It was late at night when Jade had finished translating the next pages of her Demon Archive. Aside from learning a few fighting techniques, she now learned a defense technique. Using the shadows of herself and others, she can now form a solid barrier. With Jackie on a trip to find some ancient armor, she decided now was the best time to learn new spells from the book. She turned the page and was about to learn a new technique when...

"WHO IS READING LATE AT NIGHT?! YOU ARE FLIPPING PAGES TOO LOUD!"

Jade quickly hid the book under the floor board and dove into bed. She growled in frustration. Uncle had not slept in five days and quite frankly, it was killing her and Tohru as much as it would kill anyone who doesn't sleep in nearly a week. She decided it was probably best to turn in for now when...

"JACKIE! YOU ARE TOO LOUD!"

There was a yell of surprise and a loud crash. Jackie was home. "Uncle," he said, irritated. "You are the one who is yelling!"

Uncle gasped. "You dishonor the only known existing relic of the Eight Immortals!"

"You caused me to drop it!"

Uncle gasped again. "You dishonor your uncle!"

Jade came down the stairs, bags under her eyes. "Hey Jackie..." She saw a blue and gold suit of armor at the bottom of the stairs, but honestly, she was too tired to care.

"Jade, what are you doing up?"

"Old Yeller is keeping us all up. He hasn't slept in days."

"Tohru!" Uncle shouted. "Where is my tea?!" Tohru, dressed in pajamas and snoring like a T-Rex, poured the tea...and missed completely, spilling tea all over the floor. "AI-YAH!"

"Uncle," Jackie asked. "Why won't you sleep?"

"Because I have demons on the brain," he said gravely. "I lay down and all I hear is, 'Chi spell! Chi spell! Chi spell!'"

"Have you tried counting sheep?"

"Demons always eat them."

Enough was enough for Jackie. "Uh...well, thanks for watching Jade," he said, leaving the shop.

"Where are you going?" Uncle asked. "We must study the Immortals' Amor and discover what magic it holds!"

"Now?! It is 3:00 AM, Uncle. You should really try to sleep." Jackie's phone rang.

"HOW CAN I SLEEP WITH ALL THIS NOISE?!" Uncle left the room, giving everyone temporary peace and quiet.

Jade heard the phone conversation with Jackie and Captain Black. The Dark Hand had been spotted in Spain. Normally, she would beg Jackie to go on adventures, but at this moment, she just wanted to get far away from Uncle.

"Uncle," Jackie said. "I am off to Spain! I will call you for the chi spell once I find out which demon we are dealing with." He picked up a suit case and ran for the door when...

"Take the armor," Uncle said. "It could be of some use."

"But you have to discover what magic it holds!"

"HOW CAN I DO THAT IF YOU TAKE IT WITH YOU?!"

Jackie spluttered, stuttered, then groaned in defeat, taking the heavy, bulky armor with him. He must have felt silly carrying the darn thing.

(!)

While Jackie was on a plane to Spain, Jade stayed in her room, reading the book. "Jade! Whatever you are reading you are reading too loud!" Jade groaned. So she whispered. "Still too loud!" Jade growled. So she silently read. "I can hear your thoughts! STOP READING!"

Jade let out a roar of anger. Using her shadow powers, she teleported herself to the junkyard and blasted a pile of garbage with her dark bomb. "I can't learn the secrets of the Archive with that old fart shouting his heart out! There must be a way to unplug Uncle." Then she remembered one way. She smirked wickedly.

(!)

She prepared a "special" tea with various ingredients she read from Uncle's books and blew on it to cool it. "Call Uncle a lumberjack cause he's going to be sawing logs." Before she left with the tea, she took an object and hid it behind her back. She found Uncle in his study, reading nonstop.

"Jade! The books are laughing at me!"

"Not for long," she said with false sweetness. "Tea, dear uncle?"

"Yes. Hacha." She handed him the tea and he gave it a sip. "Bah! Jade, this tea tastes like it was brewed with beard of goat!" He gave it another sip. "One more thing! It is bitter! One more thing! It is cold! ONE MORE THING!"

CLANG!

Uncle fell on his face and began snoring. Jade smirked as she held the frying pan. "Hacha."

(!)

With peace at last, Jade could focus on her book. "Okay, let's see. Making weapons. Awesome, but I'm no black smith." She turned another page. "Weaving garments from the impossible elements. Tch. What is this? A Demon Archive or an instruction book on how to make clothes?" She turned another page. "Transformation spell." She smiled. "Now we're talking. Let's see." She read the instructions, then, when she thought she fully understood them, she placed a mirror in front of her. "Let's start with something basic. Make me look like Uncle.

"Transform!"

A shadowy cocoon enveloped her. When it was done, she looked at herself in the mirror. She looked like Uncle but with exaggerated goat-like features.

"Eh, close enough. I'll work on it."

"Jade?" she heard Tohru call out from downstairs. She cancelled the spell and called out, "Yes, Tohru?"

"Have you seen Uncle? I haven't seen him for a while now. Or heard for that matter."

"Oh," Jade said, feeling darkly smug. "I put Uncle to sleep."

Tohru paused. "What?"

(!)

Jade led Tohru to where Uncle was. He was still sleeping on the ground with his butt in the air, right where she left him. "Why does he have a lump on his head?"

"He fell on his face. What did you think was going to happen?" She didn't want to tell Tohru she whacked him with a frying pan.

"So, how deep is his sleep?" Jade left the study, then returned with a cup of steaming water. She flipped Uncle over and, to Tohru's shock, poured the water on his lap. Uncle kept snoring. "Yay deep," she said.

Suddenly, the phone rang. Jade answered it. "Uncle's Rare Finds. May I help you?"

"Jade?"

"Jackie! How was Spain? Got a chance to wear that smelly old armor?"

"No. But I did get a chance to get bowlegged and saddle-sore. Let me speak with Uncle."

Jade looked at the snoring and wet old man. "Uncle's taking a nap."

"Oh, that's wonderful!" Then Jackie realized, "Wait, no! Wake him up! I need Uncle here in Spain immediately!"

"Er...he...just went into the bathroom. You know how he gets when you interrupt his private time. I'll give him the message." Jackie told Jade everything. Earth Demon, chi spell, blah, blah, blah... "Okay. I'll tell him." She hung up.

"And how long does the Deep Sleep Spell last?" asked Tohru.

Tohru was right. Without the chi spell, Jade can't be rid of the competition. She ground pounded onto Uncle's stomach and slapped his face repeatedly. Nothing. She rang the biggest gong she could find. Nothing.

"We should have forced Uncle to count sheep," Tohru bemoaned.

Ding! went the lightbulb in Jade's head. "Sheep! Tohru, you are a genius!"

(!)

Jade explained her plan after borrowing the Sheep Talisman from Section 13. "I'll use the Sheep Talisman to astral project myself into Rip Van Uncle's dreams."

"Where you will tell him about the Earth Demon and he will offer you..." Tohru said, catching on.

"...a chi spell," finished Jade. She activated the talisman and suddenly began to feel sleepy. Then she felt herself leave her body and watched as Tohru gently grab her unconscious body and set it down on the couch. "Incoming," she called out, entering Uncle's brain.

(!)

What she saw was purely creepy and she'd seen demons in a bad mood. Nothing but sheep hopping fences in the sky. "Whoa, sheep again."

Then she found Uncle. He was reclining on a chair on a tropical island with a happy smile on his face. "Jade," he called out. "How happy I am to see you!"

Jade was dumbfounded. "You...are?" She yelped when the old man gave her a hug.

"You're my favorite person in the whole wide world!"

Jade forced him off and pointed at him. "You're not Uncle! What have you done with him?"

Uncle laughed giddily and patted her on the head. "Oh, ho ho, Jade. You are such a card." She watched, confused as he joined the sheep in their game of jumping the fence.

Her eyes turned red with anger. Literally. "ENOUGH!" She flew over to him and grabbed him by the collar. "Tell me how to seal Dai Gui the Earth Demon! NOW!"

Uncle chuckled. "Oh, Jade! Have you been eating too much sugar again? Because you are sooooooo cranky!"

"RRRRAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHH!"

"Okay, okay, Miss Cranky! Sheesh. First, you will need a symbol of the Immortal who originally defeated the Earth Demon."

"And that would be?"

"A flower!" Uncle yelled cheerfully. "Second, you'll need the key ingredient in every chi spell: hair of you."

Jade tugged at one of her locks. "Didn't know my hair was so potent. Third?"

"For that. I must do research." He yawned, put his hands behind his head and shut his eyes. "Right after my nap."

"You can take a dirt nap."

"Huh?" Jade dropped him and Uncle yelled all the way down and crashed into the beach, burying his head in sand. As the old man tried to get out, Jade laughed. "Finally. Some progress."

(!)

Jade returned to her body, still laughing. "What's so funny?" Tohru asked her.

"Oh, it's nothing. Anyway, grab Mr. Happy Pants. We're flying to Spain."

Tohru raised an eyebrow. "'Mr. Happy Pants'? But what if Uncle does not wake up in time to cast the chi spell?"

"We have a long time to catch up on our reeeaaaseeeaaarch!" she said, imitating Uncle. She grabbed some books from the study and headed for the car. "You carry Uncle. I'll call Captain Black to give us a ride to Spain."

Tohru looked down at the snoring old man.

(!)

After talking to Captain Black on the phone for Jackie's location, and after a free ride to Spain thanks to Section 13's jet, Jade, Uncle and Tohru were in Spain. They were in a taxi, on their friend's location. Jade shook the bag of ingredients. "We have all the chi ingredients," she said to Tohru. "We're golden."

"Good," he said. "Because it does not seem the Sleep Spell will wear off any time soon." The old man sleeping between them snored loudly.

"About that little screw up, T. Maybe Jackie doesn't need to know about Sleeping Beauty here."

"But how can Jackie not notice?"

Suddenly, the taxi driver stopped. The road had been broken in two, as if by a giant jackhammer. "Earthquake?" questioned Tohru.

"Earth Demon," Jade corrected. She pointed out the window at Dai Gui. He was large with brown and green skin, a goat-like head and hoof feet. He was currently fighting Jackie, who was wearing the Amor of the Eight Immortals. While wearing the armor, Jackie could fly, punch Dai Gui and actually hurt him for a while and he was seemingly invincible against Dai Gui's attacks.

"Jackie!" Jade called out. She, Tohru and Uncle were out of the taxi (who by this point, drove far away from the action). Tohru waved the sleeping Uncle's arm to make it look like he was awake.

"Uncle!" Jackie summersaulted over Dai Guai and to the trio. "Uncle, you look well rested. Did you bring the chi spell?" Jade hid behind Tohru and imitated the old man's voice, "Yeeesss!"

"Where is it?" Tohru manipulated Uncle's hand to slap Jackie. "Ow!"

"Uh...Uncle needs preparation time," Jade said.

Jackie nodded. "I will keep Dai Gui busy." Jackie tackled Dai Gui to the ground and proceeded to wrestle him.

Meanwhile, Jade and Tohru set Uncle down and proceeded to make the spell. Jade pulled a daffodil out of the bag and gave it a sniff.

(!)

"I shall de-shell you of that armor," Dai Gui shouted, grabbing Jackie. "I bet that you are soft inside like a lichee nut!"

"Uncle, hurry," called out Jackie. To his confusion, Uncle was snoozing, not even flinching at the sound of battle. Jackie kicked the Earth Demon in the face and rushed up to the old man. He shook him, but he stayed asleep. "Uncle! This is no time for a nap!"

"No sweat, Jackie," Jade said. "We're just about ready to chi."

"You made the chi spell?!"

"Talk later!"

Dai Gui was about to squish Jackie, but Jackie pushed him away.

"And now," Jade said, plucking a single strand of hair and wrapping it around the flower. "Hair of me. Hit it, T!"

Tohru nodded, then chanted, "Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao. Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao. Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao. Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao. Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao." A blast of energy shot out of the flower, striking the Earth Demon and...nothing. Instead, it sent a shockwave that sent Jackie flying off Dai Gui's back.

Jade looked at Tohru sheepishly. "Heh, heh. Aim still needs work."

"No portal has opened!" Tohru pointed out, worried. "The chi spell did not work!"

"B-but, I followed the instructions!"

Dai Gui picked up Jackie and pointed at Jade. "Dai Gui doesn't like flowers," he growled.

"Oh, no!"

At that moment, Uncle awoke and yawned. "Good morning, Jade." He suddenly heard Dai Gui roar. "AIYAH!" Jade blasted the Earth Demon in the chest. Again, nothing happened.

"Uncle, we have the ingredients. What are we doing wrong?"

"I see no hair of ewe," Uncle pointed out.

Jade tugged a strand of hair. "If I keep plucking, I'm gonna get a bald spot!"

"No, Jade. Ewe! A female sheep!"

Jade made a face. "Well, there's plenty of those. In your dreams!"

"Wool?" said Tohru, plucking a single string from Uncle's vest. Jade took the wool and wrapped it around the flower. Both Tohru and Uncle chanted, "Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao, Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao, Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao, Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao, Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao!" A blast of energy shot out of the flower and hit Dai Gui square in the chest. Thank goodness too. He was about to crush Jackie.

"Here comes my favorite part," Jade said.

"NNNNNOOOOOOO!" screamed Dai Gui as he was sucked back into his portal.

When it was all over, Jackie dusted himself off. "How are you feeling, Uncle?"

"Very well rested, thank you. EXCEPT FOR THE DEMON SCREAMING IN MY FACE! ONE MORE THING! I told you the armor was good armor! ONE MORE THING! You should never question Uncle! ONE MORE THING! Jade buried my head in sand!" Jackie groaned at that. Yep. Uncle's gone crazier than normal.

"You should have made Uncle's tea stronger," Tohru groaned. "He is still cranky."

"I don't think there's enough tea in China to simmer Uncle down," Jade said. "Frying pans on the other hand..."

"What was that?"

"Oh, nothing." Jade ran and hugged Uncle. "Besides, I'll take Mr. Sourpuss over Mr. Happy Pants any old day!"

"Jade," Uncle asked. "Why did you leave Uncle buried in the cold, cold ground?"

"Huh?"

"In my dream, you buried me in sand! One more thing! A crab laid eggs in my ear! One more thing! I was coughing up sand for hours! ONE MORE THING!"

"Okay, Uncle," Jackie said, pushing the old man away. "Let's get you back to San Francisco."