OK so brace yourselves, this is a very long one. Well at least for my standards it is just over 4,ooo words, and that's without the extra stuff that I took out. I've been working on this one for an entire week, which is really long for me to be working on a single chapter of anything, so I hope that you all enjoy my new material! And make sure to tell me what you think!
Disclaimer: You know both of these shows would still be going if I was in charge.
K is for Kandracar (hahaha not really): Secrets
Caleb, you could have tried to be more respectful. I know you are stressed due to the situation, but you need to keep it low key. We will get Elyon free. But we also need to remember to be curtious to others and their kindness." Yan Lin chastised Caleb once they were home and away from Jackie and in the basement.
"I know, and I'm sorry really. I didn't know he was important." Yan lin gave him another look and he quickly went on, " I mean I guess the situations just getting to me and I forgot my manners." She was more satisfied with that answer.
"Well you better get use to him being around and his family. Also you need to be especially careful around his niece, Jade. She is very good at getting herself into trouble and I believe she already suspects us of hiding something. She should not get involved in our affairs just yet. It is much too soon. But I still want you to be nice to her even if she annoys you. Make sure you don't push her away too much." Caleb looked a little confused.
"But why do I need to be extra nice and friendly? Is she going to be important to us later on or something?" He knew the previous air guardian had her reasons to stay secretive, but he clearly needed to know more due to having to be around them more now.
"Huhhhhh... I guess you do need to know a little more. Jade is special, but she doesn't realize it quite yet. And she has had troubles making friends. She also can get herself into magical trouble too. But you must do you best to be kind to her because I know the longer they are here the more likely she is to get involved with the guardians. But when she does, she needs to know that they are the good guys and that she can trust them. Otherwise, she might fall into the wrong hands." Yan Lin honestly hoped to keep Jade a secret from her old friend. If Narrissa were to find out about Jade...
"But, there is something else isn't there? Is she powerful or something? Is that the reason its so important to keep her safe?" Caleb knew there was a detail missing in Yan Lins explanation. She wouldn't make a big deal of it otherwise.
"Yes." Yan Lin looked the young leader straight in the eyes as she answered. "She has a dormant potential that scares even Japanese Demons. She could be your greatest ally or your worst enemy. She may even be more powerful then Elyon." She let that hang in the air for a moment. "The point is Caleb, is that she needs to know she can trust the guardians and their associates. Elyon didn't and you know what happened with that. You need to be kind to Jade, even if she pries or gets annoying. Your kindness just might save her life." Caleb had to sit down for a while after that. He couldn't believe it. But he wouldn't deny it because he remembered what happened with Elyon, and even now there was nothing he could do to help her other then get the info to the guardians. This was a side mission for Caleb, and after some thought he made sure to remember to do well in it.
After that chat Yan Lin told Jackie she was going to go and deliver some take out, but he asked if she could drop him off at the gym for his karate lessons while she was out. She told him the closest she could go without going out of her way was the school, which was fine with him since it was letting out and he wanted to talk to Jade anyways. He kinda wondered what that boy from earlier was doing in the back. She said he was helping her. But he soon forgot about that ounce she started to drive, and boy did he regret getting into that vehicle with her behind the wheel.
After she made a few stops and Caleb delivered them to the door to some women delight, they finally reached the school and Jackie got out, thankful for the ground to stop moving. He was curious as to why Hay lins friends all got into the back of the truck, but honestly he felt bad for them more then anything after what he just went through. Yan Lin drove off after a few minitues and he didn't hear screaming so he figured everything was fine. He talked to Jade and her new friend and was glad to see that she made a new friend. He gave her some money and headed off to the gym. The rest of the day played out normal for him and after the lessons he drank some tea with Uncle and Yan Lin (who got home awfully late to Jackie's surprise) and waited for Jade to get home.
~Now its time to back up and see what Jades day was like after leaving school~
Jade and Mykayla shopping before study session happens right before the time that Tarranee is at the club with Nigel. The studying is during and somewhat afterwords.
Jade is shocked, truly shocked. Her and Mykayla had only been on the shopping strip for an hour and she was already having more fun then she ever had with another kid before. Mykayla was actually kinda cool to hang with, she talked a little funny sometimes but usually when she was confused or comparing something to back home. Though sometimes she was a little mean and scoffed at things all the time at first, but after the first 20 minutes of walking she kinda opened up more and stopped being so cynical about everything. Her life was interesting to listen about... she talked about everything like it was in the mid-evil era and Jade found it absolutely fascinating.
She didn't do all the talking though. She would ask Jade questions about herself and Jade found it was easier to talk when she was asked rather then just blurting things out at random to impress people. And Mykayla was a good listener too. Jade didn't talk about the ninja stuff, which was actually kinda easy to do because she asked home questions (like about San Francisco and China) instead of current ones. She did ask about her Uncle Jackie and what he did, but she only told about the museum and karate stuff, which Mykayla seemed to think was actually interesting. Jade told her about the one time that they were on an archaeological dig and a statue came to life and went after some girl and her family during their school play,(leaving out the part where Jackie was split into good and bad personalities with the tiger talisman) and she didn't find it unbelievable at all. She didn't even seem shocked about it. That made Jade a lot more comfortable around her, knowing that she didn't have to hide all of her cool adventures, but she would just have to leave certain details out.
Mykayla decided she could loosen up with her own secrets a little too after she heard that story and knew that Jade did in fact believe that unusual things were in this world.
"Where I come from strange things are all around. What is considered folklore here is real and we even have people who arn't quite 'human' who live amongst us." Jade seemed fascinated by this and wanted to know what kinda of creatures she lived with. She figured it couldn't do any harm seeing as she wasn't very good friends with the air guardian by the sound of it, so she probably wouldn't tell her anything. "Well some people are born with scales that grow all over their bodies, we call them Drakes. Those same people can also be different colors and sizes too, I know of one who is blue and looks like an ogre from your books. And then there are some that can look human, but are actually capable or turning into other creatures like snakes and spiders, we call them shape shifters." Jade was in awe. She never would have imagined that the new girl, who she totally took a chance with after they were kinda pushed together anyways, would be the exact kinda person she could relate to and actually like to be around. Jade knew the world was full of strange things that were kept hidden very well, ( like section 13) so she thought it was cool to know about some more hidden cultures that the world was hiding.
Mykayla actually felt comfortable. She honestly couldn't believe she was being so open and girly. She never experienced this before other then with Elyon, but that was just a ruse. She was genuinely having a good time with another girl her own age. She wondered for a moment how Jade would react if she ever found out she was a big nasty spider. She wasn't going to tell her, but she never knew what could happen, especially since Jade is living with the air guardian. Honestly, 'Mykayla' wasn't looking forward to not being able to see Jade again. In the past three hours they had really gotten close, well closer then she had ever been with anyone other then Cedric. She would be truly sad when her mission from Nerrisa was over and she could no longer pretend to be a normal girl. This was fun. But she knew it would be one of the only times and she shouldn't get used to it. She twirled the trinket Jade had got her between her fingers as they talked. It was a little thing called a key chain and it had a molded rock that was smooth and had symbols on the side. Jade had told her it meant 'friendship' in Chinese, and she trusted that that's what it meant since Jade was allowed to carve it herself before purchasing it. She would make sure to keep it in good condition as to remember this time.
~Study time~
Pretty soon it was time to head over to the library, which neither of them were looking forward to. When they got there though it was almost closing time... Jade checked her watch to make sure they were there at the right time, and when they asked a front desk lady she responded, "OHHH you must be Wessly's friends here for the study group! Its no problem, the library is closing. I sure hope you girls have fun! Go ahead and use whatever you need. Wessly is on the second floor setting up for you in the study room. There are snacks and drinks in the mini-kitchen if you need anything. I'm heading out but you three have fun alright!" The girls were kinda confused but followed her directions to Wessly. He was shocked to see them two minutes early.
"Wow, and here I thought you were a procrastinator. Well I guess that's a good sign that we should have a easy moving night then." Jade was going to say something but bit it back and decided to just take the compliment. She really started to like Mykayla so she didn't want to loose her cool with him just yet. Now that she had been talking to Mykayla for a while she had a better feel for her own academic level and could tell that it was worse then hers. Mykayla had to explain to Wessly that she didn't ever really go to school before moving here, so she really didn't know anything. He said it was fine and that she could just pick up when he went over the basics with Jade.
Jade was dying to know and after the library had been empty for 10 minutes couldn't help but finally ask. "Hey, how come we can be here after hours? And why is no one around to keep an eye on us? And what was that lady at the desk talking about snacks for?" Wessly was expecting Jade to ask these things and was ready with the answers.
"That lady was my mom. My parents own the local library. My dad is in the office doing stuff till late tonight so we aren't truly alone, but he trusts us not to wreck the place so he'll leave us be for the most part. Its kinda nice having the library to ourselves cause we can be as loud as we want and not have to worry about disturbing anyone, or anyone disturbing us. So lets get to some of the basics of math shall we..." after that everything was all business. Mykayla practiced slower then Jade, and Jade helped her too, but Wessly's attention was mostly on Jade for the more advanced stuff that she need to catch up on.
He figured he would just give Mykayla textbook stuff for now and let Jade catch her up so Jade could have the review before he made it more complicated to meet their schools standards. He found that Jade picked up remarkably fast. He didn't need to explain anything more then once for her to catch on and be able to understand things. At this rate it would be only one more long night like this and she would be almost as smart as him. Well, maybe that was giving her too much credit, but she might not be too far off. Mykayla was another story all together seeing as she even struggled to read English as it was. He knew he would need to spend much more time with her to get her caught up.
While Mykayla was doing some practice stuff Wessly and Jade went to the kitchen to get some snacks. They were talking math when they heard his dad mumbling on the phone in his office while they passed it. It didn't sound very good and Jade noticed Wessly's face grimace some. He noticed her questioning look so he answered her once they got to the kitchen where his dad couldn't possibly hear them.
"Heh, guess you know I'm not all that now. My parents have been having some problems with the government about keeping our extra cirlicluims at the library going. Its been a pain because everyone enjoys them so much but no one seems willing to donate much extra to help keep them going. I honestly don't get it, but I guess this town is just too caught up in its own problems to really care about extra education anymore." He seemed sad and kinda angry.
"Wait... what are extra cirliculims at libraries?" Jade felt a need to know, but she didn't expect the straight out rudeness he replied with.
"Wow, your old town really didn't have much did it? What did you do in your spare time if you didn't go around and hang at places with your friends like at the library and stuff? Or did you not have anyone to inform you of how small your world was?" Wessly said with that snark in his voice that made Jade remember that he was still just a stupid boy like all the rest.
"Hey I don't have a small world. I can even bet you my world is bigger then you could even imagine without blowing a brain circuit!" She pointed at him, but he seemed unfazed.
"Oh really? And what did you do in your spare time then? What were your hobbies other then being super bored in class?" He seemed to be taunting her, but he actually did want to know, for more reasons then one.
"I did lots of cool stuff like!...III...ummm... I helped... my Uncle... and errrr... OH and I helped my other Uncle too with some of his Archeological work too. That's actually put in museums and stuff." She almost messed up for a second due to her being enraged, but she caught herself pretty quickly. And she wasn't even lying.
"Oh and that's sooo fun. I bet you've never been out before have you? Like with a group of kids your own age." He wasn't letting up on her. "Was it because you got mad so easily or was it because you couldn't be trusted to be unsupervised?" He was only saying that because of her temper and the fact that she didn't seem used to not having an adult around. She was probably used to being treated like she was a little kid when she wasn't just becuse of that. It was a sound theory and remark, but he regretted it when he saw her expression turn from angry and red to hurt and pale, like she just saw something horrifying. He did a double take on what he said and realized it really was a little overboard. Why had I said it like that? He tried to comfort her after he realized this but she pulled away, now regaining her anger.
"YOU don't know anything! What my Uncle Jackie does helps more people then you can... AGGhhhh! He's cooler then you will ever know and he does more good then...You know what never mind! Just know that I help him do amazing things that help other people, and that's more then you'll ever do keeping yourself read up about how to torcher new girls!" She thought she had him since she was being a bit of an emotional wreck due to him bringing up bad memories of her nightmares, but she was caught off guard when he started cracking up. He was actually starting to cry he laughed so hard. She calmed down some while trying to figure this kid out. He makes her soo mad and then starts laughing and usually that infuriated her even more but his laugh was different then the others. He wasn't laughing at her for being red in the face, he was laughing like she told a funny joke that he honestly enjoyed.
When he was done with his fit of laughter and was able to speak properly again, he almost cracked up again due to the look Jade was giving him. It was actually quite adorable, but he wouldn't dare tell her that. He finally cleared his throat and talked like a normal person.
"Sorry, I hadn't meant to be so insensitive towards you, or mean actually; and I will admit that that was rather rude of me to go that far on an assumption,but I was only meaning that its not fair that you seemed to had to live such a closed up life due to the adults seeing you as a child when you are clearly much smarter then the other kids you were stuck with. Honestly, they were probably just looking at how quick tempered you are, and that is probably the reason they keep thinking that way. Other then that I really don't get why they don't recognize your talent. I mean your getting this stuff really quickly and I can see that you are a very quick study. And the fact that they let you help your uncle on important stuff proves that they can see something in you or else there is no way they would let you even get close to stuff that is that meaningful." She seemed calm now so he decided to keep it that way before he got to far from the original topic.
"Anyhow, to answer your original question, the library will host different kind of events like chili tasting, book reading contests, and more. But we have a special budget for classes for people to take too like knitting, sewing, paper cutting (scrap-booking), different computer classes, and tones of special kids stuff and goes on year round. They are really cool and fun too and I sometimes get to help out with some of them." He seemed quite happy when he thought about them, Jade kinda wanted to take one to see what it was like. When she thought about it it would make sense as to why he was so upset about not being able to do it anymore. At Jades unusual silence he continued.
"You really should get out more. And don't start feeling sorry for me now, we've still got a lot to do and my problems won't get in the way of you getting yours done." He smirked that smirk that made Jade frustrated with him all over again. Just when she was starting to feel sorry for the guy too. She took the last cracker pack from his hand and marched off. He continued to smirk at her until she turned the corner, then his face fell and once he was sure she was out of ear shot he went over and picked up the paper he had printed off earlier before the girls had arrived.
He looked at it with so much intensity he could have burned a hole through it. It was an article of a strange siting he remembered seeing on the news a couple of weeks ago about a giant floating red head and a Chinese man and what looked like an Irish man fighting for something strange looking. They had destroyed the local pottery shop in Faden Hills but the authorities couldn't get clear descriptions or pictures of the people and it sounded like a bunch of fiction from those who gave exact reports, so they ignored it, but not before it went on the local news as a joke.
The reason he was looking into himself, and was looking even deeper into it, was simple. He blew up the article to get as big as a picture as he could get without pixelizing it and printed it so he could keep it with him to study better, but he was pretty sure of what he could see. A red demon head, possibly floating, and a few feet behind it, a small girl with short black hair and an orange hoodie on. He took another look at the door way before whispering to himself, "Jade, why do I feel I have to know more? What is it about you that gives me the feeling that your right and you are involved in more then I can imagine? Humph... no matter, I know your defiantly hiding something now, and I'm going to figure out what."
Now before anyone bites my head off I know Miranda was a little out of character, but I needed it to move a little fast with them so that's what I did. Oppps sorry, did some of you not figure out it was her yet? Well surprise! Now you know! I do have a reason for why she isn't were she was in the show right now, and I will reveal it eventually. But I really wanted her to meet Jade and start in on that so I won't let you know yet :) Anyhow I had a tough time with the Wessly thing, especially since I had to keep re-writing it and cutting things out to put into later chapters cause it was too soon. So if it doesn't flow quite right let me know.
But PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK! I wish to know if I'm overlooking things or if I'm right on or what I am with this story, especially since this was a long chapter thus it is easier for me to miss things that don't quite add up or fit right.
Next up L is for …. well you will find out!