Around an hour later...
Knock! Knock!
"Jade! It's , I can help you with your at now. Hurry up before I change my mind," Emily spoke after knocking on Jade's door. She was done with everyone else's at. So could finally help Jade out.
"Really? Thank you! Let's go to the kitchen then" Jade opened the door excitedly and imdiately dragged Emily down the stairs to the kitchen. at in hand, in a pot Muku had made for her at so point in the past.
Emily, who expected such a reaction, just let Jade drag her along. What she failed to notice was the slyness that was flashing in Jade's eyes. Which signified that she was up to sothing.
.....
In the kitchen...
"So, how well do you want it done?" Emily asked Jade before getting into it.
"The usual, but before that. I want to show you sothing" Jade replied with a little smile on her face.
"... Sure, but if you do sothing to upset . I won't help you anymore." Emily looked at Jade for a mont with suspicion in her eyes. She finally noticed that there was sothing up with Jade. So, she made her stance known before Jade did sothing dumb.
"What does that an? Do you have such little trust in ? Don't worry, it's nothing bad. Here, watch..." Jade defended herself showing a fake, hurt expression. She knew her reputation so the others lacking faith in her in certain cases was sothing she understood. Not wanting to waste ti, she moved on to what she wanted to show Emily.
Audrey, who was putting the last touches on everyone's als, couldn't help but get curious. So, she paused what she was doing and looked at Jade. Waiting to see what she wanted to show Emily.
"Flas!" Jade cast her new and unexpected spell.
Green fla imdiately appeared and covered both her hands. They burned fiercely, a lot hotter than Emily's too. Which was probably because of her higher rank. Otherwise, if they were the sa rank, Jade wouldn't be in the sa class as Emily.
The eyes of both Emily and Audrey widened in surprise. It wasn't because they thought it was impossible. Since they knew about Jade's ability to do such things. What was surprising was how sudden and unexpected it was.
Since they hadn't seen Jade consu a beast core to gain the ability. It naturally surprised them. To their knowledge, no one should have access to the cores yet. Unless...
"Wow! You can use fire now! Good for you" Emily exclaid. Genuinely happy for her friend.
"Huh? Yeah... Thanks..." Jade was caught off guard by Emily's response. She was expecting saltiness from Emily or sothing like that. So she wasn't sure how to respond.
That's when she rembered how Emily was a goody-two-shoes at her core. So it should have been obvious how she'd react. The reason why she was thrown off was because of Emily's recent petty actions.
Unfortunately, for her. It seed Emily's pettiness didn't run too deep. Leaving her feeling empty. Like she expected a cake only to get a muffin or sothing. It really didn't feel good. Especially after what she did to get the fla ability.
"Now you can help with cooking. I can also have off days. I never thought this day would co despite knowing your ability. It just never ca to mind. However, you, my best friend, thought of it"
"You just couldn't take seeing doing all the work, could you? Thank you, thank you! I'm sorry about my pettiness from before. I hope we can get back to how we were before all that. I'm so happy. I have to go tell the others the good news. I'll let you get to preparing your at then" Emily spoke nonstop while hugging Jade.
After she was done she imdiately went out of the room. Skipping in happiness. Leaving the stunned Jade and the amused Audrey behind.
As she left, Audrey noticed a little cunning smile on Emily's face. Which likely signified how she knew all about Jade's real intention. She just refused to acknowledge the news in the way Jade wanted her to.
Being an onlooker to the whole thing. Audrey almost couldn't hold back her laughter. The girls were just so funny and cute. Monts like that were the ones she enjoyed most. She would forget all the struggles in the outside world during such tis.
"This isn't how it was supposed to go... My favour!" Jade exclaid in pain while squatting down and grabbing her head.
"What do you an?" Audrey asked just to tease Jade a bit more.
She had pretty much already guessed what had happened. Muku tells her almost everything that happens between him and the girls. So she was basically always in the know.
"It's like this..." Jade, who was looking for a way to vent didn't mind telling Audrey everything.
So, she told Audrey everything. How she had gone to see Muku after Emily refused to help her. Her purpose was to secretly get a fire elent core for obvious reasons. However, while Muku didn't refuse to help her. He only agreed to do so if she traded it for the favour he owed her.
His reason was that he was sticking out his neck for her by giving her the core behind everyone's back. So she had to trade it for sothing of equal value. While it was a struggle to decide. Her vengeful spirit obviously won in the end. Muku gave her the core with the happiest smile she had ever seen on his face. Which she didn't understand.
Audrey understood why he was so happy though. He had been racking his brain for ideas on what he could give her or do for her to settle the favour. However, nothing was coming up. He had even asked her for help in thinking of sothing, but Audrey refused.
She was still feeling a bit petty about the ti she saw him patting Freya. She also wanted his pats but never got any. So why would she help him?
Not to ntion the talk he had with the girls but didn't have with her. While she understood everything well. She wouldn't get paid for being so reasonable. So why would she be so?
Anyway, that was why he was happy when Jade ca to ask for his help. He was starting to fear that he might really end up being her servant or sothing. With that, one of the two greatest headaches he was facing at that ti was dealt with.
"Oh, is that so. I'm really sorry to hear that. However, isn't Emily's happiness as valuable as her saltiness to you.?If not even more precious? If you look at it like that, you didn't get short-changed for anything. You traded in an uncertain favour, for the happiness of your best friend" Audrey still tried to cheer Jade up despite how she found the situation funny.
Which was why her reasoning was a bit flawed. Jade would have likely gotten the fire elent within a day or two. So, Emily would have ended up as happy as she was anyway. As for Jade, she lost a very valuable favour and didn't get the one thing she wanted on top of that.
So the situation wasn't as positive as Audrey made it seem. Which she knew very well. She was just hoping that the emotional Jade wouldn't notice.
"Yeah, you're right. I think I'm going to lie down for a bit. I'll prepare this at tomorrow. You can serve so R2 at for as well. I'll co down soon" Jade replied.. Feeling a bit better after Audrey's words. Which was good news for Audrey who hoped such an outco.
"Yeah, sure. You go rest. I'll serve you so and cover it. You can get it after resting. Don't take too long though. As you know Muku has sothing to tell us after the al." Audrey replied with a smile.
Her gentle motherly voice really put the girls at ease. Even the rowdy Jade would always get tad by it easily.
"Okay, I will be present", Jade replied, then left the room.
"It's never a dull mont with them running around..." Audrey spoke to herself softly after Jade left. She then returned to her task.
Soon, everything was ready, and everyone was called down for the al. Other than Jade the others ca and enjoyed their hearty al.
Muku was all smiles from start to finish. Seeing him, Audrey couldn't help but roll her eyes. Did he really enjoy tricking Jade that much? Yes, he tricked her, because there were no stakes in him giving her the core at all.
The girls wouldn't really care that he gave Jade a core sooner than he should have. So, Jade practically exchanged her favour for nothing at all. Which was another loss. It was a literal "all for nought" situation.
Audrey couldn't help but wonder how Jade would react after she cald down and realised what happened. That would definitely be a show to see. She kinda couldn't wait...
...
After the al...
"Is Jade really coming down?" Muku, who wanted to start their business talk, asked. Audrey had told them about how Jade wanted to lie down for a bit, so they had ignored her absence until then.
"I'm here, you can start" Before Audrey could respond. Jade appeared and spoke for herself while coming down the stairs.
"Okay. So the thing is..." Muku imdiately got into it. Not minding that Jade was still a bit of distance away. After all, her ears were good enough.
His revelation left all of the girls excited. It was sothing that had slipped all their minds, but they liked it very much...
(TUNE IN NEXT TI, FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER OF DRAGON BALL APOCALYPSE!... I couldn't help it, okay)
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