The Camelia and Jade Adventures

by Aeonmaster Aeroza

A silent girl made mute, for all those that which to see, the tale set before her and those she will meet. Though there was foretold for the child in question, will she meet up to the standards of things that will come her way? As time goes, she will be tested again and again, but with the help of those she will befriend, meet, or fall in love with... Who knows what will occur?

8. The Monkey

Minor Announcement:

Letting you all know that I will be using Elf-Based Languages between WoW and LOTR (Darnasian, Sindarin, Quenya, Tengwar), and Orcish of sorts from LOTR (as I cannot find it for WOW).

Enjoy the chapter though, especially since I have fixed the current 12 Chapters of this story.

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A week later, on December 6th of 1999 on a Monday, at the Middle School:

"I know you're all excited about career day, but your parents won't be arriving until the last period." Miss Hartman began to lecture the class with Camelia looking normal with seeing some of the students looking on in expectancy at this, and giving a concerned look to Jade as well.

Faolan managed to find a way a few days ago for her to look normal in appearance with the bracelet she wore by adding a homemade brewed gemstone onto it in a purple stone of sorts with him being vague about the other ability it had, as it would also affect her clothing as well to not ruin it… It was as if he knew what it was, but refused to reveal things when she was alone and when she signed in question to him.

She was also slowly coming along with trying to speak normally, as she can at least speak for an hour or so with paused intervals, but was glad the teacher understood the fabricated story of her having surgery to successfully fix her voice box.

Both El Toro and Paco went back to Mexico, and Viper agreed to speak on her behalf with their teacher raising an eyebrow for a stranger for carrier day, as the former thief chose to have a made-up career to try and impress others, much to Jackie's ire at that.

Though at times, Camelia couldn't help shake the feeling she was being watched whenever she was not within Sector 13, or other places she knew she would be possibly safe at, and at times, wording to the others of smelling sulfur.

Besides that, everything was going well as she made another talisman based on a bat to find out she was able to gain thermal and night vision within darkened spaces, and hear better from it… And an incident in which she did have to drink a few glasses of water to soothe her throat after.

Anyways, Drew was assigned next to Jade as Camelia was behind her, and he quietly leaned and asked Jade then, or closer to a hidden taunt, "Hey, Jade. Is your Uncle Jackie gonna wow the class about the Secret Agent business?"

Jade looked smug at that as she did manage to convince him to be her person for this day, and told him back to not see the boy frown at her for a moment, "You bet Drew, and the truth is gonna blow your mind."

"You mean the truth about ninjas, magic talismans that a four-hundred pound giant named Tofu-" Drew began to quote to her before she stopped him, as the teacher was still speaking, and Camelia multitasked on listening to Miss Hartman and her friend and told him in a way to correct him, "His name is Tohru-" without warning, the wall broke down with the mentioned man coming through with three out of the other four Enforcers, and both Uncle and Jackie being tied up.

Jade started her uncle's name with the Tohru stating firmly to her, with Camelia being puzzled by what was going on from the sheer coincidence of what Jade was going to say to Drew, was occurring, "Hand over the talismans, Jade Chan."

"You guys are the ones going down!" Jade declared firmly to them with a serious look as to stun Camelia, Jade easily leaped into the air before easily kicking Ratso in the face and knocking him down.

Jade then managed to easily do the same to Finn and Chow by using her fists to send them both into the same wall, and only left Tohru as the final obstacle as he placed both Jackie and Uncle on the ground to confront her.

He charged at her before she easily swatted him away, and knocked him out as well.

Camelia was amused slightly as both Jackie and Uncle mumbled with them both hopping to Jade, and with Drew stunning the Potter Girl at actually apologizing, "I'm sorry I doubted you, Jade."

Now Camelia knew something was up as Miss Hartman randomly declared in joy to make the kids cheer by declaring loudly with a smile and her eyes closed, "No homework for the rest of the year!"

As the students cheered, Camelia, did a double-take at the thought she saw something yellowish peeking at her from the window to her left, before ducking down as she realized that this might be a dream, and woke up still being tired as she saw, like everyone else who was giggling at her friend, the teacher was calling her friend's name several times to get Jade's attention.

"Jade," Miss Hartman firmly told her after seeing she got Jade's sheepish attention, "If you're done daydreaming, can you tell us the capital of Italy?"

"Uh… Pizza?" Jade asked hesitantly with Camelia hiding the urge to frown from seeing most, not all of the students hid amused giggles or chuckles at her for Jade's answer.

It was later on that it was around last period with a fireman, told them all in a story he had done for the class, with her glancing now and then at Jade to see she was bored and glanced at both Jackie and Viper to see her tint at the woman winking at her knowingly. "So with the kitten under one arm, and off the other, I leaped out of the second-story window. Yeah, I saved a few lives, but when you're a firefighter, that's all in a day's work. Thanks for listening, kids."

Most of the class cheered at him for a few moments, as it turned out it was Drew's dad that spoke with the boy stating to himself, "Alright dad!" Jade then admitted to him then, "Pretty cool, Drew. But wait till you get a load of Jackie."

After several parents spoke, it was Jackie's turn, which made Jade sulk with a mix of shock, and Camelia understood her position as he began talking about archaeology and some of his exploits, and more, as he was nearing the end of his chosen words, "To uncover artifacts, the patient archeologist digs in the dirt with a little tiny set of brushes, being very careful not to damage anything, sometimes can take hours or even days."

"So much for a secret agent man," Drew stated in boredom as most of the class was as well, as Jade glared at him before sharply raising her hand, and Camelia saw that Jackie was hesitant to go to her and seeing she was the only kid with a hand up, hid the urge to sigh and called her then, "Uh, question?"

"Jackie. Tell us about the time you thwomped a bunch of Shadowkhan on the roller coaster at Melvin World," Jade stated in hope with a smile on her face at recalling the mixed events and putting the man on the spot.

"Oh? That's a bit off-topic, Jade." Jackie tells his niece and cousin, to which she sighed in an 'Oh' with Viper raising an eyebrow at her, and glanced to be touched at seeing the concern on Camelia's face as Jackie resumed his rehearsed speech, "Once an artifact is unearthed-" Jade shouted in a declaration to interrupted him with Camelia ducking down a moment for trying to not gently bite her lip from watching things, "He tanned their ninja hides! He's got amazing reflexes! Watch!"

Without warning, Jade tossed an apple she saved for later at her uncle, and it immediately hit him on the head as he wasn't truly expecting that, and made both Viper and Camelia wince.

"Ow! Jade…" Jackie began to apprehend her before Miss Hartman informed the man then, "Jade has quite an imagination, doesn't she, Mr. Chan?" Jackie did laugh hesitantly before agreeing with the female teacher, "Yes, she does." Jackie touched his head in a wince to admit then, "And a good throwing arm too."

After seeing he was done, Viper was the last one to speak, and Camelia was rather surprised about the career choice she chose: A Travel Agent and not the ones for staying in the same building, but one meant to go places and see sights and stuff.

Jackie knew better, however, as Jade did at that point, and with Viper having actual rocks she brought from one of her travels to the Galápagos Islands and Hawaiian Isles to give to the class.

Once everyone was out, the teacher thanked Viper for at least showing up for Camelia as the girl fell asleep, and was told by Viper of having sleeping issues as of late, and to be expected since she made it that she was her secondary guardian in case Augustus Black was compromised, alongside Uncle in case Viper was not available for a school called.

Jade was crossed with her arms folded as she gave her uncle a look from him sitting next to her, "Thanks, Jackie… You made me look like a big fat liar."

"Jade," Jackie began to try and reason with her, "My work with Section 13 is a secret, remember? Besides, this is career day, and my career in archeology." Jade looked determined then as she made him blink back surprise at finally seeing her eyes' irises glow for a moment, and told him firmly in a way she plans to keep her words to that, "Next time we go on a mission, I'm bringing back proof."

"What next time? You're not supposed to go on an assignment with me Jade." Jackie told her before the two looked to Miss Hartman as she reminded all her students as the dismissal bell rang, "And don't forget children, next week it's your turn to report on your parent's job after you accompany them to work."

Jackie facepalmed at this with Jade quickly thinking of many ways to benefit from this and glanced at knowing that Camelia might end up joining her, and yet, she can't shake this feeling of something not what she would expect to happen.

It was a few hours or so later, and with a boat trip and near the oceans of Micronesia, Jade, Jackie, Camelia, and Viper were on a boat with Jackie telling them all then, as they did see Camelia's hesitant looks at gazing at the water, "Captain Black has located a talisman, either the tiger or monkey, here within Micronesia."

Camelia did look supportive at both Jade and Jackie, as they have yet to learn of her fears she has yet to reveal, especially since she wasn't taught to swim, and Viper merely patted gently the girls back as they saw both Chan Family Members had diving suits on, and they soon saw them dive into the waters.

With Viper dealing with Camelia's fear she showed on the deck of the ship, Jade and Jackie saw at some point, a forgotten and underwater city of sorts with Jade being in awe, and turned to her uncle as he told her smugly, "Still think archeology is a bad thing?"

Jade took a few snapshots with her underwater camera before following Jackie into the ruins themselves.

Though if they paid attention, they would have seen something below that was eyeing them in firmness, before scurrying away from the spot as the duo proceeded into the ruin's level within the water.

"We'll start here," Jackie tells Jade then with a pointing gesture, and reminded his niece then as he saw how impressed she was so far from his true job, as this was her actual first time experiencing it, "Remember Jade, archeology requires patience."

As Jackie swam a bit further ahead of her to start looking, Jade went the opposite way down for a moment as she began using a brush he gave her earlier, to dust away from the debris very easily… And was soon grinning as she found a small chest with a sigil on it for a monkey all around it, and it looked light to carry, and lastly making her grin before reclaiming at seeing some kind of old warrior might have been slain closeby from an old boney hand seemed to be attached to the handles.

"Oh, Jackie!" Jade called out to her uncle to make him pause on his search, came over in disbelief at how lucky his niece was at finding something this quick, and stated to himself, "You gotta be kidding me."

"It has to be the Monkey Talisman! Must be a sea monkey," Jade tells him to joke about it as he was amused before they heard a shout, and saw three people coming over Jackie declared then with the duo beginning to swim away, "The Dark Hand!"

Jade was carrying the small chest with her heading further into the ruins as Jackie soon dealt with the three out of five Enforcers, and Jade managed to enter what looked like the ruins of a temple of sorts, and hid behind a statue that resembled that of an unusual dragon of sorts.

Eventually, Jackie and the three Enforcers of Ratso, Finn, and Chow were following him as they were trying to gang up on the man, and Jade glanced at the chest and back with mixed feelings, before hiding a yelp as she ducked in time from a speeding harpoon from the gun Chow had, and it went through the statue itself, and not known to her, something from the inside magically latched onto the back of her diver's suit as Jackie told Jade then, which she reluctantly did so, "Go! Get back to the boat!"

After warily leaving Jackie to those three Enforcers, Jade gasped once she took off her helmet to see Camelia was in Hak Foo's grip as herself, Tohru was looking at the chest within her hands, and Viper was knocked out with a developing bruise on her face.

"The talisman." Tohru firmly told her as Jade tried to waddle-run back to the water to only be stopped by Finn, "Hand over the rock, flipper." Jade was backed into a corner as Chow showed up after Finn, and Camelia was struggling within the red-haired man's hold and seeing the storm that was developing, was getting worse.

"Uh, you guys are going down!" Jade states in mixed confidence as the boat unexpectedly begins to rock back and forth for a few moments due to the churning waters and takes off as both Finn and Chow begin to pursue her, just as Jackie showed up and Camelia struggling with the red-haired man's hold as Viper was slowly coming to.

"Stop!" As Jackie said that in an odd coincidence as the two did, two flashes of lightning occurred behind him to make Finn ask Chow then, "Why are we listening to him?"

The two then began to fight Jackie, with him soon dealing with Ratso nabbing him after using a flipper to repeatedly smack Finn's face, as the waters were churning, even more, to make Camelia frantic for sensing something bad was going to happen, and Jade being pursued by Tohru then to make her drop and nab the Monkey Talisman from the chest, quickly, with an unusual gemstone.

It was around the size of a large golf ball and was designed as a flower for the top, but was also designed to be blended perfectly, as an eight-corner smoothed cut around the bottom. The gemstone itself was gleaming and black with around each corner and the center, a slight and dim fiery glow would occur all around within.

The gemstone rolled gently to the Potter Girl from the way the boat was rocking at times, as by her fear growing from her gazing at the churning waves, went into her pocket via her magic slightly acting up for later discovery, and Viper closeby groaned as she was waking up from the punch Hak Foo gave her, and the mentioned man keeping the child in place.

A random wave spectated Jackie and replaced it with Finn within Ratso's hold as Finn declared to his soon sheepish comrade, "Get off me!"

With Jade, she managed to go around the boat once with her sliding under the large sumo man with Jackie eventually slipping and going right onto the man, who was unphased and soon exchanged faces with each other after picking him up. Tohru in anger, and Jackie in growing wariness.

Jade called her uncle's name in panic before gazing at the Monkey Talisman and told herself hastily, "Monkey Magic, better be good!" She began to try and activate it with her begging the item, at times, "Come on activate already! Before this boat ride makes me yak!" Without warning, it activates by sending a pure white-like electric beam at Jackie, and turning him into, well, a yak within Tohru's hold.

Tohru dropped Jackie then as the former human locked his face, before standing up and was perplexed as to what was going on as Jade stated to herself again in being stunned like Tohru was, "Whoa! Not what I meant."

The three Enforcers saw this, with Hak Foo hearing a strange animal sound as Viper held her head, and struggled to get up from barely seeing Camelia kept gazing at the waters is still growing fear, and an aura was forming around her frame.

"What just happened?" Finn exclaimed to his comrades as Ratso, not knowing what animal Jackie turned into, exclaimed as well, "He's a horse." And Chow corrected his stunned comrades then, "No. Chan's a yak!"

Tohru glanced behind him and firmly declared at a growing wary Jade, "The talisman," in order, not a question.

Jade, fearing this, called out to her formerly humane uncle, "Yakie- I mean, Jackie!" Yak-Jackie was looking angered before Jade shouted randomly and didn't expect it to work, "Change him back!" The beam went to the yak and changed him back into a human in moments before Tohru could nab him.

"This must be the turn stuff into other stuff talisman," Jade tells her uncle as Jackie stood next to her and heard this, and told her plainly before getting into a fighting stance, "I noticed." He looked at his niece warily as she suggested to him then while still holding the item, "How about I turn Tohru into-" without warning, the boat rocked as she gripped the item, and everyone looked to see a large tidal wave was coming to land on them, and it did while capsizing the boat to be upside-down, with everyone getting swept into the waters.

After a time, Jade woke up with a monkey on top of her vision, and declared, ew, before shakily getting up and coughing a few things of water with ease, from smelling the animal's breath. "Hello? Mouthwash…" seeing the monkey going in front of her, she questioned him then, "Who're you?" She then questioned herself, "Where am I?" She gazed at the area to see she was on a beach of sorts seeing large jungles and trees close at hand as well.

Jade gasped to herself as she stated then, "I'm shipwrecked!" She paused before exclaiming excitedly to herself in recalling her assignments at school, "My report is going to rock!"

Jade was thankful she had her camera still, and positioned it around the face of the monkey and told him to 'Say cheese', as she took a photo of him, and after that, she nabbed the talisman from the animal, "Hey monkey boy! That's not for you!" She paused before admitting to the curious animal, "Even though it does have your picture on it."

Jade once again gasped as she began to start looking for him and her two fellow friends, and recalling who else was on board the boat, "Oh no! Jackie, Viper, and Amy!"

Meanwhile, further outwards at the beach, four out of the five Enforcers woke up with Finn, Chow, and Ratso being on top of the large sumo man as Ratso casually greeted him, and ignored his growl, "Tohru, hi-yeah!" And the other two did the same warily as the large man glared at them.

Eventually, after twenty minutes as they were walking alongside the three enforcers leaving their swim gear behind and were walking randomly as Tohru told them, seeing as Hak Foo wasn't around, "We must find the talisman."

"How do we know that Chan and those with him aren't still at sea?" Chow questions him before they could answer, they heard Jade calling out to her three friends aloud with that male monkey following her from seeing he was lost, and with Jade wearing her clothes with the same idea of the diver suit being left behind, for better movement.

"There she is!" Ratso pointed and declared with Jade gasping, and running with the male monkey away from the four Enforcers in hot pursuit, and with Jade now calling out Jackie's name in a frantic panic.

On another part of the large isle, on another section of a beach, Jackie himself was passed out with his tongue open.

It was then that Jackie opened his eyes at seeing Uncle's head within the sun, and arousing him awake. "Jackie, you are shipwrecked."

"Yes, Uncle…" Jackie stated to him in a delirious tone and with a smile on his face, "Shipwrecked.

"One more thing! Jade has the Monkey Talisman." Uncle tells Jackie as he responded in that delirious tone back, "Jade's a good girl." Uncle agreed as he continued, "One more thing… Bad men are chasing her. She needs your help, and finds Camelia as Viper is with her." Jackie only hummed in agreement before he got two-fingered smacked by Uncle in a demand, "Now!"

"Jackie!" The man heard in moments as he was fully awake, "Jade!"

With Jade, she was still running and making sure to keep the odd stone she found on her suit in her pocket, with the monkey on her shoulders.

Jade then got a swift idea from glancing at the talisman, reminded herself what it did, grabbed a log, and stated to it firmly in the direction of the pursuing Enforcers, "Turn this into a death ray!" It did change, but into a grey manta ray.

"That's a manta ray! Change it back!" The talisman activated as it did, turning it back as she dropped the log and ran for her life once again, and stated to herself, "I guess it does only animals."

Jade stopped and pointed the front of the talisman at the Enforcers as she stated on purpose, "In that case, how about I get these rats off my tail!" The beam hit only one of them, Ratso, as he did turn into a rat version of himself, and was easily picked up by Finn who was stunned.

"The talisman!" Tohru declared to remind him, as they resumed running and with Jade gasping for breath a few times yet still running, and began shouting random animal names behind her to try and hit the Enforcers, and with the three currently humane Enforcers managing to avoid things with some stone and others becoming them, with most as statues from the rocks, and a stray monkey ending up as a giraffe.

"Gotta hide! Gotta hide!" Jade quickly exclaims to herself in panic, blinked with an idea at looking at the monkey, and told herself, "Double duh!" She pointed to the front of the talisman at herself, and ordered, "Make a monkey out of me!" In a flash, she was changed into a monkey version of herself.

"Where'd she go?!" Finn stated in being confused before Chow suggested him pointing and following him, "This way I think!"

After making sure it was clear, she hid a gasp as the male monkey took the talisman before she could go back to human, and fled from her and with her grabbing the camera she almost dropped, and pursuing him until she fell into a bush, and rode on a wild pig and eventually leaped into a random tree after reminding herself she was a monkey now and took in gasps of air.

She then screamed like a monkey from running into the trees from a green snake, as while she was doing that, the four Enforcers were confused, and Tohru remained calm as well, with Chow stating to them in disbelief, "I don't get it. It's like she disappeared."

It was at odd timing, that the male monkey that nabbed the talisman from Jade, showed up nearby them, and Finn pointed to the animal, "Yo! Talisman at nine o'clock!"

"A monkey's got it…" Chow stated in disbelief before they began pursuing him with Finn calling it a chimp.

With Jade, she was at the top of a random tree and looking everywhere as she thought to herself, I got to get the talisman back, wherever it is- She stilled from hearing her uncle call out her name loudly, and began to climb down quickly and try to follow his voice.

With Jackie, he was soon perplexed at finding a giraffe in front of him, and stated to himself, "We drifted to Africa?"

It was then that he found on the ground was a crumpled picture that Jade had of him to know it was wet and soggy a bit, of their photo before they arrived by Camelia signing to them, and sighed with a facepalm at realizing that he also had to look for not only her but Viper as well.

He eventually found tracks that led to Tohru and followed them to a point until a monkey landed in front of him.

It began to act out as he told it to go away, not knowing it was Jade as she facepalmed to herself at forgetting she was an animal now, and he wouldn't understand her at all and then confused him at trying to do charades and with her failing.

After several attempts, and seeing she forgot her camera which was close by, she nabbed it and showed it to Jackie as he declared taking it from her hands, "You know where Jade is?!"

Jade nodded as she made an arrow, and pointed it to herself as she thought he would get the hint… But he rubbed her head as he told her gently, "Oh? Thank you little monkey."

He then began following the direction of where she drew the arrow and facepalmed herself before she was soon grabbed, and was monkey-napped by a female monkey into the trees.

Jade was soon with other monkeys further into the jungle itself and trying to struggle as the female was checking for bugs on her.

She was grossed out from seeing the motherly monkey eating a big that was on her back and was able to be free and while she was running away, she mentally laughed at finally getting a chance to go find Jackie, and landed on the ground with thinning to herself from the call she gave out, I guess that means 'Bye-bye' in the monkey.

As she landed, she was soon surrounded by some of the pack the female monkey was with, and giving her firm looks as she looked sheepishly at them, I guess not.

With Jackie, he wiped his forehead as he admitted to himself, "This is the last time I will follow directions from a monkey."

Jackie paused with him hearing voices and checked to see if it was the Enforcers as Finn told a monkey that in a way to try and make him do as he was stating to it, "Don't move. Stay right there."

Jackie moved some wild bamboo away to see three out of the five Enforcers circling a monkey with the Monkey Talisman in its hands, on a large enough rock for it to sit on.

"That's it, Bonzo, nobody's going to hurt ya." Finn told the animal that it was gazing at the three in confusion as he held the talisman, and leaped over both Chow and Finn, as they bumped heads with it looking at them, before taking off as Jackie leaped out and told them to 'Stop'.

He was shoved down by Tohru and with both Finn and Chow following after the large man in pursuit of the monkey again, Jackie managed to grab Finn and asked him firmly, "Where is Jade, Viper, and Camelia?"

The duo then began to fight with each other and also defend themselves from one another, as he managed to snag Finn in some loose vines and twirled him enough to see a rat fall out of his pocket, and was stunned by Finn calling out Ratso's name from it in minor worry, "That's Ratso?"

He managed to grab the rat that was trying to run away from them, and told Finn firmly as he struggled to get out of the knot from his wrists, "Tell me what you did with them, or Ratso gets it!"

"Oh… Calm down, dude! We were chasing Little Chan, that's all. The kid zapped Ratso, and the next we know that monkey had the talisman. Not sure where the other two are or even Ham Foo."

"Jade turned Ratso into a rat, and herself into a monkey?!" Jackie stated as he dropped Ratso, and then exclaimed to himself in irony, "I'm a monkey's uncle." He then began to take off shouting Jade's name with Finn stating to himself in realizing things, "The girl's the monkey with the talisman? Whoa!" He then fell and landed on his behind hard, grabbed Ratso, and took off from the vines breaking due to the weight.

With Chow and Tohru, they found the monkey in a tree, and Chow was climbing it with the large sumo man gazing upwards.

The monkey then began throwing fruit at them and even making Chow fall onto his back.

Tohru had enough, began shaking the tree, and stopped as Jackie called out Jade's name with him ran to the duo, and used Tohru's head as leverage to easily climb the tree, and reached the monkey.

"Oh, Jade. Hey Jade. It's me, Jackie." Jackie began to state to the monkey, as the monkey was guarded, and then took off with Jackie exclaiming Jade's name again, and began to try and follow the animal.

On the ground, the three Enforcers of Finn, Tohru, and Chow began to follow as with Jade's place in all of this, she was being forced to take a bath by the female monkey.

I don't need a bath! Jade exclaimed loudly in thought as she was dunked again in the river water and decided enough was enough and she began swimming in it to panic the female monkey out, Later, mom. She sarcastically thought then and if she would have stayed longer, she would have seen the monkey soon flee in fright from seeing a human-like reptilian head with fins and with more following, as some were carrying three individuals: Camelia with her bag, Viper, and Hak Foo, and all three were unconscious as they came on the land, with some looking slightly battered and bruised.

To briefly mention, they were all in armor to know they were warriors of sorts, and have soft spines running down their backs, or extra fins adorning their arms, for instance. They are thickly built to know they are indeed all males, with humanoid torsos merging into a serpent hind section. Their scales are large and thick, and their heads are reminiscent of dragons, showing little sign of their elven ancestry from years ago from where they originated, as these were the Naga.

They were part of a large group from what Camelia did during the time of the Horse Talisman, transporting a vast amount of the Naga from their home base, from their former realm that was about to be destroyed by invaders, along with other items and more for which they knew held souls in them, to this set of isles and claimed it as their own.

"The General will love to know what we found and as ordered, rescued… To camp!" One of them declared with some agreed hissing as they all wordlessly headed further inland to the center of the island, slithering as they went.

With Jackie, he managed to finally catch up with the monkey and caught him, and stated firmly, "Sorry, Jade. This is for your good… Change back." Jackie states with the front of the talisman pointed at the monkey and were perplexed as to why it wasn't working.

"Jade, you break the talisman?" Jackie questions the monkey before it was a moon snatched by Finn, "Hand over the rock!" Tohru quickly grabbed Jackie as the monkey took off.

Finn looked at Ratso as the rat climbed onto his shoulders, and told himself, "Here goes nothing… Change him back." He pointed the item at the rat, and soon Ratso as a human was sitting with his legs out on his back, and stated to his comrade, "Hey there."

"Talisman works just fine," Tohru told Jackie to make the man ponder this, and still struggled in place before long, he was tied to a rock.

"I say we turn him into a dog," Ratso suggested to his fellow henchmen as he clarified to their looks at him then, "I like dogs."

"Why would you want to turn into something you like?" Finn questioned Ratso in bafflement as he stated then, "Maybe a cat then?"

As they were soon arguing as to what to turn Jackie into, he felt the dense vines being chewed and looked down to see the monkey was failing on chewing his way out, and filled by then deciding on a chicken.

"But that will make you cannibals!" Jackie exclaimed warily as Tohru was about to use the Monkey Talisman until another monkey grabbed it and landed in front of Jackie.

Change me back! Jade thought quickly about it as indeed, she changed back to her humane self, and stated casually to her stunned uncle, "Hi Jackie."

He didn't know what to say, as once Jade helped to untie them both, the four Enforcers were running to them then.

While Jackie was dealing with the other three, Kade exclaimed to Tohru with her thinning quickly of an animal, "Elephant!" And the large man was turned into one.

"Ah! Jade! Bad move, bad move!" Jackie tells her loudly as Jade was sheepish to this as she saw her uncle back up, and got an unexpected idea as she aimed at Ratso, "Rat!" Ratso was once again a rat.

Tohru seeing this, fled in fear and stood on a rock, due to elephant instincts.

Chow, however, nabbed the talisman from Jade and changed Tohru and Ratso back in moments, and soon, it was chaos after.

Many animals were chosen until Jackie was a Kangaroo with a pouch, and Jade as a rabbit with the former male having the talisman, and taking off quickly as one away from the pursuing Enforcers, alongside the monkey as well.

Jade used the Monkey Talisman to change her and Jackie back to normal, and stated to him then, "Hope this means what I think it means." Jackie was confused as she took in a deep breath, and began screaming as Tarzan would as not too far out, the pack of monkeys she was formerly with, heard her cry and began heading in her direction.

Just as the Enforcers were about to engage them, they were attacked by a pack of monkeys and a single giraffe and fled in panic.

After a few moments with the male monkey hiding behind Jackie, the female monkey sniffed Jade before combing through her hair Jade stated in amusement as Jackie mouthed it after, "Hi mom."

After Jackie gets kicked by a giraffe, and Jade used the talisman to change it back to a monkey, they traversed through the isle's lush jungle, seeing that Jade had the camera back around her neck, the monkeys took off as well, and ten minutes or so later.

"Do you think Viper and Amy are ok?" Jade eventually asked Jackie as truthfully, he wasn't sure if they were or not as his main focus was finding his niece first, and knew the elder of the two mentioned females would handle things.

They soon hid with both of them wordlessly blinking at seeing all four Enforcers were eventually tied and gagged in a way they would have laughed, if it wasn't for seeing more Naga Soldiers from the homemade path going into the jungle further, with a larger brute-like creature easily carrying Tohru.

It was twice as large as him and matched the scale colorations and similarities of the Naga with armor to know it would be considered a tank monster of sorts, but unlike them, it had legs and sharper teeth slightly and seems to have been pure muscle. It had eased hindquarters to sit-stand as a dragon of sorts, and fingers designed to make it an easy-going rampage machine for speed. There were also remains of shackles on its wrists as well, and fragments of dead coral on some of them.

It made the soldiers pause as it sniffed the air, and the current leader stated in hissing tones to it to which it stated in a deeper hiss back, and saw they shrugged before resuming their stride to their destination.

"Do you think that they got Amy and Viper?" Jade whispered in growing worry as Jackie narrowed his eyes at the creatures, and stated back with a motion to make Jade blink at him in surprise though, "Not sure, but if they do, it's best to lie low and follow to see the truth for ourselves."

After following them, they saw the camp itself was set up to whatever their race was, from their hiding spot, and saw differences between the males and females as the females had either four or six arms and looked slightly more humane in the face and some body structures, especially the chest areas, and saw the females seem to be slightly in charge of things.

The reason is that there were fewer females than males, and saw children as well that oddly looked cute, despite most females and fewer males demonstrating the use of magic.

"It seems like we stumbled upon some kind of race, Jackie," Jade quietly confided in her uncle as he agreed with her and instructed her then as she gave a nod, "We must keep a low profile, and see if they have the others."

As soon as they turn around, they both gulp at seeing tridents aimed at their throats from at least five Naga Soldiers, and Jackie remarks mainly to himself then, "Bad day."

As soon as they had their hands tied behind their back, with Jade thankfully having the talisman in her hoodie pocket, they were escorted by seeing most of the Naga Race observing them in mixed curiosity or distrust as if they encountered humans before.

Soon, they were placed into a large coral-like stone-infused temple noticing that a larger female with having crab legs for her lowered body than a snake tail, wore more important-based armor of black and green colors, and had another eye on the center of her head, which was demonic sapphire eyes, noticed the five soldiers enter with the duo, and forcing the two to bow to her.

Despite as mentioned, she also had pale-white natural skin with scales around her clawed feminine hands, and tribal markings on her entire arms up to her shoulders, and on each of her legs themselves, as her attire also had hints of silky lavender priestess robes. Her head was also mainly scaled dreadlocks with her having a bronze ring around each tip, and wore a golden necklace with a blue diamond in a cutout of a star as the main centerpiece.

"My General… We just caught these two humans spying within our encampment. What is your judgment?" One of the soldiers hissed out in the question, as Jade saw her look at Jackie in distrust, but looked at her in being intrigued by something unseen to the child, and started to make the five blink then, "They are to remain alive like those other two, as I am sure those five men are on their way back by the use of our only one of two sets of Kraken's that came with us, back to whence they came."

The female Naga Leader turned to Jade by her exclamation to see her ponder the name she blurted out, "You have Amy?!"

Jackie was the only one to see, unlike Jade, the leader gave a wordless signal to which the duo was forcibly raised by two of the five soldiers, and their bonds cut to make them rub their wrists, the soldiers bowing and left the area with the man being guarded by the glint briefly shown in her eyes.

"What do you plan to do with us?" Jackie firmly questioned her to which she leaned further into herself to get into a more comfortable position, and informed him with a few hand gestures then, "To you? I would rather see you drown than spare you if it wasn't for the link that piques my curiosity, between this mortal child, and the other under fever. Fighting off the infection injected into her upon our rescue for those three mortals, from the grasp of those… Shadow People."

The female turned to Jade at seeing actual concern from the tone she heard from the child's voice at knowing something was wrong with the other one, "Amy's sick?"

"Not of illness, but of forced injections and poison as thanks to the entity within her, the child's body was able to destroy one of the two hidden timeless bases the Shadow People hosted for experiments, within the isles we call home for mortal months upon our arrival, and a blessing to the Queen herself of giving us another chance to heal and strive." The female calmly informed her with a gentle tone and made Jackie keep this knowledge to himself.

"So Viper and Camelia are safe?" Jackie stated in a way he wanted to know, and she turned to him with a stare and questioned him then, "What pray tell, is both females are to you? I see no trinkets or other to know they are not enslaved or more."

"They came with us when we got shipwrecked," Jackie then told her to which she wasn't convinced but decided enough was enough and seemed to have come to an instant decision, "Very well, human. Until the child is well, you both may stay on our land and sea, and you inform us of what we have come to, and what we may expect from… Limited aspects of weaponry, and machines we have seen overhead or on water."

"B-B-But we can't stay! We have things to do." Jackie soon declared to make the leader raise an eyebrow at him then with growing interest, and still yet told him otherwise, "I decreed your stay. As I, Dameli, the current leader of the Free Naga, and High General of The Queen, have grown curious of my spies as they surveyed your lands close to the waters we can not oversee ourselves, and seen as to how you are dressed as a scholar… May soothe most of what I want to learn."

A few guards soon came over from the duo seeing her make a hand signal, and with one being a female.

The female looked similar and a bit younger in teens, around fourteen to sixteen in their races age to explain, to the leader yet as a female Naga with four arms, peach-toned skin and darker colored scales around her arms and delicate-clawed hands, wore leather upper garments with enchanted cloth mixed with a soft mesh bra, a larger and decent bust (EE-Cup), and had no spines, unlike most females. She also had a slightly sharp yet more delicate face with heterochromia wide and squarish eyes as the left was a normal light violet and the right was a demonic-looking blue like the leader's own, as both eyes had natural green sclera. She also had long black as night hair that went up to the middle of her back and had normal humane ears with a bronze clasp on her right ear. She had dreadlocks within the sides of her hair as well that matched her skin, and each one had a bronze clasp halfway through them. Around her midsection was feminine and a beige battle-like loin cloth for eased movement for speed and more with bronze accented etching in vines.

They all bowed after seeing her give a signal to rise and stated to the three guards as Jackie sighed, and Jade guessed they were indeed mixed guests and prisoners, from hearing her orders then, "You two males take the human male to see the elder female we learned is named after a snake, while you, my only one of two daughters," Jade and Jackie blinked at this with the female Naga jaw-dropping yet kept her vigil stance, "Are to be this girl's and the other girl's bodyguard, and nanny, until further notice."

"Minn'do (Mother)! You can't be serious?! Just because I was involved with-" she immediately stilled and reluctantly recoiled by the glare she gave her elder child with a soft look, mixed, "I understand your anger, Nin-iel (My Daughter), Eritia Stormmoon, but you have to suffer from the consequences of your actions. You allowed your Falore (Sister) to be involved with your exploits to make you as you are as a degraded guard, and have her with the other Dorei (Children) and be harmed with the loss of her left arm. The Shal Sin Mush'a (Night Blood Hunter) was involved being the cause of the damage. Even though you have proven your tole (efforts) and zin (glory) to your new thalas (homeland), you still have to earn dal shan (your honor) back to most of the other Naga."

The female guard, Eritia, hid the urge to sigh while trying to act professionally as she reluctantly gave a short and curt nod to her mother before she grabbed Jade with the girl not liking the tugging she was having by her arm, as Jackie was also pulled away by the other two guards.

Jade did see as she was being led, by noticing some children younger or closer to her age, simply gazing at her and with seeing some even being taught by some open buildings made of the same materials, magic or fighting, and even written word and more.

"To you, Child, you are interesting to the eyes of the young. We rarely had visitors from not our new thalas, and did not try to threaten us as we did unto them." Eritia quietly informed Jade to make the girl turn to her quickly at that, and then resumed sightseeing as she asked the female guard then, with Eritia knowing she was mainly curious, "What are you guys anyway?"

"To answer your question, Dilthen Gwen (Little Girl), we were once the Highborne Kaldorei, or in simple terms: Highborne Elves from a world you cannot fathom. My mother was part of a vast group for the Queen as she was one of several Generals appointed to her, and was changed by powers she gifted to her and later, to the rest, to become the Highborne Naga and the many other races of Naga. Some females of our race, my mother included, mingled with humans or other races from our… Former reality. I am known as a Pher-Breed (Half-Breed) or Halfa on your tongue. I and my Dilthen Pher-Falore (Little Half-Sister), my baby sister, are few of the Halfa's within our dwelling of this isle." Eritia quietly explained with Jade being the only one to notice some sneers from older soldiers or guards aimed at her chosen guard and unfortunate nanny.

Eventually, they came to a cave that looked to have been forcibly made and entered it to see more females dressed in priestess robes to know they were healers, not fighters, alongside some males assisting them. The inner caves looked to be for soothing actions and vibes, alongside placed scrolls and many items for use of healing within it, and spare or recently made cloths as blankets and pillows.

Truthfully for the large-enough cave, with Jade seeing some injured workers or even soldiers on dried seaweed and brush beds that looked to have been treated, firstly, this was mainly a hospital to what the girl thought as she was led way deeper into the cave itself.

"Most of what we have defended our part of the land from a secretive invasion from the Shal Sin Mush'a, and most have recovered, while others are still here being tended to before resuming their duty to the Free Naga." Eritia told her then with the duo soon coming to doors made from unusual wood with ship-based remains of sorts mixed, and noticing her eyeing each door placed in the Naga-made rooms, clarifies to Jade than to get the girl to have sad understanding, "Unlike the one who you labeled as a Snake Woman, these few rooms house those that have been affected the most… Which includes the child we are coming too soon."

As if by precise timing, they soon came to a door that held a Kraken-based insignia on it and was being guarded by two heavily armed guards with having thicker scales on their arms, and were similar to each other yet one was red-scaled, and the other was light-blue with matching golden-red eyes.

Jade watched as the two guards gazed at them sharply before gazing at Eritia as she was speaking in a tongue she didn't understand, as she soon witnessed the two guards glance at each other before lowering their weapons, and the blue one took out a strange key that when he shoved it into the forehead, it made the symbol fully glow for a moment in a light-teal color, and stepped aside as they were allowed in.

Once it was shut, Eritia had briefly softened eyes at seeing Jade wordlessly head over to Camelia as she was tucked in a homemade bed with it being adjusted for her, from whatever was comfy from the isle itself, and even proper with her deeply sleeping and not being aware.

Jade, oddly enough, quietly growled to herself for a few seconds from seeing the bruises on her body and exposed arms from feeling faint needle marks from forcibly jamming them into her body in places.

"I was one of the few that was able to free the girl from her insemination tank for injections and worse, as it seems that they were aware of something we are not. From how long before our rescue, she was time-strapped like both that red-haired banshee and the Snake Woman, for seven mortal months." Eritia told Jade to make her still and gaze at her in disbelief at that, "How is that possible?"

"The humans of this world, Dilthen Gwen, are limited and not fully and truly aware of what can occur, transpire, or to be in their world as most that are fictional or more, are hidden truths of the eyes that blind them… At least, that was once what my own Adar (Father) told me when young before the war claimed him, and my Minn'do took us back to an area where we were given mixed welcome until the Queen herself, gave my Minn'do the ranking of High General. There, she fell in love once again before my new Adar sacrificed himself and with my Minn'do carrying my Sibling, years ago." Eritia informed Jade in a tone that the Chan Girl decided to not question, and was in utter silence for the next few minutes or so.

Eritia then ignored Jade's wince by the soft glare she gave her with her innocent question then, "So you had it rough with the Naga then?"

Eritia simply shrugged before she admitted to Jade then, "In truth… Yes. I was a partial rebel during my time before my forced position due to my Minn'do making it so, along with patrolling for one full week with little rest. My actions caused my Dilthen Pher-Falore: Felina Voidshade. Unlike me who has four arms, she only gained two… Formerly two, as she is innocent still, and even forgiven me for my actions. We are trying to figure out a way to regain lost limbs by our limited alchemists, but no success."

Jade oddly felt sorry for the teenager and was about to say something until the whole area shook and trembled from some minor dust falling with seeing the female teen Naga appeared guarded as she slithered over to the door and stated in that language in firmness to one of the guards, and grew pale for a moment and glanced back to the two girls and then to the guard, and firmly ordered in that tongue before closing the guard closed the door.

"It seems that the Shal Sin Mush'a sent a small group to try and get us when we are at our weakest, and the Dorei from the last settled village we made for them and the elders, have been taken into the caves for safety. Particularly when he is also after those he senses have power… Mainly the one you're running your finger through her hair." Jade recoiled at that without seeing the female teen Naga hid a knowing smile as she was in protective mode from carefully watching as the two guards soon brought in by her request were carrying her bed with ease, her little sister that was passed out still.

She did look to be around Camelia and Jade's age, but she had only one arm left with the other that seemed to be missing. She was around Camelia's height, yet she had a naturally lightish-tan skin and slightly lighter scales on her clawed hand that went up past a few inches or so to her wrist, which she had clawed fingertips in blackened coal color. She also had a similar face to Eritia except she had medium-pointed elvish ears with a silver clasp on her right, and lavender-colored hair that was short and went up to her neck in length, to her delicate oval face with her shut eyes being wide, and cute fangs showing from underneath her upper lips.

She wore mainly a basic child gown seeing she had hints of lean muscle that was decent for her age and was growing up to be a beautiful female when she's aged… However, she had faded cut-based scars on parts of her body and, unlike Eritia, her humanized legs which were slender for her age, as her single-arm, in lengthy terms. Her feet were dainty yet also had clawed toes as well, and she had a Naga-based tail as well that had no spinal ridges until four or so inches near the end of her tail's tip, in twos, and the coloration is similar to Dameli, and two sets of small and cute dull-ivory devil horns within her hairline around her forehead.

"Place her close to the other Dorei, as we know that this cave must be guarded." Eritia ordered as the two male guards nodded, before soon slithering in haste out the open door with the Naga female teenager, glancing at Jade and did a wordless 'Stay here' motion, before going with the guards.

Jade, despite wanting to stay with her friend in the room, felt that something would go wrong if she stayed, so she hesitates but lightly kisses Camelia's forehead before sneaking out and seeing what the commotion to concern the guards was about, and whatever Eritia mentioned who sent the invading party.

If Jade stayed a few moments. she would have seen Camelia sharply awaken yet was unable to move, still, from being lethargic in place, and tinted with not understanding why Jade did that, but had a bad feeling of sorts within the pit of her stomach, for some reason.

With Jade, she was able to make it outside without being noticed and saw the commotion of the Naga themselves rushing the children into the caves seeing out in the distance, a massive, miasma-like ball of energy made from the darkness was forming several miles in the waters in clear view from the Naga Camp itself.

Jade, internally, felt something wasn't right with whatever was from within that large dome of dark and twisted energy, as she thought she saw jaded and fiery-green eyes from within it before she was being grabbed and turned to see it was Jackie.

"Jade! You need to get back into the cave! Whatever the General stated, that thing was summoned!" Jackie loudly warned her with them gazing alongside a few non-warrior Naga witnessing it, hastily fled when the odd barrier began sending purplish miasma-like rocks that let off black flames onto some buildings, like lava balls from an erupting volcano.

That was when they heard it, a roar so dark and echoing it sent shivers within Jade's spine and those within the caves, as without warning, larger versions of those lava balls fell, but they did not destroy. Instead… They shifted into hardened demonic-looking golems as they began to proceed to smash and destroy anything around them.

"Jackie!" Jade shouted in alarm as there was one charging right at him from a meager gaze, and he dodged and both uncle and niece were soon separated within the chaos unfolding within the isle itself.

Without warning, Jade tried to keep herself steady but saw the orb to her growing horror as for once, she felt minuscule compared to what she faced as of late, rising from the waters and coming to what she knew from one of Camila's books… An Eldritch Kraken, but something was very, very wrong with it. Especially when Jade recalled how it didn't look like within the books, as she recalled they were friendly… But whatever it once was, was not by the way it was moving.

It was massive, nearly the size of the length of the Rango First of May Stadium, and was easily floating within the air by some type of telekinetic power. Its face was draconic in looks to that of a three-jawed western drake, similar to the Hungarian Horntail, but its skin coloration was that of fel-fire with charcoal hide. It has four eyes that were emitting fiery amber flames, however, and had three rows of very sharp teeth on each of its extended jaws and the upper. It had spikes that emitted a dimmed glow of the fire from the top of its head to the beginning of the tentacles it had, with each one having deadly-looking dragon claws that looked to have been made of molten steel, in color. On the belly or close to the chest, was a dark and demonic-like sphere that pulsed every five seconds or so, giving the creature raw energy.

The creature made Jade wary as she hastily got up and ran, from mainly gazing at her before letting out that roar onto the ground within mere moments of raw power behind it, and nearly making her fly away from the camp if she didn't hang on, like the rest that was still outside, to anything she could grab.

Once it let up, she thought it chuckled at her before shoving all eight of its clawed tentacles into the ground by forcible means… And made Jade run as they were somehow converted to smaller, multiple versions of those larger ones, and into the forest as the remaining ones were trying to still destroy the campsite of the Naga, and with Jackie and Viper, side-by-side, trying to not only defend themselves but to also aid the Naga Race.

With Jade, she was huffing and puffing with her glancing now and then behind her as she kept running randomly all over the vast jungle the isle had, and with her trying to avoid the creature's tentacles from above or underground as for some reason, it was relentless trying to nab her.

I don't know how much longer I can take… Jade thought warily in tiredness and growing fatigue, as she was able to hide behind some moss-covered stones twice as big as her, and sighed with trying to breathe- She screamed as she was soon grabbed by the tentacles and held her breath as long as she could without getting sand and soil in her mouth, as it dragged her in hasty speed and within the span of merely twenty seconds, she was in one of the claws of the creature with it soon holding her hostage with the aid of the claws it had.

Jackie saw alongside several others of Jade being captured by whatever the creature was, and with the General knocked out as her daughter carried her to the caves and a few trusted guards, was soon beside Jackie and Viper as the golems fell and collapsed into themselves, and were rather stunned the beast spoke in a raspy, dark, and empowered voice with making the trio glance temporarily back to the cave entrance at to it, and heard Jade stating a loud, no, to it, "Where is the other child? My Master wants her!"

It then roared once again as the remains of the collapsed golems soon began to move to a singular spot in the open, and made the trio back up alongside the few guards not knocked out or injured, as it combined into a massive, sixty-foot version with six arms with four stone-like tentacles behind its back, and four glowing miasma-looking eyes.

"I will not stop until I have the child I was sent into my claws! Where is she?!" The beast roared out in demand to them all, as within the caves of the room, Camelia knew something was wrong as she didn't understand why, but she felt Jade was in fear and soon, grew unexpectedly angered from feeling Jade being in unexpected pain as she stilled from hearing the screams Jade loudly let out that was within hearing distance and the cries or dismay of the other Naga from seeing more of their new home being destroyed.

Deathwing within the child herself grew rather stunned from seeing within the mindscape of her inner self, of the energy sending all around the child with seeing parts of his power, going into an orb that was soon transmitting the energy skywards to know one thing, to which he was mixed of being still wary, and with pride.

From what he realized, just then, Camelia was doing something he never thought possible, as he recognized the very energy in hidden shock for a moment, and soon slowly grinned wickedly at realizing the beast may have overstepped its boundaries to what his host knew without knowing as of yet, was hers and boosted the energy to fully make it the energy wouldn't harm her as well after the deed was done.

Despite knowing the last time she used it, she was not under control, but it seemed whatever the manifestation the orb had, knew things would be more interesting as time went on, and knew this energy was only for a moment reprise to have temporarily given the child control for a small amount of untrained time.

With Camelia, she blanked out as the unexpected and raw energy soon overwhelmed her to make her stand up, and was once again under the state of what transpired during the Dragon Talisman incident a while ago, and walked out of the room with ease with the guards backing up from seeing this unexpectedly, and eventually came to the entrance… Despite the sickly skin tone she still had, and hinted bags under her eyes.

Jackie just dodged a swipe from the fifth arm the golem had before rolling away from the golem itself as it pursued him.

He was able to dodge again until an unexpected beam of golden light blasted right through the chest cavity the creature construct had, and catching the attention of the beast within the sky to stop making Jade scream in utter agony and pain from being shocked, constantly, by the claws it had, as everyone and the beast turned to the empowered Potter Child herself.

The golem became ash within moments as the spell dissolved itself, and the child ignored her smoking hand that healed within moments and kept her furious stare right at the altered Eldritch Kraken with a corrupted demon soul in the body it has.

"Not good." Jackie tells himself as everyone within the same proximity of the area, watched as she walked calmly with empowered steps to the center of the wrecked campsite with her gaze not faltering to the beast, with Viper thought she, like a select few, saw phantom images of draconian wings with angelic-like decal webbing behind her up to four, before the faint wing images vanished with the beast chuckling darkly in a smirk, if possible, "So you are the child I was sent to take back to the Master? You seem to be willing to face whatever may come if you do not cooperate at all."

Camelia was only silent with her soon sharply looking with briefly softened eyes at Jade, who was wide-eyed in mixed emotions right now from the spot she could see her friend, and the Potter Child soon feeling within her the emotions and with the main one hoping, at her, before snarling right at the beast to which Jade yelled as she was soon shoved right into the orb as an inner prison, and the creature glared right at her with a more dense glint within the flaming eyes it had for mere seconds in the challenge.

Jackie, Viper, and the remaining Naga didn't have time to react when they were all forced by a powerful gust of wind right into the caves without much choice, and a golden barrier with hinted darkness, mixed, prevented them from ever coming out with them only having no choice but to watch what was to unfold.

"Those pathetic creatures, half, and the humans are not worth living under my Master's eyes." The creature soon taunted Camelia then to see that the beast struck a nerve, with Jade seeing this, and chuckled darkly with recalling the limbs it has and ignored the child's constant twitching and power growing, without it knowing, "I was the one of the few selected to wipe out their large and unsettling clan, as they were in the way of the Tainted Ones, which even the Old Gods from within their realm feared as well. We are few yet many, as I am the one who will be the one to devour your soul!" The corrupted beast then began to attack by sending orbs of darkness right at her.

Jade shouted with pounding within the unbreakable orb prison, and those within the caves were growing in horror by seeing the many balls of tainted and fel-like energy being sent right to Camelia… For only to make everyone, and even the beast be shocked as she held out her hand, and gathered it all within it to shift it into a smaller ball of the raw and dark orb of energy.

What they didn't expect her to do was swallow it without showing signs of pain, as her face was soon giving a twisted grin that Jade recalled back then, as that aura soon showed from around Camelia's bodily frame.

Soon they all saw the child's place was pulsating around her body in several pulsations, with the sounds faintly like that of a heavy heartbeat, and she shook in place with seeing her eyes glowing sharper with letting out a raspy scream of no pain, but of raw anger and power to the heavens, as the sky has unexpectedly gotten dark with thunder and lightning forming within them.

Without warning, she blinded them all as the energy flashed and burst from within her with Deathwing in her inner self, more impressed mixed with being worried, as when the light cleared, they were stunned to see that the child was transformed into a large, impressive, and terrifying beast.

She looks like a giant flesh-eating dromaeosaur with a lean and decently toned feminine build of sorts, mixed with other things as it all perfectly blended into an albinoish-based skin tone, and was around sixty meters tall, and one-hundreds meters long, and had four bat-like yet draconic-based wings with the wings being onto her side and closer to her back's center, perfectly, and the membrane having a decal-like angelic feather effect to which reflected pockets of minor light for a godly-like effect. Each of her wings was held by four bat-like phalanges, and the tips were that of an extra clawed hand to that of a clawed gargoyle.

Her head resembles slightly to a blocky-like Tyrannosaurus Rex of sorts, mixed with having a crocodilian-looking jaw with flaring nostrils, a forked tongue, and brows furrowed in a generally furrowed appearance. Her neck was decently broad, with not only smaller two rows of spines going downwards from the top of her head, but with coral-like maple leaf dorsal plates that were sharp (and if she could swim, would be able to show with ease in water) and up to her middle of the back with them growing smaller and smaller up to her more deadly-looking scorpion tail. Her head was also adjourned with longer, more decorative, and curved black-ivory horns that also matched her claws and clawed with wide-like elephant-like reptilian feet, in color, and ten horns similar to the Heisei Incarnation to which flared slightly to make everyone know it was for her moods. She also has pointed yet delicate-looking wing-like fin ears on the sides of her head.

Speaking of being reptilian, her scales were delicately mixed with being smooth-like roughness to the touch, as on her midsection to where her guts are supposed to be, was the seal itself in faintly glowing neon-blue colors.

Camelia soon roared so loud that the beast actually backed up within the air a few times, and the beast then roared back in the challenge as the corrupted creature let out a loud roaring gasp as Camelia from the use of her powers, rammed easily from a high jump, and onto the creature itself, clawing and trying to get to the orb on the Corrupted Eldritch Kraken's midsection.

Jade kept on tripping within the orb itself with seeing how sharp the claws her formerly human friend had, with trying not to hold her ears by the scraping sound that echoed with each time she tried to grab it, before those down below where can easily see within the entrance of the cave system, saw the clawed tentacles of the corrupted beast, rapidly began to wrap around the transformed child and began swirling her within the air above its head.

Camelia grunted and roared-wheezed from being strangled and more with Jade shouting her name, as she was harshly tossed into some trees before seeing her shake it off, got up within moments, and tried to leap once again before dodging with flexibility from the claws the corrupted beast had to try and slice her open.

Both Jackie and Viper were not believing they were witnessing what they could only describe as a kaiju battle, of sorts, watching the corrupted beast wailing in a roar of shock as the transformed child chomped harshly onto one of them, and managed to rip it off with her chomping it several times.

She was then tripped by the corrupted beast with it sending the rest of the remaining limbs it has, into the ground and tied her up.

The creature was soon up into her face with a wicked gleam, as Jade was soon pounding away constantly into the walls of the orb itself from hearing the finality the beast told her transformed friend, then, "You managed to impress me, Youngling… It seems fitting that I gradually allow you to suffer before I end your life and the others. I was going to spare you until your stunt came to be, so I think it is time to end this fight that started well in your favor but is now unfortunate for you."

Camelia struggled as the Corrupted Eldritch Kraken opened its maw with it glowing an unnatural light with the transformed child soon became half-aware and closed her eyes thinking this was the end, her sanity and mind once again hers for mere moments- The corrupted beast let out a roar without warning, and was shoved away from Camelia by an unusual beam of sorts hitting its tough and leathery hide.

When it let go, Camelia didn't see a cloaked figure further out in the distance as she took the corrupted beast in more surprise as the tables were turned, and the figure vanished into a dark portal with the unusual weapon being the cause.

Camelia took this lucky opportunity as she caused the beast to scream, and instead of blood, darkened and misty-based smoke emitted when she dug her hands around the glass orb, and easily yanked it out and caused Jade to scream out the words, bad day, as she managed to land on the beach further inland as the orb shattered into a cloud of ashen dust that the wind being picked up, scattered away.

Camelia without realizing she did, with within her Deathwing was smirking cruelly from knowing the beast was about to get its just deserts, by opening her maw with all her dorsal fins soon glowing an eerie green and golden-like magma color, and made the beast wither in utter pain and agony by blasting pure, hot, and dangerous flames compared more to her sneezes at times.

Camellia kept at it from recalling what the thing below her did to what her emotions at the time, felt was hers, and soon charcoaled it into a burnt squid-like appetizer to which she sharpened her tail, got up, and then slammed it harshly on the body to see it turn to dust with failing at nabbing the entity placed into it as it fled in utter fear away from the isles.

The barrier dropped just as Camellia roared with her head upwards once again, and roared raspily for several moments with those seeing her in a new light, saw her beginning to sway back and forth with her eyes dimming, and looked like she was about to fall on them to only then see her transformed body soon shifted back from it disintegrating into nothing.

Jackie let out an 'Oomph' sound as he managed to catch Camelia, as she looked like she was before, but her skin now had a reptilian texture to it.

Viper looked at the destruction that was caused and was glad the child was on their side, with Jade soon being found and brought to the cave, aware and concerned at Camelia with seeing her skin is paler than before.

It turned out she nearly depleted herself to get vengeance from what the corrupted beast had done to Jade, mainly, and with seeing at the oddest luck, a spare cell on the ground to which Viper took, and began to call Section 13 with her words to Augustus, he was not going to believe it at all.

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A week later, on December 11th of 2000 on a Monday, at the Middle School:

"Now it's Jade's turn to give her report." Miss Hartman stated to the class as Camelia, while somewhat better, was watching her friend nervously as she gave her report to the teacher, and Miss Hartman knew that she was not rather fond of being the center of attention at times.

Captain Black didn't believe Viper at all, firstly, until he saw said race right before his eyes alongside Uncle, who was called to aid Camelia alongside Faolan, and managed to relocate the population onto a secured and private island that was meant to be used for future placement as an amusement park, but out purchased it from the developer's nose.

Viper was put in temporary charge of the operation until it was finished, and to return whenever she could to Sector 13.

So yes, she will be able to learn more of the Naga Race from knowing they have earned their respect, and more loyalty to not them, but to the child in the question of even mistaking her as a reptilian god.

In secret, Camelia did tell the other demons within the Netherworld about what happened, but they didn't bother mentioning it, having personal looks as to what may have occurred from knowing she touched the Monkey Talisman, including Shendu when he was eventually told in private by Deathwing within Camelia herself.

All in all, things were going back to normal with Captain Black managing to secure the footage of Camelia's transformation for himself and planning to let Uncle discover what or why she changed into said form in the first place.

Anyways to get back on track, Jade looked confident as she coughed into her hand for a moment, and began to speak to the class, "On my day at work, my Uncle Jackie and I went scuba diving for artifacts, but a big storm kicked up, and we wound up shipwrecked alongside Amy and Viper."

The class didn't look like they believed her as Drew commented for them all and without seeing the frown from Camelia with her looking to be hesitant of his words, looked determined to herself with the encouragement by Deathwing as she was reaching into her pocket for something, "Yeah, right."

Jade didn't look so confident then as she resumed her words to the class to finish her report, "And there were these monkeys… And…" Seeing the teachers look at her with impatience, she was about to open her mouth before she blinked as the class turned to Camelia with the teacher seeing her newest student reveal the very gemstone that was considered safe, by Uncle's words, to let her have.

The class was in awe before being perplexed as they have yet to learn Sign Language or take classes Jade seeing her hinted look, gave a thankful look and then back, "What Amy is saying is that's the proof as that was what we uncovered alongside a few other things for a museum to take, and the curator allowed her to have it out of kindness as it had value, whatever that meant, but it belonged to her."

"Impressive for once," Miss Hartman stated to Jade after the school was over with both her and Camelia in the classroom as she did go over Jade's report and knew most of it was fabricated, but knew the location was possibly true though.

The reason why the two remained behind was that they were getting picked up today, instead of the bus.

Miss Maria Hartman internally sighed while keeping a calm composure after seeing Camelia sign something to Jade, and knew she would need a crash course of learning the language, as Jade spoke for her friend, "Amy agrees as we did have to rough style on that one isle for some time, and with her getting sick near our rescue due to the cell phones and even the radios not working."

Maria only nodded before asking them to not see that she made both girls nervous with her curious question as she was able to hold the unusual gemstone before giving it back to Camelia, wth seeing hidden sigils on some parts of it, "So it seems your caregivers are at least impressing me by the day whenever I hear of them… Though it gets me to wonder how lucky you both are during that time. You two girls are alright?" Despite being nervous, Jade was rather confused as to why her teacher was showing bits of concern for them.

Camelia signed away after that with Jade soon translating for her teacher, "Amy said she is better but still weak, and was thankful both Jackie and Viper managed to find a secured area on the isle to get a signal while I took care of her, as she was acting loopy while out of it."

Jade and Camelia knew the teacher wouldn't believe their true tale, especially since she concerned her friends and even Jade at not recalling her unexpected transformation to whatever it was, as within her, Deathwing chuckled in small humor with gazing above his maelstrom, an orb containing the creature itself to half its former size to know that it was her 'Beast' and knew it was strange but guessed she wasn't fully whole as her true self, as of yet.

"We're good though. Besides, as long as I and Amy stick together," here Jade grabbed her friend in a headlock with Camelia making a playful scowl on her face to her friend, which secretly amused Maria, "We can last anything that can throw at us."

Maria was about to speak before the three turned to see it was both Viper and Jackie looking at the two girls in shared amusement, with Viper leaning on the doorway through with crossed arms, as Jackie told the teacher then, "Yes, and family tends to stick together through thick and thin."

Before they can leave the room, Camelia paused before confusing the teacher with her soon being touched, and not seeing Jade's weirded-out look at her friend's kindness as she brought out another gemstone for her to keep, from signing it out, for being a decent teacher to her.

Once they were gone, Maria eyed the blue diamond gemstone being rather surprised, still, that a child such as her entrusted a high-priced gemstone such as this, and placed it into her purse.

As she left, she didn't see the one yellowish-like entity being paired with a few others before the trio vanished away.