I do not own Jackie Chan Adventures. I claim no rights to it. Hi guys! Sorry it took so long to update! My life has been a little crazy with me transferring colleges and my sister getting married. I also decided to do my first story. It was too rushed, and the more I tried to think of getting Drago out of the Netherworld with the parameters I set up, the harder it got. Anyway, the story is very similar, but a few details were changed, and many more were added. Please review! I love the criticism; it helps my work. Enjoy!
Drago and Shendu, thrown in the Demon Realm, blamed each other for being imprisoned there. They floated for what felt like days in the vortex grappling with one another, but of course, they weren't the only demons in the realm…
"IF YOU HAD JUST RULED CHINA BETTER IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Drago yelled at Shendu.
"DO YOU KNOW DEMANDING IT IS TO RUN AN EMPIRE?-! IT ISN'T AS SIMPLE AS KILLING EVERYONE THAT'S A THREAT! DO YOU KNOW HOW BIG CHINA IS!-?" scolded Shendu.
"Now what do we have here?" Tso Lan said coolly.
"It looks like two foolish dragons squabbling." Hsi Wu said snidely.
"Bbbrothers and sisters, what a pleasure it is to see you" Shendu stuttered nervously.
"What brings you two to the demon netherworld?" Po Kong inquired.
"Based on what I've heard, both of them fighting for power" Dai Gui replied.
"What's wrong Shendu? Couldn't keep your son in line?" Tchang Zu said in a superior tone.
"Humph, why don't you shut your mouth Sparky?" Drago said in a blatantly disrespectful way.
"What was that boy?" Tchang Zu retorted, narrowing his eyes at Drago.
"You heard me. My weakling father may be afraid of you, but I'm not. Anything you throw at me, I can just absorb and throw back at you." Drago retaliated.
"THAT POWER WAS NOT MEANT FOR YOU!" Tchang Zu shouted in fury.
"Oh really? Then who was it for electrolyte breath?" Drago returned.
"DRAGO! ENOUGH! I case you haven't realized you have their powers." Shendu admonished.
"So?" Drago replied.
"SO?-! SO THEY CAN TAKE THEIR POWERS BACK IF THEY WANT TO!" Shendu growled
"WHAT?-! YOU SAID THAT AS SOON AS I GOT ALL 8 DEMON CHI INSIDE ME, NOTHING COULD REMOVE IT!" Drago yelled at his father.
"So that's why a half-demon like yourself thinks you could talk to your betters like that" Hsi Wu responded, enjoying every minute of both of their misery.
"I'm sorry, what was that? Did you just call me a half demon?" Drago challenged.
"Of course, we can tell how strong you are with our demon chi. You're too pathetically weak to be full-blooded" Tso Lan said callously.
"It figures Shendu would associate with such lowly scum" Bai Tza added.
"How dare you call my son…" Shendu said trying to defend his son from these dishonorable insults.
"Wait, YOUR SON?-!" Tchang Zu berated "YOU HAD RELATIONS WITH HUMANS?-!"
"Just when you think he can't get any more pathetic, he does this." Xiao Fung included scornfully.
"Wait one minute…" Shendu said nearly choking on his anger.
"I'll bet it was one of his servants" Bai Tza replied spitefully.
"No, probably one of the higher class peasants" Po Kong said trying to add what little dignity was dew her little brother.
"SHUT YOUR ODIUS MOUTHS! MY SON IS NOT A HALF-DEMON, AND THE NEXT PERSON TO SAY SO WILL GET THEIR THROAT SLASHED!" Shendu bellowed.
"Heh, you can't lie to us, we can tell…" Tso Lan tried to argue.
"NO, WHAT YOU SEE IS THE RESULT OF THOSE ACURSED HUMANS MEDDLING WITH MY FAMILY!" Shendu roared.
"So that means you and a…" Hsi Wu queried.
"Another dragon demoness, yes, had a child and built a family, until that damn Lo Pei ruined everything!" Shendu growled.
Drago was shocked to hear his father talk like this. He'd never spent much time, if any with his father, and he had always assumed that he had abandoned him and his mother to save his own hide.
"Wait, you mean you didn't abandon us?" Drago asked softly.
"WHAT!-? OF COURSE NOT, I… er…" Shendu sighed. He realized what his son thought of him.
"Do you even know what happened, those many centuries ago son?" Shendu asked with concern.
"No, how the hell could I know, I..." Drago tried to say, bewildered.
"If you two could please skip these disgusting dramatics and just tell us what happened." Tchang Zu said rolling his eyes.
Shendu was angered by his rudeness, but went to tell his story to his son.
"Drago, I'm sorry you never knew what really happened, but I'll tell you the truth. Thousands of years ago, I was a young dragon born of our great father. He had many wives, and I was his last child. He was training me to rule over China, but I was a restless boy, and unlike my older siblings, who took their roles as soon as they could. I thought that being a ruler would be dull. Instead, I went out and got into trouble. My father never approved of it. I lied and tricked humans, and my father said it was beneath my status, and that I should only do it when necessary." Shendu narrated.
"He just said that because you also lied and cheated us." Dai Gui muttered.
"Anyway, if you won't interrupt me," Shendu said giving Dai Gui the eye, "I got sick of my father and went to Europe. I found that there were many more evil dragons in Europe. In fact, it was unusual to find good ones there, unlike the vermin in China. That's where I met your mother. She was a beautifully cruel creature. She not only killed humans, but also played the cruelest games on them. She tricked lovers into killing each other, sons into selling them their souls so that they may best their fathers on the battlefield, and mother into letting her turn their children into horrid monsters so that they would not be weaklings. All ended in pitiful demises. I fell deeply in love with her and her with me."
"What did she look like" Bai Tza said dreamy-eyed. It seems that whether you're a demoness or a human girl, you just can't help but fall for a good love story.
"She was a gorgeous dragon. Her hide was crimson red, stained by the blood of her many victims. Her eyes were golden like the sun that was devoured by the first dragon. Her flames were azure and pearl, the hottest flames there are. Even her human form was astounding. Her skin was ivory and flawless. Her hair was as black as her soul, and her eyes were a deep emerald. It was an appealing form that could attract any man."
"Including you" Hsi Wu added slyly.
"Yes well, continuing on, we fell deeply in love, and played many cruel tricks on both commoners and royalty, but there was trouble at home when the 8 Immortals started to attack you guys and father as well. I heard the news and rushed home. He was wounded and so ancient that he was too weak to recover. I took his place against Lu Dongbin, the leader of the 8 Immortals. I was not strong enough to defeat him and was banished to the demon netherworld."
"WHAT?-! DON'T TRY TO INSULT OUR INTELLIGENCE! WE ALL KNOW THAT…" Tchang Zu blared.
"IF YOU WOULD LET ME FINISH, I was going to say that before too much time had passed, my love had gotten me out of the netherworld with a demon that could manipulate space. We fled to Europe again, and waited for the 8 Immortals to perish. Obviously, they weren't called immortal because they couldn't die. When they died, we went back to China with an army of dragons by our side conquered the country. After a little while, we had a hatchery of eggs. The most powerful of which would be Drago. We thought we could rule the world, but those damned humans ruined it all! It seems that although we killed most of Lu Dongbin's family, one son escaped, and raised a family, teaching them very powerful good chi magic. Over the centuries, they escaped our gaze found the enemies of my love, a very powerful, what is now German, royal family. They joined forces and attacked my army and my family. I was in the front lines and was turned to stone, leaving my family helpless. The rest of the story I've heard from several different demons and humans looking to me for power while I was powerless. The warriors were defeated and those monsters destroyed the hatchery, except for Drago. His mother had taken him to modern-day Iran to escape their wrath, but they found her, and took Drago. She followed them to Germany to protect Drago, but it was a trap. They slayed her, and tried to destroy the egg, but with her dying breath, she put a spell on the egg to protect it. It was given to her from one of her powerful German sorcerers; I can't remember exactly who he was. They hid Drago in a labyrinth in a mountain in the Black Forest. When I heard this I vowed that when I was free from my stone prison, I would unleash my dragon horde from the netherworld and destroy all of Asia for the pain they caused my family and enslave all of Europe."
"But if Drago was supposed to be the most powerful of your eggs, then why is he so weak now?" Tso Lan questioned.
"It would seem that the battle had scarred him. He was a newborn egg when this happened, so he was very vulnerable. The powers from his mother never revealed themselves, and his powers from me were halved which made them susceptible to being stolen by good chi wizards like those blasted Chans. It was my fault that this happened, and my fault that you felt abandoned."
"Yes, yes, but Drago, what happened to get you out of the egg?" Hsi Wu said completely ignoring Shendu's last comment.
"Well, I was released by one of mom's oracles, Wolfgang. He used a spell that used the blood of the last living heir of the humans that imprisoned me and killed my mother. I was released fully grown and clad in a silk robe, and the dude, heh well let's just say things got a little toasty for him. After that I set about to break dad out of Section 13 and to bring demons back to this realm." Drago recounted.
"Yes, but when was this?" Tso Lan asked.
"Huh?" Drago asked.
"When were you hatched?" Tso Lan asked again.
"About 5 years from now" Drago responded.
"WHAT!-?-?-!" Shendu shouted.
"C'mon, you know the story. I finally had the Chans on the ropes, when Jade went back in time to destroy the dragon teeth. I followed her and got trapped in the past." Drago answered.
"Wait, you're from the future?" Xiao Fung asked inquisitively.
"Yes, why are you all flipped out on me?" Drago responded confusedly.
"Because you fool, if you were hatched 5 years from now, that means that your egg is still in the present day" Bai Tza responded.
"So?" Drago asked again.
"It would seem that the boy didn't get Shendu's intellect." Tchang Zu reproached.
"He did manage to get closer to destroying the Chans and ruling the world than any of us though" Po Kong countered.
"How the hell do you know about that when you weren't even in the fucking human realm when it happened?-!" Drago asked.
"Simple, you two argue very loudly" Dai Gui said, answering what felt like an obvious answer.
"Can you shut your mouths for just five minutes, Drago the fact that your egg is still in the present time means that you can go back to the human realm!" Shendu chided.