Imitation Jade
By: TheClockworkCorpse
(with some small changes to the final chapter by Bear299)
Chapter 1: All Work and No Play
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This couldn’t be happening! This just can’t be happening! These words, she can’t read them! Life is about to end, and she can’t figure out these word! The very words that could save herself and all she knew and love!

“Jade? How is your homework coming along?”

With a groan, Jade’s head slump forward and slammed on the English textbook in front of her. Homework, on a Friday? When did the school get even lamer? Her uncle Jackie, who was passing by and peeked in, smiled and chuckled at his niece.

“The faster you finish it, the faster you can go to the arcade with your friends.”

With another groan, Jade looked up at the clock on her desk. Seeing the time made her straighten up in her seat in a flash. “But the arcade closes in thirty minutes!”

“Well, then you better get to work.” Jackie chuckled once more, and went on his way.

Jade slumped forward once more. It took her a while to finish her Science, and she has yet to begin with English and she still had Math to do. She swore the teachers were against her in some sort of conspiracy. Maybe Valmont got to them and is using them to enact his revenge?

She thought about this; that’s a pretty cruddy revenge. She should be kicking Drew’s butt as Super Ninja Combat 3 right now! But instead she has to do this crap. Homework on a Friday. She looked up at the clock, and sighed when it was now twenty-five minutes for the arcade to close. Even if she did sneak out, she would only be there long enough for one round.

Why can’t the arcade stay open longer, since it’s a Friday? This very thought struck her. Now she remembered! This wasn’t about just hanging out with her friends; it was the Super Ninja Combat 3 arcade tournament! Free games all day, and stays open till midnight!

She slammed her head down onto her book once more, cursing “Damn homework” under her breath. Even if she tried to sneak out, Jackie was right outside cleaning; he could see her. Jackie had grown wise over the year she has been with him, and has set her down to do her homework in a windowless room of Uncle’s antique store.

Even Tohru kept an eye on her every so often, peeking into the room whenever he passed by. She figured it was best to just complete her homework and get it over with. However, she then thought about how long it took her to complete her science, and combined it with the time it could take her to finish English and Math, and finally calculated it with whatever remaining time for the arcade to stay open.

Even if she did complete it, and even though it is a Friday night, it would be past her curfew, and Jackie would not let her go out.

“What a jip.” She groaned, looking at her book.

Sneaking out was still an option, but she had to be very careful to make sure she wasn’t seen. All she had to do was sneak past them, go to the front of the store, and go out the front door. She stood up off the chair, and prepared herself to sneak out. But when she turned around to head for the door, Tohru passed the door, stopped, and looked at her with an arched eyebrow.

“Err.” She panicked, only for a second, and suddenly started to stretch her arms out, bending to touch her toes. “Just loosening myself up a bit. Get some feeling back in my legs.” She smiled innocently.

Luckily, Tohru bough the faux and walked off. Jade groaned once he was gone, sitting back in the chair. If she successfully snuck out, they can still walk by and see her gone. That would only make things worse.

She rested her head on her book, sighing. It looks like she has no other choice. She has to miss out on the tournament, probably get plenty of gloating from Drew on Monday. If only she can magically make a clone that could stay and…

Slowly, she raised her head up from the book, an evil thought going through her mind. She can, and she did, make a clone of herself using magic once before! And by golly she can do it again! In her fit of excitement, she jumped up from the chair and was rushing to the door, when she stopped herself.

There was, however, a few things wrong with this plan. One was that Uncle could be in the library now. Another was that, if she remembered correctly, the last time she used that duplicating spell; it went all haywire and made multiple copies. And lastly, the copies themselves were exactly like her; so even if she made another one, it too would want to go out to the arcade.

It was then she remembered something; Tohru, during his time as Uncle’s apprentice, did fiddle around with the magic and did come up with some spells of his own. Though she didn’t know what kind of spells he made, but she did know that one was putting a finishing charm for that duplication spell, so no more multiple copies.

That dealt with the Multi-Jade problem, but she still had to figure out how to make her copy more cooperative. She shrugged she shoulder, she’ll figure that one later. She peeked into the hall, looked to right that lead to the front of the store to see Jackie sweeping, and then she looked to the left that lead to Uncle’s library where she saw Tohru arranging some books.

She couldn’t see Uncle herself, so she had to be extra careful. Tohru was too busy to notice Jade tip-toeing into the room, hugging against to wall so she would make a sound. She freaked out when he turned around, but thankfully the stack of book he held before him was tall enough to block his view. She quickly ducked into a side room, which Uncle and Tohru sometimes used when they wanted to read in peace.

Uncle wasn’t her either. Just as she wondered where he could be, she suddenly heard him call out to Tohru from somewhere else in the building. She could hear Tohru set down the stack of books, followed by his thumping footsteps that faded as he walked away.

Jade sighed in relief, looking around the small room. She ran up to the desk and opened a draw, reaching in and moved the papers around. It had to be in here. After a few short seconds of searching, she found what she was looking for.

“Bingo.” She murmured to herself, pulling out a compensation notebook. “Tohru’s notes.”

She opened the book, and skimmed through the pages. Tohru, apparently, had too much time on his hands. There was a spell to make fish taste more like chicken, a spell that changed hair color, and a spell that made hair longer. This was all just simple and basic alteration, but not what she needed.

She then finally came to a page she needed, one that had the revised duplication spell, and, to her luck, a spell that helped mentally alter the personality of another. What luck! Now she came make a clone, and make it more cooperative!

And what was better, was that Tohru, who had WAY too much time on his hands than previously thought, actually came up a way for the two spells to be combined in a single drinkable potion.

“You saved my skin Big T.” Jade smiled. She closed the book and peeked outside to the library. Tohru has yet to return, and when she remained quiet for a second, she could actually here Uncle and Tohru in a distance talking about tea. Uncle was complaining that the tea Tohru brought has expired, but Tohru was trying to explain that it was the same kind of tea but the store was out of their usually brand so he bought a different brand. Uncle didn’t like it all too well apparently.

She quickly snuck out of the room and to the hall, just in time to see Jackie walk into the kitchen to see what was going on. She had to be quick. She rushed to a table where a cauldron and some ingredients lied. She turned on the Bunsen burner the cauldron sat on, threw open the book to the proper page, and began to gather the proper ingredients, mixed them up, and tossed them into the cauldron. When it came time for the personality alteration, Tohru had the hindsight to properly map out how the alter it.

It was actually pretty simple; a certain amount of this ingredient could make the clone nicer or meaner, smarter or dumber, girlish or boyish. Jade figured that making the clone nicer and a tad girlish could make it more manipulative. Making the clone nice would meant it was less likely to deny a request, and making it more girlish could make it less interested in arcade games. She thought of making it a little dumber too, but she thought against it; the clone still had to do her homework anyway.

In no time, the bubbling cauldron produced a nice deep purple steaming goop. Jade looked at the concoction with disgust, but it had already been done. She gathered a small vial of the goop, dumped the rest into a nearby waste basket, turned off the burner, and rushed out of the library. With vial in hand, Jade went to the front of the store and headed into the bathroom.

“Jade?” She heard Jackie call her name. She turned to see him still sweeping.

“Bathroom break!” Jade blurted out and shut the door.

Once inside, she locked the door and went up to the mirror, looking at her reflection. She gazed at the vial of purple goop in her hands, still warm, and looked back at herself.

“Well, here goes nothing.” She raised the vial up, and took a deep breath. “Over the teeth and pass the gums, lookout stomach here it comes!” She tilted her head back and shivered when she felt the warm, pudding like bile travel down her throat. She suddenly gagged gulping it down and coughed. “Ack! Bitter!”

A torrent of coughing wracked through her throat, her whole body shaking violently. Why did it have to taste so disgusting! Drinkable? Like heck it was! As she kept cough, she felt something on the back of her neck. It was odd, like someone was rubbing her to make her feel better.

It then hit her; someone WAS rubbing her to make her feel better.

She looked up, and for a moment she thought she was looking at the mirror. That was until her reflection spoke up.

“You okay?” She asked.

Jade, semi in a state of shock for seeing her clone, nodded and cleared her throat, standing up straight and addressing the copy. Exact height, weight, size, everything. It was another Jade down to the very jacket she wore.

“Woah, it worked.” Jade gasped out.

Her copy only looked at her, continuing rubbing the back of the neck. “You sure you okay? That sounded pretty awful.”

Jade nodded, smiling. “Yeah, I’m fine, thanks.” She mentally cheered herself when she straightened herself up. “Okay, Jade Copy, I need you to do something for me.”

Her copy nodded her head. “Sure! What do you need?”

“I need you,” Jade wondered up behind the Jade clone and gave her a tiny push to the door. “To go down the hall and finish up mine…err…YOUR homework.”

The Jade copy looked over to the original Jade in confusion. “What about you?”

“I… I have some errands to run.” Jade explained, pushing her clone again. “But don’t worry, I’ll be back as soon as I can.”

The Jade clone nodded as she unlocked the door, peeking out to see Jackie still sweeping. Before she stepped out, the clone turned back to Jade.

“Will you be okay?”

Jade shrugged. “I’ll be just fine. Now, go get that homework!”

With a shove, Jade pushed the clone out of the bathroom, and watched as she made her way down the hall. Jade looked over and saw that Jackie was finishing up his sweeping, put it all in a dust pan, dumped it in a garbage can next to the counter, and left the room.

As quickly and as quietly as she could be, Jade rushed out the front door, and made her way down the street to the arcade.
Chapter 2: A Problem
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Hours passed.

It was a tough match. Fight of the century! Even though she was too late to enter in the qualifying rounds (Then again she would probably loose, some of those guys there were hardcore) she was finally able to have that long awaited match with Drew (who lost in the qualifying rounds).

Drew has her pinned in the corner, but in the nick of time she came back with a dreaded 5 hit combo that ended in powerful Ninja Power Up Move, that ended that match! She came out victorious and had the bragging rights!

But what really was amazing was who won the tournament. It was some guy who called himself Mr. S, and his ninja of choice was Kogarasu-Maru, a thin gangly ninja with the move set of a wet noodle. Maru was the weakest ninja of the whole Super Ninja Combat series, whose only real good quality was his ability to contort himself and avoid attacks, but that, was hard to master and a pain to learn.

But that Mr. S guy chose him, and decimated the competition! No one could lay a hand on him! Let them attack for a few, dodge them easily, and unleashed a flurry of fast, albeit weak, punches. Sure the matches were long, longer deepening on what the opponent chose, but watching that thin, wimpy looking Maru plow through the competition, and even beating last year’s winner, was simply epic.

Jade, who wanted to stick around for the next match set up, decided to leave when some more high school kids started to show up. When she was walking down the street back to Uncle’s shop, she briefly wondered what her clone had been up too.

Surly, something must have happened, because she learned from experience after the year she had to deal with Shendu, the Demon Sorcerers, Valmont and his men, and even the Shadowkhan, was that even though things go just as planned, something wrong was bound to happen.

But, she was at that arcade for a good while, and nothing seemed wrong when she was there, so maybe this was just one of those moments where everything went by flawlessly. But, it was at the moment, Jade realized something. She forgot how they got rid of all the clones last time! How is she going to explain another Jade walking around?

She wracked her brain trying to remember how Uncle and Tohru got rid of all the clones. Maybe Tohru, in his vast free time, came up with a duplication reversal? Maybe there was one already, written somewhere? But that would take forever to find, seeing that Uncle had HUNDREDS of books!

She calmed herself down, telling herself that she can figure something out. The rest of the walk back seemed to take longer then she thought. When she crept up to the shop, a low rumbling came from her stomach.

Stupid her forgot to eat when she was out, and looking at her watch, she just missed dinner. She snuck into the shop, tip-toeing into the hall. She heard the clattering of dishes and running water. When she peeked into the kitchen, she saw her uncle Jackie and her copy standing at the sink, finishing up washing the dishes.

“Wow Jade,” Jackie spoke up, drying his hands. “First you help clean around the shop, and then you offer to help cook, and now the dishes? If it wasn’t past curfew, I would actually take you to the arcade.”

The Jade clone smiled and dried off her hands. “I can always go tomorrow. I’ll just wait for my sister to get back.”

Jade stiffened up when she heard her clone say that, and Jackie looked at the copy confused. “That’s another thing; you keep saying that. We both know well that you don’t have a sister.”

“Sure I do.” The clone smiled. “She’ll be back soon.”

Jackie only chuckled and shook his head, leaving the room. The Jade clone neatly folded the rag she sued the dry her hands when she heard the ‘psst’ of someone trying to get her attention. She turned, and beamed a great smile when she saw the other Jade waving at her.

Before she could say hello, Jade put a finger to her lips and shushed, signaling that she should get closer to her. The Jade Copy looked around confused, and walked up to the real Jade. When she was close enough, Jade reached out and grabbed the copy, and pulled her up stairs, and into an empty room. Jade closed the door, locked it, and leaned her back against it and breathed out in relief.

“Did you have fun?” The copy asked, smiling happily.

“What do you think you’re doing?” Jade exclaimed. The copy recoiled and looked innocent. “Don’t tell uncle Jackie about all this! If Jackie, Tohru, or ANYONE was to find all this out, we both would be in big trouble.”

The clone pouted her lips, her eyes growing big. “B-but I don’t wanna get into trouble!”

Jade stared at her clone for a good second, before putting her face in her hands with a groan. She thought she did the spell right, but this copy was a bit of a wussy! She started to pace around, thinking on how she can get rid of the clone. Tohru must have something written in his notes that could help him, or maybe, with luck, Uncle left out a book that might have it.

There were other options. One was that she made the clone go away, like put her on a bus and wish her the best of luck. Another was to kill the clone, but the little girl thought against that very quickly. She doesn’t have the guts to do that, and even if she did it would be some sort of warped suicide.

She took a few deep breathes, and began to think. First off, she had to get this clone out of sight so no one would see her. Secondly, she has to sneak into the library and try to find a reversal spell that might work. The sooner she gets rid of the copy, the better.

Just as she pondered on what she must do next, she was suddenly brought out of her thoughts when she felt arms around her, hugging her. She looked over her shoulder to see her clone her head on her head against her back, hugging her.

“Uhh, what are you doing?” Jade asked.

The clone looked up to her. “You looked troubled, so I decided to give you a hug so you can feel better.”

With an annoyed groan, Jade reached down and pried the clone’s hands off of her, turning to her as she did. “Look, I need to think, so, can you like-.”

“Jade? Come on, it’s time to go home.” Jackie called to her.

“Aie-yea! Not now!” Jade held her head in dismay. “This can’t be happening!” She felt a presence behind, and she turned. “And I don’t need a hug!”

“Jade?” Jackie called out.

“I’m coming!” The clone suddenly responded.

“Don’t!” Jade turned to her clone and groaned. “Okay, plan. You stay here and hide.”

“Hide? Why?” The clone asked.

“Because, if Uncle or Tohru find you…” She stopped. “Wait, they can find you! This is bad!”

“Why can’t I just come?” The clone asked.

Jade looked at the clone for a second, thinking.

“Where is that girl?” Jackie asked himself, looking around the building. He suddenly heard a loud click from out back, and when he looked out he saw Jade standing next to his car, whistling innocently. “Jade?”

“All ready to go!” Jade gave a thumbs up.

The two climbed into the car, started the engine, and went on their way. As they were driving, Jade kept looking to the back seat and looking down at the floor, seeing the clone lying down and looking up her. She seemed a little annoyed, and when she tried to sit up, Jade reached back and pushed her down.

Jackie didn’t really notice what was happening.

When they finally got the apartment building, and Jackie got out of the car, he looked over and noticed that Jade was still sitting down in the car. He bent down and looked at her confused.

“Just a little tired is all.” Jade said. “I’m just going to sit here for a wee bit.” She put on her most innocent smile.

Jackie only shook his head. “Just lock the door when you are ready.” And he left.

Jade watched as Jackie went into the apartment, and sighed in relief.

“This isn’t very fun.” The copy complained and sat up. “Why do I have to lay on the ground?”

Jade sighed again the turned to the clone, who now sat up on the backseat. “Okay, listen. First off, I’m not your sister. You are a magically created clone of me.”

The copy arched an eyebrow, and felt at herself. “I don’t feel like a clone.”

“That’s because I used an altering spell on you too, so your personality is different.” Jade explained.

The clone scratched her head. “Why would you do that?”

“Because…” Jade stopped herself. “It’s not important.”

“Why do I have to hide too?” The clone asked. “It’s not like I’m bad… Is it?”

Jade sighed. “No, it’s just, I’m not really allowed to mess with all that magic stuff, and the last time I made a copy of myself, it went really bad.”

The clone gasped. “Then, what uncle Jackie said about that arcade… You lied?”

Jade tensed up a little. “Errm, well, kinda.”

The clone suddenly pouted, folding her arms across her chest and furrowing her brow. “And that homework wasn’t mine, was it?”

Jade sighed. She had thought that this clone would be more cooperative, but it seems that, no matter what, another Jade would be trouble. And now this copy, who she thought she turned into a goody two shoes, was getting much more smarter.

“I finished it, by the way.” The clone huffed. “And you shouldn’t have lied.”

Jade groaned. Before she was about to say anything, the saw the clone’s head slump forward.

“You… you want to get rid of me now, huh?” The clone asked.

Jade was shocked. “Well…I…It’s just…”

“I understand.” The clone sighed. “There can be only one Jade, and I’m just a copy. Nothing but a copy.”

Jade looked that clone, as she brought her knees up to her chest and lied her head down on her leg, breathing deeply.
Chapter 3: A Solution
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“Oh great, guilt trip!” Jade thought to herself. While she has been out having a great time at the arcade, this copy has been doing her homework. Now what should she do? With a sigh, Jade slumped down into the car seat, before looking back at the copy. “Ya’know, before you go, we can, I dunno, have some fun.”

After a few short seconds of silence, the clone looked up. “Really?”

“Sure!” Jade smiled. “Anything!”

The clone smiled, and suddenly lurched forward and grabbed Jade in a hug. “That would be great!”

Jade laughed and patted the clone on the back. “But, umm, uncle Jackie still can’t find out about you, because then he would take you back to Uncle’s. And, then I dunno what happens.”

The clone nodded her head. The two of them climbed out of the car and made their way up to the apartment building. Jade peeked in to see if Jackie was around, and was happy to hear the shower running. Jade rushed the clone up the stairs to where her room was, and locked the door.

With a deep breath, Jade looked to her clone. “Okay, so, what do you want to do?”

The clone smiled.

A few minutes later, Jade found herself sitting in the middle of the floor wearing her Pjs, while her clone was happily braiding her hair wearing her spares. Jade wasn’t really into this girly-girly stuff, but hey, no more guilt trip.

At the same time, Jade was looking down at one of her teen magazines, while the clone was looking at the picture of a pop singer and trying to give Jade the same hair.

“I never really liked her music.” Jade said. “Well, her old stuff was great, but she lost her touch recently.”

“Didn’t she go insane at one point?” The clone asked.

“Yeah. She shaved her head and everything. But, many think she gotten better.” Jade said. “I can’t remember what made her go all batty, but I think it had something to do with her kids.”

Jade returned to the photo, and as she did, she mused over how endowed the singer was. A woman in her mid twenties, and she had one heck of a rack.

“Yeah, she does.”

Jade looked over her shoulder confused. “Wha?”

“You just said that she had a one heck of a rack.” The clone stated.

It was then Jade realized that she had said that aloud, rather in her mind. She didn’t know why she said it aloud, maybe because the only person here was herself. But, the singer did have an impressive sized bust, but Jade suspects implants. It caused her to think about herself. She was getting closer to that age, where she has to go through her bodily changes and such.

Absent mindedly, like she often did alone when she thought of such things, Jade reached up and caressed her chest through the thin fabric of the Pjs. She may be still young, but she did notice that the year she has been here in San Francisco, her flat chest was slowly began to swell.

True, it was barely noticeable, but really, only she could tell.

“Oh… I think it will take some time.” The clone spoke up, looking at Jade from over her shoulder. All of a sudden, making Jade jump, the clone reached around and grasped her chest, feeling the tiny bumps that was there.

“Ack! Hey!” Jade exclaimed.

“Oh shush.” The clone sighed. “Were the same person.”

“Yeah, but still, that creeps me out.” Jade stated. She was still tensed up when the clone started to feel at her more, slightly squeezing the flesh in her hands.

The clone giggled. “I think they’re kinda cute.” She suddenly pushed the almost nonexistent breasts together. “Hehe, squishy.”

“All-all right then, enough!” Jade’s face grew red, trying to pull the clone’s hands away.

“Wait.” The clone held firm. “That’s weird.”

“W-what?” Jade asked.

The clone suddenly tweaked the flesh, making Jade squeak. But at the same time, the clone made a squeak too, breathing out “I felt that!”

“What?” Jade asked again.

“I can feel that too.” The clone gently rubbed Jade’s chest, before pulling away from the blushing girl. “I can feel the same thing. Look, here.” The clone suddenly grasped Jade’s hands and forced them to grab the clone’s chest. Jade’s face flushed red when the clone made her squeeze the flesh in her hands, and she made a squeak, pulling back.

“Oh wow! I felt that too!” Jade exclaimed.

“It’s like were transmitting feelings to each other!” The clone smiled.

Jade, all of a sudden, reached up and pulled a hair out of her head, and at the exact moment, both her and her clone let out a simultaneous ‘Yeowch!’

“I felt that!” the clone groaned and rubbed the spot on her head. When she looked back, Jade was deep in thought.

Jade didn’t remember any of this the last time she used the duplication spell. This could be a side effect of the revamped version, or from the personality alteration. But at the same time, she noticed that she felt really weird.

It wasn’t like something was wrong with her; it just felt, kinda pleasant. She reached up and felt her chest again, where that feeling came from. She noticed something really strange. One was that her nipples had became stiff. Another was that her tiny tiny bust, seemed to have swelled bigger.

She looked over at her clone, to see that she too was pondering on this strange sensation, feeling at her own chest.

The clone looked up at her, her face red. “You feel it too?”

Jade nodded. “Weird.”

It was then, Jade suddenly heard something in the hall. It was the sound of feet. Both Jade and her clone reacted to this and scrambled. Jade launched herself under the bed, while the clone hopped up on the top bunk. There was a knock on the door, and Jackie peeked in.

He looked over onto the bed to see Jade inside. “Going to be early?”

Jade nodded her head. “Yeah, I’m kinda tired.”

Jackie smiled. “Well, okay then. Tomorrow morning, I can take you to the arcade if you want to.”

Jade smiled. “That sounds cool.”

Jackie smiled once more, reached over, turned off Jade’s light, and shut the door.

Jade Copy made a sigh and lied her head on the pillow, just as the real Jade crawled out from under the bed.

“That was close.” Jade whispered. She stood up and looked up to the clone in her bed. She then looked down at the bottom bunk and it’s disheveled and messy state, a pile of clothes sitting in the middle. She then sighed and climbed up to the top bunk. “Scoot over.”

The clone moved over for Jade to lay down under the covers, sighing as she did. She suddenly felt the clone curl up behind her, resting her head on her back.

When Jade made a sigh, the clone suddenly pulled back. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have.”

“No.” Jade spoke up. “It’s okay. You can if you want to.”

The clone was silent for a second, before curling right back against Jade, her hands reaching out and wrapping around her.

Jade felt her face heat up, but didn’t do anything. This was just too weird. She can feel her clone’s hot breath on the back of her neck, and t sent a chill down her spine. She felt warm all over, her breathing was becoming heavier, and she felt lightheaded. What was going on with her?

The clone’s hands, which was wrapped across her stomach, started to slowly slide to her sides, feeling up and down. Her face burned up, and right behind her she can hear her clone breathing just as hard as she was.

She never felt anything like this, and it almost scared her. She let out an audible gasp when she suddenly felt a hand go up her shirt, fingers gently caressing her stomach. She shuddered from the feeling, and she could feel her clone shaking behind her.

“Sorry.” the clone said in a low whisper.

“Don’t be.” Jade said, panting. Why can’t she stop herself? Whatever this was, it seemed almost wrong. But, if felt so, interesting.

The clone’s hands traveled upward, rubbing the flesh just above her ribs. At the same time, Jade reached behind her and placed her hands on the clone’s hips. She didn’t know why she did this, but once she did, she thought it seemed right to do. Right enough, that even her owns hands snuck up and traced their fingers along any flesh in their reach.

The clone sighed and her hands went higher, until they were just below Jade’s swelled bust. Ever so gently, almost fluttery, she grabbed them in her hands and massaged them. This caused both the clone and Jade to let out a long sigh, Jade’s head falling backward.

The clone rested her head on Jade’s shoulder, feeling the flesh in her hands, panting softly. Jade, through blurry eyes, looked over to her clone, and seeing her face all red and her eye shut and her mouth open in panting, it caused a ripple of warmth to go through her body, and she moaned.

The clone moaned too and looked up when she felt the sudden wave, looking into identical hazed hazel eyes.

“This feels, funny.” She said in a whimper.

Jade could only nod her head. She closed her eyes, sighing, and suddenly she groaned. At the same moment, both Jades went “I’m hot.”

Without even a second thought, the clone started to lift Jade’s PJs up, and Jade done the same to the clone. Jade turned over to the clone, lifting the shirt off over her head and tossed it to the floor.

The clone did the same, and soon both girls were in nothing but their plain white panties, a thin layer of sweat on both of them. Jade reached out and grabbed her clone, pulling her into a tight hug. Her clone sighed, grabbing Jade and resting her head in the dip of her neck. Quite suddenly, the clone leaned forward and planted a kiss on Jade’s neck, making the girl gasp and moan.

Jade couldn’t help herself, hugging onto her clone and panted “Again.”

The clone planted kiss after kiss on Jade’s neck, and both girls loved the feelings. It was driving Jade insane! She suddenly pushed the clone back, and the clone looked up at her with wide eyes.

Jade pushed the clone on her back, and she planted a deep bruising kiss on her lips. It was painful, but there was another sense overtaking it, something that went beyond. The clone arched her back, moaning as she grabbed Jade.

Jade pulled back, both of them panting heavily and their faces as red as they can get.

“Oh…wow.” Jade gasped out.

“That was, interesting.” Her clone said.

“I…I never kissed anyone before.” Jade flushed.

“Neither have I.” The clone panted.

After a few short seconds, Jade leaned forward. “W-…wanna do it again?”

The clone nodded her head, and closed the gap between them, bringing her lips to Jade’s. At the same time, the clone’s hands rested on Jade’s waist, rubbing the flesh. Jade’s hands traveled down the clone’s spine to the small of her back.

It seemed, that at the same moment, both Jades recollected a moment they had witnessed while surfing the internet. Jade stumbled upon this site, and in this site was various images of men and women engaged in sexual activities. Some images were of two men, and others were of two women. Jade, during that time, closed the window in disgust when she found it, but her mind went back to that day and on one image she saw.

Jade, her lips still locked with her clone’s, suddenly dipped her hands into the back of her clone’s panties and rubbed her bottom. At the same moment, her clone had done the same. Both girls pulled back in a gasp, looking at the other.

They both knew what was going to happen next, but neither knew who was going to make the next move. It was Jade. Ever so gently, Jade traced a finger down along the crack of her clone’s bottom, until they touch the damp wetness of her virgin opening.

The clone’s body locked up in a gasp, her hands squeezing the plump flesh in their grasp. Jade was unfamiliar with this sort of act, however, she was familiar with her own body. She started by slowly tracing her finger up and down the baby fat folds, making her clone quiver and shudder.

She poked, only slightly, and her clone let out a soft moan, her back arching. Jade’s finger slipped in, poking around, making both her and her clone twitch and spasm. It wasn’t long before Jade felt a tiny hooded nub just on top of her clone’s wet tunnel harden. She didn’t know exactly what this was called, but what she did know that it was very sensitive.

The moment her finger brushed it, both of them stifled a yelp in pleasure and their bodies laced tightly together. This was different. This was unlike when she cleaned it, this was very different. Her clone looked to her, her eyes wide and confused.

“W-what was that?” She asked.

Jade shook her head. “I dunno.”

The clone let out a deep sigh, wrapping her leg around Jade’s. “C-…can you do that again?”

Jade could only nod, and softly brush the nub once more. The two girls once more stifled a yelp, and the clone lashed out and nipped at Jade’s shoulder. Jade unleashed an assault at the nub, a torrent of lightning pleasure shocking through them.

All of a sudden, Jade jumped up when she felt a finger slip into her, slowly wriggling around. Both girl’s spasm at the sensation, the clone biting down harder. Something felt like it was building up within, and all of a sudden, a bright light flashed before Jade’s eyes, and a numbing, almost painful shock slowly tore through her body.

She almost yelled out, even more so when her clone bit down on her shoulder harder, apparently having the same feeling as she. It was long, making her head feel like it was flying away. When it finally subsided, the tow girls held each other, panting heavily.

She couldn’t quite explain it, but she felt a deep euphoric feeling. A feeling so deep and sensational, that Jade almost drifted off into a comforting sleep, when her clone let out a whimper. Jade looked down and her eyes went wide when she saw a thin trail of blood coming down the corner of her mouth.

“I-I-I-I’m so sorry.” The clone whimpered. “I didn’t mean too.”

Jade, absent mindedly, reached up to her shoulder and felt around. Her copy bit down much more harder then she thought, enough to break the skin and draw blood. But, oddly enough, Jade didn’t care at all. She had worse.

Jade shook her head, hugging her copy close to her. This was nice, she didn’t know why, but liked it.

However, it was at moment, a thought crossed both their minds.

“Say…” Her copy looked up at her. “Didn’t we just fu-?”

“No.” Jade interrupted. “No…this was…umm…’master station’?”

Her clone looked at her confused, but nodded her head in understanding. “I guess, I’m leaving tomorrow?”

Jade planted a kiss on her clone’s head. “Ya’know…I actually want you to stick around longer. I’m going to tell Jackie tomorrow. Maybe he won’t be so hard on me about it.”

“What about me?” Her clone asked.

Jade shrugged. “I never really had a sister before. So…”

Her clone smiled, and hugged her. Jade hugged her back, closed her eyes, and drifted off to sleep.

The next morning.

“Jade! Wake up, Uncle wants us to come over- BWAH!!”

“Uncle Jackie! Look…I can explain!”
Chapter 4: Crime and Punishment
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To say they weren’t mad would be an understatement. Of course they were mad. There were raised voices at one point, and that was followed with questions.

However, the greatest question was who was the more mad. Was it Jackie, who had walked into his niece’s bedroom that morning only to find two Jades in the bed, and is also confused on why the two were half naked in each other’s arms?

Or was it Uncle, who was mad at Tohru for leaving such a spell out in the open where Jade can get her hands on it and use it for her own means?

Or was it Tohru, who was mad at himself for not putting his notebook in a more secure location?

Or, was it Jade, who was the most angry?

She didn’t know why she was angry, but she was. During this whole thing, Jade was set aside, while the three adults argued over on what to do with the confused and afraid magically crated copy of Jade that sat in between them.

The poor clone was trying her best to try and say something to them, but the only people who seemed to realize that she wanted to speak was Jade and Jackie. Uncle and Tohru barely made eye contact.

From what Jade could gather from the various chatter from the adults, one was that Tohru does indeed have a duplication reversal spell that would make the two Jades fuse into one (painlessly, he pointed out).

When he broke down the ingredients of the potion, Uncle burst out that he did not have said ingredients, and he has to order them from out of state. He even went so far as the put it mathematically and said that if he was to order them at that moment, he would get them by that time tomorrow.

When it seemed that it was dying down, it came to the matter of Jade’s punishment. Despite that Jade had came clean and told her uncle Jackie that she did indeed make that magical clone using spells that were in Tohru’s notebook and did sneak off to the arcade while the clone did her homework, Jackie was still upset. And what was else, was that Jackie couldn’t quite look at Jade right, still wondering why her and her clone was in the bed and all.

Before Jade could even think of what to say, she founded herself in the same windowless room where she done her homework, only this time the door was closed and locked, leaving her inside with nothing but a few magazines.

It was maybe a little extreme, but they were all pretty mad. Jade could only sit on the floor, her arms crossed and fuming in anger, looking at the closed door. She was not to leave the room, nor was her clone, who was also grounded and was forced to stay in the library, was to come to in the room.

She didn’t know what was going on down the hall, but, beyond the anger, she felt worried and sad. These feelings, she came to realize, were partly hers, but more from her clone. Her clone, she could feel, was confused because she couldn’t quite understand what was happening, afraid because of the raised voices, and sad because she was not with Jade.

She could only guess what was happening.

The Jade Copy sat silently in the seat, watching as Uncle paced around the room in though, Tohru sitting close by nodding off, and Jackie looking at her with an odd look on his face.

Uncle had Tohru’s notebook in his hand, reading the duplication reversal spell. He muttered to himself, his bushy white brow arched.

“Some come from China, others, Japan. Some, we can get from out of town.” Uncle spoke up, referring to the ingredients. “We must leave, to get proper components.”

“Can’t we just order them all? Ow!” Jackie held his head in pain when Uncle gave him a swift strike.

“It would be cheaper!” Uncle stated. “We leave now!”

Jackie only sighed as Uncle walked away. He turned to Tohru and the copy.

“Keep an eye on...umm, her.” Jackie pointed to the copy. “And make sure Jade stay in that room.”

Tohru nodded, standing up as Jackie left. He looked to the copy, who looked up at him confused and innocently. Even though he was upset that Jade got into his spells, he did feel a small sense of pride that his spell worked so well. He used the potion on some alley cats in the back, and it made him happy when he made a kind and cuddly copy of a rather disgruntled tabby.

He didn’t think it would work on humans, however. He had thought about using it on himself, but never got around to it. But seeing this obviously different Jade, made him proud of his own work.

He let out a great yawn, scratching his head. He had stayed up all night once more, studying on his magic. He was about to lay for a nap when Jackie came in with two Jades. Jade had admitted to her crime, though she didn’t seem to happy for some reason.

Tohru walked across the room to the desk and sat down, when he heard the Jade Copy spoke up.

“So…I’m in big trouble?” She asked.

Tohru looked at the clone. “Umm…Jade is.”

“Is that why she is in the next room?” The copy asked.

Tohru nodded. “Yes. She must be punished for what she had done.”

“Then why not make her clean around the store? Why lock her in the room?” the clone lowered her head. “I miss her.”

Tohru found this to be odd behavior for a copy, even with the altered personality. Quite honestly, it was Jackie who came up with the idea of separating the two, though Tohru couldn’t understand why. By the look on the copy’s face, she was taking this punishment pretty hard.

He wondered how Jade was taking it.

Jade let out a huff and kicked the magazine away from her, staring at the wall in frustration. She told the truth, and still she gets in trouble. She wanted to kick down that door, and she didn’t know why! All she can think of is her clone, sitting there while the adults chattered.

All she wanted to do was ask why she was such a bad thing, but no one even paid attention to her! All they cared about was getting rid of her, and that just ticked Jade off! What was wrong with keeping her around for a little? It was the weekend! Now, the copy is still sitting in the library, all confused and afraid, while Jade is left in here to fester.

She wanted to have fun today, with her copy. Go to the park to shoot some hoops, play on the playground, even play a few games. Why not, its Saturday. It would be like having a sister she never had.

Back when she first messed with the duplication spell, she didn’t really care much for the copies, and only wanted to follow Jackie. But, actually stopping and hanging out with her copy made her rethink.

With a forlorn sigh, Jade slumped to the ground against the wall. She wanted to get out of there.

The Jade Copy was surprised. It didn’t take very long for that giant of a man to fall asleep at the desk, snoring loudly. She stood up and wondered up to him, giving him a gentle push. He didn’t budge; he was out cold. She so wanted to go and be with Jade, but she was forbidden to do that.

All she can think of is being with her ‘sister’, but she is unable to do so. It upset her. Upset her enough that she wanted to throw something. She picked up a book that was on the desk and turned to give it a good toss across the room, when she stopped to look at what she was about to throw.

It was a composition notebook, and written on the front in ink was ‘Tohru’s, Do Not Touch’. She looked at the book in wide eyed wonder, opening it up and reading it. There were spells inside. Some of these spells were of alteration, such as the length of one’s hair or the taste of some food. There was a spell that can change someone’s skill color to that of a brighter or darker pigmentation.

As she turned the pages, she became more and more absorbed at what was written. She then came to a page with a spell that caught her eye. It was a duplication spell, and adjacent to this spell on the next page was a spell that altered the mental personality of someone. Along with this was a note, stating that these two spells can be combined in a single drinkable potion.

“This must be what Jade used.” The clone mused. She read it more, and slowly, a thought began to grow in her mind. It was a devious thought, one that she didn’t expect. She turned to the slumbering Tohru, poking him in his large side. “Tohru? You awake?”

His only answer was a snore, so she poked again, and a smile appeared on her face.

“Hey, Tohru. If it’s not okay to mess around with your book, please say so now.”

Tohru only snored again.

“Thank you.”
Chapter 5: And Then There Was...
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Jade stopped her pacing. She didn’t know why, but she got a sudden chill down her spine. She searched for her clone’s feelings, and found that she wasn’t sad or worried any more. She almost seemed giddy. Giddy about what, was what made Jade a little worried.

She placed her ear against the wall that separated her room with the library, and found no sounds on the other side. No talking, nothing, just silence. What was going on?

It was weird, to say in the least, looking at the boiling purple goop in the cauldron. The clone looked at the notes, making sure she didn’t miss anything. She tried to stop herself at one point, knowing that this was a very bad idea, but something compelled her to continue. Maybe it was frustration.

But, the deed already done, the clone put some of the purple goop into a small pastel, letting it harden so she could grind it up into dust. The fine, violet dust in hand, the clone went up to a mirror in the library, looking at herself.

“You shouldn’t take the blame, Jade.” The copy whispered to her reflection. “Not when, there is more then just you.” With a deep breath, the clone tossed the dust up in the air, and let it rain upon her. It felt weird, a strange tingling all around her, and then a feeling of something, like an unseen burden, was suddenly lifted.

Jade quivered when she had the sudden feeling, looking around the room. Something was going on in the next room, but she didn’t know what, nor did she like it.

The clone stood with wide eyes, looking at the second reflection. Her other reflection, much like her, looked at her with wide eyes, curious of what just happened.

“H-…how do you feel?” One asked the other.

The other scratched her head in confusion. “I…I feel, fine. You?”

“Yeah, fine.” The first one said. She looked down at the bowl and at the dust inside. “It really does work.”

“Hey, what’s this stuff?” The other asked, taking a good handful of the dust and brought it to her nose to smell it.

“Ack! Be careful with that!” The first one explained.

Upon sniffing the dust, the other one suddenly let out a powerful and violent sneeze, blowing the dust out of her hands into the air, as well the dust in the bowl. A cloud of violet surrounded the two, disorienting them and making them cough. The two of them suddenly felt like weights were lifted off them, but this time it felt like it was a much more heavier weight.

Jade let out a gasp and huddled over, grasping her stomach. She felt queasy all of a sudden, and it made her cold. Something was going on, and she needed to know what, now. She ran up to the door and tried to open it, oblivious that Jackie had locked it when he left. But she still fought with the door, twisting the knob and pushing at it to open.

“What’s going on!?” She called. “Let me out!”

She was about to kick the door, seeing if she can force it open. She didn’t care anymore on what Jackie or the others said; she wanted out! Before she reared her leg back for the kick, there was the loud click of the lock, and slowly, the door creaked open.

The one who peeked in, made Jade step back and smile when she saw the identical hazel eyes. Her clone had unlocked the door and was now stepping into the room. Jade was happy to see her clone, but she grew worried when she saw the sadden look on her clone’s face.

“What’s wrong?” She asked.

The clone sniffled. “I…I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean too!”

“What? What is it?” Jade asked. But then, she grew shocked when another Jade walked into the room, looking just as sad as her clone.

“It was an accident!” The other one whimpered.

“What happened? What’s going on?” Jade looked past the other copy, only to find, what else, another one. “Wha-…?”

“I…I didn’t want you to be the only one that gets in trouble!” the first copy said. “So, I made that duplication spell and made another me so I can get in trouble too.” She then pointed to the second clone next to her. “And…and she sneezed and…and…”

“Oh lord.” Jade stepped out of the room, and nearly fainted at what she saw. Not counting herself, standing in the hallway, was five Jades, all of them looking at the real one like they all had done something wrong.

Jade, on the brink of panicking, turned and looked at the first clone. “Why? You have any idea what this will do to me?”

Quite suddenly, the first clone’s face went from sad, to annoyed. “I will take that blame! You didn’t do this, I did!”

“And me!” the second clone spoke up, also annoyed. “We’re in this together!”

“Yeah!” Another copy retorted.

Jade looked to the copies, seeing them all nodding their heads in agreement. She then smiled, shaking her head as she looked to the first clone.

“Thanks, guys. But, this is too much. What are we going to do?”

The first clone thought about this. “We won’t know until then.”

“Did Jackie and Uncle see you do this?” Jade asked.

The first clone shook her head. “They went out a while ago to get ingredients for the reversal spell.”

“Tohru?” Jade asked, her eyebrow arched.

The second clone giggled. “He’s sleeping.”

Jade, after a few short seconds of silence, chuckled and shook her head. “Oh wow. You guys are nuts.”

The Jades laughed, and suddenly all huddled around the real Jade in a group hug. The sudden action gave Jade a start, but she calmed down and wrapped her arms around some of the Jades around her and rested her head on the shoulder of the Jade in front of her.

It was odd; she felt serene about this. It was a nice feeling, and it made her recollect last night. She still couldn’t believe what she done, but she didn’t really care. But, remembering the intimate moment she shared with her copy last night, made her feel odd. It was that same tingly sense she had the night.

Unaware to her, her serene feelings and the tingling that followed, transmitted out to the other copies around her; especially one particular one right behind her. The other clones tried to figure what this sensation was, but the first Jade Copy had an almost evil smile on her face, her hands sneaking from the group hug to Jade’s stomach.

The moment Jade felt those hands on her stomach, rubbing her through her sweater, her mind flashed images that were all too familiar to her. She looked over her shoulder, to see hazy hazel eyes looking at her.

“W-w-wait now. Let’s not get into this again.” Jade whispered, receiving confused looks form the other clones.

The first Jade Copy smiled, tightening the hug around Jade. “Why not? Wasn’t it fun?”

Jade’s face grew red. “Well, yeah it was. But, with Tohru in the next room, and with,” Jade looked around at the clones around her nervously. “It would be, really weird.”

The copy smiled. She suddenly opened her mouth and let out a loud shrike, causing all the clones and Jade to back away and cover her ears. When she stopped screaming, there was nothing. No other sounds. The clones looked at the copy in confusion, before Jade walked over and peeked into the library, seeing Tohru asleep at the desk.

By the looks of it, he was WAY deep in slumber. That scream should have awaken him, but he barely budged.

There was a giggle from the first copy, as Jade turned to her. “See? If the smell from the spell, or the sneezing didn’t wake him up, then what would?”

Jade was impressed by the clone’s boldness, but she pushed it aside. “But still, with all these…others…it would be, really really weird.”

To Jade’s surprise, the copy sauntered up to her and gave her a hug, looking at her with darken eyes. “We’re all the same person here. What difference would it make?”

“Well…umm…it’s just…with the…duh…” Jade stuttered, feeling that same odd but pleasant sense again. Something about those eyes, they are filled with a dark sense, but they were also oozing with something else. She didn’t know what it was, but it sent chills down her spine.

She could feel her face burning up, her body was shaking, her heart felt heavy, and her breathing was irregular. It was the same thing that happened to her last night; and the means the they would soon…
Chapter 6: Group Activity
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Gulping, Jade suddenly found herself on the floor of the hall, her lips hungrily sucking the lips of the clone she had pinned underneath her. The clone moaned and arched her back, grabbing Jade into her arms and hugging her close.

The other clones stood back and watched in confused, wide eyed wonder, as the two young girls locked in heated kisses and erotic moans. One of the clones grew wise and closed the door of the library, so in case Tohru did stir from his slumber he would not turn to see them. It was unlikely that Tohru, after the scream and everything else, would awake by the sounds of passion, but it was better to be safe.

The clones all huddled up and sat on the ground, amazed by the display before them. Confused, but amazed nonetheless. It was interesting to see the two identical girls kiss, and watching their hands caresses each other through their clothes.

Jade received a long and deep sigh when she pulled away from the clone, only to nip and suck along her jaw line and down her neck. The clone underneath her bunched up her sweater into fists on her back, her head falling back limply while a constant stream of sighs and moans came out of her panting mouth.

Jade gasped slightly when she felt those hands on her back suddenly sneak into her sweater, the clone’s nails dragging along the small of her back and spine. Her own hands sought the clone’s waist, reaching up to caress the warm flesh of her stomach. The clone sighed, her eyes shut in wanton passion. She was unaware of the bold clone that slowly crawled forward to get a closer look, looking down at her with innocent and questioning eyes.

When Jade nipped along her jugular, her eyes shot open with a gasp, and she saw the other clone over her. The clone was interested in what was happening, and the odd emotions that was being transmitted to her only compelled her to investigate more.

When she saw the first clone pucker her lips sensually, she timidly leaned down to her. When their lips met, the clone then realized why this clone and the real Jade enjoyed kissing. Her body went limp, and she kissed the clone with fervor.

After the clone’s initial boldness, another had crawled up when she saw how the other clone was enjoying the kiss, crawling up closer to investigate. When she got close enough, the two clone’s stopped kissing long enough to add her into their little game.

It didn’t take long for the other clone’s to become interested, and soon they all gathered around closer, each of them getting a kiss from the clone under the real Jade. Jade herself was too busy to notice that she was surrounded, to focused on kissing and sucking on the flesh under her. When she decided it was time that the clone’s sweater was in her way, it was then she noticed the other’s around her.

She sat up away from the panting clone under her, her face flashing an embarrassing red as she looked around her. Before she could speak, the first clone had sat up and forced her on her back. The moment she was down, she was surrounded by hands, reaching out and grasping her clothing and pulling them off of her.

Soon she lied bare on the ground, the five Jades around her, looking down at her with synced darkened eyes. All at once, the clones were on her. The first Copy was sucking on her lips, her hands gently caressing her stomach. Another Copy was sucking on her neck, her tongue wriggling around on her flesh.

Another clone was nervously planting feathery kisses on her chest, uncertain if the feelings were worth it. Another Copy, the clone who grew bold, was planting kisses on Jade’s thigh, her hand caressing her leg. The last Copy was mimicking the bold clone and was kissing Jade’s other thigh.

Jade, although somewhat startled by the sudden change in pace, was surrounded by ticklish and pleasant feelings. This was unlike that night before where it was just her and her first clone; this was more! Her mind was empty of thoughts, save for focusing on the pleasurable feelings on her legs and chest, and burning kiss of the clone over top of her.

Her head swam, her stomach was about to burst with butterflies, her whole body felt numb but tensed at the same time. She let out a gasp when she felt a wet warm mouth wrap around her stiff nipples, sucking on them gently but forcefully. The feeling was transmitted to the surrounding clones, and they let out a synced moan.

Jade felt the sucking increase, and her back arched at the pleasure. She felt the clone sucking on her neck disappear, only to reappear at her chest, sucking on her swelled bust. The feeling was indescribable, and the Jades let out a sighing moan in response to it.

It was then, Jade’s body locked up when she felt fluttery kisses on her inner thigh, drawing closer and closer up to…

When she felt a pair of lips kiss her there gently, a flash of light went before her eyes and she stifled a loud moan. The others around her did the same, one of them looking down to clone between Jade’s legs.

The clone had recoiled from the sensation, her legs quivering. It was then, at the same moment, all the clones felt stifled and warm, and decided that their clothes needed to be removed.

Jade was soon surrounded by bare flesh, and before her mind could even comprehend it’s situation, let alone where it currently is, she was once more being touched and kissed.

Her heart raced, her head all a buzz, and sweat poured from her body. The feelings of lips sucking on sensitive flesh was driving her insane, and the hot breath of the clone between her legs was not helping her.

The clone was mesmerized by the two puffy lips of baby fat, kissing them gently and shuddering from the foreign sensation. Ever so gently, she reached out and touched the lips, parting them to gaze upon the glistening pink flesh underneath. It was so exotic looking to her, like some kind of flower. She kissed the wet flesh, a sudden shock traveling up her spine, her heart skipping several beats.

In her quivering pleasure, her tongue lashed out and lapped across the wet virgin tunnel, and light flashed before her eyes. The real Jade convulsed from the feeling, her back arching up and a long almost screaming moan tore through her throat. The surrounding clones shook and moaned by the sensation, their bodies tightening and their eyes squinted shut.

The bold clone gritted her teeth, before opening her eyes and gently kissing the warm flesh. Her eyes fell upon a strange hooded bump resting on top of Jade’s wet tunnel, curious of what it is. Her hot breath blasted on it, and it caused a series of gasps from the Jades.

A second clone leaned down next to the bold clone, her eyes focused on the strange nub that been discovered. Panting and in a show of courage, she leaned forward and planted her lips gently on the odd bump, and sucked on it.

Jade convulsed and let out a shuddering moan, her head falling back and her eyes squeezed shut. She didn’t know if she should love this sensation, or be afraid of it. Her mind was too hazy and jumbled for her to properly think, her reason slowly submitting to instinct. All the clones around her had lost their reason and was allowing instinct to take over; but Jade, she still fought it.

She didn’t know why she was fighting it, but it just felt so wrong, but so right at the same time. She shouldn’t be doing this, but there she was anyway, surrounded by pleasurable sensations, fluttery fingers, warm mouths, and a never-ending bolt traveling up her spine while a shivering chill traveled down.

A mixture of emotions and feelings, it was surly to drive her insane!

In her confusion, she looked up to see the first clone looking down at her, a shining layer of sweat on her skin, her cheeks a deep red, and a blazing glint in her dark eyes. Her black hair was all disheveled and stuck to her forehead, her lips puffy and full, her chest rising and falling with each heaving pant.

She leaned down to Jade, her lips meeting hers in a bruising kiss. All at once, the combined feelings on her chest, the tongues wriggling around in her tight virginal maidenhood, and the passionate feelings of lips on her, all exploded around her.

A torrent of electricity wracked through her body, her back arching up so much that she nearly threw the clones off of her, a deep primal scream escaping her mouth, only to be muffled from another scream from the clone on top of her. The clones all pulled away and convulsed, all riding this wave in pleasurable agony.

For a second, maybe less, or maybe more, that hallway, the building, was filled with the screams of coming little girls. And then, there was silence.

It was a wonder that Jade did not faint from the exertion, heaving ragged breaths as she stared off blankly at the ceiling. Her head was all dazed, and the only sounds she could hear was the pounding between her ears and the panting that surrounded her.

Her whole body felt sore and she didn’t have the strength to move. She looked down at the panting clone on top of her, finding that, unlike her, she did indeed faint from the strenuous actions. With a glance around, all the other clones had all fainted too, save for one of the clones between her legs, who was fighting to get up.

Jade reached out and caressed the clones cheek, smiling at how she looked all dazed and flustered. The clone kissed Jades hand before resting her head down on her leg, and quickly passed out.

Jade lied there, basking in the sensation, her mind slowly clearing up. She knew that once Uncle and Jackie got home, or even if Tohru wakes up, she was going to be in monumentally big trouble. She probably won’t see the light of day ever again. But then again, she didn’t really care. All the mattered to her, at the moment, was the deep sensation of happiness, topped with an odd sense of satisfaction.

She tried to fight to stay awake, but she was just to exhausted, and drifted off into sleep.

She didn’t know how long she was a sleep, but she was jarred when something tapped on her head. Groggily, she opened her eyes and saw a familiar pair of hazel eyes looking down at her.

“Hey, wake up.” the clone whispered.

Jade, still a little sore, sat up and looked around, finding that the clones all were up, dressed, and moving around the house. They were cleaning, to her surprise. The clone who woke her up gave her a loving hug and handed her sweater to her.

Jade only looked at the clone confused.

“You’ve been asleep for a few hours.” The clone said to her. “We’ve been cleaning the shop in the mean time.”

Jade groaned and rubbed her eyes, tossing on her sweater and stood up. She stumbled on wobbly legs, but the clone was luckily there to hold her up. Even though the previous ‘exercise’ was pleasurable beyond measure; she didn’t care for this almost painful and numb aftermath.

After looking around, seeing how some of the clones hobbled around, she figured she wasn’t the only one. She grabbed and pulled up her pants, and the clone lead her to a nearby chair to sit her down in. In a surprise, once she sat down, the clone gave her a peck on the cheek, giggling at Jade’s red face and raced off to help the rest.

Jade rubbed her cheek, and smiled embarrassedly. She knew that they all would soon be gone, and her punishment would be colossal; but, after what had happened, she figured it would all be worth it.

“BWAH!!”

Jade let out a yelp and looked up at the sudden exclamation, finding Tohru standing nearby holding his head in dismay as he looked at the clones.

Jade let out a gulp, just as all the clones stopped what they were doing and grew red faced.

“B-b-big T!” Jade stuttered. “You’re…awake…”
Chapter 7: Meet the Sitter
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Two weeks has gone by. Two long, quiet weeks. Quiet, and tense. Ever since the Jade Chan clone attack fiasco was cleared up, everything took a sudden turn. Uncle was furious at Tohru for not putting his notes away, while Tohru was still amazed that the clone would be so bold as to make a copy of herself.

Jade’s punishment was intense. Every day when she comes home from school, she would be escorted to the windowless room to do her homework, while Jackie sat down in the room and watched her, the whole time. Once homework was finished, she stayed there unless she had to use the restroom or until dinner.

Then, she went straight back to the apartment and stayed in her room until the next morning. Her TV and games was taken out too, leaving her with nothing but a few books. Though, as angry Jackie was, he can’t help but worry for his niece. Ever since she and the clones all fused back into one Jade, she seemed to grow distant. She barely spoke, barely did anything, except what she was told.

Even when the opportunity to travel to faraway lands and face possible danger arose, she barely was fazed. It was obvious that she was upset about what had happened, but Jackie was still worried, and wondered what the matter was.

~*~

It was another normal day at school. Or, at least that what everyone thought. For Jade, it seemed just another dreary day. She looked down at the clump of brown gunk that was classified as ‘meat’ on her tray, poking it periodically. But, she quickly got bored with it and pushed it aside, laying her head down.

Everything seemed pointless now, and it made her sick. She missed them, she missed them a lot. Her ‘sisters’. Even though she knew them for a short while, it felt like she knew them her whole life, despite the fact that they were, in fact, herself.

But, what was worse, was those odd feelings they made her feel. Not so much as those ‘actions’ that followed them, but just those feelings. That sense of serenity, peace, and comfort. But, that day two weeks ago, she remembered vividly.

All of them plus herself all stood in the library, all ready, and, in last goodbye, they all hugged. She felt like she was going to cry, hugging those copies close, and when Uncle tossed that green power on them, it was like all those happy feelings vanished, leaving nothing but her behind.

They were all gone in less than a second, and her heart sank.

And the past two weeks, it was like the doors of a peaceful garden was closed and locked, leaving her outside. She hated it, not so much as she hated the others for making them all disappear. Nothing seemed to bring her joy anymore.

She hated herself. If she hadn’t made that first clone in the first place, she wouldn’t be feeling so cruddy right now. It was like a lost kitten had followed her home, and Jackie let her keep it, and then it died.

She grew too attached to it, and now…

But, if she just left that kitten alone, then she wouldn’t feel like this. She blamed herself. It was all her fault.

The bell rang, and Jade threw away her lunch to go to go back to class. Once 3 o’clock rolled around, she would be on her way to Uncle’s shop, on her way to that stupid room to do her homework. She didn’t care anymore. It was all stupid, everything.

~*~

It was 3 o’clock. She hopped off the bus and looked up at the antique store. With a sigh, she made her way inside. For the past two weeks, ever since that one Friday, her teacher has been giving her homework for the weekends.

But, on this Friday, it was different. She didn’t have homework this time, which made all the other classmates very happy. Not her. For the past two weeks, her Fridays were nothing but that homework. With no homework this weekend, it was going to drag much more longer then it should.

She entered the shop and awaited the distinctive ‘Hello Jade, how was school?’ from her uncle Jackie.

But, there was no hello. In fact, there was nothing.

Jade looked around. “Hello? Anyone?” No answer. She made her way deeper in the eerily quiet building, making her way into the library. No one was here. “Uncle? Tohru?” She set her backpack on the ground and went into the kitchen in the back, finding it too was empty. “Where is everyone?”

She then noticed the letter on the fridge, walking over and reading it.

Apparently, Valmont was up to his old tricks again and was causing trouble over in Europe. Captain Black requested that Jackie come to England and help him track Valmont down, and Uncle apparently wanted to go and bring his apprentice along.

With apologies, Jackie stated in the note that he prepared a small Cornish hen for her and put it in the fridge incase she got hungry, and that she was to stay at the shop until her babysitter came along.

After a brief second, Jade read that line again. Babysitter? BABYSITTER!? Jackie got her a babysitter! Even from thousands of miles away, he still managed to tick her off! In a fit, she crumpled up the letter and tossed it across the room, huffing and crossing her arms across her chest. Now, not only does she have no homework, no TV, no games or anything, but now she has to spend her Friday under the supervision of some old biddy?!

She kicked a nearby chair over in annoyance, picking it back up and sat down in it with a ‘humph’. She sat there for a good few seconds, huffing and puffing in anger, when she heard someone call out from the front of the shop.

“Hello? Anyone here?” It called.

It surprised Jade to hear that this voice belonged to no mere old woman, but it sounded more younger, more masculine. She hopped up from the chair and wondered into the next room, peeking around the corner.

It was a man, about less then Jackie’s height. He was stout, looking to be over two-hundred pounds or more. He wore a dark coat, dark pants, black boots, and a brown fedora on his head and a big black satchel in his hand. His eyes were a light grey, and his bushy brown hair puffed out from under his hat.

He looked around the shop, until his eyes fell upon the hiding Jade.

“Oh, hello.” The man smiled, setting his bag on the ground. “I am Agent Spence, from Section 13. Are you, Jade Chan?” Jade nodded her head. “I was ordered to come and be your, babysitter.”

When the man said that last sentence, there was a tinge of annoyance on his puffy face. Apparently, he was just as peeved to baby-sit as she was to be baby-sat.

“Why would Captain Black send an agent to baby-sit me?” Jade asked the man.

The man shrugged his shoulders. “That, I do not know. I should be in Europe right now. They need me, but they sent me here.” He reached down and picked up his bag, clearing his throat. “Now, your uncle Jackie has given me explicit orders. No television, no video games, I am to keep you in my sights at all times, and you are not allow in or near the library.”

Jade let out a silent groan and leaned against the wall. An old woman, she could handle. She could get by with things easily with an old biddy. But a trained agent from Section 13?

The man wondered into the kitchen with his bag, setting it down on the table and turned to the small girl. “Listen, kid. I have a lot of work to do. I may be stuck here babysitting you, and you’re stuck here with me, but that does not mean that either of us will shirk our work. Go sweep around the house, make it look nice, don’t bother me, and when you are done, do whatever you want.”

It took Jade several seconds for that message to sink in. “What?”

“Once you are done sweeping, go do whatever you want. TV, games, anything.” Agent Spence sat down at the kitchen table, opening his bag to bring out some books, reaching into his pocket, brought out a pair of glasses, placed them on, and opened his books. “Just as long as you don’t bother me, I don’t care what you do.”

Jade stood there in silence, watching as this stout agent started to write in a notebook, looking back and forth from books he had opened. He must be a college student doing his homework. But, after that brief silence, a smile crept on Jade’s face. “Groovy.”

She turned to leave.

“Oh, but you’re still not allowed to go into the library. Your grandpa was very strict about that, and I don’t want to be on that old man’s bad side.”

She groaned, and turned to the agent. “He’s not my grandpa.”

“You’re not sweeping.” The agent stated, without looking up.

Jade groaned once more.

~*~

Jade spent a good hour or more around the house, sweeping up dust and small bits of paper into a nice big pile. Once she was finished dumping the dustpan into the trash, she decided that, after a long week, she was to catch up on her favorite TV shows.

She went up stairs and to Tohru’s room; the only room in the entire building that had a TV, albeit a small set. But when she turned the knob on the door, it held firm. She gave it a push, but still it wouldn’t budge.

She groaned in annoyance; Tohru locked his door. Even though she was free to do whatever she wanted, it still turned around and bit her. To occupy her new free time, she wondered around the shop, humming to herself.

She had found her way back into the kitchen, and her eyes fell upon an interesting sight. Agent Spence, the man who told her not to bother him and had work to do, was sound asleep, his head resting on one of his books. She walked up and gave him a poke on his side. He grumbled in his sleep and shifted his head to the other side, and continued slumbering.

She huffed, but then grew curious on what was so important that Agent Spence was working on. When she peeked over the table, she didn’t see any college books like she had thought. What she saw was several old dirty green books written in some kind of language. She saw that he had his notebook out and went to see if he was translating it, but she couldn’t read his cursive handwriting.

It was then she saw that lying under one of the sleeping Spence’s hands, was an elegant bracelet of gold with a large ruby embedded on the top. She marveled at the fine jewelry, wondering where such a beautiful trinket came from. But, more so, why this agent had it.

Perhaps it was some sort of ancient artifact and the agent was documenting it. In one of the old books was a crude illustration of the trinket, and she wondered if it was some kind of powerful object. But then the question raises on why this man still had it.

Jade stared at the bracelet for a few short moments, before curiosity got the best of her, and she cautiously reached across the mess of books to the item. She laced a finger around the thick bracer like jewelry, and gently tugged at it, inching it out from under Spence’s hand. Holder her breath and silently counting to three, she made one last quick tug, and pulled the object out and let Spence’s hand drop to the table with a quiet ‘thump’.

It didn’t jar him awake, and he only mumbled in his sleep and once more shifted his head to one side. Jade sighed and looked at the item in her hands. It surprised her on how light it felt, even though it looked much more heavier. She held it up, letting the light shine off it, making the ruby glow lustrously.

What if this beautiful item was really magical? Like it gave whoever wore it powers? But, then again, after all that had happened over the year she has been here; chi magic, the talismans, demonic sorcerers, ninjas; it was still plausible.

“Magic bracelet, tch.” Jade moved the bracelet around her hands and fingers, before letting it wrap around her wrist. She held up her hand and marveled at the fine jewelry. “Hmm, not bad.”

Then, suddenly, the bracelet shook, and shrank! It constricted around her wrist, tightening! She panicked, reaching and tried to pull it off. But it held firm, gripping to her as it locked to her wrist. The ruby suddenly glowed, and to Jade’s amazement, streams of light was traveling through her hands, like the blood of her veins was glowing like fire.

Then, it stopped, the glowing vanished. Panting, Jade looked at the bracelet, seeing that it had completely shrunk to the size of her wrist. She tired removing it, but it was like it was fused to her skin and barely budged.

She breathed heavily, looking at the item.

“This, can’t be good.”
Chapter 8: Antique Shop Showdown
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Jade spent a good thirty minutes trying to get the bracelet that bounded to her wrist. She banged it against the flood, closed a door on it, and even tried to chew it off with desperation. She stopped using brute force the moment the idea of taking a hacksaw to her arm came to mind, and she spent another thirty minutes in Uncle’s library.

She thought that maybe, somewhere in the vast collection of tomes, she might find a spell that would remove the bracelet. As Uncle always said, “Only magic can beat magic”.

She had herself a nice pile of books going, scanning page after page, and trying to find something that might work before tossing it aside if she found nothing useful. She certainly found some interesting things, but nothing useful.

All seemed lost and she has to tell Spence what happened once she came to the fiftieth book, when she came to a very interesting book. It was the same green color as the ones Spence has, bearing some kind twisted knot like design on the front. But, the only difference to those, is that this one seemed much less older and, most of all, in English.

But, she wasn’t able to make out what it all was about. Skimming through the pages, she came to this chapter about this alchemist of some kind that once existed in Ireland, who spent most of his life enchanting meaningless and often too common items to do random things. However, the chapter was focused on some clothing he enchanted, that, when worn, gives the wearer...powers.

The book had earned Jade’s full attention, as she turned the page, and her eyes fell upon the same crude illustration of the bracelet around her wrist like the one in Spence’s book. This bracelet, called the ‘Hand of Aphrodite’, will make anyone the wearer chooses to fall madly in love with them, and also protect them from those with cruel intentions. It was crafted for some Greek woman many years ago, but was lost to the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Lesbos Island.

Jade, absent mindedly looked at the bracelet, growing more curious. How can she take it off? She kept reading. The ‘Hand’, had only one flaw. Once worn, the ‘Hand’ could not be removed, unless the wearer said the following incantation...

Jade blinked once, twice, and third time, and anger slowly boiled in her stomach, until she was fuming and gripped the book until her knuckles turned white. The part of the page, that had the incantation to remove the bracelet, was TORN OFF!!

Blinded by fury, Jade let out a terrible cry and threw the book across the room, turned and kicked her pile over, and started to throw anything and everything in her reach. Why was life so unfair to her? What did she do to be punished like this? Was this karma? Or was some evil force plotting against her?

She growled and grunted, books and beakers and vials flying to and fro, tears trailing down her cheeks. Finally, spent of energy, Jade picked up one last item and tossed it to her feet, before falling to her knees huffing and puffing.

The last option now was to wake up Spence, and see if he can help her. But then, he would tell Captain Black about tampering with a magical artifact, and Black will tell Jackie, and Jackie will be more upset and ground her for the rest of her life.

She looked up and saw the mess she made. Uncle will not like this either. She stood up and sniffled, and began to head down the hall to the kitchen. She felt like a convict walking on death row, and telling Spence what happened was the electric chair. Surly, all that commotion should have awakened him up. She turned into the kitchen, and stared at wide eyes.

“Oh, dang.”

He was STILL asleep, still slumbering contently. It was like when Tohru slept through the screaming two weeks before. Jade approached to inspect, when she saw something very peculiar. Something bright pink was in his ear, and when she leaned in to inspect it, she found that, Agent Spence, was wearing ear plugs.

She thought about giving him a good jab to the ribs would jar him awake, but stopped herself. What will he do, when he wakes up to find that the girl he was suppose to watch has an ancient magical bracelet fused to her wrist?

He would be upset, of course. But, she couldn’t handle any more people being upset at her, that and she has no clue on how he would react to it all, or HOW upset he would be. She withdrew her hand from the slumbering agent and scanned the table. It was obvious that he was translating the green book to English; perhaps he finished the passage on this brace let, and written down the incantation to release it?

All she had to do was decipher his handwriting.

Through the following ten minutes, Jade sat and pondered on the agent’s handwriting. She already knew a few things about cursive, like that meant what, but Spence’s handwriting was so scratchy and chaotic that it was really difficult judging what was an ‘a’ or an ‘o’.

Finally, after growing increasingly frustrated, Jade came across the passage she was searching for, and spent another five minutes trying to decipher it. The moment of truth has arrived, and the magical incantation to remove this accursed bracelet was...

She stopped, and blinked once, twice, then thrice.

“What the crap is this?” She said to herself out loud.

The incantation was written in gibberish! And just any gibberish; ANCIENT gibberish! When she tried her best to read it, it caused her tongue to flap around in her mouth and utter some nonsense.

Her frustration at its peak, Jade slammed the book shut and tossed it up on the table. To hell with it all! She had no choice but to wake up the agent. She was so frustrated, that she was about to wound up a mighty punch to deliver on the stout man’s side, when something caught her attention.

It was the sound of the front door’s bell, the one that sounded when it was opened. Were they back already? She quickly rushed to doorway and peeked around the corner, fearing that it was Jackie and the rest coming home early.

No, worse.

It has been two months since Jade last saw the infamous trio, the Enforcers, and thought for a time there that, with things have been going, she would never see them or the Dark Hand again. So, it sure was a surprise seeing the three of them, Ratso, Finn, and Chow, sneaking their way into the shop.

Once inside the building, Finn, the leader of the three, turned to his pals and shushed them. “Remember,” he said, “We go in, get this ‘Hand’ thing, and get out.”

There was a chuckle from the short Chow. “He’s just one agent, right? How hard can this be?”

Finn just shrugged. “The dossier of this guy said he had minimal training in fist fights, but it said something about excelling in other fields.” There was an evil chuckle from the man. “Besides, if anything goes bad, we still got plan B.”

“Uhh, but he said he’s not going to wait too long.” The slowwitted Ratso suddenly interjected.

Finn just shrugged it off and signaled his men to follow him, and they started to sneak their way into the home.

Jade, well hidden from her spot, quickly pulled away from the doorway and into the kitchen. Unconsciously, she gripped the bracelet in her hand. They’re after the artifact, the artifact attached to her wrist, the artifact she can’t get off!

She rushed to the slumbering agent and started to push on him, trying to jar him awake. “Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up!”

“Hey!”

She turned in a flash, and saw Ratso at the door. “Jade?”

“I’m grounded!” Jade suddenly cried, and rolled under the table.

After so long, sneaking with Jackie to all these missions, the Enforces became aware of her patterns. Where ever Jackie was, Jade was sure to be not far behind. It was surprise to Ratso to see the little girl here, rather than with her uncle.

A surprise, unfortunately, that didn’t last long. The gruff man stormed into the room, ready for anything. It was the movement of the table shifting from Jade’s tumbling roll that finally jarred the agent awake, and he opened his eyes to see a member of the Dark Hand charging at him.

From under the table, Jade watched as Spence stood up and quickly kicked the chair towards Ratso, knocking it into the man’s legs, and he fell to the ground. When Ratso fell, Spence was quick to jump up, and used his great weight to drop himself bottom first onto the back of prone man before he could stand up. Ratso yelped and groaned; just as the other two came charging in.

Jade started to worry. She overheard what Finn had said about Spence’s combat skill. And by the look on his face, the previous actions were out of stark blind luck. Spence, quickly, grabbed the closest thing to him, which happened to be one of his books, and he brought it before just in time to use it as a shield against a punch from Finn.

Pushing forward, the agent once more used his weight, only this time he plowed his way through the two, knocking Finn and Chow to the ground as he rushed out of the kitchen, the three Enforcers springing to their feet and giving chase.

The moment they were out of sight, the building was filled with the sounds of things being thrown around and some curses from the battling men. Jade quickly got out from under the table and hurried to the door, looking out to see the fight progress.

It was bad, very bad. She looked around the corner in time to see Spence take a rather sharp punch across the face from Finn, combined with a swift kick to the gut from Chow. The agent stumbled back, grabbed the broom that was close by, and swung it out, the bristles brushing Ratso’s face.

This caused the men to back up, and a scowl appeared on Finn’s face.

“Forget this!” He looked to the front of the store. “Plan B!”

All of a sudden, the front door to the store was forced open off its hinges from a powerful blow, and a cry echoed into the room. A cry that Jade heard too often to know what it meant.

A cry of, “Angry Crow Takes Flight!”

The blue and red blur that was the Black Tiger, Hak Foo, flew through to open doorway, and with a crack, his forehead connected to Spence’s, and Spence was forced back into the wall and to the ground unconscious in a bundle.

The conflict over, Hak Foo stood over the defeated agent with a smug grin, dusting off his hands humorously.

“We should have sent him in first.” Chow stated, adjusting his glasses.

Ratso’s nose winkled and he rubbed the pain from it. “I thought you said this guy couldn’t fight!”

“Hey, I said he wasn’t good at fighting, not that he would.” Finn objected, dusting off his suit.

“Enough,” Hak Foo growled. “Get the ‘Hand’.”

Chow and Finn knelt down to the agent and started to search his pockets, tossing the contents on the floor. After a few short moments, a pair of glasses, a couple of candy bars, a wallet (Which Chow took the money out of), a gift certificate to a pizza parlor (Ratso pocketed that) and a handheld game system, the two men stood back up.

“Chump doesn’t have it.” Finn stated.

“He must’ve stashed it someplace.” Chow said.

“Or maybe Jade has it.” Ratso said, picking in his ear.

The three other men turned to Ratso, and suddenly turned to the doorway of the kitchen.

Jade stood there wide eyed. “Oh snap.”

“Jade’s got the Hand!” Finn cried out. “Get her!”

Jade turned and made a dead run through the kitchen, the sound of the table being flipped over behind her. She skidded around the corner and the perusing Chow crashed into the wall, followed by Ratso. She made it into the library, where she shut the door into Finn’s face and locked it.

Ignoring the pounding on the door, Jade quickly scrambled around the room to find anything that she could use to defend herself. The only thing she could think of off the bat was to use one of the heavy books as a weapon, but then tried to think if she can remember a chi spell that might seal the room so they couldn’t get in.

She then decided to put these old heavy books to use, and started to push stacks to the door, just as the pounding increased. Her makeshift barricade would not last forever, especially with Hak Foo on the other side, but all this was worth a shot.

Jade pulled off more books from the shelves to use form blocking, when she found something. One of the books didn’t feel like leather, rather plastic, and when she gave it a small push, there was a ‘click’ sound and it, along with the several books alongside it, opened up to reveal a hidden box.

Tossing the books in her hands onto the pile, she opened the box and looked inside, thinking there was something inside she could use. There were vials, filled with purple gunk. Before she could do anything else, there was a loud cry, and the door was force open, scattering the books all over the room.

She turned, and Hak Foo came into the room.

“Hand over the, ‘Hand’.” He said to the little girl.

Jade panicked. “I can’t! It’s, stuck!”

Hak Foo grinned evilly, just as the rest came into the room. “Then I will claim it by force.”

The mighty man launched forward with a cry, his arms outstretched to tackle the little girl. Jade, in a last ditch effort to defend herself, threw up her arms to shield herself.

“This is it”, she thought, “I always thought I would die by doing something cool, like jumping over the Grand Canyon on a motorcycle. Not like this, not by Hak Foo!”

She prepared herself for the worst, when the cry from the flying man was suddenly silenced by the sound of rubber being stretched, and there was a sudden, more alarmed cry from him, and the sound of crashing. She peaked to see what just happened, and found Hak Foo lying in a pile of books, shaking his head as he stood up.

The other three men were now stepping back, their eyes wide.

“What just happened?” Finn suddenly asked aloud.

Jade lowered her arms, and as she did, she saw the bracelet around her wrist was once more glowing brightly, and the veins in her hand hade streaming light through them.

Before she could contemplate on what was going on, Hak Foo was to his feet, and once more charged at the child. When he got close enough, the bracelet let out a brilliant light and a golden bubble was suddenly around Jade. Hak Foo punched at the bubble, and the bubble stretched from the impact, but suddenly snapped and repelled him back, sending him flying into the wall with a crash.

The bubble disappeared, leaving Jade wide eyed and confused. It then dawned on her; The Hand was not only made to make people fall in love to whoever wore it, but protected her from people who wanted to hurt her.

And she thought it was a piece of jewelry with a useless power. No wonder Valmont wants it.

Jade, her heart no longer pounding in her chest, began to feel a little cocky, and went into a combat pose before the four men. “Who’s next?”

The three standing men looked at one another, then to the fourth standing back up and rubbing the back of his head. Chow was the first to do anything, which was turn around and started to run out of the store, Ratso following close behind. Finn rushed out, with Hak Foo tailing.

But he stopped before leaving, turning to shout “We’ll get you Chan!” and was gone.

Jade exhaled a deep breath and slumped to the floor, looking around at the mess. But then she stood up and rushed to the front of the store and knelt down to the unconscious Spence. Judging by the big knot he had on his head, he was going to be out of it for a long time. She grunted and propped him up against the wall to make him more comfortable, and then looked around the room.

She was annoyed that she just swept the floor and now it was a mess again, but then she stopped to think, the whole house, from the front of the store to the back of the library, was a complete and utter mess. The door lied on the ground in splinters, the broom stink was broken in half, countless books were scattered across the floor of the library, and one chair was now fire wood.

Unfortunately, some of the antique merchandise, like some vases, a ship in a bottle, one suit of armor, a couple of ceramic eggs, and this tiny statue of Buddha, was claimed during the fight and was now shards on the floor. Checking real fast, Jade went to the library and saw that some of the books that went flying when Hak Foo burst in, flew and broke some vials, most of them were empty (Thank goodness), but a few of them had some spell ingredients inside and now they made a nice steaming puddle on the floor.

After checking the damage, Jade let out a long forlorn sigh. She didn’t know when Jackie and them would be back, probably a week at most, but when they come back to find the shop in such a state, they would be furious.

Only, this time, it wasn’t really her fault. Well, it wasn’t mostly her fault; she still had the bracelet on her wrist, and it was what they came for. And, when Spence comes too, he’ll be upset with her that she had it, and he’ll tell Captain Black, who in turn would tell uncle Jackie, who will ultimately be more upset with her and extend her punishment.

But then Uncle will be upset that his library and shop would be damaged, and that he has to ‘waste his valuable time’ to get the bracelet off of her.

It’s a long vicious cycle, with her the victim.

She sighed once more and sat against the wall of the hall, lying her head back. This is starting to become the single worst month of her life, and it’s not even halfway done. She stayed there for a few moments, before standing back up. Might as well start cleaning up; at least that might lessen the blow when they come home.

Jade picked up what was left of the broom and was going to start sweeping up the broken shards of a vase, when she stopped and figured it would be better if she cleaned up the spilt ingredients so they won’t leave a stain, or eat its way through the floorboards.

She grabbed a towel and made her way into the library. The mixed pile wasn’t steaming anymore, but she still had to wipe it up. She started to scrub it, but then her mind started to wonder.

“This would be easier if I had someone to help.” She thought to herself. Gradually, her scrubbing slowed down to a stop. “Wait a minute.”

She stood up and went to that cavity in the bookshelf that had the box of vials hidden and picked up one. The purple goo inside looked so familiar. Could it be? She looked into the box and found a piece of paper. It was in Tohru’s hardwiring.

“Special Reserved Duplication Spell; Use Sparingly.” It said, following with a color coded list. The vials all had the personality alterations, and each vial with a different color cap had different alterations in it. Those with a green cap were smarter, the red cap was nicer, and the blue cap was boyish while the pink caps were girlish, the grey caps were meaner, and the dark green caps were dumber.

Jade was stumped, looking at all the vials. Why would Tohru make a bunch of different spells, but then hide them? She remembered Uncle arguing with him on his spells, and Tohru said that he’ll dispose of this notebook so she couldn’t get a hold of it again.

Tohru must have made these for some reason, thought she couldn’t think why. Rummaging through the box, she then found a small metal tin on the bottom with a little label on it that said “In Case Of Emergencies.”

She opened it up too find a fine green powder inside. She remembered this stuff; it was what made her and her clones fuse back into one. Now Jade was more confused; vials of the altered duplication spell, and now the reversal spell?

Tohru must have been planning on using this, but for what? Perhaps he had used it already before?

Jade shook her head to ignore it; none of that mattered right now, because now she had found the means to get help in cleaning the shop. She smiled as she picked out a vial; one with a red cap. She was about to open it, when she stopped.

She started to remember her first clone, her unofficial ‘sister’. In her hands was a means to bring her back. Her heart pounded in her chest, looking into the box at all the vials and the one in her hand.

She could have her clone back! That very thought alone had pushed her rationality aside. Forget Jackie, forget Uncle, forget everything! She grabbed another vial from the box, one with a pink cap, and popped both of them opened.

“Here goes everything!” She said aloud, and chugged the two vials down. Maybe drinking both of the vials wasn’t such a smart thing to do, for all at once her senses was assaulted by their foul taste times two, and the extra content was hard to swallow down.

She cough and gagged and nearly threw up, falling to her knees and clenching her stomach and praying that it doesn’t come back up again. She coughed up a little of it, making a nice splat as it landed on the ground. The coughing subsided and the pain in her stomach lessened, and she looked up and around.

Before she turned, she felt the familiar sensation of a hand on the back of her neck, rubbing her soothingly.

“Gosh! Are you okay?”

She knew that voice. She turned and looked up, and sure enough, a second Jade was there with a worried look on her face, rubbing her neck to make her feel better. “That sounded pretty awful.”

Jade gulped down and cleared her throat, standing up on shaky legs. “Yeah, I’m fine.” Dang, her voice was hoarse.

The Jade Copy smiled and suddenly hugged her. “That’s good; I thought you were going to throw up there for a second.”

Jade stiffened when she was suddenly hugged, but calmed down almost instantly. She was getting the sooth felling once more, and she almost succumbed to it before she snapped back to reality and gently pushed the clone away.

“Listen,” She started, clearing her throat of that foul taste once more. “I’m fine, but I need you to do something for me.”

The Jade Copy smiled innocently. “Sure! What do you...?” She suddenly realized the current state of the room. “Whoa, what happened here?”

“That’s the thing.” Jade took a deep breath, and in one single sentence, she summed up her situation, starting with when she came into the store, to meeting her agent babysitter, the magic bracelet, and Enforcer’s sudden appearance, until finally ending it with her trying to clean the house.

The clone remained silent for a few seconds, before she looked down at her hands. “I’m, a copy?”

Jade nodded her head.

“And, you made me so I can help you clean the shop?” The clone asked.

Jade nodded again.

The clone was silent again, staring at her own hands. After almost a whole minute, the copy looked back up to the original. “Wha-...What’s going to happen to me, when we’re done?”

Jade felt a deep pang in her heart, and she scratched the back go her head nervously. “Well, I dunno. I would like it if you stuck around a few. Ya’know, like, hang out and have a little fun.”

The clone was once more silent. Jade didn’t like it. She was so quite, and her eyes held so much confusion and questioning. After a few seconds, she looked back up to her. “What’s going to happen to me then?”

Jade shook her head. “It’s best not to think about it. We should start cleaning.” She turned and picked up the broken broom and handed it to the copy. “You can go ahead and sweep up the mess in the front; I’ll start collecting the books.”

The Jade Copy nodded her head and started to head out. She stopped at the door and looked back. “Are you sure you’re going to be alright?”

Jade nodded her head. “Like I said; I’m fine.”

“That’s not what I meant.” The copy suddenly said. Jade looked at her confused, and she turned back to the door. “I dunno; I just feel that you’re not feeling right.”

“No, it’s okay, really.” Jade started to pick up the books. “I’m just, a little upset over what happened, is all.”

The copy stayed there for a few seconds before heading out the door. “If you say so.”
Chapter 9: Reunited
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Jade wasn’t in any hurry to pick up the books. She gotten a good number of them back on the shelf, but her mind was wondering off. Well, she finally did it; she made another clone of herself. She had hoped that the clone would remember everything, like being her ‘sister’. But she didn’t. She was just another copy.

It upset her, it really did, that this clone couldn’t remember anything that happened back then, but why was Jade so compelled to keep her around? Maybe she just needed a friend. Drew from school wasn’t really a friend, more like a rival, and that Paco from Mexico was just annoying, and Seymour was just a demon in disguise.

She tried her best to ignore it all, picking up books and placing them back on the shelf. She vaguely wondered what her clone was up too. When she picked up a book and was about to place it on the shelf, her hand suddenly stung in pain and she dropped the book.

She looked at her hand, but found no markings. She wondered what happened, when she heard a whimpering sound in the next room. It then dawned on her; the pain wasn’t hers!

She quickly rushed out of the library and down the hall, and found the clone on her knees crying softly.

“What happened?” Jade asked, running up to the copy.

The copy whimpered and showed her hand, a deep gash in her palm and blood pooling into her jeans. “I-I-I was, trying to-to-to pick a piece of the broken vase, and-and-and I cut myself.” She cried, sniffing down her tears.

“It’s okay,” Jade rubbed the back of the clone’s neck soothingly. “Wait here; I’ll get some first aid.”

She quickly rushed into the kitchen and threw open the drawers. Uncle had only one first aid kit and he always kept it in the kitchen, however it had a bad habit of being moved into another drawer every time. After opening and searching three drawers, Jade finally found it under the sink, and she quickly ran back into the front with it in hand.

When she came back, the Jade copy had her sweater off and was using it to soak up the blood from her hand and the floor.

“Here, I got ya.” Jade knelt down and opened the kit, and took the copy’s hand. She took out some swabs and cleaned the wound the best she could, and sprayed it with disinfectant and rubbed in antibacterial cream. The copy whimpered the whole time, her face tear streaked as she watched Jade help her. She finished up by wrapping her hand up in gauze and bandages and held her hand gently. “There. Better?”

The copy sniffled and nodded her head, and then she looked down at her pants and the bloody sweater on the ground. “I bled a lot, didn’t I?”

Jade didn’t want to sugarcoat it, so she nodded her head. “It looks like you lost a lot.” She was about to ask if she felt lightheaded, but reaching through the bond they had, she could feel that she was a little. “I think you need t sit and rest for a bit. You can go take a bath to clean yourself up and maybe change clothes.”

The copy nodded her head, and with Jade’s help was up on her feet holding the wound to her chest protectively. It was then, Jade saw a slight blush on her face, and she could feel those odd feelings being transmitted through her.

Before she could question it, the copy was already heading up stairs to the only other bathroom with a tub (the one down stairs had only a shower in it). Jade scratched the back of her head in confusion, and figured that the copy must’ve felt embarrass on what happened. That was, until she look at her wrist.

The Hand was once more glowing and light was going through her veins, just like it did when she first put it on and when it protected her from Hak Foo. She shook it, thinking it was broken, but then, remembering that it protected her from someone with cruel intentions, she remembered the OTHER thing it could do.

“Oh, you gotta be kidding me!”

~*~

Jade Copy closed the door behind her, just in time to hear Jade say something to herself down stairs. The moment the door was closed, she put her back too it and felt her chest. Her heart was pounding hard, butterflies were fluttering around in her stomach, and her face felt so hot.

She couldn’t understand it, but having Jade hold her hand, or even looking into her eyes, she felt so, serene. She tried to ignore it, but it seemed those feelings and those thoughts weren’t going anywhere.

She quickly stripped down and tossed her clothes into a pile, and went to the tub and started up the hot water. It was then she noticed something. Her chest seemed, bigger. Like the tiny bumps that where her breast where swollen a little and wasn’t as tiny. She rubbed them a little, thinking something was wrong. When she did, a strange sensation went through her, almost nice. She quickly brought her hands away, and she could feel her face heating up again.

That was strange.

~*~

Jade suddenly stopped. She was on her knees with a damp rag, scrubbing up the blood that was on the ground, hoping it wouldn’t dry, when she suddenly had a sensation. It felt like a pair of hands was on her chest, and feeling her.

It disappeared as quick as it appeared, and it left her sitting there confused. But then, a familiar sense came to her, and she reached up to her chest to feel.

Her breasts were swollen again, just like when...

Her face flushed red and she felt more, and sure enough, her nipples were pebbled as well.

She looked up to the stairs, thinking.

~*~

Copy looked down at the water, and saw it was halfway full but was steaming. She turned the cold water on a little and ran her hand under the running water, and agreed on the cooler climate. She waited patiently for the tub to be filled up, before climbing down into it slowly, sighing contently as she was soothed by the warm water.

Those odd feelings she had was now being ebbed by the waters, but at the same time being mixed up. It was so nice, she could just fall asleep in that tub, but then she started to get a tingling sensation.

A tingling that crept up her legs and swirled around in her gut. It felt like she was starting to warm up from the inside, she musingly rubbed her stomach. But she noticed that that wasn’t where the warmth was coming from...

It was, lower.

~*~

Jade let out a sigh and she sat down on the step. She was about to go upstairs to the bathroom, because she had her suspensions on what the Copy was doing, but she was suddenly enveloped in a comforting warmth. The Copy must be in the tub now, and what Jade was feeling was the soothing waters, relaxing her muscles.

She lied down on the step, and decided she should take a break from cleaning; this was too nice. She started to get a tingle then, something that started at her toes and crept up her legs to her gut.

It was then she got another familiar sense; warmth that was...between her legs...

~*~

Copy’s hand unconsciously went down lower. A shiver went up her spine as her fingers rubbed her pubic bone. It was an odd sense, but she couldn’t help but do it again, sighing as she did. It was strange, but at the same time it was a nice feeling.

She experimentally rubbed a few more times, before heading down lower. She let out a loud gasp when she touched something stiff. She felt around gently, and noticed that the little bump that was always there was a little harder, and when she touched it, it felt so sensitive. The very feeling made her legs lock up around her hand, and she gasped in confusion.

Nipping on her lower lip, she barely brushed it, and this time it wasn’t as shocking, and that tingling came back.

She didn’t know why, but touching there made her feel, naughty. She subconsciously smiled, nipped on her lower lip again, and started to stroke to little bump now, a torrent of shocks going up her spine as she suppressed a moan.

~*~

Jade let out a gasp and rolled to the floor, her nails dragging along the wood.

She knew it! That little fink was...AGH!

Jade panted and moaned, being assaulted by these sensations, her legs quivering and her toes curling inside her shoes. She bit down on the sleeve of her sweater, writhing on the floor as her back arched up. She clawed at her clothes, cupping the area between her legs in a hand.

Why does this have to happen to her!? Are all her clones she made like this!?

She looked over and saw the unconscious Spence, and prayed that he wouldn’t come to any time soon.

~*~

Copy moaned, her back arching up out of the water, her fingers still stroking the hard nub. Her whole body felt hot, but she couldn’t stop! Her mind was flashing images of Jade and her, kissing and touching each other. It was so vivid, like a memory. Her heart was pounding in her chest, and the butterflies in her stomach were swarming around. She rolled over and used one hand to prop herself up and out of the water, gripping the edge of the tub.

Her other hand slipped and her fingers dragged along the lips between her legs. She let out another moan at the sensation, and traced a finger around. This was also new; her skin as so hot there.

Images once more flashed and an evil grin appeared on her face. She jabbed at herself, and ever so gently slipped a finger inside her. She moaned and sighed, and the muscles of her inner wall clamped down around her finger.

She scratched around, poking at herself. Her head felt light and her heart thumped between her ears. She was so hot inside, it amazed her.

She whimpered, and leaned against the edge of the tub. “J-Jade~!”

~*~

Jade dragged herself across the floor, biting down on her sleeve to keep herself silent. Everything was blurry and hazy, her whole body heating up. She was starting to sweat, and she clawed at her clothes in passion.

This was insane! And, it wasn’t fair!

She managed to crawl her way into kitchen, and she proper herself up against the wall. She quickly threw off her sweater and kicked off her shoes, and she let out a growl.

“You little no good- OOH! I’ll get you- AAH!” She suddenly had a devious thought she quickly pulled up the front of her shirt, exposing her chest. “I’ll show you!” She nipped her lower lip and grabbed her swollen bust, and tweaked her nipples.

Her back arched and she moaned, her legs locking up.

~*~

Copy made a loud moan and slipped into the water, slashing around. Her chest was suddenly assaulted with this strange new sensation, like someone was giving her a purple-nurple. With one hand, she rubbed one of her breast to lessen that pain, and she found that the very action sent more tingles down her spine.

She dug deeper into herself, her fingers pumping in and out, scratching along the inner walls as she did. She could feel something building up from inside, something growing hotter and hotter.

~*~

Jade made a shuddering moan and fell to the ground, squeezing her chest as she did. She couldn’t take it anymore, and in a hurry she kicked her jeans down around her ankles and stuffed her hand down the front of her panties.

A torrent of shocks went through her as she vigorously rubbed her hardened nub, tweaking her pebbled nipples. She writhed there on the ground, whimpering to keep herself quiet. She could feel it building up inside, and she knew it will soon be over with.

~*~

Copy moaned and groaned, the pressure and pleasure becoming too much to bear. In an instant, a bright light flashed before her eyes as what felt like a lightning bolt went through her. All the air in her lung came out in a shuddering moan, so loud it was almost like a scream. Her whole body shook and quivered, the heat becoming unbearable.

That lightning traveled slowly through her, until finally it disappeared, leaving her panting and whimpering. She fell into the water, floating with her face just above the surface, taking slow beep breathes as she seemed to float off into space. Everything was so hazed and warm, she nearly fell asleep, but she tried to stay away, just laying there in the water.

She closed her eyes and imagined Jade there next to her, kissing her and stroking her hair.

But after a short period, she sat up in the tub with a whimper, panting softly.

“What was that?”

~*~

Jade lied there in a sweaty heap, basking in the afterglow of the intense orgasm, her hand still on her panties and on her chest.

She managed to keep silent, nearly screamed out, but only managed a loud shudder. She felt like floating away, somewhere among the clouds, but she slowly came down to earth as she sat up. She looked down at the Hand around her wrist, just as it’s light faded away.

She didn’t know whether to be upset, or just chill out. But she soon made a decision and pulled her pants back up and stood up on wobbly legs. She went into the front of the store, and was glad to see Spence still out of it, and she then looked up the stairs.

She wondered how her copy was doing, and when she reached out for the feelings, she found nothing but serenity, mixed with a little confusion.

~*~

The water was out of the tub in a matter of seconds, but Copy still remained sitting, her mind clouded with odd images and strange feelings. But after the few seconds, she climbed out and was about to dry herself off, when she noticed something. There were no towels in the bathroom and no clean clothes to changing into.

She stood there, a puddle forming underneath her, and she decided there was no other way. She went to the door and cracked it open and peeked into the hallway.

“Jade?” She called out.

She suddenly saw Jade’s face before her, giving her a start. “Yeah?”

Copy’s face heated up, ducking behind the door. “There’s no tow-.”

Jade suddenly brandished a folded towel before her. “Yeah, I forgot to get you one, sorry.”

Copy reached out and took the towel from her and closed the door. Once the door was closed, she started to dry herself off. The towel felt warm; it was probably fresh from the dryer. She sat the cloth over her head when she was done, thinking to herself.

What did happen, just now? What in the world possessed her to do that? It was very new to her, but, oddly enough, at the same time it felt so, familiar. She tried to dispel the thought, returning to the door and covered herself up with the towel. When she opened the door and peeked out again, she could see a room down the hall open and she could hear sounds inside.

“Jade?” She called again.

Jade peeked around the corner of the open door. “Yeah?”

“I need some clothes.” Copy said.

Jade nodded her head. “I’m getting you some now, come on over.”

Copy stood there for a few moments, looking up and down the hall, wrapped the towel around her, and rushed down the hall and into the room. This room was a spare, used usually by Jade whenever Jackie goes out on an adventure.

It was bare, save for the one bed and the one dresser. Clone stepped off to the side and closed the door, gripping the towel close to her, and looked over to Jade, who was riffling through the dresser. She had a white tee in one hand, and it was soon joined with a pair of jeans. Jade turned to Clone with the clothes before her.

“I’m sorry,” she started. “I don’t have any underwear you can wear. I can try to clean the ones you had.”

Clone nodded her head, and took the clothes from Jade. “Thanks.” Jade was about to leave to let Clone change, when she stopped her. “Umm, Jade?”

She turned to her. “Yeah?”

“There, is something I want to ask you.” Clone turned to her. “This, may sound odd, but I have been having this, thought.”

Jade was confused. “What is it?”

“Did you,” Clone cleared her throat. “Did you, make another copy, before me?”

Jade was surprised. Could it be? “How, do you know that?”

Clone shook her head. “I don’t know. I just, have these, feelings, and these thoughts.”

Jade took a deep breath. “I did, actually. Before you.”

Clone stepped forward. “What, happened to her?”

Jade turned away. “It’s nothing. I should get going and get some cleaning done.” She was about to walk away, when she felt a hand on her shoulder, looking behind her to see the copy.

“Please, Jade. What happened to her?” Clone’s voice was soft, pleading, and it made Jade’s heart pang.

“She…”Jade gulped down her tears. “She, had to go away.”

“Why?” Clone asked.

“Because, my uncle didn’t want her around. No one did.” Jade said.

“No one?” Clone asked.

“I did, but I wasn’t supposed to play with magic, and my uncle got mad about it, and made her go away.” It was then Jade felt Clone was closer to her now, her hands on her shoulders behind her. “I…I miss her.”

She was suddenly wrapped in arms into a tight hug, and right behind her she could here Clone whimpering. “I missed you too.”

Those words struck her deep. She, missed her? Jade looked over her shoulder and saw tears on Clone’s cheeks. “W-what did you say?”

“I remember.” Clone stepped away from Jade, rubbing the tears away. “I, remember why you made the first copy, and you spent some time with her. I remember everything.”

Jade stood there for a few seconds in silence, letting the words sink in. “You remember?” Clone nodded her head, and tears started to flow freely. “You…remembered!” She suddenly lunged forward and embraced the copy into a tight hug, to which the Clone responded in suit. “You remembered! I’m so sorry!”

Clone patted the girl’s back. “It’s okay, I’m back.”

Jade suddenly pulled away. “But, you won’t stay. If Jackie found out about you, he’ll get rid of you again, and I’m already in deep trouble from last time.”

“We’ll find a way. You’re smart.” Clone assured her, taking Jade’s hands into hers. “But, for now, let’s just enjoy what time we have left.”

Jade made a half nod, but turned away. “But, the store is still such a mess.”

“That’ll be the easiest part.” Clone smiled. Jade smiled back, and she noticed that Clone had a rosy hue appearing in her cheeks, and when she reached out through their bond she could feel that she was feeling, strange.

It was at the moment both girls noticed the odd glowing coming from Jade’s wrist, both of them looking down at the exquisite jewelry. Clone marveled at the artifact, even brought Jade’s hand closer so she could get a better look at it.

“Wow, that’s pretty! How do you get it to glow like that?” Clone asked.

Jade chuckled nervously. “It’s happens every so often.”

“Is it magical? Like, does it give you powers like the talismans?” Clone asked.

Jade nodded. “Yeah, but nothing all that special.”

“What does it do?” The copy asked with a smile.

Jade felt her face heat up as she pulled her arm back. “I-it’s nothing, really. You should get dressed so we can get the store cleaned up.”

“What about the agent? You think he’s alright?” The copy asked.

Jade shrugged her shoulders. “Ahh, he’ll be fine. He’s a trained agent; I think he taken worse before.”

The copy nodded her head in understanding and turned to the pile of clothes she sat on the ground and started to get dress. Giving her some privacy, Jade left the room and back down stairs to continue her cleaning.

Today may have started off bad, but now it was starting to pick up, and Jade cannot wait for what the rest of this day will hold.
Chapter 10: Image Reinvention
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Jade attempted to clean up, but she was so giddy that the clone had remembered her that she didn’t get all that much done. Unaware to her that her giddiness was transmitted through the bond she shared with her copy, the even the copy was too giddy to even properly dress herself, stopping every so often to burst into a bout of giggles.

But they were able to get something done after a minute or two. Jade already has most of the books back on the shelf or in their original position in stacks on the desk, when Clone came into the library fully dressed. The two of them smiled at one another, and without any words, the girls started back to cleaning, only this time they stuck together and kept an eye on each other.

The library, to the two girls, seemed like the room that took the most damage, since books were flying around like projectiles and crashed into glass objects. Thankfully, not too much of Uncle’s various beakers and vials and ingredients were not destroyed, and the pervious puddle of gunk did not eat through the floor or left a stain (if anything, it cleaned out all the dust and grime of the past years out of that particular area, leaving behind a nice shiny spot of wood).

While cleaning, the two were able to chat, Jade asking Clone some questions.

“So, you remember everything?” She asked.

Clone nodded her head. “Well, you made the first copy to do your homework so you could go to an arcade.” She then looked over at the embarrassed Jade and scolded. “I’m still a little upset about that, by the way.”

“I said I was sorry.” Jade frowned, but could not help but smile again. “Can I ask you something else?”

Clone nodded her head once more, pushing a stack of books onto a shelf. “Sure, what’s up?”

“I never got a chance to ask you, and I tried thinking of an explanation, but.” Jade turned to the copy, shuffling her foot nervously. “I know you did it so that I wouldn’t take the blame by myself, but why did you make extra copies of yourself? What was, like, going through your mind?”

Clone was about to pick up some more books, when she stopped and pondered on that. “I… I don’t know. It, just seemed like the right thing to do. Why?”

“Well, the spell I used to make you, and the others, had these, well, extra ingredients that changed your personality.” Jade admitted.

Clone was confused. “My, personality? Why change my personality? Was something wrong with two exact Jades?”

Jade made a half nod. “Well, I once used the same spell to make another me a while ago, and well, the copy being exact like me, didn’t really listen to me.”

Clone seemed to understand, but then pondered about something once more. “Wait… I, I remembered, a big, green, ugly thing.”

Jade was surprised. “Wait, you remember Po Kong?”

Clone snapped her fingers. “The Mountain Demon!”

Jade smiled. “Yeah! How do you remember that?”

Clone brought her hand to her temple, furrowing her brow. “I, don’t know. I remember a lot of things, all of a sudden.” She then made a groan and held her head in her hands. “Ugh, my head hurts.”

Jade reached out there their bond, and found that Clone was not feeling well. She walked up to her and let her sit down to rest.

“It could be your body reacting to the blood lost.” Jade thought aloud.

Clone nodded her head. “Yeah.” She occupied herself and started to stack some books close to her in a pile. “I remember a lot, but most of it is kind of fuzzy.”

“Don’t worry about it.” Jade went back to work, but then felt something through her bond with Clone and turned back.

Clone seemed sad about something.

“What is it?” Jade asked.

“You do know that no matter how much you beg and plead, Uncle is going to get rid of me, right?” Clone looked up to Jade. “It can’t be stopped. You know how stubborn he can be.”

Jade nodded her head, and now she felt bad. Uncle’s going to be upset about his shop, that’s for sure. But, if he learns that Jade has made yet another copy with some reserved spell that Tohru had kept hidden, (for some unknown reason) he is going to have kittens!

Jade sighed and leaned against the wall. “If only there was a way to keep you permanently hidden. Like, change the way you look.”

It was at the moment, upon uttering those words, both Jades had a thought, and looked at one another.

“Didn’t Tohru have a bunch of pages like that in his book?” Clone asked.

Jade nodded. “He did.” But then she grew sad once more. “Oh, but he could have destroyed it by now, or maybe locked it away.”

“Do you think it could be in his room?” Clone asked.

“If it’s still here, that’s a good place for it to be. But, his door is locked.” Jade said.

Clone thought about this, pondering how to overcome such an obstacle. It was then, she had an idea. “Wait, if Tohru had hidden the reserves like he did,” She pointed to the area of fake books for emphasis. “Then, maybe he did the same for his book, or something similar?”

Jade did understand, but was a little confused. “But where could it be?”

Clone thought about this, and had another idea, and stood up in a flash and headed out of the library. “Follow me!”

Jade was confused, but followed her copy out of the room, and up the stairs, and finally to Tohru’s locked door.

“What is it?” She asked.

Clone looked over at her with a smile. “It’s a long shot, but it could be worth it.”

Jade became increasingly confused. “What?”

Clone rapped on the door. “Give me a boost.”

Jade shrugged her shoulders and cupped her hands together for a foot hold, and Clone stepped down and was hoisted up on Jade’s shoulders.

“Do you remember when Mom and Dad used to lock their bedroom, and then hid the key on top of the doorframe?” Clone asked from above.

Jade made a half nod. “Yeah, I could never reach that high without getting a chair or something.” It then occurred to her, and she looked up. “Why?”

Clone had a big grin on her face, when she brandished a key she had gotten off the top of the doorframe. “I think Tohru had the same idea.”

Jade couldn’t help but let out a squeal of excitement, letting her copy jumped down off her shoulders, took the key, and hurriedly opened the door. Once inside, the two girls did not waste any time and went to search for that notebook. They were smart enough not to start throwing things around; they were careful and made sure everything was in their original position.

They searched everywhere. Tohru’s drawers, his dresser, under his bed, under his mattress, in his closet, in his spare pants and such. Everywhere. But there seemed to be no trace of it. Though, to the girls, it was an admirable try. Both of them let out a deep sigh and sat down on the ground, leaning against the wall, looking around the room.

“It was a good thought, though.” Jade murmured.

“Yeah, it was.” Clone agreed.

The two of them made a simultaneous sigh, standing back up to leave. As they did, however, Jade noticed something odd. One of the floorboards, right next to Tohru’s bed, had a hole in it. It was odd, because she remembered that there wasn’t a hole there before.

She tried to ignore it, thinking it was just mice, but at the same time her mind was working. Right before she left the room, she suddenly turned around and when back in and up to the floorboard, confusing the copy. Jade taped her foot on it, listening to it squeak under her weight, and then stooped down, stuck her finger in the hold, and pulled. The boarded came off with no resistance, revealing a hidden cavity. Inside were a series of trinkets. A bag of potato chips, some stashed cash, a small locked box, and, underneath it all, a composition notebook with the words “Tohru’s, Do not Touch” written in ink on the front.

Jade brought the notebook out of the cavity, holding it before her in disbelief. “I…I found it.”

Clone was there by her side, smiling greatly. “You found it!”

Both of them looked at the book, then down to the cavity in the floor, the back to the book, and finally at each other.

“Make you wonder, if Tohru has other hidden areas all over the shop.” Jade mused.

“Maybe it was something he picked up when he worked for the Dark Hand.” Clone said.

But then, none of that mattered, for they found what they were looking for. The two of the rushed out of the room and was about to hurry down the steps, and Jade suddenly stopped by the hand grabbing the back of her shirt.

Jade looked over at the Clone, confused. “What is it?”

Clone pointed down over the railings. “Look!”

Jade looked over the edge and down into the shop, and saw that Clone wasn’t pointing at anything in particular. She looked back, more confused. “I don’t see anything.”

Clone looked at her with wide eyes. “Exactly! Notice anything missing?”

Jade looked back down and blinked a few times. Well, aside from the carnage that occurred and the mess it left in its wake, nothing really seemed to be-…

She then noticed it. “Where’s Spence?”

The agent that was knocked out and leaned against the wall, was not where he should be. That space was empty. The two girls quickly looked around the room and wherever they could see from their position, but could not see him anywhere. Cautiously, Jade gave Clone the notebook and carefully went down the stairs, keeping her ears open for any sounds.

She did hear something; soft clattering, coming from the kitchen. She tipped-toed over and peeked around the corner. The refrigerator door was open, and standing before it was agent Spence, making an awful racket as he rummaged through the fridge. She drew closer, and he could hear him mumbling to himself in some odd language she never heard of.

She cleared her throat, and was startled when he suddenly turned around, a bone sticking out of his mouth. Jade then saw the remains of poultry on a plate Spence had in his hands.

“My chicken…” Jade murmured to herself, then turned her attention to the agent. “Um, Mr. Spence? Are you feeling alright?”

The agent did not answer, rather, he spat out the bone, bonking Jade on the head with it. She winced and rubbed the spot and scolded the man, and was about to say something to him how he was being a jerk, and he suddenly exploded into a long, angry sentence in that same language he was mumbling not too long ago, rambling on and on, making the child take a few steps back.

“Fine, you can have it! Jeez.” Jade was worried about him. Perhaps the blow to the head gave him brain damage?

Rather suddenly, the agent took off, plate in hand, and looked like he was running away.

Jade, seeing where he was heading, acted quickly. “Mr. Spence! Look out for that-!”

The retreated agent failed to see the toppled chair in his path, tripped over it, and landed on the ground with a great thud. Jade quickly rushed up to him, seeing if he was okay. It was at that moment Clone peeked around the corner to see what was happening, and saw the agent on the floor and Jade standing over him.

“My gosh, did you kill him?” She suddenly asked.

“What?! No!” Jade responded. “He fell!” She knelt down and gave the man a few pokes. “I think he’s out again, too.”

“What happened?” Clone asked, giving the man a poke as well.

Jade shrugged her shoulders. “It was weird. He was talking in some strange mumbo-jumbo, eating my food, and he just took off and tripped.” He gave the man another poke. “I think he’s broken.”

“You think he’ll be okay?” Clone asked.

Jade shrugged her shoulders. “He’ll be fine.” she stood up and was about to leave, when Clone stopped here.

“Wait, we’re just going to leave him like this?” She asked.

“This guy’s looks like he’s over two hundred pounds. Do you feel like dragging him across the room?” Was Jade’s response.

Clone looked down at the man, and then stood up. “Good point. He’ll be fine.” She followed Jade out of the kitchen, but she looked back to the prone man. “What do you think made him act like that anyway?”

Jade shrugged her shoulders. “Hard telling. Could be a lot of things.”

The two girls went into the library and sat the book down on the table, opening it up and looking at all the different spells, forming a plan.

“Do you want different color hair?” Jade asked.

Clone shook her head. “I’m fine with black, but I would like to make it longer.”

“Okay. What about your eyes?” Jade then asked.

“Ooh! I always wanted green eyes!” Clone smiled.

Jade smiled as well. “Oh yeah! That would be pretty! Maybe we can make you taller too.”

“Not too tall, I still want to fit in our clothes.” Clone added.

Jade nodded. “Yeah we can do that. Ooh, here’s a spell to make your skin a different color.”

“Ya’know, you’ve been here for like, what, a year? And not once did you get a proper tan.” Clone said.

“You’d you like to be tanned?” Jade asked.

Clone nodded her head. “I think I would look nice, yeah.”

“I think that’s everything.” She flipped through the book, and beyond the duplication spell and the others, she found other spells she has yet to see. “Oh hey. We can change your voice too!”

“But I like my voice.” Clone frowned.

“But if we sound the same, it would cause suspicion.” Jade explained.

Clone frowned again. “Okay, fine, we’ll make it higher. But not too high, I don’t want to sound like a chipmunk.”

Jade giggled. “Okay. That’s everything we can do aside from giving you a different finger print. And I don’t think we can do that.”

Clone smiled. “Well, it’s not like they’re going to ask for one, huh?”

The two girls skimmed through the pages and listed the ingredients for each new spell, running through Uncle’s inventory to find the right components. The usage of the spells varied. Some of them, such as the skin alteration and the hair growth, came in the form of a powder. Whereas others, like the eye changes and the voice changes, came as a drinkable potion. Some of them, like the growth spell, came in the form of a viscous cream that was used to rub on the skin.

Soon enough the girls had all their components ready.

“Okay, you ready?” Jade asked.

Clone nodded her head and looked at the various bowls of powder, vials of potion, and a little plate with a wad of cream before her. “Which one do I start with?”

~*~Elsewhere, in the Netherlands~*~

Four men stand outside a wondrous church, looking up at a vast clock tower above.

The eldest of these four men, the sage like Uncle, looked down at two objects in his hands. In one hand was a tome of enchantment, while in the other was a small jingle bell connected to some twine. The bell itself glowed with an otherworldly purple aura.

“It is, close by.” He mumbled to himself.

The largest of these men, the massive Tohru, looked at the map he had in his hand. “It is called, the… We-… Western, Kirk?”

The man next to him, Jackie, peeked over. “That’s Westerkerk.”

Tohru nodded his head. “Ahh, yes.” He looked back at the map, and with a smile on his face he looked down at the eldest man next to him. “Sensei, the Anne Frank house is close by.”

Uncle quickly turned and struck Tohru on the head with his fore and middle finger. “We are not sightseeing!”

The sternest of the four men, Captain Black of Sector 13, stepped forward, tapping on his chin as he looked up at the clock tower of the church. “My agent told me that in his vision, he saw pipes of silver and gold, and whatever it is that we are looking for maybe close to them, or behind them.”

Jackie looked to Captain Black. “How does he now it is here?”

Captain Black pointed to a statue of a little girl that was nearby. “He saw that.”

Jackie cocked an eyebrow. “Anne Frank?”

Captain Black just shrugged his shoulders and brought out a walkie-talkie he had one his belt. “Alright, everyone keep your eyes peeled for anything suspicious and report to me every five minutes. Got that?”

On the other end of his walkie were a series of “Yes air!”

The men started to head into the church, when Jackie stopped halfway. Tohru caught this.

“Jackie? Is something wrong?”

Jackie shook his head. “No, everything is alright.” In truth, he just suddenly had a chill up his spine, and for some odd reason, he felt like he should give the shop a call. He got the cell phone off his belt. “I’m going to check on Jade.”

Tohru nodded and followed the rest into the church.

~*~Back in San Francisco~*~

Clone looked at the saucer of cream in her hand, having finally decided what spell to use first. “So, I just rub it on my face, or anywhere?”

“Yeah, I think so.” Jade said. “Do you want to be left alone?”

Before Clone could answer, the phone suddenly rang.

“I’ll get it.” Jade rushed out of the library to the front desk of the shop, quickly picking up the phone. “Yellow?”

“Jade? It’s Jackie.” The other end responded.

Jade involuntary jumped at the sound of his voice. “Oh, hey! S’up?”

“I just wanted to call and check up on you, see how you are doing.”Jackie responded. “Are you behaving yourself?”

Jade looked around at the mess. “Yeah, I am. I’m just, hanging around.”

“Is Agent Spence there with you?” Jackie asked.

Jade peeked around the corner of the kitchen to find said agent still prone on the floor. “Yeah, he’s here.”

“May I speak with him?” Her uncle asked.

Jade panicked. “Oh! Umm, he’s… in the bathroom!” Before Jackie had a chance to continue, Jade went on. “Listen Jackie; I can’t talk right now, I got homework to do. Yup, lots of homework that needs to be done. So much homework.”

There was a short silence at the end of the line, when Jackie responded. “Well, alright then. I will call back later to check again. Goodbye.”

“Bye Jackie!” Jade hung up the phone, and after few short seconds, she laid her head on the counter. “That sucked.”

“Jade?” She heard Clone call to her. “I had an accident.”

Jade raised her head up. Accident? She went into the library, and suddenly bumped into Clone. But, instantly, Jade noticed something was wrong. She was no longer looking at Clone face to face at equal height; she was now looking up at her. Clone, was now a good head taller than she was.

Clone’s face was flushed furiously, as she used one hand to keep the front of her shirt over her midriff. “I think I used too much of that cream.”

“Whoa.” Jade took a step back and looked at the copy from head to toe. Indeed she had gotten taller, and in the process her clothes gotten shorter, but by the looks of it they all still fit, albeit not as loosely as they did. “Are, you okay with this?”

Clone fidgeted and fumbled with her shirt. “It’s different.”

“You don’t have to do that, ya’know. I don’t mind.” Jade said, pointing to the copy’s hands.

“Yeah, but I feel kind of exposed like this.” Clone released her shirt and allowed her midriff to show. “Feel’s weird.”

“Okay, so some of the clothes are a little short, we can work with this.” Jade went over to the table with the finished spells, and picked up one of the bowls of powder. “Let’s do one of these now.”

“Which one is it?” Clone asked.

Jade looked at the orange-ish powder and shrugged her shoulders. “Dunno. Let’s see.” She grabbed a good bunch of the powder in her hand and then tossed it over Clone’s head, letting it rain down on her. “Feel any different?”

Clone stood there for a few moments, brushing the dust off her shoulders. “No. Do I look different?”

Jade shook her head. “No, still the same.”

Clone made a sigh and scratched at her head, and scratched again, and again, and…

“My head itches.” She suddenly said. When she looked at Jade, she saw here eyes were a little wide.

“Wow.” Was all she said.

Confused, Clone felt around the top of her head, and found that her hair felt thicker, and when she brushed her fingers through it, she found that it had gotten longer. Down to her waist, in fact. Clone brushed her hair in amazement, feeling the new long locks.

“Oh wow! This it cool!” Clone smiled and looked to Jade. “Does it look good?”

Jade nodded her head. “Really good!” She then looked down at the bowl in her hands. “Maybe I should too… Nah.” She sat the bowl down and picked up another. “If that one was the hair one, this one should be the skin one.” She grabbed a wad of the copper-ish colored powder and once more tossed it over Clone and stood back to watch.

Like the same with the hair powder, Clone soon stated that she itched, and slowly her light skin started to turn, and stopped once it was a tanned light brown. The two of them looked at the changes, and Jade had to admit that Clone looked actually quite exotic with the new shade.

“It’s really pretty.” Jade stated.

Clone agreed, looking all over herself. “Wow. This is really nice. I’m so glad we decided to do this.” She turned to the two vials of potion left on the table. “Umm, which is which?”

Jade thought on this. “I think the yellow stuff was the voice changer, and the pink stuff was for your eyes.”

Clone nodded and picked up the pink vial. “Well, here we go.”

Before she could down the substance, Jade stopped her. “Wait. I have had experience when it came to drinkable potions. It might taste bad.”

Clone looked down at the pink stuff. “Might as well get it over with.” And she drank down the liquid. After a brief second, her face suddenly scrunched up and she shivered. “GAH! It’s so sour!”

“Told ya!” Jade couldn’t help but chuckle at Clone’s face.

When the sourness cleared up, Clone coughed a few times and cleared her throat. “It tasted like spicy bubblegum, and then that sour after taste.” She looked over to Jade. “Was it that bad with you?”

Jade didn’t answer right away. Either the potion worked too well, or they made a mistake in the concoction, but Clone’s once hazel eyes were now the brightest and contrast green Jade has ever seen. Confused why Jade was looking at her like that, she turned to look at a small mirror that sat on the table and saw her new change.

“Oh my.” Clone blinked a few times. “That’s…different.”

“Do you feel anything different?” Jade asked.

Clone shook her head. “No.” But after a few seconds, Jade noticed that she was trying to pull the front of her shirt down over her bare midriff once more. “I’m getting chilly though.”

“I got some long shirt I sleep in upstairs. You could wear one.” Jade told her, and headed out of the room. She headed up to the guest room to look for a shirt, unaware of what is going on down stairs.

Clone glanced over to the book that lied open on the table; Tohru’s notes. Absent mindedly, she flipped through the pages, skimming past the words and just reading what Tohru had written down. When she got closer to the back of the book, Clone noticed that Tohru started to drift from the list of his own spells, to a sort of pseudo-journal. He stated in these notes that he had tried many of these spells on many of the nearby alley cats, and was actually very pleased by their conclusions.

One of his greatest triumphs, however, was the improved copying spell with the new finishing charm, and how he was able to alter it based on his studies with the talismans, the tiger talisman in particular. What if he could make a copy that was nicer than the original, or meaner, or even smarter or less?

The result was the successful altered copy of a rather disgruntled tom cat he came across one day. The copy, rather being very spiteful and reclusive, was very friendly and affectionate. He studied this result for a few hours, and soon made a very odd discovery.

The improved copying spell itself is pretty normal in some standers, but once altered with personality traits, he learned that the spell suddenly has a rather peculiar flaw. Not so much as a flaw, but still a rather odd outcome. The copy, he learned, will slowly develop a personality and identity of its own. The altered cat copy started off at a friendly and affection cat, but as the hours went by, it started to show different personality traits that were not in the original alteration. It started to stare excessively into space, just staring at anything. It developed an odd habit on perching itself on Tohru’s shoulder and reading whatever it was he was writing down. He tried this same experiment on another cat, with the same altered copying spell, thinking he would get a similar result. After an hour, the altered copy started to have a limitless pool of energy, contently running around the alley, jumping up and down everything, talking other cat and running away from them.

It came to a conclusion to Tohru that the copy, no matter what it is, would start to develop a new personality, and should be getting rid of before the one hour mark. But it also states that sometimes the mark varies, from more than an hour, to a few minutes. After that conclusion Tohru thought it was best to scrap this spell, but he couldn’t bring himself to do so. It even revealed that he even used the same copying spell on himself when no one was around to help clean the library.

It was very odd that Tohru would so such a thing, but given the state that this library is in most of the time, many would probably understand. But clones getting their own personality? That’s odd. She skimped through the pages some more, and when she turned one page, a scrap of paper fell out and to the ground. She looked at it for a few moments, curious why on it were the words “Please Throw Away”.

She closed the notebook and knelt down and picked up the paper, unfolding it to see it was another spell. No, an “Experiment”. Tohru had been messing around with some potions one day, trying to find something that would be useful, when he stumbled upon a very odd mixture that has no use to him, or anyone to that matter.

Clone stared at the page, and for the longest of times, she read the page over and over again, at the notes Tohru had written down, the effect of the spell, and the mixture of the potion. And after some time, an almost evil smile started to appear on Clone’s face.

“I couldn’t find a tall shirt, but I guess you could wear one of my sleeping shirts.” Jade wondered into the library with the shirt in hand, and saw that Clone had an odd look on her face. “Is everything okay?”

Clone nodded her head. “Yeah, I’m fine.”

Jade nodded her head and turned around to set the shirt down on a table, unbeknownst to her of the copy slipping a piece of paper into her back pocket.
Chapter 11: Once Upon a Time in San Francisco
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Once Clone had changed her shirt, the two girls went back to work on their potions.

Jade held up the last vial. “This must be the one that changes your voice.”

Clone nodded her head and cautiously took the vial and popped it open, took a few deep breaths, and drank it. Her face scrunched up, expecting an awful taste, but then opened her eyes in surprise. “Huh, taste like a stale cherry coke.” But then her brow furrowed, and once more scrunched up. “PLAH! Soapy aftertaste!”

Jade giggled. Clone remained silent for a few moments, afraid to speak for fear of sounding weird.

Jade sensed it. “Come on, say something.”

“Hello-.” She quickly covered her mouth, and Jade took a step back in surprise. Her voice, rather going higher like they thought, actually went lower. Not so much as a deep baritone or something boyish sounding, but something of you expected to hear from a girl in her early teens; not too childish, but starting to sound more mature. “W-wow! Listen to me! I sound great!”

Jade had to admit, that she did indeed sound great, or even more so. “It’s amazing!” She quickly hugged Clone. “You’re a whole new person now!”

“I’m somebody!” Clone squealed and hugged back. The two of them danced around a little, before parting, Jade taking a good long look at Clone. “Wow, this is great. You can hardly tell the difference!”

Clone smiled and rubbed the back of her head. “Yeah, all I need now is a name, and that will be it.”

Jade pondered on this. “A name? Hmm. What would you like to be called?”

Clone shrugged her shoulders. “I dunno.”

Jade tried to think of a name. “We could go look on the computer.” She then stopped and looked around at the mess that was still present. “After, we clean up a little first.”

“I’ll finish in the library. You okay up front?” Clone asked.

Jade nodded her head, and the two split up to work. Unlike previously, the cleaning didn’t take as long as it did, and this time no one was hurt or distracted. While Jade was busy picking up the splintered remains of the front door, Clone was very busy in the library.

Having finished her cleaning five minute prior, Clone was busily working at Uncle’s worktable. The piece of paper she pocketed earlier was out on the table, her eyes reading every letter carefully, just in case something goes awry, and all the while mixing the proper ingredients into the bunsen burner before her.

In the back of her mind, she knew this was a bad idea, but that little voice was being overpowered by another voice telling her this would be worth it later on. She really hopped it would. She knew Jade wouldn’t like it, but she’s sure she can convince her.

She sat there for a little while, staring at the bubbling mass started to set and harden, and once it was ready, she dumped the contents into a mortar and pestle, ground the navy blue mixture into a fine powder, took a little bit of it and put it into a vial, and dumped the rest into the waste basket.

She cleaned everything up, slipped the vial into her pocket, and folded the paper and placed into the same pocket. She took one last look around the room, and was happy to see everything looked almost the same as it did before. She walked out into the next room, just in time to help Jade pick up a large chunk of the door.

Jade sighed and sat down on the steps. “Boy, this day is long.”

Clone giggled and sat next to her. “Yeah. I wonder what Jackie is up too.”

Jade wondered this too, but didn’t think about it too long, stood up, and stretched. “Alright, what else is there to do?”

“There’s that mess in the kitchen.” Clone said. “But, we’re in no hurry, right?”

“We could look for a name on the computer.” Jade subjected.

“That would be cool.” Clone smiled.

Several minute later, Jade was sitting with the laptop in front of her, typing away and searching for various sites for a good name for Clone. Instinctively, Jade first searched for a Chinese name, but Clone pointed out that she no longer looked Chinese.

It took them a couple minutes to figure out a good name.

“How about something, exotic?” Clone asked.

“What, like, Indian?” Jade wondered.

The two of them thought, and at the same time they came up with something great. “Hawaiian!”

After a few types, they found a good sight and started to look. Jade saw a good one.

“Hey, look! The Hawaiian word for Jade, is Iakeni!” She looked over to Clone. “How about that?”

Clone started at the screen for a second before looking over at Jade. “What? No.”

Jade arched her eyebrow in confusion. “Why not?”

“Cause that’s a boy’s name.” Clone stated.

Jade stared at her copy for a second, her mind working a little too hard. “What?”

“Jaden.” Clone pointed to the screen. “Not Jade. See?”

Now, confused like none other, Jade stared at the screen where Clone pointed. Turned out she made a mistake, taking another look at the list of names. “Oh, damn. Does Jaden sound nice?”

Clone giggled and nodded her head. “Jaden sounds really nice.”

Jade closed her laptop, stood up, and stuck her hand out to her clone. “Hello Jaden, it’s nice to meet you.”

The newly named Jaden smiled and suddenly hugged Jade. “Nice to meet you too!”

Jade laughed and hugged back, but quickly changed her mind. “Getting hard to breath.”

“Oh, sorry!”

The two girls decided to finish up the mess quickly, only this time the largest part of their job, the mess in the library, was out of the way. Jade chose to finish up the living room, since there wasn’t much there, and Jaden got the kitchen, since there was very little in there.

While Jade was focused on getting rid of the mess, so that she and Jaden could have some proper fun, Jaden herself was having a little fun of her own. She tried to keep her emotions down, so that Jade would not notice them, as she looked at the vial in her hand.

This idea was very unlike her, she knew that. But the thoughts of having her new identity was also something unlike her. She may be Jade’s clone, a magically created duplicate, but she was also her own person. These thoughts may not be like Jade, but that was what made it so great. It wasn’t Jade’s thoughts, it was Jaden’s!

With that in mind, she dispelled all other thoughts and rushed to the sink, grabbed a glass, and filled it with cool water. She took one last look at the vial of powder, popped it open, and dumped it out into the glass. She grabbed a nearby spoon and stirred, careful not to let the metal clang against the glass. The navy blue powder rapidly dissolved into the water, and she took a whiff to see if she could smell it. She didn’t.

She stared at it for a few moments, listening to that tiny voice in the back of her head telling her this was a bad idea. Unfortunately, it wasn’t loud enough. She took a deep breath, grabbed the glass, and headed into the front of the store to give it to Jade.

At that time, Jade was tiring herself out, trying to clean up everything. There were no more pieces of door on the floor, and much of the broken vases were gone, and now Jade was having trouble trying to keep the suit of armor for falling over. Once it was balanced enough, Jade slumped against the wall with a sigh, wiping the sweat from her brow.

"Jade?"

She looked up to see Jaden in front of her holding a glass of water. "I thought you could use a drink."

Jade smiled and took the glass. "Thank you." She was about to take a sip, Jaden watching in wonderment and anticipation, when she stopped and looked up to her. "I'm sorry that this day is being spent cleaning up the store."

The clone waved it off. "Oh it's fine! The faster we get it done, the faster we can have some fun."

Jade smiled once more. "Yeah." She took a quick gulp of the water, unaware of the evil smile on her clone's face. She sighed, feeling rested up, and drank down the rest and handed the glass back to her copy. She stretched and got back to work collecting stuff on the floor, forming another pile of various broken pieces. She picked up the dust pan to throw them into the pail, when she started to get a strange sense.

It was a tiny tingling, but it started to grow. She felt it... in her pants...

It was the distinct sensation of a warmth in her panties, a familiar warmth.

She looked over her shoulder to see if she can see Jaden, but when she didn't she figured she was in the next room.

"Oh she better not be doing what I think she's doing." Jade grumbled to herself. "Jaden! What are you doing right now?"

Jaden peaked around the corner, clothed and hands free. "Collecting Mr. Spence's things on the table. Why?"

If she's not playing with herself, then where was this sensation coming from? "Oh, no reason!"

Once Jaden was out of view, Jade gasped as the tingling increased, and it started to intensify. It made her pant, her knees to buckle, and her head light. She quickly rushed into the bathroom, closed the door, and quickly opened her jeans. The sensation was coming from the little bump in her panties, and when she touched it, it sent a torrent of electricity through her body, causing her to cry out.

She was burning up! The little bump grew hard and pebbled under her fingers, and uncontrollably, she started to stroke it. Every little motion was a shock of fire going through her, and she slumped to the ground to her stomach, her hand a blur.

There was a knock on the door. “J-J-Jade? Are-are you o-okay?” It was Jaden, and by the way she sounded she was feeling it a well.

Jade whimpered and rolled around on the tiled floor. “D-don’t come –AHH! Don’t come in! OOH!” Regardless, she heard the door click opened, and tumbled through the opened door was her clone, red faced and her hands squeezing her own chest. Jade quickly rolled away in sheer embarrassment. “Don’t!”

Something caught her eye, and she saw the Hand on her wrist glowing once more. She cursed under her breath, her hand going crazy on the increasingly hardening nub. Jaden was right there next to her, holding onto her, just as lost as she was.

Jade sank into her clone’s arms, whimpering loudly. Her little bump, it no longer felt little anymore. It felt like it was growing in her hand, like her arousal was sending all the blood in her body to that particular part of her. She ignored it; it left her mind the moment she got another spike of electricity up her spine. She could feel it building up in her stomach now.

Her whole body felt like it was on fire!

But then, before she could reach that peak, it started to lessen down. The burning was disappearing now, the shocks not as powerful. She was almost in tears after that ordeal, holding onto Jaden for dear life.

She started to calm down now, but the area between her legs was still warm. She pulled away from her clone, sniffling.

“Wh-what happened?” She asked. She noticed that her clone wasn’t focused on her, but rather, somewhere lower on her body. Confused, Jade looked down, and all at once, upon seeing what she was looking at, let out a great scream. “WHAT IS THAT?!”

She quickly scrambled against the wall, looking down to between her legs in pure shock. The front of her panties was tenting up by something underneath. Still shocked, she reached down and gripped the hem of her panties, and pulled it down. She let out a cry as whatever it was sprung up, free from its confines.

This can’t be happening!

Jade stared in disbelief, staring at the five inches of flesh that grew, from where it was connected to her body where that bump once was, to the mushroom shaped tip, and to the small sack still growing underneath.

Frightened and thinking this was all just a dream, she reached out and touched it, gasping as she could feel it through the skin, and recoiled her hand as it pulsed. Her mind must be playing tricks on her! Why, oh WHY, does she have boy-parts?!

“W-what is this!?” She cried, looking up to her clone. “What happened to me!?”

To her surprise, Jaden’s face as a deep red, and she had a smile on her lips. “Oh, my! I didn’t think it would work!”

“What would work!?” Jade asked hysterically. She looked at the boy-parts, then to the expression on Jaden’s face, and put two and two together. “What did you do to me!?”

When all Jaden did was shrug her shoulders, Jade’s fear suddenly turned to anger as she launched forward and talked her clone to the ground and held her underneath her.

“What did you do!?” She demanded.

Jaden, though shocked, had a creeping smile on her face. “It was a little spell I found in the back of Tohru’s book.” She said with a shaky voice. “It was an experiment. He was trying to see if he could change someone’s gender with a spell, but it didn’t turn out as he had hoped. It has no effect on males, but it still worked on females.”

Jade quickly looked down between them to see her newly grown boy-parts jabbing against Jaden’s stomach, then back up to the devious clone. “Why would you do this to me!?”

Her smile only grew. “Well, I thought maybe, you and I could…” Her face went darker in a flush, and out of the corner of Jade’s eye she could see that Hand glowing again.

“Y-you’re crazy!” Jade huffed and got off the clone. “Fix me, NOW!”

Jaden was disappointed, but then suddenly had a delicious idea. “Okay, I will, but there is only one way to do it.”

“What?” Jade growled.

Jaden leaned forward. “You have to…” She whispered the suggestion into the girl’s ear.

Jade quickly scurried away from the copy, her face reddening at the idea. “W-what?!”

The clone’s smile only. “You heard me, Jade. It’s the only way!”

The flushing girl turned away from the copy, stood up, and went to the toilet. “F-fine! I will!” She looked over her shoulder to see the clone just sitting there on her knees and watching her. “L-leave!”

She shook her head. “Nah-uh! I want to see this!” In an instant, she was behind Jade, reaching down and taking her shaft into her hands, making the smaller girl cry out and cringe. Jade try to pry her hand way, but Jaden held firm. She started to pump her hands up and down on the shaft, causing both girls to gasp at the feeling.

“S-stop!” Jade whimpered and tried to get away from the clone. She quickly learned that her clone’s new body had some changes. One, was that since she was now bigger then her, she was now stronger then her. She couldn’t get away.

Jaden leaned against the smaller girl, blowing her breath into her ear, gasping at the sensations being transmitted through them “Come on Jade! Let me do it!”

Jade cringed and grabbed onto the clone’s arms. “N-no!”

Her hands moved faster and faster, pumping up and down with such force and pressure that it bounced the small balls underneath around and made both of their heads light. The sensation was too much for Jade or Jaden to bare, their legs becoming weak as the two of them tumbled back onto the ground, Jade on the bigger girl’s lap. All Jade could do was watch as her clone’s hands fondled the new body parts, sighing and gasping. Slowly, Jaden’s forceful stroking decreased, her hands caressing the stiff  flesh, her thumb brushing the mushroom shaped head, watching at it pulsed red with blood.

Jade was able to get a hold on herself, her back against the taller girl. “O-okay! J-just, make it quick.”

Jaden had a big smile on her face that went unnoticed by the smaller girl, feeling the shaft in her hands. She used one hand to caress the top half of the boy-part, her thumb twiddling with the tip like she was playing a game with a joystick, while her other hand caressed the bottom half, her fingers gently fondling the balls at the base.

Jade writhed against the girl, her mind being assaulted by these new sensations. Jaden was feeling the same thing, though she tried to keep her reactions down to a minimum. It amazed her to feel the shaft in her hands grow hotter and pulse. The clone kissed and nipped on Jade’s neck, her hands increasing their administrations.

Jade lied her head back against the copy, succumbing to this unnatural pleasure, a pressure slowly growing in the pit of her stomach. Jaden could feel that pressure too, but unlike the other times she had it, this one felt different. It feels heavier, in a sense. This sensation caused her hands to pick up their pace, once more going into the forceful stroking that she had earlier.

Both girls cringed, Jade whimpering as her head twisted around. Jaden kept kissing any flesh in her lip’s reach, and when Jade turned her head around towards her, her mouth hungrily sucked on the girl’s lips, her tongue forcing its way into her mouth. Jade jumped at the sudden kiss, but quickly responded in suit, their tongues battling each other.

The pressure was building rapidly now, Jaden’s hands a blur. Jade could feel it coming, bracing herself for it. But then, there was something else. That pressure was strong, stronger than the other times. Her heart pounded in her chest, sweat forming on her brow, her legs shaking.

It then finally happened.

A bright white light flashed before the two girl’s eyes, their body’s growing stiff, crying out with a loud moan. The boy-part in Jaden’s hands suddenly erupted, a white gooey liquid shooting out of the tip in powerful streams. A thick stream of it splattered on her chin, some of it going into her open mouth. Another stream caught Jade’s face, covering her right eye in the sticky and warm substance. A third covered the front of Jade’s shirt, while a final and less powerful stream coated Jaden’s hands, still gripping the shaft in her hands.

The two of them panted heavily, the orgasm, while still strong, was slowly subsiding. It was so strong that Jade could hardly move, her legs aching from being so tightened. Jaden was in a state of shock at the ordeal, feeling the thick and warm goo on her face. She could feel it in her mouth, and she instinctively swallowed it, the salty and sticky taste traveling down her throat. Her body shivered at the taste, and the smell of it was a heavy musky and heady scent that made her head spin dizzily.

Through her clouded vision, she could see the shaft in her hands, still hard and erect, but noticed that it looked like it has gotten bigger.

Jade faded in and out of a strange trance, her mind jumbling around in a fog, the warm goo on her face invading her nostrils with its smell. She reached up with one hand and scooped up the liquid with her fingers, bringing it up to her eyes to get a better look. It looked like glue, but it was more watery in a sense. Something in the back of her mind compelled her; No, commanded her, to take a taste of this substance. She sucked on her fingers, slightly cringing and shuddering at the salty taste. But as salty as it was, she almost enjoyed it.

At that moment, both girls looked at one another, and without a word, they both commenced to lick the white goo off each other’s face, entranced. Soon, with their lips locked, Jaden toppled back with Jade over her, kissing with heated fervor. The clone gasped when she felt Jade’s shaft jabbed her stock, burning with a flushed red and as hard as a rock.

Jade suddenly surprised the clone, grabbing the hem of her long shirt and forcefully pulled it up and off of her, tossing it aside. Jade crawled forward, gripping the stiff organ in one hand, and used the reddened tip to trace around Jaden’s hardening nipples, enjoying the feeling of the copy’s silken skin. Jaden lied back and watched as Jade’s boy-part started to slowly seep more of that white liquid from the tip, spreading it around her chest. Without any warning Jade crawled closer, jabbing Jaden in the cheek with the shaft. Jaden’s senses was overpowered by the strong scent emanating from organ, sticking her tongue out to lap at every little drop that oozed out of it. Jade shuddered at the feeling, looking down at her clone and watching her intently. Jaden lapped at the tip, wriggling her tongue along the underside of it and all around the bulbous head. She wrapped her lips around it, kissing it and sucking on it.

The feeling of Jaden’s mouth on her boy-part proved too much for Jade, as she was suddenly overtaken by a primal urge, grabbed the back of Jaden’s head, and shoved the length of her shaft down the clone’s throat, her balls slapping the clone in the chin. She let out a long groan at the sensation of the taller girl’s tight throat wrapping around the shaft, ignoring the burning sensation in her own throat.

Jaden enjoyed the taste of the shaft, but when she felt Jade’s hand on her head, her eyes suddenly widened as Jade relentlessly shoved the entire thing into her mouth. She could feel her throat bulge and convulse at the sudden invader, the clone gagging and crying around the organ, her body writhing. Thought she could also feel the tight sensation of her throat around a phantom boy-part of her own, Jaden’s mind was too focused on the burning in her throat being caused by Jade’s shaft.

Jade remained there raveling in the wet sensation for a few moments, before instinctively rocking her hips, pumping in and out of the clone’s mouth. Jaden’s eyes shot wider, grabbing the smaller girl’s hips, trying to push her off. But Jade was remarkably stronger now, pushing the shaft down as far as it could go. She struggled, but Jade ignored her, too focused on the task at hand. She could feel Jaden’s teeth scrapping along the sensitive flesh, and she enjoyed the feeling.

This assault lasted several moments, until Jaden was running out of breath, unable to breathe with the shaft blocking her throat. She fought against Jade, trying to get her away. When Jade pulled back, Jaden was able to push her back far enough for her to catch her breath, but it didn’t last forever as Jade shoved back in, gagging her once more. The wondrous feeling of the vibrations of the clone’s muffled cries was taking a toll on Jade, that familiar pressure building up once more.

She pumped faster and faster, gripping Jaden’s hair in her fists, assaulting the poor girl’s face. The end was coming closer and closer with each thrust, Jaden crying out louder and louder. When it finally came, Jade gave one last hard thrust, groaning like an animal.

Jaden could feel the shaft convulsing in her throat, and instantly her mouth was filled with the white salty goo. She could swallow it in time, and she cried out when it shot out through her nostrils with force and seeping out of the corners of her mouth. She was being drowned and struggled for air!

Finally, she was able to get Jade off of her, the shaft sliding out of her ravaged throat, drinking down the large mass of liquid. She gagged and coughed much of it up onto the tile floor, making an obscene ‘splat’ sound. Gathering up some of her composure, but still dazed from the oral attack and the smell of the goop, Jaden looked up to Jade, and was shocked to see the girl’s boy-part was still tall and erect, and had grown even larger!

Jade, still locked in her trance, looked down at the steel hard organ, and back to the clone, looking at the white goo smeared all over her face. She crawled off the copy, and suddenly grabbed the girl’s jeans and started to wrench them off of her. Jaden grabbed the hem and fought with the girl over the article of clothing, but Jade proved to be the stronger one and pulled them off and tossed the away. Jade eyed the white panties of Jaden, seeing a sopping wet spot on the front of them.

She dove down onto the girl, her head between her legs, and took deep breaths of the taller girl’s earthy scent, bunching the panties in one hand to pull them to one side. She wasted no time to lap up her juices, making both of them moan and the clone to writhe. She licked, kissed, and nipped on every inch of flesh in her reach, until she could not take it anymore. She pulled away and got closer, gripping the larger shaft in her hand.

Jaden’s mind was still fuzzed by the earlier assault and the licking that followed, that she couldn’t register what was going on. The moment she could see Jade through her clouded vision, the boy-part in her hand, she then knew what was going to happen.

Jaden tried to reason with the entranced Jade, watching as the girl pull off her panties in one swoop and retook her place between the clone’s legs. She jumped when she felt the tip rub against her cunny, tracing up and down along the puffy lips to the blood engorged nub resting on the top. Jade poked her a few times, teasing the pink opening. She pushed her hips forward, the bulbous head entering the girl.

Jaden cried out, her body wracking with spasms, her inner walls tightening to keep the large invader out. Jade pushed in farther, inch after inch entering the copy. It didn’t take long for her to come into contact with a thin barrier in her way, and without even thinking, Jade gave one more push to break past it with ease. Jaden’s heart stopped and her breathing ceased, her body shaking violently as searing pain shot through her. She didn’t know what just happened, but whatever it was, it wasn’t good.

Jade could feel the pain as well, but her entranced mind was only focusing on the pleasure she was feeling, the tight sleek muscles that was gripping onto her boy-part and trying to milk her. All at once, Jaden’s breath returned in a loud cry, tears streaming down her cheeks and her heart pounding hard between her ears. Jade pushed in farther until she couldn’t no more, relishing the sensations for a moment, ignoring her clone’s pleading cries, and started to rock her hips back and forth.

The warm sheath squeezed on her, refusing to let her leave, and tightened whenever she pushed back in. Jaden whimpered and cried, feeling the large intruder thrust in and out of her, when the tip was the only thing in her, and the entire length from tip to base filled her up. She could feel how big it has gotten; almost an inch and a half longer and just a little bit thicker. Though it felt only so big in her hands, or when it was in her throat, but now she could fully grasp how much bigger it has grown.

Jade pumped in and out with force, gripping on one of Jaden’s legs for support while rubbing her cunny against the other leg she perched on. She felt so hot around her, like she was on fire on the inside, and she stoked the flame with each thrust. She closed her eyes and pounded into the copy harder and faster, listening to the girl moan and groan.

Jaden was slowly getting used to the thrusting, the pain ebbing away into pleasure, sweat pouring from her body. Her inner muscles stretched to accommodate the invader, though still squeezing into it instinctively. Her hips started to move in unison with the smaller girl’s pumps, meeting her much more sooner to the rhythm. She could see and feel a lump form on her stomach whenever the full length of the boy-part was in her, and it amazed her to see it.

Jade could feel the sensations being transmitted through them, as a phantom shaft was being pumped in and out of her in perfect unison with her own, and it was causing that same pressure to quickly build up once more. When Jaden felt that pressure transmitted, she quickly grew afraid. All that sticky stuff was going to get pumped into her, and she didn’t want that. She once more tried to reason with Jade, trying to tell her to pull out, but her voice came out in stuttering moans and other lewd noises.

When it came once more, Jade let out another animalistic groan, and Jaden stiffened up with a yelp. She could feel her insides overflowing with the hot goop, some of it oozing out and down her leg and bottom. But Jade didn’t stop; she kept thrusting in and out, churning up Jaden’s insides, making her cry out.

Jade finally pulled out, her boy-part blasting one last stream of goo all over the inside of the clone’s thighs. She sat back, panting heavily, her whole body twitching, watching copious amounts of the white liquid ooze out of Jaden, tinted red. She didn’t know why it was red, but she didn’t care, really.

Jaden lied there and breathed hoarsely, feeling the goo stream down her leg to the tiled floor. She faded in and out of darkness, but fought it back as she tried to gather herself up. Her legs sore; she slowly sat up to Jade, but recoiled in horror.

After spraying so much of the white goo, she would think that Jade’s boy-part would finally go away. But she was shocked to see that it was now roughly twice as long and as thick as it first was, still as hard as tempered steel!

Jade stared at the larger shaft, her mind still entrapped in the primal trance, as she looked back up to Jaden, her eyes distant and hazy. She slowly started to crawl towards Jaden, and the clone turned to crawl away. But when she did, Jade was suddenly on her back, the tip of the boy-part jabbing at her bottom. She tried to push Jade off, but Jade fought back, pushing down on the clone’s back and forced her to the floor. Without guiding her boy-part, she started to poke aimlessly at Jaden’s bottom, hopping to reenter the abused cunny.

Jaden’s body locked up, feeling the hot and large tip of the shaft jab at her, getting dangerously close to her butt hole. She reached behind her, trying to get Jade into her oozing womanhood, but was too late. Jade thought she was right on target, and gave one hard thrust, entering an even tighter sheath of warmth.

Jaden screamed at the new pain, her whole body shaking violently as she felt that another searing pain shoot through her. Jade let out a growling moan, relishing the new tight hole, and went straight to thrusting in and out of her. Jaden screamed at every pump, trying her best to get away, but Jade gripped onto her hips and kept her situated right there. The even larger intruder ravaged its new sheath, pumping in and out of relentlessly. Jade could feel the pain, but ignored it and the sobbing cries of Jaden.

The only thing Jaden could do was just wait it out, and to better help herself, she reached down under her and roughly rubbed the nub of her cunny. It was helpful, but the pain was still there. Faster and faster, harder and harder, Jade shoved in and out, pulling back until the tip was left inside, and then driving the entire length back in. She squinted her eyes shut, gritted her teeth tightly, and let out a long and growling moan, listening to sounds of flesh slapping against flesh. That pressure was building once more, drawing closer and closer.

It was just then, Jade’s shrouded mind suddenly picked up something, something in the back of her mind crying out, and when she focused on it, she found that it was Jaden, in pain. That image was enough to finally knock Jade out of her trance, looking down at her clone.

Jaden’s body glistened with layers of sweat, her bottom red with the slapping of flesh on flesh, streams of tears trailing along her face, mixing with the white goo. Realization and clarity hit Jade like a ton of bricks, Stopping her motions all together, looking down at what her mindless actions caused.

The words “Oh God what am I doing?” screamed in her head, her body shaking in fear.

Jaden could feel the sudden emotion when Jade stopped her assault, opening her eyes to see Jade’s eyes wide and clear. She was speechless, slowly pulling out of her. Jaden brought her hand out and stroked the girl’s face, whipping the tear away that was forming in her eye.

“Jade.” Jaden’s voice was croaky and low, which shocked Jade.

“I…I’m, sorry.” Jade sniffled. She tried to pull out, but Jaden grabbed her shoulder and held her there, making her confused.

The clone smiled sweetly at her, leaning back to meet her in a soft kiss. When she pulled away, the clone shocked the littler girl more when she uttered her next few words.

“Don’t stop.”

Jade stuttered, but then stopped, looking at the fiery green eyes of her clone, and started to slowly rock her hips, pushing her shaft all the way back in. Jaden cried, but then moaned, kissing Jade, and rocked her hips to the motions. Jade reached out and held onto Jaden tightly, her hips moving faster and faster.

That pressure was returning quickly and building up stronger and stronger. The shaft drove in and out in a steady beat, not as relentless as before. Soon, the end came, Jade crying out and squeezing onto Jaden, and Jaden let out a loud moan, feeling her insides once more being filled with the hot white liquid. Jade quickly pulled out, and stream after powerful stream coated Jaden’s redden bottom and some of her lower back. The excretion too much, both girls collapsed onto the now sticky floor, panting heavily and clinging to consciousness, with Jade lying next to her clone.

After a short period of panting and collecting themselves, Jade looked over to Jaden.

“You…you, lied… about, the spell.” She mumbled.

Jaden chuckled nervously. “Yeah… sorry, about that.”

Jade rolled over onto her back and looked down between her legs, happy and relieved to see that the boy-part was gone, replaced with her usual smooth slit. She sighed and lied her head back, closing her eyes.

“It, really doesn’t last that long.” Jaden said.

“Then, why lie?” Jade asked, looking over at the clone.

Jaden just chuckled. After another short silence, Jade closed her eyes.

“I’m sorry.” She whispered. “I don’t know what came over me.”

Jaden smiled at the smaller girl. “It’s okay.” She then reached down between her legs, feeling the sticky mess that was there. “I think we should get cleaned up.”

Jade nodded her head, and the two of them got their clothes. The loud noises the produced during the activity wasn’t enough to wake the nearly comatose agent, and the girls rushed to clean themselves in the upstairs tub, got dressed with clean clothes, and fought to clean the mess in the downstairs bathroom.

The shredded remains of an old shirt made decent makeshift face masks to block out the musky odor of the white goo, and a very good amount of bleach and lemon cleaner to get rid of the scent that clung to the floor. Once that was done, Jade had to ask a question.

“Hey, Jaden? About that spell you used.” She turned to the clone. “What was it?”

Jaden’s face turned red. “Well, I found it in the back of Tohru’s notebook. He was doing an experiment to see if he could change someone’s gender. For some reason, it didn’t work on anything male, but like I said, it worked on females.” She led Jade to the library, and showed her the piles of navy blue dust in the wastebasket. “I made a batch when I was cleaning in here, and I snuck in into the water I gave you.” She then turned to the girl. “I thought it would be something we could do later. I just wasn’t expecting the outcome.”

Jade scratched the back of her head. “I didn’t know what it was. I just felt, well, really weird.” She looked at the blue dust. “Ya’know, if uncle or someone sees that stuff, they might suspect something.

Jaden nodded her head. “Yeah, I’ll toss it out.” She picked up the basket to toss it, but then both the girl’s noticed something. It was the sound of footsteps. They both turned to see if agent Spence was up and moving, when they both gasped at the sight of the men coming down the hall.

The Black Tiger, Hak Foo, grinned evilly at the two girls. “We’re back.” And cracked his knuckles.

Jaden prepared for the worse, but Jade jumped forward and brandished the Hand on her wrists. “Ha! You can’t touch me, Hack Fool!” She taunted.

Hak Foo only chuckled, and suddenly brought out a little jingle bell on a string. Jade cocked her eyebrow at the object, but then noticed it started to glow an otherworldly purple aura. At the same moment, the Hand around Jade’s wrist started to glow as well, but the bright light it once had was the same otherworldly purple glow. She stared at the Hand, and to the glowing jungle bell Hak Foo had.

The man chuckled deeply. “Now, I can.”

Jade stepped back, gulping. “Okay, this is bad.”

The two girls prepared themselves, the four men entering the library. Jaden looked around for something she could use, but got an idea when she saw the blue dust in the wastebasket. She quickly reached down and grabbed a wad in her hand, and tossed it at the men.

The Enforcers coughed and swatted the cloud away from their faces, temporarily disoriented. Jaden grabbed Jade’s hand and was about to rush out the room, but then Rasto, in his confused state, blocked the doorway. Her brilliant idea, didn’t go as she thought.

The men stared at the girls, Finn chuckling. “That’s all you got?”

The girls trembled and held the other, both of them praying that they will get thought this day. A ray of hope appeared, though in an odd form. As the men drew closer, a loud booming voice suddenly shook through the building.

“Ye glaikit divit! Ye dain did it noo!”

The men spun around, to see the previously passed out Agent Spence up on his feet, albeit stumbling as he did. His eyes were half lidded, but had the flame of anger in them. The men chuckled, amused by this man’s attempt to stand up and challenge them.

He then spoke up. “Step awa’ frar th’ lassie, an’ hae at it!”

It came to a surprise to Jade and the Enforcers to hear the previously soft spoken and English agent to speak in such a ridiculously thick accent. Though, Jade could not put her finger on it on what accent it was.

The Enforcers looked at one another in confusion.

“Is this chump serious?” Finn asked aloud.

Chow and Ratso just chuckled.

It was then another surprise to see the stumbling agent suddenly take on an awkward combat pose, with the back of his fist extended before him as he stood up on one wobbly foot. It looked like a martial arts stance, though nothing like Jade has ever seen. The men were confused about it, however chuckling deeply and cracking his knuckles, Hak Foo stepped forward, knowing what this odd stance was.

“So, you are a user of Zui Quan? This will be interesting.”

Spence smiled a big grin, moving his hands closer and had done a strange motion like he had an invisible glass in his hand, drinking it down, and then went back into his stance. “Yoo’re lookin’ at a master! Brin’ it oan!”

Chuckling, the Black Tiger suddenly sprung forward to attack the stumbling agent. Almost drunkenly, the agent stepped to one side, almost stumbled, avoided Hak Foo’s attack, and brought the back of his fist up and into the man’s face, laughing as he did. Hak Foo growled and tried a different attack, bringing his arm across to strike. Spence, as big as he was, avoided it by bending his back so far that his head touched floor, and suddenly brought his leg up and kicked Hak Foo in the head, with another laugh.

However, when he did, he fell down on his back. Hak Foo sneered and brought his leg up to bring it down on the laying agent, but yet again the large, yet strangely nimble man rolled out the way in time, flipped himself up to his feet, pivoted on one foot, spun around, and brought his hand across the Black Tiger’s face, laughing all the same.

Seeing this man laughing and moving around in such a comic manner, caused the rest of the Enforcers to sneer and join in the fray. Hak Foo had yelled at them to keep away, but they didn’t listen and tried to get the jump on Spence.

The result was a sudden kick to Chow’s stomach, and Ratso being tripped by a sweeping kick. Finn tried to get him, but the agent stumbled back, then to one side, and then the other. Finn fumed and tried to punch him. Spence ducked out of the way. Finn tried again. Spence just leaned away from. Finn was about to rear back for another attempt, when he was stopped when Spence stomped down on his foot.

Finn cried out, took an elbow to his gut, and was quickly followed by the back of Spence’s fit to his face, knocking him down. Ratso was getting to his feet, when the large agent flipped onto his back, landing on the prone man, and was up on his feet before Hak Foo.

Spence grinned, once more in his awkward stance. “Monkey Drinks Master’s Bucky!” He taunted.

Hak Foo stood there and growled, looking down at his pained comrades, over his shoulder to the two girls, and back to the swaying agent.

He stood up straight, breathing deeply. “You may win this day, but I will be back, and we will have our rematch.”

Spence kept his stance, his grin disappearing. “An’ I’ll be waitin’.”

With a huff, the Black Tiger bounded over the Enforcers and out the front door. The men on the floor gathered themselves up and ran out at well. Spence exited his stance, stumbled back a few paces, and then looked over at the girls.

The two girls stared at him, amazed at the fight that just happened.

Spence then brought his hand up to the side of his head. “Ah hink, Ah shoods lay doon noo.” And with that, the man fell back and to the floor, out like a light once more.

The two girls quickly rushed to his side, seeing if he was okay. Jade gave his face a few pats, but he didn’t respond.

“What the heck was all that about?” Jaden asked.

Jade shrugged her shoulders. “It was like earlier, but, that was different.” She gave the man a slap rather than a pat, and still got no reaction. “When he come’s too, I’m going to ask him.” She then stood up and looked at the Hand, the purple light fading away. “But, Hak Foo, he was able to nullify the Hand’s magic. If he was able to do that, then that means that the Dark Hand has a way to locate the items too.”

“What’s so special about that, anyway?” Jaden asked, pointing to the Hand.

Jade didn’t waste any time and explained the whole thing to her, from when it first clamed onto her, to where she remade the magical duplicate. All the while she was talking, the two girls were returning the notebook to its hiding place in Tohru’s room, and made sure the key was at its rightful place.

The two stood in the hall, looking over at one another.

“So, when that Hand thing glowed the first time, it was because you were trying to, make me fall in love with you?” Jaden asked.

Jade chuckled nervously and rubbed the back of her neck. “Yeah, I guess I was.” She then sighed. “It’s kinda weird, huh? Me, liking a girl like that?”

Jaden smiled. “I don’t really think so. I mean, I am a part of you, and I like you like that.” Her face turned red. “So, I guess, deep down, you did like girls, in a sense.”

Jade nodded her head, remembering how she always thought that Viper was a very pretty woman, but then had a thought. “Either that or I am really in love with myself.”

“Then there is no problem then, huh?” Jaden giggled. “You’re just narcissistic.”

Jade huffed. “Yeah, but you started all this.” But then her face softened. “Or, maybe, I really do love you, because, we have so much in common.” Jaden looked she was about to say something, but Jade stopped her. “Yeah, I know we’re the same person. But, if you haven’t noticed, you’re like your own person.”

Jaden smiled, her feet shuffling around nervously. “I…I’ve noticed.” She then looked into Jade’s hazel eyes. “But, I think you’re right. And… I…”

At the moment, the two girls noticed the Hand around Jade’s wrist glowed with a bright light, causing both girls to flush deeply. Without another word, the two of them smiled at one another and embraced in a tight hug. Everything was going to be different now.

“Jade?!”

The girls quickly parted by the loud voice, looking around to see where it came from. There was no one at the door.

“Jade?! Where are you?!”

Jade knew that voice, and she rushed to the railings of the hall and looked down over the front of the store. “Up here!”

Dashing into sight, and upon his feet, was a half deranged looking Agent Spence. “Jade!” He ran up the stairs, falling down onto the floor on the last step, and hurriedly got back up and up to the little girl. “Are you alright? Are you hurt?”

Jade shook her head. “I’m fine.”

“You sure? Nothing’s broken or anything?”

Jade grumbled and stepped away from the frantic man. “I’m fine!”

Calming down now, Spence made a heavy sigh, leaned against the wall, and slid down onto the floor. “Good. Good.”

Jade looked at the man in confusion. “Are, you?”

“No.” Spence rubbed her weary eyes. “I’m in big trouble.”

“How so?” Asked the little girl.

“They took it, they took The Hand. Captain Black told me to keep an eye on it and I promised I would and now the Dark Hand has it and I’m probably going to get stripped of my title. I can’t get fired! This agent gig is the only thing I have going for me and I have nothing to fall back on!” The agent held his head into his hands with a groan. “Oh, I’ll have to move back in with mother.”

Jade looked over to Jaden in confusion. She turned back to the agent, took a deep breath, and tapped the man’s shoulder. He peeked at her through on if his fingers and she raised her wrist to the reveal the Hand.

Spence pulled his hands away from his face, looking at the trinket and to the little girl in confusion. “You..?”

“Right before the attack,” She explained. “I saw that you were asleep, and I saw this, and I played with it, and, well.” She moved her arm around to show him that it was completely wrapped around her wrist and seal together. “It, kinda got stuck.”

She was expecting the agent be become furious with her and give her a lecture or something of the sort. But, instead the stout man just sat there and looked at the bracelet around her wrist in confusion, before looking back to her.

“You, had it this whole time?” He asked. Jade shook her head, and was surprised to see the man smile kindly. “You did good kid.”

“You’re not mad?” Jade asked.

He shook his head. “I’m a little upset, but I’m more relieved. You may have taken it from me, Jade, but in doing so you protect it and yourself from those Dark Hand dudes. I’m just glad that you’re in one piece.” He cleared his throat and got to his feet and dusted himself off. “Now, let’s get it off of you.”

“I looked it up in your book, but I can’t pronounce it!” Jade complained. “It’s in this strange ancient language or something!”

“It’s Gaelic.” Spence explained. “Luckily for you, I can read and speak it.” He knelt down to the girl and held up the bracelet. “Now, repeat after me. Hee”

Jade nodded her head. “Hee.”

“Me.”

“Me.”

“Nah.”

“Nah.”

“Here’s the hard part, ‘Moor-been-nah’.”

“Moor…been…nah.”

“Now, all together, chi mi na mòrbheanna.”

“Chi… mi… na… mòrbheanna.” Upon uttering those words, the Hand suddenly let out a brilliant light, and with a loud snap, it fell to the ground with a thud, unclasped.

Jade let out a squeal in happiness, feeling her unbounded wrist. “Wow! That was cool!”

Spence chuckled and picked up the artifact and slipped it into his coat pocket. And then, he sang, “Oh, I will see, see the great mountains. Oh, I will see, see the lofty mountains. Oh, I will see, see the corries. I will see the peaks under the mist.”

“That’s pretty.” Jaden suddenly speculated.

Spence nodded his head. “A little tune from back…” He then looked up to the other little girl. “Wait, who are you?”

Both Jade and Jaden looked at one another worried, but it was Jaden who broke the silence. “I’m a friend from school. Jade called me over to help clean up the mess.”

Spence seemed to have bought it, but was confused. “Wait, does she know about the whole Dark Hand thing?”

Jade nodded her head but quickly placed her hands on the agent’s shoulder. “It’s okay, she’s cool with it.”

Spence nodded his head once more, cleared his throat and stood up. “Now, I’m going to make a phone call.”

“Are you going to call Sector 13?” Jade asked.

The agent shook his head this time. “Not yet. My head may be pounding like a jackhammer, and I may be dizzy, but I’m also very hungry. You two cool with pizza?” The two little girls nodded their heads enthusiastically. “Awesome, I know this great parlor up town that makes this killer cheese and mushroom. I have a certificate around here somewhere.” The agent started to look through his pockets, but couldn’t seem to find the certificate he was searching for. “Huh, I thought I had it. I must have left it in my office. Oh well, I can just buy it.” He brought out his wallet and opened it up, and didn’t seem all too fazed when he found it empty. “Or, not.” He stood there for a few moments, deep in thought, and then sighed. “I’m, going to make a different phone call. Excuse me.”

As the agent went back down stairs, the two girls giggled amongst each other. The trained agent was able to scrounge up some eggs that were in the back of the fridge to feed the two girls, frying up a few slices of deli ham to go with it. But during the small dinner, the three of them had to do a lot of explaining.

“And then the Hand made this bubble around me to protect me.” Jade said, pointing to the golden bracelet situated on the table. “But, when they came back a second time, Hak Foo-”

“That screaming guy?” Spence interrupted.

Jade nodded her head. “Yeah, him. He had this, little jingle bell that had some sort of magic to it and it-”

“Nullified the Hand’s magical properties.” Spence interrupted once more.

Jade sighed. “Please stop that.”

The agent folded his hands, deep in thought. “The alchemists had this power, to imbued any object with magical properties. However, everything he made and empowered, activated and deactivated with the uttering of a key set of words, whether it part of a phrase, a song, or even a simple greeting.” He looked down at the Hand. “But, one day, he traveled the lands of Japan, and came across a noble woman, who herself, had a power. By enchanting a simple bell, it can dispel any dark forces, or anything she wanted. Her little bells could nullify, and if modified, locate, the magic of the objects the alchemist empowered. Working with the woman, they both traded their secrets, and able to fashion powerful items that was given to two people. One was a Greek woman of great beauty, while the other was a wealthy thief from the United Kingdom.”

He grabbed the Hand, holding it up. “If the Dark Hand found the secret of that power, they could find all the objects the alchemist and woman made, and dispel the magic.” His eyes grew wide. “Then, that means, this whole thing is much more serious than I thought.”

“Why?” Jaden asked. “What’s so special about the items?”

Spence looked annoyed, shaking the Hand around. “Umm, the power to make anyone to fall madly in love with them? That person could be manipulated in anyway the wearer choose, and they’ll be too blinded by love to think properly.” He shoved the bracelet into his pocket. “Not only that, but one of the objects the thief had could paralyze anyone he touched. If the Dark Hand get‘s them, who knows what they could do with them.”

“What about you?” Jade asked, getting a confused look from the man. “You beat up those guys when they came back, but there was just something about you, like you were someone else.”

Spence chuckled and twiddled his thumbs. “I… I have this mental condition. It’s called Dissociative identity disorder; a split personality. The doctors tells me that whenever I am too stressed or anything like that, my mind would temporarily shut down and retake another personality, a more aggressive personality.” He then looked distant. “But, in truth, it’s something entirely different. My body is a vassal for two souls.”

The two girls were confused by this. “Two, souls?”

Spence nodded his head. “One soul is mine, while the other is the spirit of one of my long dead ancestors.” He sighed, leaning back in his chair. “A couple years ago, I was my grandfather’s apprentice. My grandfather dabbled in a lot, and I mean a LOT, of old magic, and one day he was playing around with some dark arts. I tried to convince him not to, but he didn’t listened. He tried to summon the spirit of one of his ancestors, as a test run. There was an accident, and when I came too, I had another voice screaming in my head. It took me a long while to control him, and when I did, he has became very helpful to me at times. But, sometimes, when I am asleep, he, comes out, takes control, and does his own stuff. Like drink!” He then lied his head down on the table. “I was a teetotaler before he came around.”

“So, when you were raiding our fridge, that wasn’t really you?” Jade asked.

“And when he beat the curd out of those punks earlier.” Jaden added.

“Nope, that was Artair, my great-great-great-grandfather.” Spence sighed and leaned back. “Well, Ms. Jade, I thank you for your help in keeping the Hand of Aphrodite safe, but you do realize I have to report all this back to Captain Black, right?”

Jade half nodded her head. “Yeah, I guess you do.” She then quickly thumbed Jaden. “But, can you keep her out of that report? I don’t want Section 13 hounding her because she knows stuff.”

Spence chuckled. “Just don’t mention anything about me falling asleep. I had a rough night last night.”

The three of them agreed and shook on it. The agent stuck around until he got a phone call from Captain Black, stating that they touched down in the San Francisco airport, and they got something that he really needed to look at.

Spence gathered all his things, standing in the store’s doorway and looking down at the two girls. “Well, I guess this is goodbye. Your uncle is on his way back, and I have some agents stopping by to fix the door. I’ve told them everything.” He then cleared his throat. “Well, almost everything.”

“It was really nice having you as a baby-sitter, Mr. Spence.” Jade shook the agent’s hand.

“Please, Mr. Spence was my father. Call me Rob.” The agent chuckled. “I must get going. I kinda hope to see you again soon.”

The two girls waved goodbye to the stout man, and returned into the store. There was a silence that hung over them, looking at one another. Before long, Jaden cleared her throat nervously.

“I…I’ve been, thinking.”

“About what?” Jade asked.

“Well,” She looked to the shorter girl. “When Jackie comes home, he’ll ask questions. Like, who I am, where I am from, and all that.” Jade scratched her head in thought, but Jaden went on. “And, I literarily have no place to go. They might suspect something.”

Jade pondered, trying to come up with something that could fool her uncle Jackie. “How about you are an exchange student, and needed someplace to stay for a while, and I offered without thinking?”

“I need a last name.” Jaden said, but then thought of one. “Wait, I know one. I saw it on that website we saw earlier. Hookano.”

“Jaden Hookano.” Jade rolled the name around her tongue a little. “I like that. Do you think it will work?”

Jaden sighed and sat down on the floor. “I really hope so, or else I have to go away.”

Jade quickly kneeled before the girl. “No. I’m not loosing you again. I’ll fight them over it if I have too.”

Jaden smiled. “And I know you will, but you have to realize that I may not be around forever. There will always be something that will give me away, no matter how much we try to hide it.” She reached and wrapped her arms around the girl, bringing her close in a hug. “But no matter what, we have to enjoy the time we have while it lasts.”

Jade hugged her clone back, as tightly as she can, and when she leaned back, she stared into her bright green eyes. Feeling silly and nervous about it, she then leaned in and planted her lips on the clone’s lips in a gentle kiss. They stay there, for almost a whole minute, before they parted, both of them red faced.

“That’s still weird.” Jade murmured.

“You’ll get used to it.” Jaden smiled and planted a chaste kiss on Jade’s cheek. “I have.”

Jackie soon came home, and they asked questions about the other girl that was there. Jade answered every question carefully, praying she won’t say anything to reveal who Jaden really was. Jaden herself even answered some questions, and soon enough, to their shock and surprise, the elders bought it, and welcomed the Hawaiian exchange student Jaden Hookano to their home.

~*~Later that night, Jackie Chan’s apartment~*~

“I hope you will sleep well, Jaden.” Jackie smiled at the little girl.

Jaden bowed in respect to the man. “Thank you, Mr. Chan. And thank you for allowing me in your home.”

Jackie waved it off. “Oh, it’s nothing.” He then looked over to his niece, who was getting ready for bed. “You two get to sleep; you had a very busy day.”

The two girls said their goodnights and climbed into their beds, with Jade on the top bunk and Jaden on the bottom. When Jackie was gone, Jade quickly looked down over the edge to Jaden.

“I can’t believe he bought-… What are you doing?” Jade cocked and eyebrow.

Jaden shifted her pillow around nervously. “Oh nothing, just getting comfortable.” She then smiled at Jade. “It’s amazing that he bought it. How long do you think we can keep this up?”

Jade sighed and lied back on her bed. “I dunno, but we have to be careful for a long while, come up with little stories you can tell from your live on Hawaii.”

She turned her head and saw Jaden looking at her over the edge. “We can do this, can’t we?”

Jade rolled over towards her clone. “I think we can, but we shouldn’t worry about it right now.” She then yawned. “Let’s get some sleep first. Today was exhausting.”

Jaden smiled and went down to her bunk, and shifted her pillow around carefully. She didn’t know how long she can hide the vials of navy dust she stashed under her pillow, but like Jade said, she shouldn’t worry about that now. She lied back, covered herself, and drifted to sleep.

The two girls will not know what their future holds for them, though until those days come, they will cherish their company for as long as they could.

~*~Meanwhile, in Section 13~*~

There was silence in the dark room, the only sound being the tick-tock of the clock on the desk. He sat there in thought, looking over to the agent that sat across him, and to the pair of boots sitting on his desk. But after a few moments of his silent brooding, he leaned back in his chair and eyed the agent.

“And, are you positively sure of this?” He asked.

The agent nodded his head. “Yes, sir. Thanks to Ms. Jade’s interception of the Hand, I was able to grasp a full understanding on its construct and functionality. It seems that the Hand, and possibly some of the other items, may only work for females. I have allowed Agent Harris in accounting to test the Hand herself, to get the same conclusion.”

He nodded his head, staring down at the pair of leather boots on his desk, crafted from a fine dark animal hide, but as soft as silk to the touch, and possessing a spider-like symbol and wed-like weaving design on the very toes. “And, these?”

The agent cleared his throat and brought out a notebook from his coat. “In the text, these are labeled the ‘Spider’s Climb’. They have the power to grant its wearer to walk on almost any surface. Jackie was more than happy to test them out for us, and we found that they work exceptionally as he was able to walk up the walls and hang from the ceiling. However, we also concluded that they only work for males, sir.”

He remained quiet again, and brandished form his pocket a golden bracelet, with a ruby etched on top of it. He stood from his chair and paced around the room, deep in thought.

“Robert?” He suddenly said after a few moments.

“Yes, sir?” The agent sat up straight.

“Valmont and his men were very intent on getting their hands on this, and because of that you were attacked by his Enforcers, while we were fighting others while in Amsterdam, and three of our agents are in intensive care.” He turned to the stout man. “Is it safe to assume, that these…what did you call them, again?”

The agent cleared his throat. “Umm, the Vestments of the Goddess, and the Druid’s Regalia, sir.”

He nodded his head. “Right, these items, they are dangerous, correct?”

The agent scratched his head nervously. “Well, sir, it’s unclear at this moment. But, The Alchemist did state in his journal that some of items he enchanted, if used in the wrong hands, could be dangerous.”

“Give me an example.” He said suddenly.

The agent thought for a moment, skimming through his notebook. “Well, one item he enchanted gives its wearer an enchanted voice that could command people.”

He nodded his head and sat the bracelet down onto his desk. “And, out of curiosity, what would happen if Valmont was able to get his hands on one of the full sets?”

The agent looked into his book. “Umm, well, it is unknown, sir. Because, in his journal, The Alchemist said that he even warned The Lady and The Soldier not to don on all the pieces, for not even he knew of the consequences.”

“Hypothetically, in your opinion, what would happen, if they do wear all the pieces?” He turned to the agent.

The agent remained silent for a moment, skimming through his book. “Sir, it can’t be good. Reading about all the things he created, and what they could do, I’d say, if Valmont, or anybody for that matter, were to wear the whole set of the items, we all would be in trouble.”

He remained silent for a moment, once more brooding. After that moment, he sat back down at his desk and took a deep breath.

“What are the possibilities of Valmont finding any more of these, items?” He then asked.

The agent pondered on this. “Well, they also have a means of tracking these items down, and if anything they could also be keeping an eye out for our agents and following them.”

“Much like the Enforcers done with you?” He suddenly stated.

The agent’s face flushed a deep red. “I… apologize for that, sir.”

He waved it off. “No matter. It seems, like those talismans, we now have a new threat to keep an eye out for.” He leaned forward and pushed the boots and the bracelet to the agent. “Make sure these are locked away where no one can get to them. And, as of today, I am making you head of this department.”

The agent took the items and looked at his employer in confusion. “S-sir?”

“We need someone to not only keep these under lock and key, but someone who can translate the Alchemist’s journal and text, and decipher where these items may be.” He smiled at the stout man. “And you are perfectly qualified.”

The agent sat there in a few seconds of silence, before grinning and standing up. “Thank you, sir! I won’t let you down.” He turned to leave, and was at the door, when his employer stopped him.

“Oh, and Robert?”

Robert looked over to him. “Yes, sir?”

“The next time I ask you to babysit someone, please; don’t take your work with you.” He quipped.

Robert gulped in embarrassment and nodded his head. “Of course, Captain Black.”

~*~Elsewhere~*~

There was a tense silence in the air, as four man stood before the lavished desk in front of them. Their employer and leader of the Dark Hand, Valmont, sat in his chair, deep in thought. He held a tiny bell in his hand, watching it pulse a dim and eerie purple glow, before letting it drop to the floor with a jingle, which caused the four men to cringe.

“I am very disappointed, in all of you.” He looked up to his Enforcers. “I sent you to do a small task, and for what? Not only to get bested by a child, but a small, fat, and inexperienced agent of Section 13?”

Finn quickly fumbled with his words. “Well, you see, when we went back, he started to act all differently and-“

He was instantly silenced when the boss slammed his fist on the desk. He took a few deep breaths, and looked down at the violent and ancient book in front of him. In it depicted images of these special and enchanted items that gave there wearer powers. One picture was of a pair of fine leather boots, with a spider web like design on the toes.

He then sighed and closed the book, looking back to his men. “We can’t afford to mess up this time. The Hand is replaceable, and the boots are nothing. But, you all need to step up. In time, the mask will reveal itself. And when it does, I want it in my hands. Understand?”

The four men quickly nodded their heads, and left the office. Valmont sighed once more and turned in his chair, looking up at his bare wall where the statue of Shendu one stood. He imagined the two items he truly wanted; The Mirror and Mask, all hanging on that wall.

He let out a deep chuckle, turning to pick up the violet tome from his desk, opening it up to an illustration of the powerful Japanese sorceress that wrote it many years ago.

“Soon,” He said to the image. “And you will be free.”

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The End???
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