Lotus Heart

It was a normal sunny morning in San Franisco as a twenty five year old woman with long black hair, gentle brown eyes, slender and wore a dress was making breakfast.

Her name was Jade Chan and it was hard for anybody to believe the life she'd had from childhood.

She worked at a museum in China Town since she'd loved finding things for the museum.

She looked at the wall clock.

It was nearly nine am.

"Jori you're going to be late again for school!" she yelled upstairs. She heard footsteps as an nine year old girl ran downstairs and into the kitchen.

"Sorry Mom.

I.... was still asleep." the girl said to her.

Jori Chan was Jade's nine year old daughter and was like her mother in appearance and spirit which meant getting into trouble at school and sent to the principal's office a lot. Her shoulder length black hair was messy from sleep.

Jori's father had been taken to the shadow world after she'd given birth to Jori but Jade never spoke about it, not even with Jori but the girl heard about it from her uncles. She was dressed in a black hoodie top with a blue back pack on her back.

"Mom..... when is Dad coming home........ you know from the Shadow Realm?" Jori asked her mother on the car ride to school. Jade tensed up at that question. She had blocked out all memory of that night when Draco had taken her beloved to the Shadow Realm.

Jori saw tears in her eyes.

"Mom you okay?

You're not yourself." Jori said as they pulled up at the school. Jori wondered if what she'd said did something wrong.

Hai-Ling smiled finding out she was in the mortal plane but saw children at a school playing and talking.

"Maybe I'll find somebody there." she said but remembered she still looked like a demon.

"Oh man!

If I go in there like this, it'll scare them.

I have to try hiding my form so I won't scare them." she thought as she focused on changing her form as magic surrounded her. In her place was a young asian girl of nine years old with shoulder length blue hair, green eyes and slender but wore a blue dress.

Hai-Ling couldn't help but look at herself in a mirror or her reflection.

"Wow I look..... like a real kid." she thought as she heard the kids and entered the playground. Jori was sitting on the bleachers reading a fantasy book about demons and other worlds. It made her think of the stories her uncles told her but saw a group of popular girls giggle as they saw her.

"Look girls it's the freak!

What're you reading, a spell book on how to make yourself vanish forever?" the leader of the group cackled as Jori ignored them. They always gave her trouble but then saw them picking on an new girl which piqued her curiousity. The kid had shoulder length blue hair, green eyes and wore a blue dress.

"What's your name loser?" the mean girl asked.

"H-Hai-Ling.

I just started today." the demon girl said to her shyly.

Jori growled putting the book back in her back pack as she went over to help the new kid as she punched the mean girl in the face.

"You're such a freak Jori Chan.

It's a wonder your Mom hasn't put you up for adoption." she said as Hai-Ling's eyes glowed with green light as magic emitted from her hands. The group of mean girls ran off screaming.

"S-Sorry about that." Hai said to Jori.

"Sorry about what?

That was cool!

Your Mom must be good with magic like my uncle.

He's awesome with magic.

I'm Jori.

Jori Chan." the girl told Hai.

The demon girl was surprised by this kid.

"Isn't she afraid of me?

I don't understand." Hai thought.

"I'm Hai-Ling.

I moved here yesterday." the demon girl told her.

But in the antique shop Jackie wondered what was going on as Jade arrived.

"Apparently a demon opened a portal to here and escaped from the Shadow Realm but....." she said.

"But what?" Jackie asked her.

"I think this demon is only a child like Jori and wants a home and a family so we don't need to send her back. Besides if I find it, it's staying at my house so Jori will have a friend for once." she told him leaving the shop to go back to work......