Hi everyone, thanks again for your patience. I'm glad this story has received so much attention, this is one chapter I've been wanting to write for some time as we introduce a certain JCA villain that I really like. So anyways, without further delay, let us begin.

Divide and Conquer – Chaos and Hilarity

A pair of construction workers used their jackhammers to drill away at the pile of spilled concrete. As they continued to drill, one of them happened to unearth something that resembled a puppet of a monkey in an outfit similar to a jester. The construction worker picked it up out of curiosity.

"Hey Mahone, what is that?" His friend asked.

"Some kind of monkey puppet." As he began to inspect it, he found some writing engraved onto its back. "'To free me of glitches and put you in stitches, this merry ape begs: pull my leg'" He read aloud. The two Construction workers looked at it curiously before he pulled on the puppet's leg.

The second he did, the puppet's eyes began to glow red as it chuckled mischievously and evilly. As the puppet began to glow, purple smoke began to emit out of the puppet and engulf construction worker as a monkey's cackle was heard. When the smoke vanished, the puppet became a living creature once more, for the Monkey King had returned.

"The Monkey King is back, baby!" The magical prankster laughed as the second construction worker looked in shock, and even greater shock to see his friend having been turned into a puppet himself. "Mucho thanko for the lego yanko." The Monkey King thanked his victim before tossing the puppet to the second construction worker.

"Ma… Mahone!?"

"Wax him up once a week to keep his shine up." The Monkey King handed him a thing of wax before taking a downed jackhammer, which he spun briefly before using it on a pile of cement to make tiny identical statues of Jackie and Jade. "Now tell me, man to mandrill, know where I can find these two?" He asked the construction worker.

"Who are they?"

The Monkey King gave an angry chirp as he answered. "They are the ones who chucked me back to Woodville and tried to cement my face! The maharaja of monkey shines! But the last laugh will be on them." He took out a large mallet and smashed the statues. "Cause it's payback time!"

Meridian – Phobos' Caste

The Dark Prince sat on his throne as usual as Cedric, in his human form, and Daolon Wong reported to him.

"You still have no information of my sister's identity?" Phobos questioned.

"No, my prince." Wong replied. "It has proven more difficult than expected."

Phobos' eyes narrowed. "Now that we know Chan and the Guardians have Earth's forces to aid them, we cannot afford any mistakes. If they find her before we do, all is lost."

"In my guise as the book-seller, with the aid of the Shadowkhan, I can locate and remove each of them one-at-a-time." Cedric proposed.

"I feel you underestimate Chan and his allies, even the elderly Chi-wizard was more of a challenge than I could have anticipated." Phobos stated.

"But perhaps there is a way we can apply the divide-and-conquer strategy." Wong said. "We can find a way to separate and isolate them before the girls can transform into their Guardian form. If we take the Heart of Kandrakar, not even Chan will be able to stop us."

An intrigued look fell on Phobos' face. "An interesting strategy. Do it and bring me the Heart."

"Yes, Prince Phobos." Wong and Cedric both bowed to him.

Earth – Sheffield Institute

"Our own Mount Heatherfield." The teacher in the classroom began to explain to the students present. "Site of this weekend's ski-trip, sits atop a volcano that's been dormant for years, and years, and years."

As the teacher continued to talk, Matt glanced in Will's direction. When she looked back, he looked away to try and hide the blush on his cheeks.

"I think Matt likes me." Will whispered to Jade who sat next to her.

"What makes you think that?" Jade whispered back.

"He's not looking at me." Will responded, causing Jade to look in confusion.

Lunch time rolled around as usual as Jade, Will, Cornelia, Hay Lin, Taranee, Irma, and even Elyon and Alchemy at lunch at the same table together.

"Ooh, I so can't wait for this weekend's ski trip!" Hay Lin beamed excitedly. "It's gonna be so fun!"

"I know!" Alchemy agreed. "I hear the food at the ski chalet is even better than this!"

Taranee's eyelids lowered. "Guys, the table we're eating off of is better than this."

"That's why I bring a packed lunch." Jade smirked as she pulled out a sandwich and took a bite. "Hmm, ham and parmesan cheese."

"Way to rub it in." Cornelia grumbled, wondering why she never packed her lunch before.

"Weren't we supposed to get that new student from Switzerland today?" Will wondered.

"Maybe she's here and we didn't notice." Elyon guessed.

The doors at the entrance suddenly opened dramatically as a girl walked into the cafeteria, drawing the attention of virtually every boy there. Though nearly every guy was enamored by her appearance, such as her seemingly fair skin and long orange hair, the seven girls at the table could easily feel an arrogant aura surrounding her.

"I'm guessing, that's her." Jade assumed.

The rest of the day passed by pretty normal, save for the girl, whose name was revealed to be Sondra having a parade of guys surrounding her. Ordinarily, that would be fine for some of the girls, but she took her snobbish attitude even further with constant criticism and nagging which only drove them further up the wall.

"Ugh, she says she makes her own clothes." Hay Lin complained as they all walked home from school. "Her sweater's made from 'casmu from under the chin of my grandmother's goat in the alps'" She put on a fake accent.

"No way that's a real accent." Alchemy grumbled.

"Yeah, I bet she just watched like twenty Hidey movies before she came here." Elyon added.

"She dissed me for not reading 'War and Peace' in 'the original Russian'." Taranee said. "I'd like to feed her the book in 'the original Russian'."

"She's got virtually every guy following her like a pack of rabid wolves." Cornelia scowled.

"Tell me about it!" Irma agreed. "Martin didn't even serenade me last night with his bajo. He was baking 'welcome Sondra' muffins!"

"Okay yeah, she's annoying, but honestly she's not the worst." Jade said.

"Seriously!?" Hay Lin, Irma, Alchemy, and Cornelia questioned at the same time.

"Well it's not like she's a crime lord or evil royalty with plans of world domination like… some people." Jade put in.

"world domination? Evil royalty? Jade where do you come up with this stuff?" Elyon asked.

"Well, I watch a lot of movies." Jade quickly said. "Plus, I've seen stuff on the news of people who are way worse."

"Yeah, you know what? Jade's right." Will agreed. "There are worse things to worry about besides some snobbish transfer student."

Irma, Cornelia, Taranee, and Hay Lin seemed to be in silent agreement. Compared to the likes of Phobos, Cedric, or Wong; Sondra was a mere nuisance and she wasn't worth worrying about.

"So come on guys, we got a ski trip this weekend!" Jade told everyone. "The only thing we should worry about, is what hill to sled down first!"

That seemed to get everyone out of their glum mood as they continued to walk. However, none of them seemed to notice that as they walked past an alleyway, their entire conversation was heard by a pair of Shadowkhan that blended into the darkness in the alleyway. Once they heard what they needed, they retreated back into the shadows to alert their masters of this news.

The Silver Dragon

After parting ways with Elyon and Alchemy; the six girls of J-WITCH had arrived just outside of Hay Lin's family restaurant, but were surprised to see Jackie, Caleb, Uncle, and Tohru arrive from the opposite direction.

"Oh, hey guys, what are you doing here?" Jade asked.

"Miss Lin asked us to come, she said an important visitor had called for us." Jackie explained.

The girls looked towards each other in confusion. "What kind of visitor?" Irma asked.

"She didn't say." Tohru responded.

They soon walked into the restaurant, which didn't appear to have anyone else inside, not even other employees such as waiters or cooks.

"Grandma, we're home!" Hay Lin called.

"Over here!" Yan Lin called from around the corner.

"Hey what did you need us for…" Will however gasped as they turned the corner, and everyone looked completely stumped to find a certain crime lord in a green suit standing with a causal yet sinister smile.

"Good afternoon." Valmont greeted.

Immediately everyone was put on the defensive as Jackie, Caleb, and Tohru stood protectively in front of the girls and Uncle with their fists raised, even Hay Lin and Jade made martial art stances as Will took out the Heart of Kandrakar ready to say the magic words.

"Easy, easy, I have come unarmed!" Valmont raised his hands to show that he had no weapon of any kind."

"What do you want, Valmont?!" Jackie demanded.

"And how did you managed to find this place?" Uncle questioned as well.

"Despite my current predicament, I still have my resources, and it wasn't all that difficult." Valmont answered.

"Grandma, why the heck did you let this guy in here?!" Hay Lin questioned her grandmother.

"Hay Lin, trust me." Yan Lin assured her granddaughter.

"I am not here to seek any trouble I assure you." Valmont said with a straightforward face.

"That's a first." Jade scoffed as Tohru growled with a nod in agreement.

"To the contrary, I have come with a proposition." Valmont began. "As I've said, I have my resources and I have managed to catch wind of your little… quest. You are looking for a particular individual who's identify has remained a secret, correct?"

"Do you know who we're looking for?" Taranee asked skeptically.

"No, but I imagine they must be of great importance as the likes of an anthropomorphic snake and a dark wizard are also searching for them." Valmont responded, only to be grabbed by Caleb and pulled by the collar closer towards the young rebel's face.

"And how can we trust that you're not working for them?!" Caleb questioned.

Valmont maintained a straight face as he causally removed Caleb's hand from his collar. "I have no further desire to align myself with the Forces of Darkness. I've had more than my fair share of trouble just with that blasted Fire Demon. Unlike the monstrosities that you are all currently fighting, I have no desire for world destruction, I'm a businessman; and all this magical and end-of-the-world nonsense is bad for business. Seeing as we have a common thorn, I have a proposition for all of you: Chan, you and Tohru, as well as these five young ladies, become my new Enforcers."

"What?!" Nearly everyone, aside from Yan Lin, did not expect that.

"As you can imagine, since the disappearance of my previous henchman, I've hit quite a rut." Valmont explained. "I've even been reduced to performing my own dirty work. However, you are each skilled in your own way, especially you young ladies, with your magical powers, we can easily rebuild the Dark Hand, stronger than ever."

"Why the heck would we ever want to work for a sleezebag like you?!" Will exclaimed.

"Because I can help with your quest." Valmont continued. "As I've said, I'd rather not have this planet fall under the Forces of Darkness, thus giving us a common goal. I can even use my resources to help you locate this person you are seeking, and in return, you help me rebuild my organization."

"And by that you want us to rob banks, steal priceless artifacts, and all that jazz." Cornelia said with lowered eyelids and a glare.

"Essentially, yes." Valmont confirmed. "But with your abilities, it shouldn't be that much of a problem for… OW!" The crime lord felt his forehead where Uncle dope slapped him.

"Guardians are meant to guard, not to steal! It is in the name!" Uncle exclaimed.

"Yeah, we're the good guys!" Hay Lin quickly added.

"I don't see a reason why you cannot multi-task." Valmont quickly replied before turning to the girls. "I'll even pay each of you, a very handsome salary."

"With what? You're broke." Jade noted.

"For the moment." Valmont acknowledged. "But I'm good for it, Tohru knows as he did work for me." He glanced up at the sumo.

"You made me fight a demon that almost got me killed." Tohru glared.

"Yes, but you have since battled magic on a frequent basis and have gotten stronger for it, haven't you?" Valmont countered.

Jackie sighed and he shook his head. "Just when I thought you couldn't stoop any lower, Valmont. They are children! Not your personal henchman to do as you see fit!"

"Give us a reason why we'd even think about working for you!" Taranee quickly added.

"Because you wouldn't want these falling in the wrong hands, would you?" Valmont reached into his coat to pull out a large envelope which he opened on a table to show something that caught all of them, especially the girls of WITCH, by surprise, so much so they gasped.

They were photos! Photos of them! Valmont had pictures of Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin, each of them in their human and Guardian forms, as well as pictures of each of their homes and addresses, some even showed pictures of their parents as well.

"Wait… you've been following us?!" Will exclaimed, as she and most of her friends felt extremely violated by this.

"Stalker much?!" Irma questioned.

"If you come and work for me, I'll not only help you with your quests, I'll even provide you each with a handsome salary that'll keep you all wealthy for years to come." Valmont proposed. "If not, well, I can think of some very powerful, yet very dangerous, individuals who could find this information to be… useful." He said with an evil smirk. "If you ask me, I'm making you a very generous offer."

Will, Cornelia, Irma, Hay Lin, and Taranee looked more than a little nervous as Valmont had proof in his hands of not only their identities as Guardians, but their homes as well. Jackie, Jade, Tohru, and Uncle however looked at Valmont with contempt; while he has blackmailed before, this was still low, even for him. Caleb looked ready to beat him up with nothing more than his fists, Yan Lin had already beaten him to it.

"Let me see if I understand you correctly, Mr. Valmont." Yan Lin began. "You believe these five girls; these five, teenage, rebellious, and headstrong girls possess powerful magical abilities, the likes of which can defeat even of the most vile of monsters, who are currently being trained by men that you know have defeated demons with nothing more than simple spells and their bare hands… and your response is to blackmail these people?"

Valmont's smile faded into an expression of nervousness as he glanced at everyone around him; all of them glared as Will had her hands firmly on the Heart of Kandrakar while Jackie crossed his arms and even Tohru cracked his enormous knuckles for emphasis.

"Good luck with that." Yan Lin told him with a smile.

Realizing he had essentially walked into the lion's den, Valmont tried to keep a straightforward face as he knew he had to get out as fast as possible. "Right… well you can keep these." He handed Jackie the envelope of all the photos he'd taken. "Thank you for your time. I'll be on my way." He walked well past the group and out the door. Once he was outside the building, they saw him running as fast he could through the window.

In just a few seconds, virtually everyone, save for Uncle, laughed at what had just played out in front of them.

"Grandma, you are awesome!" Hay Lin exclaimed.

"I try." Yan Lin shrugged.

"Did you see him run out like that?" Cornelia chuckled.

"We just went all roadrunner on us!" Jade laughed as well.

Will laughed a bit to. "Guess we should call Captain Black and let him now."

"I'll gladly hunt him down myself if I have to." Tohru voiced.

"Pretty sure you'd snap him in half." Irma said. "Not that I'd be against the idea, mind you."

"I already sent him a message when we first saw Valmont in this restaurant." Jackie said with a relieved smile. "I feel we won't have any further trouble with him."

"Yeah, the only thing we should worry about is what we need to buy for the ski trip this weekend." Taranee said.

"A ski trip?" Caleb questioned. "Your Guardians working to battle evil, and you're worried about something like a ski trip?"

"Rebel boy is correct. Waste of time." Uncle agreed.

"It's a little something called 'fun'." Irma said.

"Yeah, as much as I love fighting the Forces of Darkness, nothing wrong with taking a break every now and then." Cornelia agreed.

"Don't be too hard on them guys." Jade said. "Fun is a foreign language to these two." She cracked.

"Hey, I know what fun is!" Caleb exclaimed. "I have it all the time!"

"Uh speaking of which, we need an extra chaperone for the trip." Will said as she turned to Jackie. "So, if you're not busy…"

Jackie smiled. "Of course, I'll come. I believe you girls are all due for a break as well."

Hay Lin and Jade wasted no time in hugging him. "Thanks, so much Uncle Jackie!" Jade exclaimed.

"Oh, this is gonna be so fun!" Hay Lin exclaimed. "Tohru, you wanna come to?"

Tohru smiled and chuckled. "Thank you, but I don't think skis would do well for me." He gestured to his large body, causing the six girls to laugh at his joke.

The weekend was already here as students from Sheffield, along with several chaperones including Jackie Chan and Principle Knickerbocker, helped to load the students and their packed suitcases onto the buses.

As Will, Jade, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin brought their stuff, they happened to spot the snob known as Sondra walking backwards towards the bus as several guys carried her bags for her. "Merci." She told the boys as the girls simply looked a bit annoyed.

"Great, she's coming to." Cornelia grumbled.

"Uh she does know she just thanked them in French, right?" Taranee noted.

"Just ignore her, guys." Will told her friends. "We're going to have some fun on this trip, so let's not let some snob ruin it for us."

Everyone seemed to get the message as they began to pack their bags into the storage compartments at the bottom of the busses. As they began to load one of the bus, Will looked in surprise to see Sondra sitting next to Matt.

She gave a sigh as she sat down at an empty seat and looked out the window. "This seat taken?" Jade asked as she sat down. "Okay, what's eating you?"

"That." Will pointed her thumb back to show her crush sitting next to the snobbish girl.

"What, you gotta crush on him or something?" Jade attempted to make a joke but saw the look on Will's face and saw she was serious. "Oh. Well… hey, if the guy has any real brains, I'm sure he'll see right through her. I mean, we do."

Will chuckled. "Well, I can always count on you to make me laugh, Jade."

"Hey, what are friends for?" Jade smiled.

Meanwhile; as the last of the students were loaded onto the buses, Blunk peeked out of some nearby bushes. He quietly crawled around the buses, looking for anything to take that might have some value to trade and sell. He saw the tailpipe on the back of one bus and thought that had some value.

"Hmm, trumpet." Blunk pulled on it, but it wasn't budging. He scowled before spotting a large rock. "Ooh, trumpet remover." He was about to run and get it, but he happened to pass by a bus driver that was about to finish loading the last of the bags and suitcases, when he accidentally grabbed Blunk and threw him into storage compartment, thinking he was another bag before he closed up the compartment and the busses drove off.

However, unknown to the people in the busses, they were being followed. A black car was keeping some distance away from the large student-vehicles as to not arose suspicion. And this car happened to be driven by Hak Foo with Valmont in the passenger seat.

"Don't lose them but keep your distance." Valmont said to his only remaining Enforcer.

"Yes, master." Hak Foo acknowledged as he continued to follow.

But it wasn't just Valmont and Hak Foo following our young heroes and their friends, from a nearby cliffside, Cedric and Wong watched the busses go by before the Dark Chi Wizard threw his hand out to encompass him and Cedric in dark blue smoke before they vanished.

Uncle's Rare Finds

As Uncle and Caleb were still at the Silver Dragon, Tohru worked to clean the dishes in the kitchen at the back of Uncle's shop by himself. Once he was finished, he pulled on the plug on the drain in the sink, to allow the water to drain. However, it didn't appear to work.

Tohru grumbled, thinking it was clogged. He took out a plunger to try and fix the issue. However, a geyser of water suddenly shot out of the sink, knocking Tohru back on the ground and crashing onto the table as the Monkey King, clad in a scuba diver outfit emerged from the sink with an evil chuckle.

"Sumo, ho!"

Tohru gasped. "Not you again!"

"Tell me where your pals are, puny! Or I'll harpoon a whale!" The Monkey King threatened as he transformed his staff into a harpoon.

"Uh… they're gone! Um… far away!" Tohru answered.

The Monkey King leapt onto Tohru's belly. "How far?"

"They… did not say." Tohru lied.

The living prankster puppet made a sound like a buzzer. "Wrong answer!" He spun his body to quickly change into his normal jester outfit before banging on a gong hard to ring Tohru's ears, much to his own elation.

Tohru covered his ears and growled. "That was not funny."

The Monkey King stopped laughing as he glared at Tohru. "I don't amuse you? Not funny? Not funny?! I'm the grand-pupa of ha-ha!" He quickly grabbed Tohru before the large man suddenly found himself strapped to an operating table with the Monkey King now clad in a surgeon's outfit. "Tell me where I can find your pals, or I'll show you 'not funny'!"

Tohru simply looked away in defiance, not willing to say anything.

"Nurse." The Monkey King held out his hand and a feather suddenly appeared. He then pried off both Tohru's shoes as his eyes looked in terror.

"Oh… please! Anything but that!"

The Monkey King proceeded to tickle Tohru's feet with the feather. "Kitchy-kitchy-koo."

"No… No…!" Tohru exclaimed as he began to laugh uncontrollably. "NO!"

The students and their chaperones had all arrived at the sky chalet and began to unload their bags. As they did, Irma noticed a certain boy looking around with a bottle of hot chocolate.

"Hey Martin." She greeted.

He noticed her presence. "Oh, Hi uh… uh…"

"Irma." She said with lowered eyebrows. "I'm the one you're always bugging?" She reminded.

"Excuse me, I gotta get this hot chocolate to Sondra while it's still hot." Martin said as he walked away, much to Irma's irritation.

Jade then walked up to her "Okay, I'm confused, I thought you didn't like that guy."

"He's annoying, but he's not really a bad person." Irma commented. "And he at least deserves better than that snob."

"Hmm, sounds like true love to me." Jade teased.

"Shut it." Irma grumbled.

Meanwhile, Will had gotten off the bus and saw her crush walking off as well. "Hi Matt!" She waved to him. "Nice to see you made it."

"Yeah, you to." Matt greeted with a friendly smile.

"So maybe you'd like to ski down me? Oh sorry! I meant, ski down with me?" Will asked nervously with a small blush.

"Sure, sounds like fun." Matt responded, causing Will's smile to grow even more. However, that smile quickly faded as a certain snob walked onto the scene.

"Oh, there you are Mathew." Sondra said before glancing at Will. "Who's your little friend?"

"It's Will, Sondra. We're in the same history, math, and science classes, remember?" Will reminded, while trying to stay calm.

"Well I can't remember every face." Sondra said arrogantly. "Surely you don't ski on those tiny little legs."

Will was getting somewhat irritated, but she glanced past Sondra and caught a concerning look from Jackie. This helped Will to calm down slightly as she spoke in a calm tone of voice.

"You know what, Sondra? You're not even worth it."

Sondra did not expect a statement like that, nor did many of the other students around the area as the snob dropped her hot chocolate out of shock. "What are you saying?"

"You think I care what you think about me?" Will questioned. "I came to this trip to have fun with my friends, not to advertise myself to virtually every guy in a twenty-mile radius. I don't care what you think or what you do here, I'm gonna have some fun and I'm not about to let a snob like you ruin it for me."

With those words, Will walked off, leaving a speechless Sondra standing in her place. Matt was a bit surprised, but also quite impressed with Will as he smiled in the direction, she walked off in.

Will happened to walk by Jackie and the other girls as they all looked rather impressed themselves.

"Nice." Irma gave a thumbs up.

"Real smooth there, Will." Hay Lin smiled

"Way to stick it to her." Cornelia smirked.

"Yeah, you pretty much owned her." Taranee also smirked.

"Somebody give this girl a microphone to drop." Jade added.

"Thanks guys." Will smiled.

"Well Will, I have to say, I'm quite proud with how well you handled that." Jackie nodded in approval.

"Yeah well, compared to the Forces of Darkness, she's pretty minor league." Will commented.

"Now come on, who wants to get this ski trip started?!" Jade excitedly exclaimed as the girls all cheered, while Jackie simply smiled.

However, no one appeared to notice that as the last of the bags were unloaded off one of the busses' storage compartments, Blunk scurried out before accidentally stumbling off the ledge and falling into a pile of snow.

"Remember Children." Mrs. Knickerbocker began to instruct several students on a snowy hill. "Stay on the north side of the mountain. Well away from Dead Man's Trail."

"GAINWAY!" Hay Lin screamed as she lost control and looked as though she was about to ski right into Knickerbocker and the other students, but Jackie was quick to jump from one side and flip in the air and grab Hay Lin's shirt, pulling her up and off her crash-course and into a safer spot.

Hay Lin breathed a huge sigh of relief. "Thanks Jackie."

"Your welcome, but you may want to start off on the smaller slopes." Jackie advised.

"Booyah!" Jade exclaimed as she skid past them with little trouble and down the hill. "WAHOO!" She even skid past a downed Taranee and Irma.

"I really admire Jade." Taranee observed. "She doesn't care about boys, or what people think of her…" They also saw Jade wipe out and land in a pile of snow. "Or if she ever walks again."

Meanwhile; Valmont and Hak Foo continued to watch over all of them from a nearby ledge with a pair of binoculars.

"We should attack now, while their guard is down." Hak Foo stated.

"No." Valmont shook his head. "While our young Will has that crystal, they can transform at any moment. We must wait for an ideal opportunity. They may not have taken my offer to join me, but they will soon learn that they should not have underestimated me!"

Later that night

Jackie sat in his own room as he drank some warm tea, when he heard a knock on his door. "Come in."

Jade walked into the room. "Hey Uncle Jackie, you wouldn't happen to have an extra sweater, scarf, and gloves, would you?"

Jade had led Jackie outside to where she had found Blunk. They had given him some extra warm clothes to help the poor Passling stay warm. "Need… coco…" Blunk shivered.

"Here you go." Jade handed him a bottle of hot chocolate, which Blunk didn't hesitate to grab.

"Why are you even here, Blunk?" Jackie asked.

"Blunk don't know." The Passling rolled his eyes in exhaustion. "Blunk only looking for things to trade. Blunk end up in moving box and bam! Blunk here!"

"Should we bring him inside?" Jade asked her uncle.

"I'd rather not run the risk of anyone else seeing him and starting a panic." Jackie answered. "These clothes and hot chocolate should hold him over for the time being."

The two Chans looked in surprise to see a car pulling up to the lodge as Yan Lin got out of the driver's seat as Uncle did the passenger seat.

"Uncle? Miss Lin? What are you doing here?" Jackie asked.

"He made me drive up to prove a silly point." Yan Lin pointed to Caleb as he got out of the backseat of the car.

"I'm no fun, huh? Well just tell that to my skis!" Caleb brandishes a pair of old wooden skis that looked as if they belonged in an old museum.

"You're kidding, right?" Jade scoffed. "Those things look like the deck-plates on the Titanic."

"But why did you bring Uncle?" Jackie asked Yan Lin.

"I figured Jin could use a break." Yan Lin answered as they all began to walk back towards the lodge.

"Waste of time!" Uncle brushed off. "Uncle too old to ski down mountains!"

"Oh, loosen up Uncle, you could actually learn to have some fun for once." Jade cracked as they walked inside.

Blunk meanwhile watched them enter the lodge and was about to follow them in when a pair of hands emerged from the shadows around him to grab the Passling and pull him into the darkness.

The Next Day

Cornelia, Jade, and Irma were with Caleb at the top of a ski slope as the young rebel leader put on the wooden skis that Yan Lin gave him.

"Alright. Ready to have fun." He adjusted his sunglasses.

"Ten bucks says he wipes out in less than two minutes." Jade cracked to the other two girls.

Caleb went down the slope, and true to Jade's word, he had not only lost control, but the wooden skis fell apart and he wiped out hard on the snow face-first.

"Told ya." Jade smirked with Irma as Cornelia felt a tad bit embarrassed for him.

"Those skis certainly held up better than I thought." Irma commented.

A guy rode up on a snowboard next to the downed Caleb. "Whoa, dude, skis are for losers. You want this." He put an extra snowboard down next to Caleb as he continued to ride down the mountain.

Caleb got up with a smile as he took the snowboard. "Ha, a mummer-board!" He stated as Jade, Cornelia, and Irma skied down closer toward him. "You guys didn't tell me it's like mum-boarding!"

Apparently 'mum-boarding' was just like snowboarding because Caleb rode it like a champ down the slope. He even rode off a ledge and flipped in the air three times before landing smoothly and riding down the slope with a confident smile and hands in his pockets.

Needless to say, all three girls were beyond surprised. "Whoa. Okay, I gotta admit, that's pretty cool." Jade commented.

"Yep, we've underestimated Rebel-boy." Irma agreed.

Cornelia meanwhile couldn't take her eyes off Caleb as she continued to watch him. He honestly looked really cool, and before she knew it, a dreamy smile formed on her face. Jade and Irma both noticed the expression on their blonde friend's face as they exchanged knowing smirks.

Meanwhile; in a nearby cave, Blunk was thrown on the ground as both Daolon Wong and Cedric loomed over him.

"Hi… looking good…" Blunk greeted nervously.

"This is not the first time we've seen you with Chan and the Guardians, Passling." Wong kneeled to his level. "You must be rather close to them."

Cedric loomed over as well. "You will tell us everything you know about them; particularly the one with red hair."

Blunk chuckled nervously. "Cedric and Wong mean Ethel? Sorry, she in Denmark. Love Cheese." Blunk was about to walk away, but found his way bared by a pair of Shadowkhan that emerged from the shadows as Cedric roared, indicating he was not amused.

Wong glanced at the Shadowkhan minions. "Find them, their exact locations." The Shadowkhan nodded as they disappeared into the shadows. Wong chuckled. "We are on a mountain after all, accidents are bound to happen all the time in a place like this."

Will tried to steady herself as Matt helped her to stand on her skis. "Okay, you gotta keep your balance." He tried to instruct her. "Shape the skis like a pizza if you want to slow down."

"Okay, yeah I think I got it." Though she blushed a bit as he held her by the shoulders.

"Oh, why are you helping that little girl, Mathew." Both of them glanced at Sondra as she tried to show off some of her long hair. "Wouldn't you prefer to ski down with a real woman?"

Will glared in her direction but tried to ignore her. "No thanks, I think I'm good." Matt said as he got ready himself next to Will, much to Sondra's shock as the two proceeded to ski down the slope.

Meanwhile; Jackie, Yan Lin, and Hay Lin were near Uncle at the top of a smaller and less-steep slope trying to persuade the elderly man to join them.

"Oh, come on Uncle! We're at the baby-slopes right now!" Hay Lin moaned.

"Does Uncle look like Olympic skier to you? I am too old to slide down mountains!"

Jackie sighed as he put a hand on Hay Lin's shoulder. "Uncle is incredibly stubborn; I feel he is fine where he is."

"Let him be, as for me…" Yan Lin smirked as she put on a pair of sunglasses. "It's time for me to carve some powder!" She wasted on time in skiing down the slope.

"See? Grandma has no problem with it." Hay Lin told Uncle, who merely crossed his arms and looked away.

However, what nobody noticed was Valmont and Hak Foo watching from a higher point on the mountain, still with a pair of binoculars.

"Now master?" Hak Foo was becoming impatient.

"Almost… we just need the right opportunity." Valmont assured his henchman.

But it wasn't just Valmont and Hak Foo scheming either as at a higher ledge above them, they had failed to notice a pair of Shadowkhan had already spotted the locations of each of the Guardians and Chan Clan. They bowed their heads as a large plum of dark blue smoke arose from the ground, revealing Daolon Wong and Cedric, with Blunk being held by the giant snake's tail.

From their vantage point, Wong and Cedric could see their enemies as clear as day. "Seems we don't need your information, after all." Cedric told Blunk as he threw him into a pile of snow.

"Gan! Ren! Chui!" Wong had summoned Finn, Ratso, and Chow, in their Dark Chi Warrior forms; though Ratso and Chow were ready for battle, Finn looked a bit annoyed.

"I'm Finn, he's Ratso, that's Chow. Would it kill you guys to learn our names?" Finn questioned irritably.

"Enough with your squabbles! Prepare for battle!" Daolon Wong told his warriors as he used his scepter to cast a powerful spell of dark magic at the snow around the top of the mountain, causing the entire area to shake and quake as the snow began to fall in the form of a large avalanche.

Though the avalanche passed by the five of them, it caught Valmont and Hak Foo by complete surprise as they were swept up in it and pulled down the mountain as the avalanche began to grow in size and force as it continued to fall.

This caught the attention of all the people at the slope as they began to scream and panic once they saw the massive avalanche.

"Back! Everybody back!" Mrs. Knickerbocker got all her students out of the way as the avalanche rolled past them; however our heroes were not so lucky as Jade, Caleb, Taranee, Cornelia, and Irma were among the first to be swept up in it, followed by Jackie, Hay Lin, Uncle, and Yan Lin, with Uncle shouting 'Aiya!' once it hit. Even Will got separated from Matt at some point as she was caught it in it as well and screamed as the avalanche pulled everyone down the mountain.

After what seemed like an eternity, which was really about three minutes, Jackie's hand popped out of a mound of snow as he pulled himself out and looked around as he rubbed the back of his neck when he heard a moan nearby.

Jackie looked in shock to see a hand sticking out of the snow, which he was quick to grab and pull out, what was revealed to be Will as she shook herself.

"Will, are you okay?" He asked urgently as she tried to regain her senses.

"Yeah… what the heck just happened?" Will questioned.

"An avalanche. We should find the others quickly." Jackie said as they were about to walk away, but Will gasped as she saw shadows from some nearby trees moving toward them.

"Um… Jackie?" She nervously pointed her finger toward the moving shadows, which Jackie also saw as he gasped to see ten Shadowkhan appear in front of them.

"The Shadowkhan!?" Jackie exclaimed.

Will gulped. "Why do I have a feeling that avalanche wasn't an accident?"

"That may not have been an accident." A third voice said as a massive anvil was suddenly dropped on the Shadowkhan, destroying them, much to Will and Jackie's surprise as they glanced up to see the Monkey King descending from the sky on a parachute. "But that was!" He laughed as he landed on the anvil's surface.

Jackie was beyond surprised as he recognized the Monkey King instantly, while Will just looked stupefied. "Is… is that… a monkey?"

"Not just any…. That is the Monkey King!" Jackie stated.

"That's right baby!" He spun himself to quickly change into a suit and hairstyle identical to Elvis, complete with a guitar. "The King is back!" He strung his guitar. "Uh-huh. Thank you very much."

"Wait… Monkey King?" Will questioned. "As in that evil puppet guy that turned you into a puppet?! I thought Jade said he was buried in concrete or something!"

"He must have escaped." Jackie assumed.

"Eyup!" The Monkey King confirmed as he was in his normal attire with a stage-hook as he quickly pulled Will in closer toward him. "Ooh Chan, who's this pretty little red-head you got here?"

"Get off me!" Will tried to pull herself away, but Jackie was already on it as he stood protectively in front of her to face the Monkey King directly.

"How did you even know where we were?" Jackie questioned.

"Let's just say… someone you know, ratted you out."

Meanwhile; Tohru was in a massive rat costume, running on his hands and legs on a hamster-wheel on the roof of Uncle's Rare Finds.

"Stop… stop! Please… Please! Make it stop!" Tohru exclaimed as he sweated up a storm.

"Um…. And you went to all the trouble to see us… why?" Jackie questioned.

"Let's see, maybe… oh a little something I'd like to call… REVENGE!" The Monkey King quickly donned a sci-fi space suit and pointed two massive sci-fi blasters at the pair.

"So… would this qualify as a… bad day?" Will asked nervously.

"Yes." Jackie confirmed in an equally nervous tone.

Meanwhile, in an area surrounded by pine-trees, Hay Lin was helping to pull her grandmother out of a pile of snow as Jade did the same for Uncle.

"Grandma, are you okay?!" Hay Lin asked urgently.

"I am fine." Yan Lin assured.

"Man, talk about a snow day." Jade commented.

"This was not a natural occurrence." Yan Lin said. "I fear this avalanche was caused on purpose."

Her instincts proved to be true as the giant form of Cedric emerged from the ground with a roar, gazing down at the four individuals.

"Cedric?!" Jade and Hay Lin exclaimed at the same time.

"Snake-man cause avalanche." Uncle glared at Cedric. "How did you know where to find us?"

"I've been observing you all for quite some time." Cedric hissed. "And if there was a time to remove you all from my side, that time is now…." Cedric's ranting was cut off however by a familiar yell as Hak Foo flew through the air and landed a flying kick in Cedric's face to knock him back down as the Black Tiger landed on the ground gracefully.

"Hak Foo?!" Jade, Hay Lin, Uncle, and even Yan Lin did not expect to see him here as well.

"Do not trouble yourself with a snake, for it is the Tiger that is the apex predator!" Hak Foo glared at the four, but quickly jumped to avoid a tail-lashing from Cedric before landing behind the group and faced Cedric.

"Warrior, this is none of your concern! Leave now! You will not interfere!" Cedric warned.

"You are the one who is interfering, beast!" Hak Foo shot back. "Chan, the Guardians, and their allies are mine to slay! Stand in my way, and you will join them as well!" He took a combat stance as Cedric narrowed his eyes at them.

And while Jade and Hay Lin looked nervous as they were all literally caught in the middle, Yan Lin glared a bit while Uncle was ready for battle.

"So, the Snake-man and Tiger-man want a piece of Uncle?" The elderly Chi-Wizard brandished his trusty blowfish.

Meanwhile, in an area higher up the mountain, Taranee provided some fire from her palms to illuminate the area where she, Cornelia, Caleb, and Irma, all were as they seemed to be buried underneath the snow.

"Everyone alright?" Caleb asked.

"Define alright." Cornelia grumbled.

"Come on, we gotta find the others." Taranee said. "Irma, help me melt this…" Before they could even think about getting out however, several tendrils made entirely out of dark magic shot through the snow to ensnare each of them and pull them out into the open before throwing them against the ground.

"It would seem our strategy was an effective one." Daolon Wong mused as he and his Dark Chi warriors stood to face the recovering heroes. "Together you are formidable; but divided, you are all but helpless."

"Hey, we're supposed to be on vacation here!" Irma complained. "Is it too much to ask for just a weekend without having to worry about the Forces of Darkness!?"

"Sorry kids, but Phobos has really been riding us to get rid of you." Chow said as he and his friends began to walk toward the group.

"Nothing personal though." Ratso quickly said. "We're actually gonna miss ya."

"Yeah, that doesn't help." Cornelia muttered.

However, before the fight could begin, Finn noticed a mound of snow moving next to them and a muffled grunt, indicating that someone else was with them.

"Hang on guys, we got ourselves a straggler." Finn reached his hand into the snow to pull the person out, but who he pulled out was the one person nobody was expecting.

"Get your hands off me!" Valmont stood up straight as he pulled himself up.

"Valmont?!" Irma, Cornelia, Taranee, and Caleb all exclaimed, even Blunk was stunned.

"What the… Big V?!" Finn questioned as he and his friends were surprised to see him here as well.

Despite their newfound appearance, Valmont could easily recognize his old employees. "Finn?! Ratso!? Chow?! What in the world happened to you?!"

"Uh long story Valmont…" Chow said but Ratso was quick to sum it up.

"After that whole auction-thing, we got pulled into another dimension, and now we're enslaved to an evil prince that wants us to kill those fairy girls right there." Ratso pointed to the three Guardians, as well as Caleb.

Valmont could only drag his palm down his face. "This is why we don't work with magic anymore."

"Seriously, are you still stalking us?!" Cornelia exclaimed as she and her friends were really getting sick of Valmont's face.

"You really need to get yourself a hobby." Taranee advised.

"Enough!" Wong shouted as he addressed his warriors. "Forget that man, slay the Guardians!" He ordered as the Dark Hand trio brandished their weapons and went on the attack.

Will took out the Heart of Kandrakar as she stood next to Jacky. "Guardians…" The crystal was slapped out of her hands by the Monkey King as he was now clad in a Grim Reaper outfit, with his staff having turned into a scythe.

"Duh, bam, bam! Bum-bu-bum-ba-bum-bu-bum!" The Monkey King hummed the Grim Reaper's theme song as he spun his scythe before swinging it down at the duo, forcing Will and Jackie to scatter.

The Monkey King went straight for Jackie first, swinging his scythe at him, which Jackie was quick to avoid with several flips and back-flips before jumping up a nearby pine-tree, which the Monkey King cut down with his scythe like tissue paper, causing it to fall down with Jackie still hanging on. Will tried to grab the Monkey King from behind but he flipped and grabbed her shoulders with his feet before flipping her over toward a tree just as he threw a pair of bolas from his robe to tie Will to the tree.

Jackie had grabbed a pair of branches and twirled them like batons as he went on the attack, but the Monkey King blocked the attack with the staff of his scythe before twirling and spinning to slam the back end into Jackie's gut and knock him back. The Monkey King then turned his attention back to the tied-up Will.

The red-haired girl looked more than a bit nervous as the Monkey King loomed over her with his scythe. "You know… for someone who's supposed to be the 'King of Comedy'… this is a pretty morbid revenge… don't you think?"

The Monkey King blinked a few times before pulling down his hood. "Sweet simpering simian!" He threw away his entire reaper's robe to reveal a Hawaiian shirt with a Lei around his neck. "You have a point." He put a Lei around Will's neck and one around Jackie's before grabbing them both. "We're gonna laugh it up at a luau!"

"But we are on mountain at a ski chalet." Jackie put in.

"I know! Irony makes funny!" The Monkey King stated as he pulled them both away, not noticing Blunk stick his head out of the snow as he held the pulsating Heart of Kandrakar in his hands.

"Charging Rhino Flattens Serpent!" Hak Foo ran and leapt to deliver a powerful head-butt Cedric's stomach, sending the shapeshifter falling back but he was quick to recover and swing his tail at him, but Hak Foo had leapt onto and wrapped his arms around Cedric's neck. "Boa Constrictor Squeeze!" He tried to squeeze Cedric, but the humanoid serpent grabbed Hak Foo from behind and used his own strength to pry Hak Foo off and send him flying through multiple trees.

Cedric hissed in pain as he was pelted by multiple chi-blasts from Uncle's blowfish. Though the blasts hurt him, they also angered him as he tried to slam his fist down on Uncle who backflipped out of the way to avoid it. Jade and Hay Lin were about to run and help him, only for Hak Foo to land and bard their way.

"You aren't going anywhere." Hak Foo glared mercilessly.

"Hey, we're all fighting the snake guy to you know!" Jade exclaimed.

"Yeah, so maybe we can… you know… team up? Temporary truce?" Hay Lin said nervously.

"No." Hak Foo said simply. He was about to attack when a hand pinched his shoulder-neck area from behind, causing him to fall unconscious face-first, revealing Yan Lin.

"Didn't your mother ever teach you to respect young girls?" She teased the unconscious Black Tiger.

"Whoa, Grandma what was that? Some kind of fancy marital arts technique?" Hay Lin asked as she and Jade looked quite amazed at how easily she incapacitated Hak Foo.

"Nah, the Vulcan Neck Pinch." Yan Lin smiled. "I leaned it form Star Trek."

Hay Lin was simply stunned while Jade smirked. "Hay Lin, have I ever told you how awesome your Grandma is?"

They turned their attention back to Uncle's fight against Cedric as he continued to leap and avoid every punch and tail-swipe the massive shapeshifter lashed out at him, only for Uncle to jump completely over Cedric and pelt him more with chi-blasts. Cedric roared at the old man.

"You, insignificant wizard! You cannot stop me!" Cedric exclaimed. "I shall…"

"GAINWAY!"

Everyone looked in shock to see an incoming snowball the size of an evergreen tree roll down the hill quickly with the Monkey King running backwards on top of it as he cackled up a storm. Cedric could only look in shock just before the snow boulder hit him, and the unconscious Hak Foo soon after before it rolled further down the mountain, taking the two all the way down the slope.

"What the…?" Jade questioned but her eyes widened in shock as she saw the one responsible land dramatically in front of them. "The Monkey King!?"

"As in that evil puppet you told us about?!" Hay Lin questioned. "Sure doesn't look like a puppet!"

"How did Monkey King know where to find us?" Uncle questioned as he narrowed his eyes at the mischief maker.

"I tickled-tortured a pal of yours into telling me." The Monkey King then threw a large net which encompassed Jade, Hay Lin, Uncle, and Yan Lin, before he threw them all on a dogsled that came out of nowhere. "And that is only gonna be the opening act to the hilarious payback gig I got in store for you! Now mush!" He whipped the sled-dogs as he took his prisoners up the mountain toward the top.

Ratso slammed his hammer down onto the snowy ground in front of Cornelia and Caleb as they tried to separate. Ratso then went straight for the recovering Caleb as he swung his mallet at him, but Caleb was quick enough to avoid each of his hits before sweeping his feet to knock Ratso down, however Ratso pulled back one foot and kicked Caleb down before getting back up and raising his hammer to crush him.

"Get off him!" Cornelia leapt onto his back and tried to wrap her arms around his neck, but Ratso tried to shake her off and reach behind, leaving him open for Caleb to deliver a kick to his chest.

Finn swung his bladed weapon towards Taranee who tried to duck and avoid it. As she ducked, she created a small fireball which she threw at Finn's feet to melt the snow, causing him to lose his footing and fall. Taranee then tried to run and gain some distance, but Finn quickly got back up and threw his weapon at the ledge above her, causing a great deal amount of snow to fall down toward her, which she could barely avoid as she rolled out of the way.

Irma found herself backed against a literal wall as Chow tried to swing his staff at her, but she ducked and crawled under his legs before running to get away, but Chow threw his staff out which spun like a helicopter blade to hit her legs, causing her to trip and land face-first in the snow. As she tried to pull herself up, Chow loomed over her with his staff.

"Hey, thirsty?" Irma asked as she generated some water from the snow around her and threw it in Chow's face, disorienting him slightly, and giving her the opportunity to run away.

Daolon Wong watched this with an annoyed sneer. "Imbued with dark magic and transformed into powerful warriors… yet they cannot hope to defeat children?!" Wong was ready to blast them all with magic himself, but Valmont suddenly appeared and pulled him by the shoulder, causing him to miss his blast as he glared at the crime lord. "Fool, you shall suffer for your interference!"

"My interference?!" Valmont questioned. "You transformed my Enforcers into samurai-zombies and reduced me to having to attempt to recruit teenagers into my syndicate!" He grabbed Wong by his robe and pulled him close. "I demand you return Finn, Ratso, and Chow to me at once!"

In direct response, the Dark Chi Wizard blasted Valmont and sent him crashing into a stone wall and was ready to blast him into oblivion. "Why would Daolon Wong, most malevolent of Dark Chi Masters, heed the demands of an insignificant pick-pocket?!"

"Hey!"

Before Wong could even react, all three of the Dark Hand trio's weapons were shot towards him and telekinetically pointed directly at his head as they glared at the wizard.

"Ease-up, sweaty! No one touches Big V with us around." Finn threatened.

"At least Valmont bothered to learn our names." Chow added.

"And he was, sometimes nice to us, unlike you… boss." Ratso glared at Wong.

Wong's shocked look turned into one of rage. "I am not your boss." He used his own magic to make the weapons of his Dark Chi warriors vanish. "I am your master!" He blasted them with his dark magic, causing all three Dark Chi Enforcers to holler in pain.

Meanwhile, Taranee, Caleb, Cornelia, and Irma could only look in surprised expressions about what they just saw.

"Did… did Wong's warriors just threaten him?" Caleb asked, not expecting to see something like that happen.

"Well I mean… they did use to work for Valmont and Phobos did basically enslave them." Taranee pointed out.

"You know, you kinda have to respect that sort of loyalty." Irma admitted.

"Yeah, let's show them our respect by getting away from here." Cornelia urged as they attempted to sneak off.

Suddenly, the snow underneath them to fall and open revealing a massive jack-in-the-box that opened up to reveal the Monkey King, with his bottom half being that of a spring as he wrapped all four of them in a bear-hug with a cackle before pulling them down into his jack-in-the-box that quickly vanished; much to the surprise of Wong as he finished punishing his Dark Chi Enforcers, who vanished once he was done.

Using this surprise, Valmont attempted to make a tactical retreat, only for him to slip and fall down a ledge, where the crime lord comically screamed as he slid down the slope and rolled in the snow, building it all around him like a giant snowball that continued to roll down the mountain.

The Monkey King danced at the summit of Mount Heatherfield, the hole leading to the innards of the dormant volcano just behind him as he was dressed like a fire dancer and spun two staffs with flames at the end all the while the heroes were tied to magically rotating sticks over several fire-places. Will and Jackie were tied on one, Jade and Hay Lin, Uncle and Yan Lin, Irma and Cornelia, Taranee and Caleb.

"So, this is the Monkey King?" Cornelia asked as they all continued to rotate.

"He looks look more like a court jester than a king." Caleb observed.

"He refers to himself as the 'king of comedy'." Jackie gave a quick explanation.

"Yeah he's supposed to be funny." Jade commented with lowered eyelids.

"What part of him eating us is funny?!" Taranee exclaimed.

"I do not believe he intends to eat us, more to roast us alive." Yan Lin said.

"Not helping Grandma!" Hay Lin exclaimed frightfully.

"Hey uh… Will? Maybe you could Guardian us up?" Irma asked nervously.

"I can't. I lost the Heart." Will looked down but looked in surprise along with Jackie to see Blunk tunnel his way out of the snow underneath them.

"Blunk?!" Nearly everyone exclaimed out of shock.

"Girls loose Heart, but Blunk find it." The Passling presented the Heart of Kandrakar to them, much to their elated surprise.

"Blunk you are a life-saver! Literally!" Jade exclaimed with a wide grin.

Blunk smiled as he put the crystal in Will's hand, and she said the magic words. "Guardians Unite!"

The Monkey King stopped his dancing as he looked in actual surprise at the flash of pink light. When the light vanished; Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin had not only transformed into WITCH, but Jackie, Jade, Uncle, Caleb, and Yan Lin had also been freed as all ten of them faced the Monkey King.

"Ooh this a surprise. Little fairies decide to crash my party!" The Monkey King rubbed his palms together with an eager grin.

"I've had enough monkey business for one day. Let's get him!" Will exclaimed as they all charged in.

Taranee was the first to attack with a series of fireballs, but the Monkey King pulled out a fire-extinguisher which he blasted out like a hose that not only extinguished Taranee's attack, but also hit Taranee in the air and sent her crashing into the ground. Suddenly, multiple vines shot out of the ground and entangled the Monkey King, curtsey of Cornelia.

"Somebody call a gardener?" The Monkey King cracked as he pulled out a weedwhacker and cut away at the vines before jumping at Cornelia and swing his weapon at her, which she ducked to avoid. As he tried to swing it down on her again, Caleb suddenly appeared and used a rock to smash the blades before trying to punch the Monkey King, but he flipped backwards, while smacking his feet into Caleb's chin and sending him crashing into Cornelia.

Irma flew above the Monkey King as she thrusted her hands together to create a large douse of water to try and hit the mischief maker, but he actually jumped on it and began to ride on it with a surfboard. "Surf's up!" He cracked as he used his own magic to redirect the water stream back up to Irma, which he rode on with his surfboard before slamming his board right into the face of the shocked Irma, sending her crashing towards Yan Lin.

As the Monkey King landed, he was greeted with a flying punch from Will, but he backflipped in the air, and landed in a karate uniform as he brandished his staff and made a hand-gesture to bring it on. Will, along with Jackie and Jade attempted to charge the Monkey King with a series of punches and kicks, but he was quick enough to block and parry all three of them with his staff before spinning it like a helicopter-blade and slammed it across all three of their faces and knock them down simultaneously.

"It was my honor to defeat you." The Monkey King mocked in a fake-karate voice before laughing.

Hay Lin tried to create a tornado around him with her air powers as she flew above the villain, but the Monkey King pulled out a pogo-stick and used it to jump up to Hay Lin's height where he quipped his fist into a boxing glove and punched Hay Lin in the face to knock her down closer to Uncle as he tried to blast the Monkey King with a chi-blast from his blow, fish but he leapt backwards to avoid it.

"Hey Uncle, can't you use your magic to turn him back into a puppet?" Hay Lin asked as Blunk tried to help her up, before she received a dope-slap from Uncle. "Ow!"

"With what spell? Uncle did not do research on the Monkey King! No time to prepare!" The old man protested.

Everyone regrouped as they faced the Monkey King again. "This is ridiculous, we didn't even land a single punch on this guy!" Cornelia complained.

"Of course, it's ridiculous Blondie. Comedy and humor are sort of my thing, ya know?" The Monkey King reminded.

"Comedy? I don't see anything funny about you at all." Caleb commented.

"Agreed. I do not think he is so funny." Uncle said as well.

"Oooh, that hurts." The Monkey King feigned a hurtful expression. "But, you guys are gonna love my next punchline, cause I'm gonna make Mount Heatherfield here blow sky high!"

"Wait... he's gonna blow the mountain?!" Will exclaimed out of shock.

"No, he can't. The Monkey King can do a lot of things, but he can't activate a volcano." Yan Lin said.

"Yeah, and this volcano has been dormant for years. He couldn't trigger it even if he tried." Taranee added.

"Just watch me, four-eyes!" The Monkey King inched to her face before flipping backwards towards the hole that served as the mouth to the dormant volcano. "I know a family recipe." He had a chef's hat as he pulled out supplies from his bag and read the list of ingredients aloud. "Magic monkey syrup, pure cane sugar, one carton of aged goat milk, an untuned Hawaiian guitar, fine-tuned tuning fork, a tuna on rye, hold the mayo…"

Suddenly, the ground behind the Monkey King burst open as Cedric emerged, much to the surprise of the Guardians and Chan Clan as the large shapeshifter grabbed the Monkey King.

"Interfering primate! You will not meddle in our affairs!" Cedric warned, but the Monkey King slapped his large hand away.

"Paws off the fur, Scales! I'm busy here!" The Monkey King protested. Cedric however roared as he lunged his massive fist at the Monkey King who back flipped to avoid it.

"Uh… maybe we should let them fight amongst themselves." Irma suggested.

"Good idea." Jackie agreed as everyone else tried to sneak away.

Cedric grabbed the Monkey King and pinned him to the ground. "And to the winner!" The Monkey King announced as he shoved a cream pie into Cedric's face, letting the Monkey King escape from his grip, but Cedric shook the cream off his face as he used his tail to grab the Monkey King by his foot and hang him upside down as they continued their struggle.

"Huh, never thought I'd actually be rooting for Cedric of all people." Jade commented as they were about to get away.

However, as the Guardians, Chan Clan, and even Blunk, attempted to sneak away, Daolon Wong suddenly appeared in a plum of blue smoke in front of them. They didn't even get a chance to react as Wong used his magic to quickly ensnare all eleven of them and liquify the ground underneath them, trapping them from the neck-down, before the ground solidified.

"On second thought, go Monkey King." Jade's eyelids lowered.

That actually caught Wong's attention. "Monkey King?" He turned around to see said mischief maker actually knock down Cedric with a boxing-glove punch to the face before he faced the Dark Chi Wizard. "Ah, I should have recognized the antics of the famed prankster puppet made flesh."

"And I got a payback gig with an exploding volcano finale that you and your reptilian friend over there are messing up!" The Monkey King complained, pointing back to the recovering Cedric.

"So, why do I see no lava?" Daolon Wong questioned with a chuckle.

The Monkey King looked in surprise as he saw that his spell had not even activated yet. He checked over his recipe before gasping as he was missing one key ingredient. "I'm still three pounds of wood short of a gusher!"

"Then for your lousy spell making, you shall return to wood." Wong mocked as he cast his dark magic from his scepter to drain the life out of the Monkey King.

"EVERYBODY'S A CRITIC!" The Monkey King screamed before he was turned back into a puppet and fell to the ground, completely lifeless.

"Come on buddy, say something pal. Anything." One of the Construction workers who dug up the Monkey King tried to move the puppet of his friend, but the spell had worn off and he had turned back to normal.

"Get your hand out of my shirt, Mac."

Wong and Cedric looked down amusingly at the puppet. "Now that the pest has been removed, it is time for…" Cedric's ranting was cut off as the ground suddenly exploded; due to Cornelia's earth-powers and the heroes were all free as Taranee, Cornelia, Hay Lin, and Irma readied their respective elemental powers while Jackie, Will, Jade, Uncle, Caleb, and even Yan Lin made martial art stances as Blunk clung to Jackie's back.

"You guys wanna go? Well, let's go!" Jade challenged as they were all ready for a fight.

Cedric glared at the heroes with Daolon Wong, but the humanoid serpent's eye drew towards the Monkey King puppet as he sneered evilly. "Wong, what was it the Monkey King needed to finish his spell, again?"

"Three pounds of wood. But what…" Wong glanced at the puppet himself as he smirked evilly as well.

Cedric batted his tail to knock the puppet directly into the mouth of the volcano, where it fell to meet the lava that was already built up by the Monkey King's previous ingredients. The second it made contact, the doll began to glow, and the lava began to quickly boil as the ground began to shake.

"Did… did they just…" Hay Lin stuttered.

"Activate the volcano? I'm pretty sure they did." Taranee answered in a meek tone.

"Goodbye Guardians, Jackie Chan; we shall not meet again." Cedric sneered as Wong used his magic to teleport himself and Cedric away from the area as the ground shook up even more.

"Everybody in the air! Now!" Jackie exclaimed as Will grabbed onto Jackie and took to the skies with Blunk clinging to him. Hay Lin grabbed her grandmother, Irma grabbed Jade, Cornelia took Caleb, and Taranee took Uncle just as the mouth exploded and sent a stream of lava straight into the air, higher than the Guardians could fly over in time with their passengers.

"Hot-Cha!" Uncle exclaimed as everyone else screamed before the wave of lava engulfed them and everything else within a small radius. But the lava suddenly stopped and didn't even make it five feet down the mountain. Nor was it even boiling hot as everyone stuck their heads out of the 'lava', and they were completely fine. "Cha is not so hot." Uncle said in confusion.

"Shouldn't we be burnt alive or something?" Caleb questioned. "This lava isn't even hot."

Everyone was beyond confused, even as Blunk chewed some of the 'lava' in his mouth and smiled. "Oooh, lava tastes good."

"Probably because it isn't lava at all." Yan Lin said.

Hay Lin was among the first to pick up a piece and plop into her mouth out of curiosity before her eyes widened and she smiled. "Hey, it's cherry gelatin!"

Irma tried some herself. "I'll be danged, it is!"

Taranee gave a huge sigh as she fell back. "I'm not even gonna try to think about the logic in this. Or rather, the lack of thereof."

"I'm just glad we're not burnt alive." Cornelia muttered. "But this stuff is gonna be a pain to get out of my hair." She tried to pull the sticky substance out of her hair.

"Okay, I gotta admit, this was actually pretty funny." Will snickered.

"Yeah, mostly cause the bad guys' plan backfired." Jade snickered as well as she and Will exchanged a high-five.

Jackie smiled as he noticed the Monkey King puppet incased in the gelatin right next to him. "It looks like the last laugh is on the Monkey King."

Later that evening

All the students met up at the lodge where everyone was staying as Mrs. Knickerbocker did a head count, all students and chaperones were accounted for and unharmed, save for Sondra who appeared to have sprained her leg slightly in the avalanche.

A few guys tried to help her injured leg up on the coach. "Ow! Careful you doofs! That hurts!" However, she and everyone else gasped as her accent had appeared to have changed. She no longer carried the fake Swedish voice but sounded like a typical girl from the States.

"Did you guys hear that?" Matt asked everyone with a slight glaring expression.

Jade smirked. "Your ankle might be sprained, but I think your 'accent' is broken, Miss Swiss."

Sondra winced as Hay Lin looked at her sweater and saw the tag. "Dry-clean only. Grandma's goat-hair, huh?"

"Yeah we should get you to the bol'nitsa." Taranee said.

"And what does that mean?" Sondra questioned.

"Hospital." Taranee answered. "You said you spoke Russian. Oh, and by the way, no cashmere goats in Switzerland, unless you're from the Himalayas as well."

Sondra scowled. "Oh, who cares? As soon as I reach my parents, I'm switching schools anyway. So, I don't have some dumb accent, so what?" Most of the students began to walk away.

"What a total looser." Elyon commented as most of the group left the room.

"Desperate for attention, much?" Alchemy added.

"No duh!" Cornelia added. "Pretending to be all 'Miss Fascinating-Swiss-person'."

Irma looked annoyed to see some guys, including Martin, still surrounding Sondra. "Weren't you listening?! She's a fake!"

"But her face and shinning lustrous hair are oh-so-real." Martin said in an enamored tone, much to Irma's irritation.

Jade patted Irma on the back. "Don't worry, she'll be out of our hair in a week at the latest, then you'll have your stalker back."

"Not funny Jade." Irma's eyelids lowered.

As Will walked down the hall as she heard Matt calling her name from behind. "Hey Will." She turned to see his concerned expression. "I'm glad you're alright. Kinda lost sight of you after that whole avalanche-thing."

"Yeah, I'm okay don't worry." Will assured.

Matt smiled as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Some exciting ski trip, huh?"

"You have no idea." Will commented.

They both chuckled slightly as Matt spoke. "So, when we get back, maybe you wanna… hang out sometime?"

Will tried her best to contain her excitement as she smiled. "Sure, sounds like fun!" She reached into her pocket to pull out a bag of a familiar red substance. "Cherry gelatin?"

Matt laughed a bit but accepted it none-the-less.

Soon after; the six girls all met up with Jackie, Caleb, Uncle, and Yan Lin outside the lodge to meet Captain Black as Jackie handed him a plastic box with the Monkey King puppet inside, still incased in gelatin.

"I'll make sure this is locked in the vault back at Section 13." Captain Black assured.

"Thank you." Jackie nodded. "Any sign of Valmont?"

"No, we searched the entire area. He's gone." Captain Black answered.

"The guy knows where we all live." Taranee commented. "I know he's no Phobos or anything, but still…"

"Don't worry, I already have agents watching each of your residences." Captain Black told them. "If Valmont so much as sneezes in your families' direction, we'll be there with some tissue and a pair of handcuffs."

"Thanks Captain Black." Irma thanked.

"And what about our other problem?" Cornelia asked as Will used the Heart of Kandrakar on the map.

"There are no portals nearby." The red-head leader of the Guardians reported.

"Meaning they didn't come here from Meridian." Caleb said.

"Nor have they returned to Meridian either." Uncle added.

"So, where did they go?" Hay Lin asked.

"In all likely hood, back to Heatherfield." Yan Lin assumed. "Cedric is still in hiding there, waiting to locate the missing princess."

"So, we'll just have to find her first." Jade stated.

"Easier said than done." Will commented.

"Yes, our mission is still far from over." Jackie said.

Heatherfield – Bookstore

The bookstore that served as the cover for Cedric was closed and empty as Daolon Wong and Cedric, in his disguise as Rick Hoffman, appeared via the dark magic of Wong.

"The Guardians and Chan still live. Prince Phobos will not be pleased." Cedric said in an annoyed hiss.

"So long as we remain in the shadows, we still have a chance to locate the heir first." Wong said. "Soon, darkness will begin its reign."

Meanwhile, as the two continued to plot, neither of them noticed a black car driving past the bookstore, driven by none other than Hak Foo as Valmont sat in the passenger seat, with a blanket wrapped around him, as he shivered with a cold and held a cup of hot chocolate in his hands.

"It would seem… we must recruit… new Enforcers." Valmont shivered. "But I swear… the Dark Hand… will rise again!" He vowed before he sneezed.

Done.

Well, that was fun! One big battle royale between the Chan Clan and WITCH against Cedric and Wong, Hak Foo and Valmont, and even the Monkey King! I hope you all enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.

So, Valmont is not only aware of the girls' identities, he knows their residency as well, but he's not going to target their families or anything as they are being protected by Section 13, but Valmont is going to be looking for new Enforcers, and he will get some. I'm not saying who however, but you will see in the chapter after the next one.

Also, I'm sure that many of you have noticed Will maturing a bit more in my series as in the cannon show, she made a bet with that snob Sondra about sitting next to Matt on the bus, but here, she just simply ignored the girl and didn't give her any attention whatsoever. So it seems like that Jackie is already having a positive influence on not just Will, but some of the other girls as well. What's going to happen next for our group of heroes? Find out next time on J-WITCH!