Chapter 5:
Chaos A Plenty
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As you may have quessed, very few of the characters in this story belong to me. They are Ouji, Jade, Dark Wing, Fang and Claw, and their pets. The rest are owned by Glen Cook and Akira Toriama. They are used without permission in a way that is not meant to make any money. This story may only be reproduced if no profit is made, and all the text is left intact.
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We reached the clearing around mid-afternoon. We made camp and started to discuss what we were going to do about dinner. Night Wing mentioned that there was vast wildlife in the area, so we decided to let him take care of dinner. Half an hour later, we were feasting on a large roasted pterodactyl and fish. We were about finished when the crow landed on my shoulder.
"So crow, what do you know?"
"I have just spoken with the guardian of this world, Lord Kami. He said that we are welcome to train in and explore this world as long as our actions remain just."
At that, Claw piped up, "And just what does that mean?"
The crow replied, "That means, you little pest, that as long as you're good little boys, and girl, we get to stay."
Fang took this opportunity to chuckle while Claw just scowled.
I decided to speak up. "That sounds great, did he tell you anything else?"
"Yes, he told me that we are to seek out two men to train with. The first man is known to all his disciples as Master Roshi. Next we are to find a man known as Piccolo. Apparently they are the third and second strongest martial arts masters on the planet."
"What about the strongest master on the planet, don't we get to train with him?"
"Lord Kami said that our third teacher would reveal himself to us when the time came.
"Then we should set off in the morning."
We finished our meal and then got set for the night. Since we would be moving out before dawn, we decided to sleep in the coach instead of setting up camp. Night Wing, in panther form, Jade and I would be sleeping inside the coach, with Jade and I on opposite benches, and Night Wing on the floor. Fang and Claw were another story, for they had another trick up their sleeves. They took their places on the driver's bench and mumbled a spell. Within seconds, they began to shrink, with their arms and legs each splitting into two limbs. Fang soon turned into a spider, and Claw into a scorpion.
The next morning, I awoke to the sound of the wheels moving across rough terrain and feel of the coach shaking. I thought that Fang and Claw had followed orders for once, that is, until I heard the screaming of Night Wing's hawks. I sprang to the view slot, waking Night Wing by accidentally stepping on his tail. His scream, in turn, awakened Jade.
As I looked out the slot, I saw what the problem was. We were rolling down a slope towards the top of a cliff. Fang and Claw were nowhere to be seen. I knew what had to be done, but she wasn't going to like it. I turned and shouted over the noise.
"Jade, we have a problem here, and you're the only one who can fix it! Don't look at me like that girl, you know it's the truth!"
I turned and opened the door.
"Now get going!"
With that Jade moved to the opening.
"Those two are going to pay dearly for this," Jade growled.
A long reptilian tail started to grow from her back. A few seconds later, she jumped from the coach and curled into a tight ball. She then flung her arms and legs outward as she exploded with a white flash. When the light faded, a large, green dragon surrounded by a cloud of black shredded fabric had taken her place.
The dragon flew to the front of the coach. Grabbing hold, it dug its feet into the ground trying to stop the coach from plummeting into oblivion. Straining with all its might, the dragon left deep trenches in its wake as it tried to stop the run-away vehicle. With merely inches to spare, the coach stopped. Summoning immense strength, the dragon turned the coach perpendicular to the slope, to keep it from rolling away.
With our thrilling ride over with, Night Wing and I stumbled out of the coach to see a very pissed off dragon looking for two very unlucky wizards. I raised my hand to the dragon.
"Calm down, I will take care of this. I know something that will hurt them more than death.
"Fang, Claw, get your asses over here now!"
Two very scared looking arachnids crawled out from under the driver's bench on the coach. In a few seconds, they were replaced by a very scared looking pair of wizards.
"Uh, yeah, boss?"
"What did you want?"
"Whose job was it to put the hold spell on the wheels last night?"
The two wizards bleached and turned to each other.
"I thought you did it."
"I thought it was your turn."
"I did it last time."
"No, I did, you did it at the circle."
"No, I did it at the gate."
I decided to interrupt their argument. "I don't care whose turn it was, I should feed you both to Jade, but you'd probably give her indigestion. You screw up like that again, and it's into the jar with the both of you! Understand?"
The two replied in unison, "Yes, boss."
"Now, since it's your fault that this happened, I want you to build a structure that she can change in, and no peep holes!"
An hour later, Fang and Claw had erected a small barn, and Night Wing had returned to his human form. Making a few gestures with his hands, Night Wing produced a set of clothing identical to the one that Jade had been wearing before her transformation, except without the magical dragon image. It was time to make sure that the two responsible for this didn't cause even more trouble.
"Fang, Claw, in the coach, now."
"But, we, I mean, uh, why?"
"Because I know how you two think."
After they walked into the coach, I closed the door and started the incantation.
"Prophets hear, and Dragons feel, In with them their magic seal."
With that, a blue dome encased the coach. The two wizards were completely shut off from the world. While inside the dome, they could not pull any of their tricks. When I turned and looked at the barn, I saw just what I expected, there was a large hole cut in the side of the barn, facing exactly where the pair had been standing.
After we covered the hole, Night Wing handed Jade the new clothes, and she went into the barn. When she emerged, she had regained her original form and was wearing the clothes Night Wing had given her. Jade walked over to Night Wing and looked up into his eyes.
"Thanks for the clothes, they fit perfectly."
She smiled, jumped up, and kissed his mask right where his cheek would have been. Night Wing's eyes became very large, and he almost fell onto his back before regaining his composure and swallowing hard. At a loss for words, he merely shrugged his shoulders and cocked his head to one side. I then released Fang and Claw from their imprisonment.
"Dragons roar, and bring them peace, from their cell I they release."
Fang and Claw emerged from the coach to meet my cold stare.
"You two do know what this means, don't you?"
"We don't know what you're talking about, boss."
"I'm talking about your little false wall trick."
"Oh, uh, well, you can't blame us for trying."
"Yes, I can. Remember how I told you that if you screwed up one more time it was going to be the jar for the both of you? Well, in you go. But before you do, I have a question. If I return the coach to the badge, what happens to the stuff inside?"
"Well, it will shrink too. The reason we didn't do that on the plain, is if we needed any of the stuff, we wouldn't have been able to enlarge the coach to get it."
"What about living things, such as you two?"
"They'd just go into a trance and not remember anything from inside the coach."
"And you know this because?"
"We tested it on Claw."
"Oh, real smart guys. So, there would be no problem putting you in the coach and recalling it."
"Nope, no problem."
"Okay then, into the jar with you."
The two perpetrators shrank until they once again took their arachnid forms. I picked them up and put them in the jar I had taken from the back of the coach. I then placed the jar back into the coach. I walked around to the crest and pulled the badge off of the crest. The coach immediately disappeared in a cloud of smoke. About that time, the crow decided to show up.
"So, where have you been?" I asked.
"I found the location of Master Roshi's dojo, and it is in the middle of this ocean."
"That's good, thanks to Fang and Claw, we almost landed in it. But now they're confined. Well, any ideas about how we're going to get there?"
"Ever hear of a catamaran?"
"Yeah, it's a sail powered, two-hulled, Tahitian war boat. So?"
"So, meet me at the bottom of the cliff."
With that, the crow leapt from my shoulder and power-dove down the face of the cliff. He landed on a piece of driftwood.
As we looked up and down the edge of the cliff, we could see no way to go down, except straight down. After looking over the cliff and seeing that it wasn't too tall, I decided to jump down.
I walked about two yards from the cliff edge, turned, and ran toward the cliff edge. When I reached the edge of the cliff, I leapt into the air, and soon felt the tingle of exhilaration rush over my body. As I fell, I almost felt as if I were slowing in mid air, but quickly landed with a thud of boots meeting the white salty sand. Night Wing, who had picked up Jade and levitated down the cliff, was soon standing next to me.
Chaos A Plenty
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As you may have quessed, very few of the characters in this story belong to me. They are Ouji, Jade, Dark Wing, Fang and Claw, and their pets. The rest are owned by Glen Cook and Akira Toriama. They are used without permission in a way that is not meant to make any money. This story may only be reproduced if no profit is made, and all the text is left intact.
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We reached the clearing around mid-afternoon. We made camp and started to discuss what we were going to do about dinner. Night Wing mentioned that there was vast wildlife in the area, so we decided to let him take care of dinner. Half an hour later, we were feasting on a large roasted pterodactyl and fish. We were about finished when the crow landed on my shoulder.
"So crow, what do you know?"
"I have just spoken with the guardian of this world, Lord Kami. He said that we are welcome to train in and explore this world as long as our actions remain just."
At that, Claw piped up, "And just what does that mean?"
The crow replied, "That means, you little pest, that as long as you're good little boys, and girl, we get to stay."
Fang took this opportunity to chuckle while Claw just scowled.
I decided to speak up. "That sounds great, did he tell you anything else?"
"Yes, he told me that we are to seek out two men to train with. The first man is known to all his disciples as Master Roshi. Next we are to find a man known as Piccolo. Apparently they are the third and second strongest martial arts masters on the planet."
"What about the strongest master on the planet, don't we get to train with him?"
"Lord Kami said that our third teacher would reveal himself to us when the time came.
"Then we should set off in the morning."
We finished our meal and then got set for the night. Since we would be moving out before dawn, we decided to sleep in the coach instead of setting up camp. Night Wing, in panther form, Jade and I would be sleeping inside the coach, with Jade and I on opposite benches, and Night Wing on the floor. Fang and Claw were another story, for they had another trick up their sleeves. They took their places on the driver's bench and mumbled a spell. Within seconds, they began to shrink, with their arms and legs each splitting into two limbs. Fang soon turned into a spider, and Claw into a scorpion.
The next morning, I awoke to the sound of the wheels moving across rough terrain and feel of the coach shaking. I thought that Fang and Claw had followed orders for once, that is, until I heard the screaming of Night Wing's hawks. I sprang to the view slot, waking Night Wing by accidentally stepping on his tail. His scream, in turn, awakened Jade.
As I looked out the slot, I saw what the problem was. We were rolling down a slope towards the top of a cliff. Fang and Claw were nowhere to be seen. I knew what had to be done, but she wasn't going to like it. I turned and shouted over the noise.
"Jade, we have a problem here, and you're the only one who can fix it! Don't look at me like that girl, you know it's the truth!"
I turned and opened the door.
"Now get going!"
With that Jade moved to the opening.
"Those two are going to pay dearly for this," Jade growled.
A long reptilian tail started to grow from her back. A few seconds later, she jumped from the coach and curled into a tight ball. She then flung her arms and legs outward as she exploded with a white flash. When the light faded, a large, green dragon surrounded by a cloud of black shredded fabric had taken her place.
The dragon flew to the front of the coach. Grabbing hold, it dug its feet into the ground trying to stop the coach from plummeting into oblivion. Straining with all its might, the dragon left deep trenches in its wake as it tried to stop the run-away vehicle. With merely inches to spare, the coach stopped. Summoning immense strength, the dragon turned the coach perpendicular to the slope, to keep it from rolling away.
With our thrilling ride over with, Night Wing and I stumbled out of the coach to see a very pissed off dragon looking for two very unlucky wizards. I raised my hand to the dragon.
"Calm down, I will take care of this. I know something that will hurt them more than death.
"Fang, Claw, get your asses over here now!"
Two very scared looking arachnids crawled out from under the driver's bench on the coach. In a few seconds, they were replaced by a very scared looking pair of wizards.
"Uh, yeah, boss?"
"What did you want?"
"Whose job was it to put the hold spell on the wheels last night?"
The two wizards bleached and turned to each other.
"I thought you did it."
"I thought it was your turn."
"I did it last time."
"No, I did, you did it at the circle."
"No, I did it at the gate."
I decided to interrupt their argument. "I don't care whose turn it was, I should feed you both to Jade, but you'd probably give her indigestion. You screw up like that again, and it's into the jar with the both of you! Understand?"
The two replied in unison, "Yes, boss."
"Now, since it's your fault that this happened, I want you to build a structure that she can change in, and no peep holes!"
An hour later, Fang and Claw had erected a small barn, and Night Wing had returned to his human form. Making a few gestures with his hands, Night Wing produced a set of clothing identical to the one that Jade had been wearing before her transformation, except without the magical dragon image. It was time to make sure that the two responsible for this didn't cause even more trouble.
"Fang, Claw, in the coach, now."
"But, we, I mean, uh, why?"
"Because I know how you two think."
After they walked into the coach, I closed the door and started the incantation.
"Prophets hear, and Dragons feel, In with them their magic seal."
With that, a blue dome encased the coach. The two wizards were completely shut off from the world. While inside the dome, they could not pull any of their tricks. When I turned and looked at the barn, I saw just what I expected, there was a large hole cut in the side of the barn, facing exactly where the pair had been standing.
After we covered the hole, Night Wing handed Jade the new clothes, and she went into the barn. When she emerged, she had regained her original form and was wearing the clothes Night Wing had given her. Jade walked over to Night Wing and looked up into his eyes.
"Thanks for the clothes, they fit perfectly."
She smiled, jumped up, and kissed his mask right where his cheek would have been. Night Wing's eyes became very large, and he almost fell onto his back before regaining his composure and swallowing hard. At a loss for words, he merely shrugged his shoulders and cocked his head to one side. I then released Fang and Claw from their imprisonment.
"Dragons roar, and bring them peace, from their cell I they release."
Fang and Claw emerged from the coach to meet my cold stare.
"You two do know what this means, don't you?"
"We don't know what you're talking about, boss."
"I'm talking about your little false wall trick."
"Oh, uh, well, you can't blame us for trying."
"Yes, I can. Remember how I told you that if you screwed up one more time it was going to be the jar for the both of you? Well, in you go. But before you do, I have a question. If I return the coach to the badge, what happens to the stuff inside?"
"Well, it will shrink too. The reason we didn't do that on the plain, is if we needed any of the stuff, we wouldn't have been able to enlarge the coach to get it."
"What about living things, such as you two?"
"They'd just go into a trance and not remember anything from inside the coach."
"And you know this because?"
"We tested it on Claw."
"Oh, real smart guys. So, there would be no problem putting you in the coach and recalling it."
"Nope, no problem."
"Okay then, into the jar with you."
The two perpetrators shrank until they once again took their arachnid forms. I picked them up and put them in the jar I had taken from the back of the coach. I then placed the jar back into the coach. I walked around to the crest and pulled the badge off of the crest. The coach immediately disappeared in a cloud of smoke. About that time, the crow decided to show up.
"So, where have you been?" I asked.
"I found the location of Master Roshi's dojo, and it is in the middle of this ocean."
"That's good, thanks to Fang and Claw, we almost landed in it. But now they're confined. Well, any ideas about how we're going to get there?"
"Ever hear of a catamaran?"
"Yeah, it's a sail powered, two-hulled, Tahitian war boat. So?"
"So, meet me at the bottom of the cliff."
With that, the crow leapt from my shoulder and power-dove down the face of the cliff. He landed on a piece of driftwood.
As we looked up and down the edge of the cliff, we could see no way to go down, except straight down. After looking over the cliff and seeing that it wasn't too tall, I decided to jump down.
I walked about two yards from the cliff edge, turned, and ran toward the cliff edge. When I reached the edge of the cliff, I leapt into the air, and soon felt the tingle of exhilaration rush over my body. As I fell, I almost felt as if I were slowing in mid air, but quickly landed with a thud of boots meeting the white salty sand. Night Wing, who had picked up Jade and levitated down the cliff, was soon standing next to me.