I don't own Jackie Chan Adventures and no money is being made with this story.
The coniferous forest sighed around him and he felt the scent of resin in his nostrils. The ground felt cold under his feet, but he barely noticed it.
He barely noticed anything.
Ni Tang had been the first one to climb up and he had already taken his demon form back. The others were still climbing and he waited for them patiently.
But something was very wrong now, he could sense it. He felt how he was slowly sinking somewhere in the depths of his own mind and no matter how hard he tried to hung to the reality he couldn't fight against this invisible force that took him.
He blinked. The forest was still what he saw, but at some other level he saw something else.
It was his room, he was sure of it. He remembered he had spent hours there working and though he knew he didn't live there, Ni felt the room was important.
He sat in a chair and he had a pen in his hand. Ni didn't know what he should have done with it and he tried to lift his hand in order to have a better look, but to his surprise he noticed he couldn't move. At first he was shocked, what was going on?
"I'm very disappointed with you. You promised to bring me the talismans," a very familiar voice hissed behind him and Ni flinched mentally.
Shendu!
The body he was in turned around and he found himself staring at a statue which was in the shape of a lizard. Its eyes glowed dangerously red and Ni could almost smell the fire demon's hatred towards him - this body.
"I assure you Shendu, my men are already hunting them and I'm sure they will have success this time. Even Chan can't win every time," he heard a voice say and was surprised to notice it was the voice of his human form.
Shendu snorted in despise.
"Your men? Those pathetic fools couldn't find a talisman even if Chan didn't exist!" the dragon snapped with venom.
Ni Tang knew the human Shendu talked to was going to say something very angry, but...
Suddenly the room disappeared and he was in the middle of the forest again. He blinked in confusion, what had just happened?
All the others had climbed up now and they were ready to return to San Francisco. Xiao Fung drew a deep breath and smirked, ithad beenso many years since he had last time walked free in this world and breathed its air.
"You've done well," he said to Shendu, who raised his head in pride. Finally someone gave him the respect he deserved. If Xiao just had been at least a bit older this would have been even better.
Hsi Wu frowned, immediately after climbing up he had noticed a change in Ni Tang. And now when he watched his younger brother he saw how he stared in emptiness and the sky demon couldn't say he liked it. Too much weird things had happened lately.
He stepped next to his brother and placed his hand on his shoulder.
"Ni Tang?" he asked, feeling how the other demonflinched. The polar demon turned to face him and the mask hid his surprised expression.
"Yes?" he asked with strangely thick voice.
"Everything all right?" Hsi wanted to know and Ni nodded.
"Of course, what makes you ask?" he asked. The sky demon shook his head.
"Forget it," he said and decided he had just imagined it. Nothing had changed and nothing would ever change, he was probably just a bit too confused.
And for a reason.
He glanced at Jade and felt a new warm flash go through him as he saw the girl's raven black hair and lovely brown eyes. She was of course just a little girl, but Hsi could already see the signs of a beautiful young woman in her and waiting for few years was nothing to a demon like him.
Jade would be his lover, whethershewanted or not.
Though Hsi Wu hoped the girl would agree; it would be so much easier and more pleasant if he didn't have to force her.
Shendu raised his eyes on the sky and frowned.
"If we leave now and hurry we will be back with the others before the sun rises," he guessed and started to take his own form back. He didn't like walking in a human body, he had got enough of it with Valmont.
Xiao Fung shrugged.
"I dare to suggest that you'll give me a ride. Neither my own form nor my human form is meant for fast travelling," he said and now when Shendu looked at his brother he knew what mistake they had made.
The wind demon wasn't agile or fast, in his real form he was clumsy and had never had any needs to move fast. Shendu swore under his breath and hoped he could have killed that annoying grin on Xiao's face.
"You can sit on my back, but if you fall it's your own problem," the fire demon hissed as a warning and let his older brother climb on his back.
"Don't worry Shendu, I'm having so much fun that I won't get down that easily," Xiao said cheerfully and hit Shendu's scaled back with his calves.
"Gallop!" he exclaimed and enjoyed greatly when Shendu almost broke his neck when trying to stare at him.
"Excuse me?" the fire demon asked his voice shaking with anger and Xiao decided he might have gone a bit too far. Shendu was just like Dai Gui, no sense of humour.
"Forget, let's go or they will get there before we even move," the wind demon said and Shendu jumped so fast he almost fell.
"What's the matter, not that gooda rider?" Shendu asked sarcastically and Xiao Fung didn't say anything, but concentrated on not falling.
The sun started to rise and spread the warm rays on the city of San Francisco. The air was still a bit cool, but the sun would soon warm it.
Tso Lan stood in a corner in his human form and looked around in thought. He wanted to be alone and think, everything was going inthe wrong direction.
Hsi Wu at first. The moon demon couldn't understand why the others let him keep the slave. Tso thought the girl should have been killed in the very beginning, keeping her alive was just too dangerous.
The girl knew who Ni Tang was and if they weren't really careful she could tell it to him. No one knew how it would affect Ni, he could either break or not believe her. Tso believed Ni was already suspecting something, surely he had gone through some changes already.
He could sense the confusion of the younger demon and didn't understand why no one else seemed to notice it. Didn't they see what a risk the girl was?
Shendu probably knew it, he had suffered because of her the most, but no one ever listened what the fire demon had to say so he was no help. It was the other way around, when Shendu wanted to do something the others always turned against him just for fun.
Po Kong had returned to the Chans, but before that the mountain demon had given them the two spells they needed to open the portals of Tchang Zu and Dai Gui. Po wasn't sure when she could return again so she had wanted to make sure the others could open the portals as soon as possible.
As if it helped them, they were all doomed if they couldn't see the pure facts.
And Ni Tang ten?
They all knew the polar demon would fall apart in afew weeks or sooner, and after that it was impossible to have him back. It seemed no one besides him paid any attention to this and Tso Lan wasfuming when thinking about the stupidity of his siblings.
Didn't they realise what the loss of the youngest brother would cause? Hsi Wu was very attached to him and when he found out Ni Tang was just a lie he would either break or get very mad.
Whatever happened, he could start asking too many questions and Tso Lan was sure they were questions he didn't want to answer.
He hadn't thought aboutwho Hsi Wu had been before they took him in a long time. The moon demon had already got so used to the thought that Hsi was his brother that he couldn't consider him something else.
But now when he thought about this situation he couldn't help but think about the picture of a young and beaten boy, who was on his knees in front of them waiting for new hits.
They had really needed a new member in their family, seven was traditionally a very bad number of siblings and they hadn't wanted to kill anyone. Originally there had been eight of them, but the youngest one had been born dead and hadn't got a name at all.
And so they had created Hsi Wu.
Tso Lan shook his head and turned around to return in the warehouse. Sometimes he wished he was just as aggressive and stupid as his brothers, then he wouldn't have to worry this much.
"Already translated the spell?" Uncle asked Po, who raised her eyes from the book. She had been gone a whole day and it had made the old man suspicious. Actually it was Po's own fault, she hadn't done anything the Chans had hoped and they were getting impatient.
Maybe it was time to do something.
"Actually I have. Take a look at this, sensei," the mountain demon said and gave Uncle the pages she had written. The man corrected the position of his glassed and frowned.
The spell Po had written was total rubbish, but she had taken parts from real spells to make it seem believable.
"I've never heard of this," Uncle remarked in suspicion after he had read what the demon had written. Po shrugged.
"Not a surprise, I hadn't heard of it either before my masters gave it to me," she said.
"That reminds Uncle, where are all others from your guild? They do not take part in the fight?" the old man said suddenly and Po had to think quickly. She hadn't really thought about this part of her disguise at all and didn't know what to say.
Fortunately she didn't have to say anything, because at the next moment Jackie stepped in and after seeing his expression everyone knew something had happened.
"I come from captain Black. He told that this morning guards of the Hollow Land prison found an open tunnel in an empty cell. None of the prisoners is missing so someone has been in the prison and then left without anyone noticing," he said.
"Xiao Fung," Uncle said darkly and frowned. Hsi Wu, Bai Tsa, Shendu, Po Kong, Tso Lan and now Xiao Fung. They were in for difficult times if they really wanted to banish them all back.
Jackie sighed and shook his head.
"What do we do now? The demons are one step ahead of us and we are not able to catch them," he said. Uncle was quiet for a while.
"It ends now. Only two portals left and we can easily guess which one they will open next. We just go and wait for them there," he said finding new strength inside of him and rushing to read his books.
"I have to find a banishing spell for all of them," he hurried going through the pages and gesturing Tohru to bring more books.
"But which one will they open next?" Jackie asked. Uncle glanced at him.
"What do you think? Only ones left are Tchang Zu and Dai Gui, which one seems like a better option?" she helped and Jackie snapped his fingers.
"Of course! Tchang Zu is the oldest one of the demons and considers himself to be their leader. He would never accept that he was left to be the last one," he realised and Uncle nodded please.
"Good thing you got it too."
Po hid her smile, these fools didn't realise they had just revealed their plan to her. All she needed was to warn her siblings and they would open the portal of Dai Gui with no problems at all.
Chan was right of course, Tchang Zu would be furious, but they couldn't help it now. The thunder demon might not listento their explanation, but he could get mad at humans instead of his siblings. Now she had to go to the others and tell these news, but only after she knew the details better.
"We have to plan carefully what we do, we don't know how many demons there will be," Uncle said thoughtfully. With luck they would face two or even one demon, but you could never be sure.
"The most important thing is to have Jade back," Jackie said. The girl would be with the demons, no one else could carry the Pan Ku box for them. He hoped she was all right, but couldn't really believe it anymore. He doubted the demons had missed any chances to torment her and just thinking about it was enough to make his heart bleed.
"The girl is young and has stamina, she'll be fine," Uncle said with no worry, he was more interested in how he could banish even one of the demons. Jackie didn't say anything, just shrugged.
And then there was a knock on the door and they all turned to look.
"Who could it be? It stands clearly on the door that we are closed," Jackie wondered and went to open the door. He wrenched it open ready to explain what 'closed' meant, but only managed to open his mouth before he realised who he was facing.
"Hak Foo!" he exclaimed in surprise and the warrior nodded.
"Chan," he said.
"What are you doing here?" Jackie asked rubbing the back of his head. He really had never expected Hak to come here without wanting to break some bones.
Hak Foo didn't say anything, but took a look around. Tohru and Uncle eyed him in suspicion, but Po was just curious. A new player, that was interesting.
"May I come in?" Hak Foo asked and this polite question sounded really wrong coming from him. Jackie backed few steps letting him come.
"Sure," he said closing the door. Sometime ago he wouldn't have let him come, but after the man had saved his life he thought he owed him some. Besides, Hak was in a war with Shendu so they were kind of on the same side.
"What do you want?" Uncle asked and Hak Foo eyed him. He had never liked the old man and his demanding nature just made it worse.
"Liao Su is here," he said avoiding the question and turning to face Jackie, who lifted his brows in interest.
"Here?" he made sure. He had never believed anyone from Jio The Fa would come here. Then again, Liao Su had seemed a bit too desperate and could come up with anything.
Hak Foo nodded.
"He has decided he is going to kill Shendu no matter the cost. He is crazy, he actually believes he can stand up to him all alone," he said.
"And you don't?" Jackie asked remembering how the warrior had attacked Shendu in Japan.
"Not anymore. I came to join you," Hak Foo announced and Jackie could only stare. Hak Foo volunteered to work with them? He had never expected that and didn't know what to say.
"Uh..." he muttered in confusion. Hak Foo nodded slowly.
"I see," he said and turned to leave, but stopped when he felt Jackie's hand on his shoulder. He stiffened, he never allowed anyone to touch him if he wasn't fighting and he almost charged at Jackie.
"Wait. Of course you can come with us," Jackie said quickly. Uncle sighed and shook his head.
"First a weird lady, then an old enemy. Who next, the moon demon?" he asked revealing he actually had nothing against Hak Foo right now. He returned to read his books.
"Pomako! Get me more books about the demons!" he demanded loudly and Po frowned slightly.
"Gladly sensei, but after that I must go out to take care of few things," she said her intention being to warn her siblings and make sure the spell for Dai Gui's portal was the right one. Uncle shook his head.
"You were out yesterday, no need to go today. We are busy preparing for the fight and need you here," he said sharply.
"But I have to go," Po said. She had to leave or everything would be in danger.
"What is so important?" Uncle asked and the mountain demon stared at him mouth slightly open. She wasn't stupid, but she wasn't as clever as Hsi Wu or Shendu and was not goodat coming up with good excuses fast. So she didn't come up with anything before Uncle nodded.
"Good. If it is nothing worth mentioning it's not important. And now, get me books," he said concentrating in reading something.
"But... you can't push me around!" Po said letting him hear how annoyed she was.
"Still here? If you want to live in Uncle's shop you do as Uncle says!" the old man snapped and pointed at the library. "Hurry!"
Po Kong closed her eyes and drew a deep breath to calm down. She couldn't lose her nerves now, she couldn't let herself explode. If she revealed herself she wouldn't only make herself a fool in front of her siblings, but would also jeopardise their future.
She swallowed the bitter taste in her mouth and clenched her shaking fists. She didn't dare to say anything, she feared she might say way too much. Instead of that she marched in the library to calm down.
Immediately after getting there she let out the breath she hadn't noticed she had been holding. That cursed old goat, she would show him!
"I'm sorry for sensei, he is always like that under stress. And towards everyone, no one is an exception," Tohru's low voice said behind her and Po turned around. She pressed her lips into a tight line, she was way too angry to care about anything.
"If my mission here wasn't so important I would have left already," she answered bitterly and Tohru sighed.
"I hope you do not hold a grudge against him. He just is like that and I don't wish him to be anything else," the Japanese man said in thought.
"Maybe, but I'm not used in being pushed around," Po said.
"You must be in a very high position within your guild," Tohru stated. Po nodded.
"Almost on the top," she admitted. Then she grabbed a book from the shelf and went through the pages. Tohru watched her for a while before going to make Uncle some tea.
They had returned to San Francisco, Xiao Fung with them and the warehouse was starting to feel cramped. When Po Kong had returned to Chans Tso Lan was the oldest and the role of a leader suited him fine.
"Tchang Zu sends his greetings. He wants to make sure we remember to free him next," the wind demon remarked and Tso Lan nodded. It had been his intention anyway, it would not be good to leave the proud thunder demonto bethe last one.
"We will all go to open his portal. When all of us are there to greet him he shouldn't be too angry," the moon demon decided, but immediately got resistance.
"I'm not coming. I want to learn to know this city and what it has to offer before leaving anywhere," Xiao Fung announced and Tso Lan frowned at him.
"You think having fun is more important than freeing our oldest brother?" he asked sharply. The wind demon shrugged.
"If we all rush there it's possible that we all got banished back. I'm just careful, I don't want to go back when I just got out," he said.
"Do as you wish, but we others will go. Or does someone else want to hurt Tchang Zu's pride too and play with dangerous things?" Tso asked sounding tired.
"I don't think it's a good idea to leave brother Xiao here all alone. I suggest Shendu stays with him," Bai said.
"Why me? Xiao Fung is older than me!" Shendu snapped angrily. Bai Tsa shrugged.
"So?" she asked.
"Why should I stay and take care of someone who is older than me? You just want to get rid of me and make sure I'm not there to steal all the attention when Tchang Zu arrives!" the fire demon blamed making Bai snort.
"Who wouldn't want to get rid of you? You are the most annoying demon I know and if you weren't family..." she said letting Shendu imagine the rest. And he had quite an imagination so he didn't have to even think what his sister meant.
"That's it! I've stood your despise and nagging for centuries, but it ends now! Let's see if age really matters and which one of us is stronger!" Shendu raged ready to attack Bai right there. The water demon frowned.
"You want to fight? It suits me, you'll just notice you still shouldn't challenge me in anything!" she snapped and the two demons would have started a fight there if Tso Lan hadn't got enough.
"Silence!" he snapped and the two demons flinched when hearing the moon demon raise his voice. It happened rarely and the brother was always in a very bad mood when it did.
"You two are acting like mere children! I don't understand what's wrong with you, you two can't get along at all! I won't let you ruin this and forbid Tchang Zu his freedom." he said turning to face Shendu.
"One of you has to stay here and calm down. Shendu, you are younger so it's your responsibility. You will stay here with Xiao Fung and when we others return I don't want to hear a single argument. Clear?" he asked from both Shendu and Bai, who smirked in victory.
Shendu slit his eyes and opened his mouth to say something really nasty, but the expression on Tso Lan's face made him swallow his words. Something was wrong, the moon demon was rarely this angry. It seemed all this really stressed him and Shendu couldn't understand why.
Tso Lan sighed and tried to calm down.
"We are leaving now, the longerwe just lay here the angrierwill Tchang Zu be." he said shrinking into his human form. The others did the same and more than one pair of eyes watched closely Ni Tang's transforming. This time it went well, he looked like Valmont again.
The moon demon felt relieved, when they got the thunder demon out it wasn't that important what happened to Ni Tang. Tchang Zu could decide what to do and at least for a while Tso could stop worrying about everything. It was so frustrating to be one of the oldest of this group.
One by one they climbed out after making sure they had the right chi ingredients with them. It would be a catastrophe if they had the spell they needed in Spain.
Bai Tsa had prepared for this and quietly read a spell so that no one would pay too much attention to Ni Tang. It was unlikely someone would recognise him as a crime lord, but you could never be too careful.
After they had gone Shendu swore loudly and kicked a box. It hurt which just made him more mad. How could they dare to leave him behind? And with a big idiot like that?
"You are angry," Xiao Fung commented and Shendu glared daggers at him.
"Good point, my, you are intelligent," he said sarcastically. How could he stand to be alone with his stupid and lazy brother?
Xiao Fung didn't say anything, just sat on a box. He was there for a while before standing up again and looking like he had just got a good idea.
"What now?" Shendu asked.
"I'm going out," his brother answered and the fire demon raised a brow. What was Xiao up to now?
"Out?" he repeated in suspicion.
"Yes. I want to have some fun with the humans of this city and get to know the place. Want to come with me?" the wind demon said.
"We can not reveal who we are," Shendu reminded him.
"I know that, but you can still have fun. Come on now, it's always more fun with two," Xiao pleaded and Shendu noticed he was actually interested. Xiao Fung wasn't his favourite brother, but lately everyone had been treating him like dirt and it felt good to notice someone was paying him positive attention.
He shrugged.
"Lead the way, brother," he gestured allowing himself a smirk. He had never done anything with just him and Xiao so he didn't actually know what the wind demon considered to be fun.
"I washoping you'd say that," Xiao Fung said answering his brother's smirk with his own grin.
The two demons climbed out and looked around. Both were in their favourite human forms, Xiao as a man who really resembled his true form and Shendu in the same form he had used before.
"So, what do we do?" he asked placing his hands on his hips. Xiao tilted his head a bit.
"We could find out what kind of food they eat nowadays," he suggested.
"You sound like Po Kong," Shendu commented. Testing food promised nothing new for him, in Valmont's body he had seen modern food way too much.
"Maybe, but do you have a better idea?" the wind demon wanted to know.
"Why do you even ask? Tormenting humans is on the top of my list," Shendu answered as if it was the most simple thing in the world.
"Mine too, but that might not be the wisest option if we want to keep our secret to ourselves," Xiao remarked smiling.
"No one has to know who we are. All kinds of psychopaths have always existed. And it also gives the idiots of this city something else to do," Shendu said referring to Section 13. Then he started to walk down the street they had chosen and Xiao Fung could only follow.
"Where are we going?" the wind demon asked hurrying next to his fast brother. Shendu glanced at him as if he was really stupid.
"We can't do anything fun here, we have to find a dim street and choose someone who just happens to stop by there," he said and Xiao Fung raised his brows in surprise.
"So we really are going to kill a human? I thought you were just kidding," he said. Normally he would have nothing against a slaughter, but Tso Lan would get really mad if he ever found out. And knowing the moon demon he would eventually.
"You should know me well enough to know I'm not one to joke," Shendu said and slowly Xiao was starting to think it hadn't been that good of anidea to take Shendu with him. When getting all excited about something the dragon was impossible to control and he didn't want to think what he could come up with now.
Shendu led him forwards until they arrived to a smaller street and met less and less people.
"Shouldn't we at least wait until it gets dark?" Xiao asked, but Shendu didn't bother to even answer. The wind demon had got his brother to join this game and he couldn't back away anymore, he just had to wait and see what happened.
Suddenly Shendu stopped and gestured his brother to do the same. The fire demon could hear much better than Xiao and he had heard voices the wind demon didn't know even existed.
"What?" Xiao asked, but Shendu told him to be quiet.
"Follow me," he whispered and they started to get closer the voices until Xiao could hear them too.
He heard a man talking and frowned, the voice said nothing to him. He glanced at Shendu opening his mouth to ask, but Shendu shook his head.
"Wait until the other one talks, you'll recognise him," he whispered and Xiao Fung nodded. Then he heard the other voice too and raised his brows.
"Exactly," Shendu said in victory. This would be fun!
Finn leaned on the wall and eyed Chow, who stood some distance away looking nervous. He looked always nervous nowadays, he couldn't get the new demon he had met out of his mind.
The Irish man believed Chow had imagined the whole thing. He didn't question the existance of the demon, Chan would never lie like that, but whatwere the chances that his Chinese friend had met a demon and survived?
They were alone now, Ratso had wanted to stay and help Isabelle to clean the pub. The man had a heart of gold and would have survived even without illegal business. If they just found someone who'd hire a criminal.
He and Chow had dared to go on a walk though the danger of being seen and caught still existed. Finn had suggested it, he finally wanted to talk things through with Chow and make some plans about their future.
"Chow, where do you think wewill bein a year?" he asked and the man raised his eyes from the ground. He wore a thoughtful expression and seemed to really consider the question. Then he shrugged.
"I don't know," he answered. Finn sighed, he didn't know either.
"We have to come up with something. I thought we could leave this city and start again somewhere else. Los Angeles maybe, I bet someone there wants to hire men as experienced as us," he said.
"Yes, could be. But..." Chow said sounding a bit unsure.
"But what?" the Irish man wanted know.
"What about the demons? Can we just forget them like that?"
Finn sighed.
"Demons belong in the past, Chow. Even if this whole city was full of them we shouldn't care, Chan is for that. We just let him kick their ass," he assured.
"But people could get hurt and die. Just like Valmont..." Chow tried again.
"When have you started to care about others like that? It's not good in our profession, Chow. We both have killed and will kill again," Finn said. Chow had changed so much after Valmont's death and he really was afraid of noticing that one morning Chow had left them.
"Or you might get killed," a new voice said and both men turned to stare in its direction. It sounded way too familiar and neither wanted to know who had talked.
Two men stepped from the shadows, the other one had brown hair and they had never seen him before, and the other one was unfamiliar to Chow too. Finn knew him though and licked his lips nervously.
"Xiao Fung," he muttered quietly and Chow flinched.
"You mean the demon?" he made sure with a weak voice and Finn nodded.
"The demon," he said.
Shendu glared at the two men maliciously, he had never believed he would meet them ever again and it was a pleasant surprise to notice he could have some fun after all.
"It's been so long since we last met," he said snidely and smiled. Chow and Finn immediately knew who they were dealing with and the truth made cold shivers go down their spine. Shendu, just the creature they didn't want to see ever again.
"But... How did you come back?" Finn managed to ask and Shendu laughed.
"What a stupid question! Through a portal, of course, or have you already forgotten what you can do with the Pan Ku box?" he asked sarcastically.
Xiao Fung eyed the two humans before turning to face his brother.
"I remember this one, but I've never seen the other. He wasn't with you last time," he said nodding at Chow.
"Of course he wasn't you fool! His mission was to deliver the Pan Ku box to us and it would have been pretty difficult if he had been there!" Shendu snapped, but Xiao didn't care.
"I think he's cute," he said stepping closer.
"What are you doing?" Chow askedin terrorbacking away just as much as the demon had come closer.
"Hey, don't touch him!" Finn hurried to protect his friend and drawing extra courage somewhere inside him. The wind demon tilted his head.
"I could use a new slave now," he commented.
"You can't have a slave until we all are free," Shendu said.
"Hsi Wu has a slave. Why couldn't I have one too?" Xiao asked angrily. He was older than Hsi, he had the right to have the same!
"She's a special case and works for all of us. If you take that human he won't please anyone but you," the fire demon explained.
"But he's cute!" Xiao Fung protested loudly.
"And you're sick!" Shendu answered. The wind demon crossed his arms in front of himself.
"What can I do for the fact that I like male slaves?" he asked. Shendu growled in frustration and turned to face Finn and Chow again.
"Anyway, it's ... pleasant ... to meet you again. I hope we could have some fun together," he said. He took a step closer though he didn't know what he'd do, Valmont's men were way too valuable to be just wasted.
"Hey, don't touch the little one! I want to have him!" Xiao Fung hurried and rushed to stand between Chow and Shendu. The fire demon frowned.
"Why should you get him?" he asked.
"Because you already get Chan and Ni Tang when we don't need him anymore. I want my share too and this human is mine!"
"You can't push me around like that, slave belongs to the one who saw him first!" Shendu snapped.
"I belong to no one!" Chow dared to protest, but shut his mouth when both demons turned to glare at him.
"Shut up, slave!"
Finn stepped closer to Chow. Together they watched as the two demons argued and glanced at each other.
"Might be a stupid question, but which one do you want to win?" Finn wanted to know. Chow shrugged gloomily.
"If Shendu gets me I will be stew and if the other one... Well, I don't like his style or hints. So neither one is okay with me," he said.
"No kidding, dude," Finn commented dryly.
"You can have the redhead, he's ugly and I'd never take him!" Xiao Fung snapped pointing at Finn.
"Hey!" the Irish man shouted, but neither of the demons paid him any attention.
"No, I want to have Chow, you can the two others!" Shendu answered.
"Wh bothlook like they'd seen the end of a coral crusher! Why do you want to have the same one than I do? Do you really like male slaves that much?" the wind demon asked.
"How do you even dare to suggest that? Are you trying to hurt my pride?" Shendu hissed angrily and his eyes flashed red meaning he was about to lose his self-control.
"Hurt? You don't have a pride I could hurt!" the wind demon slandered and yelped in surprise when Shendu charged at him and they both fell.
"That's it! I couldn't fight with Bai Tsa, but you'll do fornow," the fire demon snapped wrestling with his brother.
Finn and Chow watched in silence.
"Dude, that's something I'd call a family argument," Finn commented and took a look around himself.
"I think this is our time to leave the scene," he guessed and they crept away and finally ran to get as far away from the fighting demons as possible.
After some time the swing had slowed down a bit and both Shendu and Xiao Fung were too tired to do anything else but just lie there. Shendu had been winning, but they were both bruised and bleeding.
Xiao Fung stood up and rubbed his temples. Neither one was badly hurt, they had just spent all of their energy and had to rest for a while.
He glanced around. Both potential slaves were long gone. Xiao turned to face Shendu, who was standing up too.
"Shendu," he said, "you are a stupid demon."
To be continued...
