The small black dragon growled, loudly. She was in an abandoned old factory that used to manufacture old car parts, and she was pacing in one of the offices.
Her claws were clasped behind her back and her jaw was snapping because of her anxiety.
She was frustrated because Jade wouldn't let Anasani prove if Jade was actually Nekana under the spell of a chi wizard.
"How can I get her to see it?" Anasani whispered to herself. "She is a demon, I can sense it. Now, I just have to prove it."
Her tail was trying to wrap around her legs, as it always did when she was nervous.
Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks, another of her sneaky expressions decorating her reptilian face.
"I think I have just gotten myself little ol' self an idea!" Anasani said, wring her claws together, with an impish look.
In another part of the city, in a little antique shop, Jade Chan was in the library. She was actually doing research!
Jade was sitting at a table piled with books. She had a particularly large one open in her lap, with a picture of the sky demon, Hsi Wu.
She had, very, very secretly, longed for the little sky demon ever since his banishment. The only thing is, she didn't know why she wanted the demon.
'I could have lusted after a human, but, NO, I had to go after a demon!' She mused over in her mind.
She, suddenly, gasped when she realized what she was thinking and looked up and around.
"Now, I feel like I've cheated on him and he probably wouldn't touch me with a fifty foot pole." Jade whispered, looking over the picture, tracing it with her fingers.
"How do ya know that, little one?" Asked a female voice and Jade jumped and looked up to see a woman leaning on the doorframe, smiking at her. "Ya never know what a tricky demon like that may be thinkin'." She said, winking one eye.
Jade gasped, loudly, and looked down at the page, then, slammed the book closed and jumped up from her seat, fastly.
Jade looked up and took one good look at the woman really noticing what she looked like. The woman was around 5'7" and really slim, but had all the curves in all the right places. She had long, black hair tied up in a high ponytail and medium-sized green eyes with a ring of red around the iris. She wore a red long-sleeved tee and low-rise baggy black cargo pants, hanging over blue sneakers. Her skin was nearly as pale as a sheet of paper.
"Who are you?" Jade asked, timidly, knowing this woman knew something. "Why are you here?"
"I'm Shawn, and I'm here because this is an antique shop, right?" Shawn said and Jade nodded in response.
"Then I may be here to buy something or browse, but I got distracted by you." The woman said, smiling.
"Why would you get distracted by me?" Jade asked, trying to calm down her nervousness.
"You have an aura unlike any other I've encountered in a long time." Shawn said and Jade lowered her eyes to the floor and blushed a bit.
"And why is that?" Jade asked.
"You've got a question for everything, don't ya? Well, it's because your human aura is mixed with a very powerful and ancient magic. I can't pinpoint which kind, though. Sorry." Shawn replied, shrugging her shoulders.
"Ancient magic? Cool!" Jade said, perking up a bit and Shawn chuckled.
"Thought you'd like that, little one." Shawn said, turning and walking away.
Jade looked after the woman and ran up to her and stopped in front of her.
"Where do you think I'm going? You found magic in me and you won't tell me how to use it!" Jade said, loudly and Shawn chuckled once more.
"You tell me the answer to my question and I will tell you exactly what magic you have and how to use it." Shawn said, smirking.
"What's the question?" Jade asked, narrowing her eyes.
"What do you find at the bottom of an ocean, is very ancient, and was once a very full of human life?" Shawn asked, slowly, making sure Jade understood.
"Uh, I should know this, shouldn't I?" Jade asked and Shawn nodded her head once.
"It would be a good way to make sure you pay attention to history." Shawn said, leaning on the table, she stood beside.
Jade took a second to think and Shawn watched her very intently. Shawn tilted her head to the side, slightly, as she surveyed the girl.
"Atlantis!" Jade said, surprising Shawn with her outburst, but Shawn quickly got a contented smile on her soft face.
"Come with me, young one, and I will tell you all you need to know." Shawn said, walking into another room.