Jaded Ways
Chapter 9
A/N: This chapter will cover their trip to Yerba.
The next morning. Cat wakes up to see Jade peacefully sleeping, holding Cat gently against her. Cat smiles as she looks at Jades peaceful sleeping face. Cat's eyes shift to Jades lips and Cat starts shifting uncomfortably in Jades grasp, as she wants nothing more than to kiss Jade right this moment. 'Come on! Kiss her! She won't notice. She's sleeping.' Cat tries convincing herself. 'Okay here goes.' Cat thinks to herself as she takes a deep breath.
Cat gently leans up towards Jades face and gently kisses Jades lips. To Cat's surprise, Jade begins kissing her back. Enjoying the sensation, Cat eagerly deepens the kiss, holding onto Jades body tightly. The kiss lasts until Cat feels the need to breathe again. There's a gentle popping noise as they separate. Jades eyes flutter open, as she stares at Cats angelic face. Cat is smiling up at Jade, her eyes sparkling.
Jade smiles widely. "I could get used to waking up like that." Jade says happily. Cat giggles at Jades comment. "Me too!" Cat happily says. Jade shifts in bed, as she picks her phone off of Cats night stand. She checks her phone for the time, and finds it's a little before eleven in the morning. "Well, we have a few hours until we have to meet the others at the school. What would you like to do until then?" Jade says as she looks down at Cat. Cat gets this embarrassed expression on her face, her cheeks blushing as she quietly and innocently asks Jade "Can we cuddle for a while?" Cat says while averting her gaze away from Jade. Jade smirks at how adorable Cat is.
"Of course we can, Cat. We can do whatever you want." Jade says sweetly and reassuringly. Cat smiles up at Jade and happily says "Yay! I love you Jade!" Cat hugs Jade tightly. Cat is lying on Jades chest, hugging her stomach. Jade is running her hands through Cats long, lushes, Red hair. Cat smells Jades body and sighs contently. Cat loves Jades smell. It's familiar and comforting. She always feels safe in Jades arms.
The two lie there quietly holding one another for quite awhile; both of them listening to the others gentle heart beat. Outside, birds can be heard singing their sweet melodies. Cars occasionally drive by, sweetly humming along. Kids can be heard playing in the streets, yelling and playing with one another. It's all so peaceful.
'I'm going to miss this. It won't be long now. Things are going to change soon. Moments like these might not come again. Better enjoy it while it lasts.' Jade inwardly sighs. She looks at Cats gentle figure, and how the sun shining through her curtains splay across her body, radiating every curve of her body, showing the image of a goddess. Jade burns this image into her mind. She never wants to forget this. She never wants to forget this angel lying before her.
After awhile Jade breaks the beautiful silence, the two have grown fondly of, saying "Well, we need to get ready. We have a long day ahead of us." Cat looks up to Jade with a sad expression, before smiling, getting a mischievous look in her eye, which both excites and worries Jade.
"Can we take a shower together?" Cat says happily. Jade gets wide-eyed. It's not like they haven't seen each other naked, but actually showering together. Jade loves the idea, but is still shocked, sweet, innocent Cat came up with it. Of course Jade is learning that this girl isn't all that innocent at times. "Uh…Sure…" Jade says, a look of disbelief etched on her face. "Yay!" Cat happily exclaims as she jumps off the bed, and literally runs into the bathroom.
"Well come on!" Cat says as she peeks her head out of the bathroom to look at Jade still on her bed. "Uh…Yeah." Jade says as she slowly gets up. Jade walks in the bathroom and nearly explodes when she sees Cat taking her clothes off. Jade can't help but stare at every inch of Cats body. Cat notices and decides to make a show out of it, taking her time with each garment of clothing. Jade just keeps on staring in shock at Cat. Cat giggles at Jades reaction. "Well come on! I can't be the only naked one!" Cat happily says as she finishes taking her clothes off.
Jade slowly takes her clothes off, staring at Cats naked body the entire time. She's seen Cat naked hundreds of times, but for some reason, seeing Cat standing before her gleaming that childlike smile at her, she can't help but stare in amazement and awe. Cat's body is practically glowing before her. Jade finishes taking her clothes off and Cat also stares in amazement and awe at Jades body. It's so smooth and slender. It's hard to imagine how much raw, destructive, power that goddess like body has stored in it.
The two enter the shower together. Jade showers awkwardly as Cat is happily singing and dancing like usual. Jade takes her time as she just watches Cat. Jade just can't take it anymore. Jade gently pushes Cat into the wall of her shower, and starts breathing heavily as she stares into Cats questioning eyes. "Jade?" Cat says confused, looking into Jades hungry looking eyes.
To cat's surprise, Jade forcibly pushes her body against Cats and forces her lips onto Cats. Cat stares wide-eyed, before closing her eyes and kissing Jade back. Jade forces her tongue into Cats mouth, and the two intertwine their tongues dancing crazily and headedly. Unlike last night's beautiful encounter, this one is of purely lust and desire. Jade just can't resist any longer. She felt like she was suffocating. Now she can finally breathe at last.
And what a sweet breath it is. Jades lips and tongue attack Cats mercilessly. Jade isn't taking it easy on Cat one bit, and Cat doesn't mind in the slightest. Cat isn't sure where this came from, but she's loving every second of it.
Jade becomes more aggressive by the second, starting to concern Cat a bit. It was nice at first, but now Jades being a bit too rough. "Jade." Cat says between kisses. "Jade!" Cat says as Jade pushes herself off of Cat, leaping to the other side of the shower, her back against the wall furthest from Cat. They're both breathing heavily.
Cat stares at Jade with confusion etched all over her face. "Jade?" Cat says between breaths. "I'm sorry Cat." Jade says as she looks down at her feet, still panting heavily. Cat hearing the fear in Jades voice rushes over to her and gently hugs her. Cat nuzzles her head onto Jades shoulder and leans her lips right against Jades ear. "It's okay Jade. I can't imagine how tough it is for you." Cat says reassuringly as she tightly holds Jade in her arms. "Besides, I really liked it." Cat says in a seductive way, completely throwing Jade off, her eyes widening greatly.
"You what?" Jade says in complete disbelief. Cat giggles at Jade and says happily. "I liked it. It was nice." Jade is once again completely blown away by Cat. "Now then, let's finish showering so we can eat! I'm starving!" Cat says happily as she finishes showering. Come to think of it, Jade hadn't eaten since yesterday. That could be part of the reason as to why she suddenly did that to Cat. Well a small part of it. Being hungry just makes it harder to resist her urges is all.
The two finish showering and drying off, and then get dressed. Cat just goes on and on in her cheerful mood about any little thing that pops into her head, while Jade is completely silent the entire time, unsure of what to say. She could have hurt Cat. And yet Cat liked it? Jade just couldn't understand.
Cat ends up making them breakfast. This causes Jade to break out of whatever trance she had been in since the whole Cat wanting to shower with her thing started. Jade happily eats Cats cooking and the two talk about what they want to do on their trip to Yerba. "I can't wait to wear my new bikini!" Cat happily exclaims. Jade smirks perversely and says "Yeah, I can't wait to see you in it either." With a suggestive smile. Cat just giggles at Jades perverseness.
Later after eating and packing their luggage into Jades car, the two drive off to the school to meet the others who should be arriving soon. When they get there they see Beck waiting by his big Truck. They decided to all cram into Becks Truck even though there are eight of them. Jade and Cat decided to sit in the bed with the luggage, while the six of them crammed into the seats up front. Jade parks right next to Becks truck and they get out of Jades car.
"Hey Jade. Cat." Beck greets the two. "Hey Beck!" Cat excitedly yells. "Hey." Jade simply says with her usual scowl. Jade opens her trunk and gets her and Cats luggage out. She decides to put a blood tablet into a bottle of water she has with her seeing as no one else is here yet. Beck simply watches her drink it. "Need one?" Jade asks looking at Beck. "Nah. I drank some this morning, so I'm all good." Beck simply states. "Alright." Jade says as she gets her luggage out of the car and puts it into the bed of Becks truck. Beck is leaning against the back of the truck as he waits for the others to arrive.
Jade and Cat sit on the back of Jades car waiting. "Where the hell are they?" Jade says impatiently. "Relax. They still got time. You guys got here a bit early. We aren't even supposed to meet for another ten minutes." Jade glares at him in annoyance. "Yeah, well it's polite to be early!" Jade says angrily. Beck raises his hands in defeat.
Just then, Robbie's mom drops Robbie and Rex off in her car. Robbie takes his and Rex's luggage out and shouts "Bye mom!" as she takes off, not even waiting to say goodbye or anything. "Gank!" Rex shouts. "Rex!" Robbie exclaims angrily. The two get into an argument as they approach Becks truck.
"Quiet!" Jade angrily yells at them, instantly shutting them up. "You two better not annoy me on this trip or I'll rip both of your heads off! Got it?" Jade yells angrily. Robbie instantly and vigorously nods his head. "Got it!" Robbie says, scared. ".God" Rex says in his voice, clearly terrified of Jade, like he should be.
Beck takes their luggage and puts it into his truck. "Did you both remember to pack enough blood tablets?" Jade says irritated. "Yeah. Got all I need." Beck says casually. He's used to Jades moods. "Yes mam!" Robbie practically shouts. He on the other hand is still terrified of Jade. "Good. Robbie contact Andre and make sure he has enough for himself. He's probably with the Vegas, so I don't want anyone else hearing us ask." Jade says as Robbie nods his head. A few seconds later Robbie speaks. "Yeah. He has enough. He also said to tell you he'll be here in five minutes with Tori and Trina." Robbie says his voice calm now.
Jade groans in annoyance. "Alright. Now where the hell is that psycho?" Jade says in her still annoyed voice. "He'll be here soon. Don't worry. You need to relax, Jade." Beck says calmly. Jade glares at him, and Beck once again raises his hands in defeat.
Just then, Sikowitz appears out of nowhere with a duffle bag and a coconut. "Hello gang!" He happily shouts. They all turn around to find him walking out of a bush. They all look at him a bit confused. "Where's your car?" Beck asks. "Oh. I walked." Sikowitz says in his usual tone. "You walked?" Robbie says in disbelief. "But you live over half an hour away from here." Cat says in her sweet innocent voice. "MMhmm." Sikowitz nods as he sips his coconut. Jade just shakes her head. 'I swear, I'm going to kill one of them during this trip.' Jade inwardly sighs.
"Now where are Tori and Andre?" Sikowitz says between sips. "They'll be here shortly." Beck says. "Excellent. Here." Sikowitz says as he tosses Beck his bag. Beck simply puts it in his truck, ignoring Sikowitz's behavior as Sikowitz gets into his truck and lies down. "Weirdo." Rex says, scoffing. "Yeah. Your one to talk, puppet!" Jade snaps. "Jade! He's not a puppet!" Robbie defends. "He is too!" Jade glares at them. "Just because he has a soul doesn't mean he's not still a puppet!" Jade shouts at Robbie.
Robbie ducks down in fear. "Jade…" Cat says sadly. Jade looks at Cats sad face and her cold exterior softens a bit. "Sorry Cat. But it's true." Jade says nicely to Cat. "Yeah. But he still has feelings." Cat says, still sadly. Jade sighs. "Yeah, yeah. I know." Jade is just tired of these annoying people, save for Cat.
Jade wraps an arm around Cat and pulls her close to cheer her up. It works as Cat smiles at Jades gesture. Robbie and Rex are still upset, but no one really cares. "So Robbie. I hear you've been trying to get with Trina. How's that going?" Beck says trying to lighten up the mood. "Not well." Robbie says begrudgingly, which cheers the rest of the group up including Rex. "Hah! Being rejected by that freak! That's hi-larious." Rex says in a mocking tone. The others snicker at this. "Rex!" Robbie says. But before they continue they see Jade glaring at them, both not daring to say another word.
Finally Andre pulls up with Tori and Trina. They get out of the car and get their luggage out as they greet the rest of the group. "Hey guys!" Tori says happily. "Sup." Andre says coolly. "Hey." Trina says not really interested. "Hey." Robbie says. "Hi!" Cat happily cheers. "Whatever." Jade says annoyed. Beck simply nods his head towards them as he gets off his truck to help with the bags. After the truck is loaded they all get inside and take off to the airport.
Jade holds onto Cat as they sit on the luggage in the bed looking at the bright sunny sky above them. They ignore all the chatter going on behind them in the front of the truck. "This is gonna be so much fun!" Cat happily exclaims. "Yeah. But only cause I'm with you." Jade says sweetly. "Aww! Jade!" Cat says happily as she leans over and kisses Jade. The others had temporarily stopped their conversations and heard what they had said and where watching them kiss. "Oooh!" They got a bunch of people up front 'oohing' them and Trina says "Eww! Get a room!" Everyone just laughs. Jade turns around and Glares at them instantly shutting them up. They all turn around and go back to talking amongst themselves. Beck smiles at the two, happy for them, as he watches in the rearview mirror.
They finally arrive to the Airport. They get out of the truck and get their suitcases. They all walk together to check in their bags. After, they check their luggage and go through security, at which Robbie was stopped for bringing both a puppet, and two carry ons; one for him and one for Rex. It took him a while to explain Rex wasn't just a puppet. Jade ended up having to threaten the security person nearly making them piss themselves in fear of Jade. Finally they make it to their gate. They all sit there talking amongst themselves waiting to board their flight.
"I have to pee!" Cat loudly announces getting a lot of stares. "Mind your own business!" Jade yells at the people staring. Scared of Jade they do just that. "Cat we're boarding soon." Jade tries to explain to Cat. "I know but I have to pee really badly!" Cat whines. "Alright. Hurry back." Jade sighs, as Cat launches off of her chair and takes off towards the bathroom. "KK!" Cat yells as she runs. "Gotta pee, gotta pee, GOTTA Peeeeeee!" Cat squeals as she rushes off towards the bathroom. Jade slams her palm to her forehead and shakes her head at Cats childish behavior.
The desk person announces that they'll be boarding shortly. A minute later Cat returns talking to some strange person. "Yeah! He wanted to be a pilot so he snuck his way into the pilot area and piloted the plain. The plain nearly crashed and he was escorted off the flight by a sky marshal. He started poking the sky marshal saying 'what're you gonna do, huh?' and the sky marshal beat him up. He ended up with a broken nose!" Cat explained to the strange person she was walking with. It was someone who worked at the airport holding Cats arm, walking her towards Jade. "Hi Jade!" Cat happily yells when they reach Jade. "Cat?" Jade questions raising an eyebrow. "I believe THIS belongs with you!" The person says angrily. "Yes. Cat what'd you do?" Jade says while sighing. "Oh. This is my new friend! I told her how you were a vampire, but that you're a good vampire!" Cat says in an excited yet hushed tone. Jade groans as the woman hands Cat to Jade.
Jade seats Cat as the woman walks away, clearly irritated. "Cat!" Jade says. "What?" Cat says innocently, with a confused expression. "You can't go around saying stuff like that! And what did I say about talking to strangers?" Jade lectures a sad and confused Cat. "That I should become friends with them?" Cat says all innocently, with clear confusion. Jade sighs really loudly as she slams her palm to her forehead. "Just forget it Cat." Jade groans. Trying to explain the problems of doing that would take too much effort right now. So instead when Cat looks at Jade all hurt and confused, Jade pulls out a lollipop for Cat. "OOH! CANDY!" Cat shrieks as she excitedly takes the candy from Jade, instantly shoving it in her mouth. "MMMmmm! This is so good!" Cat says happily. 'Did she take her medicine today? She's even more hyper than usual!' Jade thinks to herself. 'Good thing I came prepared.' Jade thinks, as she packed some stuff purely for taking care of Cat.
The desk person announces that they'll finally be boarding the flights and Jade releases a breath of relief. "Now boarding first class." They announce. At this Jade stands up, and the others look at her oddly. "Jade?" Tori says, as Cat looks up at her curiously. "Come on Cat." Jade says as she lifts Cat to her feet. "Oh. Did I mention that I paid extra for first class for me and Cat?" Jade says to the group who just shake their heads staring in surprise. "Yay! First class!" Cat happily exclaims as they walk over to board the plane. "Man, they get first class?" Andre says, ticked off. "Apparently so." Beck casually says as he watches them. Cat is jumping up and down as they enter the plane.
The two happily sit in first class enjoying the long plane ride, while the others sit uncomfortably in the main part of the plane. Jade and Cat sleep holding each other, with the arm rests out of the way, so they can be closer.
After a long flight they finally arrive to Yerba. They go to their hotel right away. The group happily talks amongst themselves as they enter the hotel, Jade holding Cat as they enter. They look around the hotel and are surprised to find it's disgusting. Which they all exclaim as they walk in. A strange small man with a strange accent similar to Festus's walks over saying "Hello! Hello to you buddies! Which of you is Tori Vega?"
Tori says "Oh. That's me." As she looks at the small man. "Are you Festus's brother?" Tori asks a bit uneasily. "Yes I'm Scradich(Forgive me I don't know how to spell his name). It's happy to meet you!" The man says as he takes Tori's hand and puts it to his nose as he smells her palm. Tori takes her hand away in disgust, and says "Why?" Cat walks over with her pearpad and explains it's a Yerbanian custom. It's a greeting similar to shaking hands, as a sign of friendship. Robbie being the weirdo he is sniffs Rex's hand, much to Rex's dismay. When Festus's brother puts his hand out for Tori to smell, she politely declines.
The man then asks "So. Uh, how you all like the hotel?" Everyone looks around and tries to come up with a response. "It's disgusting!" Jade says. The man, not understanding, asks "She say Wha?" sounding more like 'Is she sober?' Tori then explains. "Uh. This hotel. It doesn't really look like the picture we saw online." The man gets excited and says "Oh. The picture. Yes! There she is!" as he points to a painting on the wall. "It is beautiful isn't it?" As they look at the picture. "So. Where's that hotel?" Andre asks. The man shrugs as he states "I don't know. Maybe Cancun." At this they groan. "I will go get someone to help you with your bags." The man says. He then walks off.
Rex says "I don't like this place at all." As Beck wipes the counter with his finger and then wipes off the dirt, now on it. "Festus said this hotel was nice?" Beck asks in disbelief. Tori says "Yes. Okay, this isn't my fault." In her annoyed, whinny voice. "Yeah it is." Jade says glaring at her. "How was I supposed to know-?" Tori began to say but was cut off by Scradich walking in with a tall dirty looking man eating a sandwich. "Hello buddies! This is Criplock. He will take your luggages." Cradich says, while pointing at the luggage. "Oh. That's nice. We are so happy to be in your country." Tori speaks to Criplock.
Just then the door to the hotel is forced open and whistling can be heard. Three Yerbanian soldiers rush into the room, going straight for Criplock. Criplock runs and grabs onto Robbie screaming as the soldiers grab him and pull him out of the room. The soldiers had gone through the group, who were now all terrified at what just happened. Some of them were forced to the floor or onto a couch. "Is there another bellman who can help us?" Tori asks, shocked, breathing heavy. Jade holds onto Cat who is scared. Scradich is bent over, holding his knees breathing heavy as he shakes his head.
However these were not just Yerbanian soldiers. Jade could tell there was more to them. The three soldiers who had entered weren't human. They were werewolves. Jade inwardly sighed. 'Tori brought us to a fucking werewolf country?' Jade angrily thought.
Back in LA. Theo is in the base looking through a file. "Oh fuck." Theo drops the file he was holding and rushes out of the room. The file says Yerba at the top.
Back at the hotel. "And, here you go." Scradich says as he hands Tori two rusty, dirty, old screwdrivers on disgusting strings from behind the counter. "Thanks." Tori says, grossed out as she takes them and walks off. She approaches Jade and holds the screwdrivers in front of Jade and says "Here are the keys to your rooms." In a fake happy way. Jade glares at her. "Those are screwdrivers." Jade simply states. "I know. He said to stick it in the keyhole and jiggle it." Tori says.
Sikowitz turns around towards Tori, wearing large goggles and asks "What'd he say about the indoor swimming pool?" Tori looks at him and begins saying "Well, um. Apparently. This country is sort of 'at war'" Tori uses air quotes around the words 'at war' as she speaks, then continues. "So the swimming pool here is currently filled with ammunition." Tori explains reluctantly. "Now, where's the white sand beach?" Jade says irritated. "Yeah. Where's the beach?" Sikowitz says excitedly as he takes off his large goggles revealing a smaller pair underneath. "It's uh. It's been taken over by rebels." Tori says while looking away sadly.
"Okay, so before you booked our trip here, you forgot to find out that this is the worst country on earth?" Jade yells angrily at Tori. "Yeah." Tori admits in defeat. "Now, Jade. Don't be such a crabby Kathy." Sikowitz says as he has his arms crossed. His smaller goggles now on his forehead like the large ones. "I have every right to be a crabby Kathy!" Jade says angrily.
Just then the three here giggling from across the room and they all turn to see two Yerbanian woman giggling and playing with Becks hair as he sits there in a chair a bit uncomfortable. Cat and Andre are sitting on the sofa in the room messing around on Cats pearpad. Beck tries to get them to stop, but they don't and he doesn't want to offend them. Jade gets even angrier and steps over the couch saying "Oh, crabby Kathy is about to get a whole lot crabbier!" loudly and angrily as she steps over to Beck. Beck sits there and shrugs, not knowing what to do.
Cat and Andre look up and Cat says. "I think those girls like Beck's fluffy American hair." All innocently as she looks at Beck. "Clearly." Jade says annoyed. Jade walks over to them and shouts "Hey!" startling them, causing them to look up gasping. "Get your hands off of his head!" Jade yells angrily, as she nears them. The two begin hissing at her, the best humans can. Getting really pissed off with all of this, Jade hisses a real hiss causing them to run screaming. The others just stand there watching in disbelief. Jade didn't reveal anything, but even without her vampire fangs, her hissing is quite terrifying.
Robbie and Trina enter the now quiet room with the screwdrivers. They get everyone's attention before Trina says "Okay. Robbie and I just looked at our rooms, and there's no way we're staying here." Robbie looks up and says "Me neither." Tori looks at them annoyed and asks "What's so bad about your rooms?" spreading her arms in emphasis. "Well, we can start with the foreign man I found in my closet!" Trina says skeptically. "And there was a grenade in my toilet!" Robbie chimes in. Tori puts her hand to her forehead.
"There are nicer hotels in Northridge." Rex agrees. Just then a black moth bites Andre's neck and flies away. Andre grabs his neck and shouts. He stands up and everyone asks what happened and if he's okay. Scradich walks over shouting "What happened?" as he looks at the group. "A moth bit our friends' neck." Cat says. "A moth? Is it about 'this big' and black like the night?" Scradich asks as he uses his hand to show the size. "Yeah." Beck calmly says. "Ahh. That was a vampire moth." Scradich says. Tori walks over and says "Well, is he going to be okay?" worriedly. "Of course. Being bitten by a vampire moth is very good luck." Scradich explains.
Andre sighs in relief. Then Cat says "But wait. It says right here, that a bite from a vampire moth can kill you." Cat says while looking at her pearpad in her hands. "Yes. But if you live you are very lucky." Scradich says. Andre rubs his neck and Tori opens her mouth wide at hearing this. 'Well, at least I'm not human, so I got nothing to worry about right?' Andre thinks to himself.
Scradich goes back over to his desk, as the group goes to their respective rooms. Before going to bed Jade takes Andre over to the side and talks to him. "What's up Jade?" Andre says. Jade sighs. "Look, I know you probably think that since you're a 'vampire', you're going to be fine." Jade says, almost inaudibly saying 'Vampire' so that only he can hear it, before continuing. "But, that's not the case. There's a reason it's called a 'Vampire' moth. If bitten, even a vampire can die. Your chances of survival are just as great as any human or supernatural being such as a vampire or werewolf. I thought I'd let you know that." Jade says calmly as Andre freaks out.
"What?" Andre yells. "Calm down." Jade growls, as she glares at him, instantly causing him to do as she says. "You're going to be fine. The worst that will happen is you'll get some annoying side effects for a while." Jade says calmly. "How do you know?" Andre says skeptically. "Blood magic, remember?" Jade says while she points to herself. "I can keep it from killing you, but it's too late to completely cure it now. I would have had to do it before it got into your blood stream, right after you were bitten, and there were too many people around to do it at the time. Don't worry; you're going to be fine." Jade reassures him as he nods.
Jade touches where Andre was bitten and closes her eyes. "Hmm." She says while examining his blood. "Alright, this is going to hurt." Jade says as she pierces the bite with a single nail. "Ow." Andre groans in pain. "Deal with it." Jade growls. Jade pulls her nail out and some weird looking black substance flies out of his neck and lands in a vile she had on her, and was now holding in her left hand. "There. I got most of it out. All that's left will only cause minor symptoms, but you won't die." Jade says as she closes the vile and putts it in a pocket. "Now go get some rest." Jade says as she walks off towards the entrance and exit to the hotel. "I will, but uh, where you going?" Andre says as he rubs his neck.
"I'm going to go find me a vampire moth." Jade says with an evil grin. She exits as Andre heads to his room. Jade uses her speed so that no one can detect her as she chases after the moth. She finds it and pierces its heart with a single nail, absorbing the contents into her blood. She takes what makes this moth able to poison any living being including those of the supernatural nature, and integrates it into her own blood stream. She analysis it and copies it into her, giving her the ability to create her own venom much more powerful than that of the moths. "Perfect." Jade says with the most evil smile. Being able to use blood magic really comes in handy for Jade.
The reason Jade went after it was because they are an EXTREMELY rare species thought to have been extinct long ago. Jade has searched all over the world for this moth in an attempt to get a sample from it. And now she has. Of course there's a new problem at hand. Yerba. Jade can smell Werewolf all over this place. With that being said, it's not wise to reveal what they are. It's not because all vampires and werewolves hate each other. In this world they usually get along for the most part. It's what she sensed from them. However I can't give that away quite yet. But do not fret, my dears. You will find out soon enough.
Jade returns to her room and changes into her sleeping clothes. She lies down and falls asleep in no time. Trina didn't want Jade and Cat sleeping side by side, due to them having to share a bed. Not wanting Jade to kill Trina for keeping them apart, Cat quickly agreed before Jade could do or say anything, much too both their misfortune. None the less Jade managed to fall asleep anyway.
It was because of what was going on outside. While Yerba is at war, they do most, if not all fighting at night. The reason for this is quite simple. This country is full of werewolf soldiers who can only turn at night. And even though it's taking place not far from their hotel, Jade is unaffected. If anything it comforts her. When she was young she was around war all the time, so this is actually quite relaxing to her. Especially knowing, it doesn't concern her. Well, yet anyways. She doesn't know what's really going on. For all she knows this is just werewolf country. But there is far more to it than that.
The four girls lie in their bed, Jade sleeping soundly, as the other three lie awake, explosions happening right outside their window. "How can she sleep right in the middle of the war?" Trina questions. Cat shrugs as she says "I don't like this hotel." In her sweet yet sad voice. "Oh come on you guys. There just bombs. You know I'm sure that-" Tori tried saying as a bomb went off near their room causing the three to shriek and cower under their blanket.
Suddenly their blanket started moving as someone was crawling under it from the foot of the bed. It was Robbie. He appears right between Trina and Cat. So from left to right it goes; Jade, Trina, Robbie, Cat, and Tori now. "Dude!" Tori says. "Robbie!" Trina exclaims. "Hi!" Cat sweetly and innocently says to Robbie. "Get out of our room!" Trina yells. "No, I'm afraid to sleep alone." Robbie whines. "What about Andre and Beck?" Tori questions. "They made me sleep alone in the bathtub and I…I saw a lizard in there." Robbie whines. "A lizard?" Cat asks curiously. "Oh my god." Trina says in shock.
"You guys are such babies. Just because this place isn't quite as cushy as America, you make it seem like we're in the middle of-" Tori began saying before Criplock came through the window and landed on the foot of their bed, hands tied. This made them scream. He tells them to hide him as he gets off the bed and two Yerbanian soldiers come into the room and beat him before dragging him back out the window, all the while, the girls, and Robbie keep screaming. Jade sleeps soundly the entire time.
"We are getting out of this country!" Tori says as the four get out of the bed and leave the room. Tori saunters over to the receptionist desk where Scradich is eating a bowl of mushrooms and Tori shouts "Hey!" Scradich smiles at the three girls and says "Hello buddies! Who wants mushroom?" As he lifts the bowl up. "No one!" Tori yells when they get to the counter. "I love mushrooms!" Cat happily says, jumping and clapping her hands together. "Cat!" Tori yells at Cat, making Cat sad. "I hate mushrooms?" Cat asks sadly.
Sensing Cat's upset, Jade wakes up. As she sits up she looks around and sees a lizard on her chest . "MMMmmm, a snack." Jade says as she bites the lizard with her fangs and drinks it dry in seconds. She gets up, holding the lizard and slowly walks to find Cat.
"We are leaving this country!" Trina says angrily after the hotel shakes from an attack. "Right now!" Tori agrees. Scradich shakes his hand, holding a fork with mushroom at the end, and says "Oh, buddies." Robbie, holding Rex Leads Sikowitz, Andre, and Beck into the hotel lobby and Robbie says "There they are." As Skiowitz goes over the back of the couch and lies down saying "Ok! What's all the fissy-fuss?" clearly tired and annoyed, wanting to go back to sleep.
"We wanna go hoo-" Tori begins until she sees the giant lump on Andres neck, before saying "Oh my god. Look at Andre." The three girls gawk at Andres neck lump. Trina says "What's on his neck?" and Beck responds saying "It's from his moth bite. It won't stop growing." Andre starts saying something gibberish and Tori asks what he's saying. Beck repeats Andre's bizarre speech pattern and Andre says "Uh-huh." While nodding his head. Cat explains how someone bitten by a vampire moth will often display hallucinations and bizarre speech patterns. Andre confirms before having a hallucination and Beck tries to calm him down.
Jade walks in with messy hair and holding the lizard in her right hand. "Oh hey. I just woke up and found this sitting on my chest." Jade says as she lifts up the lizard. Everyone looks at it and says "Eww!" and "Gross!" "A dead lizard?" Cat asks, surprised. Jade smirks and says "It's dead now." As she wipes the corner of her bottom lip, her mouth wide open. "Whoa, Andre, who's your friend?" Jade says as she pokes and squeezes Andres neck lump.
Tori walks over to Scradich and demands for him to give her their plane tickets right now. "Why you want to leave Yerba?" Scradich asks. "We hate it here." Robbie exclaims. "Our friend is hallucinating!" Beck yells, while pointing at Andre. "An escaped prisoner crashed through our window and was dragged out by Yerbanian soldiers!" Tori yells. Cat walks over and says "And our bed is lumpy." In her sweet, innocent voice. Tori nods, with a frown on her face.
"Okay, I'm very sorry about the troubles. Here, everyone. Please enjoy a free can of Yerbanian gravy." Scradich happily says as he pulls out a large tray, filled with cans of gravy. "Yerbanian gravy?" Rex questions. "Made in prison?" Beck says as he looks at the can. "We don't wanna eat your prison gravy! We wanna go home!" Tori loudly declares. "Wait! Shouldn't we at least try the gravy?" Sikowitz says as he sits up on the couch, petting a dead, stuffed weasel. "We are leaving this country right now!" Trina yells. "You kids promised to make sing song here for seven nights." Scradich says. "Well, I'm afraid, that's a promise…they're going to have to break." Sikowitz says sternly as he stands up, placing the weasel down.
"Oh day." Scradich says as he pulls a rope. A loud siren goes off and five Yerbanian soldiers walk in with axes and large guns. "So what song should we do tomorrow night?" Tori says, afraid of the soldiers. If it weren't for the fact that Cat is here, Jade and her pack would tear them to shreds. But Jade refuses to endanger Cat, so she plays along, much to her dissatisfaction. 'I'm going to kill Vega for putting Cat in danger!' Jade angrily thinks to herself.
The next night before they perform. In the performance room. They are currently getting ready. Robbie comes out on stage, eating some of the gravy and says "it's not so bad" before walking away. Jade and Tori just give him a weird look. Trina starts singing horribly as she goes off stage somewhere. Jade walks over to Tori, shuddering at Trina's awful voice. She touches Tori's arm gently and Tori turns to look at her. "You're really gonna let your screech box of a sister sing with us?" Jade says annoyed. Tori rolls her eyes. "The guys are gonna keep her mike turned off." Jade turns around and walks off, saying "Well, that's swell news!" in her 'Tori' voice.
"I don't talk like that!" Tori yells at Jade, who walks away. "Whatever." Jade mutters. "Do I talk like that?" Tori mumbles to herself. "Do I talk like that?" Tori asks using Jades 'Tori' voice. "No I don't talk like that." Tori says, aggravated. Sikowitz walks on stage and Tori says. "Hey Sikowitz!" to get his attention. "Hey…Vega." Sikowitz says, waiting a few seconds to say vega. "How are we going to do this performance, if Andre is sick?" Tori asks. "Relax! He's with the Yerbanian Doctor, right behind that…stained sheet." Sikowitz says as he points towards the sheet. "Come. Let's check on him." Sikowitz says as they walk over to Andre. Andre is groaning loudly as they approach.
They go behind the sheet and see Andre lying on a bar, with a young boy wearing doctor's clothes, touching his lump. The boy sniffs Tori's hand and she pulls it away, saying "I don't like that!" The boy shrugs. "Where's the doctor?" Tori asks. Sikowitz says that the boy is the doctor. "What? The boy?" Tori says, shocked. "He's like eleven!" Tori claims. "Almost twelve." The boy says defensively, raising his arms for emphasis.
Scradich comes up behind them and asks "How is he doctor?" the boy responds with a sound declaring 'so so'. At this Scradich walks around to the other side of the bar. "That boy is not a doctor!" Tori declares. "Well, no. but he is…the doctor's son." Sikowitz says in a non-convincing way. "Well, where is the doctor?" Tori skeptically asks. "His boy, is eh, the best we could find." Scradich explains. "Is Andre going to be okay?" Sikowitz loudly asks the boy. "Maybe. I gave him shot. Now I give him lulupop." The boy says, and then places a lollipop in Andre's mouth. The boy grabs his black leather bag, used to hold medical supplies. The boy waves and says something that sounds like "Betchgoofoss." which is some sort of goodbye, and then walks off. Scradich copies his words and waves him off.
"Andre? You think you can perform tonight?" Tori asks. Andre sits up coughing, and takes his lollipop out of his mouth then says "I think so. I had a dream some foreign boy gave me a shot." Tori then says "Yeah well-" but is cut off by Trina and Cats excited yelling as they come in, Cat holding her pearpad. Cat says "Tori! Guess what?" excitedly. Trina then says "The chancellor of Yerba is coming to see us perform tonight!" excitedly. Scradich smiles at hearing this. Sikowitz says "Good Gandhi!" Tori asks "Who is the chancellor of Yerba?" and Sikowitz says "Yes, who is that?" while leaning in closer.
Tori looks at Sikowitz confused then back at the girls. "Our chancellor. He kind of like your president." Scradich explains. "And look! He only has one eye!" Cat says happily while giggling at this. She shows them a picture of him on her pearpad. "What happened to his other eye?" Tori asks. "It stopped working when he was bitten by vampire moth." Scradich explains. "What?" Andre screams as he sits up. Scradich laughs awkwardly. "Nothing buddy. Here, eat your lulupop." Scradich says as he puts Andre lollipop back in his mouth.
Later that evening. After they're done preparing and people begin coming in and sitting down. Jade and Cat are off on their own right now, in the back waiting to perform. "That smell…" Jade mutters. Cat looks at her curiously and asks "What smell?" Jade looks at Cat for a moment. "Oh nothing. Just forget about it." Jade says waving her hand as if to brush it off. Cat knows Jade's hiding something, but decides to leave her alone for now. 'That smell…It has to be…It's the smell of an Alpha. What is an Alpha werewolf doing here?' Jade thinks to herself as they go over to where they need to stand before exiting onto the stage.
Beck and Robbie enter the stage and say "Hello." "Good evening." As they explain they're from HAHS in America. Only Sikowitz claps, as the Chancellor and his right hand man look at him causing him to stop. When Robbie introduces the Chancellor, everyone in the room claps. The two introduce Jade, Cat, Andre, Tori, and Trina, before the five come out on the stage and prepare to perform.
The five of them perform "All I want is everything." Andre and Trina only dance while the main three girls sing and dance. During the performance, Jade notices the Chancellor. 'That's him…That's the alpha. Not only that, but…Oh shit. He has the emblem. And not just any emblem; that's one of the five emblems that the five leaders of the "Blood Seekers" wear!' Jade inwardly swears to herself, realizing that the Chancellor of Yerba is one of the five leaders of the blood seekers. Not only that, but he's also the leader of the blood seekers werewolf army. Which they happen to be in the area where most of the army resides.
The performance is going great until midway through the song, Tori's shoe flies off her foot, and hits the chancellors' last good eye. The performance is stopped and the guards go on stage and grab Tori dragging her off. "Where are they taking her?" They ask as Tori is being taken away. "To the prison!" the chancellors' right hand man responds. Tori manages to temporarily escape and runs back to the stage where beck grabs her, but the guards get to her and break her out of Beck's grip before taking her off. Beck was going to go Vampire on them, but Jade, who had gone to the back of the stage, wouldn't allow it. 'No one is to reveal their identities!' Jade uses Robbie's ability to contact them. Beck is reluctant too, but Jades orders are law.
Later while Sikowitz and Trina go with Scradich to see the chancellor, Jade has the others join her in a private area to talk to them. "Jade, what is going on?" Beck demands. Jade glares at him. "Shut up. And sit down." Jade growls, about ready to kill anyone who pisses her off. Beck obliges. Jade is standing in the center of the performers' waiting room at the hotel. Andre, Beck, Robbie, and Rex are all sitting in various chairs or couches around the room all staring at Jade, waiting to see what she has to say. Jade takes in a deep breath as she tries to calm down. "That stupid fucking bitch!" Jade screams as she crushes a dresser with her fist.
Beck is angry she called Tori that. The others stare at her, scared. "Jade! Don't talk about Tori that way!" Beck yells angrily as he stands up, which is a huge mistake. The next second, Jade is standing before Beck her arm through Becks stomach, blood flowing everywhere. Jade's fangs are out, her eyes black. Andre is being look out, with his amazing senses, to make sure no one finds them in here. "Jade…" Beck stammers as she takes her arm back. Beck falls to the ground. "Robbie! Get him a blood tablet now!" Jade angrily growls at Robbie. Robbie instantly prepares Beck some blood tablet water. Robbie sits Beck up and helps him drink it. Beck's wound heals, but he's still pretty weak.
"I suggest you shut the fuck up!" Jade glares at Beck, and he sees the gates to hell in her eyes and all his anger disappears right away, and is replaced with true terror. Jade walks away from them and grips the wall with her hands, trying to calm down, before speaking. "We can't reveal ourselves. I know you want to go in there and just break her out, but we can't do that." Jade says as she faces the wall. She's struggling with not killing someone or destroying something. Without Cat, Jade has a lot of trouble keeping her anger in check.
"Why not? What's going on?" Andre says casually and coolly. "Can't you sense it?" Jade says as she turns to look at the group who are just staring at her. "Sense what?" Andre says. "Ah. Right. The moth bite has impaired your senses." Jade says quietly before continuing in her normal voice anger showing all over her face. "This country is ridden with werewolves. Most of the Yerbanian soldiers are werewolves. The chancellor is an Alpha. And one of the five leaders of the blood seekers; him being the commander of the werewolf army. Most of which resides in this area." Jade says lightly growling. They all look at her with utter disbelief and shock on their faces.
"Only pureblood Vampires can sense other purebloods. A non-pureblooded vampire such as these werewolves can't detect us. But we can sense them. I know you've all noticed the smell of werewolves around. You didn't think anything of it did you?" They shake their heads before she continues. "Unless we reveal ourselves, they won't notice us. We're going to keep it that way. Understood?" The group nods. "If it were just us here, I'd have us kill that mutt and eliminate his army, but with the others here, we can't. The same reason we can't just break Vega out of prison. She just made us getting out of here that much harder."
Jade growls as she thinks of the circumstances. "No matter what, we can't reveal ourselves." Jade says and with that the group disperses. Jade has Beck stay behind for now. "I'm sorry Beck." Jade says plainly. "But you knew the consequences. I can't control myself when I'm that angry. You were a fool to direct that anger at yourself. Take this. Get some rest." Jade hands him a special, stronger Blood tablet, meant for this sort of thing. Beck takes it and leaves. Beck isn't mad at Jade. He knows he shouldn't have done that. After all, it's not wise to piss off Jade West.
Trina and Sikowitz head to the chancellor's office, and try and get him to release Tori. The same boy who looked after Andre is checking the chancellors' eye. Due to Tori's shoe having silver on part of it; the chancellors' eye will take a while to fully heal. I'm not sure how Tori's shoe could have actual silver on it, but it seems it does. They declare that Tori stay in Yerbanian prison for four years, and then force them to leave his presence.
At some point between Tori's sentence being decided and Cat visiting Tori in Jail with Jade, Andre, and Trina, Cat ends up meeting the chancellor of Yerba on her own. At the time she meets him, he's all alone, and the two end up talking. "I love your octopus!" Cat says admiring the chancellors' octopus. "Ah. Yes. It was given to me by the prince of Gustavia." He explains to her in a deep, yet calm tone. "That's so neat!" Cat happily exclaims. After talking for a few hours the two become pretty good friends somehow, and they end up taking a photo together, one which will be used for the countries new currency. "Buy chancellor!" Cat happily says as she waves and leaves. "Goodbye Cat." The chancellor says in a nice tone.
Underneath that hard exterior is a kind and gentle man. But only Cat Valentine could ever get it to come out. Cat is more special than anyone could ever imagine. Later Cat visits Tori in prison with Jade, Andre, and Trina. Tori is wearing an orange jump suit like every other prisoner, and is currently in a courtyard area with metal bars separating the prisoners and the guards.
Jade doesn't miss a chance to insult Tori, and due to the moth bite Andre is eating a large jar of salt with a spoon. When Trina asks if Tori's been beaten up, Tori explains how she has some street cred, due to them thinking she's the psycho girl who stabbed the chancellor in the eye, and Cat says "You are." All sweetly and innocently. Andre and Trina notice there's men in the prison and find out it's a prison for both men and women, but has a large fence separating the two.
Jade sees a large woman and decides to insult her, calling her a freak show. When the woman Says "What are you looking at?" angrily, while walking over to where the group is, Jade responds with "I'm looking at a big stupid lady in prison. What are you looking at?" and when the woman gets angry Jade says "Ohhh, me make big man lady mad." The woman hits the bars separating them with a stick and Jade says "Ohhh, good one." The large woman walks away angrily and Jade shouts out "Hey, call me, we'll go skirt shopping!" and Tori asks her "Must you aggravate my fellow prisoners?" and Jade says "Yes I must."
"Man, eatin salt is gross!" Andre says as he eats a big spoon full of salt, some of which falls out of his mouth as he speaks. "Not as gross as the prison food they make us eat in here." Tori says, sadly. "One time, when my brother was in prison, he told the people in charge he was a vegetarian, so they gave him special meals." Cat says in her typical innocent adorable way. "Oh wait that was on an airplane." Tori begs them to get her out of there and they tell her they're trying. Two prisoners walk up to Tori holding a bunch of rocks and ask her to play rocks, which she reluctantly says yes to. Cat asks "How do you play rocks?" innocently and Tori says "I don't knowww." In her scared, sad, whiney voice. Cat gasps and looks sad at this.
Later, the entire gang visits the chancellor to try and convince him to release Tori. "Hi!" Cat says happily, the way she does to a friend, while everyone else is all timid and scared. They try and convince him to release Tori, but he doesn't concede until Cat says "It was an accident." Cat says "Please let Tori go." And he agrees at first, as long as they leave and never come back to this country. But once Robbie accidently kills the chancellors beloved octopus, they are all arrested including Cat, who's sad to see his octopus is dead and see him so upset. Everyone except Sikowitz isn't arrested since he escaped before they were arrested sensing what's coming next.
Cat was upset seeing the chancellor so sad, and even got mad at Robbie asking him why he killed the chancellors' octopus. If it weren't for that they could have left. And if it weren't for so many people being in the room, and him being so upset he wouldn't have had them arrested Cat. But he forgot she was part of the group when he had them arrested. And due to all his subordinates being there, he couldn't exclude her even if he had remembered. As their leader he has a strong image to uphold.
Later in the prison. For some reason, they put Robbie in the girls' side and don't believe him when he says he's a boy. The large woman from earlier approaches the group. "So, do I still look big and stupid?" the woman says. "Alright, listen Hot stuff, you better just turn yourself around and walk away from me, cause I'm-" Jade says to the woman, but before she can finish the woman tries to push her down. In the blink if an eye, Jade grabs the woman's wrist with a single hand and begins twisting it, causing the woman to fall to her knees. "I warned you." Jade says with an evil smirk. "Jade!" Tori exclaims. "Walk away." Jade snarls at the woman, before releasing her. The woman walks away, holding her wrist.
Cat walks up to them and says "Hi!" Jade looks at Cat and says "Cat, where have you been?" in a worried tone of voice. "I joined a prison gang!" Cat happily says. "What? What do you mean you joined a prison gang?" Jade says, unhappy at hearing this. "Well, this group of really mean, tough prison ladies said I'm cute and funny, so they invited me to join their prison gang!" Cat says happily. "And you said yes?" Jade angrily says. "Uh-huh! I told the gang ladies I'm gonna make us all special t-shirts!" Cat says excitedly before giggling.
Sikowitz walks over to the bars near the group, dressed as a prison guard and calls them over. At first they don't realize it's him, but once they do, they excitedly run over to him. He tells them to act like he's a prison guard, and they turn their backs and begin acting casual as they talk to him. "Where'd you get that outfit?" Tori demands. "They sell these at the hotel gift shop. Haha, how stupid is that?" Sikowitz laughs as he explains.
"Would you just get us out of this prison?" Trina demands. "I'm working on that." Sikowitz says. "You have a plan?" Robbie asks. "Sort of. I have a duck truck." Sikowitz says. "A duck truck?" Jade asks. "Yes, I met a farmer and offered him one hundred svlockles to let me borrow it." Sikowitz explains. "I joined a prison gang!" Cat happily tells Sikowitz, who laughs at her saying. "Oh, Cat. You are delightfully filled with joy and stupidity." Sikowitz says in a mocking way, laughing at Cat. Cat simply smiles at that, and laughs. "So, I'll have the truck tomorrow night. Now, there's an access road right behind this building. I'll be there, waiting, after dark, in the truck. When you kids jump in the back, I'll drive us across the border and right out of this poop shack of a country!" Sikowitz explains to the group.
"But how do we get out of this prison?" Tori questions. "Oh, come on! I'm supposed to think of everything? I got the duck truck!" Sikowitz says defensively. "Huh, look! It's my prison gang friends! Wait up girls!" Cat excitedly shouts as she runs off, Jade just shaking her head at Cat. "I'll be waiting, in the duck truck, behind there, tomorrow night, after dark. See ya!" Sikowitz says, before running off. They all shout after him and Robbie says "Bring Rex!"
The four stand there trying to figure out how to break out as they see Cat teaching her prison gang friends how to dance. This gives them an idea of how to escape. They ask Shiva; the large woman from earlier, to help them escape. Tori asks to see the Chancellor to reveal the truth, and when she's taken to him, she admits she attacked his eye on purpose. She offers to do a performance to make it up to him and make up Robbie killing his octopus, saying he can invite anyone he wants to watch. He finally agrees and Tori is taken back to the prison where her and the others prepare for the performance.
All the prisoners, including all of the main gang do their own rendition of "I want you Back". At the end of the performance, the gang, as well as Shiva, leave out the back, hidden by the large curtain. By the time anyone realizes their gone, they're already entering the back of the truck.
The group runs up to Sikowitz and the duck truck, and start getting in the back. As Robbie gets in, Sikowitz hands him Rex. "Wait. Who's that guy?" Sikowitz says as he points at Shiva. "He's a woman." Tori says as she gets into the back of the duck truck. "Dear Gandhi!" Sikowitz says as he gets into the truck and drives off. As they leave, a painted message on the pavement can be seen where the truck rested but mere moments before. This message says "No escaping".
A/N: That's my cover of their trip to Yerba, but it's not over yet. Next chapter will explain how they get home and what happens when they do. Things are going to get a bit more serious. I wanted to put as much of Jade and Cat's relationship progression as I could, since I'm not sure how many nice, peaceful moments there will be soon. Once the war starts, things are going to change and the plot will become more serious. So far there's really only been talk of action, but soon there will be some actual action. However, no matter what I add to this story, it will always be a Jade and Cat love story. Even if it doesn't seem that way at times, their bond and their love will always be the main focus.