Chapter 5

"Miss Chan? Miss Chan are you awake? Ah Miss Chan. Nice to see you ready." Jade was wearing a black all in one jump suit provided for her and nodded at the agent from the day before. She followed them to the training hall, were Black was waiting.

"Ready for a hard days training Jade?"

"Sure…why not…" Jade dropped to a fighting stance and prepared for anything.

The first thing she had to do was dodge a baseball machine that fired hard and fast balls at her. Then she had to avoid Black shooting at her with a paint gun. Then she had to run constantly for 3 hours without a break. Out of breath and tired, Black smiled. She was doing very well.

"Come on Jade, one more exercise. I want you to climb that wall and hit the buzzer before the time runs out. GO!" Jade ran at a large climbing wall that was as tall as Section 13.

Got to keep going. Can't…give up. Jade clawed at the wall, trying to find her next foot hold. Her hands could grip to anything, but her feet were another matter.

"Come on Jade, you are nearly there! You have 30 seconds left!"

"Damn!" she wasn't going to make it. At 15 seconds she had both hands on the top of the wall, but her legs slipped and she just dangled there.

"Come on Jade!" Black cheered, trying to motivate her.

"I…can't…"

"Now Jade. That is hardly the attitude of the constant thorn in my side now is it." Jade gasped. Crouched over the edge of the wall was a very healthy, very amused and smirking Drago.

"D…Drago?"

"Come on Jade. You'd think you saw a ghost." He pulled away and walked over to the buzzer. "Catch me if you can Jade."

"DRAGO!" Jade pulled herself up with all her strength and clawed over to the buzzer. She saw Drago leaning in front of the buzzer and reached out to touch him, to make sure he was real. In slow motion, she jumped at him, arm outstretched. But his smirking figure, winked at her and waved good bye. He faded out like a hollow projection and her hand didn't connect with his chest. Instead, it pressed hard on the buzzer and stopped the timer. Jade fell to her feet, tears falling from her face like waterfalls of remorse.

"Well done Jade. You beat the time with half a second to spare…Jade?"

"He…he was here. Drago…" she broke down into tears and hugged her knees to her chest.

"Drago…but he isn't here anymore Jade." Technically that was the truth. So he didn't find it hard saying it.

In the end, Black had to carry her back to her room and leave her there. She just cried over and over again, holding tightly to her mighty moose and sobbing continuously.

"I saw you." She looked deep into the flame on the tattered black shirt, forced down on her teddy. "I know I did. You were right there…"

"Drago!" Black stormed through security, who didn't stop their leader, and stood fuming in front of the flame proof cell. The walls were a plain white, so were the walls and bars (they were coated in a special none flammable coating) and there was no windows. Just the front bars where you could look in. other than the high-tech bars, it would look like a normal cell, with one bed and a bathroom round the corner. Drago demanded his privacy so they attached a bathroom out of sight.

On the single bed, Drago sat, fully healed thanks to the potion Uncle provided, in a lotus position. His eyes were closed and his claws were slightly interlocked in the middle of his lap. "Drago don't even pretend that you are asleep."

"I am not sleeping. I am meditating. There is a difference mortal."

"Yeah. You know something funny just happened today."

"Really? And why would I care about your mediocre day?"

"Because, you were in it."

"Daydreaming about me again Black? Just because you want me doesn't mean I will be your sex toy Black. But I am sure any of these mindless mortal drones will do anything you ask."

"Cut the crap Drago. You were in the training hall."

"I was what? I think you have been drinking way too much Earth coffee again Black. I have not left this damn cell since you put me here."

"Don't play with me Drago."

"I wouldn't dare."

"I bet you would prefer Jade."

"BACK OFF!"

"HA!" Captain Black got closer to the bars and smirked at The annoyed Dragon prince. "Hit a nerve I see."

"What do you want now mortal? You caused me pain; you let me almost die for your amusement, now you bore me."

"Why is Jade a touchy subject for you?"

"Sing a new tune mortal. This one is getting old."

"Fine, Dragon. I will ask another question."

"At last." Drago opened his eyes and looked dead at Black.

"Did you go to Jade today?"

"No. I was right here all day…and probably all last night too."

"I didn't mean. I give in. I am not in the mod for a round of beat about the bush with the Scaly Dragon."

"Me neither. I would have to be associated with you and a bush."

"Drago you!" Black seethed and ran off. Drago was just perfect at making him angry and he knew it.

"Mortals. So easy to torment." Drago closed his eyes again, determined to locate Jade.

"I saw you I did." Jade muffled into her pillow and felt a need in her bladder. She relieved herself and made her way back to the bed…but her Mighty Moose was missing! More importantly, Drago's shirt was missing! "What? I put it right here!" Jade started to pull the bed apart, searching for the Shirt wearing Moose.

"Try under the pillow."

"Thanks." Jade pulled the pillow up…and froze. "…Drago?"

"In the flesh. Well, not exactly." Jade turned around and saw Drago sat in her chair by the mirror and holding her Teddy. "So…my shirt has been reduced to the wardrobe of a stuffed Moose. I must say I preferred it when you wore it."

"Are you real?"

"No. I am an astral projection. After I erm…had a 'tiff' with my father…I absorbed his abilities by means of magical inheritance. So the Sheep talisman lets me leave my body and talk to you. But I am very much here."

"Are you alive?"

"Oh yes."

"You didn't die!" Jade smiled brightly and ran to him. she stopped just before him. "I can't touch you can I?"

"No. I am like a ghost. Speaking of which, does Black ever go out in the sun?"

"Probably not." Jade giggled. Tears seeped from the corners of her eyes. He was here, he was alive somewhere, he was ok.

"Now Jade. I do not like tears. Firstly, they confuse me."

"Oh?" she chuckled, sitting before him Indian style on the floor.

"Yes they do. You humans cry all the time. When you are confused, when you are sad, when you are happy, when you are nervous. You cry all the time. How am I supposed to understand you if you cry all the time? And then there is the fact that the tears do not suit your face." Drago smiled as Jade sniffled to stop her tears for him. for him.

"I will try and stop." She beamed up at him. "Hay! I didn't get to touch things when I was a ghost. How come you can?"

"I am a Demon with the natural ability in this area. If I want to, I can move anything like I could in my real body. As long as they are not alive of course. So this." He shook the moose. "Counts as not living. No matter how many times you shoved the rat talisman in it."

"He he. It worked though."

"Yes, I remember. He tried to 'Moose kick' and 'antler action' my ass."

"That was funny."

"Hay!" Drago pouted, and Jade smiled.

"But you did swat him away in the end didn't you."

"Yes I did." He stated rather smugly, making Jade laugh again. "You laugh a lot don't you?"

"Not a lot lately. But you make me laugh."

"Oh, thanks." He pouted again, and Jade waved her hands in defence.

"Oh no I didn't mean like you were a joke. I mean you are just good at making me laugh, you are a funny guy when you aren't trying to deep fry me…or making me watch as you die for me…" Jade's smile faded and her large golden eyes glistened.

"Well it's a damn good thing I am not dead then isn't it?" Jade still looked down though. "Hay!" he threw the Moose at her and she laughed instantly as it hit her face. "I will not have infernal tears you hear me. If you start crying, I will go back to my body."

"I won't. I am glad you let me know you are alive."

"Well, no thanks to your uncle, your great uncle, the sumo guy who hates fish and Black. They wanted you to think I was dead. That is why you didn't know I was alive, because they didn't tell you."

"What!" Jade stood up, fuming. "They all knew you were alive and didn't tell me!"

"Afraid so kiddo."

"I am going to kill them!"

"Oh know you don't." Drago pulled the blanket off the bed and wrapped her in it. He them picked it up, with Jade inside, and held her close. "It will be much more fun for them to think you don't know of my existence and find me anyway."

"Where are you?"

"I am in a flame proof cell. I don't know where. But far from my old cell I know that."

"Ok. I could make a locator spell."

"You are full of surprises aren't you?"

"So are you. I thought you couldn't touch me?" Jade reached out to touch his chest, but her hand went straight through.

"I can't touch you, but I can touch the blanket you are wrapped in." he smirked down at her.

"What are you grinning at?"

"You in my arms. Wrapped up in a blankie, all cuddled up to me."

"I have wanted you to hug me and tell me you are alright, and that everything is gonna be ok for so long." She cuddled up to him and could feel his body through the blanket. It was warm and reassuring.

"And I have wanted to do this for longer." He picked her up and threw her onto the bed. He then threw the moose at her and chuckled at her 'Hey!' and 'cut it out!'. "Make me Jade."

"If you weren't an astral, thingy, I would."

"I bet you would." He snickered and turned his back to leave.

"Where are you going?"

"Black is about to try and catch me out my body. I want to throw him off. But don't worry Jade." His form started to dissipate. "You will see me again, real soon." And he vanished.

Black was inside the cell, phaser in hand and ready to catch Drago off guard. He knew that Drago was doing something other than meditating, he knew it. He got a few feet closer…and…

"Black, I am not going to do anything for you while you hold that phaser, or when you drop it."

"I am not going to drop it Drago."

"Oh no?" Drago's tail whipped round and took Black's feet from under him. His grip on the phaser slipped and Drago's hand shot out to catch it. Even though his eyes were still closed.

He opened them and smirked at Black, on the floor and looking very annoyed.

"Very funny. Give back the phaser."

"No." he crushed it in his claws and couldn't hold back his snicker as Black ran out the cell, slamming the bars door behind him.

"I know you are up to something, and Uncle will find out just what tomorrow." Black stormed off and left Drago smirking. He smirked for hours, but mostly from thinking about Jade with that Moose antler hanging out her mouth from play fight they had.

"Soon Jade. Soon I will escape from this place and…you will be coming with me." he closed his eyes and returned to his actual meditation. Planning how to throw the oldest Chan off his scent.

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