Ola. YFWE here, and I thought I'd try a new fic! Go me. It'll probably be the deepest one I've ever done. And this'll also be the only time I'll update it for a while. I still need to finish Dragon in Paradise. (Haven't read it and need a good laugh? Read it.) So... yeah. This'll be pretty short, but the next chapters should be about par for me. (In other words, pretty damn long.) Ok, have fun everyone, and read Fool's Gold by my brother. (I'm his marketing exec. :) )

P.S.: This prologue is from the point of view of Jake, and is a songfic of Train's "Ordinary". Train iz deh PIMP fo' schizzle.

Ordinary

YFWE

I had always wondered- what would happen if someone else found out my other identity? Especially if it was someone that would be really dangerous if they found out? Once, I thought I was almost discovered by the teenage rumor queen, Natalie Portman, but I soon realized that she didn't really know.

/Whose eyes am I behind/

I figured that one day, I would have to tell someone.

/I don't recognize anything that I see
Whose skin is this design/

Maybe I could tell my friends. And Trixie and Spud- they found out anyway. But there was always the possibility of someone else...

/I don't want this to be the way that you see me /

What if I told Rose? How would she react? But then again, what if she didn't like me as a dragon? What if... she left me, because of my other identity?

/I don't understand anything anymore
And this web that I'm tied up
Is taking me right up these walls
That I climb up
To get to your story/

I had always wanted to tell her. But I knew that it'd be hard. Time after time, I tried. But then, I got the chance. When our school took the ski trip. If she had any doubts about me, I needed to tell her...

/It's anything from ordinary/

I was anything but ordinary.

/And when the world is on its knees
With me, it's fine/

I had always had no trouble with being the hero. It wasn't like I was really ever "saving the world", but I was still saving many things. I mean, New York was pretty big, after all.

/And when I come to the rescue
I get nothing but left behind/

It just kinda sucked that I never was able to reveal my secret identity to many people. Normal people, that is. Only Trixie and Spud. I couldn't even tell my dad!

/Everybody seems to be getting what they need
Where's mine/

If I was able to tell everyone... I'd be, like, a celebrity, or something. Everybody'd like me a lot more. Not that they didn't already. But even more! I might even get some offers to become a pro skateboarder! That'd be the bomb!

/'Cause you're what I need so very

But I'm anything but ordinary/

But I couldn't tell everyone. Barely anyone. But I had known Rose for a while. I could trust her. That's why I had to tell her.

/Can you save me from this world of mine?

Before I get myself arrested with this expectation/

The final night of the Ski Trip, off I went. To make my move. Spud and Trixie, they told me that Rose couldn't be trusted. They even said that Rose was the Huntsgirl- my arch enemy! But I couldn't believe them. I wouldn't. What did they know, anyway?

/You are the one/

But how could I have known? That my two best friends- they were right all along?

/Look what you've done

What have you done/

This had basically broke my heart. How was I to tell her now? When I knew that her destiny... was to kill me?

/This is not a joke

You're just a kid

You weren't ready for what you did, no./

But part of me was like, it wasn't her fault. How could she have known that her almost-boyfriend was the one that she was destined to slay?

/I think I'm trying to save the world for you
You've been saving me, too.
We could just stay in and save each other/

I actually thought it was my fault. My fault that I was a dragon. That she had to slay me. I still wanted to be there for her... and I was almost sure she was the same way. But I knew that I couldn't do that. Unless if...

/I'm anything but ordinary/

I was anything but ordinary. But not anymore. It was at that point that I decided,

I would no longer be the American Dragon.

END CHAPTER

Okay, so there it is. The prologue. I hope you liked it. Now, this story won't be updated for a while- probably a LOOONG time. But here's a preview.

Jake was sick of it all. Now he knew that Rose was Huntsgirl. He still loved her... but he couldn't. They were enemies. That's when Jake decided to cease to be the American Dragon. No more magical stuff. No more even using his dragon powers. He was done with it. He didn't think about what effect it'd have on his Grandpa. But they'd just have to find a new American Dragon. It was then that he was visited by a past dragon- not his Grandpa, but the ghost of one. And in an A Christmas Carol-esque twist, he is able to experience what life would've been like- without him as the American Dragon. This Summer (or Fall... or Winter... or whenever the hell I get around to it...), look for YFWE's newest offering, "Ordinary".

Ok, that's it. If you kinda recognized a similarity to that of a certain part of Spiderman 2, well... this song was from the movie's soundtrack, so yeah. Okay, tell me what you think. Peace.

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