Jade Chapter 10

Jade opened the gates and went inside. Looking at the plants that is started glowing and a few snapdragons feeble now, and snapped at her.   She steps them down. Behind her, a brick tree ring. Like a monster's mouth and five huge, blue snapdragons sneak towards her. They attack, knock her to the ground, and spilling her bag.

“No!” Screamed Jade as they grabbed her at her ankles, knees, hips, waist, and shoulder, and start to roll the girl up towards the stone mouth. She is just able to grab her short katana and slicing it off one mutant snapdragon's head, then another, until she is free. The headless stems retreat into the rock mouth. Jade, winded, goes to gather her spilled things when a trio of Xenomorph wasps swooped in. They do not attack her instead, and hey poke their long stringer into the triangle stone, and lifted off,

“Stop” Replied Jade as chases them, but they are getting away. As she crosses the little bridge, she took out her large bladed shuriken and flings at them. They fall to the ground, near the eyebrow shrubs, and acid blood began to spilling out. Jade picks up the triangle stone and her Shuriken on her back.

“Why steal this?” Asked Jade, as she holds it up to her eye and gasps everything was grey like a pencil drawing, and all the colors gone.

“Wow” Replied Jade as she scans the garden, turning slowly. As she turns back to where she started, she sees something; right in front of her was a ghost body.

“That must be it.” Replied Jade as she lowers the stone from her eye, to see that the ghost's body is the faded stick shift knob from the Xenomorph mantis, which stands right in front of her with the Xenmorph king and the Xenomorph Mantis roared.

“Sorry, Mother making me.” Replied Kuro as he shifted gears, and the Xenomorph mantis lurches at the girl, its arms slashing and the girl backs away. Jade backs onto the little bridge that spans the fountains as it moves in.

“Don't want to hurt you.” Replied Kuro as he tries to steer the tractor away, but the It moves onto the bridge -smashing the planks in front of it. Halfway over, it lurches, then starts to fall through the hole. The Xenomorph Mantis hangs precariously for a moment. The Xenomorph king manages to pull off the shift knob.

“Take it.”Replied Kuro as Jade ran and just gets the knob before the Xenomotrph mantis and Xenomorph king drowned in the fish pond. Rippling out from her like a gray wave, the entire garden becomes ashen and dead.
Jade catches her breath and, shaken. The ghost body/gear knob glows red.

“Bless you, miss, you found me! But there are two bodies that are still lost.” Replied Rain.

“Don't worry, I'm getting the hang of it!” Replied Jade as looks past the greyed garden towards the
House. An eclipse began to move to the full moon a pale acid green.

Jade looks concerned, then resolved, and then she heads towards the house. A haunting version of Boa Hancock and Tsunade's show song starts to play, she quietly went to theater and spots a flashlight on the ground. she picks it up, clicks it on, and walking at the a dark and gloomy theater. Suddenly noises on the ceiling was overhead. Jade aims flashlight up and startles a nest of Xenomorph bats hanging upside down. One Xenomorph bat hissed as she turns off the flashlight and the Xenomorph bats went back to sleep. On stage, one spotlight and footlights faded up on a huge, wrapped saltwater taffy. It hangs from ropes and sandbags.      

Jade cautiously climbs up onto the stage. Two sleeping Xenomorph snakes wrapped together seen through the wrapper. She holds her triangle stone to her eye. There is a blue and white light coming from inside the wrapper. Jade pucnches a hole through the paper, and reaches inside. She touches something smooth, cold and sketel. Clenching her teeth, the girl grabs hold and pulls out two wrapped tails. She pries the tails opening like scallop shells until a large pearl-on-a-ring is revealed.

“The pearl!” Called Jade as the tails suddenly wrapped and grabbed her hand, the Xenomorph snakes, thrusting their heads out from the wrapper.

“Thief!! Give it back!” hissed the Xenomorph snakes as Jade pulls away, they slithered out of the wrapper and about to get her.

“You thief! Thief! Thief! Thief! Give it back! Thief! Give it back! Give it back! Thief! Stop thief! Thief! Stop!” hissed the Xenomorph snakes as Jade looks at the Xenomorphs and clicks on the flashlight and aims it at the them. They hissed with annoyance, and opening their wings. Jade threw the flashlight at the Xenomorph bats and hits them. Angering the Xenomorph bats, they flew and was about to attack her. She waits to the very last second, and the dodges out of the way The Xenomorph bats collided with the Xenomorph snakes and Jade's hand is released by the Xenomorph snake's tails, leaving her the pearl. The Xenomorph snakes and Xenomorph bats stuck together and turned into dead, grey ash, as does the stage and theater, the pearl in her hand pulses blue.

“Hurry on, girl - her Hive is unwinding!” Replied Nitara as Jade nods, sticks the pearl in her bag, and looks up towards the ceiling and beyond.

Jade heads up to the balcony seeing the pale green moon is nearly half a eclipsed now with the shadow of a huge, dark Xenomorph chestburster. She climbs the last flight of stairs and seeing a skinned Predalien hanging on the flagpole upsidedown.

“Oh you poor thing. YOU EVIL BITCH! I'M NOT SCARED! Screamed Jade as the door behind her creaks opens and she steps into the apartment and carefully shuts the door. The cannons and Ferris wheel are dark and quiet. The circus tent glows dimly. Pale green moonlight shine in patches through holes in the roof. The corners and edges of the room are very dark. Suddenly Itachi crawls out by the door behind her. Jade turns around, on guard as he looms up past the cannons on her right, leaning towards her.

“Hello, Gada!” Replied Itachi

“I'm Jade.” Replied Jade.

His tall, crooked hat is pulled so low, and his collar so high, that his face is completely hidden.

"Is this what you're looking for? " asked Itachi as He throws out his arm towards her and the circus ball from the mouse circus rolls from his sleeve to his hand. She looks through the hole of the triangle stone and seeing an amber light glowing.

“Yep” Replied Jade as she grabs for it, but he's too quick. He back-bends toall fours and scuttles around her towards the shadows.

“You think winning game is a good thing?” Asked Itachi as Jade holds up the triangle stone, scans the room for him. His voice sounds distorted noise

“You'll just go home and be bored and neglected same as always. Stay here with us we will listen to you and laugh with you”. Replied Itachi as he swings upside down from his ankles, his head stopping right by the girl. She turns around, alarmed. He drops to the floor on his head, then slithers into the circus tent. Coraline does not want to follow him. But she does.

Itachi is perched on a pile of cheeses in the center of the ring. He moves like all his bones are broken.

“If you stay here, you can have whatever you want, always.” Replied Itachi as Jade raises the triangle stone to her eye, sees the gloewing light coming from inside his hat.

“You don't get it, do you?” Asked Jade as she moves closer.

“I don’t understand.” Answered Itachi

“Of course you don't understand. You're just a copy she made of the real Itachi Uchiha.” Replied Jade.

“Not even that anymore.” Replied Itachi as Jade pulls off his hat. Instead of his head, a Xenomorph rat holding the circus ball. It barks at her then dives down to the coat collar. The Xenomorph rats leap from coat sleeves and pant legs, she pulls back, as the clothes collapse, scanning around for the circus ball. Jade turns. The Xenomorph rat balanced on a wheel of cheese, circus ball in paws and taunts her, then ran the cheese out of the small circus. The other Xenomorph rats raced behind the twin rows of cannons the cheese wheel rat rolls through them, heading towards the door. Jade Charges but the Xenomorph rats fired the cotton candy cannons at her. She's hit in the side, her leg, her ribs; she weaves and stumbles, the shots landing like punches.

“Ahhh! No!!” Screamed Jade as rat on the wheel appears in the front door as the rat approaches the door. She looks up to see the pet door and the it is going to escape. Jade takes her triangle stone and throws it at the Xenomorph rat. The stone flies through the pet door towards the Xenomorph rat, but it jumps, the stone misses, and the cheese-wheel escapes down the stairs with the ball. She ran to not let the Xenomorph rat escape.

“NOOOO!” Screamed Jade as Two waiting Xenomorph rats - tail tips tied, pull tails tight, and trips her. She crashes though the door and out onto the balcony which tears away from the house with attached stairway.

“Noooo!” Screamed Jade as the balcony, with Jade on top, rotates as it collapses, throwing her toward the front of the house when it hits the ground. She blacks out a moment and wheezing for breath, having two bloody scraped knees and her hair tie lost from the fall, now her hair fell on her face. Jade pushes up on hands and knees and scans past the topiaries and poplars and white gravel driveway, looking for the Xenomorph rat and circus ball.

No Xenomorph rat, no circus ball ghost body.
Narrowing band of pale green light, and she turns to look at the moon. It's nearly covered now by the Xenomorph chestburster.  Jade took out to ghost bodies out of her bag.

“Oh no, I lost the game. I lost everything.” Replied Jade as she cried on her knees and hands while the head of the Xenomorph rat holding the last ghost body dropped on the ground and the moon stopped. A Meowing came as the Jade looked up seeing Aokiji.

“I think I told you that I don’t like Xenomorphs nor rats best of times.” Replied Aokiji as Jade got up.

“I think might said something like that.” Replied Jade

“It looks like you need this however.” Replied Aokiji as he use his paw to roll the ghost body to Jade.

“Thank you.” Replied Jade as she picked up the ghost body as now the whole world outside dead and ashen.

“I’m heading inside Aokiji. I still have to find my friends.” Replied Jade as the Xenomorph chestburster on the moon is full now turning the world that is starting to fade and shrinking.

“Come on Aokiji come quickly.” Replied Jade as Aokiji jumped in the bag. She ran to the front door and closed it.