Chapter 2

And the winner of my little competition is….I will tell you when someone tells me he he.

P.S I will not be doing that often. I just want to know personally lol.

Well, I think there is a story in here somewhere. AIYAAAA! I left it on the other wait. I didn't. He he….I don't feel stupid….

Anyway!

On with the story!

"So, how did your 'not a date, just a drink' go?" Jade was sat in her pink Pj's and eating her breakfast. Mighty Moose Choco puffs were her favourite and she looked up to her grinning uncle. "I mean, it must have been good because I didn't even hear you come in last night."

"Oh erm I. I was in…late."

"Oh. Funny huh? You two staying out, past 20 minuets ago." Jade smiled and shovelled another spoon full of her cereal into her mouth. She had caught Jackie getting a cab and saw him run inside with the same clothes on as last night. She even saw him tip toe past everyone's rooms, get changed into his pyjamas, just to look like he came in at a reasonable time and didn't stay out all night with Viper…though he did.

Jackie blushed and took a much needed drink of his tea.

"Well Jade." He returned to his tea, he really didn't know what to say.

"All I want to know is if you had a good time."

"Oh, yeah we had fun Jade. Say, why don't you go and see if that friend of yours from school is in."

"Nah, I want to go and see how section 13's doing. Can I go?"

"Sure Jade." Anything to get away from her smirking. I swear she knows more about…stuff than a 13 year old should. "Just get dressed first ok?"

"Sure thing. Seeya." Jade guzzled her breakfast and ran up the stairs. She showered, washed her face and teeth, dressed and then stopped dead. "I have worn the same outfit for nearly two years…maybe its time for a change." She opened her wardrobe and found something that made her smile. From one of her encounters with Drago and his dragon boosted Ice gang lakys, his shirt came off as he fought Jackie hand to hand after losing his fire power. He actually threw it onto Jade as he ran off. She wondered if he hadn't realised that he had, or if he did it on purpose. Well, she shoved it into her bag, without thinking why, and everything continued. So in her wardrobe, was a newly clean, black shirt with an orange and red flame in the centre. Now it was too large for her, but, everything else was identical. She pulled her usual tops off and slipped it over her head. It fashionably hung off one shoulder, but came down to her feet. In the end, Jade rolled it up and used safety pins to make it her size, without cutting it. But that tore it so she lost her temper. She tore the bottom off so it was as jagged as the shoulders, which used to be normal but probably tore from Drago's huge arms. It looked like she had used crocodile scissors and it was longest to her left hip. It was shorted at her right hip and it was all slanted to the left. So she looked like a punk, but it was a change. "Right. Time to head out I suppose." Jade walked down the stairs, and remembered that she had a pair of black wrist bands when Tohru walked out of his room.

"Good morning J…Jade? Isn't that."

"Drago's? No, its mine. You could say I designed it myself." She walked into her room, put the wrist bands on, combed her hair and left the house, leaving a very confused Tohru to tell uncle about Jades new 'fashion sense'.

On her way she saw the old junk yard that Drago used as a lair during the whole 'catch the flying Demon Chi' affair. She walked through it for the heck of it and did her Karate, commentating her victories over Drago and his flunkies. "Hiya! Take that Ice for brains! Oh please Jade, don't hurt us! Yeah Jade, we are weak and not worthy of your presence. HA I laugh at your weakness you ice geckos! I am Jade Chan! Future master of the almighty art of butt whoop!"

"Are you sure you're not a demon?"

"AAAAA!" Jade tripped over a stray exhaust pipe and landed on her butt. "Ouch, darn piece of junk…"

"Well, it is a junk yard."

"AA! Where are you! I'm not afraid of you, come out and fight. I can take you!" Jade crouched into a fighting stance and looked all around her. She couldn't see anyone.

"You know, I wondered where my shirt went." A deep voice hissed in her ear and she froze. He was behind her, and if her assumptions were right, she knew just who he is.

"D D Drago?"

"What's the matter Chan? Where did all that fire go that you were mouthing off a few minuets ago? You're not afraid of me? You can take me? Yet, you stutter."

"Well, you breath in my ear is tickling me. I can't help it." she hoped that would throw him off. And it did.

"Oh, that's good to hear." She felt the heat leave her ear and heard him back off.

"As for your shirt, you threw it at me. I assumed that you wanted me to have it."

"Ha. Clever come back."

"So chuckles. Last time I saw you; you were playing big bad with your old man." Jade span round and held her defensive stance, locking her eyes on his. She soon found she would have to be careful, or his eyes would engulf her. Only forcing herself to blink seemed to keep her in control of her actions. Why she started seeing in a haze or her knees feeling weak, she didn't know. Jade assumed she must have eaten too much curry the night before with Tohru. Yeah, that's it. I am sick. I hate being ill. I don't feel ill though…but I must be

"I was in the vortex, I was fighting Shendu, and I am honoured that you would call me a 'big bad'. Thank you."

"Your welcome I guess." She brought her fists near her face. What should she do? Fight him? No, she is ill. Just looking at him without going dizzy was hard enough. Go get Jackie? No, he was up all night. He won't be up for a demon run in. Uncle? He can't fight a full blown demon without time to prepare a spell or potion. Tohru? He could help. But wait…if the curry is making her this bad, that she is almost falling to her knees every second, and she ate one sixth of what Tohru ate, he will be in hell right now right? Darn, she couldn't turn to anyone. She was on her own and couldn't go get help. And Cap. Black didn't have a chance. Magic must defeat magic and all that.

"Are you all right Chan?" Jade locked eyes with him again. He had his arms crossed over his large, muscular chest, one demon brow raised and a bad boy smirk on his face. He was leaning against a pile of cars and just staring at her.

"I erm. Yeah! I'm fine!" she shouted, making it obvious that she was not all right.

"You don't look alright Chan."

"I HAVE A NAME!" she spat. Her fists clenched and her face furious.

"Wow alright. Relax." He chuckled. It was amusing to see Jade steaming like this. He never really got to interact with the youngest Chan, as her bothersome uncle always pushed her out of 'dangers way'. Thus, out of his way…

"It's just. Every bad guy, from Valmont to Daolon Wong, from the pigging Monkey King to evil monks and Archaeologists with bad accents and sleazy names. They have all called me Chan, my uncle Chan, my other uncle Chan. They can be bothered try and kill us every week. So why the hell cant they take the millisecond to learn our names before they blast at us, shoot at us, throw every element on, in, and out of this world at us and drop mountains on us! And why cant they tell us apart? Do I look like an old man, a younger but big headed earth digger that kicks ass by the way, all at the same time as being a little girl? Do I? Because I must do for everyone to call me 'Chan' all the time! And Paco is just the worst! He calls me Yade. Yade for heavens sake!" Jade kicked a large piece of metal plating and sent it onto a large pile of cars. "And even when I tell him to call me Jade. He goes 'like I said, YADE!' I just want people to call me Jade and stop treating me like a nobody who does nothing because I SO do a lot for the team!" the large pile of cars start to rumble. "I have been eaten, I have been used as moving target practice, I have been kidnapped, almost gutted like a fish, shrunk, over grown to the size of Po Kong, tuned into a cat creature, a rabbit, a donkey, drowned in a large vat of sawdust, became the queen of the Shadowkhan and have done my part to foil every single plan that the bad guy of the time has thrown at us. And."

"Watch out!" Drago launched forward and covered Jade with his own body. From the top of the pile of cars, one huge four by four tumbled down and crashed onto Drago's hunched figure. Jade winced as she heard the sickening smack and crash of the car metal against Drago's back. "Arrr. Y you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm…I'm good. You're the one being crushed by a ton of metal."

"Well." Another panicking sound of grinding metal could be heard and Jade saw Drago braise himself. And surely enough, another car landed ontop of the last one and brought a loud yell from deep in Drago's throat. "GGGOOODD DDDAMMMNN IIITTT!" he roared.

"Drago?" Drago buried his head in the cruck of her neck. She could feel his laboured breaths against her exposed shoulder and his mouth had to be open, as his fangs brushed against her skin every pant or so.

"I I think. Something's broken…" Drago was on his knees and forearms, obviously struggling to stop himself from collapsing.

"What can I do? Can I do anything?"

"N no. move and we will die."

"I thought you had all the demon Chi? Cant you just throw this off or move it with your mind?"

"Don't you think, (pant), if I could do that, (pant), I would have (pant), don't that already!" he spat, well, as much as you could with more than three times your body weight on your back, threatening to crush your spine at any moment.

"I'm sorry… I didn't mean."

"It's alright. I, I'm not going to talk now. Need, to conserve energy."

"Ok. I'm sorry I lost my temper. If it wasn't for me, we wouldn't be in this situation…" Jade started to cry and whimper. She was more scared now than she had ever been in her entire life. She flinched as something warm and wet traced her cheeks and eyes. She opened her untouched eyes and saw what was going on. Drago was licking her tears away with his snake/dragon like tongue. Something shifted in the pile and Jade assumed that another car had fallen on the heap. Drago groaned and his chest came flat against Jade's, lightly, but still worryingly. "I'm so sorry Drago. I never meant…"

"If these are my last breaths, know this." He panted against as the weight of the cars became unbearable and his arms were quivering under the stress. "That, I didn't mean to cause offence by calling you Chan. And I do remember how my attempts to take the Demon Chi were all foiled at first because of your efforts." He panted again. "You were a good foe. I will remember you, well, I guess I won't will I?"

"Drago!"

"I haven't finished. I hated my father. I tried to do everything he said and lost him through it. He never loved me and my affections fell on a cold heart and deaf ears. Never let that happen to you, it happened to me and I will give you this advice to serve you well. At least then…I will not have died in vain…"

"Drago…"

"If you survive this. Make sure you never lose the ones dear to you. But never allow yourself to become twisted and bent on putting your spirit and life to waste over them. I did…and I will never be able to make it right. You have to survive. I am going to try and push this weight off now, you have to run."

"If I do, I am taking you with me."

"No you can't AAAAA!" another car added to the heap and Drago's forehead was beaded with sweat. "I will be the only thing stopping this lot coming down on you. Leave me behind. Ready?"

"If I refused to leave you behind…what would you do?"

"This!" Drago roared at the top of his lungs, adrenaline pumping through every vein in his body and his hidden potential unleashing itself at his moment of dire need. His back popped and the jagged points of the metal, stabbed and became embedded into his back. Along with glass and other metal shards. But he still pushed the metal above his head and stood with an almighty roar. His tail whipped round and coiled around Jade's ankle. "Live! Survive! Live life to its fullest and never forget yourself!" he flung her from beneath the heaving metal and she groaned as her back connected with the wooden fence. Jade watched in horror as she took her last glance into Drago's entrancing eyes. He had a soft, sweet smile on his face, and everything happened in slow motion. The pile collapsed, metal flew everywhere and consumed the Dragon prince. She ran forwards to try and save him, but before she even got there, she knew it was too late. All that was left of him, was the very end of his tail, poking out of the metal mass of broken cars.

"Drago…DRAGO!" Jade sobbed and held the tail close to her chest.

Only a few moments afterwards, S13 agents swarmed into the junk yard with Jackie and Black at the lead.

"Jade? Are you alright?"

"Captain Black?...Jackie?…Drago! He is under here, we have to save him!"

"What he is? We do?"

"Yes! He saved my life. That could have been me under there but he sacrificed himself to save me. There is good in him I saw it in his eyes, right before he was crushed…But he could still be alive if we get to him!"

"We will see what we can do Jade. For now, go with your uncle and we will do body removal."

"Buy he's alive. I know it! He has to be!"

"Jade, just because you may want him to be alive, why I don't know, doesn't mean he is going to be."

"But…" tears flooded down her face and Jackie had to pick her up and drag her away from the could-be-dead Drago. "But he saved me…it should be me under there…not him…me…"