General history section

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Jade was born and raised in Hong Kong, where she lived a more or less ordinary life. When she was twelve, her grades slipped far enough that her parents grew worried and decided she needed a change of setting, and so they sent her to live with Jackie Chan, her first cousin once removed—generally just referred to as her uncle for simplicity's sake—in San Fransisco. At first she was upset by being sent away, so much so that she refused to talk to Jackie, but quickly warmed up to the idea after seeing him fight off three thugs trying to rob the antiques shop he lived in.

As a result of the thugs, operatives of a major crime syndicate known as the Dark Hand, taking a sudden interest in artifacts, Captain Augustus Black, an old friend of Jackie's who was head of a secret organization known as Section 13 dedicated to tracking and taking down such criminal organizations, enlisted his help. Jade tailed them in secret, discovering their secret base and learning about the Dark Hand despite Section 13's security.

After learning that her uncle was a skilled martial artist, she became eager to learn 'the ancient art of buttwhoop' from him. In her excitement, she knocked over a food cart, which caused a chain reaction leading to the magic Talisman the Dark Hand enforcers had been after landing in her soup...and from there, ending up in her stomach. This led to her being kidnapped by the Dark Hand in an effort to retrieve the Talisman, even if it meant cutting it out of her. She managed to save herself, with Jackie's help, by learning to control the telekinetic levitation power of the Rooster Talisman in her stomach. After her escape, her stomach was pumped courtesy of Section 13 and the Talisman was locked away safely. However, Jackie's uncle(?), known only as Uncle, had discovered that there were eleven more Talismans, one for each animal of the Chinese Zodiac, and that each had its own unique power. And so the race began to collect them before the Dark Hand.

Their quest led them around the world, from Mexico, where they met and befriended the luchadore El Toro Fuerte and his young fan Paco, to New York, where they encountered the master thief Viper, all the way to the depths of the Arctic. Along the way, there were several incidents unrelated to the search itself, including Jade accidentally traveling back in time due to a Section 13 experiment combined with the speed of the Rabbit Talisman, an accident with the Sheep Talisman's astral projection resulting in Jade's body being hijacked by the demon Shendu, the Rat Talisman animating one of Jade's action figures and Jackie getting split into his Yin and Yang by the Tiger Talisman, which had been broken during its discovery baked into a pie.

It was the split of Jackie's Chi that led to disaster, when his dark half accepted a deal from the Dark Hand to deliver them the Talismans from Section 13. The leader of the Dark Hand, a man named Valmont, gave the Talismans to Shendu, who used their power to escape his prison as a statue. Without any way to identify the demon, the Chans were at a loss for how to defeat it, until Tohru, one of Valmont's elite enforcers, arrived heavily injured and offered information for the sake of stopping Shendu.

With Shendu's name, Uncle was able to discover that the demon had once ruled China and would most likely be raising his palace on the Chinese New Year, less than a day away. Uncle was able to create a potion that would allow someone to reach into Shendu and remove the Talismans one by one, stripping him of the powers that let him resist his curse, and the team set off for China...although Jackie refused to allow Jade to help. However, she snuck onto the battlefield despite orders to stay far away, and in the end she and Jackie worked together to strip Shendu of vital Talismans for keeping his released form. With their enemy reduced to a helpless statue, Jade used the Dragon Talisman's power of combustion to destroy him, earning a chastisement from Uncle that she had left a vacuum that would invite a new, more powerful evil into the world.

First, however, they would have to deal with Tohru's mother. With Tohru reformed and now working at Uncle's antique shop, his mother came to visit and complained about him quitting his former job, unaware that he had been working for a criminal. She quickly started arguing with Uncle, leaving Tohru upset. Meanwhile, a gang called the Black Hand was trying to recruit him and he seemed to be falling back into his old ways. In truth he was infiltrating the gang and was able to help the Chans, along with his mother, put an end to the criminals' activities.

The new evil Uncle warned of manifested in the form of Shendu's seven brothers and sisters, who sent his spirit to possess a human and release them. At the same time, Jackie was confronting the Dark Hand, who had recovered the Talismans after Shendu's death and were using them for a crime spree. Jackie was unable to recover the Talismans, but the fight resulted in him escaping possession by Shendu as the demon spirit flew into Valmont by accident.

With Shendu in control, the Dark Hand's focus switched to an artifact known as the Pan Ku box, which Uncle warned was vital to keep out of their possession. As such, Jackie tailed them, but Jade had doubts he would be able to stop them on his own. To back him up, she enlisted the help of El Toro, Viper and Tohru, dubbing the group the J-Team. But because she'd failed to communicate her intentions to Jackie, the effort ended in disaster and the Dark Hand claimed the Pan Ku box. With it, they could locate and unlock the seven portals corresponding to Shendu's siblings and release the demons from their imprisonment.

The first demon portal sent the Dark Hand to Japan, and so Jackie followed them, ordering Jade to stay behind with Uncle, who had just named Tohru as his apprentice despite Jade's eagerness to learn Chi magic. In her frustration, she decided to both prove she was worth teaching and follow Jackie without disobeying him by using Uncle's books to cast a duplication spell on herself. Telling her copy to take care of her homework, she followed Jackie to Japan...but was followed by her duplicate, who also resented being left behind. Furthermore, she had missed a key part of the spell that limited the effects, so her duplicate began spawning more copies, which in turn spawned new copies. This caused some trouble, but ultimately helped in defeating the Mountain Demon before Uncle helped her reverse the spell.

Two more demons were released and banished, one under a maximum security prison and another in Hollywood, before Uncle found a book he hoped would give them valuable information for dealing with their new enemies. Impressed by the image on the cover, Jade copied it onto her leg as a temporary tattoo in order to impress her classmates, without realizing it was the symbol of an Oni that controlled the dark Shadowkhan ninjas used by Shendu. The symbol stuck fast to her skin and infused her with dark magic, allowing her to summon and control the Shadowkhan while also corrupting her toward evil. As the Queen of the Shadowkhan, she set up her own base of operations, where Shendu found her and offered an alliance. In the end, however, the tattoo was removed with a potion of Uncle's and Jade was returned to her normal self.

After the next demon hunt took Jackie and Jade to the moon, they got enough of a break to go on a more normal expedition to visit an ancient site known as the Lotus Temple. After getting lost in search of firewood, Jade stumbled over the temple alone and discovered that a girl was trapped there, forced to transform into an aggressive monster whenever anyone intruded in the temple. Jade got around the curse by asking for an invitation, which made her a guest rather than an intruder, and eventually was able to force their guide, who had actually been looking to abuse powerful magic hidden in the Lotus Temple, to take over the girl's role so she could leave.

With over half of the demons successfully released and re-sealed, Uncle had been plagued by insomnia and his sleep deprived ranting finally drove Jade to slip him a sleeping potion so he'd calm down. Unfortunately, while Uncle was asleep, the Dark Hand succeeded in releasing the Earth Demon. In an attempt to get the ingredient list for the banishment spell, Jade used the Sheep Talisman's astral projection to enter Uncle's dreams, but all he was able to provide was the standard ingredients of the symbol of the immortal who had originally defeated the demon and hair of ewe. She and Tohru were able to find the rest of the ingredients on their own, but Jade misinterpreted Uncle's instructions as meaning that she needed to use one of her own hairs. By the time Uncle woke up, Jade had tried and failed to banish the demon, and Uncle informed her that what she actually needed was the hair of a female sheep, which was provided by Uncle's wool jacket.

The chase for the demon portals next led the Chans to a baseball stadium, where Hsi Wu the Sky Demon was waiting for release. His portal appeared in front of the women's bathroom, where Jade was after drinking five sodas, resulting in his tail snapping off. He was forced to flee without the tail, allowing the Chans to lock it behind a barrier that wouldn't allow dark beings through without an invitation. In an effort to get that invitation, Hsi Wu disguised himself as a human child and claimed to be a new student at Jade's school, calling himself Seymour after nearly giving his real name. Jade quickly took to the boy and gave him a friendship necklace made from half of a coin. She even developed a crush on him before his tail, coated with the ingredients for his banishment spell, gave away his true identity.

Hsi Wu, recognizing the spell, caught the tail in a backpack before it could reconnect to him and kidnapped Uncle with the intent to force him to remove the spell. Angry and hurt at being used, Jade used the Tiger Talisman to track Hsi Wu's half of the friendship necklace coin, and the Rooster and Rabbit Talismans to confront him on his own turf. After an aerial battle, Jade managed to release the demon's tail to connect with him and Jackie used the symbol of Hsi Wu's ancient enemy to seal him for good. Jade was initially dejected by the loss of someone she'd thought was her friend, but cheered up when she realized that she still had someone to talk to in the form of Tohru and gave him the orphaned half of the friendship necklace.

Before the next demon portal was located, Jade became frustrated when Uncle and Jackie were unable to attend a play she had the lead role in due to a time-sensitive expedition into the ruins beneath San Francisco. In an effort to allow Jackie to be in two places at once, Jade used the Tiger Talisman to split his Chi, though she soon regretted it when his dark half hijacked her role in the play. To make matters worse, Uncle and Jackie's light side had accidentally freed a goblin imprisoned in a museum of the unusual that had sunk due to the city's unstable foundation, and the goblin swore vengeance upon the descendants of the man who had trapped him...one of whom happened to be a classmate of Jade's. However, quick thinking with the Tiger Talisman split the goblin into his dark and light sides, and the light side volunteered the trick to defeating him, allowing the Chans to return the creature to his stone prison before he could kill anyone.

With the quiet spell stretching on, Uncle noticed that Jade's weekends seemed empty and complained to Jackie that all she ever did was watch TV. In an effort to give her something to occupy her time with, Jackie signed her up for the Buttercup Scouts behind her back, a favor Jade returned by volunteering him to be a 'Buttercup Mom' for an upcoming camping trip. This led to problems when a treasure hunter followed Jackie in search of a magical necklace he'd recovered. After a difficult fight, Jackie managed to trick the treasure hunter into using the necklace, which had by then been split between them, to teleport to a remote island without the other half. Jade and the other scouts tackled the treasure hunter at the exact moment she was teleporting and wound up trapped with her, but managed to overcome and restrain her by the time Jackie arrived to rescue them.

Jade was allowed to tag along on Jackie's next expedition, which took them back to the Arctic. There they discovered a frozen abominable snowman, whom Jade dubbed Dwayne and proceeded to thaw behind Jackie's back. Defrosted, the yeti turned out to still be alive and Jade was able to befriend him by sharing her cereal with him. The bigger danger was a poacher who wanted to abduct the creature for his own benefit, a plan which Jackie managed to put a stop to.

With things still quiet on the Dark Hand front, Jade heard that Jackie would be guarding a young king on his visit to San Francisco. As she didn't have the security clearance necessary to meet him, she snuck into Section 13 and stole the Snake Talisman so she could use its power of invisibility to slip past security, at one point even helping to defeat a couple of thugs trying to kidnap the boy. Alone with the king, she learned that his life was very structured, with little time for what he wanted to do, and allowed him to hold the Snake Talisman when he expressed curiosity at how she'd turned invisible. Naturally, this led to him using it to sneak out of his hotel and into the city. Although Jade managed to find him with knowledge of what he wanted to do while he was here and a warm can of soda, she didn't have the heart to send him back and instead took him on a tour.

The mini-vacation met an abrupt end when the would-be kidnappers returned, this time succeeding in abducting the king. The ransom demanded the king's advisor come alone with the crown jewels, but Jade saw what she thought to be a tattoo matching those of the kidnappers and began to suspect the arrangement was an inside job. As such, she interrupted the trade, which Jackie had been sent to observe from hiding. He confirmed that the tattoo only resembled the kidnappers' when mostly covered, but another of the king's aides turned out to be the mastermind. In the commotion, Jade was able to invisibly free the king, and the kidnappers were arrested. Jade, however, was still grounded for stealing the Talisman.

When the Dark Hand finally resurfaced, it was to release the water demon Bai Tsa. Unlike most of her siblings, she was able to escape re-banishment, fleeing to her ancient empire of Atlantis. With the sunken city in ruins, she intended to use San Francisco as a replacement, which the Chans learned when Valmont came to them seeking help with his possession, having managed to render Shendu unconscious. Uncle agreed to help and painted a symbol on Valmont's forehead to suppress Shendu, while Jackie asked for use of his resources in tracking Bai Tsa.

The group managed to find the water demon in a subway station, where she was trying to summon enough water to set off an earthquake that would sink the entire city. Jackie and Tohru went to confront the demon, with the latter giving his former boss a harsh warning that Jade was to be unharmed. He was able to keep her from charging into the fight, so she insisted he help instead. This turned out to be a mistake, as Bai Tsa washed the mark off of Valmont's face and she and Shendu managed to escape together.

When they tracked her down again, Jackie succeeded at banishing the demon, but Jade got too close to the spell and was pulled into the portal along with Bai Tsa. She managed to hide from the seven demons long enough to learn that Shendu was planning to open his portal for them and for Uncle to contact her and inform her that only one person could use each demon portal. When she was discovered, she revealed that Shendu had tricked his siblings, leading to an argument and then a free for all to reach the portal first when Shendu's banishment opened it. With the demons focused on each other, Jade managed to gain the lead in the race and return to the human world.

Since Shendu's portal had been in Hong Kong, the Chans decided to visit Jade's parents, who were unaware of the demons. During the visit, Shendu returned to the human world and succeeded in possessing Jackie, then took off for Australia. When the remaining Chans caught up, they saw that Shendu was trying to change the Book of Ages, a magical tome that recorded all of history. Jade attempted to stop him, but was only able to tear off a portion of a page before Shendu altered history. That page, however, turned out to be about her, and was unaffected by the changes, leaving Jade the only human in Shendu's new timeline who remembered the original reality.

In the new version of history, neither Shendu nor his siblings were defeated and each of them had ruled a different territory for as long as history could remember. Jade and her family lived under the jurisdiction of Shendu, with her, Jackie and Uncle serving the demon directly. Furthermore, as both magic and martial arts were outlawed, Jackie was unable to fight and Uncle had only limited knowledge of Chi spells, although he had abused his position as library boy to skim Shendu's books of magic. Still, Jade managed to convince them to help her fix history and taught Uncle how to remove Shendu's Talismans. They only succeeded in taking a few, but among them were the Rabbit and the Rooster, which let them turn one of Shendu's rugs into a flying carpet and escape through a hole made with the Dragon Talisman.

In order to have enough manpower to break into the fortress Shendu had created around the Book of Ages, Jade decided to re-recruit the J-Team. Along the way, she taught Jackie what he had taught her about martial arts and taught Uncle how to banish the demons. So they went, rescuing Tohru from the Mountain Demon, Viper from the Sky Demon and El Toro and Paco from the Wind Demon, banishing each in turn, along with the Thunder Demon. With the team assembled, they set off for Australia, where they found a stone building with no entrances. They also encountered the remaining demons, and a desperate battle for the Book of Ages began.

Each of the demons managed to disable a member of the J-Team, but Jade, Uncle and Paco managed to reach the Book unharmed. Jade began making edits to it to give the J-Team an advantage, getting into a brief squabble with Paco as they each tried to make Jackie or El Toro respectively more impressive before Uncle told her to write that he banished the demons. With their enemies gone, they began considering how to repair history, but the problem was solved when Jade put her piece back and the untainted chapter returned the book to what it had been before Shendu's edits.

With Shendu apparently gone for good, the Dark Hand returned to hunting valuable objects and ended up searching for the same lost relic as Jackie and Jade: the Cat of Khartoum. Though the Chans found the statue first, it was the Dark Hand that managed to escape with it. Determined to see the cat to a museum, Jackie tracked down the most likely buyer. But when Valmont went back on the deal, the buyer decided to hold Jackie hostage and force Jade to recover the cat, whose scratch had turned Valmont into a cat person. Though she was successful in stealing the statue, she accidentally scratched herself on it during her escape. By the time Valmont came to retrieve it, Jade had also transformed and the two engaged in the most literal of catfights. Jade was able to gain the upper hand by distracting Valmont with a claim she had seen a mouse and knocked him unconscious. With the commotion over, Jade acknowledged that she had to change back and Jackie, deciding the statue was too dangerous to be allowed to exist, smashed it. A purple smoke billowed from the remains of the statue and returned both Jade and Valmont to their normal selves.

That was the last they saw of Valmont for a while, although an evil Chi wizard named Daolong Wong took interest in the Chans when a sect of monks believed Tohru to be their chosen one. He later attempted to use three mystical monkey statues to rob everyone in China of their senses and returned again in an attempt to steal the Talismans while they were in transit.

With the forces of evil seemingly at bay, Jade caught wind of a jade smuggler named Chang that Captain Black wanted Jackie's help to uncover. To increase the chances of someone allied with Section 13 winning the martial arts tournament suspected of being a cover for recruiting muscle, Jade suggested bringing in the J-Team. Captain Black approved of the idea, but Jade was instructed to stay behind. Instead she signed the team up for the tournament herself after sneaking out to the island on a boat Captain Black believed was used to smuggle jade. Of the entire J-Team, only Tohru managed to win his competition, and so Jade decided to sneak into the hidden area of the complex. Jackie followed her and was discovered, causing the owner of the island to give himself away in response to hearing that Jackie was looking for Jade. He called his private army to attack them, and the J-Team was nearly overwhelmed, but Tohru's opponent in the Sumo competition and his two friends arrived to honor and help the only person to ever defeat him in the ring. With the help, the group was able to escape and Section 13, with the proof Captain Black needed, put Chang behind bars.

When Daolong Wong later broke into Section 13 in search of them, the Dark Hand used his path of destruction to sneak in themselves. During the ensuing three-way battle, Uncle banished the Dark Chi Warriors employed by Daolong Wong, but it still seemed he was going to take the Talismans. Rather than let them fall into the evil wizard's hands, Jackie destroyed them, scattering their powers to find new hosts in the most noble of the animals represented by the Chinese Zodiac.

With the Dark Hand Enforcers drafted as the new Dark Chi Warriors, the race was on to collect the Talisman powered animals before the forces of darkness. They found the first in a stray dog, who revealed his power of immortality while trying to protect the Chans from Daolong Wong. Jade took fast to the pooch, who she named Scruffy, and he became Section 13's unofficial pet.

They were next led to Las Vegas, where the show tiger Sasha had inherited the power of spiritual balance. Though she split into her Ying and Yang halves and partially split Jackie, team Chan was able to keep her safe...and after an unpleasant run-in with her dark half, her handlers were more than happy to let her go.

The hunt for the third animal was complicated when the rat with the power of animating the inanimate brought a statue of Quetzalcoatl to life. The Aztec deity mistook Jade for a sun goddess and El Toro for the evil god of the underworld, thinking the ox symbol on his mask was the horned icon of the evil sorcerer. When Daolong Wong arrived to steal the Rat's power, Jade's quick thinking in animating a cart full of Super Moose hero piñatas to occupy the Dark Chi Warriors and then drawing a pair of horns on Daolong Wong's facial marking to convince Quetzalcoatl he was the real enemy allowed them to fend off the evil wizard and escape with the Rat.

The fight for the shapeshifting monkey took a turn for the bizarre when the Monkey King, an ancient trickster entity that had once turned Jackie into a doll and subsequently been defeated by the Chans, returned for vengeance. Angry that the shapeshifter was able to get more laughs than he was, he abducted the animal and took it to a volcano, which he intended to set off. When he forgot a key ingredient in his spell, three pounds of wood, Daolong Wong returned him to the puppet form he had escaped from, inadvertently completing the spell and then fleeing for his life. However, as the Monkey King was a spirit of mischief rather than destruction, the liquid that spewed from the volcano was not lava, but gelatin.

The next two animals discovered their powers on the same day, sending Jackie and Jade to Kansas with the levitating rooster, affectionately dubbed Eggbert by Jade, still in tow. There they discovered that the pig with heat beam eye beams was a prize winner belonging to a local farmer. The farmer refused to part with his pig, leading to trouble when the rooster and pig escaped. After a fight that took the farmer's house to the skies, Daolong Wong succeeded in draining both animals' powers. With the rooster now an ordinary animal and seemingly bonded with the depowered pig, the Chans decided to leave it with the farmer in apology for the trouble they'd caused him.

The rabbit of super speed turned out to be a mascot for the Jackalopes football team in Wyoming. Though Jade was supposed to stay out of the search for her own safety, she was actually the one who discovered it after meeting a scrawny football player. When the young man discovered the rabbit's powers, he smuggled it onto the field to run circles around the opponent, forcing Jackie and the Dark Chi Warriors both to pose as football players to get to it. On the sidelines, Uncle was confronting Daolong Wong directly in a battle of magic, but was losing the contest. To bolster her great-uncle's magic, Jade got the cheerleaders to chant along with him, overpowering the dark wizard and forcing him to flee. When the newly empowered football player was reluctant to part with the rabbit, Jade convinced him to not rely on magic and he was able to pull off a decisive play without its help.

In Scotland, the astral projecting sheep proved difficult to capture as it sent its spirit, which was the true vessel for its power, wandering when scared. In order to convince its spirit to return to its body, Jade went to sleep inside a circle against Dark Chi to speak to the sheep in her dreams. However, at around this time, Daolong Wong used his dark magic to summon the Shadowkhan as replacements for his incompetent Dark Chi Warriors. The Shadowkhan were able to infiltrate Jade's dreams just after she'd convinced the sheep to return to its body, only to be defeated by Jade's lucid dreaming.

Though Jade's spirit was safe, Daolong Wong managed to beat the Chans to the sheep's real body and steal its power, which he then used to force Jackie and Jade's astral forms out of their bodies. To keep them out of his hair, he cast a spell over their bodies to keep them from returning. Though Uncle was able to figure out what had happened and perform a counterspell, the overly complicated ritual went awry, sending the two back into the wrong bodies. With no time to put them back, the group had to follow Daolong Wong in their mixed up state before he could make use of the sheep's power to find the other animals. Though Jackie was initially reluctant to let Jade fight, she reminded him that he was the child this time and that he was the one who should be staying out of danger. Although she proved to be a capable fighter on par with Jackie when not limited by her young body, she was slowly overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the Shadowkhan, forcing Jackie to 'do like Jade' and help despite his current stature.

When they managed to find Daolong Wong, his spirit had already left his body. With his mind elsewhere, they were able to transfer the sheep's power back, as well as placing a spell on his body to prevent his spirit from returning. From there, it was easy to take the sheep back to Section 13 and restore Jackie and Jade to their own bodies, although Jade wanted to have more time to enjoy her borrowed height.

The snake of invisibility turned out to have not hatched yet, making it simple to trick the Dark Chi Warriors into taking the wrong reptile. The true problem came from Jackie being incapacitated with a snakebite and Tohru's mother, whom he had invited to visit on the trip, refusing to let him fight. When searching Uncle's bag for herbs she could use as a headache remedy, she found the snake egg, which she dipped into her tea to accidentally create a potion of invisibility. The Dark Chi Warriors had also discovered that they'd been tricked and returned for the egg, leading to it falling out of a window and hatching. Jade was able to track the invisible snake by the trail it left in the dust and calm it down while Tohru's mother occupied the Dark Chi Warriors.

Daolong Wong's next target was not a Talisman powered animal, but Santa Claus. On Christmas Eve, an elf appeared in Uncle's shop in search of the Chi wizard that could combat Daolong Wong. Jade, who didn't believe in Santa, thought the elf was a fake until he transported the Chan Clan to Santa's workshop at the North Pole. He explained that Daolong Wong had abducted Santa, house and all, and they needed Uncle to find and rescue him before Christmas Morning. In order to buy some time, Jade suggested Tohru fill in, with her and Paco as his helpers. They only got three stops in midway through the night, but the real Santa was able to take over and save Christmas. When she checked under the tree the next morning, she found that he had left her a new video game she wanted that Jackie had been unable to find.

The next animal was the healing horse in London. In order to keep Jackie from leaving her behind, she stowed away in the overhead luggage compartment of his plane, where she bumped into Valmont, who had been shrunk to his childhood appearance as a result of a confrontation with Daolong Wong. The pair's surprise caused them to fall out of their hiding place, forcing Valmont to explain his situation and that he was hoping the horse could cure his condition. To keep him out of the way, Jackie left him behind with Tohru and Jade, who were supposed to stay in the hotel room. After Valmont made a thorough mess of the room in an attempt to annoy Tohru enough to let him go, he and Jade got into an argument, which Jade won by pointing out she was taller than him, the result of a grow up spell she'd cast earlier that she'd thought had failed. But rather than granting her adult height, the spell instead kept going until she was the size of a building.

Outside, she found Jackie, Valmont and Daolong Wong fighting over the horse, which she put in her pocket to keep safe. To combat her, the evil wizard summoned a giant monster, and the two battled it out, with Jade confident that she was safe because the horse would heal her every time she got hurt. Her plan was ruined when Valmont stole the horse from her pocket, though she was still able to win in the end. As the horse had only managed to heal Valmont's paper cut, the Chans took them with him back to America while Uncle worked on a counterspell. He was returned to his proper age just in time to be arrested by Section 13 agents waiting for the plane to land.

The final mundane animal left to find was an ox, which actually found the Chans when it smelled Jade's snack bar. In an attempt to safeguard its power, Uncle used a spell to transfer it to another host. Daolong Wong, however, was able to capture Uncle's spirit during the process, leaving the Chans to rescue him and find a way to release him from the prison. While Jackie was searching for Daolong Wong, Jade and Tohru were left to figure out where the Talisman power actually was: hidden in Uncle's body, the last place anyone would look for the power of super strength. Daolong Wong came searching for it, but not before Tohru freed Uncle's spirit, allowing him to use the Talisman power to defeat the evil wizard before giving it back to the ox.

With all but the power of the Dragon Talisman secure, Jade came up with an idea to prove to her classmates that her stories of adventure and magic were true. At a school fair, she set up a display booth for all of the animals they had collected. This naturally led to disaster when the Dark Chi Warriors appeared in search of the newly vulnerable animals and the ensuing commotion spooked them into fleeing and activating their various powers. Though she felt terrible that she had given their enemies another chance at the animals, Jade's guilt quickly turned to resolve to help clean up her mess before any of the Talisman powers fell into Daolong Wong's hands. With everyone's efforts, they were able to round up the animals and take them back to safety.

A while after re-securing the animals, the Chans returned to the shop to find Tohru missing. Worried about his uncharacteristic disappearance, even leaving cookies to go to waste, they used a locater spell to find him all the way in India. There they found that he had lost his memory and was working for Valmont again, under the impression that he'd never quit. Uncle recognized that he was under the effects of a potion that had caused amnesia, and the chase to recover it from Valmont led to an ancient temple where he was forcing Tohru to carry a golden elephant statue. In the ensuing fight with the temple guardians, Uncle and Valmont were accidentally sprayed by the potion, but fighting alongside Jackie jogged Tohru's emotional memory and he realized that Valmont had been lying to him. Tohru, Uncle and Valmont were all able to recover their memories, although it's unknown how.

With the memory disaster over, Uncle wanted to confirm that there was no living dragon to host the power of combustion. The locater spell initially said there was no dragon, but later sprang to life and led the Chans to Daolong Wong's home base, where they found a giant egg housing the restored body of Shendu. Despite her best efforts, the egg hatched and Shendu inherited the power of the Dragon Talisman, then went on to doublecross Daolong Wong for the powers of the rooster and pig.

The Chans were left with no choice but to flee back to Section 13, but even the technological and magical security there couldn't defend against Shendu for long. To buy time for Uncle to research a way to deal with the demon, Jackie loaded the nine remaining animals into a truck and fled, while Jade stowed away to look out for her uncle. Despite their best efforts to outrun him, Shendu managed to catch up and drain the animals of their power, one by one. Meanwhile, Uncle hadn't been able to find the spell to stop Shendu, but he had found one to remove the bulk of Daolong Wong's power and return the Dark Chi Warriors to normal. With his magical nemesis defeated, Uncle was able to convince him to share his knowledge of ancient spells for the sake of revenge against Shendu, and Uncle successfully sealed Shendu back into stone form, recreating the Talismans in the process.

With the forces of evil at bay for now, Uncle decided to take his family to see a Chinese opera performed by a troupe he had once been part of. At first Jade was bored by the show, but she quickly took interest when she saw the actors passing through walls. After the show, Uncle took them down to the stage to meet an old friend of his who now managed the troupe, a man he only called Beetle Brow. However, between Jackie's distraction with an upcoming exhibit and Jade's attempts to find the secret to moving through the stage, Beetle Brow got the impression that the Chans had no respect for his art form and got into an argument with Uncle, during which the latter revealed that the actors used magic makeup that let them pass through solid objects.

The next day, Jackie caught a pair of thieves in costumes from the opera using magic makeup to steal from his exhibit. One of them took a bad hit to the face during the getaway, but when Jackie removed the makeup from the actor at the opera, he had no signs of injury. It was Jade's spying, with the help of some magic makeup she found in a dressing room, that revealed that the true culprits were the other two actors, and that they'd hidden their stolen goods in one of the props. A stage-battle for the prop ensued with both sides trying to play it off as just being ad-libs to the script, until the prop broke and revealed a stash of stolen valuables. The thieves tried to use their magic makeup to make an escape, but a well timed bucket of water from Jade stopped them.

Some time later, the jade smuggler Chang escaped from jail with the help of a magically created clone. He used this same magic to make copies of each of the J-Team, initially using them to frame Viper for theft. But with the discovery of a fake El Toro, the J-Team realized what was really going on, and that it was entirely possible Chang had replaced one of them with a fake. Sure enough, a fake Jackie appeared in a group meeting, leaving the J-Team to figure out which was which. Jade was able to identify to impostor by asking the Jackies if she could go to an amusement park, only the real Jackie reminded her of her homework first.

Because of the risk that there were other impostors, Uncle restrained all of the adults of the J-Team, plus Captain Black, before using an identifier spell. At first it seemed Jackie was the only one with an impersonator, but Jade immediately became suspicious of Paco when he pronounced her name without his accent, something he'd been unable to do even with persistent correcting. She immediately snatched the focus for Uncle's spell and used it to confirm that Paco was a magical clone. The rest of the J-Team freed themselves from their restraints to capture the clone and then tracked Chang back to his old hideout. Under the logic that the original could imitate a clone as easily as a clone could imitate the original, they managed to trick the two guarding the real Paco and rescue him. By this point, Jade was incredibly frustrated that she hadn't seen any sign of her evil duplicate and worried that it was because she wasn't important enough, but in truth the fake Jade had just been given the same treatment as the real one and was stuck on the sidelines. In the battle between super powered clones and originals, Jade was able to defeat her clone through superior skill before Uncle cast a spell through the phone to return the duplicates' personalities to the close match to the originals they naturally were.

The battle against evil kicked off again when the Dark Hand Enforcers escaped from jail. In the chase to re-apprehend them, the Chans discovered that they had been broken out by a giant floating demon head Tohru identified as scarily similar to the Oni demons of japan. Uncle's magic proved useless against the new demon, but he still refused to believe the creature was truly an Oni, as all of the enemies they'd faced before had been of Chinese origin. It wasn't until they encountered the being again in the ruins of Shendu's palace and he introduced himself as Tarakudo, Lord of all Oni that Uncle came to accept that Tohru's legends were true.

The Oni's target was an ancient mask that Shendu had used to control the Shadowkhan, also of Japanese origin. He gave the mask to one of the Enforcers, who was able to use it to draw on the power of one of Tarakudo's Oni generals to summon and control the Shadowkhan. A stone tablet with the mask revealed that there were eight more masks corresponding to eight more generals, the combined power of whom could shroud the world in darkness, and detailed the method for removing this specific mask from its host. The spell required Japanese steel, a material Uncle and Tohru were at a loss for finding in China, but Jade recognized that the weapons of the Shadowkhan would most likely have been forged using Japanese methods and was able to help complete the spell.

Midway through the hunt for the other masks, one of them went up for auction and was bought by someone with the username 'Filthyrich1'. They tracked the user to a run down motel, where they found Valmont living in a single room apartment barely fit for habitation. He had bought the mask with the intent to use its power to rebuild his fortune with stolen goods. In the struggle to get it away from him, the mask broke in half, leaving him with the power to summon half Shadowkhan. Even the one-legged creatures turned out to be dangerous, however, and they cornered Jackie and Jade on the Golden Gate Bridge.

In an attempt to fight fire with fire, Jade donned the other half of the Oni mask and summoned the missing halves of the Shadowkhan, but they were far less effective due to the heads being on Valmont's side. The Chans were still able to use them as enough of a distraction to escape, but the Oni mask had already started to corrupt Jade, and the removal potion had been lost. As Uncle couldn't replace the key ingredient, they had no choice but to hunt down the potion he had already made, tracking it to a mail sorting facility. There they encountered Valmont who, like Jade, had been fighting with the mask's desires conflicting with his own and wanted them to remove it. The mask halves, in such close proximity to each other, were able to overpower their hosts for long enough to combine the Shadowkhan halves and set them against Jackie, but in a rare moment of putting aside their differences, Jade and Valmont were able to work together to get the potion and remove each other's masks.

During a lull before finding the final mask, the Enforcers attempted a heist for themselves and were badly injured. The Chans thought they wouldn't be seeing them for a while, but the three arrived not long after Jackie returned, not looking for a fight but for an opportunity to reform. Jackie sent them to Captain Black, who offered them parole working at Uncle's antique shop. He left Jade in charge of keeping an eye on them, with a remote she could use to chain them together if they caused problems. As time passed without any incident, she came to trust that they really had abandoned their criminal ways and even started to view them as friends. When Jackie went on a mission to transport a valuable gem, she brought the three of them with her to help back him up. Though they were no direct match for the thieves after the gem, they managed to help in their own way and were responsible both for the incapacitation of the thieves and preventing Jade from trying to finish off the enemies that had nearly overwhelmed Jackie.

On the way down the mountain, Jackie apologized for assuming the thieves had been the Enforcers, but made the mistake of showing them the jewel he had come to collect. Tempted by the prospect of riches, they decided to pull one last heist. Though Jade hadn't trusted them enough to leave the chain remote behind, they were able to snatch it from her before she could hit the switch and, with the element of surprise, escape with the gem. The Chans later found them hanging from a tree further down the mountain, having been mugged by the original thieves after the gem. The first gem thieves wanted to use its magical power to get revenge against a monastery that had tried to teach them peace. To keep an eye on them, the Chans took the Enforcers with them, chained together at the leg, to the monastery, where Jade used the thick clouds around the mountain to defeat two otherwise superior enemies. When the Enforcers attempted to flee, she tried to warn them that there was a cliff in the direction they were going, but too late. With the clouds too thick to see what had happened to them, she had no choice but to assume they had fallen to their deaths, a belief that saddened her despite their betrayal.

While the Enforcers were blowing their chance at having their records cleared, Dalong Wong was busy convincing law enforcement to release him early for good behavior. Out of prison, he tracked down a magical stone that would let him travel back in time. Jade was able to find it first, but failed to pay enough attention and had it stolen out of her hand by the evil wizard. In an attempt to stop him from using the stone to undo his defeats, Jackie tackled the Chans' old enemy and they were both sent hurtling into Jackie's past. With the help of scrying and portal magic, Uncle was able to allow Jackie to move from memory to memory, hoping he would find his way to the present. Unable to do anything but watch, Jade was forced to watch all of her past interferences, and couldn't help but notice her every mistake that had nearly spelled disaster. In the end, Jackie was able to retrieve the stone and very nearly sent Jade back home way back when she'd initially arrived, but the montage of his adventures had helped him realize that for all of the trouble she caused, Jade truly had been instrumental in several of his victories.

Back home, Uncle doctored a metal detector to track dark Chi. It led him, Jackie and Jade to a junkyard, where a woman appeared in a flare of light and demanded Jade flee. She used good Chi magic to escape when Jackie refused to let her take Jade without an explanation and pulled the child away. A safe distance from her appearance point, the woman revealed herself to be Jade from the future, trying to protect her past self from Drago, the son of Shendu, who had followed her into the past. She had come back from a future where she was the temporary head of Section 13 in order to destroy a set of dragon's teeth Drago was using to release Shendu in her time. They were unable to outrun the young demon, but they managed to escape him to later confront him directly over the dragon's teeth. Though they were able to retrieve them, Drago had destroyed the Dragon Talisman, their only method of creating a magical force to destroy the teeth. Taking note of the demon's short temper, however, Jade began antagonizing him. With her future self joining in, they were able to anger Drago to the point of breathing a blast of fire at them, which they tossed the teeth into to burn away in the magic flames. From there they were able to best him and restrain him, then lock him away in the Section 13 of the present.

After the business with the time travel, Jackie learned that Chang had once again escaped from prison, this time assembling an 'anti-J-Team' for revenge. In an attempt to keep from being left out, Jade had prepared a spell meant to grant her authority over people and cast it on Uncle, along with the entire J-Team, seemingly to no effect. However, during the confrontation between the J-Team and their criminal counterparts, the spell effect kicked in, delayed by a forgotten ingredient, and turned its subjects into toddlers with the memories of their adult selves but the impulses of children. The anti-J-Team escaped with little meaningful opposition from their shrunken opponents, and Jade was left with a group of young children to deal with, one of whom was the only one with the experience necessary to reverse the spell.

Though Jade tried to keep the mini-J-Team out of trouble, they felt an obligation to stop Chang and snuck away while she was distracted trying to keep Uncle on task. Jade followed to save them and was able to even the odds by casting her authority spell on Chang and his team. With Uncle arriving soon after with the counterspell, it was relatively easy to take the band of thieves into custody.

After an extended period of no activity from Tarakudo, the Chans were able to recover the last Oni mask with no opposition. However, when they placed it in the vault with the others, all nine masks shattered and the Oni generals manifested their original forms. Tohru, dealing with a fragmented tablet, had missed a warning that the masks were never to be brought together, or else the seal would break. With no masks to remove, the entire J-Team was forced to split into pairs and confront the Oni directly as they used their control over the Shadowkhan to blanket the world in darkness. One by one the pairs defeated the Oni, only for Tarakudo himself to intervene and turn the tides, robbing them of the Talismans they were using to match the demons in combat. Their last bet for saving the world was sealing Tarakudo in a mask of his own, which had been hidden in the shadow world. However, the spell required giving Tarakudo a body and forcing the mask onto his face, a task which Jackie was unable to accomplish alone. With Jackie on the ground and the mask flying through the air, Jade took the chance to leap for it and use the Oni's surprise to seal him, along with all of his generals.

Though the Chans had peace with Tarakudo sealed, it wasn't to last. With the alignment of the stars to favor dark Chi, Drago escaped from containment and drafted the Dark Hand Enforcers, who had survived their fall thanks to a high branch. He was after a fan that had absorbed some of the Chi of the Wind Demon, but in the ensuing fight the Chi was absorbed into Jade who began to take on the physical traits and powers of the demon over the course of the day. Though Drago arrived to claim it from her, she was able to use her newfound control over wind to defeat the Enforcers and escape to Section 13, where Uncle removed the demon Chi from her and trapped it in a large containment unit.

The next demon Chi was in a gourd used as a prop on a game show. In order to get it without causing a scene, and hopefully win a new TV in the process, Jade signed the Chans up to compete. This didn't go as well as hoped, and they were forced to contend with Drago holding the power of water. Fortunately, Uncle's new magical invention, the Chi-o-Matic allowed them to strip him of the Water Demon's power and contain it then and there, though the Chans were disqualified from the game show.

The next two Chis activated on the same day, which also happened to be Jade's birthday. Though she got to tag along for the adventure, she bemoaned the timing the entire way, as she had no time to properly celebrate. By the time both the Earth Demon and Moon Demon Chis were secured, it was almost midnight and she was worn out from the day's hunt, unable to even stay awake long enough to get home.

Bored with the arts and crafts of the Buttercup Scouts, Jade decided it was time for a switch. She managed to wiggle her way into the Dragon Scouts, a primarily boys scouting troop, in the hopes that it would have more interesting activities. There she met three obnoxious young boys, who turned out to be nephews to the Dark Hand Enforcers. Jade immediately grew suspicious of them for the relation, even though the Enforcers claimed that their nephews had no clue their relatives were criminals and that they had put them in the scouts to develop positive traits. Because of her antagonism, the boys quickly ganged up on her, only for her to earn their respect by retrieving her hat from a bear pen at the zoo. Still she had her doubts, and when a priceless statue disappeared from a museum when the lights went out during a troop visit, she immediately blamed them. Though she discovered the statue in one of their backpacks, it turned out that it had been planted there by the true thief, a guide working at the museum, who then trapped all four children in the school. Humbled by her mistake, Jade treated the boys more fairly after their rescue and even seemed to begin making friends with them.

When Hsi Wu's Chi wound up in Jade's teacher, she immediately assumed the worst. She spent the majority of her time fleeing the winged teacher, up until the woman rescued her from Drago and took her to a roost in an upper room of the haunted mansion the class was visiting on a field trip. Jade was surprised to learn that she had become a teacher because she liked children, having assumed her teacher had felt the opposite way and simply wanted the opportunity to take out her hatred on kids who couldn't escape. When the teacher turned demon was able to forcibly eject Drago from the mansion and into the nearby water, Jade convinced her to give up her new ability of flight to stay at the school, claiming she was everyone's favorite teacher. She then helped Jackie convince her that the day's events had all been an illusion, despite the opportunity to convince her teacher that her claims of magic hadn't been made up.

With Uncle's home town soon to be submerged by a new dam, he decided to take his family to visit it while it still stood. Jade, however, was uninterested in his history lesson, leading to an argument in which he called her a stubborn mule. This led to problems when she accidentally released four spirits from a mirror, which possessed her, Uncle, Jackie and Tohru, causing each of their current worst fears to manifest. Jade began slowly turning into a donkey, while Uncle was rendered mute, Jackie's head swelled to an unbalanced size and Tohru became a giant version of his mother. Through charades, Uncle was able to communicate the ingredients for the spell to banish the evil spirits and, though the effects grew worse the closer the Chan Clan came to success, they were ultimately able to return themselves to normal.

After discovering and securing all but one of the demon Chis, Jade decided Tohru needed to drop some of the weight that impaired his agility. She put him on a strict diet and exercise regimen, despite the fact that he didn't care about losing weight. When she caught evidence that he'd been cheating on his diet, she angrily got onto his case, not realizing that he had accidentally absorbed the Chi of the Mountain Demon until he began to visibly transform, by which point he was so overwhelmed by hunger he could think of nothing but food. But when Drago tried to attack the Chans, she still called for his help, and her voice was enough to draw his attention away from eating everything in sight in order to protect her. With Drago once again chased off and deprived of even his own Fire Demon power, all eight demon powers were secured.

It wasn't to last. In a bid to force Jade to give him the containment unit, Drago abducted Captain Black, Jackie and Uncle. Jade decided that they would meet him with it as asked, but not before Tohru developed a spell to re-trap the Chi powers the moment Drago began to absorb them. He succeeded, but claimed he needed a part of Drago to complete the spell. Under the logic that parents and children share half of their DNA, she gambled on a sample of Shendu working instead and visited the old demon to take a piece of him. Shendu tried to tempt her to release him, claiming that only he could save them from Drago, but she didn't trust him, instead deciding to take her chances with the spell.

At the rendezvous, she insisted on seeing proof that her loved ones were unharmed before turning over the containment unit. However, instead of the transaction proceeding, Drago's henchmen, the thieves from the mountain who he had hired to replace the Enforcers after their first failure, doublecrossed him to take the powers for themselves. To make matters worse, when Uncle tried to drain the Chi powers from them, Drago used an unfamiliar spell to draw them into himself, faster than Tohru's spell could stop them. With all eight demon powers combined, he became a nearly unstoppable force of destruction, with the Chis permanently bound to him, and began destroying the city.

Humanity's last stand came at a baseball field, where Drago had begun summoning the demons of the underworld. Jade took the Talismans from Section 13 and distributed them to the fighters, though she left Paco with the Sheep to keep him out of the way, and was able to help fend off the lesser demons, but none of them were a match for Drago. In a last move of desperation, Uncle arrived at the scene with backup in the form of Shendu, who felt his son hadn't given him his due respect. The two demons battled fiercely, but Shendu was outmatched by the power of all of his siblings until Jade had the thought to give him the Talismans that had made him such an unstoppable force before. At the same time, Tohru had the idea to cast a reversal spell on Drago's summoning. The spell pulled Drago's summoned allies back into the void and left the demon barely clinging to the human world, pleading with his father to save him. When Jackie began to move in to finish it, Jade stopped him with a reminder of his own words that sometimes the greatest victory was the battle not fought. As she expected, Drago doublecrossed Shendu at the last moment, pulling the elder dragon down into the void in an attempt to escape alone, only for Shendu to grab and drag him down with him.

As the dust settled, Captain Black recognized that the day had been won thanks to Jade's strategic mind and offered her a position with Section 13. She eagerly asked Jackie if she could accept, but he only said he would think about it, a statement Jade took to mean no.