Jade floated through the darkness, her thoughts hazy and unfocused. She wasn't sure where she was, how she had ended up there, but as she floated, images spun before her, forming out of the nothingness of the void for a few brief instants before disappearing once more, new images taking their places, spinning an interesting tale...
She saw a world formed, and two beings, a giant living tree and a massive raven, both with great power and wisdom, left behind by its creator, with other forms of life evolving in their shadow. She saw a war between giant dragons who wielded fiery magics and ruled over the continents, giants living in grand palaces in the sky wielding magic based off ice and the rulers of the seas who wielded magics of storm. She saw the world torn apart by that conflict, with the warring beings falling into a deep slumber, and the shards bound together in a giant Spiral by the tree's magic, with various civilizations rising from the remnants of the old world. Some also fell completely, like one that tried to summon one of the dragons from the war and lost control of it, allowing it to ravage their realm in fire before it was returned to its slumber, and another that summoned one of the storm beings in a desperate attempt to defend themselves against an invading darkness that wished to steal the secret magics it had developed in order to use them for evil, begging it to move their world away, only to be betrayed and swept away by the rains it summoned. But other realms grew and prospered, with the occasional conflict breaking out between them, including one where clockwork robots were built.
Starting to lose interest, Jade was surprised when the images coalesced into two solid projections, one of that school of magic focused around the great tree, Bartleby his name was, she remembered through her haze, the other of a skull shaped island with what looked like pirate ships flying through the sky. She felt a sudden desire to touch one of the images, and reached out her hand, and the moment she made contact, the world went all white...
Well, here's the first chapter of "A Jade Pirate"! I guess the title is pretty much a dead giveaway of where Jade ends up, huh? This chapter was partly to give a bit of backstory to the Spiral in general, since most of the information about the Spiral's formation, etc., is found in Wizard101 and not its sister game. In case you didn't already know, this story is part of Project Dark Jade, a fanfiction project founded by Eduard Kassel and Nocturne no Kitsune (the latter of which has since dropped off the radar), meant to "address a depressing vacuum in the Jackie Chan Adventures Archives. Namely stories in which the shows leading little lady either strays or is press ganged unto the dark side.". Eduard's "Queen of All Oni" story is likely the most popular JCA story ever, BTW. The Project also has a TV Tropes page and a forum if you want to check out some of the other stories.
Also, please note that I am often busy IRL and updates may be sporadic. I apologize in advance for this, so please no flames about it! Thank you.