A/N I had a dream about Jackie Chan Adventures the other night and it reminded me to update this story. Thank you, brain.

Disclaimer: I own nada except for Macey. Please don't sue.

"Black shadow hanging over your shoulder

Black mark up against your name

Your green eyes couldn't get any colder

There's a bad poison

Running through your veins"-

AC/DC, "Evil Walks."

Chapter Twelve - Queen of the Shadowkhan (season 2, episode 6, completed)

I was still attempting to work on my column, doggedly documenting my experiences (and growing friendship with Jackie Chan) in the past several weeks, but it was difficult to ignore the conversation between Jackie and Jade from outside my door.

"Jade?"

"Huh?"

"Why are you wearing snow boots?"

A peculiar pause, and then a hesitant Jade: "Heard it might snow?" Her voice rose in pitch and ended with a nervous question mark. I knew something was up. Still dressed in clothes from yesterday, I slipped out into the hallway, where Jade was seated on the bench and Jackie knelt down next to her, assisting her with her shoes. "Oh? It's 72 degrees out." Jackie's observation was laced with curiosity.

"Hey, Macey," Jade greeted casually, although it seemed forced. I definitely knew something was up now; she was squirming and desperately trying to pry Jackie's fingers from her brown boot.

"AVALANCHE!" Jade cried suddenly, but Jackie was too smart to fall for the trick. He pulled off her boot to reveal a small tattoo on her ankle- some sort of ominous symbol.

Jackie stood, hands on his hips. "Jade, wash this off, right now!" he commanded.

"Err…" Jade chuckled nervously and shifted on the bench. "Tried that."

"What? It's a real tattoo?!" Jackie demanded, and I bit back laughter from his shocked facial expression.

"By accident!" Jade defended helplessly.

At this I finally laughed, leaning on the door.

"That's very helpful, Macey," Jackie said tiredly, glare switching between both Jade and I.

I straightened up and tried to look serious.

"How do you get a tattoo by acci-" Uncle gasped and reeled back in horror. "We must destroy that tattoo before it brings unspeakable horrors!"

I scoffed. "Why would a tattoo bring 'unspeakable horrors'?" Either I was dreaming, or Uncle was crazy. (The latter was probably true, in both waking and dream life.)

Jackie took a deep breath. "This calls for research."

*JCA*

The symbol on Jade's ankle was the image of a narrow-faced, sharp-eyed teal dragon pasted onto her skin. Jackie and I had come to the conclusion that the dragon was, indeed, a symbol of evil, as Uncle had initially feared.

"We have to get Jade to wash it off." Jackie shut the book we'd found the image in and tossed it aside.

I snorted. "Good luck with that."

Jade suddenly sidled past us, slipping into the kitchen doorway. She was wearing black jeans and a matching T-shirt, her usual orange sweatshirt absent.

Jackie squinted. "Jade, why are you wearing black?"

Jade shrugged. "Uh...I guess I'm just in a dark mood?" There was no trace of the questioned girl's consistent prominent confidence.

"O...kay?" Jackie stared after her in confusion as she disappeared into the back of the kitchen.

"And she isn't even a teenager yet," I remarked, recalling my sulky, angst-ridden teen years.

Jackie looked at the ceiling. "Oh, I'm thrilled for those years," he replied dryly, looking anything but thrilled.

I couldn't help but fret at the thought of a teenaged Jade. If she was a handful now…I winced at the image of her sneaking out to parties and boyfriends conjuring in my mind.

Jade emerged from the kitchen sipping something out of a glass.

"No caffeine," Jackie warned as she ambled past us.

Jade held up the cup, tilting it toward Jackie. "Orange juice," she vowed. "I promise." As she tilted the cup at Jackie, her sleeve slipped from her wrist, revealing a patch of baby-blue skin.

I gasped as circle of Shadowkhan suddenly appeared in a semi-circle around Jade, bowing respectively as if she were royalty.

Before either Jackie or I could intervene, there was a knock at the door.

Uncle saved the day by yelling, "Too busy, come back later!"

"But I am...a vealthy art collector," an accented voice insisted from behind the door.

Uncle's head poked out from the study before his whole body did, opening the front door. "Welcome to Uncle's Rare Finds!"

I sighed. How stupid could he be?

The Dark Hand was huddled in the doorway, taking Uncle's gullibleness as bait.

Jade's eyes narrowed at the Dark Hand. "Give 'em a spankin'," she commanded the Shadowkhan, and they obeyed, beating the Dark Hand until they surrendered.

"See, Jackie?" Jade turned to Jackie as the Dark Hand writhed in pain on the floor. "Total control! They do what I tell them, and I only tell them to do good." She rocked back and forth on her heels. "Sooo...can I keep 'em?"

The request only resulted in angering Jackie. "No, Jade!"

Jade's face crumpled. "Aww...why?"

"Because you're turning blue!" Jackie and I yelled in unison.

"Blue is my favorite color," Jade replied idly. "Besides, we gave Tohru a chance!"

"Tohru is human!" Jackie was still yelling. I don't think I'd ever seen him get this heated up before, except for the time when Jade summoned the J-Team. "Now, I want you to make them go away, until Uncle can find a-"

"Hu-cha!" Uncle broke in. "I have a tattoo that will make Jade's tattoo vanish!"

"Thank goodness," I sighed as Jackie looked visibly relieved.

"But I like my tattoo," Jade protested as Uncle leaned forward to apply the potion. "You can't do this to me!"

"It's for your own safety, Jade," Jackie reminded her in a calmer voice. He looked less angry now, only a mixture of worried and hopeful.

As Uncle dabbed at her skin with the potion, but jerked back with renewed horror when Jade's eyes turned red.

"Do not touch me!" Her voice became gravelly. "I am, and shall remain, Queen of the Shadowkhan!"

"You're grounded!" Jackie declared, but his parental decision was subsequently proved futile when Jade tossed Jackie, Uncle, Captain Black, and I into a prison cell in the basement.

"Remind me to never piss her off again." I rubbed my eyes until I could see spots in the air, only hoping inwardly that I was dreaming and that Jade wasn't really a powerful demon sorceress.

"Jackie, pinch me please," I said, turning to Jackie, who was leaning against the cement wall.

"What? Why?"

"Just do it." I yelped when he reached over and pinched my wrist between two fingers. "Ouch! Not that hard. Nope, definitely not dreaming."

He shrugged. "You asked."

Now that my eyes were completely open, I saw that Jackie was dressed in all black. "Jackie, why are you dressed like the Shadowkhan?"

"I plan to convince Jade to release us," Jackie explained, putting his hands on the cell bars. "If I look like the Shadowkhan, maybe she will cooperate."

"If I ever get on TV and they ask me what the worst thing that ever happened to me was, this will be it," I vowed as Jackie attempted to pry the bars apart. The potion to turn Jade back to normal lie at Jackie's feet, the only thing stopping us was the prison bars and the fact that Jade was now becoming allies with Shendu/Valmont.

"Just when I thought this couldn't get any worse, it gets worse," I muttered. "Okay karma, I think we've learned our lesson."

Jade, still in Shadowkhan Queen form, glared at us from outside the prison doors. "Seize the potion!" She ordered, turning to the Shadowkhan.

"Destroy Chan!" Shendu added, eyes burning fury.

"No!" Jade gasped. "Destroy the book…"

Shendu let out a cry of anguish as one of the Shadowkhan leaped into the air, thrusting a tube-shaped object at the demon archive, causing it to evaporate into thin air. "NO!"

"Jade," Jackie pleaded, in a desperate attempt to communicate with what was left of his niece, "if Shendu is your friend, why is he trying to steal the Archive?"

Jade gasped and stepped back, a look of regret flashing her face.

Tohru suddenly appeared behind her, splashing extra potion on Jade's ankle.

"You're my hero!" I exclaimed as Tohru broke the prison bars using his girth, then released Captain Black and the rest of the Section 13 workers the same way.

Jackie and I stepped out of the cell just as the Queen of the Shadowkhan dissipated into thin air, Jade standing in her normal form. I peered down at her feet and breathed a sigh of relief: the tattoo had completely been erased.

Jade's skin had returned back to its normal color, and Jackie and I pulled her into a group hug, both of us laughing with relief.

"Jade, are you okay?" I knelt down to her height, putting. Both hands on her shoulders.

She grinned. "Yeah, I'm better than ever! Why do you ask?"

Jackie and I exchanged puzzled glances. So she didn't remember any of it? It must have been a sort of Jekyll & Hyde effect.

"That's good then," I said slowly, as Jackie grabbed Jade's hand.

We walked up the stairs to the apartment, only stopping when Jade did.

"Jackie, I think I did something bad." Jackie and I looked at each other, Jackie sighing, raking his fingers through his hair.

"No," I said, choosing to completely ignore the fact that she nearly killed us all, "you destroyed the demon archive and even solved its fate."

Jade beamed with pride as we finally made it into the apartment. "Jackie, can I get a dog?"

"No pets," Jackie replied.

She turned to me. "Macey, can I get a dog?"

"I don't see why not." I smiled.

"See? Macey said I could!" Jade turned to Jackie.

"Macey, we have to be consistent with her," Jackie chided, but it was deemed difficult to take him seriously as he was laughing along with me, relishing the rare sensation of calm after the storm.