Hereeeeeeeeeeeeee's chapter 21 (Jazz hands). Sorry for the delay I was a little busy these past couple of months but the next chapter won't be long hopefully. The story will end soon I promise. R&R please. Thank you for all the reviews btw.
Sandman and Santa raced to Jade's house to see what was going on. They entered Jade's room and found Cupid flying to and fro while murmuring under his breath while Jade, or her body to be more specific, was lying very still on her bed like just like in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Sandman winced and shot a pleading look to Santa who was pinching his eyes in frustration.
"Cupid would you like to enlighten me on what happened?"
Cupid jumped and turned around only to tremble a bit when he saw Santa.
"S-Santa hiiii what's up how fortunate that you wanted to visit us right at this moment, would you like a tour-"
"Cut the crap Cupid and tell me what happened now." Santa was not so slowly losing his patience. He was glaring fiercely at Cupid and latter has begun shrinking, literally.
"Well you see… uhm… funny story actually you're gonna laugh so hard when I tell you I mean maybe not now but I'm pretty sure we will laugh about it in the futu- Holy!" Cupid ducked out of the way of a candy cane rocket flying towards his head. "Alright, okay! We accelerated Jade's emotions so fast that they overlapped and the only thing that was keeping her a bit sane was her hanging out with Tori so when Tori slapped her, her emotions grew so confusing and murky that her brain shut off as a mechanism to protect itself, so the best explanation I can come up with right now is that she's in an emotional coma that renders her a prisoner in her own mind please don't kill me!" During the rant Cupid was shrinking regularly and by the end of it he was pea sized with his arms on his head shivering.
Santa was trying very hard not to shoot Sandman and Cupid again and he wasn't even trying to hide that fact. "Alright you two I can't list the amount of trouble you are in right now but you better believe I will enjoy the I told you so's later but right now we have to find a way to fix this young girl before she stays like this forever."
Sandman and Cupid were standing in front of Santa with their eyes lowered and shoulders slumped. They knew they had done a lot of wrong things but they were willing o do anything to make it right.
Meanwhile
"Trina can you wait here please I'm going to check on Jade. Cat, do you want to come with me or stay here?"
Cat thought about it a bit but decided to go with Tori in case she blurted to Trina that she was the mystery admirer.
"No I'll come too Tori."
Trina felt sad at that because she always wanted to be close to Cat, that was the main reason she accepted giving them a ride to the wicked witch West's house but then again she was relieved because she wants to try and forget Cat so having her sitting in her car alone with her was not a good way to do that.
"I'll wait here don't be long."
"Thanks sis."
Cat felt a little bad about leaving Trina in the car alone but she was a little worried about Jade so Trina will have to wait.
"Thank you Trina."
"Wha-Oh anything for yo-I mean anytime Cat." Trina was hitting herself repeatedly in her head and Cat almost couldn't stop the giggle that was bubbling up from Trina's response. Even Tori who was worried sick about Jade smiled a bit.
Tori and Cat went to knock on Jade's door but found it open. They looked at each other in worry and picked up their pace to Jade's room.
Meanwhile
"Okay her brain is refusing to relax and I'm at a loss of what to do. Santa do you have any ideas?"
Santa was not looking at Sandman but was scowling at the door.
"Cupid when you entered the house did you remember to shut the door?"
Cupid was about to say yes but then he froze, he forgot to close the door. Santa looked at him and sighed. "Everyone hide now!"
The Guardians all shrank. Sandman hid in Jade's black hourglass, Cupid his in her scissor's collection and Santa hid on a high shelf. They were all observing from their hideouts.
Tori and Cat entered Jade's room and rushed to her side of the bed when they saw her.
"Oh my God she looks so pale what happened to her?"
"I don't know she doesn't have a fever and her heart rate is normal. Let's try waking her." Tori shook Jade for a bit but she didn't respond.
"Jade! Jade come on wake up you're freaking us out. Jade please wake up." Tori was almost in tears because Jade's face was so pale it was almost ghost like.
"Do you think we should call an ambulance or something?"
Santa waved his hands to catch the attention of the other two and signed to cupid to change the girls' minds about the ambulance. Cupid nodded and went to work.
"Yeah Cat I think it's best if we call an ambu-wait." Tori blinked owlishly for a second. "No you know what we should let her rest for a bit maybe she's tired?" Tori was feeling a little funny but she was convinced that it was the best course of action.
"What? But Tori look at her she looks-what?" Cat blinked a bit rapidly for a moment. "No you're right I think she just looks tired. How about we leave her be and ask her how she is at school tomorrow. If she doesn't come to school then we'll come back here and call an ambulance, what do you think." Cat was also feeling kind of funny but she just shrugged it off.
Santa nodded his head and signed to Cupid to get them out of here.
"Maybe we should go to our own houses now."
"Yeah I think that would be best for now. Let's leave Jade to rest and we will hopefully see her tomorrow."
Cat and Tori automatically walked out of Jade's room and back to Trina's car to go to their homes.
The Guardians then reappeared in their full height.
"Good at least you didn't screw that up too." Cupid smiled sheepishly and approached Jade's body.
"Is she in the realm of ghosts now? Can she enter anyone's dream? Is she even conscious right now?"
"Hold up Cupid, no she isn't because her brain is keeping her in a tight prison. No she can't because she isn't conscious. Until we coax the brain to give her at least a small leeway she will stay stuck in there." Sandman knitted his eyebrows in thought. "I think I know of a way to soften her brain's tight hold on her consciousness but the only thing that will do is free her spirit so it may roam the land of dreams again, I do not know yet how to return her to her body."
Cupid and Santa nodded at Sandman and told him to proceed.
Sandman placed his hand on Jade's forehead and closed his eyes. He went inside her brain, deep within the hardly used parts. He found a vault that was labeled buried and opened it just enough to get his hand through. When he was done retrieving what he came for he closed the vault again and made his way to the memories part of the brain.
When he arrived at the memory center he saw all of Jade's memories. The most recent ones are from the first time she ever used her powers till the pet shelter where she shut down. The memories were hazy at best and very jumbled.
Sandman pushed his sleeves up, cracked his neck and got to work. He rearranged the memories in their right order and placed the ones he got from the vault in their right order. After about 5 minutes all the memories were back into their right time slots and the ones the brain buried were back also.
He came out of Jade's head and shook his head to clear it.
"What did you do?"
"I retrieved the memories of Tori that Jade repressed like her feelings and certain moments because it made her think about her friend in a different light and she didn't want that. I fixed her memories and made her remember the times she repressed. The brain should give a little because it has new information to process now and that would give Jade her consciousness back but only in the ghost world. We still need to rearrange her emotions because they are so very jumbled."
"Yes I wonder why."
"No need for that Santa we already admitted it was our fault, now please help us we have fix her before school tomorrow."
Santa sighed and prepared himself to help this mentally distraught young woman. "Place the barrier."
Meanwhile
"NO TORI ALIENS DIDN'T BRAINWASH ME AND DID YOU REALLY JUST SLAP ME?" Jade was looking around furiously for Tori but then she realized that Tori was not here and she was floating outside her house.
"What the hell is going on? How am I here?" Jade was feeling nothing but a anger. It was like she was void of emotion except for that angry feeling. She shook her head and descended to her house but when she got to the door of her room she hit something solid. "What the?"
Jade tried and tried again but she couldn't get through to her room.
"What is going on. CRICKETTTT! ARE YOU INSIDE WITH MY BODY? ANSWER ME RIGHT NOW."
Cupid sighed. "What should I do?"
"Tell her you will explain later but now something happened and you don't have time to explain."
Cupid nodded and went to face the music.
He stopped at the other side of the door.
"Jade."
"Cricket! Open up now!"
"No listen Jade I promise I will explain everything in the morning but please go wander around until then something happened and we are trying to fix it."
"Oh well excuse me if I don't believe a thing that can screw up my brains and is telling me to wait on an explanation that will come in 12 hours."
"I know you feel violated and confused right now but please I can't let you in because it will make it worse on your body and I promise I will explain everything now please keep yourself busy until morning. You have my word you will know everything."
Jade was mad but she didn't really have a choice in the matter. "Fine but if I don't get answers in the morning you will be very sorry Cricket."
"Got it, thank you."
Jade huffed but decided to let it go for now. She really wanted to see what Tori was doing because she has no recollection of what happened to her after Tori slapped her.
She flew to Tori's house and since it was still 6 o'clock the Latina won't be sleeping but Jade just wanted to see her. Tori gave her comfort for some odd reason.
When she got to Jade's house she saw Tori and Trina sitting on the couch. Tori was telling Trina about the previous night and today minus the envelope and Cat's surprise.
"So she was telling me all about how she understood why Beck cheated on her and that she was willing to forgive him-"
"Wait, what?"
"Yeah! My words exactly and she was berating herself about being a bad girlfriend and then I just had to slap her because she was starting to scare me."
"I would've punched her in the nose frankly. I may not like Jade but I know her enough to say that something is not right."
"Yes and I explained why I hit her and chiz but she just shut off. She had a blank look on her face and was staring right through me, it was very unsettling."
"Yeah and? She must have said something I mean come on you hit her for God's sake which I commend you for."
"Har har, and no she didn't say anything she just drove her car like a robot, dropped me off at school and sped down the road like someone was chasing her."
"Well if she was very pale and hardly moving in her bed why did you leave her on her own or at least why didn't call for help?"
"I don't know! Something compelled me not to. I'm not kidding one minute I wanted to call the a whole army of medics and the next I thought it was a good idea to leave her be."
"Well let's hope she's going to be alright tomorrow."
"I'm so worried about her, I should've stayed there I'm so angry at myself."
"Hey you know you don't owe her anything right? I mean I know you're like crazy in love with her, and God help me I have no idea why, she isn't your girlfriend nor your responsibility."
Jade agreed with Trina, Tori wasn't responsible for her nor was she her girlfriend. She was surprised to feel her heart twinge at that.
"I know but if Cat was in the same situation wouldn't you do the same for her?"
Trina stared wide-eyed at Tori. The latter was confused as to why but then remembered, Trina never mentioned that she was head over heels for Cat, ever. Oops.
"H-how did you know I'm in love with Cat- I mean what? Cat? Hahahaha that's so funny I don't like Cat. Why would I like her she's too childish and bubbly with cute dimples and luscious red hair and gorgeous brown eyes and…"
Tori was staring at Trina like she was adorable and Jade was floating over Tori's head listening.
Trina cleared her throat and sighed. "Fine I love Cat and you love Jade we are both huge lesbians and mom and dad are totally okay with that now tell me how did you know?."
Jade saw the look in Tori's eyes when Trina mentioned her being in love and felt a little warm. Her emotions are basically nonexistent right now but whenever she is with Tori, everything just seems better, no matter how bleak.
"Oh come on Trina you look at her like she hangs the sun in the morning and the moon and stars at night. It's the same way I look at Jade."
Trina bought it and they continued talking for a couple of hours. They talked about their respective loves and what their perfect dates were, for which Tori memorized to tell Cat later and Jade pretended to not memorize for future purposes, and then their mother called them for dinner.
The family ate dinner and everyone dispersed. Tori and Trina went to their rooms, Jade followed Tori.
It was about 9 o'clock when Tori emerged from the bathroom after her nightly routine. Jade was tempted to peek but decided against it.
Tori then sat on the bed and opened her diary and of course Jade took that as an invitation to snoop, like she needed one. Tori opened a new page and started writing about the last two days. Jade already knew about it so she decided to read the page next to it.
'The second in command approached Andre.
"Sir, you did it, you won."
"For now but if I know one thing about my old friend, is that he is persistent and he will try again."
"We will protect the princess with our lives."
"Long live princess Jade."
"LONG LIVE PRINCESS JADE.' Then dear diary I woke up and went to school awaiting to return to sleep to continue my wonderful ability to dream at will and, I reiterate as always, be so very fortunate as to remember every one of them. Goodnight."
Jade was surprised to learn that Tori can manipulate and remember her dreams which is kind of a funny coincidence if you think about it since her newly acquired pain in the ass powers are for dreams. She was glad Tori couldn't see her invading hers though, very glad. Jade then peeked at what Tori was writing now and felt her cheeks go warm.
'…and then she sat on my lap and I thought I was going to choke on air. It was a herculean effort to keep my hands to myself but I manage the feat. To my disappointment and relief she noticed where she was sitting and moved out of my lap. My chagrin was so palpable that I dare think even my princess felt it but if that was the case she didn't show it. Then Cat appeared and we planned the perfect date for her and my sister. We went to sleep and then the dream continued…'
Jade decided to roam for a bit because she lived the dream once and she didn't want to live it again. She decided to check on Trina. She flew into Trina's vault of a room and saw her reading Cat's envelope. Trina was just staring at it with a bittersweet look on her face. Jade can guess why, on one hand it was the most and probably only romantic thing that has ever been given to her in her life but on the other hand she wished that it was from Cat. Little did she know it was and she was sure that Cat will make Trina the happiest girl alive and vice versa.
Trina then hugged the paper to her chest and sighed. She looked out the window. "I know there are no shooting stars right now but I really wish the person who sent this to me is genuine in his love. Now don't get me wrong my real wish is that Cat wrote this letter but based on her reaction it's highly unlikely, so the next best thing is to wish for someone that will love me and maybe I will learn to love them in return and forget Cat. Talk about wishful thinking. Man I'm so funny and no one was around to hear it. Damn it."
Jade actually facepalmed this time. "Okay no comments let's just go see Tori."
Jade peeked at Tori's progress so far and she blushed. Again.
'I stood there with my helmet in my hands and while giving my princess a look of love. I dropped the helmet and held my princess's face in my hands. I then closed the gap between us and crashed my lips to hers as I always dreamed I would. We kissed passionately for a few minutes and I couldn't get enough of her. We fit together perfectly for she is mine and I am hers.' Then dear diary I woke up in Cat's bedroom and something peculiar happened.
Peculiar? Man Tori's writing resembles a knight's so much it's ridiculous. 'Maybe she is my knight shiny armor.' Jade stared at Tori for a bit. "But don't think I forgot about that slap, you will pay for that I assure you Vega." Jade glared at the Latina and she swore the latter shivered a bit; it must have been her imagination.
Jade waited for Tori to finish writing in her diary. It was 10 o'clock when Tori finished and Jade was floating aimlessly around.
"Ugh finally, it's rude to keep ghosts waiting to invade you inner deep thoughts Tori, didn't your parents ever teach you that?" Jade scolded Tori but the latter just settled in bed.
Jade then flew horizontally in front of the Latina and looked into her eyes. She realized that she loved staring into Tori's brown eyes, it gave some peace inside.
Tori closed her eyes and Jade mourned the loss of the brown orbs but then she figured she will have something better to see soon enough.