Jade sat in Uncle's mage room in her towel as Uncle and Tohru examined the mark. Jackie stood nearby, obviously panicking.
"Uncle! What could have caused this?" Uncle smacked him on the head. "Ow!"
"Do not interrupt Uncle!" Uncle examined the mark closely. "Fascinating. It resembles the rabbit talisman."
"Gee, ya think? And here I thought it was a Disney character," Jade said with heavy sarcasm.
"Really?" Uncle said, interested. "Which one?"
Jade glared at him. "I was being sarcastic."
"Oh." Uncle rubbed his chin. "Did you do this, Jade?"
"Do you think I would make this much fuss over a wierd mark on my body if I'd done it?"
"Ah. Good point." Uncle turned back to his books. "I think I have enough information to research this. You should be getting to school-"
"Oh crap! I'm late!" She hopped off the stool...and blured up the stairs and then out the door, moving at super speed.
Uncle blinked as he watched. "Definately talisman power...but how?"
A few moments later, Jade blured back in. "Uncle! I've got rabbit talisman power somehow! At first I thought it was awesome, but...look!" She pulled off her hat and turned to show...bunny ears and a cotton tail.
"Fascinating," Uncle said. "It seems that using the power causes you to gain aspects of the animal the power derives from. It seems to be fading already though."
"So not using it makes it dissapear? Cool, I can deal with that." Se turned to run out, but Uncle grabbed her shoulder.
"Careful, Jade. If Im right, the more you use the power, the more animal traits you will exhibit, and the longer they will take to fade."
Jade nodded. "Got it, Uncle." She knew enough about magic now to listen. "In that case, may I have permission to teleport myself to school? I know a safe place I can warp to."
Uncle nodded. "Let's see your teleportation mix."
Jade reached into a hidden pouch in her backpack and pulled out a small vial. Uncle examined it, then nodded. Jade chanted. "Yiu Mo Gwai Gwaai Fai Di Zao...Yiu Mo Gwai Gwaai Fai Di Zao..." she popped open the vial and green smoke lifted out, surrounding her, and she vanished.
At the school, she corked the vial and slipped it back into its pouch. Checking to see that the ears and tail had faded, she went to meet Stanley.
Meanwhile, Captain Black was having a bit of trouble at his job. He had been leading a task force to take down a criminal syndicate...but had run into some trouble when the group had some surprise magical backup. He'd called in the mystic squad, but they were caught up in other business and wouldn't get there for a while.
To top it off, his left arm was in a full cast because of an accident recently that had mangled it, and his sidearm was out of ammo.
"Dammit," he snarled. "How are we going to deal with this?"
"Good question."
He looked up. One of the thugs had used a magic weapon to warp behind him and was read to blow his head off. Augustus thrust his busted arm forward, not sure what he was doing.
Suddenly his cast exploded outward, and a stream of fire drove into the thugs gut, sending him flying backwards.
Captain Black stared at his left hand, which had been covered by the cast. Hs arm felt fine now, and a red octagon was in the center of his palm, surrounding a stylized dragon, an image he recognized. The symbol was still smoking.
"What the..." More explosions occured nearby. "Fight now, ask Uncle later." Remembering something he'd seen this power do before, he held his hands together and gathered a copresed sphere of flame. "Sweet." He hurled it at the entrenched syndicate, and smiled with satisfaction at the explosion. As he continued, he didn't notice scales spreading over his body.