A Story of Friendship

Friendship has never been broken

In the Land of the Remembered, at the market place, Aggie started to close her cake stall. That was until she heard a child's voice

"Excuse me? Um... Senorá Agatha?"

She knew that voice as she slowly turned around, and faced the family who she knew from a friend

"Hola, I'm Marigold, these are my brothers, Hugo and Alastor, my husband, Juan Carlos, my children, Kyroc and Clara, my uncle, Zipacna, my cousin, Algner, and a friend of ours, Camazok," Marigold introduced nervously, meeting her father's long-time friend for the first time. "But, um, you already know who we are, don't you?"

Aggie rubbed her hands as she was also nervous, sweating in shyness. "Yeah, I sure do."

Algner took a few steps forward slowly, and asked Aggie shyly. "Did you really move back here just for a change of pace?"

Aggie opened her mouth to answer, but she hated to lie as she admitted. "No, I don't"

"Then you came here because you're sorry and that you wanted to get to know us, too?" Clara guessed as tears form in her eyes.

The way Clara said that made Aggie sobbed in guilt. "I'm... so sorry. I-I-I was just so angry, and... I-I-I never meant to hurt..."

Alastor rushed towards Aggie, and hugged her. "Don't worry, Agatha. It's in the past now." When Aggie returned the hug, the rest of the family rushed for a group hug.

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Back in the Land of the Forgotten, La Muerte and Xibalba were feeding their horses, until they saw their family return.

"Now where have you been?" Xibalba asked. "We haven't seen you all day."

"We've been all over." Juan Carlos replied. "Learning about your friendship with... a mortal Filipina,"

Xibalba and La Muerte were shock in panic when their family found out about their secret. "You have?!"

"And my adoptive aunt or sister." Marigold added.

Hugo, Alastor, Zipacna, Algner, Camazok, Kyroc, and Clara stepped aside to reveal Aggie, accompanied by Candlemaker, Toci, the Sánchezes, and the lizards. Aggie was a little nervous to show up to Xibalba after 22 years she left as she slightly smiled and waved 'hi' at him

La Muerte and Xibalba were so happy to see her again, but Xibalba turned his happiness to glare, yet secretly guilt, when he saw his human friend once again.

"So... you're back, huh?" He said

"I sure am." Aggie said, then shook her head down in guilt. "Never should've left.

To make Aggie ignore her guilt, Zipacna placed his hand on her shoulder for comfort. "Finding you and learning about your friendship with my little brother, I feel like I found a piece of me I didn't even know was missing."

"Hearing your story makes me feel closer to both of you somehow." Juan Carlos admitted to his father-in-law. "And we have no idea you befriended a human before I came along, until now."

Xibalba placed both his gloved hands to each his daughter and son-in-law's shoulder as he weeped. "I'm very sorry. I should've told you all about her sooner."

"And I should've been here for you. To support you. To protect you. To guide you what was wrong or right. It's my role as your mentor... and your friend." Aggie said with teary eyes. "Oh, I can't believe I let a silly argument keep me from... my family."

"Well, nothing's keeping you from us now." Marigold placed her arm on her adoptive aunt/sister's shoulders as Aggie wiped her tears. "Let's not miss anything else."

"Marigold's right. Welcome back, mejor amiga." Xibalba smiled as he extended one of his wings to Aggie

Aggie chuckled as she extended her wing to Xibalba, and shook wings with him, like they were shaking hands. "Thanks..., wing buddy."

"You know, even though you two haven't seen each other for 22 years,." La Muerte interjected. "Your friendship has never been broken all along."

Realizing La Muerte was right, their friendship restored once more as Xibalba extended his hand for a handshake to Aggie. Instead of a shake from her, he was surprised that Aggie rushed towards him, and hugged him. Aggie missed him terribly like she missed a friend/brother. He was embarrassed when he was hugged by a girl human, until he noticed his family won't mind as he returned the hug. He missed her too, like he missed his little sister/best friend. Suddenly, he felt a squirm in between them and pulled back quickly.

"What was that?"

"Relax, Xibalba, that was my baby moving." Aggie laughed.

"That means you're pregnant?!" He exclaimed in shock.

"Pregnant and married. Can't believe you didn't notice."

"You're a lucky girl."

"So how's the cake?"

"What cake?"

"The cake I gave to Hugo for free yesterday."

Xibalba didn't know that Hugo has the cake yesterday and he haven't told him that as he stared at him, and Hugo laughed sheepishly. Then, Marigold held her little half-brother by the shoulders.

"Uh, Papi, let us explain." She giggled.

"Marigold, Zipacna, what did you do?" Xibalba crossed his arms, and glared at his daughter and brother.

When Zipacna was about to confess, they heard Colmillo and Garra growled when they got out of the castle, playing tug-o-war with a box.

When it was accidentally opened, the purple cake popped out of the box, and flew in air.

"THE CAKE!" Everyone screamed in horror.

"I got it!" Aggie exclaimed as she rushed towards the falling cake, and caught it on her arms.

Everyone sighed in relief, but the hounds accidentally ran onto her, and Aggie accidentally brought the cake to her face, which her face was now covered with icing. The hounds licked the icing to wiped it off of Aggie's face, and everyone laughed at this scene.

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Well, this is my very first AU story of Book of Life. I would like to thank 'ladyanaconda' for letting me borrow her OCs for this story.

La Muerte, Xibalba, Candlemaker, and the Sánchez family belong to Jorge Gutierrez

Marigold, Juan Carlos, Hugo, Alastor, Zipacna, Algner, Camazok, Kyroc, Clara, Emilio, Regina, Lorenzo, Juarez, Roberto, Toci, Colmillo and Garra belong to ladyanaconda.

Agatha Galido/Aggie belongs to me.