them.” Jackie of course answers with a flat “no,” and Jade
emerges into the main shop room, grousing. But when she
spots that SUPER-GNARLY DRAGON SKULL SYMBOL on the cover of
Uncle’s ominous new book, she gets a sly look: her tattoo
doesn’t have to be REAL, it just has to be GNARLY! So (while
Jackie et al. are in the library) she grabs the book and
“inks” the pattern, then presses it to a piece of notebook
paper. In Uncle’s kitchen, she wets the paper and presses
it to her arm, leaving an impressive but temporary TATTOO—
or so she thinks: we see the ink MAGICALLY “etch” into her
skin....
At the new DARK HAND LAIR, Shendu (in Valmont’s body) now
wears a ceremonial CHINESE ROBE which he feels befits him—
while Valmont “breaks through” to complain about the change
in wardrobe, how ridiculous it looks, etc. RATSO sits in
the corner with the PAN KU BOX, trying to “solve the puzzle”
to get them to the next demon portal. He’s having a really
tough time with this one.
HAK FOO, FINN, and CHOW arrive, and Shendu berates them
for losing the Archive. The Enforcers try to shift the
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