Jamie sat cross-legged, listening to what Tchang Zu had to say. This was
her seventh session with the demons as their therapist. She had found out a
lot about them, she would never have guessed that demons had such...
interesting personalities.
"And what happened after that?"
"After that wretched Immortal banished me to this waste land of a realm,
I sought a way out. There was none. After a time, I learned my brothers
and Sisters were here as well. All except Shendu..." He growled, spiting
out his name like a bitter after-taste. "We had hoped, at first, that he would
attempt to liberate us. But after the third century whent by we relized he
was not."
"Well, you have to remember that Shendu was transformed into a statue
by Lo Pei shortly after you guys got banished... It wasn't entirely his fault,"
Jamie said remembering what Shendu had told her an hour earlier. Tchang Zu
crossed his arms, "I don't care, Shendu has always been a disapointment in
this family and there is no excuse for his behavior. He's a selfish little ingrate
and I despise him!"
Tchang Zu flung a lightning bolt at a nearby rock, shattering it. Jamie sighed
"Well, perhaps you should confront him on how you feel...offer him constructive
criticism. Without trying to kill him. Use your words not your fi-...er...powers."
Tchang Zu tilted his head, giving her an incredulous look, " And doing this is
suppose to 'benefit our familial relationship'?"
Jamie stood and nodded, "Yes. I think It'll do all of you good to sit down and
have a civil conversation about your Pro's and Con's...In fact..."Jamie smiled,
"I'm going to arrange one, but our hour is up. I hope you were able to get a
few things off your chest."
Tchang Zu said nothing, he just left.
"Well, that makes Nine. Guess I'm done for the day..." Jamie muttered to
herself, "might as well get to work on the next ingrediant..."
There were three left:
Dried frog skin, three hairs from a goats beard, and Dragon tears.
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"Shendu? Hey, Shendu...?" Jamie asked. Shendu opened his eyes irritably,
he had been meditating, "What do you want?"
"I was hoping you could help me get the last few ingrediants for the portal
spell... but if your busy, I can come back later..."
Shendu stood, "No, the portal spell is our top priority. What do you need?"
"The last few ingrediants are from animals...I was hoping you could use
your shape shifting powers to hocus pocus a few of those bugs into what
we need."
"Ah...our liberation will soon be at hand..." Shendu said, smiling one of those
creepy smiles of his. Jame ignored it, everything about the demons was creepy
and she had become accustomed to their habits.
"Hopefully..." Jamie said.
Her recent talks with Uncle and the others had become more and more strained
as of late. She relized that freeing them demons was a bad thing, but the way
Uncle kept talking about the demons, making his assumptions and such, was
irritating her. It simply wasn't true. She had heard the demons life stories over
the now three weeks she had been in the demon Netherworld. She knew them
as well as anyone could.
She knew what kept them up at nights, and what made them cackle with evil
glee. She knew the best and worst events of their lives...
After all they had been through, she felt they deserved to escape this place.
It was a boring, monotonous, maddening, and empty void. Jamie culd barely
take it anymore and She'd only been here for a few weeks. THEY'D been here
for centuries....
Was it so wrong for her to want them to escape this...prison?
Uncle certainly seemed to think so.
Jamie pushed away thoughts of the old man and turned back to Shendu
"Lets get a move on. The sooner we get out of here, the better."