Chapter one: Soul fusion! Has the dark hand gone too far?

Jade Chan as one can say is your typical 12 year old girl from China, but she had seen and done stuff that some people can only dream of like facing against demons and dark wizards and live to tell the tale. Which she does a lot, which makes the kids at her school fear that she is going insane.

But what is to come requires another person to step up. For this story is not only about Jade Chan, but also of a mercenary named Axel and how they both come together.

-Story: Axel-

Axel is a freelance mercenary whose speed and cunning are second to none as he was proven more than capable at dismantling corrupt organizations and ending gang wars from harming the civilians who get caught in the crossfire. His weapons consist of a variety of katanas, Kunais, and Shurikens. He was never a fan of using guns and always prefers his blade skills to get the job done which proved easy for him. Able to take out even the most precise gunman with only a kunai.

This story takes him to San Fran to remove the dark hand from the picture by his employer. Axel rode his motorcycle down the streets of San Francisco in search of the dark hand. "From what my employer said, the dark hand will be at this cemetery in about 2 hours." Axel decided to hide in a nearby tree and steak out.

-Story: Jade-

Jade Chan was heading off to school when she discovered that a strange man had stopped her. "I have a message for a Jade Chan." he said which made her cringe. "That's me." She told the unknown man. He said nothing and gave her an envelope and disappeared. "freaky." Jade told herself before opening the envelope.

Dear Jade Chan,

Meet me at the cemetery in two hours. I cannot tell you anything else for concern that someone undesired may have obtained this letter. Come alone.

From,

Anonymous.

Jade proceeded to the cemetery to wait for whoever sent her the letter, unaware that Axel was snoozing in a tree.

And now that both characters are in the same location, let's begin the story.

Two hours had passed and Jade was waiting for the unknown person to come by. The sun was shining throughout the cemetery and the tree that Jade is waiting provided a much needed shade as she fell asleep out of boredom. Valmont walked to the tree and kicked Jade awake. "So good to see you, Ms. Chan." He told maliciously. a group of thugs surround him. "Have at her boys. once your done, I shall have the final strike." he told his thugs as he took out a pistol. The thugs complied and beat the crap out of her. The commotion caused the mercenary to slowly wake up to see what was going on.

The thugs were finished as the left Jade broken and bloodied as Valmont pointed his gun at the child. "You will serve as a reminder to your uncle that no one messes with the dark hand. Hope you found a good spot in the cemetery, because you'll be having a funeral burial here." Valmont pulled the trigger three times, two bullets hit Jade while the third was deflected by a kunai.

"What the bloody hell?" he shouted as Axel jumped out from the tree. "So, the dark hand has arrived. Got to say, I didn't know you were this low. tormenting and nearly killing a kid over a grudge against her uncle?" Valmont scowled. "You'll join her in a shallow grave." Valmont shot his pistol until it ran out of ammo but was all deflected with Axel spinning his katana in a windmill form, blocking all bullets with ease. "Is that all? I've taken down more threatening gangs than you." Axel took out a kunai and disarmed Valmont and prevented his escape.

"Show mercy." he pleaded. Axel smiled. "My employer told me to bring you alive, they didn't say how alive." Axel crippled Valmont before knocking him out. Once he loading the nearly dead Jade on his bike, he left Valmont with his employer to pick him up. Not knowing where she lives, he took her to his hotel room and patched her up and waited until she wakes up.

A half hour went by and Jade woke up to find that she is not in the cemetery. She tried to get up, but a shot of pain coursed through her. Axel entered the room with food. Jade looked at the mercenary with confusion. Axel walked up and sat next to her. "Finally awake?" he asked. "Unfortunately, you are very badly injured. I doubt you will be able to move again. Not only that, but your life span is cut short by quite a lot. your heart is failing and within a couple of days, you will die. I am sorry, I do not know what to do."

Jade struggled to move her hand. "There may be a way. But it is tricky. The book is in my bag. I snuck it out from uncles." Axel looked through her bag and found a leather bound book. "Turn to page 135. I looked through the book and found something that may help. But it will be hard to pull off as that book has advanced spells that I was going to try out to prove to Uncle that I can be a chi wizard, but situation has changed to make that spell urgent."

Axel looked through the pages and reached the page Jade said. "Soul Fusion. This spell will fuse two souls and bind the target soul within the casters body causing increased attributes and near immortality in terms of aging, the souls will stop the aging process, but the only drawback to this spell is, since you are fusing your soul with the target, the targets body dies and takes residence within its host body forever." Axel re read the spell. "Are you sure you want to go through with this?" He asked. Jade shook her head. Knowing that nothing can be done otherwise and wondered what life being a mercenary is like.

Axel complied and made the spell. "For this to take effect, we must chant in unison. Repeat after me, Yu Mo Gwai Gui Fai Di Zao." Both Axel and Jade started chanting the spell in unison when a bright light surged from the symbol that was forged. The next thing Axel knew was silence. He didn't feel any different, but found Jade not responding and is now dead. He fell into sorrow. The spell didn't work he thought. He went to bed immediately, not knowing that the spell did work and will find out the hard way tomorrow.

Here it is, the first chapter of my new story. I am now on the works for chapter two as well as the first chapter for the second part of the JCA x Avengers project.