Sorry I didn't update last month. With finals going on my coauthor and I didn't have as much free time as we normally do. To make it up to all our readers we are going to try to get another chapter done before the month is over. Please leave a review.
Chapter 8
The J Team, Daolon Wong, and the demon sorcerers somehow managed to get through the night without slaughtering each other, it wasn't easy though, and there was some arguing, a lot of death threats, and someone, no one knew who, tied Shendu up to the ceiling, but somehow they managed. The next morning though they were unexpectedly woken by two of the palace guards.
"Wake up!" A tall bald guard yelled entering the chamber.
"Huh?" Paco asked drowsily.
"You all are to follow us, and you are not to say a word." The blonde guard stated.
"Go, where exactly?" Jackie asked.
"Hey buddy, we said not a word. These are the orders of the Devil himself, now come on!" The bald guard declared.
"I wouldn't talk to them like that." A familiar voice declared.
The guards turned to see two of Jade's friends from the club standing behind the guards. They saw that one of them was the boy Jade called Dante, and then there was the red-headed girl they saw sitting at Jade's table.
"What are you going two going to do about it?" The bald guard asked.
"You seem to forget that we're reapers, we have the strength to take you out if we wanted to." Dante stated.
"We also happen to be very close friends with Jade, and as if you didn't notice before. So all we have to do is tell her what you did and believe me I don't think she'd be very happy with what you are doing now." The redhead added.
The guards tried to argue back but they couldn't figure out what to say, after all they were telling the truth about Jade.
"Well, it looks like our work here is done Violet." Dante stated.
"Yeah, well, we'll see you guys around." Violet said to the others before the two reapers walked away.
The J Team and the villains were led to a set of large dark wooden doors.
They were led into a room were the Devil was sitting on a throne by the wall of the far end of the room with Jade on his right side. The side walls had rows of people sitting in them, almost like the way lords and ladies sit in rows in a parliament, they all must have been reapers, and the Devil's other trustworthy advisors. The Devil stood up from his throne and any chatter that was in the room immediately stopped.
"My fellow Hellions, we have all come here today to make a decision about the fate of these so called intruders." The Devil stated.
"I would allow all of you to talk but if I do that I must let all my people here to talk, and I do not want to be here all day so you may pick two spokespersons to speak in your defenses" the Devil told the 'intruders'.
"Also any of you may ask Jade questions but she can refuse to answer and I want no one to pressure her; she is also not allowed to vote on this matter" he addressed everyone.
"Who should we chose?" Po Kong asked.
"I shall do speak for us siblings."Bai Tza declared to the demons.
"I still think I should do it." Daolon Wong argued.
"Fool, you will just make it worst with your rage." Shendu hissed.
"You're one to talk when it comes to rage father." Drago countered.
"Silence you fools. I will speak for us and that is final!" Bai Tza declared.
"What about us?" El Torro asked.
"I think Jackie should do it, no matter what has happened I still feel like he knows Jade the most." Viper stated.
"I agree." Tohru added.
Jackie and Bai Tza went forward to tell their stories. Once they finished they were practically attacked with questions.
"So you wanted to sacrifice the Devil's daughter?"
"We were not aware of the girl was the daughter of the Devil." Bai Tza replied.
"And you all wanted to follow her?"
"Of course, we were worried about her safety, and we had no knowledge that she was a reaper." Jackie stated. "Jade, please, why don't you just come home with us?" He asked looking at Jade.
"I am home. I like it here and what I do. I refuse to go back to the mortal world." Jade stated.
The senate when on for a few more hours and many questions were asked. The whole time though Jade never wavered in her decision not to leave hell unless she was working.
"Okay, now we will let our jury of reapers of step out make their decision. I have chosen to refrain from voting." The Devil stated.
About twenty minutes later the jury returned and one of the reapers to announced the decision.
"Your majesty, it is this jury's decision that these "intruders" shall be allowed to stay in Hell as long as they do not interfere with the duties of reapers or any of the political officials. They might even be of some use to us."
Suddenly the doors broke open and they saw none other than Zyon.
"Die bitch die!" He yelled firing an arrow in Jade's direction. The arrow to everyone's surprise (well the J team's at least) was glowing.
Jade quickly dodged it and ran into the shadows at the end of the room, completely disappearing from sight. Then Mamoru emerged from the shadow and charged at Zyon. It wasn't long until Mamoru was able to pin Zyon on the ground. Zyon decided not to take it any farther in front all of the Hellions. So he kicked the Shadowkahn, got up and made his way toward the door before anyone else could attack him.
"It's all your fault! It's all your fault! You hear me Jade? It's all your fault!" He yelled before running far away from the scene.
Once he was gone Jade stepped out of the shadows and made her way toward Mamoru, making sure her bodyguard was not seriously injured by Zyon.
The Devil looked toward the Shadowkahn. "Get here out of here." He commanded.
Said Shadowkahn nodded before putting his arm around Jade and leading them both back into the shadows.
The Devil then directed his attention toward everyone else in the room.
"Court dismissed, you may all leave." He stated before disappearing himself.
