A/N: Long time no see! I worked my hardest to sneak in this chapter just as the late-year holidays swing in! Take this as my present to all you readers out there! I hope everyone who celebrates the holidays is celebrating with good food, spending time with loved ones, and taking the time to rest and relax. And if you don't celebrate, I wish you nothing but good spirits on your end! Please enjoy!

Deliah rushed out the museum's exit and paused just before the first set of staircases. Esmira followed a few moments later to where Deliah stood and doubled over to catch her breath. The wizard glanced over at her pod rattle and noticed the instrument's glow from the tracking spell fading away. "The signal... is moving... " Esmira panted. "... incre... dibly fast."

"The gem is moving very fast, so someone or something must have it," the demon impatiently huffed. She was quiet for a moment and tapped her arms in thought. "Perhaps you have a potion that can transport us to the stone?"

"I'd have to know where the diamond is for that to work," the wizard explained as she straightened her back.

"Well, I could ca-" the demon started to say as a smile grew on her face.

Esmira threw a dismissive look at her niece and quickly shook her head. "No." She took a deep breath and wiped her forehead. "You move so fast I get dizzy."

Deliah curtly exhaled and her shoulders sunk. "Ezmi, we don't have time! Any moment we wait and the diamond will be gone."

Esmira rubbed her head then crossed her arms. Her eyes wandered in the air as a million possibilities crossed her mind. With each passing second, her left leg impatiently tapped the ground. Esmira could feel the pressure of the situation weighing on her shoulders as her eyes widely scanned the public space before her. To the bottom of the stairs on the far right, there was a brownish-yellow parked car on the curb. Upon a deeper look over, Esmira had recognized the color and make of the car to specifically be a taxicab. A smirk spread across the old woman's face as she hurried down the stairs with a hand digging in her bag. "I don't have a transporting potion, but I do have an idea."

Deliah quirked an eyebrow at Esmira's response but said nothing as she closely followed her aunt. The wizard made a beeline for the man sitting on the car's trunk with his back turned to them eating a meal from his lap. "[Excuse me!]" the elder woman called out in Arabic.

When the man picked up his head to see Esmira approaching, the man turned his back and waved her off. "[I'm on break!]"

"[I saw this wallet on the ground and wondered if it's yours, by any chance?]" Esmira asked. Just as the man turned around to see what she was talking about, she sprayed a purple substance in his face.

The man reflexively jumped off the car and spilled his food on the street. He used his hand to quickly try to wipe off the smoke from his eyes and nose while backing away from the woman. "[Hey-]"

"[Wise Lotus,]" Esmira declared. Instantly, the man stopped his struggling and fixed his posture into a relaxed, standing position. His stare was empty and his pupils had a dark purple glow in them. Esmira smiled, seeing that the potion worked. "[What's your name?]"

The man bowed his head to Ezmi. "[My name is Jamal, I drive taxis for a living.]"

"[Jamal, my niece and I are trying to follow something and we need you to drive us to follow it.]"

Jamal nodded. "[I can do that.]" He dug into his pocket and pulled out his car keys to press a button that would unlock the car door. He moved to the right side backseat from the passenger's side and opened the door with a small bow. "[Get in.]"

Deliah and Esmira looked at each other with grins on their face as they opened the door to sit down in the car. "This idea works too," the demon remarked with a shrug.

"Hopefully, we're not too late," Esmira replied. She turned to the front seat where Jamal had just buckled in and turned on the car's ignition. "[We're in a hurry, Jamal. Step on it!]"

Jamal turned on the ignition for the car and fastened his seatbelt. He fixed his front mirror so his purple-shaded eyes met Esmira's again. "[Yes ma'am.]"

Yuzhu tossed her head back and cockily laughed. "How is it, Jie, that you and your apprentice haven't beaten me yet?" the wizard asked. The battle had begun in the alley in the form of a beam-of-war between dark and light energies; Uncle and Tohru were on one end using their blowfish and salamander while chanting their spell. On the other end, Yuzhu effectively stood her own ground chanting her spell. The dark wizard took half a step forward, adding more pressure to the light wizard's side to move them back a step.

"Yu Mo Gwai Gwaai Fai Di Zao, Yu Mo Gwai Gwaai Fai Di Zao," Uncle and Tohru continued to chant.

"Her magic is becoming too strong for us, sensei," Tohru begrudgingly admitted and glanced at Uncle. He knew the senior wizard felt the same way, despite all the energy he put into his advances.

Before Uncle could respond, Yuzhu's dark beam fully reached the light wizard's side and knocked them back. Uncle nearly fell over and Tohru was quick to grab his fellow wizard by his vest and carefully lift him to his feet.

"I got you," Tohru said. Tohru then fired a spell at Yuzhu, and she raised up a chi shield that absorbed the light magic and dissolved it. The shield's energy went back into Yuzhu's fish and the wizard made a swiping motion at her opponents, turning the magic into an attack.

Tohru and Uncle dived to the ground and the magic wave swept over their heads and hit the far wall behind them with a crash! When the light wizards looked back, they saw a large slash mark burned into the brick wall.

Yuzhu smirked at her move and darkly chuckled. "Hm, I still am the better wizard."

"We have not lost yet," Tohru said as he rose to his feet and fired a blast at Yuzhu, and she dodged to her right. "I still have faith that my master and I will defeat you."

Yuzhu let out a small scoff. "Faith isn't enough to beat me," she stated. She used her chi instrument to trace a circle in the air and threw it at Tohru, who narrowly missed the shot by jumping out of the way.

Uncle fired two blasts at Yuzhu's chest. The woman stepped to the side to avoid the first shot, but the second fire hit her shoulder, creating a tear in her jacket. The dark wizard gasped in horror as she looked down upon the cut, then glared up at Uncle.

"Feh! You are all talk!" Uncle taunted and adjusted his glasses. He shot a blast at Yuzhu's head and she ducked. Then, Uncle hit Yuzhu's leg, causing her to stumble back on her knee. "And you are rusted!"

"'Rusted'?" Yuzhu's teeth gnashed together and her fists clenched in anger. Uncle wildly moved his blowfish around and fired another blast at the Yuzhu. The woman successfully blocked the blast, but still fell on her back and slid backward.

"Uncle did not stutter," Uncle smirked and waved his blowfish proudly.

"I will show you 'rusted'!" Yuzhu growled and took to her feet. She raised up her right hand and began to mumble something under her breath. The wizard held her glowing fish above her open palm and moved it in a circular motion. within a few seconds, the magic formed into a blue orb a little bigger than a baseball. When she finished with her chant, Yuzhu reeled back her hand and underhandedly threw the orb. The ball went down at a steep curve, just barely touching the ground, then came up spinning up at the chi wizards.

Tohru held out his lizard and summoned some energy to form a thick green barrier to protect him and Uncle. "The shield will hold the dark chi back."

Uncle's eyes lit up in panic recognition and he stepped back. "Tohru get down! Your barrier will not hold!" the elder wizard frantically warned and shook his head.

"Hm?" Tohru turned to his sensei in confusion. In Tohru's distraction, the energy sphere smashed against the shield and destroyed it, throwing Uncle and Tohru on their backs to the ground. When Tohru came to his senses he furrowed his brow at Yuzhu, then to Uncle. "Why did the defense not work?"

Yuzhu tsked and shook her head, briefly casting a mocking glance at Uncle and Tohru. "Hmph, rusted. Between the both of us, your performance was quite a disappointment. "With that, the dark wizard turned on her heel and walked away from the beaten light wizards to head out of the lonely alley. "Now you will excuse me, I have some loose ends to tie up."

Uncle mustered his strength to prop himself up on one knee. "Yuzhu!" he barked.

Yuzhu heard Uncle's voice and halted in her steps. She fully turned around to face Uncle with her fish glowing in hand. She expected the light wizard to attack her, but he didn't. Uncle had just stood there from a distance with his blowfish in hand not firing at her. The woman returned the look to Uncle. "Unless you want me to do further damage, Jie, stand down."

Uncle grunted at Yuzhu's warning and clenched his fists. "Why? Why are we fighting? Why do you side with darkness?" he asked with a hint of an edge. "You—we—were Chi Master Fong's top students once. You had always stood against the forces of darkness, and here you are standing with them," the Chinese wizard spat. "Where is your honor?"

Yuzhu re-positioned her gleaming chi instrument for Uncle's head and took a broad step closer to the light wizard. "You dare say I have no honor?" she hissed. "No matter what side I am on, I have not, nor have I ever, lost my honor Jie."

"You have when you work under a demon," Uncle pointed in the direction Drago ran off heavy gaze looked past Yuzhu's fish and stared deep into his ex comrade's eyes.

"You don't kn-"

"So tell me."

Yuzhu's lips clicked shut and her glare deepened. Her mind blanked as Jie's question echoed in her head: Where is your honor? Her right eye twitched. She felt her blood begin to rise and boil and her ears burn like she was due to explode. This rush of emotions trapped Yuzhu in a moment of vulnerability. After a minute of her silence, Yuzhu's fish depowered and she placed the fish into her pocket. She closed her eyes, cast her head down, and calmly breathed through her nose so she could regain her composure. "I do not owe you anything," she rasped. She raised her right hand and threw down a black ball the size of a tennis ball. The ball exploded and released a thick blue and black smoke that quickly enveloped Yuzhu. When the smoke dissipated, the dark wizard was gone.

The smoke passed by an unfazed Uncle and he tuted in his disappointment. Had she stayed a while longer, the elder was half-convinced he could get his old friend to rethink whatever she was planning.

"I... do not understand," Tohru said uncertainly as he rejoined Uncle's side.

"Neither do I, Tohru," Uncle said. He found his glasses lying a few inches away on the concrete, picked them up, and cleaned the lenses gently. He was silent for a few seconds before snapping his head at Tohru with a determined look and put his glasses on his nose. "We cannot lollygag anymore! Drago is getting away with Diamond!"

Tohru's eyes widened at how fast Uncle reverted back to his normal self as he nodded his head in agreement. "Yes, Uncle."

Drago jumped onto the roof of a three-story building and looked down at the streets below. "No sign of a Chan or Yuzhu," he noted with a smirk. The best way for the demon to make an escape was to use his ability to jump far distances away from the public eye. Drago's eyes scanned the landscape and in a matter of seconds, lit up in his delight.

The demon took a giant leap off the building's ledge and landed on a slightly taller building. He ran across the roof and made another jump onto a smaller building. Drago front flipped off the building and used his claws to grab onto a brick wall to climb around to the other side of the property. He then pounced onto an open windowsill on the next building and jumped onto the roof. He kept moving from building to building until he reached a building in a back alley area. The son of Shen Du flipped off the roof onto the ground. He raced across the empty lot and jumped over a large metal fence, landing hand and knee on the ground in a squatting position. He looked left, right, and behind himself, then let out a sigh of relief. "Finally, some peace."

He opened his right hand holding the diamond and a playful grin spread across his face. "Only an idiot would trust a demon so easily," Drago mocked. When he stood up and saw what he was in front of him, he couldn't resist scoffing at his surroundings: an old, scrappy car junkyard. "I had to end up in a junkyard."

However, Drago couldn't really complain. He instead felt a nostalgic sense about this junkyard. There were piles of cars packed all over the area that looked to be nearly as tall as small buildings. The smell of rancid oil and rust from the abandoned vehicles swamped Drago's nostrils, but this didn't bother him. "Almost like the good ol' days," the corners of his lips curled into a tiny grin. One of the biggest similarities the demon noticed was the silence on the vacated property—the kind of silence that gave Drago all the privacy and space he needed.

"Now I can figure out how to get this gemstone to work," Drago said and flipped the Diamond in the air like it was a coin. He walked deeper inside the vast junkyard and perched himself on top of a red pickup truck's hood that was covered in shade from the towers of cars behind it. Drago's thumb claw caressed one of the gem's clear faces and he brought the stone up closer to his eye. "I wish I paid attention to how the old hag did it," he said as he lightly scratched the scales on his chin. He was quiet for a moment, his eyes studying the gemstone's every detail. "Maybe this thing works like Father's talismans."

With that, he lightly pressed the jewel and waited for a reaction. After five seconds of nothing, Drago frowned. "Guess that's a no." He used his claw to tap on the diamond clink! clink! The demon hopped off the hood of the car and stroked his chin again as he paced back and forth in the dirt. This required deep thought. He used his thumb and the side of his index finger to press the Diamond with enough pressure without breaking it.

He tossed it in his left hand and began to flip it about, watching it spring up and down from his claws. "Maybe the Diamond has some soft of levitating powers." Drago then turned to the car hood he was just sitting on and extended his free arm towards it. "One... two... three!" he counted, moving his hand upwards as if to lift the vehicle in the air. "No?" Drago raised an eyebrow. The car had remained in the same place and nothing around it had moved either. "One... two... three!" Drago chanted again, this time moving both his arms in opposite directions.

Nothing.

The son of Shen Du growled as he was beginning to feel a bit foolish, even if no one was around to see what he was doing. "Can I fly?" Drago jumped into the air and landed on his feet seconds later.

"What about my fire?" Drago asked and immediately ignited his fist in flames. "Nothing?!" The demon extinguished the fire with a scowl and glared down at the gemstone.

"Why won't this damn thing work?!" In his frustration, he threw the jewel against a stack of cars. The gem promptly bounced off a car door and rolled on the ground into the open sunlight. The dragon's eyes watched the bright reflections shine through the gem in many directions, making him shield his eyes with his arm. "Argh!"

It clicked.

"Light!" Drago's eyes lit up in his fulfillment. "Light gives the Diamond power!" His irritation vanished as he strolled over to the fallen gemstone, rubbing his hands together in glee. "Now things are getting interesting."

"This is your bright idea? Running off with the gemstone to hide in a junkyard?" a voice stopped Drago in his tracks. He looked up to see Jun standing some few yards in front of him. He had a glowing blue fish in hand aiming for Drago's chest. Jun turned up his face in disgust when his eyes met with the demon's.

Drago held up a full fist of fire at the wizard. "Finders keepers."

"Jiang found it first!"

"Well, Jiang was in my way!" the demon retorted and tossed a fireball at Jun. The wizard jumped into a sideways roll to the right and stopped on his knee. Drago put both hands together and fired them up. "You're here to avenge her or something?"

"That is in my job description," Jun fired two chi blasts at Drago, which Drago found dodged by sliding left and jumping back.

"Some job," Drago mocked and breathed a stream of fire. Jun ran away from the blast, giving Drago his chance to run in and snatch the gemstone from the ground. He then opened his mouth to release fire at the wizard again, only to be shot in the stomach and chest. The force of the blow forced Drago to slide back and fall against the side of a caravan, leaving a dent in it. The son of Shen Du sat up and gingerly touched his stomach as he lightly coughed in pain.

"Aha!" Jun exclaimed as he saw the diamond on the ground. Just as the wizard ran over to retrieve it, Drago lunged forward to throw a series of punches at Jun.

"I don't think so!" Drago yelled. Jun dodged the first punch, parried the next, and caught the following blow by grabbing Drago's arm and locking it with both his arms. Jun spun on his foot and throw the demon over his shoulder in a circular motion and Drago's back hit the ground. The demons sideswiped Jun and he fell to the dirt also. Jun quickly did a backward roll and jumped to his feet.

Drago rose from the ground and glared Jun down from where he stood. A stream of smoke puffed from his nose and he was beginning to breathe a little heavier. Jun and Drago turned to the floor and were surprised to see that the Diamond was still on the ground in broad daylight. Both wizard and demon gazed at the gemstone for a few moments before making eye contact with one another.

Drago smirked and made the 'come forth' signal with his hand. "You think you got guts, scrawny?"

"I've got more than guts!" Jun called and slide forward to throw a side punch and a roundhouse kick at the demon.

Drago blocked both hits with his forearm and performed a combo of a sweeping back kick and a spinning elbow to his head. Jun jumped out the way and parried the hit, but was beaten with a backhand blow to his right cheek and an open palm to his chest. The wizard quickly stumbled back hard against a nearby car door and caught himself so he wouldn't collapse. Jun held his head from his punched side and shook himself out of his brief dazed state. He felt a sliver of something wet on his cheek and his lip. Jun unconsciously licked his lips and he tasted a bitter iron flavor: blood. Just as he stood up to wipe his mouth, he saw an incoming stream of fire rush at him, and he scrambled on his feet to get away. He narrowly dodged the heat as the car behind him blew up with a loud bang! The force of the explosion pushed Jun to the ground.

"If you can't take the heat, then stay outta the kitchen!" Drago laughed. As soon as Jun's dizzy eyesight noticed Drago advancing towards him, the boy scrambled to get up and run. He moved in a zig-zag motion in between the spaces of the vehicles to find a place to take cover. The son of Shen Du picked up the diamond and tossed back his head to raucously cackle at his battle victory. "Run, run, run as fast as you can!" he taunted as he threw a fireball at a pickup truck nearby and watched it explode in glee. Throughout the explosion noises, he could hear the direction Jun was running off to. Drago breathed a large fire stream towards a tower of cars he noticed in the corner of his eye, and some of the higher-placed trucks fell and exploded in fiery explosions. "You can't hide from me forever!"

"Can the glasses actually see the Diamond?" Jackie asked. He was following close behind Jade on the sidewalk as they were looking for the Diamond as well as Drago. They were following the demon on the ground by following his jumps from building to building. It was getting increasingly hard for the two Chans to keep up with him because of Drago's demon speed and stamina.

"The power's not really from the glass, but the magic that Tohru put in the glass," Jade explained. "And it's working like any ol' regular glasses so far." Once Jade said this, it took her a solid moment to realize what she said. "Agh, I totally spaced! Tohru said the glasses have to be paired with blowfish like a homing device!"

Now, it was Jackie's turn to be alarmed as he put his hands on his head. "So how do we even know we are on the right track?" the stumped archaeologist asked with his hands on his head.

Just then, a powerful explosion went off a few yards behind Jackie and Jade. "Wah!" Both Chans yelled and thumped their chest three times.

"What was that?" Jackie asked first and turned around. As if to answer his question, there was a column of heavy and thick smoke ascending in the air. It wasn't just Jackie and Jade, but many other people on the street who stopped what they were doing and turned to see the columns of smoke ascending into the air. A low worried murmur spread between the locals who were wondering what was going on in that area to cause so much noise and destruction.

Jade climbed halfway up a nearby light pole at a height to be higher than Jackie's and looked in the direction of the disruption. "I think it's coming from that junkyard over there," she pointed. "And if I didn't know better, I'd say Drago's behind it!"

Jackie's eyes and ears were already fixed in that direction. Even though the junkyard looked to be a decent block away from where they were, he could hear the rattling sounds of rusted metal bumping and whining into one another. Then, there was another cry of something heavy, like a vehicle, landing on other metal. When it exploded, another column of smoke went up in the air. Many of the civilians in the streets had also turned their heads in the direction of the explosion, causing a low and concerned murmur in the area. "Drago... " Jackie whispered.

"What're we waiting for?!" Jade declared. Just as she was ready to run off in the junkyard's direction, Jade felt Jackie's hands holding her back. "Oop!"

"Jade, it is too dangerous for you to go there. Drago has the Diamond, and may be using its power to cause those explosions," Jackie calmly said as he held up a stern finger. "You stay here and wait for Uncle and Tohru. Call me when they show," the archaeologist said before going off into the junk lot.

The minute he stepped foot in the area, Jackie felt an anxious chill run rampant on his spine. This was because by the time he reached that point, the explosions and other dangerous-sounding noises had stopped. He couldn't shake the feeling from his stomach either as he saw some of the car piles were on fire and/or were burnt to ash.

Jackie could feel his heart anxiously race faster and his nerves beginning to undo themselves. "Breathe," he reminded himself. "I have faced worse odds." Jackie glared in the distance and looked left and right. "Hopefully, this is not some sort of trap." He made sure to stay in the darker and more shaded areas of the junkyard so he wouldn't be caught in the open. This junkyard is even bigger than the one Drago used in San Francisco, Jackie thought as he observed the bigger towers of vehicles around him.

Jackie had turned his head in time to hear the first explosion since he stepped into the junkyard. This time, the sound of a frustrated demonic grunt resonated throughout the area and into the archaeologist's ears, causing Jackie to straighten his back in surprise. "Come out, come out wherever you are! I know you're there!" Drago proudly declared.

Jackie quickly leaned against a nearby wall of cars and crouched down. "How does Drago know I am here already?"

"I thought you were gonna step up and fight me, kid, not run away like some coward!" Drago called out again with more force.

"The Diamond can probably read minds or something," Jade suggested in a whisper.

"Maybe-" Jackie said as he turned to his niece and shrieked. "BWAH! Jade!"

"Hi, Jackie!" Jade sheepishly waved.

The archaeologist frowned. "Jade, I told yo-"

"Chan?"

Jackie's mouth shut with an audible click and he placed a hand over Jade's mouth. Before the two Chans could move, Drago was there at the far end of the dirt path looking at them in his confoundment. "Of course, more company," he scoffed and rolled his eyes. Fire ignited in one hand as the fire demon straightened his posture and stalked over to the Chans. "I get the pleasure of taking you two out with this baby here."

"Not if we serve you with two cans of butt whoop—Chan family style!" Jade said and put herself in a one-legged fighting stance.

Drago held up his open palm that held the Diamond in the air, allowing the light to shine through it. "We'll see about that," he said. He lightly squeezed the jewel and instantly saw a small flash of light. When it quickly grew into a far brighter beam, Drago, Jackie, and Jade were forced to shield their eyes. When the flash died down, there stood Drago holding a large round shield that covered his chest and abdomen. "Haha! Behold!" he declared and blindly pointed his weapon at the Chans.

Jade frowned in his confusion. "A shield?"

Drago's eyes flashed open at Jade's comment. "What?" The demon looked down at his arm and brought it closer to his eyes for him to get a better look at it. "A shield? That's it?" Drago quirked his scaly brow with impatience. He tried shaking the shield around hoping for the Diamond to react and do something else. "You gotta be kidding me."

"Ha!" Jade pointed. "I bet you feel sooo stupid!" the child nearly doubled over in laughter.

"Jade, please do not give Drago any bright ideas," Jackie lightly warned.

The shield flashed back into its plain jewel form in Drago's hand and the demon scowled. "Ungh, lousy thing! Waste of my time!"

"'One man's trash is another man's treasure, am I right?" Jackie outstretched his hand towards Drago.

Drago gawked at Jackie, then at the gemstone, to Jackie, and again to the gemstone. A burst of fire ignited in the demon's claws as he drew back his arm and tossed the jewel off in a random direction. The smoke left a streak in the air in a trail until the Diamond was gone.

"No!" Jade yelled.

"You destroyed it!" Jackie cried out in disbelief.

"If I can't use it, then no one can!" Drago snarled and breathed fire at the Chans.

"Watch out!" Jackie yelled to Jade as he snatched her up and jumped away in time for Drago's fire to scorch the ground where they once stood. With his niece still in his grip, Jackie ran as fast as he could dodging fire blasts at every turn. With every dodge, he felt Drago's fire closely kicking up against his back. A large ball of fire narrowly passed by Jackie's head and landed in front of him, singing a strand of his hair. "Bad day bad day bad day!" Jackie screamed and ducked his head. He ran out from the track into a different one while he had enough distance from Drago. As an extra safety measure, the archaeologist jumped over a black SUV and set Jade down. Jackie looked under the vehicle and through the windows before ducking down again. "Drago's not too far behind."

"Then I say we hit Drago with the Two-Chan-Two-Piece special!" Jade whispered with a devious smile and punched her hand enthusiastically.

"There is no special Two-Piece Chan anything because you were supposed to stay behind and wait for Uncle and Tohru!" Jackie yelled-whispered and pointed a stern finger at her.

"Well, you can't go in by yourself without backup!" Jade yelled-whispered back. "Besides, we have an advantage out here! It's two against one!" she argued.

"Jade... "

"Okay, more like one and a half versus one."

"Stay. Here. I am serious," a stern Jackie ordered. "If you jump in, you will be grounded for the entire summer."

"No way!" Jade whined.

"Yes way. Now promise me you will stay here," Jackie said as he looked firmly into Jade's eyes. Jade sighed and crossed her arms.

"Fine."

"The locator spell is getting stronger," Esmira beamed with pride as she looked at the brightness of her chi instrument. "We are getting close!"

Suddenly, Jamal slammed on his brakes, causing Deliah and Esmira to jerk forward. Deliah was caught off-guard and her face connected into the back of the driver's seat before falling back in her own seat. "Ow! Hey!" the demon cried out and held her cheek.

"[What happened?]" Esmira looked to Jamal, then outside the windshield.

"[My apologies. There is traffic,]" the driver said and pointed ahead to the accident.

"Seriously?" Deliah groaned.

Three cars ahead of their taxi, there were three vehicles at an intersection that were in a wreck. The first vehicle, a white SUV, had crashed its front into the side of the second vehicle, a red sedan, which had also hit the third vehicle, a black minivan, on its side as well. There was smoke leaking from the SUV as its front was heavily smashed. The drivers from all three vehicles were safe and outside of their cars arguing and yelling at each other in the streets as the other cars around them, were honking their horns at them while trying to find a way to get around the wreck.

"Ugh, we can't wait around!" Esmira said.

"Agreed," Deliah said as she unbuckled her seatbelt and opened the door to leave the car. "I'm leaving."

Esmira pulled out a water bottle and a vial with turquoise-colored liquid. She popped open the bottle and poured in a small trail of liquid in the water. "[Jamal, listen to me very carefully,]" Esmira began. She put the top on the bottle and shook it up for the new contents could properly settle in the bottle. "[We can't wait for traffic to clear up, so we'll just go. Here's 250 for the ride,]" she stated as she took some dirhams from her bag and tossed it into Jamal's lap. "[Whatever's left is your tip.]"

"[Thank you,]" the man nodded.

The wizard then handed the driver the water bottle. "[When traffic clears up, go back exactly to where we found you and drink all the water in this bottle. The spell will be wiped from your mind and you'll forget everything that happened.]"

"[Okay,]" Jamal said.

Esmira got out of the taxi and pointed her chi instrument to her left. The rattle's response was to stiffly point in that direction and send out a green flash indicating the direction. The wizard hurried across the street through the cars and still traffic to the other side of the street where Deliah stood waiting for her. The wizard then could rest and nearly doubled over to catch her breath. "[Okay, I'm here,]" Esmira panted out.

Deliah glared her eyes and looked up to the skyline to her left. She cocked her head in that direction and cupped her hand around her ear. "[You hear that?]" she inquired.

"Sounds like some far away explosions," Esmira said as she copied Deliah's actions. "But my dream had no explosions."

"But there is smoke in the air," Deliah said as she pointed to the sky. There was a line of grey smoke in the air that was later joined by another line of what looked like heavier smoke.

Esmira held up her pod rattle and pointed it in the direction of the explosions. The rattle increased in its hum and the strength of its green light, causing the wizard to smile. "The pods signal there."

Jackie dragon-kicked Drago in the chest and knocked him backward. Drago quickly regained his balance and threw a punch at Jackie's abdomen, then high kicked his head. Jackie caught the demon's leg and pushed him back, forcing the archaeologist to fall back also. Drago regained his balance and cackled. "You can't stop me, Chan! I'm on fire!" The demon jumped up to spin his tail and smack it in Jackie's face.

Jackie fell down on his back, gripping his chin in pain. "Seems like the same old moves to me," he quipped and jumped back on his feet. Drago growled at Jackie's response and reached out to slash his face with his claws. Jackie evaded the attack and punched Drago back with his blocking forearm.

Suddenly, a flash of light hit Drago's eye. The demon dragon was blinded by the light and staggered backward to shield his eyes. "Argh!" the demon dragon cried out.

When Jackie and a blinded Drago paused to look up at the light's source they found Jade waving down at the fighting pair. She was on top of the black SUV in a relaxed position snapping photos of the action with her camera. "Hi, Jackie!"

"Jade! You promised me you would stay back!" Jackie ordered.

"I am staying back. I'm just taking pictures for my summer album," Jade said and snapped another photo to prove her point. "Smile for the camera Scale Face!"

Jade's camera flashed again on Drago, causing the shut-eyed demon to growl in return. "You damn brat!" In anger, the son of Shen Du breathed a rush of fire at the van.

"Gyah!" Jade yelled. She jumped off the SUV and took off running before the vehicle exploded in a large mess of flames. The force of the blast was strong and took Jade off her feet to land face-first on the ground.

While Drago was distracted, Jackie ran and dropkicked the fire demon in the middle of his back and landed on his feet. "Pick on someone your own size!"

She heard the cracking sounds of something breaking in her pocket and her eyes lit up in worry. "Oh no!" Jade shot to her feet and went into her sweater pocket to pull out Tohru's magic glasses. The glasses' temples have snapped and both lenses were cracked with one falling out of its rims to the ground. "Aw man! Tohru worked hard to make this."

Drago dugs his claws in the soil to stop himself from rolling backward. He stood up and ferally snarled at Jackie. "Cheap shot."

"Funny coming from the demon who cheap-shotted their now ex-partner," Jackie retorted.

"Yeah, 'cuz I thought the Diamond had value."

"And you went through all that and still failed."

Drago lazily shrugged. "You win some, you lose some."

"Just like how you lost all your demon chi?"

Drago opened his mouth to fire back at Jackie with another pun or quip, then closed it with a solid click realizing what Jackie said. His red eyes narrowed at the archaeologist and he snarled in return. The corner of Jackie's mouth turned up in his smugness. He knew that particular comment would set off a serious nerve in the demon and he felt tempted to laugh at Drago's furious reaction. Jackie was in a fighting stance with his eyes on the son of Shen Du, waiting for him to strike.

Jackie continued. "You put in so much time and effort into getting your family's chi and trying to take over humanity. Yet here you are back to normal with only your fire power."

"My fire's all I need to destroy you!" the son of Shen Du yelled. He took a deep breath and extinguished the building fire at the edge of his throat, releasing a dark trail of soot from his mouth. "And I can still take over the world! I'll find and make my own way easy!" Suddenly, a powerful blast of chi hit Drago in the middle of his back, making him fall forward on his knees. "Gyargh!"

"Not if Uncle has a say about it!" Uncle waved his smoking blowfish in the air to declare.

From her position, Jade popped up and ran around the fight over to Uncle and Tohru. "Uncle! Tohru! Finally!"

"Did you beat the dark wizard lady?" Jackie asked.

"Talk later!" Uncle pointed at Drago.

A pained Drago pushed himself off the ground and turned his head to the Chans, who were now reunited and standing together as a solid unit. Their eyes followed Drago as the demon grunted and moved his shoulders in a circular motion to alleviate the electric pain surging in his body.

"Give it up dragon breath! You're outnumbered!" Jade spat.

"Yu Mo Gwai Gwaai Fai Di Zao, Yu Mo Gwai Gwaai Fai Di Zao," Tohru mumbled under his breath as he sprinkled a white substance over his fish.

Drago's eyes widened in realization and he breathed fire at the quartet, forcing the Chans to hit the ground in all directions. He flashed his claws out and charged to pounce on Tohru. "There's no way in hell I'm gonna-argh!" he roared. Uncle shot him in the chest in midair. The dragon felt the blast surge to all parts of his body as he fell to the ground on his back.

"Now Tohru!" the elder wizard yelled. Tohru nodded and continued chanting the spell on the fish. The orange blowfish flashed green, building up the chi stored inside. Just as Drago was about to get up again, Tohru fired the charged-up fish at the demon and fired. Instantly the spell hit Drago square in the chest and pinning him. The Chans held their breaths waiting for the son of Shen Du to get up and strike again. When they all felt sure the demon was knocked cold, the Chans together let out a relieved sigh.

"Glad that's over with!" Jade exclaimed. From her pocket, she pulled out her camera and flashed another photo of the unconscious Drago, and smiled to herself. "I'm gonna call this picture 'The First Demon Beat Down of the Summer'."

"That... that was no ordinary stun spell, Uncle," Jackie said to Uncle as he warily eyed Drago.

"That was a knockout spell, courtesy of Tohru," Uncle credited.

"This knockout spell takes a while to prepare, but it is very powerful," Tohru explained. "Drago will remain unconscious for 24 hours."

"That will give us plenty of enough time to send him back to the Demon Netherworld," Jackie said. Then, Uncle thwacked his nephew on his head. "Ow!"

"Do not be foolish!" Uncle wagged his finger. "There are new forces of darkness at hand and Drago is key to finding out who, what they are looking for, and why!"

"But Uncle! Drago is very dangerous. Taking him back with us to San Francisco is risky. Innocent people can get hurt if something goes wrong."

"Besides, C.B. won't like the fact that we're bringing in the guy who destroyed Section 13 over a year ago," Jade added.

"Even though Drago's alliance with these new villains was temporary, perhaps we can get some information out of him that can prove useful to us," Tohru explained.

Jackie pursed his lips together and stroked his chin in thought. "Hm, I don't know... "

"And what of the Diamond?" Tohru asked.

Jackie sighed and rubbed the back of his neck in his reluctance. "Drago burned the Diamond and threw it away."

"That cannot be," the Japanese wizard said with a shake of his head. "Uncle and I followed the Diamond's signal that led us here, and it was still strong. Even if the Diamond were reduced to ashes, the fish should still be able to detect it."

"But it is still a diamond and diamonds are vulnerable to breakage or fire," Jackie said. This earned him another Uncle swat on the head. "Ow!"

"What part of 'magic diamond' do you not understand?!" the elder Chan scolded.

"If the Diamond was destroyed, maybe whatever power it had went into another diamond, like when the talismans got destroyed and their powers went into its noble animals," Jade suggested with a half-shrug.

"The locator spell led Tohru and Uncle here, not anywhere else! If Diamond was destroyed, the blowfish would have indicated that its power roams elsewhere," Uncle determinedly shook his head. He hummed softly and tapped his chin in thought. "Or, perhaps it was not destroyed."

Jackie furrowed his brow at Uncle. "Well, no one was in the junkyard beside us and Drago," he argued. He exchanged looks with Jade and scratched his head. "Right?"

A/N: [Arabic]

Now things are really starting to take off, mostly because of Drago's meddling for his own selfish gains, which blew up in his face XD

This chapter would have been longer because I had more fight scenes planned, but I had trouble figuring out where the cut-off point would be. Then there was an issue with some details I wanted to change and which details I wanted to leave in. But now that this chapter is over with, I'm happy at how nice it turned out. Hopefully, the next update won't take as long to revise and complete.

See you next time!