A/N: I may be taking on way too many fics at once. I am pretty sure this will cause me to crash and burn but whatever.

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Thirteen's Elite

Part 1: Prisoner

Theme: Cosmic Castaway

Chapter 1: The Return

Jade Chan followed the steady beeps from her watch. She turned from one direction to another to insure that it was working correctly. No matter what Jimmy said, anything involving magic tended to break at the worst possible time. A massive amount of dark chi definitely warranted caution from anyone. Considering her past, a little extra caution was all but expected. However, she was still Jade Chan, and her attitude had not changed much over the years. As such she had come to this lonely place on her own. In the waning light she began to consider that she might have been mistaken. The watch had been steadily focused in this direction, leading her south to the junkyard. Old memories were dragged up from when she was a kid. And a few from more recent years. The bizarre state the world had entered when Drago and Shendu were banished had somehow left a duplicate set of Talismans sitting in the vault at Section 13. Alongside them three of the Oni masks had returned as well. She was mystified as to how that made any form of sense whatsoever but was too preoccupied with trying to keep the world from falling apart. Due to her knowledge of magic, and her close connection with the events that caused the change, she retained her memories of the future with Shendu as well as the one she and her family created when the demon was sent to the Netherworld. Demons, she reminded herself with a growl. Drago was gone for good; she no longer had to worry about him. The problem was she remembered their relationship before he went ballistic. Before he discovered that she had his father on lockdown. Then there was the whole time travel incident, leaving him in the past. She had hoped that would erase the pain he caused but all she accomplished was make him another monster from her childhood. That tore her up inside more than anything else. She had memories of everything he did to her and her family in the distant past. But she also had memories of what he did for her and her family in the past that never was. She was brought out of her thoughts when the watch began beeping even more loudly before sparking and fizzling out.

"That proves it, this thing couldn't find dark chi if it-" She was cut of by a thunderclap accompanied by a red burst of energy. The trash around the blast was smoldering, the metal sparking and glowing red-hot. In the center of the blast radius was a form hidden by shadows. She couldn't be sure, but anything with enough dark chi to blow her watch could not be friendly. She drew her gun and leveled it at whatever had appeared in front of her. "Freeze!" She commanded while ignoring the shiver the thing gave her.

"You never learn do you?" His growling voice asked playfully. He struggled to his feet, holding his abdomen with one arm. "Magic must defeat-"

"Magic…" She finished her voiced trembling subtly. No. It could not be him, he was banished, erased. He didn't even look like she remembered. In fact, he looked like she remembered last. "No." She tightened her grip to keep the gun from shaking. "You can't be here!" She all but screamed at the demon before her.

"Whatever you want." He moaned before turning to walk away. She could not let him escape. There was no telling what he could do if allowed to run free.

"Freeze!" She yelled again. He paused and glanced at her over his shoulder. His eyes were hidden by the glare of the sunset. She was not sure how he would be looking at her. Like he used to or like he used to. She was not even sure which she was more afraid of. "Don't move!" She forced the strain from her voice.

"Do what you have to Kitty." He said before continuing. He stumbled after a few steps and fell to one knee, coughing dryly. Jade stood her ground, knowing full well his family's tendency to trick others. After a few coughs that nearly became dry heaves he managed to stand. Without looking back once he made his way, stumbling and coughing towards the exit to the junkyard. Another coughing fit hit him like a truck, dropping him to his knees and one hand, the other clasped around his abdomen tightly. He made to stand again but his legs completely failed him and he dropped to the ground with a groan.

"Get up." Jade muttered, more to herself than anyone else. "Get up." She would not shoot him while he was lying on the ground like that. It was already too painful and too enticing. "Get up!" She demanded of the demonic dragon. She heard his ragged breathing even from so far away. "Damn it." She cursed him harshly, not caring about the irony in those words. She pulled out her phone and dialed a number few knew about. "I need a van." She demanded of the man that answered. She gave the address and hung up before he could ask any questions. "If you get me fired or killed I will shoot you." She kept her gun trained on his prone form, staying well out of reach and behind him. When he did not move for several minutes she began too hope and fear that he was dead. A sudden, painful sounding coughing fit broke her hopes and relieved her fears. She tried to tell herself that she only kept from shooting him out of her sense of honor; that she had not shot him on sight due to his value as a prisoner. She only wished that she knew if she could convince herself. She gritted her teeth in anger. "You're a real bastard Drago." She growled at the barely conscious demon. She heard him mutter something. "What?"

"You sound like my dad." He managed before another fit overtook him.