X-S 4 Jack's party

Jack Spicer a red headed boy wearing a black long coat and yellow goggles on his head sat in his evil lair typing away at his computer; he was designing a new programme for his robot minions. A girl with pearl white skin and short gold hair, wearing a sort of white leotard with a robe draping from the hips down with golden patterns all around the collar and chest, she wore gold rimmed long sleeves that hung from her arms and parted into three parts. Golden wings rested on her back like a butterfly’s. She was working on a cloak that was silver and had purple gems on the hood and around collar, she was painting it with a gold ink that would vanish into the cloth after a second she had put it on.
A purple ghost with an ugly mask on called Wuya curled up in the air snoozing, Jack looked at her with a befuddled look on his face.
“I’ve never seen Wuya sleep before” Jack whispered “I didn’t even think that Ghosts slept!”
“Oh they do…after you put a sleep spell on them!” Jewel declared. Jewel was a very powerful white sorceress and often did spells on Wuya to either shut her up or get her out of the way.
Suddenly the door opened and Jewel covered herself up with the Shroud of shadows.
“Jack? Honey are you down here?” came a voice, Jack winced and looked up there stood a women in her thirties, she wore a rose pink dress and had her red hair pinned up in a bun.
“Hi Mom” Jack muttered, he expected her to go away but she came downstairs and stood next to him.
“Dear you have to get out more” she declared and brushed some dust of the computer top.
“Or clean at least!”
“What do you want mom?” Jack demanded rudely.
“Well get ready for your birthday party!” she cried, Jack leapt up and looked at her.
“You what?” he cried and grabbed his calendar there it was in black ink BIRTHDAY! He groaned and hung his head.
“Me and you father have got a lovely little party made up for you and it would make your father very happy if you wore that tuxedo we got you” she declared happily and walked up stairs and was gone.
“What’s the point he won’t be there” he muttered under his breath. The minute the door shut, Jewel whipped off the shroud.
“Are you going?”
“Like I have a choice” Jack muttered and got up, he clicked at his watch and a cupboard opened after rummaging he brought out a black tuxedo still in its plastic wrapper.
“You don’t sound like you want this party, I thought birthdays were a day of joy” Jewel exclaimed.
“Not for me, every party I go to my mom tried to get me a girlfriend” Jack yelled.
“Ah so your mom one of those ‘find a suitor type’” Jewel claimed Jack nodded and went to his private room.
A couple of minutes later he came out brushing his hair back but it sprang back into place, he looked like a million dollars but his face didn’t, Jewel sat on the table legs crossed and a smile.
“The names Spicer…Jack Spicer!” she laughed.
“Yeah yeah very funny”
“Can I come?” Jewel suddenly asked.
“No way! Some of my dad’s mates are scientists they see you they’ll want to capture you!” Jack cried “It’ll be safer if you stay here!” with that he left, Wuya’s only response to this was to snore loudly and roll over in mid air.
Jewel sat there looking glum but then turned to the pile of Shen-Gong-Wu and little smile crept across her face.
“I wonder…”

In an over decorated hall people chatted and laughed, others were dancing to classical music, at the doors were body guards. Jack sat in a corner completely bored out of his skull, his mother was chatting away to some friends and his father had failed to show up. He looked around to see no one he knew they were all his mothers friends, his mother wandered over with a girl with blond hair and cat like face.
“Jack Honey this is Ashley would you like to dance?” she declared and shoved her hands into his.
“Hiya Dofus!” she hissed, Jack suddenly realised who she was…it was Katnappe!
“Mom I…” Jack protested but stopped.
A girl with a golden silk komodo with white lilies patterned on it came in; her golden hair was tied up in a knot with the tangle web comb in her hair. She had a golden fan that looked like Jewel’s wings. She walked over to Jack and smiled.
“Hi Jack sorry I’m late!” she laughed and pushed Ashley out of the way “You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get into this komodo!”
“Who are you?” Jack mom demanded.
“A friend of Jack’s he called earlier as soon as he found out about the party, I came as quick as I could!” she explained “Oh and your friend over there wanted to talk to you about something!”
“Oh really well I best be off then!” she said nicely and walked off; Ashley hissed like a cat and looked at this new girl.
“Who are you Jack’s new pet robot?” she sneered.
“No my name is Jewel I’m a Xiaolin dragon” she said politely
“Of what?”
“Light”
“Oh right and what is Jack the dragon of dark or something?” Ashley laughed.
“Actually he is, of Shadows I mean”
“Jack who is this little freak of yours?” Ashley demanded, Jack sighed and waved a hand to Jewel.
“Ashley meet Jewel, Jewel meet kitty litter!” he said, he suddenly grabbed Jewel’s arm and dragged to her to the middle of the dance floor. As they danced to soft music he glared at her.
“What are you doing here?”
“Well you said I couldn’t come because of my wings so I fixed the problem” she pulled out the mask of illusions one of the Shen-gong-wu that she made herself. “Better me that Miss Ashley kitty litter” she exclaimed.
“You got a point” Jack muttered, Jewel was suddenly bumped out the way and tangled up in a ball of yarn.
“Oh Jack your mommy wanted me to dance with you!” she sneered, he pulled back but twine was wound around his arms and chest he couldn’t move!!
“I don’t want to!” he cried
“Like I care if you want to! I’m getting paid to do this and beside I like to see you squirm!” she hissed and pulled him up to her, large strands of hair shot out and entwined around Ashley, Jack spun around to see Jewel holding the tangle web comb.
“Oh but I care!” Jewel snapped, Ashley ran forward but tripped and slammed into Jewel the mask of illusion skittered across the floor. In a bright flash Jewel turned into her fairy wing self, everyone stopped and looked at this creature that now lay sprawled across the floor.
“What is that?” Jack’s mom screamed.
“Is it an alien?”
“No it’s a fairy!”
Jack ran over and helped her up; she smiled sheepishly and brushed herself down. Jack was bashed out of the way as some of body guards ran forward and grabbed Jewel. Jack fell on his butt and growled as he got up.
Jewel exploded from the bundle of black suited men and hovered above them. She looked around and saw how the room seemed to be shivering; every shadow was trembling as if they wanted to be free from their solid links.
“What on earth is going on?” screeched a voice; Wuya appeared next to Jewel “There’s enough dark chi flying around to wake the demons!”
“So this isn’t you doing this?” Jewel whimpered
“I wish! Only a Xiaolin dragon can do this!” they stopped and looked at each other with horror in their eyes, they glanced down at Jack who was now seething with rage, his fists trembled and his muscles bunched up in tensed anger.
“Jack!” they screamed and Jewel flew down next to him.
“Jack stop it! You’re going to… ahh!” she shrieked as Jack’s mom pulled her away roughly by the wings.
“No son of mine is going to be friends with that!” she declared.
“Mom!” Jack yelled.
“Not now!”

Something inside Jack snapped, those two words echoed through his head. His mother never took any notice of him not even when he was toddler it was always ‘not now’.
He showed her his first robot and she didn’t care, he showed her how to genetically splice a coco nut with a piece of broccoli so it taste like chocolate but she never cared. He aced in ever science and technology class he was ever in but she didn’t even notice and his father was always away. In the end he just gave up and went to his lair and started to plan world domination. But this was the last straw, he bunched up his fists his eyes went black and glowed darkly, he roared in anger and rage as he threw his fists up in the air and every shadow was ripped from the walls and floors and began to swirl around Jack.
The blast blew Jewel and Jack’s mom away and they slammed into the wall, everyone began to scream and panic like rats. Everyone escaped but when Ashley and his mom tried to get out, the doors slammed shut and a shadow wrapped around like a bow.
“You lot aren’t going anywhere!” he screamed over the howl of the hurricane of shadows he was now surrounded in. “you never cared about me! All I was to you was a fashion accessory for you to show off to your friends” he put his hand up and shadows danced in his hand until they formed a sword. He walked forward banishing it, Jack’s mom tried to run but she was surrounded by walls of seething black darkness. He raised the sword over his head and was about to bring it down on his own mother…
“Shield spell!” Jewel screamed as she dash forward and stuck a piece of parchment in mid air, the sword came down on a golden glowing dome that now covered Jewel and Jack’s mom. He began to swipe and slash at it again and again.
“Quick tell me how to calm him down!” Jewel yelled over the screech of dark metal on shield of light, Jack’s mom looked up at her confused.
“Why should I know?”
“You’re his mother surely you know how to handle him when he is having a tantrum!” she cried.
“I…I don’t know I’ve never seen him like this!” she whispered and huddled close to the wall.
“Hah! That’s because I spent most of my childhood on my own! She knows nothing about me!” Jack screamed, Jewel turned to Jack’s mom and handed her a parchment of paper with ‘shield’ written in golden ink on it.
“Hold this it’ll protect you!” she said and flew out.
“Jack calm down you’re letting you power of darkness take control of your judgement!” she screamed as she tried to fly into the hurricane of shadows, she managed to grab his hand.
“J…Jack I….Challenge you…to…a…Xiaolin Showdown!” she yelled, he stopped and looked at her.
“My light magic versus your power of the shadows”
“What will I win?” he said.
“I will make you any Shen-gong-wu that you want any power in any form!” she declared.
“Fine and that stupid excuse of a mother’s life!” he cried.
“Sigh fine let’s go Xiaolin showdown!” Jewel sighed “But if I win you’ll calm down and let go of your grudge!”

The tiled floor grew larger and the walls fell away, the decorations grew huge and tangled like vines in a forest. Jack stood at one side with a dark aura surrounding him, Jewel stood at the other end. She looked down and saw how the floor now looked like a chess board and she stood on a white square, Jack on the other hand stood on a black square. When she tried to step on a black square it fell away to reveal lava, but when she stepped on a white square it stayed where it was.
“Right so I can only step on white” she muttered “and I’m betting he can only step on black!”
“Let’s go! Gong Yi Tampai!” he yelled, Jewel took to the air.
“At least this way I don’t have to worry about tiles!” she said to herself, she looked down at Jack; he was glaring at her the shadows were now circling his back…and took the form of wings!!
“No way!” she gasped “even I couldn’t do that when I was human! And I was direct descendent from the Xiaolin dragon!” she threw a bolt of light at him but he merely blocked it with his huge wings.
Jack sneered and took to the air as well, he threw a ball of dark energy at her and she dodged it barely. She cupped her hands and blew out a cloud of white glittering dust three shimmering images of Jewel appeared that mimicked Jewel in everything that she did, Jack looked at these four images and couldn’t tell which one was the real one. He held out his hand and black four roped whip appeared in his hands.
“Oh goat crud!” she muttered as he whipped all four images with ease, she fell down and the other images smashed as if they were made of glass and vanished. She had to quickly roll over to stop herself falling down with the black square she had landed on. Jack landed next to her and grasped her wings, she gasped as shadows clamped onto them taking away her flight!
“Stuff the magic tricks shall we try hand to hand?” he sneered and a Bo staff appeared in his hand, with a swipe he knocked Jewel off her feet, she jumped out of the way of a three direct attacks.
“What’s wrong? Can’t you fight without you petty magic” Jack laughed
“This is a laugh the Jack I knew never fought by himself he used his intelligence to fight!” she cried, Jack growled and tripped her up.
“I am no longer that pathetic weakling!” he screamed and aimed to give Jewel a fatal stab in the neck.
“True you’re now a huge powerful idiot who never actually think about what he’s doing!” Jewel joked and flipped up and punched him in the stomach and then elbowed him in the back. She took a step back and looked at him as he shuddered.
“Now let’s call it quits before someone gets hurt” she declared, Jack looked up with a sly smile.
“Yeah someone like you!” he called and with sudden burst he got his Bo staff and stabbed her in the stomach. She fell to her knees and vomited and looked up, Jack smacked her in the head.
“I win! Who’s more powerful now?” he cried.

Everything resumed to normal and Jack’s mother and Ashley watched in horror as Jack kicked Jewel away as if she was nothing but garbage. Jewel struggled to get up and she could only watch as Jack now exploded in a black hurricane once more.
“Jack honey…please!” her mother pleaded.
“No! You never cared about me! I am alone! Do you hear me I am...alone” he muttered and fell to his knees, the hurricane died and every shadow returned to its rightful place. Jewel got and staggered to him, sweat poured down his face and he was panting heavily in exhaustion.
“J…Jack? Are you okay?”
“I’m alone” he mumbled “I’m all alone” a bruised yet fair hand touched his and he looked up.
“Jack you’re never alone!” she smiled and he smiled too.

Later they looked at the mess, Jack had completely ruined his tuxedo and had to change into his usual black jacket, his mother can’t get over what had happened the hall was a tattered mess. Jack sat on the floor tapping away at the laptop that was on his lap.
“Well according to the news we had a freak tornado come to our party, no one was injured and no one suspect I…heh heh…I went magically insane!” he laughed nervously.
“No one injured? Speak for yourself!” Jewel muttered, rubbing her stomach, Jack’s mother stood there.
“Oh dear what am I going to do? What am I going to tell your father?” she muttered, Wuya flew through one ear and then through the other and Jack’s mom fell down in a faint. Ashley caught her and glared to Wuya.
“What did you just do?”
“I just erased her memory she’ll believe the New’s story and will not know about us!”
“Well at least I won’t have to worry about anymore parties for a while!” Jack laughed and looked at the destroyed hall.

That night Jack sat in his lair with Jewel tending to her wounds.
“Will I ever get control of these powers?” he asked as she was putting a plaster on a cut
“With proper training from yours truly I’m sure you’ll put Wuya to shame!” she muttered and smoothed it on. “You have great potential and great power”
“Really?”
“Yeah how many Xiaolin dragons can construct a sword, whips and wings from their element, not forgetting a hurricane?”
“Hey I’ve just remembered something” he said and turned to her “You said if I won that showdown you’ll make me a ultimate Shen-gong-wu for me”
“How about this I’ll train you and while we are at it we’ll build this ‘ultimate’ Shen-gong-wu” she said.
Wuya appeared in front of Jack.
“Jack this is brilliant you can go destroyed those Xiaolin dragons and…” she trailed off giving Jack hundreds of commands; he looked to Jewel she flicked up a piece of parchment.
“First lesson ‘How to shut up Wuya’ first you get a spell parchment and then Sleep spell!” she declared and the paper disintegrated into a sparkle of dust that flew right up Wuya’s nose.
“And then we can…yawn…Zzzzzz”   
“Yeah I can get used to this” Jack laughed.