Jamie found herself helping out Uncle to create a locator spell. The
cauldron in front of her bubbled and sizzled as she sat on the floor trying
to read one of the spell books without falling asleep. She just began to
drift off when Jade yelled.
"I found it!"
Snapping back into attention she ran over to Jade to see what she had found.
"Right here see!" Jade exclaimed pointing to a page. "'Talisman Power Locator Spell!'"
"That's pretty specific," Jamie commented.
"The chi wizards prepared for all outcomes of battles," Uncle explained.
"Cool," Jamie said staring at the book. "But where are we going to get the ingredients for this? Bat wings! Tiger claw! Where will we find this stuff?"
Uncle smacked Jamie with his fingers.
"A chi wizard is always prepared!" Uncle said "All the ingredients for the spells are kept on my shelf!"
Jamie rubbed her forehead angrily. Where did that crazy old man get the idea that he could hit people like that? It was more than annoying it was aggravating!
"Jackie!" Uncle yelled, "bring me my tea!"
"Yes Uncle," Jackie answered walking in holding a tray with tea on it.
"Thank you Jackie," Uncle said.
He picked up a cup and took a sip. The look on his face was priceless as he spit it out onto the floor.
"You call this tea!" Uncle complained.
"Um...Yes," answered Jackie.
"Get Tohru to make tea!" Uncle yelled.
"Yes Uncle," Jackie sighed.
"Now I will begin to make chi spell," Uncle said sitting down and taking the book from Jade "both of you leave so I can concentrate."
Jamie shrugged and walked out with Jade. Noticing that Jade had grabbed a couple of books she followed her to her room.
"What are you doing with those books?" asked Jamie.
"I'm going to read up on chi spells and dark chi wizards," Jade answered "want to help me?"
"Sure," Jamie replied shrugging her shoulders.
She grabbed a book and began to read. The pages were frail and old but the words didn't fade off the paper from age. The first page was about ancient Egyptians. They were the greatest chi wizards in history and without them modern chi would be nothing. Flipping the page she stopped and looked at the signs of the zodiac. It was a chart and had all the signs on it, dog, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ox, tiger, rat, rooster, pig, monkey and sheep. There were pictures of animals and small stones with animal carvings on them.
"Wow," Jade said looking at her book.
"What is it?" Jamie asked.
"It says that some people were shap shifters and didn't even know it!" Jade explained, "all they had to do was concentrate on a form then they could have changed into anything!"
"Cool," Jamie replied.
"Don't you see!" Jade exclaimed, "We could be shape shifters!"
"I don't think so," Jamie answered.
"Oh come on just try!" Jade pleaded.
"Ok I'll try," Jamie sighed "but you have to try too."
"Ok," Jade said "on three. One...Two...Three!"
Jamie concentrated on turning into an eagle. After about a minute she gave up.
"I don't think were shape shifters," Jamie laughed.
Jade had her eyes tightly closed and opened them again.
"I guess...Whoa!" Jade exclaimed looking at Jamie.
"What?" Jamie asked.
"Your normal again!" she said smiling.
"I am?" asked Jamie standing up and looking into a mirror on the dresser.
Sure enough she was back to her normal self and the snakeskin, tail, wings and snake tongue were gone. The only problem was that her fangs still remained making her look like a vampire.
"Well that's weird," Jamie said.
"I guess you just had to concentrate to change your appearance," Jade said "it's not exactly a shape shifter but it's still cool."
"Yeah," Jamie said shrugging "you find anything else interesting in that book, tell me."
"Alright," Jade said. "But I did find..."
"Aiiiiyyyyaaa!" Uncle yelled drowning out Jade's words.
"What now?" Jamie growled angrily.
"I don't know but we had better find out," Jade replied.
They both dashed down the hall and back into the room where Uncle was. Instead of just Uncle there was Ratso, Finn and Chou. Surianna came rushing in behind Jamie.
"Hey look it's Jamie!" Ratso said excitedly "hi Jamie!"
"You dolt!" Finn said hitting him over the head "Were supposed to look fierce!"
"Forget about looking fierce lets just grab her before Chan gets here," Chou pointed out.
"Good plan," Finn said.
They ran towards Jamie just as Jackie came through the doorway.
"Chan!" Finn exclaimed.
"What do we do now?" asked Chou.
"We use our new weapons that's what!" Finn yelled bringing out a large glowing sword.
"Yeah!" Ratso agreed bringing out a giant axe.
"You don't stand a chance Chan!" Exclaimed Chou bringing out a large stick "hey what gives!"
"You picked it!" Finn said.
"Yeah well I thought it did something!" He complained then stared at the stick "hmm what does this button do."
The end of the stick was suddenly lined with razor sharp daggers.
"That's more like it!" Chou grinned.
They all struck a fighting pose. Uncle walked closer and blew some green dust at them. They suddenly disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"I created a new protection spell," Uncle said "Jackie help me spread it around the shop!"
"Yes Uncle," Jackie sighed.
"Jamie here," Uncle said handing her small marble with smoke swirling inside.
It began to glow and shine.
"It shines when a talisman person is near," Uncle explained "it shines white for a talisman person that I have put good chi on and shines green for a talisman person that I haven't, it will begin to flash when you have found the talisman person."
"Thank you," Jamie said nodding.
Jamie, Jade and Surianna walked out of the room and into the main part of the antique shop.
"Jamie how come you don't look like a snake anymore?" asked Surianna.
"I just concentrated and I changed back to normal," Jamie replied shrugging her shoulders.
"I think you need to concentrate a bit more because you look like a vampire!" Surianna giggled.
Jamie laughed and concentrated on retracting her fangs. This time she felt them retracting into her gums. Surianna concentrated and her wooly wings disappeared along with her tail and sheep ears.
"There now were normal people!" Jamie smiled.
"I wonder if Megan knows how to do that," Surianna pondered.
"Who's Megan?" asked Jamie.
"She's only the girl that saved your life!" Surianna exclaimed.
"Oh," Jamie replied "so where is she?"
"I don't know," Surianna shrugged.
"Well we can find her with this!" Jamie said holding up the marble.
"A small marble?" Surianna said sarcastically.
"Not just a small marble!" Jamie said smiling "Uncle enchanted it with chi magic so we can find to talisman people."
"Ok," Surianna replied, "lets get finding then!"
"Just the three of us," Jamie whispered, "I don't want to take Jackie or Uncle along."
"But without Jackie we won't be able to get rid of bad guys!" Jade complained.
"He'll just slow us down!" Jamie answered, "He can't fly!"
"Neither can I!" Jade said grumpily.
"Well we can carry you," Jamie said "Jackie is too big to carry."
"Ok but we had better go before they stop us," Jade said hastily.
"Good idea," Jamie answered.
They quickly ran towards the door when Jackie walked in front of them.
"Where do you think your going?" He asked.
"Were going to find the next talisman power," Surianna said sheepishly.
"I'm coming with you," he said.
"But you can't fly and we can't carry you!" Jamie complained.
"Then we will walk," Jackie answered "but you are not leaving without me."
Jamie sighed defeated.
"Alright," she replied.
"Good," Jackie said, "now lets first decide where we're going."
"How about I fly around the city and if the marble glows green I'll come back and lead you there?" Jamie asked.
"All right but don't get in a fight and take Surianna with you," Jackie said.
"Yeah!" Surianna said smiling.
"Ok come on let's go!" Jamie said.
She brought out her wings and flew into the air accompanied by Surianna. They soared over the city and Jamie kept a watchful eye on the marble. It began to glow green as they passed over some newly made houses.
"Lets fly lower," Jamie yelled over the noise of the wind.
"Good idea!" Surianna replied.
They flew to the ground and got a good view of the house.
"Well that's the place," Jamie said. "Lets go back and get Jackie."
"Ok," Surianna said nodding.
They made haste of flying back to the shop and they walked inside.
"Where's Jackie?" asked Surianna looking in all directions.
"He was told to go investigate some things in a nearby warehouse," Jade informed them. "I guess it's just us!"
Jade smiled mischievously making Jamie wonder just how coincidental Jackie's being called out had been. Shrugging her shoulders they walked outside.
"Well Jade I'll give you a ride," Jamie offered.
"No thanks I want to ride on Surianna," Jade said smiling. "She's fluffier."
Surianna rolled her eyes.
"Alright then hop on," she said.
Jade climbed onto Surianna's back and they flew quickly back to the spot they had been before.
"Here we are," Jamie said pointing to the door of the house. "This is the place. Surianna and I had better retract our wings first."
They retracted their wings then walked up to the door with Jamie in front Jade beside her and Surianna at the back. Jamie rang the doorbell. A young man looked through the small hole to see who had come.
"Hello?" he asked uncertainly.
"Hi may we come in please?" asked Jamie.
"Just a second," he responded.
Jamie heard footsteps and a door open.
"Alan what kind of people have you been talking to lately?" Jamie overheard.
"Why do you ask?" asked Alan.
"Because there are three girls outside the door asking to come in," he answered back.
"What?!" Alan exclaimed.
Footsteps echoed through the hall as Alan came to the door. He too looked through the eyehole then gasped. He walked back over to his friend.
"I want dibs on the one wearing pink," his friend said.
Jamie noticed Surianna blush.
"That isn't funny!" Alan exclaimed. "I don't know who they are! Just get rid of them, Kirby!"
"But she's so cute!" Kirby complained.
"Fine invite them in," Alan sighed.
Again footsteps echoed through the hallway and the door opened this time.
"Sorry I took so long," he apologized. "Please come in."
"Thank you," Jamie said nodding.
"Thanks," Jade said walking in.
Surianna just tried to stay out of Kirby's view. They were ushered into the living room and they all sat down on the couches.
"So what brings you here?" Kirby asked Surianna.
Again she blushed and cleared her throat.
"Well...uh...you see it's...um...like," she stuttered.
Kirby cocked his eyebrow. Jamie withdrew the marble from her pocket.
"Could you hold this for a second?" she asked.
"Sure," he answered.
She placed it in the palm of his hand and the marble stayed the same.
"This charm is supposed to change color according to your mood," she lied. "I bought it at a very cheap price so I guess I didn't really expect it to work."
She sighed as if exasperated but really in relief.
"Where is that other guy that you were talking to?" she asked.
"He's kinda shy," Kirby said then blushed. "You didn't hear what we were saying did you?"
"No," Jamie responded innocently.
"Well he'll be on the computer if you need him," he said relieved.
Jamie walked into the other room to see a guy about her age sitting at the computer watching the screen.
"Hello," she said.
Alan almost jumped as he realized someone was in the room.
"Hi," he said.
"Could you hold this for me for a second?" asked Jamie handing him the marble.
"Sure," Alan said.
As soon as the marble touched his skin it shone bright green lighting the room.
"Wow," Alan whispered staring at the marble. "Where did you get this?"
"That is of no importance," Jamie said taking the marble back. "But what is important is that you accompany me to the other room so I can explain our..."
"YOU FOUL CREATURE!" Surianna yelled and a loud smacking noise was heard from the other room.
Jamie sighed. What now? She thought. She and Alan walked into the other room and almost laughed at the scene that met them. Kirby had his hands raised in protection above his head and Surianna stood over him angrily with her hand raised ready to slap him again.
"What's going on in here?" asked Jamie.
"Thank goodness you came in here," Surianna said her face red with anger and embarrassment. "The things he whispered in my ear were horrible and completely nasty!"
Alan glared at Kirby then turned to Surianna.
"I'm sorry for his behavior," Alan apologized. "My roommate doesn't know how to get a date and he won't ever do that again, will you Kirby?"
"I probably will," he answered.
Surianna growled in anger and slapped him again before moving away.
"Did anyone ever tell you that you look hot when you're angry?" asked Kirby.
"Oh shut up!" Surianna yelled.
"If we could just calm down then maybe I could explain something to Alan that we all need to hear," Jamie pointed out. "Alan sit down so I can explain why we are hear and the reason you have to come with us."
"I found it!"
Snapping back into attention she ran over to Jade to see what she had found.
"Right here see!" Jade exclaimed pointing to a page. "'Talisman Power Locator Spell!'"
"That's pretty specific," Jamie commented.
"The chi wizards prepared for all outcomes of battles," Uncle explained.
"Cool," Jamie said staring at the book. "But where are we going to get the ingredients for this? Bat wings! Tiger claw! Where will we find this stuff?"
Uncle smacked Jamie with his fingers.
"A chi wizard is always prepared!" Uncle said "All the ingredients for the spells are kept on my shelf!"
Jamie rubbed her forehead angrily. Where did that crazy old man get the idea that he could hit people like that? It was more than annoying it was aggravating!
"Jackie!" Uncle yelled, "bring me my tea!"
"Yes Uncle," Jackie answered walking in holding a tray with tea on it.
"Thank you Jackie," Uncle said.
He picked up a cup and took a sip. The look on his face was priceless as he spit it out onto the floor.
"You call this tea!" Uncle complained.
"Um...Yes," answered Jackie.
"Get Tohru to make tea!" Uncle yelled.
"Yes Uncle," Jackie sighed.
"Now I will begin to make chi spell," Uncle said sitting down and taking the book from Jade "both of you leave so I can concentrate."
Jamie shrugged and walked out with Jade. Noticing that Jade had grabbed a couple of books she followed her to her room.
"What are you doing with those books?" asked Jamie.
"I'm going to read up on chi spells and dark chi wizards," Jade answered "want to help me?"
"Sure," Jamie replied shrugging her shoulders.
She grabbed a book and began to read. The pages were frail and old but the words didn't fade off the paper from age. The first page was about ancient Egyptians. They were the greatest chi wizards in history and without them modern chi would be nothing. Flipping the page she stopped and looked at the signs of the zodiac. It was a chart and had all the signs on it, dog, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ox, tiger, rat, rooster, pig, monkey and sheep. There were pictures of animals and small stones with animal carvings on them.
"Wow," Jade said looking at her book.
"What is it?" Jamie asked.
"It says that some people were shap shifters and didn't even know it!" Jade explained, "all they had to do was concentrate on a form then they could have changed into anything!"
"Cool," Jamie replied.
"Don't you see!" Jade exclaimed, "We could be shape shifters!"
"I don't think so," Jamie answered.
"Oh come on just try!" Jade pleaded.
"Ok I'll try," Jamie sighed "but you have to try too."
"Ok," Jade said "on three. One...Two...Three!"
Jamie concentrated on turning into an eagle. After about a minute she gave up.
"I don't think were shape shifters," Jamie laughed.
Jade had her eyes tightly closed and opened them again.
"I guess...Whoa!" Jade exclaimed looking at Jamie.
"What?" Jamie asked.
"Your normal again!" she said smiling.
"I am?" asked Jamie standing up and looking into a mirror on the dresser.
Sure enough she was back to her normal self and the snakeskin, tail, wings and snake tongue were gone. The only problem was that her fangs still remained making her look like a vampire.
"Well that's weird," Jamie said.
"I guess you just had to concentrate to change your appearance," Jade said "it's not exactly a shape shifter but it's still cool."
"Yeah," Jamie said shrugging "you find anything else interesting in that book, tell me."
"Alright," Jade said. "But I did find..."
"Aiiiiyyyyaaa!" Uncle yelled drowning out Jade's words.
"What now?" Jamie growled angrily.
"I don't know but we had better find out," Jade replied.
They both dashed down the hall and back into the room where Uncle was. Instead of just Uncle there was Ratso, Finn and Chou. Surianna came rushing in behind Jamie.
"Hey look it's Jamie!" Ratso said excitedly "hi Jamie!"
"You dolt!" Finn said hitting him over the head "Were supposed to look fierce!"
"Forget about looking fierce lets just grab her before Chan gets here," Chou pointed out.
"Good plan," Finn said.
They ran towards Jamie just as Jackie came through the doorway.
"Chan!" Finn exclaimed.
"What do we do now?" asked Chou.
"We use our new weapons that's what!" Finn yelled bringing out a large glowing sword.
"Yeah!" Ratso agreed bringing out a giant axe.
"You don't stand a chance Chan!" Exclaimed Chou bringing out a large stick "hey what gives!"
"You picked it!" Finn said.
"Yeah well I thought it did something!" He complained then stared at the stick "hmm what does this button do."
The end of the stick was suddenly lined with razor sharp daggers.
"That's more like it!" Chou grinned.
They all struck a fighting pose. Uncle walked closer and blew some green dust at them. They suddenly disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"I created a new protection spell," Uncle said "Jackie help me spread it around the shop!"
"Yes Uncle," Jackie sighed.
"Jamie here," Uncle said handing her small marble with smoke swirling inside.
It began to glow and shine.
"It shines when a talisman person is near," Uncle explained "it shines white for a talisman person that I have put good chi on and shines green for a talisman person that I haven't, it will begin to flash when you have found the talisman person."
"Thank you," Jamie said nodding.
Jamie, Jade and Surianna walked out of the room and into the main part of the antique shop.
"Jamie how come you don't look like a snake anymore?" asked Surianna.
"I just concentrated and I changed back to normal," Jamie replied shrugging her shoulders.
"I think you need to concentrate a bit more because you look like a vampire!" Surianna giggled.
Jamie laughed and concentrated on retracting her fangs. This time she felt them retracting into her gums. Surianna concentrated and her wooly wings disappeared along with her tail and sheep ears.
"There now were normal people!" Jamie smiled.
"I wonder if Megan knows how to do that," Surianna pondered.
"Who's Megan?" asked Jamie.
"She's only the girl that saved your life!" Surianna exclaimed.
"Oh," Jamie replied "so where is she?"
"I don't know," Surianna shrugged.
"Well we can find her with this!" Jamie said holding up the marble.
"A small marble?" Surianna said sarcastically.
"Not just a small marble!" Jamie said smiling "Uncle enchanted it with chi magic so we can find to talisman people."
"Ok," Surianna replied, "lets get finding then!"
"Just the three of us," Jamie whispered, "I don't want to take Jackie or Uncle along."
"But without Jackie we won't be able to get rid of bad guys!" Jade complained.
"He'll just slow us down!" Jamie answered, "He can't fly!"
"Neither can I!" Jade said grumpily.
"Well we can carry you," Jamie said "Jackie is too big to carry."
"Ok but we had better go before they stop us," Jade said hastily.
"Good idea," Jamie answered.
They quickly ran towards the door when Jackie walked in front of them.
"Where do you think your going?" He asked.
"Were going to find the next talisman power," Surianna said sheepishly.
"I'm coming with you," he said.
"But you can't fly and we can't carry you!" Jamie complained.
"Then we will walk," Jackie answered "but you are not leaving without me."
Jamie sighed defeated.
"Alright," she replied.
"Good," Jackie said, "now lets first decide where we're going."
"How about I fly around the city and if the marble glows green I'll come back and lead you there?" Jamie asked.
"All right but don't get in a fight and take Surianna with you," Jackie said.
"Yeah!" Surianna said smiling.
"Ok come on let's go!" Jamie said.
She brought out her wings and flew into the air accompanied by Surianna. They soared over the city and Jamie kept a watchful eye on the marble. It began to glow green as they passed over some newly made houses.
"Lets fly lower," Jamie yelled over the noise of the wind.
"Good idea!" Surianna replied.
They flew to the ground and got a good view of the house.
"Well that's the place," Jamie said. "Lets go back and get Jackie."
"Ok," Surianna said nodding.
They made haste of flying back to the shop and they walked inside.
"Where's Jackie?" asked Surianna looking in all directions.
"He was told to go investigate some things in a nearby warehouse," Jade informed them. "I guess it's just us!"
Jade smiled mischievously making Jamie wonder just how coincidental Jackie's being called out had been. Shrugging her shoulders they walked outside.
"Well Jade I'll give you a ride," Jamie offered.
"No thanks I want to ride on Surianna," Jade said smiling. "She's fluffier."
Surianna rolled her eyes.
"Alright then hop on," she said.
Jade climbed onto Surianna's back and they flew quickly back to the spot they had been before.
"Here we are," Jamie said pointing to the door of the house. "This is the place. Surianna and I had better retract our wings first."
They retracted their wings then walked up to the door with Jamie in front Jade beside her and Surianna at the back. Jamie rang the doorbell. A young man looked through the small hole to see who had come.
"Hello?" he asked uncertainly.
"Hi may we come in please?" asked Jamie.
"Just a second," he responded.
Jamie heard footsteps and a door open.
"Alan what kind of people have you been talking to lately?" Jamie overheard.
"Why do you ask?" asked Alan.
"Because there are three girls outside the door asking to come in," he answered back.
"What?!" Alan exclaimed.
Footsteps echoed through the hall as Alan came to the door. He too looked through the eyehole then gasped. He walked back over to his friend.
"I want dibs on the one wearing pink," his friend said.
Jamie noticed Surianna blush.
"That isn't funny!" Alan exclaimed. "I don't know who they are! Just get rid of them, Kirby!"
"But she's so cute!" Kirby complained.
"Fine invite them in," Alan sighed.
Again footsteps echoed through the hallway and the door opened this time.
"Sorry I took so long," he apologized. "Please come in."
"Thank you," Jamie said nodding.
"Thanks," Jade said walking in.
Surianna just tried to stay out of Kirby's view. They were ushered into the living room and they all sat down on the couches.
"So what brings you here?" Kirby asked Surianna.
Again she blushed and cleared her throat.
"Well...uh...you see it's...um...like," she stuttered.
Kirby cocked his eyebrow. Jamie withdrew the marble from her pocket.
"Could you hold this for a second?" she asked.
"Sure," he answered.
She placed it in the palm of his hand and the marble stayed the same.
"This charm is supposed to change color according to your mood," she lied. "I bought it at a very cheap price so I guess I didn't really expect it to work."
She sighed as if exasperated but really in relief.
"Where is that other guy that you were talking to?" she asked.
"He's kinda shy," Kirby said then blushed. "You didn't hear what we were saying did you?"
"No," Jamie responded innocently.
"Well he'll be on the computer if you need him," he said relieved.
Jamie walked into the other room to see a guy about her age sitting at the computer watching the screen.
"Hello," she said.
Alan almost jumped as he realized someone was in the room.
"Hi," he said.
"Could you hold this for me for a second?" asked Jamie handing him the marble.
"Sure," Alan said.
As soon as the marble touched his skin it shone bright green lighting the room.
"Wow," Alan whispered staring at the marble. "Where did you get this?"
"That is of no importance," Jamie said taking the marble back. "But what is important is that you accompany me to the other room so I can explain our..."
"YOU FOUL CREATURE!" Surianna yelled and a loud smacking noise was heard from the other room.
Jamie sighed. What now? She thought. She and Alan walked into the other room and almost laughed at the scene that met them. Kirby had his hands raised in protection above his head and Surianna stood over him angrily with her hand raised ready to slap him again.
"What's going on in here?" asked Jamie.
"Thank goodness you came in here," Surianna said her face red with anger and embarrassment. "The things he whispered in my ear were horrible and completely nasty!"
Alan glared at Kirby then turned to Surianna.
"I'm sorry for his behavior," Alan apologized. "My roommate doesn't know how to get a date and he won't ever do that again, will you Kirby?"
"I probably will," he answered.
Surianna growled in anger and slapped him again before moving away.
"Did anyone ever tell you that you look hot when you're angry?" asked Kirby.
"Oh shut up!" Surianna yelled.
"If we could just calm down then maybe I could explain something to Alan that we all need to hear," Jamie pointed out. "Alan sit down so I can explain why we are hear and the reason you have to come with us."
