Alright, this next series of stories is going to be fun, but also sort of complicated. Hopefully you guys will stick to reading it. I'll try to be as unconfusing as I can.

I still don't own Jackie Chan Adventures, in case anybody thought that I somehow had gotten the rights to it since the last time I said I didn't.

Jade and Charlie had been dating for a few months, and yet were still as close as they'd ever been. Seymour still had no idea what had happened between the two of them that day that they just decided to go out with each other, but he got tired of asking. He was happy for the two of them, but seeing them always with each other made him a little jealous.

He remembered when he'd been a relationship like that. A long, long time ago, before he and his siblings had even thought about trying to take over the human world. Seymour had been in love back then, but he had been naive and foolish, and later he would most likely suffer severely for that foolishness.

Seymour shuddered, just thinking of the punishment that was sure to happen made him feel sick. He just needed to not think about it...at all. There wasn't anything he could do to prevent it, so why worry himself like this? Seymour is thankfully pulled out of his thoughts by Jade.

"Seymour, should we really be going this way?" Jade asks. The three friends had been out, just hanging out with each other, but now it was late and Jade needed to be home soon or Jackie would freak. Seymour was walking a few feet ahead of Jade and Charlie and had started to lead them to the bad side of town.

Seymour rolls his eyes, "Jade, you're the one who needs to get home soon, and the quickest way back is through here. It'll save us ten to fifteen minutes."

"I know that," Jade says, "But Jackie doesn't like me being on this part of town."

"And when did you start listening to your uncle?" Charlie asks, "Seymour's right, we'll get back quicker this way. This part of town just has a bad reputation, it's not like anything's going to happen to one of us."

At that minute Seymour had just been passing by an ally when somebody reached out from the alley and dragged him very forcibly into the alley too. Jade and Charlie stopped in their tracks, shocked by what had happened, but only for a second before they hurried to go help him. They ran into the alley, but stopped again when they saw Seymour being pushed against the wall by a young woman who seemed be in her early twenties. Her entire look just screamed that she was just your everyday prostitute.

Jade was ready to go and beat up this girl, but Seymour held out his hand to stop her. He was looking at this girl in shock, not because of what she was doing, but because of who she was. He knew her.

"Deseray?" Seymour questions. The woman, who had been leaning against him, looked up at him. Her eyes were dull and unfocused, but looking at Seymour she recognized him and her eyes became a little clearer. She let's go of Seymour and backs up a little.

"Only one person has ever called me Deseray." she says, her face looking feverish, "But it can't be."

"It is," Seymour says, "It's me, Hsi Wu."

"Hsi Wu?" her eyes widen in surprise. She then quickly moves forward again and embraces him. Seymour leans into her embrace and closes his eyes, oh how he missed this. How he missed her. Charlie and Jade watched this with confusion. What exactly was going on here? After a minute Seymour gently pushes out of the embrace, he needed a few answers.

"Deseray, what are you doing here?" he asks her. Her eyes clouded over again, she puts her hand on her forehead as if she had a headache.

"The pull is strong, I need this," She says feverishly, not making much sense. "I can't stop myself."

"You can't stop yourself from what?" Seymour asks softly.

"I can't stop having the desire," She says, her voice suddenly sounding hungry for something.

"The desire? I thought that it didn't affect you." Seymour says, he was confused.

"It normally doesn't," She says, "Hsi Wu, something's wrong. My family needs help." She then grabs the low cut collar of her shirt and pulls it down until they could see that there, in the middle of her chest was a tattoo of a fancy cross. Seymours eyes narrow.

"What happened?" He asks sternly, "How did that happen?" Suddenly the girls eyes glaze over and she fell to the ground, or she would have had Seymour not caught her. She tried to tell him something, but her words didn't make any sense. The only thing that he understood was that she wasn't well and needed help. Seymour picked her up bridal style and turned to the others.

"She needs help." Seymour say, "We need to take her someplace safer."

"Hang on," Jade says, stepping toward him, "Why are we helping her? And how do you know her?"

"I'll explain later," Seymour says. "We just need to help her." He starts off without the other two, heading to the apartment that he, Tempus, and Jikan were living in, because it was closest. Charlie and Jade soon catch up with him.

"So who is she?" Charlie asks as they go. Seymour grins slightly.

"It's a long story," Seymour says, "For now let's just say that I call her Deseray, she's a good friend of mine."

"How good a friend?" Jade asks.

"Well, she's Sparrow's mother." Seymour answers simply. Charlie looks at the girl that Seymour was carrying again.

"I guess I can sort of see the resemblance," Charlie says, "But where does Sparrow get her red hair from?" because Deseray's hair was a lot like Sparrow's, in the sense that both of their hair started off one color and ended another. Sparrow's hair was red which slowly became blond, while Deseray had black hair which faded to a light brown.

"I think she get's her red hair from her...grandfather, I guess." Seymour says uncomfortably, then to himself he says "Just the thought of it is so wrong." After that Seymour refused to answer anymore of their questions about the woman in his arms, he stayed quiet until they got to the apartment and Charlie opened the door and they go inside.

Jikan and Kaze were sitting on the couch in the main room, just snuggling with each other. When Jikan sees them come in he at first looks annoyed, but then he sees Deseray and he couldn't get out of the room fast enough, dragging Kaze behind him.

"Okay, what was that about?" Jade asks.

"That's one way to empty a room." Seymour mutters with a shadow of a smirk. He walks over to the now empty couch and lays Deseray on it. A second later Tempus comes into the room.

"What are you guys doing here? And what's this that Jikan says about…" Tempus stops when he sees Deseray.

"Okay, I can explain." Seymour says.

"Oh, I doubt it." Tempus says, crossing his arms and glaring at his younger brother. "What were you thinking, bringing her here?"

"She needed help." Seymour says.

"Do you have any idea who this is?" Tempus asks.

"Actually, we do." Jade says, and before Seymour can stop her Jade says "She's Sparrow's mother." Seymour puts his hand on his head. He really could have done without Tempus knowing this.

"Is this true?" Tempus asks Seymour, his strangely edged with something like fear, "Please tell me isn't."

"It's true." Seymour says quietly.

"Do you have any idea what the consequences of this will be?" Tempus groans.

"Yes, actually I do." Seymour says, "I've known the whole time." Tempus looks at his brother, not angry with him, more like scared for him. And he could tell that Seymour was terrified to death. He'd known the whole time? And no one had realized? Tempus hadn't known how strong his younger brother could be.

"So," Jade says, "Can somebody explain what the big deal is?" She and Charlie were really confused, and they hated being left in the dark. Jade wanted some answers already.

Tempus sighs and turns to the two humans, "What did Seymour tell you?"

"Only that she's Sparrow's mother, and her name's Deseray." Charlie says.

"Deseray?" Tempus asks, a small grin on his face, "Well, that's not her real name. Her real name is actually Desire, or Lust."

"Lust?" Charlie asks, "As in the deadly sin?"

"That's actually precisely it." Tempus says, "Deseray here is a very powerful demon, Lust."

"Lust," Seymour says, his voice shaking slightly, "One of the seven children of the Devil himself."

Oh my gosh, I am so excited to have finally started writing this, it's so fun, and exciting, and awesome. This story won't have very many chapters, but I am working on making the chapters longer, and this is only the first of six stories in this series. I hope you enjoyed it. Please review if you did, or if you didn't.