A Demonic Infatuation
Chapter Five: Dawning of a New Day
Written By: Amanda/Artiste/Agent Di
You are everything to me Jade…my soul mate, the meaning to my existence, the sun in my sky.
Hsi Wu, you're Heaven sent. An angel sent to purge me of my loneliness and fly me above the pointless toils of life.
Loving whispers echoed in the hearts and minds of the two slumbering figures as they lay in Jade's bed intertwined in the soft sheets. It was beneath those very sheets that both creatures had consummated their love the previous day. And now---it was the dawning of a new day. But for all it's rapture there would still be unpleasant storms ahead.
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"AIYAH!" Uncle's voice rang out in a familiar upsetting tone. "I do NOT believe it!"
Viper uncovered her ears once the screaming died down, "Well I didn't either. But then again, I did see it with my own eyes. That thing had her pinned down inside that cave and if I hadn't come in when I did-"
"All this I know!" Uncle interrupted, "But from all you have told me there is something else even more dangerous lurking about in this very building!"
"What?" Jackie asked, he'd been worried sick about Jade ever since that first night when Viper had brought her home and disclosed the tale of what the Sky Demon had nearly done to their niece inside the cave.
Uncle walked over to one of the shop's windows and raked a finger across the pane. "This spell has become dull. It has been broken too many times."
"But how sensei?" Tohru inquired.
"Someone has permitted entrance to an evil being seeking to come inside!" Uncle exclaimed in a matter-of-fact tone. "And that someone could only have been---Jade."
Just as Jackie was about to protest the pane began to glow a neon green. "How very astute of you chi wizard." the voice of the Moon Demon mocked.
"Tso Lan?!" Jackie gasped, "How did you?"
"Come off it Chan," the Wind Demon spoke as his image appeared by the head of his brother. "You're Uncle isn't the only possessor of magic. And since a soul itself is immortal it shouldn't come as such a large surprise that our lives (while erased from Earth's history) have not dissipated from the stream of time."
"What do you want?" Jackie demanded firmly.
The image of Bai Tsa appeared with a sly grin, "We merely wish to know how our youngest brother is doing. So…how are Hsi Wu and Jade (your niece) getting along these days?"
Jackie's brow furrowed, "What do you mean? They haven't come near one another since the incident in the cave."
"Is that so?" Tchang Zu laughed mightily. "Then why are the magical barrier spells around the entrances to your home so weak Chan?"
"It would seem our dear brother is quite bound to your niece." Dai Gui stated enjoying the displeased expressions of the mortals.
Jackie exchanged looks with Viper, Tohru, and Uncle. "She wouldn't…"
"…not Jade…" Viper asserted.
"…but, she did care for him once…" Tohru reminded them.
"AIYAH! Jade has fallen in love with the Sky Demon!" Uncle cried out what everyone feared.
Jackie glanced back at the smug faces of the demon family staring back at him from the window pane. "Jade's bedroom!" he remarked before darting up the stairs.
The others followed as the images of the demons began to fade. "I'm actually looking forward to our next encounter with Chan." Po Kong smiled deviously.
"Yes," Tso Lan agreed, "instead of merely being enemies, it is quite possible that we shall be in-laws."
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Up in Jade's room the mortal and demon were still exhausted from their sensual escapades and in a deep sleep. Neither stirred as Jackie stormed in and froze at the foot of the bed where his niece and the Sky Demon lay sleeping in each others' arms.
"JADE?!" he finally yelled.
This startled both occupants of the bed causing them to sit upright clasping the sheets close to their bare forms to hide certain---personal regions---they weren't willing to let anyone but the other see.
Viper's jaw dropped as she, Tohru, and Uncle entered the room mimicking Jackie's dumbfounded stare. "W-what were thinking?!" she finally managed.
"Oh no…" Jade gulped.
Hsi Wu couldn't help but grin at the reactions of Jade's relatives and Tohru. "I suppose knocking was too difficult a concept for you to master eh Chan?"
Jackie's face hardened as he stomped over to the gray demon who's arm rested over the shoulders of his previously innocent niece.
With a quick jerk he seized Hsi Wu's free arm and hauled him to his feet. "Get out."
"What? No!" Jade oddly found herself protesting. "Jackie he's not like he was before. He's not out to rip anybody apart now or anything. Just leave us alone."
Jackie stared from his niece to the annoyed Sky Demon who was still clutching the other half of the sheets before his bare lower half. "Better do as she says Chan. Jade and I are one now. Inserparable."
"I don't know how you managed to brainwash her but I promise you you'll pay." Jackie threatened. He refused to believe that Jade would simply allow this evil sorcerer to manipulate her again.
"Nobody's brainwashed anybody!" Jade declared from her stance on the bed. She just wanted everyone to leave. Sheesh, this was the most embarrassing moment of her entire life! And to think it had followed the most romantic one!
"Jade," Viper spoke softly coming around to the other side of the bed, "he's a demon. He used you once, what makes you think he isn't just doing it again?"
"Because I'm the one who set him free!" Jade snapped drawing back from her aunt, "The spell's in the book I've hidden in my desk. Go look if you don't believe me. Hsi Wu's here because I wanted him to be. Because our bond was strong enough to get him out of the void."
"So that's how you got out." Jackie glared at the demon.
Hsi Wu matched his angry gaze, "I 'got out' to be with my Jade. And not that we've found each other again, nothing, ESPECIALLY not any of you, shall keep us apart!"
"What do you really want with her demon?" Uncle queried suspiciously, he knew of the spell that Jade was referring to but had never wanted to believe that Jade and Hsi Wu possessed a genuine bond.
The Sky Demon hissed at the chi wizard, "As I have said sly Uncle, I want to spend eternity with my love. We are destined to be together. We have come together despite all odds! Now let us be!!"
Viper regarded both the demon and her niece with a quizzical expression. They certainly seemed sincere. But then again, demon's were good at pulling the wool over mortals eyes. And if poor Jade was just being used again, her genuine emotions meant nothing to him. "If you were really as in love with Jade as you claim to be then you wouldn't have taken advantage of her the way you just did."
"I---what?" Hsi Wu lifted an eyebrow, "What do you mean? How have I taken advantage of her?"
Viper held a steady gaze with the winged immortal being, "Love is more than just lusting after someone. It surpasses obsession and selfish desires. Attraction and persistence aren't enough to prove devotion. You have to respect the one you love before you can enter into a true relationship. Jade's nothing more to you than a sex toy now."
The demon's eyes glowed fiercely. How dare this mortal witch make such accusations against him! HIM! The Sky Demon!! If he said he loved Jade then he loved her! But a quick glance in Jade's direction told him otherwise.
She was starring down at the sheets she was entangled in. Eyes expressing anguish, shame, and doubt. It was as if she feared that all her aunt had said was true. That the bond she and the demon shared didn't reach beyond mere physical enticement. Sighing Hsi Wu realized that he'd have to prove Viper wrong if he were ever to truly earn his place in Jade's heart…and her life.
"Jade," his voice was softer now, he shrugged off Jackie's tight grasp on his arm and went to kneel by her vacant side, "do not believe such terrible lies my love. You are more than just the object of my lust and desire. You are the realized dream of all I have ever dared to hope for in a mate. Please understand, we are more than two beings drawn to each other by futile wishes and empty promises, we are two souls, two halves to a coin, meant to join and find happiness in sharing in each others' existence. Without you Jade, I am not whole. I don't wish to treat you as a plaything any longer. To me, you are and will forever be, a equal, the better half to me and all I aspire to become."
Wow, Viper thought with amazement, he's good.
Cheeks flushed Jade's eyes stared intently into Hsi Wu's, "You really mean all that?"
"With all my heart," he smiled, "which, contrary to the opinions of others," he shot Jackie a scornful look, "is not blackened and withered at all."
A small smile crept over Jade's face as she reached forward with her free arm and drew the demon close in a warm embrace, "I believe you Hsi. And I love you too. I always have. I know I always will."
A muffled sob escaped Tohru who was dabbing at his eyes with a tissue from the doorway, "That is the most beautiful thing that I have ever heard."
Viper smirked and shook her head. Jackie stared disbelievingly at the two lovesick figures nuzzling on the bed.
Uncle was silent for a moment before heading for the door, "I can take no more of the puppy love. Uncle is getting the flute!"
The two lovers were about to protest when Jackie spoke up, "That won't be necessary Uncle. Come on Viper, Tohru. We should let them get dressed and clean up this mess."
Jade and Hsi Wu glanced around, fallen books, tangled sheets, articles of clothing, and bits of wrinkled paper were strewn everywhere.
"Oh, hehe, guess we kinda got carried away." Jade smiled nervously as her Uncle Jackie left with the others, closing the door behind him.
"Ah," Hsi Wu grinned from the bed as Jade got up and started digging through her drawers for something to wear, "that went well."
Jeering Jade tossed his indigo sash into his face, "Yeah right, they took that REALLY well."
"I just wish my brothers and sisters could've been here to see it." Hsi Wu stated absently as he pulled the sash off his face and tied it back in place.
"Like our audience wasn't big enough already?" Jade teased slipping a sweatshirt over her trim figure, "It's too bad that you won't be able to see your family anymore though. I know I'd miss mine like crazy…eventually."
"Now what makes you think that I'll never encounter my relatives again dearest?" the Sky Demon asked slyly.
"How would you?" Jade cocked an eyebrow, "They're banished forever---remember?"
"True," Hsi Wu agreed, "but I know something that they wouldn't miss for all the world."
"What's that?" Jade skeptically inquired.
Hsi Wu beamed with satisfaction as he took Jade's hands in his own and stared down at the spirited mortal in all her fresh glory, "Our wedding."
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*Guess what's coming next? ^_~ And is it just me or does anyone else picture the look on Jackie's face in this chapter and just find it hilarious? LOL! Okay, okay, so I'm just evil. I'm looking forward to getting some reviews on this chapter everyone. I've worked really hard on it and had a lot of fun. There's lots more to come so be on the look out for the wedding of the century!*
