Chapter 12 ~ Enter the Demons
Jade yawned and stretched. She was very tired, and didn't know where she was. All she knew is that her head really hurt, she felt very cold and wet, and she felt as though she was rocking, almost like she was on a boat. . .
"Finally, waking up. You're so lazy!" snapped a voice that sounded quite a bit like her own, but much nastier. And then Jade remembered everything. She sat straight up, looking around wildly. They were in the airplane cabin, but not all of it was there- it was as though large pieces and been torn out of the front and the sides.
"Omigosh! Where's Jackie and Uncle and Tohru and everybody? Did you save them? Please say you saved them!" she blurted frantically at the girl that could've been her twin, who was currently munching on a pack of airline peanuts. She looked over at her other half unconcernedly.
"Nope. Didn't save anybody. Jackie saved them, though," she said simply, then emptied the rest of the peanuts into her mouth. "I wish they put more in these things."
"So. . .they're okay?" asked yin-Jade cautiously, looking around and looking through one of the holes in the plane to the empty water around them. "Where are they, then?"
The other Jade crumpled the peanut bag into a ball and threw it into the water. Then, before her twin could say anything about littering, decided to answer her question with a shrug. "Um, the passengers all got eaten by Bai Tsa. I think she captured the J-Team because of some evil plan or something."
Jade gasped and stared wide eyed at Jade, as if unsure what she was being told could be true. In yin-Jade's world, nobody got eaten and certainly never did anyone's uncles get kidnapped by demons. "But you saved them, right? You wouldn't let Bai Tsa kidnap Jackie, right?"
The other Jade shrugged again, not really concerned with what happened to Jackie or any of the J-Team other than herself. "I was hungry. I had to look for peanuts. I'm not about to fight demons when I'm hungry."
The other Jade stood up, indignant, or as indignant as this half of Jade ever got. "What? You'd rather find peanuts than save our friends?"
"They were honey roasted," said Jade, as if this explained everything. And indeed it did, for honey-roasted peanuts are quite delicious. And airlines almost never serve honey roasted peanuts anymore. "And besides," she finished, "I figured everything would be a lot easier this way. Now all the demons will congregate together and get rid of Jackie. Then, I can beat them up all at once, and get out of a lecture, too!"
"No!" shouted Jade indignantly. "How can you say that? He's our uncle!"
"He sucks," muttered Jade, getting annoyed with her other half. Yin-Jade stared, mouth agape.
"B-but. . .how. . .how can you say that about Jackie? He's so cool! Even you know that!"
Jade sighed and shifted her weight. "Well, I'll admit he has some cool moves, but I have some cooler ones. As you'll see when we fight the demons. And Jackie's really a wimp. Come on, he always tries to get out of fighting and doing cool stuff, and he never lets us do anything fun. We're way better off without him."
"He does too let us do fun stuff!" argued Jade for her uncle's sake. "He lets us come with him on his trips even though we don't even listen to him and he took us to Moose World twice, and he teaches us how to do kung fu, and if it weren't for him, we wouldn't be living in America at all, so you wouldn't get to use to talismans! Oh, and he let us join the Buttercup Scouts, which was a lot of fun, even though you had to go and ruin it!"
"Shut up!" growled Jade, spinning on her double quickly and grabbing the girl's dress collar. "I don't want to listen to you whining any more! So if you don't shut up, I'll throw you into the sea and kick Jackie's ass personally." Yin-Jade whimpered as her eyes filled with tears. Her sister sighed and put her down, where the small girl wiped her wet cheeks with her sweater. "Oh, stop crying. You're even worse than Jackie."
"You didn't have to be mean to me!" she sniffled miserably. "I wasn't trying to make you mad. I just want to help the J-Team. Can't we beat demons and do that too? I promise Jackie won't give you a lecture or anything, and we'll go away and leave you alone," she said meekly, glancing up at her twin hopefully.
"Fine. Whatever," said yang-Jade darkly. "Just stop crying. It makes me sick. And the Buttercup Scouts suck."
"Okay," agreed Jade, if it would pacify her other half enough to help her friends and family. But under her breath, feeling almost defiant today, she muttered "They do not."
Her double did not appear to hear her as she pulled off the damp leather jacket that clung tightly to her arms. She threw the ruined jacket at her sister, who shook her head sorrowfully and said "Those poor little cows." But she forgot about the plight of the unfortunate bovines when she saw the belt buckled about her sibling's waist. Tied across the belt were eleven talismans and half of the horse. Jade reached into her sweater pocket and pulled out the other half, but tucked it away again.
She was just as loathe to rejoin as her sibling was. She knew it wasn't her sister's fault that she was a little bit selfish, but she didn't want any part of it. She possessed so many memories of her hurting people, or breaking the rules, or making her uncle worried just so she could have fun, and she couldn't believe that she had done these things. She never wanted to be like that again.
Yang-Jade was watching her belt carefully, trying to remember the talismans. Since the powers weren't in any of the right talismans, she had had to experiment to find out which was which. It had been difficult- luckily the power of Dog was the first she found, since when she tried to astral-project herself with the sheep, it had turned out to be the dragon. Finally, the girl pulled out the talismans marked with the pig and with the rat.
First, she placed the rat on the floor of the ship and put her hand over it, trying to call upon its power. Instantly, the entire craft became invisible. Jade was proud of herself- when she had seen the Dark Hand try the same trick, only the car disappeared and the passengers remained visible. But under the power of Jade's snake, the craft had vanished completely from sight, but from inside it looked perfectly ordinary. Jade had practiced so long that she was the master at manipulating talismans. She thought she might even be almost as good as Shendu.
Now, she put the pig on the floor next to the rat, and called upon its power, as well. With a sudden jerking movement, the boat sped along the water in the direction where she thought Bai Tsa had gone, with the speed of the rabbit. She sat at the front of the craft, while her sister sat along the edge, slowly dragging her feet in the tide.
"See anything?" she asked finally in a timid voice. The other girl seemed to ignore her, continuing to watch over the way. Yin-Jade sighed and kicked the waves with her foot.
"I see a sort of speckish thing, and the water gets real rough. I think it might be them," said yang-Jade finally. Jade nodded and pulled her feet in, as anything outside the craft was still visible.
"Okay, it's definitely them," said yang-Jade suddenly. She put her hand on the pig, and willed it to slow down slightly. "We can't get too near, or she'll see our wake," Jade explained. Yin-Jade nodded acceptingly.
"I wonder if everyone's okay?" she added softly, peering out over the water to where her uncles and friends were held prisoner.
***
Several thousand yards away, Jackie and the others were still riding along, okay but unsure of what lay in store for them. Jackie had lost track of their direction, although he believed they were heading southeast. It hardly seemed possible, but they must have been going more swiftly than the plane. Already, the waters that sprayed onto him over the sides was getting warmer and clearer, a sign that land was nearby. But by air, they had left the landmasses behind for the cold grey Pacific long ago.
And, sure enough, a fog that had been hovering on the horizon began to take shape, ands it suddenly occurred that this was the beginning of land. At first, he thought it would be a small island somewhere in the Pacific, but as they drew nearer it expanded and filled his entire horizon.
The wave that had pushed them this far began to grow and take shape into the impressive form of Bai Tsa. The little raft was pushed into a dull blue bay, and washed up onto a deserted beach. Jackie stepped off the raft, and the others slowly filed after him. The beach was covered in rocks, and the sand was a fine orange-red powder. It reminded him of the desert in southwest America, or perhaps parts of the Australian Outback. The latter seemed more likely, and Jackie decided that they must be somewhere near northern Australia.
But if this was an island, it was quite large, because the landscape stretched farther than Jackie could see. Everything seemed to be dust and tall rocks, with an occasional scraggly tree growing stubbornly out of the cracked dry ground. The sky was deep blue, but in the middle of Jackie's line of sight, it appeared to have ripped down the middle in a jagged line from the clouds to the earth. Inside the tear was swirling light, as red as Bai Tsa's eyes.
"Is that. . ." whispered Viper slowly, and Jackie started, not having realized she was there. But when he glanced over, all of the others were lined up beside him, except of course for the Jades, who he hoped were en route back to San Francisco.
"The Realm of the Demons" said Uncle quietly to his right, peering so intently at the tear that he had to squint through his tiny glasses.
"Dios mio," said El Torro, staring at the tear as though he had never seen anything quite like it. Indeed, it looked impossibly huge, spectacular, and foreboding. Jackie wasn't at all sure why they had been brought here, but he knew that the other demons couldn't be far away.
And quite suddenly, the earth in front of them split, and an enormous brown bull-like demon emerged, covered in red earth. He looked blankly at them, never having been the brightest demon. He glanced over the small crowd of humans. "Dai Gui hungry," he complained in a tone that almost sounded like a human whine.
Bai Tai slithered up and circled around them like a constrictor encircles its prey. She frowned at her brother, and hissed "These are not for eating!" Dai Gui gave her a doleful look, then buried himself back into the earth so that only his head was showing.
There was a loud swoosh as an enormous bat-like demon swooped in from the sky and landed besides Dai Gui. He was a far smaller demon than the two beside him, he stood barely taller than Tohru. The expression on his face was one of such excitement that it made Jackie sick. He could take whatever awful punishment the demons had in mind, but he didn't want it to happen to his uncle or to his friends.
"They're finally here!" the sky demon hissed. "What took so long, Bai?" Bai frowned at him and even Dai Gui shook his head Hsi Wu fluttered a couple yards away and sat there, looking like a child angry to be in time-out.
"Ah. I smell human," came an enormous rumbling voice. Jackie glanced over at an enormous formation of orange rocks. Behind it came to yawns and groan of the mountain demon waking herself up. Then, she emerged above the rock, peering down onto them. When he finally turned away from her, he could see the enormous toad-like wind demon hopping their direction. He was moving very slowly, but his size was making it easy for him to travel the short distance at the same rate a human might get running.
Floating down from the air, and looking incredibly out of place in the sunny atmosphere of earth, was the moon demon. He cast them a bored look, and then nodded slowly to acknowledge Bai Tsa's presence. The last demon to emerge was the thunder demon, standing to his full and very impressive height It was he who spoke first, bending slightly so that he could meet Jackie's eyes. On his face, there was a vaguely hungry look, but he didn't seem as though he was going to act on it. Tchang Zu had never been too bright himself, but he was all about regality and power.
"Hello, Chan," he rumbled. "I believe you already know my brothers and sisters?" His gaze was obviously angry with the memories of being released only to be banished by Jackie and his family.
Jackie smiled and bent an arm behind his head casually, waving animatedly with the other hand. "Oh, hello! Nice to see everyone, but I must be going, bye bye!" He turned to run and suddenly felt his shoulders in the grip of two large talons. His feet lost contact with the ground, as His Wu hissed happily "Going somewhere, Chan?"
The sky demon carried him high above the ground, until he was even with the head of Tchang Zu. Jackie clenched his eyes shut. He didn't mind heights so much, but they could be pretty terrifying when you were in the clutches of a demon who would drop you without batting and eyelid.
"Brother Hsi Wu," commandeered the thundering voice of Tchang Zu, "Put Mr. Chan down. There are far more important things we need him for than for your entertainment." His Wu nodded grudgingly, and swooped down so quickly that Jackie's eyes began to water. When they were about 10 feet up, the demon stopped abruptly, and let go of his human cargo. But Jackie, not wanting to give to demon the satisfaction of watching him fall hard, flipped in midair and landed on his feet.
He could've sworn he had heard a "Go Jackie!" from somewhere nearby, but when he looked, he saw no one. He brushed himself off, glanced at Tchang Zu, who was obviously in charge, and said "So, what are these important things you need us for?"
The thunder demon didn't respond. He looked to some of his siblings, and finally caught the eye of Tso Lan. There seemed to be an unspoken agreement, and the moon demon floated towards the J-Team. Bai Tsa coiled away from them, handing them over to her brother.
"I believe you will find out shortly," said the moon demon in that soft voice of his, that voice that tricked you into believing, just for a second, that he was civilized, that he possessed compassion. "We require you to, shall we say, fill in for us." Jackie opened his mouth to question further, but Tso Lan waved his hand, and the J-Team was levitated into the air.
Hsi Wu flew up next to them and cackled "Let's see how you enjoy an eternity in the demon realm! Only it won't be an eternity, not once the others co-"
Po Kong's massive hand swatted Hsi Wu out of the sky. The bat-like demon lay sprawled on the ground. "Fool!" hissed Po Kong.
Jackie realized with a sinking feeling where they were being sent. "Yes, Chan," murmured Bai Tsa happily. "This is the fate that lies in wait for all enemies of the great demons."
Author's Note~ There's more to this chapter, but I didn't feel like writing it, and that seemed like a sufficiently evil place to stop. How's everyone doing?
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Jade yawned and stretched. She was very tired, and didn't know where she was. All she knew is that her head really hurt, she felt very cold and wet, and she felt as though she was rocking, almost like she was on a boat. . .
"Finally, waking up. You're so lazy!" snapped a voice that sounded quite a bit like her own, but much nastier. And then Jade remembered everything. She sat straight up, looking around wildly. They were in the airplane cabin, but not all of it was there- it was as though large pieces and been torn out of the front and the sides.
"Omigosh! Where's Jackie and Uncle and Tohru and everybody? Did you save them? Please say you saved them!" she blurted frantically at the girl that could've been her twin, who was currently munching on a pack of airline peanuts. She looked over at her other half unconcernedly.
"Nope. Didn't save anybody. Jackie saved them, though," she said simply, then emptied the rest of the peanuts into her mouth. "I wish they put more in these things."
"So. . .they're okay?" asked yin-Jade cautiously, looking around and looking through one of the holes in the plane to the empty water around them. "Where are they, then?"
The other Jade crumpled the peanut bag into a ball and threw it into the water. Then, before her twin could say anything about littering, decided to answer her question with a shrug. "Um, the passengers all got eaten by Bai Tsa. I think she captured the J-Team because of some evil plan or something."
Jade gasped and stared wide eyed at Jade, as if unsure what she was being told could be true. In yin-Jade's world, nobody got eaten and certainly never did anyone's uncles get kidnapped by demons. "But you saved them, right? You wouldn't let Bai Tsa kidnap Jackie, right?"
The other Jade shrugged again, not really concerned with what happened to Jackie or any of the J-Team other than herself. "I was hungry. I had to look for peanuts. I'm not about to fight demons when I'm hungry."
The other Jade stood up, indignant, or as indignant as this half of Jade ever got. "What? You'd rather find peanuts than save our friends?"
"They were honey roasted," said Jade, as if this explained everything. And indeed it did, for honey-roasted peanuts are quite delicious. And airlines almost never serve honey roasted peanuts anymore. "And besides," she finished, "I figured everything would be a lot easier this way. Now all the demons will congregate together and get rid of Jackie. Then, I can beat them up all at once, and get out of a lecture, too!"
"No!" shouted Jade indignantly. "How can you say that? He's our uncle!"
"He sucks," muttered Jade, getting annoyed with her other half. Yin-Jade stared, mouth agape.
"B-but. . .how. . .how can you say that about Jackie? He's so cool! Even you know that!"
Jade sighed and shifted her weight. "Well, I'll admit he has some cool moves, but I have some cooler ones. As you'll see when we fight the demons. And Jackie's really a wimp. Come on, he always tries to get out of fighting and doing cool stuff, and he never lets us do anything fun. We're way better off without him."
"He does too let us do fun stuff!" argued Jade for her uncle's sake. "He lets us come with him on his trips even though we don't even listen to him and he took us to Moose World twice, and he teaches us how to do kung fu, and if it weren't for him, we wouldn't be living in America at all, so you wouldn't get to use to talismans! Oh, and he let us join the Buttercup Scouts, which was a lot of fun, even though you had to go and ruin it!"
"Shut up!" growled Jade, spinning on her double quickly and grabbing the girl's dress collar. "I don't want to listen to you whining any more! So if you don't shut up, I'll throw you into the sea and kick Jackie's ass personally." Yin-Jade whimpered as her eyes filled with tears. Her sister sighed and put her down, where the small girl wiped her wet cheeks with her sweater. "Oh, stop crying. You're even worse than Jackie."
"You didn't have to be mean to me!" she sniffled miserably. "I wasn't trying to make you mad. I just want to help the J-Team. Can't we beat demons and do that too? I promise Jackie won't give you a lecture or anything, and we'll go away and leave you alone," she said meekly, glancing up at her twin hopefully.
"Fine. Whatever," said yang-Jade darkly. "Just stop crying. It makes me sick. And the Buttercup Scouts suck."
"Okay," agreed Jade, if it would pacify her other half enough to help her friends and family. But under her breath, feeling almost defiant today, she muttered "They do not."
Her double did not appear to hear her as she pulled off the damp leather jacket that clung tightly to her arms. She threw the ruined jacket at her sister, who shook her head sorrowfully and said "Those poor little cows." But she forgot about the plight of the unfortunate bovines when she saw the belt buckled about her sibling's waist. Tied across the belt were eleven talismans and half of the horse. Jade reached into her sweater pocket and pulled out the other half, but tucked it away again.
She was just as loathe to rejoin as her sibling was. She knew it wasn't her sister's fault that she was a little bit selfish, but she didn't want any part of it. She possessed so many memories of her hurting people, or breaking the rules, or making her uncle worried just so she could have fun, and she couldn't believe that she had done these things. She never wanted to be like that again.
Yang-Jade was watching her belt carefully, trying to remember the talismans. Since the powers weren't in any of the right talismans, she had had to experiment to find out which was which. It had been difficult- luckily the power of Dog was the first she found, since when she tried to astral-project herself with the sheep, it had turned out to be the dragon. Finally, the girl pulled out the talismans marked with the pig and with the rat.
First, she placed the rat on the floor of the ship and put her hand over it, trying to call upon its power. Instantly, the entire craft became invisible. Jade was proud of herself- when she had seen the Dark Hand try the same trick, only the car disappeared and the passengers remained visible. But under the power of Jade's snake, the craft had vanished completely from sight, but from inside it looked perfectly ordinary. Jade had practiced so long that she was the master at manipulating talismans. She thought she might even be almost as good as Shendu.
Now, she put the pig on the floor next to the rat, and called upon its power, as well. With a sudden jerking movement, the boat sped along the water in the direction where she thought Bai Tsa had gone, with the speed of the rabbit. She sat at the front of the craft, while her sister sat along the edge, slowly dragging her feet in the tide.
"See anything?" she asked finally in a timid voice. The other girl seemed to ignore her, continuing to watch over the way. Yin-Jade sighed and kicked the waves with her foot.
"I see a sort of speckish thing, and the water gets real rough. I think it might be them," said yang-Jade finally. Jade nodded and pulled her feet in, as anything outside the craft was still visible.
"Okay, it's definitely them," said yang-Jade suddenly. She put her hand on the pig, and willed it to slow down slightly. "We can't get too near, or she'll see our wake," Jade explained. Yin-Jade nodded acceptingly.
"I wonder if everyone's okay?" she added softly, peering out over the water to where her uncles and friends were held prisoner.
***
Several thousand yards away, Jackie and the others were still riding along, okay but unsure of what lay in store for them. Jackie had lost track of their direction, although he believed they were heading southeast. It hardly seemed possible, but they must have been going more swiftly than the plane. Already, the waters that sprayed onto him over the sides was getting warmer and clearer, a sign that land was nearby. But by air, they had left the landmasses behind for the cold grey Pacific long ago.
And, sure enough, a fog that had been hovering on the horizon began to take shape, ands it suddenly occurred that this was the beginning of land. At first, he thought it would be a small island somewhere in the Pacific, but as they drew nearer it expanded and filled his entire horizon.
The wave that had pushed them this far began to grow and take shape into the impressive form of Bai Tsa. The little raft was pushed into a dull blue bay, and washed up onto a deserted beach. Jackie stepped off the raft, and the others slowly filed after him. The beach was covered in rocks, and the sand was a fine orange-red powder. It reminded him of the desert in southwest America, or perhaps parts of the Australian Outback. The latter seemed more likely, and Jackie decided that they must be somewhere near northern Australia.
But if this was an island, it was quite large, because the landscape stretched farther than Jackie could see. Everything seemed to be dust and tall rocks, with an occasional scraggly tree growing stubbornly out of the cracked dry ground. The sky was deep blue, but in the middle of Jackie's line of sight, it appeared to have ripped down the middle in a jagged line from the clouds to the earth. Inside the tear was swirling light, as red as Bai Tsa's eyes.
"Is that. . ." whispered Viper slowly, and Jackie started, not having realized she was there. But when he glanced over, all of the others were lined up beside him, except of course for the Jades, who he hoped were en route back to San Francisco.
"The Realm of the Demons" said Uncle quietly to his right, peering so intently at the tear that he had to squint through his tiny glasses.
"Dios mio," said El Torro, staring at the tear as though he had never seen anything quite like it. Indeed, it looked impossibly huge, spectacular, and foreboding. Jackie wasn't at all sure why they had been brought here, but he knew that the other demons couldn't be far away.
And quite suddenly, the earth in front of them split, and an enormous brown bull-like demon emerged, covered in red earth. He looked blankly at them, never having been the brightest demon. He glanced over the small crowd of humans. "Dai Gui hungry," he complained in a tone that almost sounded like a human whine.
Bai Tai slithered up and circled around them like a constrictor encircles its prey. She frowned at her brother, and hissed "These are not for eating!" Dai Gui gave her a doleful look, then buried himself back into the earth so that only his head was showing.
There was a loud swoosh as an enormous bat-like demon swooped in from the sky and landed besides Dai Gui. He was a far smaller demon than the two beside him, he stood barely taller than Tohru. The expression on his face was one of such excitement that it made Jackie sick. He could take whatever awful punishment the demons had in mind, but he didn't want it to happen to his uncle or to his friends.
"They're finally here!" the sky demon hissed. "What took so long, Bai?" Bai frowned at him and even Dai Gui shook his head Hsi Wu fluttered a couple yards away and sat there, looking like a child angry to be in time-out.
"Ah. I smell human," came an enormous rumbling voice. Jackie glanced over at an enormous formation of orange rocks. Behind it came to yawns and groan of the mountain demon waking herself up. Then, she emerged above the rock, peering down onto them. When he finally turned away from her, he could see the enormous toad-like wind demon hopping their direction. He was moving very slowly, but his size was making it easy for him to travel the short distance at the same rate a human might get running.
Floating down from the air, and looking incredibly out of place in the sunny atmosphere of earth, was the moon demon. He cast them a bored look, and then nodded slowly to acknowledge Bai Tsa's presence. The last demon to emerge was the thunder demon, standing to his full and very impressive height It was he who spoke first, bending slightly so that he could meet Jackie's eyes. On his face, there was a vaguely hungry look, but he didn't seem as though he was going to act on it. Tchang Zu had never been too bright himself, but he was all about regality and power.
"Hello, Chan," he rumbled. "I believe you already know my brothers and sisters?" His gaze was obviously angry with the memories of being released only to be banished by Jackie and his family.
Jackie smiled and bent an arm behind his head casually, waving animatedly with the other hand. "Oh, hello! Nice to see everyone, but I must be going, bye bye!" He turned to run and suddenly felt his shoulders in the grip of two large talons. His feet lost contact with the ground, as His Wu hissed happily "Going somewhere, Chan?"
The sky demon carried him high above the ground, until he was even with the head of Tchang Zu. Jackie clenched his eyes shut. He didn't mind heights so much, but they could be pretty terrifying when you were in the clutches of a demon who would drop you without batting and eyelid.
"Brother Hsi Wu," commandeered the thundering voice of Tchang Zu, "Put Mr. Chan down. There are far more important things we need him for than for your entertainment." His Wu nodded grudgingly, and swooped down so quickly that Jackie's eyes began to water. When they were about 10 feet up, the demon stopped abruptly, and let go of his human cargo. But Jackie, not wanting to give to demon the satisfaction of watching him fall hard, flipped in midair and landed on his feet.
He could've sworn he had heard a "Go Jackie!" from somewhere nearby, but when he looked, he saw no one. He brushed himself off, glanced at Tchang Zu, who was obviously in charge, and said "So, what are these important things you need us for?"
The thunder demon didn't respond. He looked to some of his siblings, and finally caught the eye of Tso Lan. There seemed to be an unspoken agreement, and the moon demon floated towards the J-Team. Bai Tsa coiled away from them, handing them over to her brother.
"I believe you will find out shortly," said the moon demon in that soft voice of his, that voice that tricked you into believing, just for a second, that he was civilized, that he possessed compassion. "We require you to, shall we say, fill in for us." Jackie opened his mouth to question further, but Tso Lan waved his hand, and the J-Team was levitated into the air.
Hsi Wu flew up next to them and cackled "Let's see how you enjoy an eternity in the demon realm! Only it won't be an eternity, not once the others co-"
Po Kong's massive hand swatted Hsi Wu out of the sky. The bat-like demon lay sprawled on the ground. "Fool!" hissed Po Kong.
Jackie realized with a sinking feeling where they were being sent. "Yes, Chan," murmured Bai Tsa happily. "This is the fate that lies in wait for all enemies of the great demons."
Author's Note~ There's more to this chapter, but I didn't feel like writing it, and that seemed like a sufficiently evil place to stop. How's everyone doing?
I'm good! Thanks for the many reviews. Reviews make me happy! One more review to 60. Ooh, I have an idea! Whoever is responsible for the 75th review will receive.a prize. I'm not sure what it will be yet, but I'll probably have several chapters to decide. Maybe I'll let you make a suggestion or something.
Thank you scottishwolf, Miyo86, and Broli the Destroyah. Destroyah, you. . .disturb me. Please don't hurt me, I promise to finish, I promise!!! Naw, I'm jk, I love you all. *hugs*
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Sorry for any mistakes! Once again, this chapter hasn't been beta'd, but this time it's my fault. I wanted to get it up this weekend, so I should've sent it to my betas last weekend, but I didn't finish until this morning. Sorry, but I was at the mall! Writers have lives too! Although, you wouldn't know it by the number of hours I spend online. . .
See ya, Friends!