Do not read this fic yet! Read Ch. 5 first!
Do not read this fic yet! Read Ch. 5 first!
The reason? Ch. 5 was completed, and not all of you got the chance to see it! You'll get confused if you don't read it!
A/N: Tajeri Lynn's feet rattle the ring as he hops back in, dusts away the grime on the microphone, and returns back with the arsenal of marvelous moonsaults and corkscrew cabals! JCA comes to you from Kids WB and Sony Television. The fic's rating is for its strong, mature content that'll tinge your senses, or so the Extremo Luchadore hopes. Hop in too, and be aware……it's no holds barred, no disqualifications, and nothing on the line…..except for those inside…..
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Souls Between the Walls
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Seymour woke up from the aggravating slumber, jibing in Cantonese for attempting to relish a moment with Jade Chan, only to have dawdled himself further from the angelic reverie, discouraging himself from weaving her fully into realism…
Jade…
"Hey, Seymour, are you…okay?"
Awaken by the melody, Seymour rose from the dusty concrete, his back aching like he had fallen off onto a bed of nails.
"Ugh…What happened?"
"Didn't you know what happened? You fell off just when I was giving you the gift."
"Ah!" Seymour then bowed down to Jade, startling her not one bit. "Please, Jade. I was so stupid, I-"
"Relax. It's only a gift, nothing to worry about…S-Seymour……"
"Yes, Jade?" the Sky Demon rose his noodle.
"Before you have this gift, and before you go," she softened as she held up the parcel, "there's something else I want to show you. But I need you to come inside."
Already? Could it be something more? Seymour thought, his heart fluttering so speedy he kept his arms wrapped all over him. "Uh, sure, if you want."
"Oh, yeah, I want it, really, really badly," she perked up as she treaded over to the end of the card shop, creaks following her every step as if the floorboards were muttering epithets over its inferiority. Then, Jade pulled out a key from her denims and unlatched a lock secluded under a Chinese fenghuang rug. She strained as she pulled up a massively circular trap-door, her feet pushing her whole form over the door. It finally fell on the floor with bouncing thuds that rattled all the cards displayed in the glass prisms off their surfaces, and strengthened Hsi Wu's confidence a tad. Jade remained a stubborn, never-say-die girl, and that was just the way it ought to be.
"It's my own private cellar. It's where I go when I do my own stuff. Come on in."
"Okay," Seymour jubilated as he paced his way inside the cellar, abandoning the pack.
The cellar was a sight too odd to be belonging to the mortal he dearly revered. The cellar was structured with ribs of stone converging up to a spherical ceiling, while sheer marble accentuated the bases and stairway so perfectly that Seymour's sneakers almost slipped across, had he not taken the vigor to heave himself by grabbing the coiled rims of the trap door. Below, however, lied no ardent display of feng shui. Tables and bookshelves were ornamented a litter with ancient artifacts sticking out from within the books like flora on some papery pots. Bottles carrying gaudy sands trailed over the floor, resembling glass mushrooms peacefully existing until someone was to pluck them. Never had Seymour been witness to a forest of artifacts.
Jade quietly placed the parcel on table, and knelt below to the darkness underneath. She raised a chain from under it, smoothening it like it was a dormant serpent, and turned up to her demon friend. "So, what do you think?"
"It's quite peculiar. Your uncles must have spent lifetimes getting this cleaned," Seymour observed, pressing a finger across a bookshelf and noticing not a speck of dust was collected.
"It's not that much of a problem. I'm too perfectionist to leave things be, Hsi Wu, and you're not going to be any different."
Seymour's eyes widened in a thundering bolt of revelation. "H-How did you know my name?"
"It's not difficult to remember things, Seymour Jahoositz," Jade smiled, and the moment after she deftly straightened the chain's keen smoothness, she manipulated the chain right against Seymour.
Hsi Wu impetuously raised an arm to parry away the projectile, but midway, the chain's triangular end seemingly opened into two ends of an iron beak. The ends clasped down on Hsi Wu's arm, eliciting a vociferous cry of pain from the Sky Demon. Then, the chain's tail swooped about his neck, slipping his arm behind into an unfamiliar haven; his larynx. Choking in scratched gags, Hsi Wu hastily shot out the free arm, and grappled the rings leading up to the beak, forcefully strangling the life out of this should-been lifeless being. The beaks cocked up and down in a bizarre dread for death, and clicks out of its cocking sent Hsi Wu cringing at its liveliness, until the clicks became too spontaneous to be educed by this one chain.
Hsi Wu gasped in a breathless squeak as more chains swarmed in from the ribs of the ceiling and from the dark crevices under the tables, arching beak first over the Demon's body. With his arms fixed on the solitary chain, the remaining chains effortlessly bound over his alcoves, thrusting his seams in errant arrangements and encompassing all but his countenance in an undesirable cocoon of steel rings. The beaks nipped at his face for retribution on the part of the first chain, and then darting into the walls, forming repulsive cracks that were only less repulsive as the one fabricating the deviation, the horrible deviation of sanity.
Jade's eyes narrowed in malicious contentment and her cute smile creeped ever-wider as she tip-toed to Hsi Wu.
"You're not very bright, Hsi Wu. Otherwise, you could have turned into that big bat of yours and fly away," she said as she haughtily grasped one of his trident spikes, playing it like a knob that could open something.
"Jade….This can't be you. You must be a sorcerer!" he growled belligerently, in hopes of keeping this sudden wraith away.
"You're right, Hsi Wu. Uncle's no longer the chi wizard." She pulled the chain anchoring the demon's neck so his face forcefully met hers. "I'm the wizard now."
"What?! How!"
"Like you said, our pasts got changed. Pretty neat, huh? And did you really think I'd let you sneak into my heart again? I still remember all those things you did to me, dissing me back then and everything. Now that I got you, this is so going to rock! I can do all those things I only dreamed about all these years! But first…" Leaping from stack to stack of artifacts, she grabbed a tall book so bulky that it left her doddering, and sloppily slammed the aged manuscript on a wooden slab. "Let's see," she turned behind the demon, whisking her fingers over the pages of the book. "Where is that little chi spell that will put an end to my troubles?"
Seymour tensed his neck to break out of the constricting cocoon, and noticing it was futile, he baded to Jade. There was that fathomless sorrow rising up and choking him harshly as did the alliance of chains. "Jade, I'm not who I am anymore, I want to change, I need to change. I left you dishonorable before, but that was the past. Please…don't deny me the chance to redeem myself to you!"
Jade stood rigid, like a lifeless statue of perfect creation, not uttering a word nor turning a page. Hsi Wu noticed the girl was in profound thought. Perhaps there was a conflict of penchants stirring in her mind. Regretfully, though, the conflict was resolved, and Jade opted back to uncovering the trepid chi spell. Her finger planted on a particular page, and trailed it down.
"Awww, man……I have to go buy this one! Sucks!" she frowned as she kept staring at the page, hoping that chance would come by and change it. Jade stared at the entrapped Sky Demon, and coldly smiled back.
"But then again, no one's coming to help you this time, not even Shendu," Jade reasoned as she took the jingling keys and paced up the stairs. "Stick around," she said as the trap door closed shut, shutting Hsi Wu's confidence as the bang thrust across the atmosphere, and straight to his heart.
To Be Continued…
A/N: ARGH! This isn't working the way it's supposed to! Extremo Luchadore will try to revise it when he has the time. Until then, hope you like this………