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Well and damn me; my simple original idea has bred like rabbits on viagra. Now tis gonna be two big fics and at least as many eps as a Chan Series. this fic here is gonna vid the head & heart of Jade as much as her heroism.
We've seen Jade mature thru the series; now that is going onto superboost with her own Warrior Quest. In the JCA Comix 43 it says: Shugyo - hard training period with intention of pushing martial artist to limit. That is zactly what Jade is getting.
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Jade! Pulling her stunts, pulling the world down around everyone and somehow pulling it off … but not this time. Section Thirteen can rebuild the vault, yet again, but who can rebuild a life. Jackie slumps as his gaze travels over the ruins of the shattered and immolated vault; In all that wreckage there is nothing left of Jade, except the shredded remnants of her jacket and top. How had it come to this? With Shendu, Drago and the physical talismans banished to the Demon Netherworld, Jackie had imagined a quick and easy recovery of the talisman powers; wherever they had fled to this time. It would be so easy and safe now, with all of their past enemies either unpowered or imprisoned. Jackie sighs; he should have known Jade would find the worst answer to the problem: letting Tarakudo out of his mask and into a snake-form then getting herself banished to the Shadowrealm. The Shadowrealm! The one place Jade would find armies of enemies waiting to fall on her. Very Bad Day! Only hours ago it had been such a calm day: he and Tohru hiding in the shop attics, researching the talismans in peace from Uncle. All of it changed when Jade got in from school … already in trouble and about to get into so much more
« Jaaaaackie you come down from attic now. »
« Yes Uncle »
« One morrrre thing – Your Niece is back from school. »
« Yes Uncle. »
« One morrrre thing – You must make iced tea. »
« Yes Uncle. »
« One morrrre thing – tea is for Jade. »
« Yes Uncle. »
« One morrrre thing – Jade is injured. »
« Yes Uncle. … … …What! Why didn't you tell me! »
Jackie is down all the flights of stairs faster than a March Hare on Ecstasy to find Jade with a rare shiner of a black eye and grousing away at all the fuss.
« Jade! What did you do? »
« Tch! Me Jackie? I didn't do anything! So what if I couldn't book a tennis court »
The narrative gradually unfolds. From Maynard Munsen and Jimmy, Jade's dojo has grown and she is the one the group trusts to solve all their troubles; meaning she is the one who has to take back the tennis courts from three seniors who've turned it into their smoking court. Being herself she blazes in and lays down the law but the lads prefer the law of the jungle and its Jade as gets the raw end of it. Windmilling their strong arms they serve up a storm of tennis balls; battering and bruising Jade till she is beaten back.
« Owww, Owww, Owww; I'm not a tennis racquet. »
Luckily, being Jackie's niece, she knows how to turn defeat into triumph. Speeding backwards she slams into the tennis net; stretching it out into an impromptu catapult that sends her shooting at her enemies, like a human bullet. The first of her foes is down from a flying dropkick, before he even knows that Jade has turned the tide. Falling from the air she falls into a crouch and low sweeps the legs out from under the next guy in line. A handspring into a handstand smacks her shoes hard against the chin of the last guy and all that's left is for Maynard to drag and dump the deadbeats outside of the courts.
« See Jackie, totally not my fault. Hey, Uncle, enough of poking me! My bruises have got bruises. Tch! Uncle Jackie I don't get it! how could they do that to me? » Jade bounces her attention between her two uncles.
« Victory is in the first step of the wise and defeat is in the last step of the unwise. You must think of where you fight as well as how you fight. That was a good place for them and a bad place for you. Jade, you are small and fast, slippery and cunning; you must use that when you fight. … NO! What am I saying? No fighting! Fighting is bad. »
« Gotcha Jackie, Fighting is bad so I gotta be smart about it. »
« No! I did not mean … »
« SENSEI! I have it »
Tohru ramps down the stairs and silences them all in his excitement.
« The talisman powers are trapped in the Demon Netherworld »
« Aiyaaa! This is terrible news. We must do research to retrieve them. »
The three adults hasten off; leaving Jade free of a lecture and full of schemes.
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