Ok so to start things off with, I'm so sorry if that last chapter was really bad detail wise. I know I rushed it a lot cause I just wanted the main idea down. This one will hopefully be a lot better because there is no fighting in it so it will be better. Oh and you probably want to re-read the first chapter, cause I did edit it, no big changes or anything, just grammar stuff and small line changes. Nothing you can't live without so yeah. Thanks!

**oh and Toruh was brought in to help out, but do keep in mind that the Satrudays have been going through a hard time and what happened to Zak when he was helping Jade has them extremely worried, so they are going to be acting a little ooc in this chapter, and the fact that they were fighting with (primarily Uncle) about what to do with the kids and how all of these things happened. I didn't know how to fit all of that in exactly, so I kinda just explained it through Toruh. Sorry about that. Just know that they were all fighting and Toruh finally got his word in.

Don't you remember?

Jade was just coming to, with a splitting headache. She wasn't sure what had happened, but she was pretty sure it wasn't good. She looked around and found she was on a bed of some kind, kinda like a hospital. That scared her a little bit, her mind started racing.

'What happened to me? Am I in sector 13? Did I break something? Owwnw my head!' She started to grab her head in pain. Then she started hearing a moaning on the other side of her curtain. She opened it to see Zak Saturday.

'What? What is he doing here?! Man, I really must have hit my head. Owow' She felt around her head, and sure enough she did feel some bumps and assumingly bruises. She even felt a few stitches. 'Ahahghgh, at least I know where my pounding headache came from now. But, what was I doing?' She wondered, trying to remember what it was but every time she tried her head would just hurt even more.

Zak started to stir and eventually opened his eyes to find himself in the medical bay. He tried to sit up but he was greeted with a pounding headache. "Ahahagaha!" he moaned and half growled.

"So, you woke up with a pounding headache too huh?" He heard someone say from beside him. He looked up to find Jade Chan in the next bed over. 'What the heck? When did she get here?' He wasn't sure what had happened, all he knew was that he needed some painkiller pronto.

"Uh, yeah, um, do you know what happened to me by any chance?" When she shook her head no and then rubbed her temples he figured out what her comment had meant. He got up, and navigated himself to the cupboards and got out two glasses and a bottle. He filled the glasses with water and then shook out six pills. He came back over to Jade and handed her three. "You're my age right? These should be a strong enough dose for the both of us." She sat up again and took the three pills and glass of water.

"Actually I'm a like 10 months younger then you, but I think I'll take the extra dosage." They both took the medicine and went back to lying down in their own beds, waiting for it to kick in. "So," Jade started. "Do you remember anything that happened? Cause I'm drawing a total blank."

Zak answered, "No, not at all. But I would like to know…. I have a very weird feeling it wasn't good." Jade was surprised to hear him say that.

"Really?! That is so weird cause I do too! I mean I can't explain it, I just get this really bad vibe whenever I try to think about it." Zak raised his eyebrow in curiosity. It was awfully weird that they both woke up with headaches, both got the same weird feeling and neither of them had any recollection of what happened.

-With Tarakudo-

"Hmmm, that pesky white haired woman got me again!" Tarakudo complained, he didn't take it well that he was interrupted twice and lost his queen AND Kur. This failure stung worse then the last ones from the Chans. He was only content with it this time because one thing actually turned out right; he finally got his spell on Jade. And as a bonus, Kur's host was also affected. "Yes, soon enough, I will have my queen back, and maybe even have an old friend back too." He chuckled darkly.

"Umm boss, if this boy is as powerful as you say he is, then why would he help you?" Chow said. Then finch said, "And doesn't he have his own world to conquer?"

Tarakudo was shocked, they actually had brains that worked. He thought for a few minutes, "Hmmm." Then he remembered. Ah yes, maybe if they actually survived the years since then, they might be of some assistance to me.

"Boys, we're going on a little field trip." Tarakudo stated with great pleasure.

-Back with Zak and Jade-

"So that's the last thing you remember huh?" Jade asked Zak. They were trying to figure out what happened together so they started telling each other the last solid memory each of them had.

"Yeah, more or less I just remember my mom throwing me to the ground during one of our self defense sessions. Then dad said there was activity in Siberia, and after that I think I remember throwing onions for some reason, but I'm not sure." They were both lying down still because of their headaches, but were getting more into the memories the more they talked about them.

"Well, the onions must have been Tarakudo. Otherwise, I have no idea what you would be doing with them either. And my last solid memory was trying to figure out how to get Jackie and uncle down without hurting them before shadowkhan started attacking me and I ran off into the forest…. I think I did see Tarakudo at some point, but I don't remember what happened." Jade was trying to connect the dots but wasn't sure how her and Zak got tangled up in…..

"Oh yeah!" She suddenly exclaimed, startling Zak a little.

"What, did you remember something else?" Then suddenly Jades face turned red and she turned the other way and said,

"Uh, no nothing, never mind, false alarm." She started rambling.

"Well, if we can't remember anything else then how about playing the ketchup game huh? It's pretty clear that the Tarakudo thing is important in all of this and I have plenty to tell you about what's new in my life." He said with a small smile. He was pretty sure he didn't have time earlier with whatever it was they were doing to talk about all the craziness he's been going through with being Kur and everything.

"Ok so who's first?" She said, the blush finally going away.

"Probably me. It's gotten pretty crazy lately." Then Zak started into the story of how he found out where his powers really came from.

-With the parents- (which this is going on a little before they wake up)

The adults were playing the ketchup game already because otherwise they wouldn't be able to help each other. But theirs wasn't going as smoothly as Zak's and Jade's was.

"Well, actually Jade might have a similar problem." Toruh stated. Everyone, even Jackie and Uncle gave him strange looks. So he explained.

"Well, do you remember when the Monks thought that I was the 'Chosen One' and said that I had great power?" Jackie and Uncle nodded their heads.

"But that was a fluke, they messed up cause it wasn't you." Jackie stated.

"Yes, that may be true, but they said they had located his spirit at our household. And that you were his protector." He explained, but Jackie and Uncle just seemed lost.

"Huh." Toruh sighed; he figured it was obvious by now.

"Well maybe they got the right household, but the wrong person. Haven't you ever wondered why Jade was able to summon the walking staff that was said to be the 'Great Ones' with such ease during the fight? And how she is so young but can handle large amounts of power fairly well? I figured she might be the one that they were looking for, not me." Jackie and Uncle seemed stunned; they had never considered it before.

They both gave each other looks and then Jackie asked, "Are you sure Toruh? I mean she can be kinda, well not like what they describe him to be at all."

Then Doc butted in and said something about irresponsibility and Uncle started yelling about 'magic must defeat magic!' and the arguing was starting all over again.

Toruh was getting sick of this. All he's heard from the audults since he was called here was 'well he did this' or 'well she made this mistake' and 'its not logical' it was driving him up the wall! They shouldn't be comparing how each of the kids were a lot to handle; but instead on how they could help them now that an unknown spell was put on them by an evil entity.

None of them were thinking of the children as chilredn; just that they had power and were dangerous and that stupid mistakes were made with those powers from time to time.

Toruh had had enough of this and finally started to snap on all of them, "ENOUGH! ALL OF YOU, JUST STOP TALKING AND LISTEN TO YOURSELFS!" This startled everyone. They had not heard a word from Toruh other then when he was talking about Jades potential powers. "Don't any of you see what is right in front of you? A point that you are all missing while you are complaining about who's child is harder to handle." He looked at each of them and they seemed to be clueless as to what he was talking about.

Then Uncle said, "Of course, we have been looking at the fact that they both have power that Tarakudo might be able to use against us. Jade is too much of a child to be expected to fight off all that dark magic witho-"

"BUT THAT IS EXACLTY THE POINT! She is only a kid, same as Zak. They can not be expected to do so many things when they are only children. You can not honestly expect them to be perfect. It is clear that their powers do not define who they are.

They were both raised to do good, and therefore they fight evil. Jade didn't know what was happening when she turned, but she did fight it after the spell started to remove the tattoo and even destroyed the book. Zak clearly doesn't have any intention of betraying the human kind or enslaving cryptids, so it's fairly obvious that they were raised in good families, but have more then enough to deal with.

Both of them seem to have more power and responsibilities on their hands then any children their ages should have to deal with. So please, just give them some breathing room before you start to question them or before you start to distrust either of them. That's all I ask of you." He was finally done with this rant. And all the adults seemed to be surprised that Toruh had so much to say this entire time. and that they had all been acting like children themselves instead of the caring parental figures they were.

"Well," Drew was summing it up and trying to smooth things out. "At least Jades was an accident and you were able to reverse it. Zak's would kill him if he got rid of the power because he was born with it. And in all technicalities, it's apart of who he is. We can't destroy Kur without destroying Zak." She stated with the same sorrow she had been feeling since they found out that the flute would kill Zak too.

"Please understand that if Zak starts to 'turn evil' then we don't have much of a choice. We are just worried about him. We don't want him involved with this Tarakudo character." Doc explained.

"I understand. We don't want Jade involved with any of this either. Maybe we should give them some breathing room like Toruh said. At least then even if the spell did anything, they will know we still trust them." Jackie said.

And they finally all agreed with one another and decided to go to bed for the night before checking on the kids again.

As always, feedback is wonderful.

Ok, so I love that some people actually said which pairing they would like to see! Thank you so much! But I really need more input. So I will start to keep score, whose gonna win the queens hand? Zak or Tarakudo? Its an audience vote, I will put a little bit or zak and then tarakudo every other chapter until the one that I post that declares the official pairing! (Which will probably be in like 4 chapters.) so please do tell me what you think!

Current vote standing at Zak:1

Tarakudo:2

As of June 22, 2014.