(A/N) Hello all, and welcome to When in Ancient China. The same crew from the original story Dragon Double, this is the sequel of it. You remember that time bomb that occurred when Rose, Jade, Kara, and Sara all shared the same vision occurred. Well, that comes into play here. You will have to find out of course, but still, I'm starting this the same night I finished Dragon Double, MAN, I have a lot of free time. Well, this is my 5th fic, and if you're just getting here from Dragon Double, welcome back. If you're just getting here, then I highly suggest you read Dragon Double first. No, seriously, you won't get a SINGLE thing if you haven't read Dragon Double……. Plus I want more reviews for the story! Drums and symbol play in background. So, strap in, put on your helmets, and away we go!………. Talking to conductor Have we left yet? No? Out of coal? He says he's out of coal everyone! Conductor talks some more Oh, hold on a second…… Train blasts off without warning
When in Ancient China
By Dark Magician Boy
Chapter 1: Ticking Away
"How much longer can this class take?" Jake whispered to Cameron, who was seated right next to him.
"How should I know. It feels like school is even longer these days," Cameron said, watching the second hand on the clock very strictly.
Cameron was Jake's rather distant cousin, who also shared many of the same strange abilities as Jake, one such as dragon powers.
That's right. Jake and Cameron were not your average, thirteen-year-old New Yorkers. The two had dragon powers.
Dragon powers meaning they both had the ability to transform into a different type of dragon.
Jake, in dragon form looked a fiery, Mars red, while Cameron, in Dragon form, looked an icy, Neptune blue.
But, while still appearing as human, Jake had a red jacket with a yellow pocket, blue jeans, white tennis shoes with blue stripes, and black hair with a green outline that resembled a fireball.
Cameron wore a blue jersey with silver cuffs and a neck, had black jeans, blue tennis shoes with silver stripes, and black hair with a silver outline which did not really resemble a shape.
"And it has come to a conclusion that dragons originated in China, or at least according to legends. In reality, they really originated in the time of the dinosaurs," Professor Rotwood went on, and Jake and Cameron rolled their eyes. If there were a dragon expert anywhere nearby, it would be their grandparents, who were dragons as well.
"Now, moving on, oracles are told to be," Professor Rotwood began.
"Annoying, seventeen year old naggers," Cameron whispered, and Jake sniggered in his text book.
"Mr. Long! Do I detect a disturbance?" Rotwood said, turning in their direction.
"Um, no, I just thought that oracles had started in Greece," Jake managed from panic.
"Very good Mr. Long. Keep that up, and you'll manage you're highest grade average in a class ever," Rotwood said, continuing to the chalkboard.
"An A?" Jake hoped, and Rotwood turned back around.
"No. A C," Rotwood said, and everyone in the class began to laugh their heads off until the bell rang, which was about three seconds later.
The school rushed out through the front doors, attempting to do it at once, so it took about five minutes.
Jake, Cameron, Trixie, Spud, and Rose met outside.
"Come on, let's head back to my house," Jake said, and they each strapped on their helmets, and jumped on their skateboards, or, in Rose's case, roller blades, and raced for Jake's house.
The five rushed inside and sat down in the living room.
"Jade, Kara, and Sara should be here in a couple minutes," Jake said, picking up the phone and ordering some pizza.
Sure enough, in a couple of minutes, the doorbell rang, and Jade with Fu Cat walked in, and Fu Dog ran in behind them.
A bit after that, Kara and Sara walked in without ringing really, and sat down on the two available chairs.
"Ok, so I checked out the Statue of Liberty, and the Huntsmaster isn't there anymore!" Cameron reported.
"Well, the only way he could've gotten down is if someone or something got him down," Fu Cat said.
The pizza guy came, and Jake ran to the door, paid for the pizza, thanked the delivery guy, and ran back to the living room with the pizza.
"I put a detector spell up on this living room, considering all the spells that took place here the past three weeks, and it's been going haywire," Fu Dog said, and everybody's heads turned.
"How do you know if it's been working?" Jake asked, starting to scratch his elbow.
"Well, everybody who lives in the household begins to get a very bad rash on their elbow," Fu Dog said, and everybody looked at Jake who slowly stopped scratching.
"Jake, did you let mosquitoes into the house again?" Haley asked, hopping down the stairs, scratching her elbows.
"No, Fu Dog cast a spell, and the rashes mean there's something going down here," Jake said, and Haley sat beside Fu Cat, scratching her chin.
"Well, it would only appear to anybody who has magical blood, meaning that only Trixie and Spud wouldn't be able to see it. But we can't see it either," Jade said, taking a bite out of a slice.
"Man. I've been feeling like, so rejected these past few days, not being considered like, magical," Spud sighed. Nobody heard him.
"Well somethin' tells me that it came from when all you oracles had that one vision. That's a pretty high concentration of magic," Fu Dog said, pointing at Jade, Rose, Kara, and Sara.
"You say that like it's a bad thing," Jade said, crossing her legs.
"It IS a bad thing. Concentrated visions create time bombs, time bombs lead to who knows what kind of spells," Fu Cat explained, silencing everybody.
"Well, let's wait a few days to see what happens here," Jake said, and everybody agreed.
Rose went back with Cameron, Fu Cat, and Jade to their house, as she had no home of her own now, Trixie and Spud left too, and eventually, Kara and Sara left as well.
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"Thanks for inviting us over for dinner Mrs. Long," Spud said as he and Trixie walked through the living room.
"You're welcome," she said, not noticing they hadn't followed her into the kitchen.
"Nothing," Trixie sighed, and the two went in with everybody else to enjoy some of Mrs. Long's mushroom caps.
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"Ready to finish that homework our math teacher gave us?" Cameron asked Jake as they passed through the living room.
"Oh, I know, it's nearly impossible," he said, and they both paused.
"Still nothing," Cameron said, and the two sat down on the couch to try and finish the math assignment.
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"Thanks for babysitting Jade," Mr. Long said as he walked out the door.
"My pleasure Mr. Long!" Jade called out the door, with Haley on her shoulders.
"You wanna play charades?" Jade asked, and Haley nodded sweetly, until they passed through the living room.
"There hasn't been anything still," Haley sighed, and the two sat down, and started playing charades.
XXX
Fu Cat jumped up onto the window sill and began to scratch at the window until Fu Dog pawed open the door.
"Still no sign of concentrated magic," Fu Dog said after she had gotten, and she sighed, jumped back outside, and ran back home.
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"I can't believe there still hasn't been any sign of any magic yet," Jake said, jumping onto his skateboard and riding down the half pipe.
"Well, like the little guy in my head says, 'Mama always says, Magic is as magic does'," Spud said.
"That's not your little voice. That was from that one Disney movie or somethin'," Trixie said, riding straight into the air, and back down onto the wooden ramp.
"Well, I called everybody back to the living room again anyway today to discuss it," Jake said, and the two looked back at him.
"Why should we come again, we aren't magic or anything cool like that," Spud said, and Trixie agreed.
"Guys," Jake said as he rode over to the other side to them. "You two are my best friends. You guys deserve to be there, magic or not," Jake said, hugging the two,
XXX
"Ok, is everybody here," Jake asked.
"Fu Dog isn't," Fu Cat pointed out.
Suddenly, down the hallway, one could hear a toilet flushing, and Fu Dog walked down to the living room with a piece of toilet paper sticking off his left paw.
"Ok, sorry about that," Fu Dog said, and everybody rolled their eyes, then got back to the situation.
"Is there anyway we can fish out this concentration or something?" Jake asked, and Sara chuckled.
"Ooh, I like fish," she said, and her eyes flashed yellow.
"There's going to be a fish spill at the wharf next week. Half of the city is going to starve!" Sara said gleefully, mentally disturbing everybody.
"Maybe if there was an even higher concentration, we could show it," Fu Cat thought out loud, and everybody listened in.
"Perhaps if you four powered up at the exact same time into dragon form, the magic would be powerful enough to reveal itself," Fu Cat theorized.
"It's worth a shot," Haley said, scratching Fu Cat some more.
The four walked into the center of the room, and closed their eyes.
"On one," Jake said, and everybody nodded.
"3, 2, 1!" Jake yelled.
"DRAGON UP!" They each yelled in exact synchronization, as hot electricity filled the air.
The four began to change quickly, until out of pure fire, Jake, and Haley came out as a red dragon, and a purple dragon.
Snow swirled around Jade and Cameron, as their shapes grew, and broke open into a blue dragon, and a lavender dragon.
"Now what?" Cameron asked, and there was a deep rumbling in the Earth.
"You ever get the feeling something REALLY bad is about to," Jake started, but never finished as a vortex appeared out of nowhere, and started sucking everything in.
"A time vortex!" Fu Dog and Fu Cat panicked, digging their claws into the carpet. "Everybody hold onto something," Fu Cat yelled.
Trixie, Spud, Kara, and Sara got a hold of the couch.
But the vortex only seemed to want the four dragons as it pulled at them with great magnitude, until it began to pull out chunks of floor which they just so happened to be standing on.
Jake, Haley, Cameron, and Jade were lifted into the air, and were thrown into the vortex. And they were still in dragon form!
"What is going on?" Haley yelled over the roar of the vortex, as their living room got further away.
"We're being tossed into another time frame. Who knows where this particular tunnel leads," Jade said. "Everyone stay together!" she warned.
They all looked at each other for a couple of seconds before panicking and going into a very tight group hug, never letting go.
Back in the living room, the vortex began to shrink.
"Plug it with something!" Fu Cat said.
Fu Dog threw a bottle which shattered on contact with vortex.
A seal grew on the vortex, and it stopped shrinking.
"Ok. What just happened?" Trixie demanded, straightening her hair.
"A vortex opened up, ate up Jake, Haley, Cameron, and Jade, and it's been temporarily sealed," Fu Dog explained.
"Ok, just making sure. You know, one of these days, I'm going to wake up in the nuthouse," Spud said after Fu Dog's story.
"Well, we've got to follow them!" Kara demanded.
"Follow who?" Aunt Shui asked. She and Grandpa had just walked through the door.
"Oh, um, nobody!" Fu Cat said, hoping they wouldn't notice the giant metal door.
"What's with that giant metal door?" Grandpa asked, pointing at the seal. Darn it, they had caught them.
"A time vortex opened up, swallowed Jake, Haley, Cameron, and Jade, and the vortex has been temporarily sealed," Fu Cat sighed, and the two grandparents gasped.
"Well, we've, we've got to do something!" Aunt Shui panicked.
"We need to go after them," Grandpa said, rushing upstairs, and coming back down with a set of supplies.
"You two stay here and monitor our status," Grandpa said, and Trixie and Spud sighed.
"Aw man, why can't we ever go?" Trixie demanded.
"Only those of magical blood can pass through the gateway," Aunt Shui explained, and the two sighed and sat back.
"Ok, enter into the door to take in the seven closest creatures, and then vanish, but to keep the vortex able to send something back," Grandpa said, and Aunt Shui rushed upstairs and brought back some parchment.
She wrote down the commands, placed them on the door, and the paper dissolved into the seal.
"Okay. Aunt Shui and I must go and get some more things, so open the seal. We will be pulled in as well, so don't worry. It's the closest seven, so we will just be delayed, but will come along as well," Grandpa said, and the two rushed upstairs.
"Well, let's open this sucker back up," Fu Dog said, and the he banged the door with a silver bell he had pulled out of his wrinkles.
The seal disappeared in a cloud of mist, and the vortex reopened.
Kara and Sara began to stretch, literally. They began to stretch till their very bodies were a single strand, which flew into the vortex and swirled to where they could see it.
Rose, Fu Dog, and Fu Cat began the stretching process, until they were a single line, and they swirled into the center of the vortex.
"Well, there they go," Trixie sighed, leaning back in the couch.
"Wait a minute, if we're not magic, then how can we see that thing?" Spud asked, looking at Trixie, who looked at him as well.
Without warning, they began to stretch out, until they were also as thin as a line, until they swirled into the vortex, and it closed as the lines of Trixie and Spud swirled into the center of the vortex.
Grandpa and Aunt Shui rushed in just as the vortex snapped shut, and stared where it was.
"Well I'll be" Grandpa said, staring at where Trixie and Spud had sat.
"I guess this means I'll start researching," Aunt Shui, and she rushed into the next room.
Grandpa simply smiled and sat down.
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"WHAT'S GOIN' ON?" Trixie demanded as the two fell down the now vertical vortex tunnel.
"I don't know! Maybe the vortex made a mistake or something!" Spud thought as they fell faster.
Blue and green flashed by as they fell further, until a speck of light at the bottom told them the journey was near it's end.
Kara, Sara, Fu Dog, Fu Cat, Rose, Spud, and Trixie fell right out of a hole in the sky, and onto what appeared to be a giant brick wall.
"So the worm hole brought us to China, not like we can't get back," Trixie said, standing up, dusting her clothes off.
"Yeah, sure, just one problem little sweetheart," Fu Dog said, shaking off several wrinkles.
"And what'd that be dog?" Kara asked sarcastically.
"It's that the next bus to the 21st century won't be invented for a while!" Fu Cat as they watched an Ancient Chinese squadron march by.
The wormhole had not just dumped them back in time at China. It had dumped them there with no way of getting home.