When Jake regained consciousness, he was aware of two things. He wasn't in the classroom anymore, and that he couldn't see anything. Putting out his hands to help steady himself as he stood up, Jake went about trying to figure out where he was. After about 30 seconds, he knew. He was in a metal cage covered by some fabric to block the light. When he got close to the fabric, Jake felt his strength go away and knew it was made of sphinx hair. Knowing he couldn't turn into a dragon and had no other means of escape, he sat down to wait for his captor to return.

After about a half hour of waiting, Jake noticed a slight disturbance in the fabric. Watching the disturbance grow until a face revealed.

"Trixie!" Jake cried out, relived, "what are you doing here? And where's Spud?"

"Spuds busy distracting rotwood, and I'm here to bust you out of this cage before Rotwood comes back" said Trixie

"You know its rotwood?"

"Isn't it obvious? He came out of the classroom rolling a cage saying it was a 'project for classes. We knew it had to be you. Now hold tight, I got some pixie dust to bust you out of there."

Trixie pulled out a sack and started to open it when all of a sudden, the fabric surrounding the cage was pulled upwards. Jake squinted as his eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness. When he could see again, he saw rotwood holding a very angry Trixie by the hood of her hoodie.

"Planning on leaving so soon?" rotwood jeered, "The party's just getting started."

"I don't remember getting the invite." Jake shot back

"Woops, well, doesn't matter now that you're here."

Suddenly, Rotwoods phone rang from his pocket. Sighing, Rotwood put Trixie in a nearby cage and pulled out his phone.

"What, what do you want. Oh yes, I will be starting in 5 minutes"

He put away his phone and turned to Jakes cage.

"Time for the show, and you're coming with me."

Ignoring Jakes outburst and Trixie's attempts to escape, Rotwood pressed a button on a remote and wheels popped out of Jake's cage. Standing behind the cage, Rotwood started to push the cage forwards.

When they got on stage, a bright light shone on Jakes cage as a nightmare was made real. Pushing Jake onto the center of the stage. Rotwood said quietly so only Jake could hear,

"Behave yourself now, this is happening whether you want it or not."

Jake knew he was right but knew he would still do his best to avoid it. When the cage was fully visible, lots of audience members gasped at what they say.

"Is he the kid that was on stage a few months ago?"
"We were told there would be dragons, not a kid!"

"Let that kid go!"

"That cage is an outrage!"

Rotwood turned to the crowd and everyone fell silent.

"You say this cage is an outrage, I say it is necessary. Today I will show the world a truth that has been in hiding for far too long. This kid is a dragon and I will expose him at last!"

"Yea right," some from the crowd shouted, "the principal before you did the same thing and only shamed this school!"

"The previous principal only failed because he mistook the identity of the dragon. I know the truth and so will you."

Rotwood now pulled out the vial of Brokium from a pocket in his jacket. Reaching through jakes cage, Jake could only watch in horror as he knew that centuries of one of the biggest secrets will be exposed, and worse of all, the dragon council will probably blame him for it. Rotwood dumped the contents of the vial being poured on him and knew that if he had to go down, he would go down with a fight. Jake felt it take effect immediately and started to fight the Brokium with all his might.

Rotwood P.O.V

Rotwood backed up nervously as flames started to appear around Jake. He knew the process was safe because he used a drop on Jakes hand before and nothing like what was happening now happened. Rotwood backed up farther as the air around Jake heated up to such a degree that it burned him to get close to the cage. Rotwood knew that his moment of glory might end very badly.

Crowd P.O.V

Everyone stared in awe as blue flames started to flash in and out of existence around the boy. Some people close to the stage started backing up, and even looked at the doors as if considering leaving. Everyone close to the stage started sweating as the temperature rose to an alarming degree. The most unsettling of all these things though, was the look on the kids face. They knew that if they didn't do anything, the boy might be killed. Before anyone could move, the most unexpected thing happened…

Normal P.O.V

Jake fought with the Brokium with all his might, but to no avail. Managing to glance up and look around for a brief moment, Jake saw the flames and noticed everyone backing away. Jake knew even if he wasn't exposed, there would still be many questions that he couldn't avoid. Turning back to the invisible battle that was happening, Jake tried his best to win… but to no success. Letting out an agonizing scream, Jake released all the energy that his fight had generated in one huge, fiery explosion. Everyone was thrown back from the stage, and Rotwood (who was closer than anybody) was thrown backstage and temporarily lost conciseness.

When the explosion ended, everyone groggily got up and was greeted by a scene of destruction. The curtains leading to back stage were burned away, leaving only blackened tatters of cloth to flutter to the ground. As for the stage, there was a huge, smoking crater where the cage, and Jake, had been. All the people, news and otherwise, gathered on the stage to search for the Jake and to get a better look at the destruction. Everyone gasped as they saw what was laying at the bottom of the pit. Rotwood, who regained conciseness, pushed everyone aside as he went to see the destruction and possibly death he had wrought. When he reached the edge of the pit, all his worries vanished as a smile crept onto his lips. Because laying at the bottom of the pit was Jake, but in his dragon form.

After everyone recovered from the shock of seeing a real dragon, they all crowded around rotwood and bombarded him with questions.

"Is that a real dragon" someone asked

"Can we put them in a zoo?" someone else asked

Rotwood was being pushed up against a wall as he struggled to answer all the questions. Behind everyone, Jake stirred as he regained conciseness at the bottom of the pit. Jake looked around disorientated for a moment. But as soon as he held up a hand to steady himself and saw scales, he knew what had happened. Climbing up the pit, Jake pushed through the crowd, who all stepped aside with a mixture of fear and curiosity. Walking up to rotwood, Jake said, "You don't know what you have done." With that, Jake turned around, spread his winds and flew out of the gymnasium. Outside, Jake flew over all the police and ambulances that were gathered around the school. Jake couldn't help but have a small smile as everyone looked up at him with open mouths, a few actually fainted! Jake knew that the future could be good or bad, but whatever happened will happen, and nothing Jake could do would stop it. The stone is rolling, and it would only stop when either peace or war happened.

Authors Note:

Sorry for the long wait everyone, I had difficulties during this story because the journal with all my ideas went missing. In other news, I need your opinion for the next chapter. The next chapter can start a war or the humans adjusting and making peace. I will try to post a chapter every week, but no guarantees.

Sincerely

~americanDragon forever