"So let me get this straight," Jade finally managed to say as she finished a mouthful of her dinner. "You think I'm this...chosen one?"
The spokesperson monk nodded with a wide smile. "Yes, Young One. You are the Chosen One, and the large Warrior is the Guardian destined to protect you as you make the journey to awaken to your past lives."
"And how do you know I'm the Chosen One?" Jade asked pointedly. "Why were you even looking for the Chosen One, anyway?"
"The stars and signs told us that the Chosen One had reincarnated, and that the energies of the past lives were about to begin catalyzing," he explained happily. "As such, we followed the signs and stars to this place at this time, certain we would find the One, as has been the case in many past iterations. We found Tohru and thought him the Chosen One, but were shown our error. We had discovered the Guardian...who led us to the Chosen One. For when we asked of him who could be the Chosen One, you revealed yourself."
"Sounds like a whole lot of coincidence to me," Jade grumbled as she continued her meal.
"Sounds to me like a large excess of protestation," Hsi offered teasingly with a wide smirk. "Much like whenever people call me your boyfriend-"
"You're not my boyfriend!" Jade snapped out almost automatically.
"Whatever you say, Mistress," Hsi teased back.
"And I'm not your mistress!"
"Aiyah..." Uncle groaned as he watched them. "This is the Chosen One? She barely has discipline to do her chores unless it is magic lessons!"
"You really should give more credence to this," Saint observed from Jade's shoulder. "It would explain my appearance."
"And here I thought it was to be as unlike me as possible," Queen countered acidly.
"Just wut is the Chosen One, anyway?" Apple Bloom asked curiously. "How'sit work? Whadda they do?"
"In terms of Good Chi magic, the Chosen One is the South Pole," Ysabelle explained. "In the same way Santa Claus is the North Pole. Santa is the focus of Elemental Good Magic, while the Chosen One is the focus of Living Good Magic. Their very existence keeps the world's Good magic in balance. There are similar entities for Dark Magic and Wild Magic, based around the Grand Meridian of the Magical Fields."
"And I'm supposed to be a paragon of Goodness?" Jade asked with a laugh. "Get real! What kind of 'Chosen One' destined to uphold Good and Truth and all that would be a mischievous hooligan living for the next thrill?"
"Jade, that's a rather belittling way of describing yourself," Jackie chided. "...however accurate."
"Her name was Emeraude, a couple millennia ago," Hsi offered helpfully. "The first female Chosen One. Don't know if there's been another since."
Jade turned to stare at Hsi in wide-eyed consternation. "And how do you know that?"
"I told you after the dance that I hadn't met a mortal girl as interesting as you in millennia," Hsi pointed out with a smirk. "Who did you think I was talking about?"
"Sky Lord Hsi Wu!" the monk gasped in shock as his companions bowed low. "So it is true? The Brotherhood has ceased its attempts at conquest, once more freeing you to adventure as you had before joining them after Emeraude's death?"
"Seriously?" Jade demanded in shock as Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Ruby all began cackling in laughter.
"Not quite free," Hsi told the monks teasingly. He smirked at Jade. "Not the first time I've been a familiar, either."
"Oh, come on!" Jade screamed out in disbelief.
"Destiny! Destiny!" Audrey III sang out. "No escaping Destiny!"
"You shut up!" Jade snapped at Audrey. She then turned back to the monks. "Okay, that's a lot of circumstantial evidence to be shrugged off as coincidence I'll admit...but that still doesn't say proof to me."
"Would the Chosen One's chi look like an onion?" Scootaloo asked the monks suddenly.
"I...beg your pardon?" the monk asked curiously.
"When we first met Jade, Sweetie Belle used her magic to see her chi," Scootaloo explained. "She had a lot of it. Like...tons! And all layered like an onion...or something like that."
"Indeed, that is how the Chosen One's chi would appear prior to beginning to catalyze," the monk confirmed with a wide smile. "With the chi of the present life the outermost layer, enclosing and containing the chi of each previous life in succession."
"And I take it the innermost layers starting to spark back and forth between each other and glittering like stars is the catalyzing you're talking about?" Sweetie Belle asked curiously, sunglasses covering her green-glowing eyes as she looked at Jade.
The monk frowned worriedly. "...how many stars?" he asked hesitantly.
"Umm...looks like about twelve distinct ones so far," Sweetie Belle observed. "The rest just looks like glitter."
"Then it hasn't progressed too far," the monk allowed with a sigh of relief. "We have time to journey to our monastery in Bhutan and perform the ritual to gentle the awakening, so your mortal mind is not overwhelmed with the memories of thousands of past lives bursting forth."
"Do...do I have to do this?" Jade asked, her tone starting to take on a bit of a wheedling note to it. "Isn't there any way to stop it? Make it wait till next life?"
"Ysabelle mentioned something about being a virgin-" Tohru began, only to get elbowed by all three of his girls. "What?"
"Rea~lly now?" Jade asked, her tone and smile turning mischievous. "Say, before we make any decisions like this...do you think you could excuse Hsi and I for..." She glanced at Hsi. "Thirty minutes?"
"Twenty," Hsi clarified.
"Really?" Jade asked in surprise. "That quick?" Her tone seemed...a trifle disappointed.
Smirking, Hsi held up his fingers as he made various forms of energy dance around them in his magic. "That good," he corrected, setting Jade's face to flaming as her eyes widened.
"NO!" every adult present barked out simultaneously.
"But if you can give Jackie a few pointers..." Viper began wickedly.
"Viper!" Jackie and Jade gasped out with matching mortified looks.
"It's mostly based in my magic," Hsi pointed out apologetically.
"Darn," Viper pouted, snapping her fingers. "Jade you got damn lucky."
"If you say so," Jade grunted irritably. "Still...it's a long flight to Bhutan-"
"If you were to try to stop the catalyzation at this point in that manner, your chi would become so volatile as a result you would explode and destroy the Chosen One permanently, completely destabilizing the fabric of magic across the world," Ysabelle pointed out.
"And how would you know?" Jade demanded crossly. "It's not like it happened before-"
"Hsi Wu doesn't remember, but it's why he created the Deja Vu Stone," Ysabelle pointed out. "To undo it. The only record of it being in his private journals of the time, left in our family's care when we were assigned the guardians of Labyrinthos' tomb."
"...oh..." Jade murmured, her eyes becoming downcast. Hsi comfortingly laid his arm around her shoulders.
"Looks like we're going to Bhutan," Sweetie Belle murmured, sharing a nod with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. They definitely weren't going to let Jade face this without them...whatever was going to happen.
Hsi you smug bastard XD
But damn. You took what was a half comical episode and turned it into something epic. Which, considering both what has changed in this world, and even what was said about the source material, it really should have been in the first place.
So ignoring the call ISN'T an option... and Hsi's corroboration obliterates any chance of falsehoods being involved... so whatever goes wrong with their plan will likely be a whole lot worse than rejection... I wonder if this is the fic's method for returning to Equestria...
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Jade's still gonna be the Queen of the Shawdowkhan right?
Holy good lord, Jade is the epitome of epic in this 'verse. I don't really remember how much ended up revolving around her later in the show's canon, but I LIKE how this is playing out. Gives some major gravity to practically everything Jade's gonna be doing from here on out. I can just imagine how that's going to affect the CMC going forward.
And yet you still manage to fit in the sex, humor, and sex humor all the while!
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Why do I get the feeling that the canonical first appearance of Dao Lon Wong will end up becoming his final appearance in this story?
Also, a typo you should probably address.
Synonym trouble. I think you meant "shown" there.
Like Jackie was gonna allow Jade to....Do that with Hsi...dude has a seizure when Jade does something mildly dangerous. Doing that when she's not even a teenager would likely kill the guy.
Huh. So that's what the Déjà Vu Stone was for.
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Should be, after all, good does not need to be bright and shiny! Just ask Batman! Or the Ninja Turtles! Or Luna! Speaking of Luna, do you think she has any thestrals acting as ninja-maids?
Uncle summed the situation quite thoroughly.
(Insert "The Little Spanish Flea" here)
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I suspect all of Luna's maids are ninja maids. They wouldn't survive getting her up in the morning otherwise.
Emeraude... Where have I heard that name-
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Oh.
Well, that's a bit more ominous than expected. Probably not an intentional reference. I hope.
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Intentional reference, yes.
Have sex and destabilize the entire world, causing untold amounts of suffering, or go on a long journey and accepting responsibilities you don't want...
... Tough call.
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Emeraude is also the French word for Emerald. And an Emerald is a green gemstone. Jade is also a green gemstone. In fact, Jade ad Emerald are two very similar gemstones (though they are not the same stones. Unfortunate, I know.)
So yet another sign pointing towards Jade being the Chosen One.
Aside from Hsi Wu apparently hooking up with his old Girlfriend again.
Damn it at this rate I need to let the updates for this story to pile up to make the popcorn worth it
Guess Jade is layered with trials this chapter and she doesn't seem to like the a peel of it. At least she didn't go with her alternate plan, would've definitely blown up in her face.
So, this Chosen One thing is starting to look pretty likely. Particularly with that Hsi/Emeraude connection.
Let's go with no exploding, that seems like the better option for Jade.
Meow!
Been looking forward to this particular story since Jade first made the scene. Obviously, unlike the show, you had planned for this from the start, so it's gratifying to see all this build up come to fruition.
++ "Yes" + fist pump
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Damn, Hsi is so good he even fucked the entire reality
I wonder if few Jade's past lives were world class heroes?
Hold up... I just realize something... If Santa has power to go to Equestria... does this mean Jade could probably do the same once she comes into her power?
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And my guess is that she gets the cmc home that way.
So, either past Chosen Ones have had some awesome lives, or I'm pretty sure Jade's mind will be able to hold its own even without ritual support...
Actually, if Jade's been the Chosen One all this time, will her predecessors' memories be of a world with open magic, or of the world Jade grew up in?
Doubt magic tricks can be counted towards being "that good"
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Depends on what you can do with the magic as far as "that", doesn't it?
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I think the problem is going to be quantity not quality. If there have been say 10 chosen ones before Jade, then there's 10 lifetimes of indeterminate length worth of memories that will be flooding through Jade's mind. No human brain can handle that many memories which would either just fry Jade's mind completely or overwrite her personality with some mish mash of the previous Chosen ones.
Don't know if it's my binge watching W.I.T.C.H. or intentional reference but I saw the "Grand Meridian of the Magical Fields", I was prepared for the gang to meet those Guardians.
insert "X" amount Pokémon jokes/puns here
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Nope that story line was prevented because the CMC had trained Jade well enough so she did mess with that book. She didn't becuase of all the Dark Chi she could pick up coming off of it and she decided on something less possibly dangerous.
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Don't you mean "in the evening?"
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Yeah, my bad.
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Agreed, take into account that there is a limited amount of space on the human hard drive so, if let's say there are at least 💯 previous incarnations of the magical Avatar then the most likely scenario would be the one with a catatonic Jade...
That's one of the reasons for us Ponchos to keep a shared brainscape....
So Jade is basically the Avatar? What happens when she goes into the avatar state?
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i would imagine all sorts of weird, but fun shit.
Nice chapter, can't wait to see how the trip goes with the Crusaders there.
I was too busy laughing to realize you just suggested underage sex. Just how old is Jade in This?
MILES! SHE'S FIFTEEN!!
Heh, had to,
Once again, great chapter Tats.
However, I can't remember what the Deja Vu stone is in this story... can anyone remind me where that came up?
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She is a very precocious eleven that, due to a temporal mishap, has already experienced what it's like to be physically 18.
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http://jackiechanadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Deja_Vu_Stone
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I am more worry about Jade want to on on vacation in Equestria and cause headache in the new magical world - much to the fillies' big sisters' dismay.
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100 lifetimes of sitting in a temple meditating isn't going to produce much more in the way of memorable experiences than 18 years in an alternate reality where you're a literal demon queen (and, of course, a year or two living with the CMCs is going to have produced more than its share of memorable instances too).
Generally, humans don't remember routine for more than a short period after the event, so, unless the magic literally plays back thousands of years of experiences, rather than just the memories the Chosen Ones possessed at the ends of their lives, it's going to be more of a highlight reel. Even more so if it's just the memories the last Chosen One had.
Also, Jade already has experience of assimilating memories of another life, and one of the memorable experiences most Chosen Ones will have had is of coming to terms with their predecessors' memories, so she'll have a lead on how to cope even
ifwhen something goes wrong with the ritual...If the magics really do dump the full lives of all previous Chosen Ones into Jade's head, then there must also be provision within the magics for a human mind (not necessarily a human brain) to hold all of it - otherwise the previous Chosen One would not have been able to hold all of all her predecessors' memories either. The other possibility is that the memories aren't dumped into her mind, but rather her mind is connected to the memories (external hard drive rather than internal - or hard drive rather than RAM, depending on preferred metaphor).
And if the problem is not the physical ability to absorb the memories, then it's about the ability to process them without being overwhelmed by the personality you suddenly have decades of memories of being. But Jade already has 3 decades of memories of being Jade, more than twice what a typical early-adolescent would have, and rather more intense than most too, which are going to go a long way toward protecting her from being subsumed in prior personalities.
Chapter One Hundred Seventy One
"Aiyah!"
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I can't believe Jade considered sex
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Someone remind me please. Was the Chosen One just a one episode thing in the show, or did they ever go further into that at some point?
I only rewatched up to the beginning of the mask arc before it disappeared from Netflix.
Not as good as other chapters, but I think a lot of that is just too much setup, without enough quality jokes/action for the most part.
Still it was a good read and I am curious as to where this takes us next.