Enemy

This is the prologue sort of. I keep updating it if I think of things so if you run into something you're confused about come back here and look. If the answer's not here, email me.

One of the reasons Jun is my favorite character is because she is tough but she is not wild. She is a good girl. What I don't like, though, is this idea that she is a proper lady. One fan quoted '… I just can't see lady like Tao Jun doing Kung fu…' so it was fortunate that Bailong had his own body. I actually can. She is pretty strong for a non-wild or hot headed female anime character. The only strange thing is that Bailong is male and it would be pretty funny if he woke up in a girl's body.

Another thing is that she and her family is Chinese. One thing that makes her easy to write about is the fact that she speaks the same dialect I do: Basic (Mandarin). Most Chinese anime characters are from Hong Kong so they speak Cantonese. My grandma can speak this. Anyway, instead of Japanese phrases, words, etc…. I'm going to have some fun and use Chinese (I might use some Japanese for convenience sake). Here are some of the words:

Xiao Jie: Miss or young lady

(I hate it when my grandmas call me this. It makes me think they expect me to act proper all the time or something.)

Jie Jie: Big sister

Di Di: Little brother

Ni: You

Nin: You

(respectful. Like Anata as opposed to kimi)

Ni hai hao ma: Are you okay, Litarally: You still okay?

Wo: I, me (similar to Watashi)

Wo hai hao: I'm okay

Ma (ma): Mom, Mommy, etc…

Ba (ba): Dad, Daddy, etc..

Xiao shen: Quiet

Mei shi: Nothing going on, No problems (except Mei mao bing is no problem)

Yie Yie/ Wai Gong: Grandfather (Yie Yie is Father's father and Wai Gong is Mother's father)

(I'm not sure which Jun's Grandfather is but I think it's her father's side. Correct me if I'm wrong.)

De bu qi-sorry

Xie xie-Thank you

Ni Hao- Hello

Ni Hao ma?- How are you doing

Wo Hao-I'm fine

Zai Jien-Good bye

Name Stuff:

Japanese - Chinese - Meaning

Tao Jun-Dao Run (Yun-Cantonese)-Dao same as Tao/Daoism or Daoshi: Way; Run: Tender, moist

Len- Lian - Lian: O.o a type of flower

(AKA Len has a girl name. The real Lian most boys are named means stick together. Lian flower looks like stick together except it has a plant meaning shaped thingy on top. That guy really messed up… --u)

Lee Pyron/Pailong - Li Bailong - Li: plum; Bai: White; Long: Dragon

Bason - Ma Sun - Ma: Horse; Sun: Grandchild

Ran (Mrs.Tao) - ?Lan? - ?The orchid???the color blue?

Notes: Read pingying like Romanji except for 'E' and 'O'. 'E' is not pronounced 'ae' but eh. O is pronounced in a way I can't describe in English but it's not 'oa'. More like oawa but really fast. 'X' is 'Sh'. 'Sh' is 's' with your teeth closed. 'Q' is ch. 'Ch' is 'ts' with your teeth closed. 'C' is 'ts'.

Notes:

I will italicize all Chinese words.

People in this story eat rice porridge for breakfast a lot. It's not as bad as it sounds. It's very good. It's watered down and boiled left over rice. You eat it with other food like you would with bread or something. Usually this food is very salty. LOL I'm making it sound even worse. Anyway, Chinese people eat this for breakfast a lot. I tried the direct translation of the Chinese word for it in an effort to make it sound better but that ended up something like 'soggy rice'.

In Chinese mythology, Daoshis can do a lot more than command corpses. They can do things like cause storms, walk on clouds, send people to realms where they can live five years and come back and it's the same time they left, etc…

Now, I didn't want Jun to be totally powerless since in the beginning, she doesn't even tell Bailong. Jun can't do any of those things above. Probably because she doesn't know that many magic things and maybe because she is a girl but her talismans in this story actually do things. They don't just make Bailong do things. If you you've watched Card Captors Sakura, there's a Hong Kong boy named Shaoran (Syoran, Shaolian). He's got these papers/talisman thingies and they do things and Jun's talismans do similar things although their effects don't tend to be as strong.