Episode 2: Hot Introduccion

*RIIIINNNNNGGGGGG-SMACK*

"I'M NOT AWAKE!" *flop* "ZZzzzzzzz"

His eyes started to flicker. He knew it was time to wake up. Unfortunately, his brother did not get the message. Riff groggily wake up from his bed. He went to check what the time was, but his stupid brother had smashed the clock.

Stupid brother.

Riff did not want to tempt fate, no matter how sleepy he is, he must get ready for school. As for his brother however…NO, it's his first day as well, I must wake him! This I swear.

"Chico, wake up."

"….."

No response.

"Ey, Chico, Wake up!"

"mmmm…mm…."

"CHICO!"

"MMmmmuuuunyaaa…asdadadmdmdm…"

Ok, step dos. Riff started pushing Ricky off the bed with force. One foot at the time, he pushed the fire-bending teen over the edge of the bed. Slowly, and painfully, Ricky gets rolled over to the edge of the bed. Finally, Riff made one last push and completely allow his brother to fall off the bed.

"I'M NOT A HERO!" *thud*

The plan came unsuccessful, Ricky went back to sleep.

"Dios Mio". Riff got out of the bed and left the room. He headed straight to the bathroom and took a shower. The third Cospel son rushed straight back to their room and flicked splashes of water to his little brother's face.

"Dad IS NOT A HERO….Wait, what? OW, my head!" The young Cospel looked around. He was on the floor and his head hurts, as so was part of his body. Why was that?

"Pendejo, get ready for school, you're gonna be late."

"What!? It's today?"

"Did you not hear what Ray said last night?"

"I thought he was joking!"

"Well, it's no joke, chico, now, get ready and I'll leave you behind."

"You mean "or I'll leave you behind", right?"

"No, I'm leaving you behind; my school is in a different direction from yours." With that, he gave Ricky his toiletries and pushed him outside of the room.

"Morning, chico"

Ricky turned to see his eldest brother having breakfast, already dressed up for work.

"Brother, why couldn't I just start my term next week?"

"I did want you to enroll a week before the school year started, but unfortunately, we had to push you for an earlier date. The next semester is in 3 months and I don't want you to be lazing around." Ray checked his watch, "And with that, I bid you an adios. Be good in school, or at least don't get caught."

"Wait, how will I get to school!?"

"The Rivera kid will help you with that." He quickly drank his coffee, took his plate to the sink and left the room. A moment later, Riff left their room and exited their home.

"Just great." Ricky sighed. He headed to the bathroom and took a shower.

After he was all dressed up, Ricky exited his room and was met by his second brother, helping himself to some snacks.

"Morning, Rin,"

"Wrong," Rin stated, "Good night." The second son of the Cospel stood up and patted the young teens head.

"You're going back to sleep?"

"Good luck in school, chico." He then made his way into his room and shut the door behind him.

Ricky heard a knock from the entrance door and opened it.

"Morning, Ricky." Manny greeted sleepily.

"Ola, Manny."

"Ready to get to school.." Manny suddenly shuddered, trying his best to force the word out of his mouth, "Early".

"Let's go," Ricky sighed.

"Frida is waiting downstairs."

"Lead the way, gato."

They made their way downstairs, wondering why there were no elevators for the apartment. Outside, Ricky and Manny met with the blue-haired rocker. Her face was similar to their expression. Sleepy.

"Ola, Frida"

"Morning, Frida"

"Hey guys. Ready to get to school..Early," she said, shuddering at the last word.

"I just said that."

"He just said that." Ricky pointed to Manny.

"Then let's get going."

The walk was pretty boring. The three were too sleepy to say anything. That was until Manny noticed something.

"Ricky, why are you carrying a bag? No one brings their bag to school."

"Ugh, Excuse me?" Frida said, insulted by her best friends comment.

"You don't have anything in that bag."

"Oh yeah," She opened her bag to reveal the contents, "I GOT CHURROS!"

Ricky looked at the fly hovering around the snack, "How long has that been there?"

Frida just shrugged and ate one. She choked and then swallowed the expired churros. "Hehe, still good."

"Anyway, I'm carrying my father's book. My brother told me I need to bring it everywhere starting today. Uncle Dolfo said the same thing as well." Ricky than took out a thick, musty red book. On the cover, it said, "Testamento Del Fuego" in gold encrusted letterings.

"Whoa, let me see that," Manny took the book and tried to open it. But to no avail, the book remained shut. Every attempt to open it, even to the extent of turning into El Tigre, was futile.

"How do you get this thing to open?"

"You can't," Ricky took back the book and placed it back into his bag, "Only El Fuego can open that, but not now. For now, school."

As they make their way to school, they were met with a tall, grumpy looking man. He eyed Ricky's two friends with disdain, but suddenly realized something that turned his expression full of worrisome and surprise.

"R-Rivera! Suarez! You are here? EARLY!?" The vice-principal, Chakal, could not believed his eyes. He started mumbling on how the probability for either of them to come to school 20 minutes early was unheard of.

"Umm..Vice-Principal Chakal?"

There was no response; the vice-principal was too in shock.

"Let's just go inside." The three teens continued their way into school, leaving Chakal to say one last thing

"Does anyone smell expired Churros?"

"C'mon, dude, you gotta let me see it!" Manny begged.

"Later, right now I just want to focus on where my classroom is."

"You mean our classroom. Dude, there's like only one classroom for each grade, man."

"Don't you think that is a little strange?" Frida suddenly asked.

Too focused with the task at hand, Ricky did not notice the gothic girl mumbling to herself about revenge. They both crashed and fell on top of each other.

"Ugghh, my head. That's the second time this morning." Ricky opened his eyes. A girl dressed fully in black was on him. She woke up, shook her head and looked at Ricky. She had red-blood eyes, her hair was black with deep purple highlights, and her clothes were all black, except her leggings were black and purple stripes. The girl's expression was surprised at first, then turned to annoyance. She stood up and pointed to the boy.

"Watch where you are going or you will suffer the vendetta of Black CUE-ah- Zoe Avez!"

"Zoe?"

The goth girl turned her sights to the Rivera child, "Manny!", Then her sights locked to her nemesis, "Frida Suarez!"

"Zoe Avez!"

"Frida Suarez!"

"Zoe Avez"

This went on for a couple of minutes until an announcement from the school's speaker was made.

"EVERYONE, REPORT TO THE ASSEMBLY! NOW!"

The two nemeses stopped what they were doing and headed towards their separate path.

"Did I..missed something?" Ricky asked

"Ah, it's just some sort of old rivalry or another. Anyway, show me the book!"

"FINE, if this will get you off my back." Ricky reached for his bag that he dropped and check the contents, only to close the bag back up and started walking to where the rest of the students were heading.

"Chico, where are ya heading?" Manny asked

Ricky turned to Manny, smiling nervously, "Assembly, of course. Didn't you hear what the announcement said? You must be tired. We can check out the book later. What book, no I don't know any book, you crazy..umm.. Let's go."

Manny and Frida merely looked at each other and shrugged, following the suspicious Ricky.

Ricky was panicking. Dios Mio, where in hell is it? Wait, I know! That Zoe girl must have taken it. Okay after the assembly, I'm going straight to her. That's right. Problem solved. But even with the plan, Ricky did not stop panicking. Too many things could go wrong. He took a deep breath and composed himself. One at a time, chico. First the assembly, and then Zoe. Hehe, that rhymes..STOP THAT.

The assembly was packed. Manny, Frida and Ricky managed to snag a seat. Ricky looked around to see if Zoe was present. Where was she?

"Dude, what are you looking at?"

"What? Oh, nothing. I'm just looking at nothing. Yeah. Nothing in particular. I'm not looking for anything specific like a person in black and purple clothing color with red eyes and pale skin, with long flat hair which covered half of her face or anything like that..No, nothing in particular..heh"

"Hmm..Something tells me you are looking for something."

"Whaaaaat..noo, you be kiddin-"

Suddenly, the entrance of the assembly blew opened. Standing there was a girl in some bird-themed outfit.

"Look," said one student, "It's Black Cuervo!"

Black Cuervo started shooting her laser around and flew to the main stage.

"WHO TOOK MY BOOK," she bellowed.

Book? Ricky looked up to Black Cuervo. She had the same color coordination as the girl she was looking for, but the visor that concealed her face totally got him confused.

Manny stood up and got ready for battle. He turned his belt buckle and transformed into, EL TIGRE.

"Black Cuervo, prepare for-oof"

Cuervo swatted El Tigre away. The tiger hero flew across the stage and landed in one of the speaker, electrocuting him over and over again. The dark raven villain pulled El Tigre out and looked into his eyes.

"El Tigre! You had stolen my heart and now you had stolen my book? You will pay!"

"Wait, I didn't –" it was too late to say anything else as she threw the feline hero to one side of the room.

"Dude, Manny is getting creamed there. You gotta help him!" Frida pleaded. Ricky was wrapping his head around what the supervillain said. Heart? Book? Stolen? Ricky then realized something. He took out the mistaken book a looked into it. It was a scrapbook about…El Tigre!?

Then it came to him. This belonged to Zoe. Black Cuevro is looking for this and had claimed that it was hers….so that means..!

Ricky shut the book and put it back into the bag.

"Frida, I want you to hold on to this bag until I give the signal. And by signal, I mean I'll yell at you to give me the book. You got that?"

"You want me to do what now?"

"Do this and I buy you a new churro bag."

"DEAL!" Frida took the bag. "My old one was getting stale anyway."

Ricky turned towards Black Cuervo. She was still busy beating up Manny. Good…I mean, I gotta act fast. With everyone in a state of panic, Ricky took advantage to change into his alter ego.

"Transform." Engulfed in flames, the fire dissipated, revealing El Fuego.

El Fuego jumped across the assembly and landed in front of the stage.

"Black Cuevro!" he called out.

Black Cuevro turned her head towards her latest victim. She threw El Tigre towards her foe. El Fuego managed to catch him.

"Doing well, Manny?" Manny nodded weakly. "Good." Ricky then threw El Tigre away and crashed into a seat near Frida.

"Manny, guessed what?" she said while she held the bag, "I'm getting a new bag!"

Back to the two super-powered teens, El Fuego called Black Cuevro out.

"Black Cuevro, I am giving you a chance to surrender your-" A laser beam shot at El Fuego, causing to fly across the room. He got up, hurting from the shot.

"Last chance, Cuevro-" it was then a speaker fell on top of him, which then exploded. Fuego shook himself and get ready for battle.

"That's it, NO MORE WARNINGS!"

Black Cuevro shot missiles towards the fire-bending hero, but El Fuego managed to defend himself by summoning a wall of fire. El Fuego then blazed through the fire, flying straight to Black Cuevro. Unable to react in time, El Fuego tackled his raven-themed foe, causing both of them to fall. Cuevro was able to slip passed her opponent's grasp and flew away. She then circled around her fiery foe, shooting laser beams at him. As soon as Fuego landed, he swiftly dodged the beams, moving himself around like a dance of death WHILE throwing fireballs at the bird supervillain. Fuego managed to hit one of her wings, which cause a disturbance in her flight pattern, leading to her crash landing. Groggy, El Fuego stood before Black Cuevro.

"Now, Cuevro, you have two choices. One, I could turn you in to the cops for your bounty. I hear you are worth quite a fortune." Black Cuevro glared at El Fuego, "On the other hand, you could tell me where my book is, and in exchange I could give back your book." This peak her interest.

"What book?" she bluffed.

"This one. FRIDA, THE BOOK!"

Frida took the bag and threw it across the room, heading straight towards El Fuego. Without looking, Fuego raised his hand and captured the bag. He opened it to reveal Zoe's book. Zoe's face twisted into a horrified expression, but it could not be seen behind her visor.

"So, what will it be," Ricky leaned in close to his defeated foe, "Zoe Avez?"

He knew. That was all that is going through her mind. She remembered where she hid the book. Zoe pointed to a bag just behind the stage. Ricky followed the direction. He looked behind the stage and found his book.

"Awesome." He took his book and threw Zoe's towards her.

"Let that be a lesson to you evil-doers!" El Fuego started. "For I, El Fuego, Miracle City's Greatest Bounty Hunter, IS BAAACCKK!"

Zoe took this moment to escape. She shot the ceiling of the assembly and exited the building.

"That takes care of that." Ricky clasped his hand. He turned to see that no one was around to hear of his declaration except Frida and an unconscious Manny.

"Dang it!" Seeing as the coast was clear, Ricky revert back to his human form, "Revert!" The flame engulfed him once more and then disappeared, revealing the casual appearance of Ricky Cospel.

"So, what happens now?" Ricky asked Frida.

"Schools out, amigo! Let's head to the arcade!"

"I'm in"

"ME Too!" Manny awoke to the sound of the word arcade. The three exited the broken school, passed the still mumbling Chakal, and headed straight towards Mayan Arcade.

-Back at the Flock of Fury HQ-

"Cursed that El Fuego. How dare he humiliate me in front of El Tigre! He will pay. VENDETTA!"

Zoe looked down to her scrapbook.

"At least the book is safe." She flipped through the pages until she spotted at one of the pages with writing in them that wasn't hers.

"Your..secret..is..safe..with..me..Zoe..Avez..love..El Fuego?" She shut the book. "CURSED YOU, EL FUEGOOOOOOO – wait, did it say love?"

-Back to the three amigos-

They were playing a game of SUPER MACHO! V, until Manny posed the question than seemed to have slip passed his mind.

"Hey, chico, could you show us the book now?"

Reluctantly, Ricky stopped playing and took out his book. Manny's attention was fixed on the Testamento Del Fuego. He let go of the controls the gun and stood beside Ricky. Frida stood on the other side, eating her new churro bag.

Ricky closed his eyes and concentrated his energy into the book. The lettering started to glow and then a clicked was heard. He opened the book to reveal an empty page.

"Whaaat? That's what's inside the book? You totally got ripped, dude!" Frida said unsatisfied.

All Ricky did was grinned. "That's cause I haven't done anything yet. Watch." Ricky put in some more energy to the book. Suddenly, the book started to glow, the pages were revealing themselves. Words began to appear in forms of fiery letters. It was then that they finally knew what Ricky was talking about.

"Wow.. That. Was. AWeSOME!" Manny shouted in excitement. "Could you read one of the pages?"

"Meh, why not?" And So, Ricky started to read the book.

AN: Did you enjoy today's episode? I tried to change my writing style a bit, trying to make it as silly as the cartoon, but still retaining my writing style.

SO, what is the story of El Fuego? What will Happen to Zoe? Will Ricky ever make a proper debut? Found out in the next episode: Blackmail Burns~