Disclaimer: I don't own American Dragon: Jake Long. I do own Ben, Julie, Seth, Chad, Renee and any characters you don't recognized such as Mark and Ron.

Summary: The long awaited sequel to 'Coming Back.' 13 years after the end of 'Coming Back' Ben, after 13 years of not showing any signs of dragon powers after that fire belch, finally gets all of his dragon powers.

Ben Long: American Dragon

Prologue

"Hey Mom" the Asian-looking boy of almost 13 said as he came down the stairs with a familiar skateboard in one hand, a surfboard in the other and a helmet on his head as the school was closed due to a mold issue. "I'm going to meet up with the guys and we're going to the harbor."

"Just be careful" Rose Long said as she looked up from grading the papers.

"I will. Love you!" Ben called as he ran out the door

Rose just smiled and shook her head.

"Like father like son" Ben heard his mother whisper

"I wonder what she meant" Ben asked himself after closing the door

"What who meant?" a male voice said

Ben turned and smiled at one of his best friends, Mark Stevenson.

"Mom just said 'Like father, like son'" Ben explained.

"How can you NOT know what that meant?" Mark asked

"Hello! Remember? Dad's away on a year-long business trip." Ben reminded his friend.

"Maybe that's what she meant" Mark suggested "You two tend to go off and do your own thing"

"Maybe" Ben said as he sat on the steps. "Ever since Mom took over Dad's job as the Mythology teacher at school, it seems I see less and less of my Dad. I hope nothing's wrong between them"

Five years ago, five years after the birth of the second Long child, Rose had gone into teaching to allow her husband to focus on his duties as the American Dragon. Of course, since Ben and his sister Juliet (Julie for short), hadn't shown any signs of dragon powers since their births, Jake and Rose had decided to keep it quiet like Jake's mom had done just in case something had happened to cause the powers to skip the generation.

"Where's Ron?" Ben asked checking his watch.

"Beats me. We said we'd meet at ten, right?"

"Right" Ben said seeing it was five after.

Suddenly, someone came skating up to the two on roller blades. Due to the loose clothes and hidden hair, it was hard to tell if this person was a boy or a girl

"Where have you been Ron?" Ben asked

"Sorry Ben" Ron said, voice indicating that the speaker was female. "Mom was being a pain with the usual lecture. 'Don't talk to strangers, don't get too close to the boats.' The usual."

Ben and Ron loaded their surf boards onto Mark's bike and headed for the beach

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A few minutes later,

When the trio got there, They took off their helmets and hid their transportation vehicles in a tree. Ron took off her helmet and allowed her page-boy red hair to fall out. Then they grabbed their boards and went into the ocean to wait for a ferry or some other type of boat to create some waves to ride.

"So Ben?" Ron asked. "Think your Dad's going to make it for the big 1-3 tomorrow?"

"Who knows?" Ben answered. "Dad's job now is pretty spontaneous. Though he did say that if all goes as planned, after I turn 13, maybe I could tag along."

"That would be so cool" Mark said. "Didn't one time your Dad go to Hawaii?"

"Yeah." Ben confirmed. "4 years ago. That's when he got me this surfboard for Christmas"

"Hard to imagine your dad once did what your mom's doing" Ron said. "I wonder what he does now"

"Don't know. He and Mom are pretty quiet about it"

"Maybe he's a secret agent who works for the government" Mark suggested