A Heavy Price

Rose and Sara had arrived at Uncle's shop to discuss the recent battle against Hektore with Uncle, Tohru, Jade, Jackie and the spirit of Master Eon. Needless to say the spirit of Rose and Sara's adoptive father was a bit shocked at hearing Hektore was back.

"So Hektore has returned you say?" Eon asked.

"I'm afraid so Master Eon," Rose said, "And he's even stronger now. We barely held him off this time."

"But now that he's teaming up with the boss that wants the JTeens eliminated," Sara added, "He's going to be even tougher."

"Speaking of tough let me ask you something," Jade spoke, "Didn't you two say you were going to speak with the parents of the popular posse and let them know what happened today."

"We tried to do that," Rose said, "Unfortunately something jammed the calls preventing us from doing so."

"This is most likely the work of that mysterious boss," Tohru said, "Or probably one of Rose and Sara's enemies."

"And speaking of our enemies," Sara growled, "Where is the so called 'Popular Posse'? Rose and I have a bone to pick with them!"

"On a spa retreat for the weekend compliments of their benefactor," Eon said with disdain in his voice showing them a vision of the popular posse getting pampered and treated like royalty for the weekend, "And their benefactor gave them enough spending money for the weekend as well."

"Can this get any worse master Eon?" Jackie sighed, "I mean surely their parents would've grounded them by now."

"It gets much worse," Eon said sadly, "Their parents unfortunately were cursed by the combined power of Devitra, Hektore and unfortunately Kaos as well."

"Wait Kaos is back?" Uncle asked shocked, "Didn't you say that you banished him?"

"We did but we forgot that as a portal master Kaos is immune to being turned into a toy." Rose sighed, "Meaning he's back and working with this mysterious boss to eliminate the JTeens."

"And judging from the state Devitra put them in," Uncle said, "Kaos needn't have bothered trying. She injured them badly that they'll be stuck in the hospital for about a week at best."

"So basically this victory unfortunately came at a heavy price." Jade spoke to which everyone nodded, "Thought so."

"Let us hope this does not get worse," Jackie suggested hoping for the best.

Later that evening in Avalon, Hektore, Kaos and Tchang Zu were at Kaos' hideout waiting for the chi samples of Tchang Zu's siblings.

"Tchang Zu, are you sure that this is a good idea?" Hektore asked, "The JTeens are down so why don't we finish them now?"

"Hello," Kaos reminded, "Rose and Sara would've probably warded off the hospital to keep the Shadowkhan out."

"But even so I could barge right in and take them out," the floating head countered, "One shot and that will be all it takes."

"True but the plan is for Robert Muir to eliminate Drago," Devitra countered as she arrived with seven other jars. "Besides if Tchang Zu backs out of the deal then Muir's going to suspect something's up."

"You're late Devitra," Tchang Zu hissed. "Did you get the chi samples?"

"Yes we did," Devitra said as Yami, Jinx, and Shade arrived. "Although I had to have my cohorts distract the demons so I could sneak up and extract some of their chi."

"Well that explains why you wanted me to bring them back." Kaos spoke, "But look on the bright side."

"What bright side?" Shade growled.

"From what we saw you didn't do much," Yami hissed, "The JTeens are still alive and those Arkeyan brats are still breating."

"But don't forget we did injure the JTeens heavily," Jinx countered, "And Devitra's still in human form."

"And I can use this form to infiltrate the School and make life hell for their enemies via my Magic," Devitra reminded, "So either way the Arkeyan twins aren't going to be expecting me to know some magic."

"And there's the matter of how we weakened their morale to a low record," Kaos said, "And in a week we'll have what we need to strike."

"And even though we didn't win we did make sure that our enemies' victory came at a heavy price." Hektore added.

And on cue the evil Portal Master began laughing loudly and evilly which was soon followed by more sinister laughter by the Thunder Demon, the evil floating head, and the phantasms as they all laughed at the plan to eliminate the JTeens once and for all in about a week.