Okay, here's the thing: I decided to quit "Since Second Grade". Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. Well, not really. But, for real, that story's pretty much met it's end. I love it soo much, though, that I'll keep the memories of it forever.
Soo... what?
So what? So that means that I have to have a backup story, that's what. And this... is that story. "Xiaolin Showdown: Dragon Djinn Saga" is the name of the game, and PLEASE to be reading and reviewing. I've had soo many ideas for this one. But here's the nitty gritty: Jack and his best friend, who's a girl, get separated. Sounds cliche'd,right? WRONG!
But you'll see later... Muahaha...
Jack: Uh... it's time to start the story now...
Right.
Oh, and I don't own Jack Spicer (Sob) or any of Xiaolin Showdown (UBER Sob). BUT I DO own Jayna (Whoopee)!
Chapter One: One's Unto The Time
'One's unto the time there was a really pretty princess girl. And she had a best friend, who was really rich, and was like a prince.'
'Only since he lived in the same neighborhood as her, he couldn't be a prince. So he has to be a rich kid neighbor.'
'Anyways. These two were bestest best friends. They played together all the time.'
'Except for when the rich kid cheated at Risk that one time, and he was s'poseda not get that one part of North America, but he did, but he wasn' s'posed'o, and I didn' play with him for a whole million MILLION hours.'
'Only mommy said it was more like five seconds, but I know, 'cuz I was there, and I sawed it.'
'They would go on a whole lots of a'ventures, like the one time we went into the forest behind my house, and found that baby dinosaur, only my mommy said it was just a dirty lizard, and to put that nasty thing back before I got Salt Vanilla.'
'Only I didn't even know what that was, so we still played with it still.'
'And then there was this one other time, when the rich kid neighbor kid had built this really cool robot thing, and we made it do the dishes for mommy, but then it got all wet when we played Sponge Warriors, and then the Fire Apartment hada come, and we weren't allowed to play with the 'tronics around the house anymore.'
"Yeah. We had the greatest times in the whole world all those times. THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO DO IT, Jackie!!"
A small blonde girl was pleading with a slightly red-haired boy. The girl looked like a mini Barbie, with the perfect-pursed pink lips and the short blonde wispy hair, set above two bright blue eyes. On the inside, however... well, that's a different story.
"I still don't get it, Jayney. Are you sure it's magic, and not some stupid thing that happens 'cuz of the light?" The boy, whose hair was a dull auburn color, glared at her through glazed brown eyes. He was a rocker wannabe. Everyone in the first grade knew that. Even the kindergarteners and the teachers knew that. And he liked it that way.
Jack and Jayna were close. There was no other way to put it. Both had been in the small town since they were babies, and their mothers had decided to share the same babysitter one night. Thus, the unbreakable bond formed. Both were about the same size and stature, and both had a bit of a tan from all the outdoor play. Both sets of parents knew each other, and they both loved to play Risk. The similarities ended there, though: the two were as different as night and day. Jack had his whole lifestyle set: He knew he was going to be a punk rocker, he knew he was going to build robots for the government one day, and he knew that his grandma was going to send him his very own helicopter that could fly him around and that was also a backpack for his seventh birthday.
Jayna, on the other hand, never knew what the next three seconds would hold, much less her whole life: She never planned ahead, except for when it came to homework and studying, she had a bad habit of procrastinating, and even if someone tells her something (Say that they're going to Disney World), she'll still be excited when you tell her the eleventh time that day, as if she had forgotten. She was the unpredictable one, but also the action behind all of the plans. Jack, of course, was the brain.
But not this time.
This time, it was all Jayna, and even Jack had his doubts.
"I know you're scared Jackie, and I am, too. But we can't be a'scared forever! We have to do this, and we have to do it now! There won't be another chance like this." She held up a small, sharpened bone. One that came of a wishbone she and Jack Spicer pulled together, while both were wishing she wouldn't move away that summer.
Unfortunately, it split, directly in half. And Jayna was moving in two days.
Jack took the sharpened bone and stood up. 'What would this do? Nothing. Just confirm how crazy your best friend is for thinking she's some sort of stupid witch. Like she's Harry Potter or something...'
Jayna was soon holding a big, molding, musty, dusty book in her arms, her tiny fingers wrapped around the frame of the needle-like bone.
She grinned. "Are you ready?" Jack rolled his eyes. "I guess." She slowly cracked the book to the right page, and--what was that, moving across the floor? -- began to chant the words. They seemed to be--It's on the ceiling! It's making the tin roof shake! -- in a different language. "...Lianas...Oaoraukae...Baoleauokae..."
The entire small shed they had hid in began to shake. Which was not good, because their parents were looking for them. And they stopped when they reached the shed.
But...
"The...the door. It's jammed." Jayna's mother exclaimed. Jayna had set down the book, still repeating the chant, still holding the needle in her right hand, Jack doing the same, right hand and all.
A loose piece of tin banged against the others like a sadistic rattle. The sky soon grew dark. Darker. Darker.
Jack and Jayna stared at each other, wondering whether one or the other would break the 'spell'. But they said--Was that lightning now? And thunder? Jack's mom just screamed. --do not break the connection. So they didn't break the connection.
But even that couldn't prepare anyone for what was going to happen next.
The needle in Jayna's hand went slowly to Jack's cheek, as did Jack's to Jayna's cheek. And as soon as it began, it was like walking into a room full of sirens.
The bone was suspiciously white hot, as it grazed their skins and formed a bright pink mark near their eyes, wider at the top, then skinny further down, with their free hands they grasped each other's shoulders. The marks turned, from pink to red, while the two children screamed out their anguish, and their parents could do naught but listen.
Was that lightning, that hit the hole in the tin roof? The clap of thunder that deafened the already startled parents? No way, couldn't be... Just then, Jayna shrieked. And a bright light DID just come from the tiny shed.
Then...
Then they couldn't hear their babies anymore. The door swung open to both Jayna and Jack lying side-by-side, eyes shut tight, and marks; one had it on the left, one on the right. Both were dark black.
But that wasn't the thing that got to their parents, as they dragged their children away from the condemned shed.
No, it wasn't even the fact that one of the tin pieces on the tin roof was falling off.
It was how they looked.
Jack's hair transformed into a blood-red flame to rest atop his person, and his eyes were an angry red to match; Jayna's hair was now a deep sea, end of the cosmos, lighter than midnight blue...blue. Her eyes had changed as well. The light blue that everyone had gotten used to were now amethyst, the shade of purple grapes.
Both were paper pale.
And the parents had a choice to make.
But just maybe...
Maybe it was best if they children were separated.
Maybe it was for the best if they never were spoken about to the other ever again.
Maybe it was in everyone's best interest if they had no communication with each other at all... ever.
Maybe fate will curl up in a ball and quit its day job.
Yeah. Right.
Although...
Fate has a funny way of disappearing when you need it.
Just the way Jackie and Jayney disappeared to each other, for all those years.
But, don't worry.
Fate also has a funny way of reuniting two long-lost best friends.
Chapter One: One's Unto The Time: End
Next Time on Xiaolin Showdown: Dragon Djinn Saga
Omi: Oh! Are we doing the talking part? I want to do the talking part!!
It's seventeen years later, and twenty-four year old Jayna and Jack have finally found each other!
But!
At what cost?
Jayna: This is gonna cost us money?
Jack: It's no big deal. I have billions.
Kimiko: Uh, Jack. I think it is a big deal. The stock market just plummeted.
Jack: O.O What?? That's impossible.
What shall become of our two bestest best friends? Bitter enemies? Or passionate lovers?
Jack and Jayna: DON'T BE DISGUSTING!!
Noko: -.-' wait... I don't even come in yet. Why am I here again?
What's more, Jayna meets her hunk-a-licious teacher and possible forbidden love.
Jayna: I do?? Heeheehee!!
But will her mother be able to let her go?
Noko: Could I have some water or something while I wait please?
Or will she be trapped behind the sheltering love of her mother... forever?
Noko: I've been here for five hours now, I'm starving! Some Filet Mignon would be nice...
Chapter Two: All Grown Up
Noko: At least some crackers? I could live with crackers... or... you know, whatever?
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