A/N:Hey!Just wanted y'll to know that this is sort of a flash-back chapter and everything.So,don't expect so see much Danny mentioned in this particular chapter.But I wanted to dedicate it to Jade,just to be fair!Anyways,I don't quite remember about who she was living with in the beginning of the story,sorry.But she and her sister Emerald (who I will be mentioning soon!) live with thier aunt in Yettleton.And the father left and thier mother dissapeared.SORRY!It's a bummer I can't remember!But that's what I'm going with!

Jade placed one hand on her chin,as she sat in a tall mount chamber,over-looking the bleak and creepily deserted world of Ghost Zone.She,the one who had fought all her life and who had been an expert ghost wrangler,had messed up big time.Sighing,Jade laid down on her back and closed her eyes,trying to think back to when she was just a young girl.

10 years earlier...

"Mama!"A bright green-eyed little 5 year old,with black-as-night raven hair called to her mother from outside the little trailier where Jade and her mother lived at the time.

"What is it,sweetheart?"Came the warm and gentle reply from her mother,distinctly remembered as Jean Black,called to her daugther from the window from which she washed dishes.

The door flew open a few moments later and the image a very thin and shapely woman in her early twenties,with long and very shiney brunette hair and amazingly dark green eyes that seemed to almost glow in the mid-day sun,came running out of the front door and over to scoop up a giggling Jade.

"Who's Mama's princess?"Jean inquired her daugther playfully,spinning around in the warmth of the sun,the coolness of the light breeze of wind blow againist thier faces.

"Me!Me!Me!"Jade cried excitedley,holding her mother's on tightly and never letting go once,"Me,Mama!I'm your're princess..."

The wave of memmories from that age blew by quickly,as the memmories of an older,possibley 7-year-old Jade,began to form.Jade's mother had gotten back together only recently with thier father,Charles Black.Jade had always both feared and loved her father.For one thing,he was very big and had a startlingly deep voice.But he also had a fun,easygoing way about him.She wasn't sure,but they had divorced each other some time ago.Now,as this particular memmory became more clear and vivid,she found herself in fairly small room.

"It's dark,"A little voice came from a bed off to the left of Jade,she turned her head in darkened room to face the direction the voice had come from,"And...I'm scared."

Tossing off the covers,Jade made her way over to her 5-year-old sister Emerald's bedside.She could feel the quavering little buddle of her sister againist her small chest.That was when,leaning towards the wall,she could just vaguely make out the sounds of her parents aruging back and forth.With a sinking feeling,she scambled back to bed.

"Why is Mama and Daddy fighting?"Emerald asked in a trembling voice,falling on her pillow in the bundle of covers.

"I don't know,"Jade awnsered back quietly,sitting on the edge of the bed in thought,her skinny but long legs dangling.

"Daddy said that Mama and you were weird;but he said since you were his too,he'd let you and Mama stay."

"What?"Jade gasped in surprise,her green eyes widening.

"Well,he said you were showing signs of stuff when you was born.That you were different,like Mama."Emerald began explaining enthusastically,she got that way when she was excited,then she added lightly,"But I don't know what."

Jade jumped down from her sister's bed and made her way back her own bed,crawling in it and curling up under the covers,she went into even more deep thinking.Emerald was highly intellgent for her age and could acutally speak very well so you knew what she was saying.But this,this weirdness she was talking about...was that why her Daddy had left?

"Jade,"Someone called out her name softly,thinking it was Emerald,she rose up and glanced off at her sister.But Emerald was deep in sleep at the farside of her bed,that was when she saw the weary imaige of her mother inside the doorway.

"Mama."Jade whispered and then she started to get up,but froze to stare incredulously at what her mother had in her hands.Two,count them,two suitcases of what they had used to bring some things like cloths to her father's home almost 2 weeks ago.Since that time,it was like in the daytime her father was the fun-loving guy he'd always been,but by night he turned into someone completely different.

Yelling about how all this weirdness was starting to interfer with thier lifes.And now,as Jade just stood there facing her mother,it all finally made sense to her.They were outcasts of the family,both of them.With tears starting to spell from her eyes,she ran for her mother and into her wide,open arms.

"I'm so sorry,"Jean sobbed into Jade's nightshirt,allowing Jade to just barely see her mother's teary eyes,"I thought,oh honny.I thought you're father had changed and 'was' ready for the change to living with him.Sweetheart,theres something you and I need to talk about before we leave to go back home."

Jean carried a confused Jade over to the over-stuffed couch and sat down with her in her lap.While they settled back and her mother got her head straight.She turned to Jade with a new found radiance,her eyes shining with sparkling delight.

"I remember when you were born,Jade.You were so small and precious,you're father thought so too.Except,except he didn't know at the time that I was..."She paused suddenly,drew in a deep breath and started up again,"I meet you're father along time and we fell in love when I was about 17.Then,after we had you and settled in.I...I told him about being part ghost and you honny,being quarter ghost.See,you're grandmother passed away after I was born and something happened.My father thought it was bizzare that I was turning invisible and everything,but because he loved my mother so dearly.He kept me,but didn't always treat me like I treat you.Then I told you're father and we fought.Alot.We eventually seperated,then we got back together after talking it through.By then I had Emerald,who's human and from there.."

Silence fell,as the words of her mother faded and lodged themselfs within her mind.The way she felt when she had first heard of the fact that she was born having ghost in her.The fact that her mother was even more of one and the fact that she'd never see her father after that and then finally being able to have Emerald.Was all so much,but it sank in over time.

As the pictures and scenes flashed through Jade's mind,one came to full focus.It was when she had just celebrated her tenth birthday and now 7 soon going on 8 in 2 months Emerald and thier Mother,were in the small apartment they shared in the town they had just moved to,Yettleton.Jade's Mother had moved there to live near her sister Judy Bishop.

"Oh,Jade!"Her mother sqeualed happily,as Jade blew out the candles in one forceful blow,"I remember my 10th birthday!Like it was yesterday,me and Dad and Judy were all..."

"Heavens,Jean."Jade's Aunt Judy who was sereval years old then Jean and who was the only other who knew about the ghost powers,"Let the girl have a piece of cake already and quit jabbering away like you have no sense whatsoever!"

"Judy."Jean laughed with smile,keeping her eyes on her sister even though the smile was at Jade,"You always say that!"

The laughter and chattering drifted further away,as the memmory from a few weeks later took place.In the time since her mother had told her the sad truth only a few years ago and her sister had come to live with her,Jade had been practicing with her mother had getting hold of her powers and in that time learned her mother use to be a famous Ghost wrangler for outlaw ghost that roamed around illgeally.Since she had shown the TV Ghost Zone transportation portal,they continued to do what they had been doing.Teaming up with other Ghost officals and working hard to keep the Ghost Zone orderly and the Real World safe.Then,one night,something changed...and changed forever.

"I can feel something's wrong,"Jade said all of a sudden,as her and Emerald were finally drifting off into sleep in the bed they shared,late 3 weeks after Jade's birthday,"Let's go now."

"What is...it!"Emerald just barely had time to inquire groggily,as her sister grabbed her arm and pulled her into the kitchen.There,they found thier Aunt Judy sobbing away relentlessly seated by the table.When she saw the girls,she cried even harder and gathered them both in her arms.

"You're mother left a note,before she called me and asked me to come for you.She didn't say why!But...but she said it was important.Oh,girls!"She continued to sob uncontrollabley.

They found the note on the table,it was written hastily,but still held the sentimental warmth and caring heart of thier mother,

Girls,

As much as I dread to do this,I much do it.I know how much ail and despair I will cause to you.And for that,I am sorry.But I have been called away to a far part of Ghost Zone where trouble brews constantly and they despreately need me.Jade,Emerald,stay with you're Aunt Judie until I come back.Which I will,I promise you both.And you,Jade,you sweetheart promise me something.That you'll continue you're training and fight forboth worlds.You can do it!You have the skill and the knowledge too.And Jean,I'm sorry I wasn't there for you more when you were younger,but stay strong.Both of you.

All my love,

Mom.

Holding the note close and secretly vowing to keep her mother's promise,Jade watched almost blankly as the imagies blurred before her as she was still clutching the the note tightly.And as the imaiges swirled around in her head and Jade,now at the age she was,blinked her eyes open and sat up.She knew she couldn't stay down,she had to find Danny and she had to set things right between them once and for all.

Whew!WHAT A CHAPTER!I hope that clears some things up and don't worry,the next chapters won't be soooo 'emotional'.Acutally,there's one more thing we find out in the end.So...stay tuned!I know you will for the conclusion!Byez 4 now!lolz.

LP