Jaqulin couldn't believe her eyes. The one time she decided to stay at home while Jack and Wuya fetched the Wu was the one time that Jack came back with a surprising item.
"It's called the Ring of the Nine Dragons." Wuya said as she floated beside the girl's head.
"What's it do?" she asked, curious.
"It does what it looks like. It splits a person into multiples of themselves." The Heylin witch explained.
Jaqulin nodded in understanding as she watched the three Jacks change to four then five then more. She had a bad feeling about that particular Wu but she couldn't tell what.
"Is there a down side to it?" she asked as she watched the four Jacks try to fix the thing that broke constantly. She turned her head to look at the witch who nodded.
"There is and that's why we must be careful. It not only splits a person into more than one version of themselves, but it also splits everything else: intelligence, potential, ability, everything. And that fool is using it for his own enjoyment!" the witch said in exasperation.
Jaqulin turned to see her cousin in his entire infinite wisdom try to play a basket ball game against himself. She felt her anger boil her blood as she watched how…crappy… he was playing and that he kept being hurt by it.
I'd tell him to take the ring off but I doubt he'd listen to me. She thought to herself.
Suddenly she stood up. "I'll be outside; I think this room is too crowded at the moment."
Not listening to whatever was going on behind her, Jaqulin walked out of the basement. She made her way to the library and sat down in a large reading chair.
Ring of the Nine Dragons my foot. It's more like Ring of the Nine Dumba-
Wuya suddenly floated through the closed wooden door to the basement and down the hall.
"I can't take another minute of that," the Heylin witch muttered with a "hand" over her face.
Jaqulin couldn't agree more.
Well now...these are starting to get a little longer...
You know, there are some things that the two women agree on and this is one of them.
I named this chapter Rotund because the abbreviation for Ring of the Nine Dragons (RotND) looks almost the same. Sorry if there was confusion~!