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Imitation Jade	By : Loakiwolf Category: +G through L > Jackie Chan's Adventures Views: 15038 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: I do not owe Jackie Chan Adventures or its characters and I am not making money from this. If I did, this would be one hell of an episode!

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The conclusion of the previous story. Sorry it took me forever to upload this, I have been very, very busy with multiple projects I have been working on for other people. I'm really glad to get this out of the way, and it may be a long while before I ever work on another Jackie Chan Adventures story.

Thanks guys, you've been great.

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PART VII; 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.

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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.”
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