Hi fellow readers!
So I decided to write a new chapter tonight as well as post it XD
In this chapter Shendu and Enya become a little bit closer.
Enjoy!
Enya's POV
I was glad the new moon was over with because being stuck in your human state sucked big time. A few days had passed since the Rat Talisman was retrieved and now I followed after Captain Black, Jade, and Jackie towards the talisman vault. Jackie managed to get another talisman away from the enforcers and out of Shendu and Valmont's grasp. Speaking of said which dragon, the demon sorcerer had not visited me and for once I was glad he hadn't. The way he had curled his body around mine was still fresh in my mind and I would never forget the way my inner dragon stirred at his presence. Even though my dragon self was dormant in dreams she could awaken and be active whenever she wished. We all came to a stop at the first door that sealed away the talismans from the rest of Section 13. Captain Black slid a yellow card and the door opened in front of us.
"Level one security card?" Jade asked looking up to Black.
"Check" the leader of Section 13 said before we all continued forward. Jade hurried ahead of us and quickly typed in numbers into the keypad.
"I typed in your birthday Captain Black" the preteen said proudly looking back to Black.
"That's not the password kid" I said to Jade as the keypad made a noise meaning the code she entered wasn't the right one. I chuckled as Jade growled and Jackie stood in front of her while Captain Black punched in the right code.
"It's not polite to hack into security systems that don't belong to you" Jackie said bending down to Jade's level. I chuckled when Jade said she saw Black typing in a seven, in fact I wasn't even looking at when the boss of Section 13 typed in the password. The door to the vault opened and we all walked inside.
"Oh wow" I said as I finally saw the other talismans for the first time since I came to this world. Jade had tried to walk towards them but Black stopped her telling her the whole vault was a sensor field.
"Shall we put Horsey in the stable?" Black asked looking to Jackie as Jade wandered off.
"Uh" Jackie began.
"You didn't bring it?" Black asked not sounding pleased.
"Uncle is studying it right now once he's done we'll bring it back here Captain Black" I covered for Jackie. Captain Black didn't like to hear the word magic and so I decided to spare Jackie the explaining on how Uncle was actually trying to figure out what power the Horse Talisman wielded when I knew very well in had the power of healing. A smirk came to my lips when I remembered that Tohru, Ratso, Chow, and Finn all had colds. Jackie sent me a thank you look before we all turned to see Jade typing in something in the control panel. We all walked up to her and Captain Black arched an eyebrow at the word that the preteen had typed in.
"Namsliat?"
"Talisman spelled back words duh" Jade said to Black.
"You get an A for effort smarty pants" Black began as he took out a pen. "But not only is Section 13 secret it's impenetrable" he then tossed the pen onto the floor and it shortly got vaporized by a laser causing my eyes to widen in awe, while Jade had a "Oh Snap" look on her face, which got me to laugh.
Valmont's POV
I impatiently waited for one of Shendu's Shadow Khan to show up. A shadow then crossed the floor and then the minion emerged in front of the desk. It placed a box in front of me and opened it to reveal some of reliquary filled with a topaz colored liquid, I took the reliquary out as Shendu said.
"This potion should fit to your needs Valmont"
"And then by this time tomorrow Chan will have no choice but work for the Dark Hand and now for the bait"
Uncle's Shop
"I have translated the inscription on the back of the talisman" Uncle said looking to me, Jackie, and Jade, we were all in Uncle's library. Uncle handed me Jackie the translation on a piece of paper and he read.
"If activated the noble horse expels all ailing forces within"
"I bet those alien forces inside of the talisman fly out and latch onto human brains to turn people into mind control zombies to take over the world" Jade said. I burst out laughing while Jackie and Uncle looked to Jade with what- is- she- talking -about look.
"There are no such things as aliens the talismans are magic" Uncle then said a second later standing up. Jackie's cell suddenly rang and the archeologist picked it up, I frowned when Jackie conversed with Black.
"What is it Enya?" Jade asked noticing the look on my face.
"I wish I could say kid" I replied back to the preteen wishing I could explain to her that the talisman in South Dakota, Mount Rushmore was a trap set up by Valmont.
"I'm on my way" Jackie said to Black before hanging up his phone.
"Let's rock" Jade said looking excited.
"Uh Uncle needs you, your uh this close to solving the riddle of the talisman" Jackie answered her. Jade gave her uncle a look of disappointment before she turned to Uncle and me, and said.
"Let's crack that code"
Later
Dream
I was back at the beach and was meditating again. Jade and Uncle stayed up while I went to bed early trying to crack the riddle of the horse talisman.
"Hello Enya" came Shendu's voice and I smirked.
"I had a feeling you wouldn't stay away for long" I replied back to Shendu as I stood up brushing sand off of my sweat pants. I always wore the same outfit I did in most of my dreams which was the same outfit I had on when Shendu surprised me a few days back.
"I would have visited sooner my dear but alas I had other things on my mind" the demon sorcerer explained.
"I already know that Valmont poisoned Jackie Shendu" I stated the obvious to the dragon hovering in front of me.
"Indeed he has" Shendu agreed before he floated onto the sand and rested there and I sat myself back onto it joining him.
"Why do I always seem to find you here?" Shendu suddenly asked me meaning the beach.
"The sound of the ocean always relaxes me and it was where my mother taught me how to begin to shift into my dragon form as well as her lessons of flight" I answered.
"Your mother I take is the one you inherited you're dragon blood from I take it" Shendu said.
"You guessed right she's only a hundred years old"
"That's a young age for a dragon"Shendu chuckled before continuing. "I always had a fondness for Western Dragons my sister was one" this got me to turn to Shendu with my eyes widened in curiosity.
"I thought you only had seven other siblings"
Shendu shook his ghostly head before replying.
"Now I do but I had another sister her name was Kumori she was the Demon Sorcerer of Darkness she was quite beautiful"
"You speak of her as though you and her were close"
"We were she was the oldest out of the nine of us and she died at the hands of the immortal who tried to banish her"
"I see" was all I could say. I wanted to give Shendu my sympathy but decided not to risk angering him. Shendu suddenly let out his signature hiss and he floated off of the sand.
"I'm afraid I must depart Enya I look forward to meeting you again"
I simply nodded to the demon sorcerer before he turned around and left me. At the time I heard Uncle calling for me.
Reality
"Enya wake up!" Uncle demanded shaking my body hard.
"I'm up you silly Chi Wizard what is it?" I asked Uncle as I sat up and wiped the sleep from my eyes with my arm.
"Jackie is back and he's not in good condition" Uncle explained. I growled and got out of bed and followed the old man downstairs to where Jade and Jackie were. The archaeologist was sitting in a chair looking defeated. I immediately could smell the magic flowing through Jackie's blood and I growled dangerously.
"Whoa was that you Enya?" Jade asked turning to me.
"Sorry kid" I apologized to Jade before turning to Jackie.
"How long do you have until you meet with Valmont's men?"
"At six a.m. I wish you could so something about this Enya" Jackie replied.
"She can't!" Uncle snapped throwing down the horse talisman onto a desk. "The flow of events must not be unbalanced in the mean time the riddle to the horse talisman can wait I will make an antidote" the old man nodded towards the room behind us where he performed his spells. Jackie groaned before he stood up to follow his uncle with me and Jade following behind. Uncle turned on the light to the backroom.
"But Uncle we don't even know the formula" Jackie said to Uncle who simply waved a hand in a dismissive manner. He walked to his desk and took something out of a glass beaker. I felt my stomach do somersaults as he gave Jackie the beetle larvae.
"That's the antidote?" Jade asked Uncle as Jackie ate the larvae and his eyes widened at the taste.
"No beetle larvae is good protein" Jackie's eyes widened even more as he turned around ready to throw up but he only tripped and he landed onto the floor of the shop with a thud, causing several vases to fall and break.
A few minutes later.
Uncle finished pouring a pinkish liquid into another glass beaker.
"Drink" the Chi Wizard said and Jade gave the beaker to her uncle. Jackie obeyed and drank the contents before coughing. His face then spazzed before his skin turned into a scaly green. My face along with Jade and Uncle's turned to horror.
"What is it?" Jackie questioned.
"Nothing don't look in the mirror" both Uncle and I said together while Uncle waved his hands out in front of him.
Jackie disobeyed and he screamed when he saw his reflection. Both Uncle and I face palmed.
"We told you to not look in the mirror!"
"I am lizard I will become a stone lizard!" Jackie yelled before he pulled onto his reptile skin.
"Oh man that's so wrong" I said closing my eyes as Jackie's reptile skin began to peel off.
"Did the antidote work?" Jade asked looking to Uncle and I. As Jackie finished pulling off his reptile skin the effects of the stone venom made his body spazz and another finger on his right hand turned to stone.
Later
Uncle made me go back to bed and I didn't hesitate to do so. I ended up having a hard time sleeping due to the fact I was worried about Jackie's condition. When I did get to sleep a nightmare of the night those hunters ambushed me filled my dreams. In the dream I actually had collapsed in front of my motorcycle and I was bleeding even worse. I woke up screaming right before the leader of the hunters was about to use a sword to kill me. I looked to the clock and felt my blood run cold, it was 5:00 am and I knew Jade had already snuck into Section 13 and gotten the talismans.
"Screw this" I hissed getting out of bed once more and stripped off my clothes into my signature outfit and pulled my hair back into a pony tail. I quietly snuck out of my room. It was going to be cold in the early morning hours so I had pulled on a leather jacket before I called to my gift of invisibility. As I headed towards the front door I heard a thud and an explosion. I quietly chuckled in my mind knowing Uncle had failed to make another antidote for Jackie. Thanks to that distraction I easily opened the door to the shop and shut it. I then became visible again before I hurried over to the motorcycle and started it. The engine roared to life as I put my foot to the pedal and sped off into the early morning hours of San Francisco.
The ride to the tower where the enforcers were took forty five minutes, and when I arrived I quickly pulled my bike into a spot. Hurriedly I pulled off my helmet and pocketed my keys before becoming invisible once again. The sun began to rise as I hurried up the stairs to the top of the tower and Jade was walking towards the enforcers about to hand over the talismans.
"Jade don't!" I shouted to her as I became visible again.
"You!" came the voices of Finn, Ratso, and Chow. I let out an un-lady like word when I felt Jackie slam into me and I landed face first onto the floor.
"Sorry Enya" Jackie apologized as I stood up. His nose and left leg then turned to stone.
"I have to do this Jackie you're running out of time!" Jade said before she gasped when Tohru took the bag of talismans from her. Jackie fell to the floor and I hurried over to help him up. The enforcers laughed before they coughed.
"You shut the hell up!" I snarled at them. My fangs and claws hand come out and I already could see Chow, Ratso, and Finn wince at my fury. Tohru then counted the talismans and frowned before looking to Jade.
"One is missing" the sumo growled.
"No way I cleaned out the vault!" Jade argued before she realized she left the Horse Talisman at Uncle's.
"Um if you give me the antidote I really for sure promise to get the other one Scout's honor?" Jade begged.
"Psssh like she's a Scout" Finn hissed.
"Shut up Ginger" I snapped at Finn as Tohru held out the antidote and he dropped it.
"No!" Jade and I yelled and the preteen hurried forward to try and catch the vial but it simply crashed and broke onto the floor into many shards of glass.
"But why?" Jade demanded as tears came into her eyes. Tohru sneezed again before answering.
"Because Chan makes me sick!" he snapped at her.
"It's okay kid" I reassured coming up behind Jade wrapping an arm around her as did Jackie. Jade looked to me and her uncle before she snapped at the enforcers.
"We don't need you're stinking antidote!" she then ran forward and tried to get the talismans from Tohru. As she climbed onto him Finn, Ratso, and Chow rushed over to me and Jackie.
"This is for calling me Ginger!" Finn snapped as he threw a punch towards me. I ducked and leapt into the air giving him a round house kick to the gut. Finn went flying backwards and crashed against the wall. Chow whined as he punched Jackie only to have hurt his fist, my eyes widened as Jackie lifted up his blue shirt and saw that his torso was now stone. I heard Ratso growling and I turned to see him coming towards me.
"Maybe this will warm you up!" I shouted as I summoned my fire magic and held my hands out. Flames shot out and Ratso went bug eyed and turned around. Smirking I chased Ratso around the room in a circular manner until he didn't look where he was going and he smacked his face into a wall.
"Mess with a dragon and you're gonna get burned" I said before I turned around to see Finn throwing more punches at Jackie, Jade was trying to get the talismans away from Tohru and Chow who tossed the bag between them over her head. I ran over to Finn and grabbed his dress shirt collar and punched him hard in the jaw. He fell to the floor with a whimper.
"Jackie, Enya!" Uncle's voice filled the room. We all turned glad to see him.
"Did you find the antidote?" Jackie asked Uncle.
"No I brought the Horse Talisman to trade for their antidote" Uncle replied and this got me and Jade to do an anime fall.
"One more thing I also brought the antidotes that did not work perhaps if I mix them together Aiyah!" the old man said as Tohru snuck behind Uncle and took the talisman from him. He then sneezed and the Horse Talisman glowed working its magic on Tohru. As it glowed Jade ran towards the sumo and jumped into the air and grabbed the Horse Talisman from his grasp.
"Excuse you" she said to Tohru flashing him a smirk. Tohru tried to make a grab for her but she ran between his legs and he rolled forward, and like a bowling ball he went down the stairs, I winced when I heard him say "Ow" when he reached the bottom.
"Jackie!" Jade said tossing the Horse Talisman towards Jackie who caught it, he winced before saying.
"The Dark Hand will never have all twelve" and the archaeologist finally became stone.
"Jackie!" both Jade and I shouted as we ran towards Jackie. Finn, Ratso, and Chow all grinned evilly and began to walk towards Jade and I.
"You stay the hell away from her and him!" I snarled showing the three stooges my sharp claws.
"Two more things!" Uncle said getting Finn, Ratso, and Chow to turn to Uncle. Uncle threw the reptile potion onto Finn and Ratso. They both grunted before they look to each other and yelled their eyes widened, they then turned around ready to run only to smack their faces into the walls in front of them and they fell to the floor face first. Chow then was about throw a punch at Uncle when the Chi Wizard used the explosive potion on him and sunglasses dude went flying and he landed on the floor with a thud and became out cold. I used that chance to run over to him and snag the bag of talismans from him. As I returned to Jade and Uncle's side they both looked at Jackie. Before we could say anything Tohru suddenly returned and I got in front of Jade and Uncle. He breathed a sigh in relief and I knew his cold was gone.
"Ahh my cold is gone like magic"
"Guys remember the riddle to the Horse Talisman?" I turned to Jade and Uncle.
"The Noble Horse heals all ailing forces within"
"The riddle it doesn't mean the aliens in the talisman it means healing the ailing forces within the sick person who holds it"
"It's the healing talisman" I finished. Jade looked to me and then to Jackie.
"Thinks it only works on colds?" Jade asked looking to me. I smirked before Tohru demanded the talisman. I hurried over the Jackie stone's fist holding the Horse Talisman and did a fake sneeze on it. The talisman glowed making Jackie's stone body glow white before he returned to normal.
"Hey" the archaeologist said surprised he was back to normal. He then looked up to Tohru who was dumbfounded.
"Hey" he said with a smirk before he ran up to Tohru and jumped into the air and slammed a kick into the sumo's stomach. Tohru walked backwards and then he lost his balance and like before he rolled down the stairs like a bowling ball again and an "Ow" was heard later.
"Jackie!" Jade said hugging Jackie glad he was back to normal.
"Welcome back my friend" I said to Jackie and I hugged him. Jackie chuckled before he wrapped one arm around my waist while Uncle joined us.
"I told you I would bring the antidote you should never question Uncle" the old man said. I chuckled and Uncle patted my forehead.
"Thank you guys" Jackie said to us before he turned to Jade.
"Now we have some talismans to return" he said to Jade.
"I guess I have some explaining to duh huh?" she asked. Jackie chuckled before bending down to her.
"We'll just tell Captain Black we were between a rock and a hard place"
"That was a bad joke Jackie" I scolded the archaeologist. Then the four of us burst out in laughter.
Later
Dream
I was running once more from the hunters who were determined to finish me off. My dream setting this time was running down the streets of Charlottesville, blood continuing to flow from my injured shoulder onto the concrete. Like before I collapsed in front of my motorcycle and turned to see the hunters in front of me.
"Time to die you monster" the leader sneered before he swung his sword towards me. I screamed and closed my eyes waiting for the blade to make the killing blow only.
"Enya it's alright!" I heard suddenly heard Shendu's voice say. I opened my eyes and found myself on my beach with Shendu's spirit hovering in front of me. His face full of concern and worry. It was nighttime on the beach and the sky was clear.
"What happened just now?" I asked Shendu worriedly looking around.
"I think my voice made you change the dream setting to this one" Shendu answered. "My dear are you alright?"
"No I keep having that damned nightmare" I replied to the demon sorcerer. I looked to my shoulder and was glad to see it wasn't bleeding like it was a second ago.
"Young one please don't tell me that's what you went through before you came to this world" Shendu said softly. My silence only confirmed what Shendu suspected. I suddenly felt weak and I collapsed onto the sand. I felt Shendu wrap his ghostly form around me and I felt the heat of his element warm me up.
"Rest my dear I shall stay here with you until you wake up" Shendu said. I felt his ghost like snout nuzzle my hair before my body relaxed and soon I fell asleep in the dream with Shendu coiled around me determined to watch over me.
Awwww ain't that cute!
I wanted to finish the chapter with Shendu wanting to protect Enya like he would a child. Don't worry more moments between Shendu and Enya will come along as will more Valmont and Enya moments. Till next chapter!
