Jade and Jackie were at a museum, Jackie had gone there to donate some scrolls after his failing to acquire the snake talisman, he believed that it had been berried in the cave if it had survived the rock slide, it was all due to a TV show trying to make a profit when there special affects caused damage to the cave and caused the rock slide. Jackie was currently talking with the manager about the scrolls he was donating, jade's eyes then went demon red and returned back to normal almost instantly she then grabbed Jackie's hand and began dragging him, the manager began to run after them whilst yelling come back to the archaeologist and his niece, jade then stopped, Jackie was then about to scold her for what she had just done, that's when he saw it, in a glass case nestled on a cushion stood up right was the snake talisman.
"tell me how did you get this and where from?" asked Jackie's gaze laid upon the talisman he had recently failed to acquire.
"of couse it's real, we bought from some tv show who got it while in some caverns in a cave" replied the manager while gazing at the talisman.
"perhaps you'd be willing to trade it for the scrolls?" jackie offered in attampt to bargain with the manager
"i'm sorry jackie...but the talisman is too valubel to trade and will draw in plenty of crowds as it is spoke of in legends around the world...besides i thought you were donating the scrolls" answeredthe manager as he turned to jackie, jackie could only nodd in reply to the managers question, he was donating the scrolls and now it was too late to change the offer, so jackie handed him the scrolls and left the museam, once out he turned to jade.
"jade is it real" jackie asked with wide eyes
"yes it is, and before you ask no i can't take it...atleast not now, the alarms would go off the minute i took it unless i had something that is the same weight as the talisman sorry" jade replied not even turning to look at her uncle, they then agreed to come back tonight, and even though jackie didn't approve of what they were going to do and that jade was coming along he sepecially didn't approve of the fact that jade was so enthusiastic about it buthe had no choice, he had to get the talisman before the dark hand did and he needed jade to help so that he could actually get the talisman without the alarm going off and been caught, that evening he had some people at section 13 make a replica of the talisman so that no one knew it had been stolen and if the dark hand did obtain it, it would be powerless.
that night...
jackie and his now ransformed neice stood atop the roof of the museam ready to steal the talisman, jade then merged with jackie and using her shadow form slithered them right past all the securit, after all a shadow can't set off an alarm can it, she then allowed them to regain there forms in front of the talismans case, jade then exteneded out her hand and jackie gave her the fake talisman, jade then converted her hand that contained the fake talisman into it's shadow form and then shadow fully consumed the case, after which she over shadowed the real talisman and switched them within an instant and took back her shadow making sure to have removed her shadow hand before it becam skin and bone again as it would have set the alarm off, jade then pocketed the real talisman and before jackie could object they saw another thief deactivating the security around the pink puma and had switched it a cheap souvienere from the gift shop, she then put the puma in her black bag. the thief then saw jades current form and went wide eyed and stepped back slowly and eneded up knocking off a valuble vase from the pedastone which smashed upon hitting the floor, however, the minute the vase fell from the pedestone the security alarm went off, jade then shadowed all of them and slithered out of the museam withunbelevable speed, the police didn't even notice a shadow move with great speed right under them.
once clear of the scene of the crime jade unshadowed everyone and leant against the wall feeling drained from using so much power on so many people and with that speed. they then went that seperat ways, jackie then lifted up jade and carried her back about 10 minutes later jade realised something, the talismans power was getting weaker and weaker.
"jackie...stop" she then jumped from his arms and dug nto her pocket and pulled out the pink puma and gasped "i must have accidently switched them when i over shadowed them both at the same time...which means viper now has the talisman" (jade had found this out after merging with her, it was easy to read a thought that wasn't even attempted to be hidden, but that was about all she could get about her) jade shrieked upon realizing what had happened when she helped the criminal escape. jade then ran off in the direction they had just come from and before jackie could go after her she became a shadow in the street going at maxamiun speed, then just before jade was out of sight her demonic whisper of a voice called back to jackie "i'll meet you at section 13".
a few minuites later...
jade grew back into her human form and sat down on a sofa in vipers apartment as she awaited her return, she had senced that viper had been here a lot and was on her way here so she figured she'd wait for her their. the door then opened and closed, viper had arrived and when she turned she saw jade and gasped and was about to make a break for it, terrafied by jades demon form, jade simply stood and her shadow extended and covered the door making it so viper couldn't escape with the snake talisman.
"wh...what do you want?" stammered viper as she turned to face jade and her demon form as her red eyes glowed even darker, she then smiled and viper saw the glint of jade's mouth which was full of fangs that looked like could bite through steel.
"i want the talisman" jade simply said and before viper could react a hand forged of jade's shadow rose out of the shadow and siezed the bag , which viper made a grab for it, however, she was too slow and all she did was rip the top of the black bag which cuased the talisman to fly into her hand, viper didn't even realise it wasn't the famouse pink puma and ran out her window not realising she had activated the talsiman and could no longer be seen, she then worked her way accross the ledge and jumped through a window that led to a corridoor, she then ran into the lift and headed to the bottom floor and got into a taxi and fled her hotel and her expensive apartment, jade then shadowed herself back to section 13 and explained what had happened to jackie and how she lost viper and the talisman.
the next day...
viper had just got back from robbing a juewlry store and made an easy and quick get away cutesy of the snake talisman and it's aility to make user invisible, she then turned after shutting the door and saw a man in a green expensive looking suit and te, he had white jagged hair and a mean look in his eyes, he then inroduced himself as valmont and demanded for the talisman and with his demand came the shadowkahn, viper instantly used it's power to become invisible before working her way out of the window and onto the ledge and accross it making sure not to touch valmont and or the ningas, so not to give away her location to them, however, then valmont heald up a dragon like stone with 4 heads facing one each direction (shendu had given them this after they failed to bing the rooster talisman) it then glowed in her direction it did the same even when she was halfway accross the ledge, where she was then surrounded on either side of her by ninjas and was fighting both for her life and the talisman.
jackie and jade spent the entire day patroling the streets, jade was extending her senses to try and pick up either viper or the talisman. then jade senced the talisman been used and shadowed her and jackie and the next thing they knew they were rising in a street which the parade was currently patroling. jade and jackie then saw the shadowkahn kicking and hitting thin air and they knew instantly what it was and who it was, viper with which used the snake talisman to become invisible. then jackie unaware jade had merged with his shadow climbed atop a giant baloon moose which the shadowkahn had jumped on which meant that was where viper and th talisman were when jackie finally reached the top of the balloon mouse jackie then seized viper from behind and it wasn't until then saw a shadow emerge from his and quickly pass over viper and arose in front of them, jackie and viper then saw jade was standing there with the talisman, it was then the shadowkahn dropped around them, who once again froze at the sight of jade, whos eyes grew demon red and her voice became all demonic "leave" she ordered the shadowkahn who instantly obeyed vanishing in puffs of saphire blue smoke, valmont then jumped down and turned to face them, he then took his staff and pulled and electic dagger, he was about to trike them, however, jade had a plan the minute valmont launched at them she took her shadow form and merged with jckie and viper (who she had turned into a shadow form as well) she then dived off the baloon and when they were safely on the ground she demerged with them, viper immediatly tuck off which instantly annoyed jackie because she still had the pink puma and before he could even take chase she was in a cab speeding off and out of sight, they then turned to see the mouse baloon had bursed and valmont was still on it and was shooting off into the distance, by now valmont had sheathed his electric dagger back into his cane valmont while on the baloon was about to pass his biulding so he dived off and grabbed a ledge and climbed in through his office window to explain to shendu and tell him what happened with the talisman however he was also going to scold him for not tellng him what this girl could do, an old saying had echoed in his head when he was asking shendu for more information, knowledge is power, and it was best to know thy enemy's strengths and weaknesses before attacking. the police then surrounded jackie who was to be arrested (they had seen his face on camera when looking at CTV tapes, during the robery of the pink puma) afer all he couldn't return the pink puma to get out of trouble because viper still had it, he then saw jade dig her hand into her pocket and take out a pink jewel and toss it to the captain, who let them go soon after since they now had the puma back there was nothing else to do.
"how did you get the puma form viper" asked jackie with a wide eyed expression
"simple when we made our escape via shadow form i nabbed it from her and she didn't even notice...guess she'll be pretty angry when she finds out hu jackie" the both laughed at imaganing vipers face when she realised she no longer had the pink puma.
meanwhile...
viper had finally headed back to her apartment knowing jackie and his neice must have left to avoid the police and to avoid been arrested, once back in her apartment she dug in her pocket to retreve the puma when she didn't feel it in her zipped pocket, she though for a moment confused as to what could have happened to it and then she realised what had happened and what jade had done.
"that kid...and i bet now the jewel is either gone or under better security...maybe even both...better watch out jackie that kid is probably going to be the future me if she keeps this up...i can't wait to see his face when it happens"
meanwile
jackie and jade had finally placed the snake talisman where it belongs in the section 13 volt where no one could use it for evil and where it could and can be contained until further notic when they know what to do with them.