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Here's another chapter, I would like to thank my family for helping me with coming up with a brilliant idea to move this story forward. Thanks, enjoy!
Chapter 4
Two long and intolerable days passed, and the night gave the dark damp glow into the dark basement where Shendu finally finished the spell that he needed. He lifted the vial of green powder and looked at the contents closely. This should do the job. The demon's red eyes went over to the girl he held captive. She was asleep on the far side of the cage, leaning against the bars of the cage.
Poring some of the green powder in his hand, he walked over closer to his hostage. Shendu lifted his hand and blew the contents into the cage and onto Jade. The powder sparkled as it touched her and dissolved. No change was detectable until her nails turned to a jade green.
Shendu smiled at the results and went back to his table to make the second part of the spell. He began to mix the essential ingredients until the girl's phone began to ring. He picked up the small phone and held it to the side of his head.
"It's too early for you to have all my chi, Drago."
Drago answered promptly. "We're on our way to get the Moon chi." He paused. "Please, let me talk to Jade."
"Why should I allow you to talk to your girlfriend? Ever since you met this human, you've grown weak. I'm disappointed." The demon growled.
"You're a freaking hypocrite." Drago's voice growled back. "My mother was human. We'll just say that I'm following in your footsteps. Let me talk to her."
"I know of Hippocrates, and I have nothing to do with the Greeks." The large dragon retorted.
Shendu growled in his throat and hit the cage with his tail. Jade jerked awake and looked over to the demon with aggression. He placed the phone through the cage and allowed Jade to take it. She went to place it to her ear until she paused when she saw her green finger nails. She ignored it and went on to speaking with Drago.
"Hey, Drago." She said with a slight smile.
His voice came through in the same loving tone through the phone. "How are you doing, Jade?"
"I'm fine, a few bumps and bruises, but fine nonetheless."
"He hasn't," He paused slightly. "Done anything to you, has he?"
"No." The Chinese girl said as she tapped her fingernails on the cage, hearing a ring like a bell when she did.
"We're going to get the Lotus right now, we're working as fast as we can to get you out safely. I promise." Drago said with concern.
Jade huffed a little. "Why are you fulfilling his ransom plans?" she stated as she continued to tap her nails against the cage. "What makes you think he's only going to do this once? Because of you getting the Chi, he may kidnap me again just to get another thing from you, ever thought of that?"
"Trust me, Jade." She heard him breath. "We have a plan that will prevent him from doing anything with the chi and send him back to the demon realm."
It was then she realized the unusual ring of the cage to her nails tapping. She brought her free hand up and tapped her green nails together. They rang like a bell. Her eye widened as she looked at the newly colored shielding. She squinted her eyes and looked closely.
"Jade?" Drago's voice came through the phone, but she didn't answer.
Jade continued to look at her nails until she found what she was looking for. A darker vain through the green that ran through the nail as if it was a living creature.
"Jade?"
"No," she whispered.
"Jade, what's wrong?"
Shendu walked over quickly and grabbed the phone. "Time's up."
"Wait, what's going on, Jade. Jade!" Drago's voice continued to speak through his phone.
Drago waited patiently as he listed to Jade speak. A long pause caught his attention as he waited for Jade to continue talking to him. He took a risk by calling and speaking to her, but he needed to hear her.
"Jade?"
Still the silence continued as he tried to gain her attention.
"Jade?"
He heard her whisper. "No."
That made him worry. "Jade, what's wrong?"
His father's voice cut in quickly. "Time's up." And Drago figured he took the phone away from Jade.
"Wait, what's going on, Jade. Jade!" he yelled at the phone, gaining the worried looks of his companions in the car.
In the distance, through the cellular devise, he heard Jade call out to him.
"Drago, Shendu must have cast a spell on me while I was asleep." She yelled as a struggle was being held through the phone.
"What?!"
"I'm turning into-"
The line was cut off. Shendu got hold of the phone and hung up before Jade could tell the whole thing. She was turning into what? Drago didn't want to find out, but this just made the time table move faster. He had to save Jade before she was gone forever.