Stories: Jack of all Jades (Issue Two of QotLRG Season 2)

Note from PeaVZ108: Second episode of the second season! QotLRG stands for Quest of the Legendary Rainbow Gem. To check out Season 1 episodes, click here. This is an entire new season, featuring new gemstones! Also featuring Green Shadow, Starco, Starcade and Kyoji!

Main Plot
The seven gemstones of the Legendary Rainbow Gem accidentally revive their old nemesis, Storm Cloud, who traps them in his body and absorbs the essence from the rainbow orb, stealing from the gemstones their superpowers in the process. Storm Cloud proceeds to change the weather for Earth to eternal thunderstorms and rain. Green Shadow, Star Butterfly, Marco Diaz, Starcade and Kyoji must go to the Rainbow Temple, where the rainbow orb was first created, before finding the elder gemstones to help recharge the essence back to the rainbow orb, so that the gemstones can transform into the Legendary Rainbow Gem once again and defeat Storm Cloud once and for all.

Episode Two: Jack of all Jades
The gang end up in Jadeville, where they have to find Jade Jade, the ruler of Jadeville. While she seems to be happy spreading good luck to her people, the gang see the other side of her face when they discover her true feelings to this situation. Can the gang convince Jade Jade to help them?

Cast

 * Green Shadow
 * Starcade
 * Kyoji
 * Star Butterfly
 * Marco Diaz
 * Jade Jade
 * Storm Cloud

Story
The gang are last seen standing in front of Jadeville.

Starcade: It's...green?

Kyoji: Nonetheless, it's beautiful as it is.

Star: Hold up! Do you smell something?

Kyoji: No, why?

Star: It smells like another adventure! I bet Jadeville is going to be as awesome as Mewni!

Marco: *facepalms*

Green Shadow: Well, shall we?

The gang enter the borders of Jadeville.

Marco: Green Shadow, mind if I ask, do we really have to find all seven ingredients in this world itself?

Green Shadow: Not quite. According to the recipe here, it says that each ingredient is held by a specific elder gemstone. So, I'm guessing we'll have to go to all seven portals back at the Rainbow Temple.

Marco: Really? By the time we collected all seven ingredients, Storm would have taken over the entire world!

Green Shadow: Maybe, maybe not. But that's not what we should think about now. We should instead search for the ingredients listed for the rainbow essence.

Marco: But...but...fine.

The gang come across a trade market, where anthropomorphic jades are doing their businesses.

Starcade: Sure is crowded. This place must be popular.

Kyoji: Yeah, no kidding.

Starcade: So, what's the first ingredient on the list?

Green Shadow: According to the recipe here, we need to find a good luck charm that belonged to Jade Jade. Let's see what the market has in store for us.

Star: OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! *blushing and bouncing about*

Marco: Star! What is it?

Star: They have plush toys of themselves! And they're so CUTE!

Star Butterfly runs to the store that sells the plush toys.

Jade Shopkeeper: Now, now, milady, before you get the toy, pay for it.

Star: Sure! MARCO!

Marco: What now?

Star: Please, you gotta buy me this plush toy!

Marco: Are you kidding?

Star: I promise, I'll be good if you buy it! Plus, it's a souvenir!

Marco: Why do you ALWAYS have to eat up my money?

Starcade: *gasps* Oh no, he didn't!

Marco: Alright, give me one good reason why I should buy this toy for you.

Star: Because...uh...I'll shut up if you buy it for me?

Marco: Funny, that's what I figured you say. But fine, only if you promise to shut up for the rest of the trip.

Marco Diaz pulls out some emergency cash from his socks.

Starcade: Uh...gross...

Kyoji: Dude puts cash in a sock?

Marco: Excuse me, sir. Here's the payment for the toy my friend wants here. *gives the cash to the jade shopkeeper* Keep the change and buy something nice with it.

Jade Shopkeeper: *rejects the cash* I'm sorry, but we only accept good luck points in Jadeville.

Marco: Say what?

Green Shadow: "Good luck" is your currency?

The jade shopkeeper pulls out a piggy bank that says "1337" on its side.

Starcade: 1337? That means, you have 1337 good luck points?!

Jade Shopkeeper: Exactly, milady. Good luck points are not visible entities themselves, but they are our currency. This piggy bank here, belongs to me. Every jade, even the younger ones, own a piggy bank. The higher the number of good luck points, the better your luck. In Jadeville, it's either be wealthy and lucky or be poor and unlucky.

Starcade: So how do the good luck points get transferred?

Jade Shopkeeper: Easy. We have a tube right here to attach to another piggy bank. You can determine how many good luck points you will like to transfer.

Starcade: Super cool.

Jade Shopkeeper: I can tell that you five aren't from around here, given your surprised looks.

Green Shadow: Yeah, we're visitors. Actually, we're not here to visit, we're here to find a good luck charm.

Jade Shopkeeper: Good luck charm? Why, you'll have to speak to Jade Jade, the one and only ruler of Jadeville. She possesses a good luck charm which supplies enough good luck for everyone.

Green Shadow: Where is she?

Jade Shopkeeper: Her palace lies in the core center of the city. Every afternoon, she supplies the daily good luck point rations to the poor jades who gather outside her palace doors.

Green Shadow: Sounds great, thanks for your help!

Jade Shopkeeper: You're welcome. Oh, and tell the blonde lady that she'll need to obtain enough good luck points for the plush toy.

Kyoji: Blonde lady? Is he talking about Star?

Marco: Hey, where did she go?

Starcade: Maybe she went off to the palace to get the rations?

The scene cuts to Star Butterfly, who has left the gang in disappointment.

Star: *to herself* Not buying the toy for me, eh? Well, I'll show Marco that I can buy it myself! I just need to go to the palace doors, get the daily good luck rations and buy the toy!

??? #1: Not on our watch!

Star: Who...who are you?

??? #2: Say, she is worth a million good luck points! Look at that hair, so long, so exquisite!

Star: What are you doing?

??? #3: Yeah, if we can sell her off to a shopkeeper, we can have lots of luck to ourselves forever!

Star: I warn you, do not get closer or I'll...*takes out her wand*

??? #1: Quiet you! This is our business!

Star: MEGA NARWHAL...Huh?

??? #2: *snatches Star's wand* This wand...we can sell it for double the moolah!

''As Star Butterfly's wand gets snatched away, Star Butterfly herself gets dragged away off-camera. The scene cuts back to the gang, who are oblivious to Star Butterfly getting kidnapped.''

Marco: Did Star run off without us again?

Green Shadow: I guess, though I'm worried of her safety, especially in a place where she has never visited before.

(W.I.P.)