A/N: This is the FINAL CHAPTER in Extremo Luchadore's Hsi Wu/Jade saga. There is little more to say now, except that JCA is property of Kids WB and Sony Entertainment.
Crawling by the end of the story will be dedications, inspirations, thoughts and other details behind the making of "Souls Between the Walls". Stay tuned…
Souls Between the Walls
Sky Way or the Highway: 5/31-6/23/02
"Heaven?" Jade squeaked, her mind still begging that such a dream could come true. Her heart pounded over her demon's offer. At once she wanted to be happy, and scared.
"Heaven," was all Hsi Wu could whisper, his red orbs enrapturing the radiance of Jade's, hoping they would illuminate another reply.
Jade's eyes looked down, her feet lightly swishing across the pools that had been tapped by their voluptuous pulsations. Those were merry moments, and so it was that she was destined to taste those again, but now…what was to come between her and him was something that can only be shared once. Her first. His first. And she wanted to be careful...
"Hsi Wu, I don't want to be all moody and everything, but between you and me…I don't want…um, you know…" Beckoning, she circled her clammy hand towards the Sky Demon, afraid to mention the word at her context.
"Children?" Hsi Wu assumed the last word.
Concerned over raising the issue, Jade didn't want to look at her lover's face. "I mean, I know you're a thousand year-old virgin," she began, "and I a teenage…"
"Ehh?" Hsi Wu's lips drooped to an unwelcome grimace.
"Okay…That didn't come out right…" she muttered sheepishly and let out an innocent giggle. "But um, I don't think you can know how to…you know…keep that from happening? I remember I didn't bring anything for this kind of thing…Maybe I should go buy some…"
With a stroke of his claw, Hsi Wu began rasping the pink beads encircling her nipples. Jade held fast to the Sky Demon's lanky arm, bowing her pleasured face on his elbow. "Worry not, Jade," assured Hsi Wu. "There's something about me you should know first. My kind, they…sigh…they spawn…only when they are asked to."
Jade dropped her petite jaw, and then snickered heartily at the absurdity she heard. "You're not serious!" she teased in renewed glee, though her eyes widened excitably, somewhat grateful to know of this.
Now it was Hsi Wu's turn to feel guilty, guilty of possessing a bizarre instinct. "I…I never understood it. Perhaps that's why demons are spoken to be rapacious. It's…a little too easy for them."
"So? Who cares if THAT'S easy?" Jade perked and pulled herself closer. "If you can do it, then go for it! Gee, and after all these years, you want to share yourself to me. How I love you." She stretched her tongue over Hsi Wu's face, and the demon got a full cheek of ticklish mortal slobber. "No little 'uns, Hsi Wu, not now…Okay?"
Hsi Wu sighed and closed his red orbs. "I understand."
"There now," said the mortal girl, licking her ruby lips. "Wasn't that easy, love?"
The Sky Demon almost blushed at hearing the word "love". The longer Hsi Wu stayed beside Jade, the more woman she was becoming to entice him. It was as if Jade wore many shrouded veils over her body, and it was Hsi Wu who took time plucking each veil, learning more and more of her self. His scaly skin was too dusky for Jade to notice any discrepancy of color over his warming cheeks. Jade can tell her lover was embarrassed, though. For the thousandth time, the impish demon was reluctantly cowering from his addiction, his obsession over the glorious spectacle that was her. How could she not notice after these many hours together? Hsi Wu spoke, this time bellowing more confidence, "Yes, it was easy, very much so. So…uh…how must we leave?" He grinned.
"No problem there," said Jade as she took her magic and zipped a fine teal thread that opened a gap at the center of the dome. "Take me to heaven now Hsi Wu," she held her arms, an always beautiful invitation to the eyes of the Sky Demon.
"You don't mind us going out naked into the world?"
"It's a big world out there, Hsi Wu. I trust you know someplace intimate for us, somewhere so pilots won't get heart attacks seeing us dance the night away."
"I do know such a sky, Jade. But first, can you please lay yourself down for me?"
"Sure, Hsi Wu," Jade replied as she laid her soft body back over on her plush bed. Jade sighed feeling her pillows, fit for a king, and the silky blue sheets perfectly cushioned her precious soft curves. "I'm waiting, Mr. Horny."
"Horn-y?" Hsi Wu never grasped that word before. It was as unknown as his up and coming wager.
"Horny. Got horns on your head, right?" she asked, pointing at her own bangs.
"Ah yes…Of course. Horny." Hsi Wu climbed up the bed, claws sifting over the sheets.
"Hee hee. So clueless," Jade entertained herself, before drawing a deep breath as Hsi Wu's body enveloped over her.
What seemed to be a demonic masculinity overwhelming her felt little more than a gentle weight overlapping Jade Chan. Hsi Wu's body was a featherweight, and yet those muscles seemed like he was weighing tons. Jade wasn't surprised a bit at the Sky Demon being diminutive. She remembered how he once clutched her solely with his claw, and while both sided on conflicting opposites then, she could tell Hsi Wu never took her bitterly. The clutch that enslaved her was more protective than threatening, she always knew it, as if the Sky Demon couldn't risk her plunging off any surface of the Netherworld, and there weren't that many surfaces at all. Hsi Wu had long respected her rebellious girl power, but the thought of losing her, that was a harsh prospect to linger over.
Now, Jade was a little woman, and losing her was past history, literally…
"Hsi Wu, you're so scrawny…And those ribs! Poor thing. What have you been eating all this time?"
Hsi Wu's withered lips dampened the temple of Jade's chubby face. The Sky Demon bowed. "I don't have to eat, Jade. My life needs not depend on that."
"Aw, you should eat something, Hsi Wu. You know, a woman really likes someone who eats what she cooks."
"You can cook food?"
"Okay, so maybe not, but I'm learning. I don't want to leave you starved…Or at least, I don't want you LOOKING starved."
"Don't worry about me, Jade. You look a little hungry yourself. It has been many an hour since."
"You're right, Hsi Wu. I am a little hungry." She smoothened one end of his muscular buttocks, arousing the demon so effortlessly that she could hear his scratchy yelp. Enjoying that one moment, she pulled herself down. "Now feed me."
"Feed you? Now? Where is your food?"
"I meant feed beneath me," she smiled.
"You're a puzzle, mistress," Hsi Wu lowered himself and slid his claws about her legs. "That is why I shall solve every bit of you…"
Still keeping a generous grip on her creamy loins, Hsi Wu withdrew himself so he could handle her for the journey above. Jade cried out impatiently as the Sky Demon's stiffening member grazed past her lonesome womanhood. She closed her eyes and kept herself from grabbing her Hsi Wu and forcing herself down on him. Preserving her virginity was much more arduous than was planned. Jade started wishing that she had kept her torn panties on for this flight to her lover's domain. She gave herself a mental whap, recognizing her exhibition was for Hsi Wu as part of a lovely agreement that he would exhibit himself. Besides, it was a wondrous notion, the chi sorceress and the demonic prince of the sky, both powerful and almighty, threadbare and honest, and finding intimacy and passion multiplying freely among their auras.
Hsi Wu crossed her legs so that they girdled his waist, relaxing upon the demon's hinds. Jade sighed, feeling her feet touch those well-sustained male buttocks, and teasingly, her feet rubbed his skin, skin long concealed by a sash, and pulled the hinds apart, massaging whatever aches Hsi Wu's back struggled through in a hundred lifetimes. Hsi Wu, without letting the massages incur the immediate response wanted for Jade, growled softly, and inhibiting further wishes, he rose up on his massive feet, the center of Jade's back wound ever-sturdily by his arms. As both lovers found themselves upright, Hsi Wu fixated his strength down to his feet, since he had not been accustomed to the mortal style of laying entire soles upon floors, or be it here, a bedstead. Tottering occasionally on the rigid balls of his feet, Hsi Wu assured his living burden with a chuckle, admitting he was no circus-balancing act. Jade nodded and stilled herself patiently, easing the Sky Demon.
"Away we go?" Jade urged her mate after a few moments.
"Umm-Hmm," Hsi Wu hummed confidently. His leathery wings, retracted like an Asian fan without current purpose, opted to open back to their 6-meter lengths. As the ailerons opened up, one fold after another, Jade could feel strong gusts of wing tossing her bangs wayward. She straightened her hair up with one hand, keeping the other hand so she could remain up close and personal with the angelic face of the demon. Hsi Wu then crouched down to his knees and ascended both him and Jade to the starry night sky.
The little Chan peered down as the city of San Francisco grew so remarkably smaller that Jade now felt much larger than life. Of course, the realism was that she was just far away, but all that was secondary now that the only amicable, wonderful figure closely enveloping her was the oddly humble Dark Prince of the Sky.
As they rose higher, Hsi Wu and Jade zipped into a mountainous puffball of a cloud. Hsi Wu rose a whole claw pointing to the puffball, and its vaporous expanse spread down into swirls zipping over the sky like fire-less fireworks. Hsi Wu grinned at his lover, hoping she was amused of the precedent ceremony. Never having touched a cloud herself, Jade reached a curious hand over a swirl arriving close by them, and she yelped as her hand touched the swirl, spraying water droplets and saturating her womanly chest.
"Oh my gosh, that's so cold, Hsi Wu! COLD! Ooohoohoo!" She freed a hand to wipe her skin dry.
"Perfect. Now you know how I'll keep you warm," spoke Hsi Wu, momentarily planting his brow upon Jade's. His eyes even loomed below to stare at the moonlight's gleam over her wet…
Jade rubbed Hsi Wu's belly, which had also been splashed by the cold water. "Gee, You're so naughty, you know that?"
"Look who's talking, my precious."
The demon/human couple rose above a fissure amid two distended clouds, and now seeing the crescent moon playing its light over them, Hsi Wu and Jade grabbed each other's lips and kissed for eternity and a second. Both were a little shocked at what their taste buds reaped, for in each mouth, something unfamiliar had resided there. Then, it hit them. Hsi Wu and Jade had just tasted their expressions of ecstasies past, not having a care whether their own juices would make them happy, so long as those made their respective lover happy.
Hsi Wu stared at Jade, and not pausing, threw Jade's nude form and planted her legs over his shoulders. Jade squealed as she felt Hsi Wu prod his masterful tongue and dab her womanhood, still smeared with weak traces of her bittersweet juices. Hsi Wu then reversed Jade topsy-turvy and allowed her to encircle her lips and suck loudly his member. Hsi Wu, now pleased with the soothing wetness of his member, was about to pull off Jade to enjoy the reverie, but Jade wouldn't stop her sucking, and the Sky Demon murmured regretfully, as he reached her back, and forcibly removed her from himself. Even as he did so, Jade hungrily clasped her mouth to clutch the saline skin of his nether, which was growing firmer with every stroke. Her clutch was so adept that she watched Hsi Wu's member fully exposed, unveiled of its protective layering, darkish veins richly embellishing the organ. Before reaching back to even tinge a vein, Jade was finally pulled off and she grimaced and drooped her eyes at the Sky Demon, being confused at what she had done that made Hsi Wu deny release.
"Jade, you know what we came here for."
"Yeah, but I'm…so…I don't know…"
"Horny? You're not alone, you know."
"Whoa, you're a fast learner," Jade smiled.
"Believe me Jade, when I say this," Hsi Wu locked her legs. "You will enjoy this many times above all else I've put you through. But, it will..."
"Hsi Wu," Jade laid her hand among the trio atop Hsi Wu's head, "You'll never hurt me again, not since this evening, when you spoke with that honesty. It was painful. But now, we're exposed top to bottom, in and out, and I mean 'in' as in our feelings.…So make me yours, Hsi Wu. It's not going to hurt. Plleease? You said you'd make me warm, AND well-fed. Right?"
Hsi Wu silently watched the looming clouds below. Not a soul on earth would ever watch what they were to do. That added to the reverie of this action.
The Sky Demon spoke not a reply to Jade, but instead lifted her buttocks with his claws, and waited impatiently as his sinuous essential nuzzled the edge of her nether lips. Both demon and mortal gasped hoarsely at the heat or lack thereof of their mates. Jade, her body of human flesh and blood, was absorbing the frigid temperament of the serene sky, and her breath began flowing with cloudy remnants of her warmth. Hsi Wu, being the Ying to her Yang, Yang to her Ying, beheld a tough callus so his warm blood was tucked in nicely. The Sky Demon speculated down himself. His growing member buried through the weak barrier from her nether lips, and Jade felt such a sharp pang zipping her head that she started constricting Hsi Wu with her lithe arms, hoping she wasn't about to be split into two. Besides the rough hug, the Sky Demon heard her whinnies tickling his pointed ears, and her feet, precise as a monkey's, pressed their heels on his hinds.
Hsi Wu watched Jade's face, and presented a wide grin chock full of his teeth. A mumbling Jade shook her head at the evil smile, and then his grip on her derriere grew weaker. Wondering what her lover could mean by that smirk, Jade continued sinking down the Sky Demon. "Ahhh! Hsi Wu! Pick me up! PICK ME UP!" The young Chan pinched Hsi Wu's sides, using them as handles to raise herself out of this outlandish circle of hurt. Her unsettled knees found their haven alongside Hsi Wu's waist, feeling the density of the bones. But Hsi Wu, having the wings while Jade had none, whipped her hands and pushed her knees off the safety measures. Jade screamed like she was about to fall many stories down, but she wasn't fearing for her life, but for the abrupt loss of her virginity. She grunted once a claw snaked back around her hips, and thus the Sky Demon now grazed her irreversible gateway. Jade gasped slowly, watching the Sky Demon await her next move, and she kissed his goatee-laced chin for luck, before she collected her old courage and relaxed the tensions of her limbs. Upon feeling the relaxations, Hsi Wu lowered his claw, and Jade's nethers widened as his member pierced her point of entry. Then came the collapse of her fleshy gates.
"UNH! URRRRR!" the pain struck Jade so numb that she lost the robustness of her arms, and carelessly she remained limp, back arched for her lover's suitability. Fearing heights didn't worry the chi sorceress, especially if Hsi Wu held fast onto her bountiful rear. Her head swung the cool air, and her bangs swished any which way they could. Her eyes were slammed shut, and then a stream of tears poured down her cheeks, her chin, and to Hsi Wu's chest. Hsi Wu kissed the tears, capturing the first flavor of a new Jade, and yet, an old Jade…
"Why do I cry so much?" Jade half-mumbled, half-chuckled. "Not quite a tough girl, am I?"
"If we were always tough, we wouldn't pleasure in softness," Hsi Wu simply replied, as he pulled the small of her back so that she leaned over his frame again. He grunted several times for his member was still adjusting to the rousing new climate surrounding it. As the noises subsided, the Sky Demon suspired readily, and drawing out his last normal breath, pushed himself deeper, and pulled himself away, reviving the chain of his lovemaking.
The young Chan clenched her teeth to let not a breath escape, but she could only rattle her jaw and scream in pleasing torment as Hsi Wu pleasured her entrance. Whatever Hsi Wu had done before never measured up to this climactic sequence. Jade yelled at her lover as if her soul was being killed by him, torn to shreds, and yet Hsi Wu was doing the exact opposite.
Snaking a lone arm round Jade's waist, the Sky Demon continued struggling through both pleasing his lover and maintaining the constant flaps of his wings. Wondering why his left claws were now having the off day, Hsi Wu gleefully placed the claws beneath Jade's moonlit derriere. Running their broad sides over the remote end of her nether lips, the claws rubbed the supple slants of the lips, massaging them. A smiling Jade perked her lips to comment on her demon's handiwork, and always, she shuddered at a new treatment, shutting her eyes and slacking her kisser to emit wails of a heavenly concerto. Who said things should always be said, then done, anyway?
Jade moaned her concerto with her heart's consent, yet she recognized herself no longer having that stressful pull of celestial attraction, of gravity. That was when her bright golden orbs saw Hsi Wu upside down, so that her nethers could rest atop the steady figure of the Sky Demon. Hsi Wu grinned at her lover and laid his head away from her, expecting something, as always, but what? Jade looked down at herself, and she knew. Hsi Wu was giving her the opportunity at taking command, and he was fluttering calmly enough for the world to seem unchangeable. Jade signaled a cheery wink, and setting her hands upon the demonic loins, her lips opened for a sigh, and she motioned the lissome tempo her lover had learned for this priceless occasion. As she dipped in, her eyes bulged, the whites well dominating the gold, and she retreated back, surprised at the tension her nether lips caught from her own action. Seeing herself almost removed from the flustered Hsi Wu, Jade hastily pushed herself back in deeply. She muted a bothersome growl and relentlessly stood, gathering the uprooted presence of the member with her hands, and then drove herself down on him, practicing this joyful exercise. So much for the handle, Jade thought to herself as her mind, drowning again in a pool of unseen stars and dreams, compelled Jade to release the demon's member and ride him with only her nethers buckled by the fibrous, expanding portion rubbing at her inner walls. She groaned ever louder as Hsi Wu's legs motioned about her hands, and warmly abetted the girl in fulfilling her debut tempo of love, contracting her whenever her figure, focus lost on the curious display of pleasure in her mind, raucously swayed to and fro, far away from the intense squeezes of his nether flesh. Sweat seeped from each precious crescent angle of her hips, and the warm, briny slipperiness aroused her as her dampening buttocks slid her womanhood below even further depths than she could dream of. Jade chuckled at her confidence, and screeched as she dove harder, the full flesh of the demon disappearing in her. The frigid sky air touched her sweat-laden body, and Jade, stressed by the merciless cold, felt the will to dive down harder, and let her lover's body intensify her temperature.
Hot tears retreated from Hsi Wu's scarlet orbs due to the sheer endowment of the chi sorceress. He thought she was so strong with her fists, but she was stronger when it was her sex. Blood, that elixir of life, began drawing torturous attention to his head, yet Hsi Wu's perseverance, a perseverance forged from a millenium's worth of pain, encased his body from meeting the effects of his wayward stance head on. All he really thought of was how the mating, at once painful, killed any greater pain, whether it be the loneliness or…but oh, why think of pain and just be optimistic for once? Hsi Wu felt his member beading a small drip of his fluid, and he willed a concession of his love inside when the tempo slowed, like an indication of a pause…
"Hsi…Wu…." Jade gasped huskily, eyes curiously turned for her beloved's face. "Arr…" she mumbled feebly. "Turn…up…Need your face…."
Hsi Wu sighed pleasingly. It was if she had read his mind…or could she? "As you wish, my mistress," he replied, kicking his massive legs down so her chest can roll over and rediscover his ribs, and their faces met again. Hsi Wu anxiously slapped her rear again, teasing waves of tenderness upon Jade's delicious flesh.
Neither spoke as Jade buckled herself upward and upward, somewhat feigning groans of ecstacy, giggles spouted between each groan. Hsi Wu stared inquisitively at the acting, pondering Jade's soundness of mind until he saw Jade mouth "You" before him. Not wanting to disappoint, he innovated whatever knowledge of flight had been preserved for Jade's little demand. Spreading his wings to their furthermost span, Hsi Wu rekindled himself for Jade, and he exerted an astounding pressure with his length that both he and she spiraled several feet above where they once suspended amongst the silent clouds, stars and moon. Jade groaned from the tedium, begging him to make each moment feel tenfold, hundred fold, a higher multitude beyond one slow, weary push. The Sky Demon perfected his aerial grace by raising Jade's waist above his level and then rapidly thrusting himself, reviving the tiresome nature of their bodies. By now, Hsi Wu's wings now seemed to pace on their own. It was if the wings convinced him that they would do their duty without the distracting need of his concern. The full, flawless cheeks of Jade burned an effortless vermilion hue that she paid no heed to cooling off, and her hardened nipples jiggled many a direction as the cloudy firmament's moisture cast its power over her and the Dark Prince of the Sky.
Hsi Wu grinned, being the boy he was, and jetted a kiss on her leaping breasts, those sweating spheres of flesh that always rendered him in a masculine trance. "Mmmmmm," he spoke hungrily as he rolled his mandible and tasted the nipples. He then widened his jaw, budging his tongue around the breasts' luscious circumferences, made all the more easier to taste now from being painted across their surfaces with a rare palette of sweat, tears and rain. Not a lick of the breasts reminded him of their exotic delicacy from about whiles ago, but the wetness and the vibrating convulsions expressed by Jade were enticing enough for Hsi Wu not to ignore. At once, his nether length bulged its furthest inside Jade's entry, and he could feel the mortal leaking herself, his horns once again her chosen sanctuary from freeing her potential.
Jade shivered, her mouth rattling at the jolting elevations of the member as Hsi Wu swarmed her body across all her intimate regions. So this was what heaven felt like! Her bosoms and midriff secured, Jade finally freed her silken hands from the horns, exalting the momentum of libido that carried her fears and nightmares through the small world downward. Watching the world above, with the sheen of constellations and moons blanketing her, she felt like a queen, or a goddess dominating above all. And yet, this pleasurable being beneath her was no mere throne for her demeanor. It was someone willing enough to raise her in measures of another world, within the one she already loved. The name, the red orbs, the horns, the jaw…everything….She can see everything being done from him though her eyes had tightened, and reddened from unending tears. Her breaths tried calling out for Hsi Wu, but the Sky Demon smiled and nodded silently, knowing what her gasps meant, and thus, she was given relief and smiled it in kind.
Not a floor to touch…Not a ceiling to hit…No walls to be caught between….Free…That was what heaven could only have.
"Un…Hsi…Wu…It's tearing me…" Jade moaned. "Don't…lose con…trol…Don't…make me…!"
"Jade….Be strong, Jade….We're gonna be okay," Hsi Wu rambled. "Ur! Urrr! Urrrah!"
"Ah, Hsi Wu! Hsi WUUUUAAAHHHHHHH!"
"JaAAAAAAAAAAAAADE!" Hsi Wu outburst as his member was seemingly sucking him inside out. His wings scrambled rapidly to retain the pace while Hsi Wu erupted, spouts of his frothy milt feeding Jade's hungry nether lips. The Sky Demon uneasily clamped his orbs and rose his screaming face to the sky, the seed trickling in channels across both his canted demonic legs and the helplessly vibrating legs of the mortal.
Jade couldn't contain herself as Hsi Wu's release flooded her womanhood completely. She constricted the Sky Demon and wailed deafeningly for more as she pushed herself to collect the nimble strings of the male's lovely fluids. His orgasm crashed so forcefully that some of his fluids came above her waist, ornamenting her bored, clean-dry form. It struck Jade that the dirtiness of it all tainted neither her pride nor her spirit, but praised them somewhat beautifully. She trailed her index finger and began scooping a generous helping of seed before her mouth gobbled its saccharine taste. Enjoying the spectacle, Jade happily squeezed her legs so her nether lips can jovially milk more release from the demon's length, now coated tip to base with the very juices it possessed. As the milking occurred, she felt her own body losing control of its most secluded contents. She sighed as she dropped her control for just a second, and a second was all it took for her to concede herself. Her nether lips gushed Hsi Wu's favorite delicacy, the tart, tangy juice tapped right from the chi sorceress. Her juices made their way and sprinkled over Hsi Wu's nether sack down his robust hind. Jade would have made her love tone deaf until her cries were suddenly muted by the slippery Hsi Wu's lips. The two merrily kissed each other, lips tugged on for relaxation, even as their confluent breaths sensed red-blooded haste and indulgence from their torturous retreat of fluids. Hsi Wu dripped his salivating jaw and doused Jade's labrum, which was growing desolate with each cry of ecstasy. Both were mumbling pleads to each other to stop, or continue, or stop…Which one was it?
Hsi Wu groaned loudly as he saw Jade's flood of juices, and it stressed him so badly that he sobbed soft hiccups and exerted another round of seed deep in Jade's private cavern. Jade's waist was fully blanketed in juices, from the buttocks Hsi Wu had groped tenderly to the rumpled twines of her maturation. Jade in turn saw the whimpers of Hsi Wu, and smiled; her reddening eyes showed he wasn't alone. She then saw herself and the Sky Demon barely atop the dome where they had landed. Hsi Wu's wings had done their due, and the Sky Demon hugged Jade securely as the couple collapsed together upon Jade's comfy bedstead.
Rising her dazed head off the pillow, Jade stared wide-eyed and wide-grinned at her demonic lover, and frowned deeply as she saw Hsi Wu, who was…crying some more?
"Hsi Wu…what's wrong?"
The sticky demon, laying down front first, and buttocks next to Jade, began sighing quietly. "I can't believe it. I actually feel you are mine. Jade, it is a very nice feeling, yet at once a confusing one….Jade, did you find it truly a special night, aside from the deaths of our..innocence? Because…I don't know…"
"You worry so much, Hsi Wu…What you did out there, from this morning to just now, all of that had my favorite memories for you. And our innocence never died, they just…took a big vacation. Really, I love you, Hsi Wu, and there should be, no, WILL be, much more to us than the sex, even if I like it a little too much."
Hsi Wu turned to Jade, who stroked his horns and gave each one an enticing lick. "Jade," he spoke again, "is there much more to me than the sex?"
"Oh, poor Hsi Wu, you've forgotten about the stuff you did at school, you know, saving my essay on 'It'? And what about telling the truth and then asking for my forgiveness? You assured me that the whole wide world can't admire my every move, but not just did you admire me, you understood me. That's so cool of you, even if neither of us thought we'd go this far. Believe me, Hsi Wu, if you refuse to do sex ever again, I'd still want to love you…"
Hsi Wu licked his lips. "But I won't refuse, okay, Jade?"
"Still horny, I see," Jade smiled. "You know, Hsi Wu, that sex was the first time. Don't think like it's the last we'll ever have, and don't think it's the worst, because we've never done it before, right, love?
"Yes, that is true…You never fail to amuse me, Jade. " Hsi Wu felt Jade's hand gratefully brush past his torso, and his chest and confidence felt warm again. "Did I feel beloved enough for you?"
"Beloved enough? Great as always, though great doesn't begin to describe it. We'll try some more stuff, Hsi Wu, and we'll do more stuff too, just as long as you don't go away. YAAWWNN, man, I'm dozing off….Hsi Wu, Bat Boy, come here and kiss me goodnight like the nice demon that you are."
Hsi Wu watched Jade Chan, and the grin came planted back on his dark façade. He crawled on all fours and laid himself under the squat Jade. He slurped his experienced tongue and found the mark.
"Ah…Hsi…Wu…." Jade dozingly shut her eyes and climaxed her last for the night, spilling a gentle ebb of juice as her bang-laden head slumped between Hsi Wu's feet, and snored…Gee, hope he kisses me this way in the morning…Heh heh…ZZZZZ…
"Goodnight, lovely Jade," Hsi Wu whispered confidently, as he peacefully sucked the ebbs off her nethers, coating his tongue and gathering just the taste he wanted for the end of this night. Only his plucky smooches of earthly flesh clamored across the bedroom. Lying nude beside a sleeping mortal, blankets and pillows scattered without worry, the Sky Demon shut his eyes, closed his wings like leather drapes over himself and his lover, and hoped that he and Jade could dance together in their dreams. One day, for sure, he will make heaven return.
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That stench.
Not a smell.
A stench.
It woke up Hsi Wu in the morning.
But why was that stench familiar?
Then, it struck him.
HE….HE was still alive…
Hsi Wu gasped and shut his mouth so as not to arouse Jade's slumber. Gently, he flopped her pleasant derriere off him so her delicate form now slept frontal side up. Looking at the alley through a stained-glass window, his stubbed snout caught wind of the enigma. His face backed away from the window, hoping the Shift, whom he could not see, had not seen the Sky Demon, who was still the opposite of dead. The alley was dark, but that was good enough for Hsi Wu, because that meant he could tear apart that overbearing fool and no one would ever know it was him. He hastily wrapped his amethyst sash around his waist and hovered down to his nemesis.
The Sky Demon landed down, and saw the shadow of the Shift crawling and knocking a garbage can in unkempt frustration. Looks like a truck ran over his leg, Hsi Wu coldly smiled. That means it'll just be a matter of claw and…
The Shift appeared closer to the Sky Demon, and his appearance left Hsi Wu stumbling a step back. The sneering, malignant gambler that was this enigma was exactly "was" now. The flesh covering his body seemed sucked of their fat, so now a skull seemed to glare at Hsi Wu's horrified face. His gray hair mutated into a deathly white wig, several strands of which had fallen and joined several year-old newspapers dancing across the wind. And his hands, the hands that bequeathed Hsi Wu and Jade the memories they detested, now revered, were so flimsy that cricks and cracks followed every movement of the fingers, breaking the stunned silence in the alley.
"What…have…you done…to me?!" growled the stumbling Shift.
"What are you talking about, Shift?" replied an unsympathetic Hsi Wu, who crossed his claws as a hostile stance. "You're the one who abandoned me at Jade's lair, if you didn't remember."
"I don't understand…" the Shift grumbled at the swerves of his debilitated torso. "Why is this happening? No one ever lived to leave me like this!"
Hsi Wu was as confused as ever. The Shift had told him that the Sky Demon had to be killed by an outside force so the enigma could receive immortality. For so long, this Shift got close to being immortal, yet he spent his whole life wiling away in recklessness, knowing that he couldn't truly end. So if the Shift always died from getting killed, what was he dying from now?
Hsi Wu surmised the answer.
"You failed, Shift."
"What are you talking about?! I never failed destroying anyone!"
"Shift, I know what you never told anyone. You revived all those pasts, didn't you? The pasts of those other people you took? The pasts that were altered from the Book of Ages?"
"What's that got to do with anything?"
"Everything," Hsi Wu smiled, audibly smacking one claw on the palm of the other. "Your power depended on those pasts, turning friends, lovers, whoever they were, into resentful beings who knew only to destroy one other. That was the most important rule about your powers, wasn't it? You needed someone to die so you could harness the misery, the regrets of the past to strengthen your immortality, but guess what, you're talking to someone who's not regretting it, and quite live and well."
"Then…Jade Chan…the girl's alive too?!"
"Yes, and I must say she's finally getting her sleep after staying up pretty late, and I do mean pretty." The grin grew wicked, a contrasting display for the hulking, gawking frown of the Shift.
The Shift's eyes opened to an unexplored magnitude. "Oh, no…NO! You didn't do it! How could you, you fool?!"
"Face it, Shift. You tricked people into thinking that the past HAD to be avoided. But Jade and I, we're different. Those pasts did gave us much pain, much tears, but that's over. Our love began as a lie, and that's what made this love better. We agreed on something, Shift, That lie we lived, it told us what we really wanted to do, and we were willing to live and let that happen. You thought Jade was going to kill me, but love me was what she only desired. I never thought I'd do this, but you deserve much thanks for giving us your gift, though I think you chose the wrong customers. Now your contractors are angry with you, Shift. Your deal with the demons, I'm afraid....is now invalid..."
"B-But, that means I won't even remember anything! They can't deny me my memory! They can't! "
"Perhaps you should've had a better deal. Maybe next time, whatever this next time could be," Hsi Wu admonished, and then he pointed his face towards the third story where Jade was wonderfully sleeping.
"Wait! You can't leave, you've got to help me!" the Shift scrambled his hands onto the heels of Bat Boy's feet.
"I can't help you, but that will," Hsi Wu pointed a claw to the horizon in greeting.
Before the Shift can turn and see for himself, rays of light stabbed over his ruined burden, tearing it. With not a chance to scream, his every bit shattered into chalky dust, a dust Hsi Wu merely retreated away by a few inches. The wind, that unseen and uncalm force, scattered the lifeless powder down the sewage vents. The powder adhered itself to the muck of everything flowing down the sewers, everything that was ignorant and valueless to the beings of this city. The Shift, after centuries of evading death, will never again remember how painless it was to have met it...
Hsi Wu watched the flowing sun shine its first rays of light over the city of San Francisco. The Sky Demon sighed and shook his head, not believing that the Shift's demise was not a dream he long yearned for, but a triumphant, stunning reality.
"Good-bye, Shift," Hsi Wu whispered to the empty ground, before turning his face away from the lonesome vent.
"Hsi Wu? Hsi WUUU!" a voice sang from the third story of "Uncle's Rare Finds, And Then Some"…
His eyes bulged excitedly, and opening his leathery wings, Hsi Wu leapt off the dusky alley to the stained-glass window, and Jade rushed forward and opened the window lock.
"Hsi Wu", Jade sighed in relief, her bare, heaving breasts glowing from the sun, "why did you go away? You promised me…"
Hsi Wu cuddled her form, claws searching over her plentiful curves. "Um, there was a discord going on outside, and I thought it was dangerous. It was really nothing, Jade. Nothing at all."
Jade meekly mewed as a careful claw held one end of her rump, squeezing its rich plumpness. "Ooh...Hsi Wu... Heh, heh... Oh, that's really neato, Hsi Wu. But...look out, your poor sash is nearly falling off! Let me tie it back up for you."
"O-kay!" Hsi Wu leapt before Jade, who eagerly untied the sash and began trying to get a firm knot on him.
Jade, lost in a dazzling stare with Hsi Wu's smile, felt a knot made and she quickly tugged the loops.
"YEOW!" Hsi Wu cried, who leapt his legs up and down, like an exotic bird making his mating dance.
"Wha-AHH! Hsi Wu!" Jade slapped her flushed cheeks at seeing her work. The ends of the sash were tied around his demon member, which meant there was a cute ribbon choking away at his nether length.
"Oh gosh, I'm so sorry, Hsi Wu! That wasn't supposed to…"
"Jade! Seymour?" the voice of the archaeologist made its way up the stairs.
Hsi Wu eyed the bedroom door and gasped, before he found his body to be that of Seymour's again, without even flashing a single metamorphosis. He turned and saw Jade, once again decked in her windbreaker and denim jeans, hushing her lover with a flickering finger upon her ruby lips. Seymour smiled, and held back a chuckle revealing his demonic persona. Jade herself gave in to a chuckle of her own.
Jackie walked up to Jade's private bedroom, and the couple hushed. "Jade, I…Ah….So, she trusts you…" Jackie smiled at Seymour.
"Huh?" the boy was confused.
"I don't suppose you ever saw this bedroom before. I guess this means you know she's the chi wizard in the family."
"Yi-es, I do, Mr. Chan. Jade let me in on it. I promise I won't let anyone else know."
"Don't fret, Seymour," Jade hugged Mr. Hsiwoositz proudly. "you already made a promise, remember?" Seymour blushed a deep red, and Jade laughed, for she never saw the Sky Demon show a tinge of reddening pride.
"Um, I should go now. You kids go along and get ready for school. Uncle and Tohru will be opening the shop again so I must get ready. Sniff, sniff. What's that-whoaaa!" Jackie hollered as something caused him to slip across the floor.
"Ahh!" Jade quickly flicked her finger, and Jackie…still crashed down the floor.
"Unf! What did I slip from?" Jackie asked as he speedily checked the sole of his shoe, and then the illustrious marble tilings, all of which were dry as a desert.
"Well, I think jet lag's done its work." Jackie shyly scratched his head. "Yawn! I better go to bed till Uncle calls me…See you, children," He dragged himself out of Jade's bedroom into his own.
With Jackie no longer around, Jade and Seymour resorted to their intimate trade of words.
The little Chan bore her eyes cheerfully into his. "Come to think of it, I almost forgot to give you your gift, didn't I?"
"You mean the little box? Whatever was in it?"
"Take a look and find out," Jade spoke as she summoned the package before Seymour's face.
The Sky Demon checked the package, and scattered wrapping paper and ribbons between the couple. And what a gift it was; a pocket-sized crystalline frame embroidering a scrawny Hsi Wu and a lithesome Jade hugging one other. That picture never occurred in this life, or perhaps…this was some magical work of art….
"I changed the picture, after I knew who you really were. I think it makes it even more unique."
"Many praises, Jade. I'll keep it close to me," Hsi Wu slid the frame safely beneath his khaki's pocket. "You're a riddle I enjoy so much."
"Glad you love it…Keep it with you whenever you have to go places. And, another thing, Hsi Wu…Sorry about that thing with the sash. I was...kind of a klutz there," Jade bashfully whispered, one leg standing before the other.
"Don't worry, Jade. When I'm Hsi Wu again, the sash will be back in place. Thanks for trying, anyway."
"Speaking of place, school's about another two hours or so." Jade inched her face closer to Hsi Wu. "And I'm in need of a shower, Bat Boy."
"By saying shower, you do mean bath, right?"
"Yes, but I would like some extra hands to make me clean." Jade then held Seymour's hands. "And I know how good these hands are."
"As you wish, mistress. I'll make it as heavenly as you want," Seymour spoke with that curiously scrawny pitch, and Jade giggled gleefully as he held her small back and legs, proudly carrying her into the bathroom. And as both sauntered in, they freed their emotions, spinning forward and tasting their lips again, she of mortal, he of demon. And a lone claw, the tool of a once-broken, once-unloved creature, eventually reached out to the doorknob, and sealed the world among two souls who needed no walls. It was going to be another good day, and they would make sure it would stay that way.
THE END
A/N: Good gosh, is it actually over?! Not quite, everybody, cause Tajeri Lynn, the Extremo Luchadore is setting off to write another fantasy adventure that will follow the time frame of "Souls Between the Walls". It's entitled "Genma Hiryumusha", and while there may be no lemon, it'll be similar to "The Life Before the Party", only with Hsi Wu and a cast of other characters arriving on the scene. (I have officially pulled off the ballot, since I am already working on the voted projects.) But guess what? The miniseries won't be available at Fanfiction.Net! It'll make its way into another website made by the fellow donut baker herself, the Spleef! Speaking of which, her JCA fansite, "Spleef's Rare Finds", includes so much for the JCA fan in all of us. Extremo Luchadore's chapter-by-chapter announcements will only come in e-mail, so to any amigo who knows me, you're being extra lucky on this one! (One other thing; this fic will still be edited.)
Notes on "Souls Between the Walls"
You know, a funny thing did happen to me at Las Vegas. But for once, it had nothing to do with the bright lights, big city formations and casinos where everybody's puffing a cigarette at me. Nah, that's not what's itching the Extremo Luchadore. What itched me was how much I missed Fanfiction.Net, the site where you let your ideas be known so that you'd entertain the people you can't see. I was so anxious to just get to UNLV's library and get my noodle going. The words of you fellow amigos mark the individuals who speak them, and I just enjoy reading everything you've guys been doing. o neverS mind I didn't get to go on the Stratosphere. Never mind that I offered money to some guy who thought he was getting some (and didn't, so he gave the trip a 6/10). Never mind that "Real Sex 27" was the only cable show I got to watch on that whole trip. And never mind that the roads have so many cigarettes lying across the dirt that they look like big, dead maggots... Fanfiction.Net rules, and I'm a staying here!
Bonus: "Wrong Way in a Tyrant's Way……A Piece of Scrap told in Dialogue."
C "Do we really have to stick around like children? We are adults, you know…"
F "Yeah, but Big V, he ain't gonna let us go for this one. And these ropes, he pulls up a mean knot."
R "Do any of you guys got twinkie-winkies?"
F "Ratso, you've been saying that for the last hour."
R "Oh, it's been an hour?"
C "Argh! Listen, Finn, Ratso! Why don't we just drag ourselves out, jump the window-wiper guy right now, and make like a…like a…whatever!"
R "I don't know, Chow. Hakky Fooey's waiting by us, and he doesn't look happy…You think Valmont left any snacks for us?"
F "Urr…darn Hak Foo. He never does my favorite move!"
R "What kind of move is that, Finn?"
F "You know. 'Lemming falls off cliff.' "
C "I can't believe you guys did that to Valmont. Did I have to be included in this?"
F "Hey Chow, don't be such a blarney while we're being tied up in Valmont's closet. I'd rather not talk about what already happened and talk about what will."
C "How'd you guys mess the rooftop swimming pool like that?"
F "Well, you could thank Shen-dud! Without any dough, this penthouse was in the age of dinosaurs. So I thought about tweaking this place a bit. How was I supposed to know that wire was for the pool, and not the bathtub?"
C "Well guess what, Finn! You and your hungry handyman got me stuck along for the ride! And Valmont…he's never going to be the same again, all because you had to turn that water vent into the drainage vent from hell!"
F "Dude, at least only part of him got stuck in that vent. Least he didn't die.
V "Would you blaggards be quiet?! That 'only part' isn't getting any better with all that racket you are making!"
R "Can you still have Little Vs?"
V "QUIET! I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR HEARING ANYTHING!"
R "Then can we go out now?"
The End
Thoughts and Dedications to "Souls Between the Walls"
Leaping onto the ropes before taking leave of the Imaginary Dome, Tajeri Lynn would like to boom a mighty "muchos gracias" to the following amigos who've lived through, endured through, or just helped through chugging on this writing machine.
To the tandem of Hilary J. Bader & Gary Hartle…HUH?, you say? Well, to you clueless amigos, Bader and Hartle respectively wrote and directed two JCA episodes we especially savored over these months. One is "Tale of the Demon Tail", whilst the other is "The Eighth Door". That's right, ninos and ninas. This duo spent their time and heart bringing us the hypnotic bat boy we just can't get enough of! And you could indefinitely thank Bader for that "Bodie-shaka-laka-laka" thing she gave to Mr. V.
To Andre Sogliuzzo…HE is Hsi Wu! And he's under a small budget! Bader, head over to Sony and make a spinoff on the demon dude. Your writer friend Robert Goodman got one for his "Batman" character Zeta, so why can't you get one for Hsi Wu, aka Sogliuzzo?
To Adelaide, the company behind JCA and "Men In Black" animated series. Hey, did someone tell me that the Ninja Turtles are being made by them?! YI-ES! That other crazy martial arts story is going to be Adelaide-ized! I can hear it now..."They're the world's most fearsome fighting team..." Okay, I'm sounding too old school here.
Digidestined of Courage….you're one class act! Digidestined's "The Ancient Prophecy" is just too cool an adventure and it flows like a JCA script. Can't wait to read more of that!
A generous handshake to Shadowcell, cuz he was the fellow who followed me through this story since the day I lost my bet and was compelled to write my first-time lemon. Were it not for him, I could've left the bet…or could I? Shadowcell, amigo, I don't know when I'll contact you, but I hope to again in the future!
Say, where is tari-chan, the one behind the first Hsi/Jade, "Demon Heart"? And why is "Demon Heart" no longer on FFN? Ah, well, least I printed my own copies of the fic when I had the chance. That assured, I can thank tari-chan for convincing many of us that Hsi/Jade is quite the couple on FFN.
He-yo, Avery! I hope you like reading this conclusion, even if you're so busy that you can't leave behind a review. I want to read your other stories very much too!
I'll make this quick. Roy, Marcy, Helen, Monique, Rose, Carlos, and Maria, kudos for taking me to Las Vegas so I can make that fateful bet….Mike Awesome and Masato Tanaka, you still entertain me while breaking a lifetime of tables and chairs over each other…Here's to Linkin Park and Puddle of Mudd, whose "Paper Cut", "With You" and "Blurry" kept me typing readily…Oh yeah, I forgot Coldplay, whose song "Yellow" remains my favorite song ever. Here's also to Jackie Chan, Mr. Stunt-meister, the guy who just won't stay out of a stunt whether he's on the camera or in a cel.
Some people say "nice people finish last", others say "save the best for last." Well, amigos, I go for the latter.
Hello, senorita. It's kind of funny how this whole thing started, considering what we shared over Hsi Wu and Jade. Since then, gee, I hope we'd still write and captivate FFN readers for years and years to come. As always, it's been welcome that you can stop by the Luchadore's circle. And you are telling me new things about the world, or things I normally don't stop to think about, and that means quite a lot. Muchos gracias, domo arigatou, thank you….Spleefie. So…You still got some of that tomato soup left?
For now, the Extremo Luchadore will run off into the exit and disappear back to his sphere. Who knows what craziness he will think up next…? Only Extremo Luchadore knows! ADIOS, and make your impact known!