a/n: Happy Valentine's Day everyone, sorry I couldn't give you something more romantic but I thought I should at least update for the holiday! Anyway enjoy the story and tell me what you think!

D: I do not own any Jackie Chan Adventures copyrights.

Jade stood in the doorway to her captain's apartments, leaning against the sleek wooden frame while wondering how, when so much of her life had changed, the small details had remained the same. She stepped inside the bedroom, her special space that she remembered spending a large amount of time personalizing. She still remembered how it smelled strongly of Captain Black's cologne when she first received it; she smiled as she flipped through a photo album placed on her dresser. She remembered that too, how she had thought it would be fun to catalogue her adventures.

Had nothing changed at all?

She paused as her figures skimmed a picture of an almost mutated Jade, looking green, swollen, and strangely like the wind demon Xiao Fung. She blanched as the smiling toad girl showed up in the next photo as well, this time looking extremely sick and about to puke. When had all that happened?

Jade sighed and moved along to her bed flopping down on the luxurious sheets and comforters, reveling in the familiarity of the moment before thinking back to what Uncle had said earlier. After his initial rant was finished, her old relative had calmed down to tell her what would actually happen to her. With much 'Ai Yahs!' and slapping her other uncle on the head, he eventually told her that while at the moment she was a 'different Jade', just by being here would make her the 'same Jade'. Then he had whipped around his office, concocted a memory potion, and sent her straight to bed, saying again that recovering all her memories would be very painful.

Great.

Scruffy shuffled in gingerly and tried to jump up with her, farting and panting as his old bones trembled with exertion. Jade sat up to look at her dog as he tried three more times, before giving up and moving to lie near the door. This time a true smile stretched across her features, staying with her as she got up and actually got ready for bed. If Scruffy had stayed the same, perhaps some of the other important facts about her life were the same as well; she had already seen her room was.

The raven haired girl was still smiling as she drifted into a deep sleep, snuggled down in her warm blankets.

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Hsi Wu shot out of the portal like a ball out of a cannon. There was a tremendous crash as he ricocheted off of a wall and straight into a china cabinet. Among the sound of breaking valuables and a newly awakened burglar alarm, somewhere nearby a dog started howling.

"Shit!" The demon cursed as a large grey dog dashed into the room and growled at him menacingly. It was an old and ugly thing but he really didn't want to wait for whoever the ringing alarm would summon; as it most likely would wield one of the annoying human weapons he had heard of, or worse, magic. Hsi Wu shuddered as he swiftly searched for an escape route, spying it just as he heard movement nearby. The sky demon cursed again, whoever owned the ugly animal seemed to be waking up.

The dog barked ferociously and charged him head-on, snapping at his tail when the demon dodged him. Knowing that the dog would only serve to draw more attention towards him if he transformed here, Hsi Wu sped towards the mouse hole he had spotted earlier in his full form, only turning into a gerbil seconds before he smacked into the wall.

The now humongous creature howled and screamed as it tore viciously at the wall, furious that the demon had gotten away. Hsi Wu, still going at a demon's speed, crashed against every wall imaginable in his now small and fury body. When he finally collapsed on the tunnel's floor, he was displeased to find that every part of his rodent body now hurt like hell. Yet more profanities entered his mind as he withdrew further down the tunnel, hoping that he would eventually find an exit; he heard a human's voice from behind him and knew that the dog's owner had finally made an appearance.

He willed his little legs to move faster, giving them slight tinges of his actual demonic speed. Oh how he wished that he could fly, he would move much faster if he had the room to grow wings. Of course he could always not run, a voice in his head told him cockily, he was after all a great Demon Sorcerer, why should he fear discovery by a human? Obviously Shendu's spell had worked, as this was most definitely the real world, so why should he be afraid of reinstating the pecking order in this miserable world. He stopped and thought for a moment, should he go back and wreak havoc?

An image of his oily brother popped in his head complete with that sleazy grin of his; Hsi Wu shook his head and continued to run. Knowing his brother, the moment he used his powers he would die or suffer something equally horrible; he'd rather not risk anything just yet anyway.

Suddenly he ran headfirst into what could only be described as a wall of light. Still moving at speeds that were much faster than what an average gerbil could manage, the very surprised demon bounced off with a vicious force, crashing forcefully into one of the tunnel's walls. Cursing once more, Hsi Wu approached this newfound barrier, slowly this time, and placed a cautious paw on its invisible surface. The magic flashed a bright green and gave out a painful amount of voltage; the sky demon yelped and backed off. What the hell?

oOoOoOoOoOo

Jade rubbed her eyes groggily as she surveyed the damage to her living room. Several section 13 agents had come running the moment the alarm had sounded; now however, they had begun to trickle back out, writing off the disturbance as a false alarm. Her eyes trailed to where Scruffy lay, panting and exhausted near what looked like a mouse hole. Had it really been just a mouse that had caused the destruction of both her china cabinet and a part of her wall? Scruffy was not dumb enough, or young enough to crash around her living room in pursuit of a rodent.

Still, he hadn't stopped guarding the mouse hole since she showed up, though he had stopped barking.

"I don't know Jade," Jackie said, coming over from where Uncle and Tohru were still chanting and waving petrified lizards, "Uncle says no one has entered your rooms uninvited." Her uncle shrugged and scratched his head, "Should I ask Viper to check for thieves anyway?"

Jade 'psshed' and gave him a 'be serious' look, "As if, Jackie," She half teased with a roll of her eyes, "This is Section 13, a thief would have to be mad to go through all the trouble of finding it just to rob little 'ol me."

Now it was Jackie's turn to roll his eyes, "Little 'ol you is the head of an international organization of secret agents," He put his hand on her shoulder and looked at her with a serious expression, "You have to be careful Jade, this might be a different time that you're used to but there are still people who would hurt you."

Jade gently removed his arm from her shoulder and gave him a big hug. "Don't worry uncle Jackie, I'll be safe." She let go and gave him her trademark mischievous smile, "Besides, most people don't know that I'm so special."