While everyone slept, Jade practiced her magic in the junkyard. It had been a few hours since they sealed Tso Lan the Moon Demon and the Queen realized ridding the competition might be more harder than she realized. The Moon Demon's gravitational magic would have been enough to crush all her magic spells. Not even the Demon Archive could save her for long. "Tch. If I am to become Queen of the World, I am going to have to ante up my training."

She took some recently translated pages from the book and read them over. They were just some descriptions of demons, ancient artifacts, evil curses, stupid "oooooohhhh, beware!" crud. Then she saw something that a new technique called Dark Blast. "'Strike your enemies at multiple directions.' Interesting."

Jade set up some practice dummies made from the scraps of cars and imagined them to be Valmont/Shendu, Ratso, Finn, Chow and Hak Foo. She let out a yell as she jumped in the air and spun around. Blasts of electricity shot out from her body and struck the targets, destroying them. When the attack was finished, she lowered herself to the ground. All of a sudden, she felt dizzy and fell to her hands and knees. "Whew. This must really take a lot of energy out of me. I'll have to be more careful."

The Queen decided to begin another spell that required less...energy. If only she could find one that was translated however. "I hate that program sometimes." Sometimes? How about all the time? It didn't help that she had school tomorrow, which means putting up with boring lessons and teasing kids. But then she had an idea. She had learned another new trick that didn't require so much energy and she decided school was the perfect place to test it out.

(!)

At school, Jade listened to Miss Hartman drone on about...honestly, Jade wasn't really paying attention. Instead, she was looking at the pages of her Demon Archive. "'Shadow manipulation'. Perfect time to try it out too," she whispered.

"Try what out?" she heard the irritating voice of her classmate, Drew.

"Oh, nothing," she said, putting her book in her backpack.

"Whacha reading?" he asked.

"Oh, nothing you might find interesting. Waaay too above your reading level."

"Ooh, so daring," he teased. "Almost as daring as those ninja stories of yours you make up." He laughed. Of course, he would not believe the stories of her, Jackie and Uncle's adventures. Jade was used to it by now. But she still wished he believed her sometimes. "Hey," he continued. "I noticed that the tattoo on your ankle is gone. Must have hurt a lot to get it removed." He laughed again.

Jade ignored him. She wanted to continue reading, but knowing the teacher, she will probably take it from her if she caught her.

"Jade?" she suddenly heard Miss Hartman say. She looked up and asked, "Yes?"

"Did you hear what I said?"

"Uh..."

"Probably not," Drew said. "Because she was too busy reading."

Squealer.

"Jade? Where is this book?" Miss Hartman asked.

Jade went, "Tch. I put it away. What did I do wrong?"

"This book is clearly a distraction. Otherwise, you would have paid more attention. Now, keep it in your backpack or I'll confiscate it the next time I see it out."

Jade glared at Drew, who just smiled tauntingly. She will deal with him later, but first...

When the teacher returned to her desk, an odd thing happened. Instead of sitting in her chair, she found herself on her butt and feeling sore. Everybody laughed at Miss Hartman's misfortune. Everybody except Jade, who just smirked at her accomplishment.

When the bell rang, signaling class was over, everybody got up and started walking out the door. But when Drew was about to walk out, he felt something snag his foot. The next thing he knew, he was lying flat on his face. The loud crunch from his nose indicated it was broken. As he was sent to the nurse's office, crying and bleeding, no one noticed the slithering tendril return to Jade's shadow.

(!)

From that moment on, strange things began to happen at the school. Students began tripping on invisible objects, desks began to move by themselves, doors slammed in people's faces without anyone being seen, and people suffering from the agony of wedgies and being hung by their underwear. It got so bad that everyone started to believe the school was haunted.

And nobody suspected Jade Chan was behind any of the attacks.

(!)

When she got back home from school, Jade was ecstatic. She had mastered a new power, and best of all, she had used it to terrorize one of the things she hated. Not as much as she hated demons, but she still didn't like it. School. She didn't needed to be educated at that worn down building taking the orders of an older woman who had it out for her. No, thanks to her Demon Archive, she was learning new and wondrous things. Still, she cursed herself for being too careless and bringing the book with her to school. From now on, she would not bring it with her on school days; it would stay in her room under the floorboard beneath her bed. Still, that didn't mean it would stop her from pulling more pranks on the school with her newfound shadow power.