"1200 years ago...there existed seven ancient orbs that could grant the

wishes of anyone in the world. Yet these ancient orbs have been lost...

over time and repeated use, they cracked and wore, with increasing amounts

of bad chi growing inside. These artifacts are not to be used but once every

100 years..." An old Chinese man peers up from his large tome of ancient

world artifacts, putting it on the table and sliding it in front of a younger

man, also Chinese. "This is what the orb you found looks like...yes?"

The man nods. "It is, Uncle. I can't believe that if all seven are gathered,

that any wish can be granted. This must have been the reason why Valmont

wanted it so badly." The old man called Uncle picks up the book and continues

to read it.

"There is more. The powers of these orbs changed over the centuries. They

now can grant three very powerful wishes. But, to prevent that power from

being overused on one single wish repeatedly, the same wish cannot be made

twice. Jackie, are you ready to face the Dark Hand again?"

"I am, Uncle." *whap* *gong!* "Ow!"

"What are you standing here for then?! Go to Section Thirteeeen!"

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Jackie Chan Z

The Rediscovery

Valmont looked around the museum hallway at the exhibits. He had two others

with him, slightly shorter than him but obviously well-built. They weren't

-huge- like Hawk Fu, or Tohru, but they certainly were stronger and faster

than Hawk Fu in their display of talent in the martial arts. They stopped

in front of a glass box on a small pedestal that held a little golden ball

with four red stars in it. Valmont touched the glass.

"So close and yet so far." Valmont grins. "Right, boys?"

"Hmph. If it were me, I'd break the case and take it."

"I wouldn't be so blunt about it. After all, business is never done by

such manuvers."

"Are you saying that we cut the curator a deal, Tengu?! It's powers are the

reason it is encased here, rather than being auctioned off to some collector!"

Valmont touches both of their shoulders.

"Boys? Look up." They both see a banner diplaying the words MUSEUM AUCTION

on it. "Tengu...prove your usefulness to me and get me that Dragonball."

"Right." Tengu saunters up to the case. "First bid, five-finger discount...

going once...going twice..." Tengu punches through the case, shattering it,

and grabs the little gold ball. "Sold, to the one who does it." Tengu

looks up to hearing a noise from above.

"EEEEEE-YAH!" Jackie kicks Tengu in the face and sends him into an old

cannon.

"Oh, Chaaaan..." Jackie looks at Valmont. "You should know better than to

hit these boys. They love to fight. Regradless of who is good or bad."

Jackie looks at Tengu getting up as though he wasn't even hurt.

"That was fun. First time a -human- ever hit me that far." Jackie looks

away in no particular direction and says:

"Bad day." He begins to back away from Tengu's sweeps and roundhouses, and

one uppercut that he partly flowed with, even if it hit him in the jaw.

Jackie flew up into the rafters and grabbed one, swinging himself back down

to hit Tengu in the face, feet first...but, Tengu moved away casually and he

crashed onto the floor. "Owwww...very bad day!" Jackie felt like his legs

were pancaked but he managed to kick Tengu in the face as Tengu charged at

him. Tengu backed up and rubbed his nose.

"HEY! Vegeta! Little help here?" Tengu looks back to see the other one

struggling with a big fat guy's bearhug. The fat guy looks down at Vegeta.

"You are both naughty, stealing from the museum!" Vegeta scowls.

"So what, sumo?!" Vegeta shouts and the fat guy flies into a large stone

column.

"N-oooooh..." A small girl runs up to the fat guy.

"Hey, T! Are you okay?"

"JADE! Look out!" Jade turns around to see Vegeta lunge at her and grab

her by the orange shirt she wore. He looks at Jackie with confident eyes.

"So, you are this Jackie Chan that our boss told us about! You're pathetic.

You and your sumo friend. We'll be taking the Dragonball if you don't mind.

Oh, but if you even try anything, you and 'Jade' will be on the next flight

to Tokyo, courtesy of 'Vegeta's Arms'!" Vegeta hears a noise behind him and

turns around to see Captain Black send a blast at him from his hand. He

skids across the ground and lets go of Jade.

"Looks like you could use a little help." He tosses Jackie the Dragon

talisman. He holds the Pig talisman in the other hand and zaps Tengu with

a blast of heat from his eyes. Vegeta shakes his head.

"What manner of chi blasts are those?!"

"I have no idea. Let's go while we still have the Dragonball." Tengu

whistles. "Boss, over here!" Valmont dashes over to Tengu, who rises into

the air and crashes out of the glass ceiling in the room. Vegeta follows

a moment later.

"Great...we lost them. What's a Dragonball, anyway, Jackie?" Jackie grins

sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.

"Well...it's just the latest mess of magic that we've gotten ourselves into."

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"So if all seven are gathered...then Valmont gets the three things he wants

most. That's...pretty bad."

"It's worse, Captain Black. Those two are very powerful, and even without

magic. I can't even break Tohru's bearhug, and Vegeta did it like Tohru

wasn't even trying. Then...there's also the fact that we had to use the

talismans to even hurt them." Uncle barges in.

"AIYEAH!!! Jackie! You could have been badly hurt!" *whap* *gong!*

"Ow!"

"You must nev-er fight Vegeta, or anyone around him. There are ancient

legends that speak of a powerful warrior who once lived. No human could

defeat him, and no demon would want to try. His name was Vegeta. Every

one of his family line's men possessed the same name down the generations."

Jackie rubs his head around where Uncle hit him.

"So we just met with...the decendant of an ancient warrior. Bad day."

"-Good- day." *gong!*

"Good day? Why a good day, Uncle?" *whap* "Ow!"

"Good day because you are still alive! Tohru, too!" *whap*

"Ow!" Tohru looks at Uncle. "Domo sumimasen, sensei." *whap* "Ow!"

"Don't speak to Uncle in Japanese!" *gong!*

"Anyway, do we have a way to find these?" Uncle holds up a small dragon

statuary.

"Uncle has already made locator spell." He puts it on a diagram of the

earth's innards. (Jade's homework) The statuary glows with a green aura

and shifts to the inner core. "AIYEAH!!! Why would they be there?!

They would be melteeeeeed!"

"Actually...there's an old conspiracy theory that the Earth is hollow."

"Hollow? You mean, like the Earth is empty on inside?"

"Uh...well...it's difficult to explain, Jackie."

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Jackie was asleep in bed, having a weird dream. He was surrounded in fog

and two large red eyes were looking at him.

"CHAN!"

"Waah! Eeh-what...do you want?"

"I WANT YOU..."

"Uhhhh...what?"

"I WANT YOU TO STOP VALMONT..."

"But I can't stop Valmont! His new minions are too powerful!"

"THEY WILL NOT BE...YOU CAN STOP THEM...I MUST NOT BE AWAKENED..."

"You...are the ancient spirit of the Dragonballs?" A gigantic green and

yellow dragon with brown, antler-like horns appears.

"I AM SHENRON...THE ETERNAL DRAGON OF EARTH. I MUST NOT BE USED FOR EVIL.

THE WORST IS YET TO COME...FIRST, YOU MUST GO."

"Where?"

"TO THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH. THE PLACE WHERE THE SUN NEVER REACHES."

Jackie looks at Shenron with obvious puzzlement.

"You mean...that hollow Earth thing that Captain Black was talking about...

is true?"

"YOU MUST GO TO THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH, AND MEET THE GUARDIAN. I HAVE

SPOKEN MY WISHES...NOW FULFILL THEM!" Jackie wakes up and looks around.

"Hi, Jackie!"

"Uwa! Jade! Don't scare me like that. Anyway...the sooner I leave, the

better. I have to ask Captain Black what his plan is tomorrow." Jade

looks at Jackie.

"I wanna go too! It's a boring summer vacation. Uncle might take to whapping

me in your stead."

"Jade..." Jackie sighs. "Oh, all right. I have to take Uncle, anyway."

"Cool! Where are we going?!"

'TO THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH...' "Uhm...I don't know yet. Like I said,

I have to talk to Captain Black first." Jade walks away to someplace else,

and Jackie picks up the phone to call Uncle about his dream.

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*RIIIIIIIIIIIING! RIIIIIIIIIIIING!* "Hellooo?"

"Oh, Uncle! You are up this late?"

"I must do re-searrrrrrch! I had a funny dream about a dragon-"

"I did too! It told me to go to the-"

"Dark Side of the Earth."

"Yes! But how-"

"AI-yeah! Captain Black was right! There is another world -inside- the

Earth! It was called the Dark Side, because the Sun would not reach there.

It is where the powerful warriors...AND the Dragonballs came from!

Jackiiiiiiiee! We must go now!"

"I am going to tell Captain Black when I can. (How about now, Jackie?)

OH! Captain Black. We ne-" Uncle hangs up the phone.

"Tohruuuu! We must pack ingredients and books for our trip!"

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"So I was right? All that hooey about-"

"Earth being hollow. By the way, why are you awake?" Black tosses Jade

over to Jackie.

"She thought that she'd play her usual sneaky spy game on us this time again.

Wanted the talismans."

"You know...we might need them. Right idea, wrong method."

"Where you're going? You'll need more than just the talismans. Meet your

new acquaintance, fresh from the other side." A young man of similar stature

to Tengu and Vegeta walks in. "He's the one who caught Jade in the act."

"Talented, I more than assume." The man bows.

"I am Son Gohan, fourth on my lineage. And you're Jackie Chun?"

Jackie chuckles.

"Chan...not Chun. Must be something close."

"Yeah. My father Gotenku remembers all the stories of 1200 years ago. I

think it's because of a passed-down secret. I haven't been told yet, because

he said that I had to go to the Light World of Earth...whatever that meant at

first." A little boy with wild black hair peeks out from behind Gohan.

"And this is my little brother, Jeizu."

"I suppose that Jade will have a partner in misadventure for a while."

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Gohan liked the plane ride. He was more used to flying himself, but he

knew that the others didn't and they had too much luggage to hold, anyway.

Jackie had Jade, Uncle and Tohru had spell books and ingredients, and Jade...

well, Jade had her stuffed Super-Moose. Plus, Jeizu couldn't fly either.

(One more thing!) He wanted to save his strength in case it would be needed

later.

"We're close. Antarctica and the cloud cover. Everyone ready for a little

turbulence?" Captain Black asked.

"We are ready, Captain Black." Jackie and the others buckle into their

seats. The plane dives down, down, towards the shifting clouds that blend

so well with the snow.

And everyone except Black and Gohan braced themselves.