Disclaimer: I do not own Jackie Chan Adventures or Yu-Gi-Oh!, it is the property of their respective owners. However, I wish I did.
Her Shadowed Realm
A Jackie Chan Adventures/Yu-Gi-Oh! FanFiction
Written by CryptIXeeper
Warnings: This story is an AU in both Yu-Gi-Oh! and Jackie Chan Adventures. However it will be taking place in a mishmash of both worlds, only not as you might expect. Furthermore, expect some cursing (maybe), the corruption of innocent minors by evil counterparts, and more.
What not to expect: Anything above T-rating as well as any romance involving Jade C. in her young and impressionable years.
*Uncle's Rare Cards, San Francisco*
Jade Chan was currently wrapped in a multitude of covers and bed sheets messily spread across her bed. Her sleeping habits had always been violent and disorganized. Consequently giving aid to an appearance somewhat similar to a mummy wrapped like a cocoon. It just so happened to be morning outside her window and the sound of morning birds chirping could be heard, though their ability to wake those in a deep sleep was deftly defeated by the young Chan's blaring alarm clock.
"GAAAAH!" went a loud and startled yell as she was forcefully awoken by the obnoxious noise of her alarm clock. Jade's cocoon of covers, previously a barrier against the coldness of the night, now acted as a physical restraint as she tried and failed to stop herself from rolling off her bed and onto the hard wood floor.
She was now fully awake and groaning as she struggled to get the covers off her person and back onto the bed. The alarm was still blaring as she reached over and turned it off, she could do without the infernal noise of her alarm clock. A sleepy Jade took mental note of the time; it was 6:00 AM.
Her next fifteen minutes were spent brushing her teeth, combing her hair, and getting dressed in a rather frenzied manner. She could already hear Uncle and Tohru downstairs eating breakfast as she made her way down the stairs from the guest room in Uncle's shop.
Walking into the kitchen Jade couldn't help but marvel at Tohru's size yet again, she often found herself wondering just how Uncle had managed to turn the man over from a life of crime. It was amazing just how much Uncle seemed to trust the former criminal turned shop assistant when regarding the circumstances of his arrival into their lives.
One day the large man just barged into Uncle's shop, looking for stuff to steal. Luckily, Uncle had still been up and cleaning the shop when it happened. She was still curious as to how Uncle had managed to take down a man ten times his size and pestered him to teach her how to do that, but he never would. He would always say it "Didn't matter" or "It was too dangerous to teach." Whatever the reason Uncle had to leave her in the dark, Jade knew it wouldn't do her any good to pester him unless she wanted to be chewed out for a couple hours by the old man.
But where Tohru was just a curiosity, Uncle was an enigma. Though she called the man Uncle, he wasn't really, but she knew he was family. However, her real uncle was currently gallivanting around in Egypt due to private funding. His searches and discoveries were funded by 'Industrial Illusions', she had no idea why, but she did know that he had the audacity to not bring her along.
Jade pictured in her mind's eye what it must have been like in Egypt, with all those ancient ruins everywhere you looked her uncle Jackie must have been having a field day. Though, she did find it rather strange that the CEO of Industrial Illusions tended to work alongside him on his expeditions. Jade had the pleasure of meeting that man in person with her Uncle one time when she secretly smuggled herself to Egypt with Jackie. Mr. Pegasus was a bit…eccentric, but if she was honest with herself she also found him rather eerie.
"—de! Jade!" her uncle's crabby voice disrupted her thoughts, "Jade! You are going to be late for school!"
Jade glanced at the kitchen clock, "AH! You're right!" she started wolfing down her breakfast.
"One more thing! Eat slower, rushing bad for digestiooooon!" her uncle announced.
"Got it Uncle!" finally finishing her breakfast, Jade rushed over and placed her dishes in the kitchen sink while turning to leave for the shop door.
"One more thing! Pick up your backpack, you will forget your homework." Briefly pausing for a nanosecond, he began shooting off orders like a machine gun, "One more thing! Pick up coffee filters from store when you return from school, Uncle misses his coffeeeee! One more thing! Shop will be closed when you get back, today is mungbean sandwich special at market."
"Ok, got it Uncle!" She waved as she hoisted her backpack on her shoulder and ran out the door, hopefully she wouldn't be late to school.
"Tohru clean dishes in kitchen sink, Uncle wants kitchen clean!" Uncle ordered loudly.
Sighing, Tohru complied with a, "Yes Sensei" before moving his giant form over to the kitchen sink, beginning to wash dishes.
*On Way to School, San Francisco*
Jade was currently running on the sidewalk, rushing too school as quickly as possible. Checking per wrist watch, she yelped and picked up speed all the while muttering audibly, "Bad day! Bad day! Bad day!" She had picked up the habit from her uncle Jackie, but none of the Chans aside from her had noticed the quirk.
After about two minutes of a full on sprint, her public school appeared in her sight. A minute later and she arrived at the gates, hearing one of the warning bells. Whether it was the warning bell or the late bell, she didn't know, but she was hoping it was the former.
The young Chan arrived at her class panting and slightly wheezing from such sudden exertion, she had tried to wake up early just to avoid this particular scenario. Opening the door and heading to her seat, she was halted by the homeroom teacher.
"Mrs. Chan, you're late" the woman stated with a serious tone in her voice.
"A—AH! I'm—" Jade took a deep breath, trying to gather oxygen, "Sorry, it — was a long run." She finished lamely. Thankfully, her teacher Miss Hertman seemed to accept the excuse with a heavy sigh.
"Just…try not to let it happen again." The teacher informed with slight exasperation in her voice.
Moving to her seat, Jade plopped her backpack down on the floor with a sigh. Now she just had to survive the rest of the day.
*Recess, San Francisco Public School*
Finally! Recess! Her brain need a much deserved and hard earned break after all that knowledge cramming goodness, she inwardly grimaced. However, she spied her "friend" Drew hunched over along with an average gathering of kids near the outside metal bleachers. Jade wanted a better look, so she decided to join the gathering and do some information gathering.
"I flip my face down monster card to reveal Man-Eating Bug, and its special effect just destroyed your Celtic Guardian!" Drew yelled with hardly veiled excitement.
Jade raised her eyebrows at Drew's outburst before she let herself be noticed, "Really Drew, playing cards?" she said with a slight smirk on her face.
Drew turned to look at her with a rather…serious expression considering the game they were playing, "What have you been doing, living under a rock?" Drew asked with feigned shock, "Oh yeah, you have! Cause that's where all the mummies are!" he said, responding to his own question.
Jade narrowed her eyes into a scowl, "I have not been living under a rock!" she said with a raised voice, "I just…don't know what the dumb game is called, alright!" Jade shot back with annoyance.
Drew raised his eyebrows in slightly feigned shock, "How can you not know about Duel Monsters? Your Uncle owns a freaking card shop!"
"I haven't been paying attention to his stocks alright!" Jade snapped with embarrassment.
This time Drew was rightfully shocked, "What do you mean 'haven't been paying attention', as soon as this game came out it was a hit!" he waved his hands around as if to emphasize his point, "They have card tournaments all over the dang place! In fact, its so much of a hit that their considering developing a holographic system for this game!" Drew's voice began to leak excitement and fangirlism, "How could you miss the big signs all over the place advertising a city wide Duel Monsters tournament, you must be blind if you had."
Jade started sputtering, "I-I'm not blind, I just didn't care till now OK!"
Just then, the period bell rang. Drew threw up his hands in mock surrender, "Jeeze, don't get your panties in a bunch mummy girl (1)."
Jades face was blank, but turned red when she realized just what he said, I'll freaking kill him! She shouted internally, they were only thirteen and the boy was already enough of a misogynist to rival most grown men.
Sighing angrily with a red face, Jade made her way back to homeroom. All the while, her feet stomped along the ground showing her badly hidden anger.
*Way to Uncle's Shop, San Francisco*
Finally! School is over! Jade mentally shouted for joy as she wove her body around the crowds of San Francisco and towards her Uncle's shop.
It must have been fifteen minutes of walking before she arrived at her destination, running was definitely faster, but also less worth spending energy on. Fiddling in her backpack, Jade pulled out an extra set of shop keys and inserted them into the door, turning the key with an audible click.
The young Chan happened to notice a small brown package resting right behind the shop door, mailman must have come today she realized, before flipping over the "Closed" sign to "Open" and carrying the mystery package to the game shop register and setting it on the store counter.
Jade pulled up a stool to sit on, even at thirteen she was still pretty short for her age. Dumbing her fingers along the countertop, she took notice of the mystery package a second time and did a trouble take at the "Addressed to:" line, mostly because the package was addressed to her.
She peered at the address which read:
Addressed To:
Jade Chan
Uncle's Rare Cards
415 Bush St & Grant Ave
San Francisco, California 94108
Upon further examination, Jade found that the package was sent from Cairo by her Uncle Jackie. So without further thought she tore into the package, revealing a medium sized white cardboard box and a letter. She decided to read the letter first.
Dear Jade,
I just finished another expedition with my sponsor and guess what? It was a success! We actually found a tomb this time depicting Egyptian hieroglyphics and mythological creatures. I was so excited! For my efforts, my sponsor decided to give me a deck of playing cards and a manual for a game called 'Duel Monsters' that was developed by his company. He told me it was a very popular game to play, so I thought you might enjoy these. Have fun, and I hope you enjoy my gift.
P.S. Please make sure you don't forget to do your homework…
P.P.S. Please be sure to read the newest magazine of 'Histories Mysteries' this month, their doing an article about me.
Love,
Your Uncle Jackie
Jade couldn't believe her luck! She just heard of the game today and PRESTO, she got a free deck of her very own cards! Now she would be able to play too! She made a mental note to thank her uncle for thinking of her and decided to see the cards she got.
She opened the white box to reveal two items, the first appeared to be a mildly thick book that she assumed covered the rules of 'Duel Monsters', and the second was a black leather deck holder with blue outlines and what she assumed to be a stylized picture of a demon called an 'Oni'. She had to hand it to her uncle, the holder seemed very well made and even had a clip so that it could attach to belts and pants.
Now it was time to look at her cards. Jade flipped the top of the holder up carefully, like she was unwrapping a precious and fragile piece of artwork, and stifled a gasp because there they were, Her cards. She carefully withdrew her deck from the card holder, she had no idea how to play the game yet but she didn't care, she was curious about the card names and their pictures.
Picking out her first card, she examined it.
'Average Civilian Girl' the card's name read. The card's picture depicted a girl of Asian descent, wearing an orange short-sleeved sweatshirt with a white long-sleeved shirt underneath, along with light blue Jeans and red sneakers with yellow shoelaces (2.). Her eyes were amber in color and she was in a KungFu-ish stance, as if prepared to ward off attackers.
However, though her eyes were defiant and filed with life, the cards scenery and her facial expression said otherwise. Her face held a look of permanent worry while the scenery depicted a dark alleyway with a spiky haired shadow being cast upon her while her back was to the wall (3.).
Jade then decided to read the cards description (As it was a common monster card and not an effect monster card).
This average civilian girl is strong in spirit, will, and holds much potential; however, she is very adventurous and often finds herself frequently in dangerous situations.
Attack: 800 Defense: 400
She didn't know what the numbers meant, but it was decided, this card was one of her favorites. She couldn't help but contemplate the girl on her sense of fashion as well.
Jade sorted through the rest of the deck, but she couldn't for the life of her, find a card that left more of an impression on her than 'Average Civilian Girl', there were some variations of her decidedly favorite card, but none of her cards left more of an impression than a passing thought. That was, until she came across the decks last card…
Jade didn't know when it happened, but her fingers caught on the sides of the card, then she saw the picture…and her breath hitched. Suddenly, she wasn't in Kansas anymore.
Dark purple and black shadows danced all around her, she was actually quite intrigued, but her intrigue soon changed to fear as soon as she heard the footsteps. It was almost as if she was in a horror movie.
…Step…Step…Step…Step…
Jade felt a shiver down her spine, often what Uncle called the willies, but she never had it happen until now. The young Chan forget she was holding her breath and finally took one haggard gasp of air with some difficultly. It was strange, she was having trouble breathing.
Soon, the steps ceased…as if waiting. Then…the dark purple and black clouds around her dissipated a small amount, allowing her to see further, but what she saw was something unworldly.
There before her, stood a blue-skinned and red eyed woman. Jade had to admit that the figure's beauty was one she often saw in paintings and read about in legends. The woman's yukata was wrapped tightly and formally around her hips, hugging her body and emphasizing her figure. It was black in color while it depicted what looked like the starry night sky with a full moon, the yukata was so detailed. Jade could have sworn the picture actually moved. The woman's hair was black, long and straight, like that of a snow woman in Japanese mythology. Jade found herself hoping she would grow up to be that beautiful.
She assumed the woman was Japanese at first glance, but then took notice of her face, no…she was Chinese. During which Jade stared at the woman with wide eyes, the purple and black clouds around her seemed to shift before disappearing completely into the horizon of a colorless sky with a colorless and monotone moon.
Jade stifled a gasp. Her surroundings were literally dead. Ruins of buildings dotted the land as far as her eye could see while dead plant life was scattered about what was left empty. But that was not what drew her rapt attention, the land was beginning to become plot out with shadows as blue-skinned and black clad figures rose from the darkness and formed legion upon legion around her. Each and every dark figure seemed to bow to the blue-skinned woman without actually doing so.
A silky voice, smooth like the shadows, spoke, "Jade Chan…At last, we meet …"
*Uncle's Rare Cards, San Francisco*
Jade awoke with a start and tried to calm her pounding chest. That was quite the nightmare. She noticed that she had been drooling and was quite thankful to discover she hadn't done it on her cards. She then remembered the coffee filters that Uncle wanted her to buy. Thank goodness she had remembered or else Uncle would have complained too no end.
She packed her cards back into a deck form until she again saw the card that began her daytime nightmare. Jade wanted to examine it before she closed the store and went shopping.
'Yù, The Jade Empress' the name was Italic with purple and black inlay. It was different from the other cards, she could feel it. If she were honest with herself, she would say the card scared her, why? She had no idea, but it did.
The card depicted the woman she saw in her dream, down to the last detail. The card background itself was even colored a dark blue to match the skin of the woman. Scary, yet beautiful, all wrapped in one of her cards.
She finished packing her deck and clipped it to her belt. She couldn't help but feel a strange connection to that card as well, but it was creepy. Jade shook her head out from her thoughts, 'Average Civilian Girl' was absolutely, positively, her favorite card within her deck, and the creepy card only reinforced her views.
Jade walked over to the shops entrance and flipped the "Open" sign back to "Closed", closed and locked the shop. Then went to go shopping, while her eyes focused on the 'Duel Monsters' manual she decided to grab at the last minute. It was time to buy some coffee filters.
*Chinatown Market, San Francisco*
Jade filtered through the crowded streets with a determined goal, she needed to find some coffee filters, but not just any coffee filters, Uncle's favorite coffee filters. He would be grouchy the rest of the week if she didn't get it right. Peering through the streaming crown she was making her way through, she finally spotted her goal, The Kāfēi (4.) storefront.
Quickly entering the shop, Jade hunted for her special bounty, KnB Coffee filters (5.). Ok, she had her quarry, now it was time to go. She moved up through the checkout to pay for the item and left the store, headed for the park. Maybe she would get some time to read the manual.
Jade found herself at the park five minutes later. Looking over the park, the swings appeared the best place for a quiet place to read. So she sat down, brought out the book, and began reading, for how long she didn't know because when she looked up the sun was starting to set. Wait…sunset?
Jade jerked herself out of her reading, "GAH! Uncles going to kill me!" she practically screamed, gathering up her gear and running to her Uncle's shop. He was not going to be happy.
Arriving at Uncle's shot in a near spring and trip of about 1 minute, she prepared to sneak in. Maybe he wouldn't notice her—
*Ding, Ding* Drat, she had jostled the door. Now all that was left was Uncles—
"AIIIYAH! Jade! Why are you home so late, Uncle was worried sick!" he began to yell.
Quickly apologizing, Jade tried to remedy the situation, "I'm sorry Uncle, I just got so caught up in reading at the park that I..." she searched for the words, "Lost track of time?" she finished lamely, inwardly flinching at how that last bit came off as a question.
"Fweh, it does not matter anymore, you are here. Now, did you get Uncle his coffee filters?" Uncle asked.
Jade nodded dumbly before handing Uncle the shopping bag, she had honestly excepted a punishment, not for him to just 'roll with it'.
Her Uncle peered into the bag, his eyes widening with a joy that shouldn't have been there for coffee filters. "Ai-ch-ch-cha, Tohru!" Uncle yelled, "Prepare coffee maker, Uncle has new filters!" he yelled again, walking towards the kitchen leaving Jade dumbstruck.
A brief pause, and then Uncle poked his head out of the kitchen door, "One more thing! Jade's T.V. privileges are revoked for tomorrow, teach you to come back late. One more thing! Remember to do your homework before you go to bed!" his head disappeared into the kitchen when he finished.
Jade snapped her fingers with a "Ch" and an audible "Awwwww". She was so hoping she would have gotten away with that. Never mind, at least she had that manual to read.
She began to go through the end of the day motions, close the shop, and lock the door, the usual. When everything on her to-do list was finished, she headed towards her room, put on her pajamas, and began to toil away at her homework.
After an hour had passed, she had finished all her assignments. But then it occurred to her, since she had these 'Duel Monster' cards she could try them out on Drew! Mentally chiding herself, Jade took a step back from that train of thought, she didn't even know how to play 'Duel Monsters' yet, let alone actually duel someone and win.
Sighing, Jade set her card holder on her nightstand. She couldn't help but go over the day's events and marvel at how lucky she was because her uncle's gift had made a bad day feel…better.
She closed her eyes and tucked herself in, tomorrow was going to be a good day.
"Jade…" a playful voice began, "Oh Jade…" Its voice grew louder, "BOO!"
Jade was startled from her deep sleep, letting loose a loud and yelpish, "GAAAAH!" Her head swiveled every which way so fast she might injure herself. She was in that grey and black monochrome nightmare again.
Looking around, Jade noticed a calm pond with a dead tree near its edge with a lone branch dipping into the water.
"Jade…" came the playful voice yet again, the voice was behind her. Her head swiveled quickly to see who it was, but no one was there. Though, Jade could hardly care with her heard beating like a Jack Rabbit.
"Jade!" the voice shouted her name playfully.
Turning towards the direction of the voice yet again, Jade hadn't actually expected to see anyone but was startled back and onto the ground when she saw the blue woman appear out of nowhere.
"Ah! You found me!" the woman laughed merrily while she lounged on the dead tree's branch, spinning her finger in the water without a care.
Jade was holding her chest, trying to steady her heartbeat. Her face was covered by surprise and fear as she demanded, a bit too loudly, "Who are you!" trying to sound intimidating, but failing. It was hard to demand respect when your legs were shaking.
Still, the blue woman twirled fingers in the water as if ignoring Jade's shouted question. However, right before Jade lost her temper a second time due to her fear, the woman slowly turned her head towards Jade and said in a playful voice, "I'm Yù"
*Jade's Room*
Jade awoke with a gasp and a fearful scream, one of her hands was clutching her chest tightly. She could feel her heart pounding like no tomorrow.
Turning her head towards her alarm clock, she tried and failed to stifle a groan, it was 1:00 a.m.
Jade buried her head back into her pillow, it was going to be a looooong night.
*Uncle's Rare Cards, San Francisco*
A good day, A GOOD DAY! Stupid stupid stupid…Jade silently raged in her head, she felt completely miserable today. She wasn't sure when sleep had finally arrived, most likely sometime around 4:00 a.m.
Not only did she feel miserable, but today was another school day and she really, really, didn't feel up to it.
Luckily, Jade was in the kitchen eating breakfast with Uncle and Tohru when she got an idea. "Uncle, I'm not feeling too well, can I stay home today?" she said in her best sick voice.
"No" Uncle said, not even looking up from his newspaper.
Well there goes that idea, she really didn't have a choice in the matter it appeared. At least she got her homework done, now the teacher wouldn't give her grief for it. She groaned, staring at her breakfast the best she could. When breakfast was over, Jade noticed the time was around 6:30 a.m. If she left now she wouldn't need to run the whole way.
Quickly putting away her dishes, she went to her room and gathered her things. Jade made sure to latch her deck holder onto the side of her pants and grab the game manual, she would have something to do at recess now instead of having to listen to Drew's prattle.
She checked another clock reading 6:35 a.m. It was time to go.
Jade made her way to the shop exit and in her best sickly voice said, "See you…I'm off to school." And turned to leave, but the moment was interrupted by Uncle.
"Have fun at school Jade! One more thing! Jade is very good faker, but needs more classes to become true master!" he yelled, not even looking up from the paper while he sipped his coffee.
Grrrrr, Uncle was too smart for his own good.
"Tohru!" Uncle yelled, "More Coffee!"
Jade snickered to herself, at least when it came to anything aside from coffee, tea, and mungbean sandwiches. She was still snickering as she began to walk off to school.
*Public School, San Francisco*
If Jade was thankful for anything today, it was the walk to school. It had been uneventful, calm, and peaceful. She didn't feel nearly as miserable as she had when she awoke. That, was perhaps the best thing she could have hoped for given the circumstances of how a two hour sleep feels.
This time she came to school on time, if she had to guess by the look in Ms. Hartman's eyes. It made her kind of sad, but the impressed look her teacher was giving her quickly turned her frown upside-down. Of course, Jade handed in her homework, again changing the teachers expression to one of doubt. That hurt.
Yes, she could admit that homework was boring. Yes, she realized that her actually doing her homework was a miracle in and of itself. Yes, a little part of her was a tincy tiny bit curious at what exactly possessed her to actually do her homework yesterday. However, she was still a bit offended at the look of amazement on her teachers face.
Jade rubbed the back of her head in an embarrassed sort of way, then headed to her seat and sat down. The looks on the other student's faces weren't helping that much as she felt a slight color come to her cheeks. Come on! She silently shouted to herself. She knew this wasn't how things normally went with her, but these expressions of shock and awe were totally uncalled for!
Maybe it was Uncle, he was always really stubborn about this sort of thing. No…couldn't be Uncle, he had told her to do her homework before. Let's see…what had been different about yesterday. Ah! Her gift, that must have been it. She had been so happy about her gift yesterday that doing her homework didn't really seem to matter at the time.
Jade was unintentionally nodding with a smile at her thoughts. Yes, that was most defiantly it.
Class hadn't started yet, so with nothing to do Jade began to read her game manual. After a few minutes, she had the aching suspicion that someone was staring at her. Looking around revealed the culprit to be none other than Drew, who had a weird look on his face before he quickly looked away and went back to whatever he had been doing.
Weird, but she paid no more thought to Drew as the late bell rung and class began. Though, if she looked, she would have seen Drew and several other kids looking at her with hooded expressions and slowly growing smirks on their faces.
*Recess, San Francisco*
Of course, the universal constant of the world, class had been boring. Math, Biology, History, no matter the subject, it had been boring. The only good thing, and perhaps strangest thing out of the entire day, was that she actually paid attention this time. Somehow, it was hard not to.
Jade remembered a little episode the previous period that brought a smile to her face and a snicker to her voice. She hadn't been paying attention, honestly, she seriously thought she hadn't been paying attention, but when Ms. Hartman called on her to answer a question, she had actually responded correctly. That would be a moment she would absolutely treasure.
The facial expressions of Ms. Hartman, the entire class, and herself if she had looked in a mirror would have been priceless, a picture moment as some would say. Of course, a little silence had passed for about five seconds before Ms. Hartman began the class again without a hitch.
Jade was still snickering to herself with a smile on her face, lost such deep recollection of previous events that she didn't hear a group of children approach her and quickly snatch the 'Duel Monsters' manual she had been reading on the bleachers.
"Duel Monsters Jade? What, so were interested now?" Drew questioned mockingly, waving the book around in a playful manner as the group of kids laughed at her expense.
Jade was annoyed, no wait not annoyed, she was pissed! Here she was, minding her own business, and then the assholes come out to play. She lunged for the book in defiance, "Give it back Drew, I got that as a gift!" she shouted angrily.
"Oh? Why should I? How could you get it as a gift the first day you even found out about the game?" He taunted. "Who gave it to you, your Uncle? You're digging the dirt with tiny brushes Uncle Jackie wouldn't know cool if it bit him." Drew laughed at his own joke, still waving the book around to tease her, then decided to read it with the group of kids around him acting like a barrier.
"Ooooh, this is expensive Mummy girl. Wha'd yah do, spend all your money on it?", looking at the book again, he tsked "Much too expensive for someone who doesn't even have cards. Why don't yah give it to me, someone who can actually play the game?" He laughed as the group around him laughed as well.
"I have cards!" Jade blurted out, and then cringed at what she just said. She didn't even know how to play the game, and now they would try to crush her in the dirt! Nice going Jade.
"You have cards?" he cried in feign astonishment, "Well that changes everything! Now you can actually play the game with us! Uncle got you your cards, honestly how stupid do you think we are?" Drew demanded.
"It's true, my Uncle did get me my cards! And their better than you're cards hands down!" she shouted impulsively, not paying attention to her words.
Drew's eyebrows perked with feigned curiosity, "Oh? their better are they?" then he smirked, "Then you wouldn't mind Dueling me to find out…now would you?
Jade stood there like a deer in the headlights with her eyes wide, then she looked down quietly mumbling, "But I don't know how to play." She couldn't believe the situation she was in because of her big mouth.
Drew smirked, "Oh, then you're in luck!" he said a little loudly, "Since you don't know how to play 'Duel Monsters' we can show you how!" he practically announced to the whole playground, "And since I'm so nice, we can make this an 'Official Ranking Game' (6.) I'll even go easy on you!" he yelled even louder before adding a little less loudly with a taunting tone of voice, "Or are yah chicken?…shrimp"
Oh he did not just say that! She mentally screamed, no one called her short! No One! "I'm not a shrimp! I'm just small for my age!" she screamed indignantly, "Fine!, You're on!. I'll wipe the floor with you…you asshole!" she shouted.
Drew's smirk only seemed to widen at the insult as the kids behind him began to mockingly gasp at such a "Bad word" being said. "Thems are fightin' words shrimpy, Tell ya what, I'll even let you use the game manual while I "teach" you how to play." He remarked haughtily, "In fact, we can do it right now, right here, in the middle of the playground. It won't take long for me to "show you the ropes"", Drew then threw the book to Jade for her to catch badly while he sat down and took out his 'Duel Monsters' deck, shuffling it, then waiting for her.
Jade took her cards out, copying what Drew did when she shuffled it. Then she quickly flipped the pages of her manual to where it mentioned the card positions and layouts. Jade mentally congratulated herself for reading up on the different types of monsters, traps, and spell cards yesterday (7.).
*Dueling at Recess, TimeCrunch*
Jade: 2000 Lifepoints
Drew: 2000 Lifepoints
"Let's Duel!" Drew shouted as he began to draw five cards(8.), "Challenger goes first." He smirked as he drew (9.) another card. Examining his cards he announces his turn, "I summon Trakodon in Attack mode and place two cards face down, then I end my turn." Smirking as he finished.
Jade tried to ignore Drew as she began to draw five cards, drawing a sixth card to begin her turn. She tried to analyze her hand as best she could, spotting 2 monster cards, 2 trap cards, and a spell card.
Jade's Hand:
'The first Enforcement' Lvl 3 Warrior normal monster card
Attack: 400
Defense: 1400
'Great Sumo' Lvl 5 Warrior effect monster card
Attack: 800
Defese: 1900
'Nightingale Floor' Trap card
Effect: Lowers attack by 300 points.
'Counter Spell' Trap card
Effect: Negates one spell or trap card before it can take effect.
'Locator Spell' Spell card
Effect: Choose one Lvl 4 or less monster card and place in in your hand, then shuffle your deck.
'Adventure City' Field card
Effect: Increase Attack and Defense of Warrior monsters by 300 points.
"Ok, I place one monster card face down in defense position, place three cards face down, and then activate my spell card 'Locator Spell' to add a Lvl 4 or lower monster from my deck to my hand." Jade began looking through her deck and picked her favorite card 'Average Civilian Girl' then shuffled her deck. "I end my turn."
"My turn now!" Drew…drew a card from his deck then began his turn. "I place one card face down then attack your face down card with Trakodon, say goodbye to your card."
"I activate my trap card, 'Nightingale Floor' and lower your monsters attack by 300 points." Jade then flipper over her face down monster card, 'The First Enforcement' sending Trakodon to the graveyard and damaging Drew's Life points by 400. A kid keeping score made a little rewrite to the notepad he was holding.
Drew made a face at the results of his attack angrily, "I place a monster card face down in defense position and end my turn."
Jade began her turn by drawing a card, if this was how the game worked, she could get used to it quickly.
Jade: 2000
Drew: 1600
Jade's Hand:
'Great Sumo' Lvl 5 Warrior effect monster card
Attack: 800
Defese: 1900
'Adventure City' Field card
Effect: Increase Attack and Defense of Warrior monsters by 300 points.
'Average Civilian Girl' Warrior normal monster card
Attack: 800
Defense: 400
'Go Fu, The Mercenary' Warrior Lvl 5 effect monster card
Attack: 1600
Defense: 1200
"I'll play 'Adventure City' raising the points of any warrior on the field by 300, then I sacrifice my monster card 'The First Enforcements' to summon 'Go Fu, The Mercenary' who can automatically destroy one Lvl 4 or lower monster card when summoned. Now I attack your life points with Go Fu!"
Drew flipped up one of his face down cards, "I activate 'Negate Attack' and stop your attack from going through."
Jade frowned, "Then I end my turn."
Drew began his turn, drawing a card and examining his hand of three cards. "I place a monster card face down in defense position, then I end my turn."
Jade could tell Drew was growing frustrated, and she was beginning to feel more confident herself. Jade drew a card, beginning her turn.
Drew: 1600
Jade: 2000
Monsters on Field:
(Jade) – 'Go Fu, The Mercenary'
(Drew) – One face down in defense position.
Spells and Traps on field:
(Jade) – 'Counter Spell', 'Adventure City'
(Drew) – 2 cards face down
Drew's Hand: 2 cards
Jade's Hand:
'Great Sumo' Lvl 5 Warrior effect monster card
Attack: 800
Defese: 1900
'Average Civilian Girl' Warrior normal monster card
Attack: 800
Defense: 400
'Book of Ages' Spell card
Effect: Any summons, sacrifices, or life point loss from your opponent's previous turn is negated.
Jade widened her eyes, the card she just drew seemed good, it might even help her win the game, "I place one card face and summon one monster card in defense position, then I activate the spall card 'Book of Ages' and negate your last turn." She let a light smirk grace her lips as a foreign look began to spread on Drew's face.
"What!" Drew shouted, saying "let me see that!" grabbing the card before she could do anything and looking it over like it was some kind of fake before handing it back to Jade grudgingly.
"Fine! But you won't win this!" he said as his facial expression was one of annoyance.
Jade then chirped an "Uncle Jackie" before returning back to the game, "Then I'll have 'Go Fu, The Mercenary' attack your life points directly."
"I activate my trap card 'Tyrannical Gaze'" Drew yelled.
Jade flipped one of her cards, "And I activate my quick-play spell card 'Counter Spell' negating your trap's effects."
"Angry Crow Takes Flight!" Jade yelled out of nowhere as Drew lost the game ended with her the victor. Jade could tell from the look of anger and disbelief on his face that he hadn't seen that coming.
Drew pointed an accusing finger at Jade's face, "You said you didn't know how to play!" he shouted angrily, right as the recess bell rang. Muttering angrily, Drew gathered up his cards and headed back to class before turning back to her and angrily pointing again, "You better be at the San Francisco Tournament Mummy Girl! Then we'll see who the better card player is!" he shouted one last time before turning on his heel and walking away from her (10.).
Jade hurried to gather up her cards rather excitedly at her win. She took it back, today had been a great day! With all her stuff in tow, Jade made her way back to class while making a mental note on the San Francisco tournament, she would have to ask Uncle or Tohru to take her.
Authors Note: So, this story was made more in an alternate reality sort of mind. I kind of wanted to hint on that in first chapter when Shadow Jade met the Ancient Egyptians. It's more like world one had evil jade, world two has good and innocent jade, and evil jade crosses over. Slowly corrupting innocent and good jade, MUAHAHHAHAHHAH!
Also about the Dual, I'm aware that its crappy in some senses, but I'm trying to test out different ways to put the things on paper, so give me a review saying what you think on each way so I can make it better.
Also, this week is finals week for me so I prolly won't have a chapter for next week, so when I get the time I'll work on chapter 3, or try to put some more content into chapter 1, or this chapter depending on what you think of it.
Other than that, TTFA! CryptIXeeper out!
INDEX
1.) Mummy Girl – Drew's unfriendly nickname for Jade Chan, (replacing Ninja Girl) because of Jade's stories about her uncle Jackie in Egypt. Used because she does exaggerate some of the stories she tells 'slightly'.
2.) The card is a picture of Jade Chan's usual civilian and adventure wear, only the girl wearing it has a different face.
3.) The card's scenery depicts the same scene that was in Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2, Episode 6: Queen of the ShadowKhan. The spiky haired shadow is Hak Foo, and unlike the episode, the girl is in a fighting stance and not barefoot.
4.) Kāfēi means coffee according to Google translate when you sound out its Chinese symbols in English. I know, creativity loves me.
5.) I made that up, I'm just in one of those moods.
6.) 'Official Ranking Game' is a BS technical term I came up with that basically means you're playing for cards. It's like the Kaiba Tournament where who ever won got the loser's rarest card. I think Pegasus had that in the Duel Kingdom arc so I'm figuring on making it an official rule for future Tournaments.
7.) Jade read up on how to play the game, not 'HOW' to play the game. Course I'm not an avid Yugioh card player so I'm kind of speaking out of my ass when saying that.
8.) Ok, Big flashing sign in multicolor lights right here. I'm gonna try…to make these duels in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime spirit. That means that during the duels, it might come off as a bit corny. I don't think Jade will ever succumb to the tried and true Yu-Gi-Oh! spirit right now, but I'm not gonna cross my fingers in she'll reasonably go down that route when gains more confidence. So just to let yah know, I'll try to portray dueling a little or just as much as the anime does. This is a crossover with Yu-Gi-Oh! for a reason.
9.) Ahhahahahaha, Drew and drew, I just noticed that. But in this case, No Pun!
10.) Drew keeps his cards because Jade doesn't know how an 'Official Ranking Game' works and no one seemed entirely privy to informing her to such information.