Hello again readers. This story doesn't have any demons or magic in it, it's just a shorter story with some bonding between Jade and Charlie. For some reason I'm worried about it being OOC, but I know it won't be, because I've kinda been building up to this for a while, so I shouldn't worry about it.

Anyways, I don't own Jackie Chan Adventures, so onward with the story.

It had been four years since the whole thing with Tempus and Dylen and all the other demon things that were going on, and a lot had changed. Things had sort of toned down after that battle. Dylen, his dad, and older Jade had returned to their own time a few days after things had calmed down.

Everybody else…well, they didn't exactly stick around. Just two days after the battle with Tempus, Frank headed to the demon school in Europe to learn how to control his powers. And about a month later Salv started going to the same school. Most of the demon sorcerer's kids had run off somewhere.

Gill had left the country to go live somewhere hot and dry where there weren't so many people. He may be an ice demon, but he still hates the cold. Monkane and Fare also left the country, to be somewhere with more wildlife and less buildings and pollution. Spark and joined Drago and his crew, and they weren't sticking around San Fran anymore, they were going wherever they felt like.

Sparrow stuck around for a bit, but she wasn't as happy as she was before. It was obvious to everyone but her that she missed Frank. Then one day she and Seymour had this big fight. Sparrow had asked her dad about her mom, and he answered her the same way he always did, with no real answers, and Sparrow didn't like this. She and Seymour yelled at each other for a bit before Sparrow started crying and had flown off to who knows where. No one had seen her since she'd left.

Kaze, though, stuck around. Mostly so she could visit her boyfriend easily. Jikan had started living with his father, Tempus (Who was living like a normal human now, even though he was still a demon) Seymour was also living with them. They lived in an apartment that was a bit of a distance from where Jade and Charlie lived, but Seymour still went to the same school as they did.

Once the three of them started high school though, the craziest thing happened. Nobody saw this coming, but all of the guys at school were pretty obsessed with Jade. She wasn't overly sensitive, she was smart, but not a nerd, and she could play sports with the best of them. A lot of the guys liked the girl who was one of the guys, but still had a nice figure. At first Jade scoffed at and ignored the boys, but she is still a girl, and she did think that some of the boys who asked her out were cute or nice, so she actually started dating.

Charlie wasn't very happy about this, he wasn't happy about a lot of things, but Jade's dating habits least of all. Charlie was dying to ask Jade out, but he didn't want to be one of those obsessed guys (even though he was the first who was obsessing over her) and she always seemed to already have a boyfriend, or she was getting over the fact that she didn't have a boyfriend anymore. It just never seemed like the right time.

So Charlie just continued being friends with Jade, but Charlie had a habit of distancing himself from her a bit when she had a boyfriend, which wasn't all the time, but often enough. Charlie instead devoted his time and energy to his art. He stopped paying attention in classes altogether and just focused on drawing, but he never showed anybody what he drew.

If there was one thing that Charlie did a lot besides drawing it would be fighting. He seemed to always be getting into fights with the guys at school and he'd been suspended more times then he cared to say. Jade didn't mind the fact that Charlie got in trouble at school, if anything she was glad to have a friend who got in even more trouble then she did. But even Jade didn't know just how much trouble Charlie was in.

Okay so that chapter was a bit different, and short, but it was more of a prologue to say what's happened between this story and the last one, that all. In this story we finally get to learn Charlie's dark secret, which, now that I think about it may not be as dark as Frank's is, but I do think that it's more dangerous, so, yeah. I will have the next chapter up when I have it up, and the writing style will be back to normal in the future.