a ritual that you have to do in order to have the location of the treasure revealed to you, but no one could ever do it correctly."
"Really, why is that?" Jack said picking earwax out of his ear, only half listening.
"Well it is really complicated, and it is said only a master genius could do it." Alex baited. He knew Jack was a self- proclaimed evil genius because the guy said it enough, but was guessing that not too many people agreed with him.
"I have got this in the bag! Those losers are nowhere as smart as me!" Jack smiled wide, pointing a thumb at his chest.
"Yeah." Alex replied unenthusiastically.
However, Alex soon faked excitement, as he told Jack what he needed to do. "Okay Jack, you need to step into that fountain over there," Alex pointed to the town center, " and then you need to walk counterclockwise in the fountain as you raise your hands above your head." Jack then cut him off.
"That doesn't sound complicated at all." Jack said suspiciously, but still not seeing he was being bamboozled.
"No, that's just the beginning. The legend says that when you do this, a voice speaks to you and tells you what to do after that, that supposedly only the intellectual minds can comprehend ." Alex slapped Jack on the shoulder, "But that shouldn't be a problem for you."
"Outta my way." An overconfident Jack said, all cool like(or so he thought).
Alex watched him walk up to the fountain, but suddenly decided to add something extra to the whole charade. "I almost forgot, before the voice speaks to you, you must say very loud: 'Eu sou um idiota'."
"What does that mean?" Jack looked confused at him.
"Oh, it means I am a believer." Alex flashed him two thumbs up, hoping it would make him go into the fountain faster. He really needed the laugh that this fool would give him.
And soon enough Jack was walking around in the fountain, hands raised, chanting 'Eu sou um idiota' at the top of his lungs. Alex had to place a hand over his mouth to keep hi self from bursting out laughing too soon, so he wouldn't let Jack know he was in the middle of a prank.
Soon enough, people were starting to stop and stare. A few started to point Jack out to their friends, or just random people around them. Once the majority of the festival was now staring at Jack, people all started laughing out loud at practically the same time.
Among the people laughing at Jack were none other than, Omi, Clay, and Jermaine.
"What the hell is that sucker doing!" Jermaine breathed out, attempting to catch his breath, but failing as a new round of laughs erupted out of his mouth.
Omi had a hand across his stomach, clenching it, as he pointed at Jack. "He doesn't even need our help to turn him into a town jester."
Neither Clay nor Dojo could even manage a response out as they were both laughing so hard that no noise came out of their mouths. Dojo was very close to fall out Clay's hat, but somehow managed to stay put as Clay's hands were resting on his knees, making him hunch over.
Jack had stopped to realize that nothing was happening, but that was the least of his problems, as he turned an impressive shade of red. He jumped out of the fountain towards Alex, anger replacing the embarrassment.
"What's the big idea!" he yelled pointing his finger in Alex's face.
"I told you that it turned people crazy." He managed without breaking out into unmanaged amounts of laughter.
Meanwhile ninety-degrees from Jack and Alex, the dragons in training saw them talking. "Jack and Raimundo are in cooties!" Omi declared, and charged in without a second thought. "They will not steal my weapon!"
"That's cahoots! " Clay and Jermaine took off after Omi, not with the same intent as Omi however. They more wanted to keep another scene from happening, this time with them in the center of it. After all, no one really likes tourist that much anyway.
They did not catch up to Omi on time before he jumped, and tackled 'Raimundo' to the ground, sending Jack into the fetal position after hearing Omi's scream of conquest.
"I will not let you steal my weapon out from under my hair Raimundo!" Omi yelled, grabbing the collar of his shirt.
"Que diabos, saia! O que você está falando!" Alex tried shoving Omi off of him, put the grip he had on his shirt wasn't budging.
Omi was then ripped off of Alex by Jermaine, well Clay yanked Jack up from the ground by his jacket, and casually waving at people as if letting them know everything was A okay. People slowly went back to their activities not sure what was happening.
Jack, Clay, Jermaine, and Omi soon started bickering back and forth about the treasure, and weapons, forgetting about Alex, or Raimundo as three thought he was. He was silently replaying in his mind what Omi yelled at him after he tackled him.
'Did that yellow guy just call me Raimundo.' He thought to himself. 'How does he know Raimundo.' He then laughed to himself, 'of course Raimundo was on the bad side of whoever this guy was.'
He decided that he wanted to get to the bottom of this. He knew they had to be talking about his brother Raimundo, because they thought that he was Rai, and they did look very much alike.
"Hey!" he yelled, shutting up everyone and gaining their attention. "What is happening here."
"Wait a minute, you are not Raimundo!" Omi said baffled. "Are you an imposter?"
"I knew you looked familiar!" Jack snapped his fingers in realization.
"Yo, if you aren't Raimundo, then who are you?" Jermaine shot out, pushing Jack out of the way.
"Oh, no. You answer my question first." Alex negotiated. "How in the world do you know Raimundo?"
The three dragons looked at each other, deciding if they wanted to explain themselves first. They did silenty agree to tell first, knowing that it was their fault that they even ran into such a situation.
"Well, ya see, we sorta, um, fight him." Clay's statement came out sounding more like a question, as he scratched the side of his head, knowing that his explanation sounded dumb.
"Uh huh." Alex muttered. "That sounds… I don't know what that sounds like."
"Well you see," Jermaine now tried, "we do in fact fight him, as in hand to hand combat. Basically he is an apprentice to a very powerful enemy of ours."
Jermaine sounded much more confident in his explanation than Clay had, although he didn't feel confident at all. He felt more awkward.
There was silence before Alex broke out into laughter, doing nothing to hide his amusement. "You guys are just as loco as him!" he laughed as he pointed at Jack. "You guys cannot be serious!"
Dojo then stuck out of Clay's hat joining the conversation. "We are kid. Now who are you?"
Alex shut right up after seeing Dojo, nothing giving away his current state of mind. He eyed these people, and lizard, trying to decide if he was going crazy after spending so long with them. They were still waiting for his answer however, and he finally worked up something that wasn't courage, but more of acceptance that he may have been going crazy.
"I'm Alex. I am Raimundo's brother."
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