Hey guys, I am really appreciative of the 2 reviews that I got for chapter 1. Considering that the American Dragon fandom is smaller than some of the others I have been, I must say I'm pleasantly surprised. I do not own American Dragon Jake Long or any of its characters.
Jake and Gramps were busy patrolling the New York City skyline in their dragon forms. Since the Huntsclan were destroyed about 3 years ago, there wasn't a really serious threat to the magical world on a semi-regularly basis.
"So Gramps, has there been anything out of the ordinary these past few days that we dragons need to pay close attention to?" Jake asked his grandpa as the two of them both landed on the Empire State building.
"Well, there was this dispute between the wizards and the witches which has been brewing. A mentally ill goblin had also been caught rampaging through elf territory but that wasn't too much of a hassle remember?" Gramps began listing all the magical world disturbances that have happened this past fortnight.
The relative peace was soon broken when the two dragons soon spotted a troll had stolen some Leprechaun's gold and was running away from it quickly.
Being the magical guardians and peace makers, Jake and Gramps were soon called to action in order to stop the troll thief. Calling the brief fight anticlimactic would be an understatement to say the least.
"Why in the world did you just rob that leprechaun? Seriously, did you really think that you could get away from that scot-free?" Jake asked the troll as he held him at the bottom of his foot.
"Stan need money. Stan saw puny leprechaun walking with huge pot of gold heading to the bank and decide to attack him, easiest money ever made or so Stan thought." The troll, Stan told the American Dragon as Gramps observed Jake's handling of the situation.
"A leprechaun walking around with a pot of gold heading to the bank doesn't give you the right to ambush him before robbing him. I'm feeling a little generous today so I'm going to let you off with a warning but don't let me catch you again." Jake said to the troll before letting him go.
"Young dragon, I commend you for not using violence to ensure the troll does not repeat his offense again and it seems that you have finally learned what it means to be the protector to the magical world." Gramps praised Jake before the two of them flew back to his electronic shop.
Meanwhile on another nearby rooftop...
A hooded figure in a cloak had been witnessing the whole event through a pair of binoculars. To say he was interested in the exchange would be selling it short.
"It appears that young Jake Long has about to finally graduate to become a full-fledged dragon. His dragon master is getting a lot slower so he can't go on for long anyway." Hans Rotwood said as he put his binoculars away.
Hans Rotwood had been observing the whole situation with Jake and his friends since their middle school days and his interest only seems to grow with time. The huntsclan attack on the Pantheon building almost 4 years ago seems to be the turning point when there was less chaos in the magical world.
From what he had learned from the mystical books on mythology, dragon hunters were a very big threat to them and besides the infamous Dark Dragon they were a very big throne in the dragon council's side until the whole situation with the 13 Aztec skulls on the Pantheon building.
"I hope that all this time living in relative peace has no weakened young Jake's resolve, as it will be a shame to capture an opponent who is not at his fullcapability." Rotwood said to himself before laughing evilly.
At the skate park...
Rose had joined Jake, Spud and Trixie at their usual after school past time. Seeing as Jake had tried out soccer for her, she did feel a little obligated to try out his favourite sport.
"I am not so sure about this, standing on the skateboard does seem really unstable to me." Rose told Jake weakly as she looked at Jake skating around on his skateboard.
"It isn't really that unstable, but you have flown on my back so how much worse can riding a skateboard be? I promise you that I will be right here to help you okay?" Jake assured his girlfriend with his trademark smirk which did make Rose feel a little more confident.
Rose then tried getting onto the aforementioned skateboard, to which she tried to move forward but she lost her balance and fell to the cold hard pavement. But not before Jake had caught her in his arms.
Spud and Trixie both laughed at the absolutely corny Kodakmoment between the two, but it was lost among the couple who shared a quick kiss before Jake pulled her up to her feet.
"It isn't as easy as you make it look huh? I guess that riding skateboards just aren't my thing. I think I would be keeping to the soccer fields personally, but maybe we should try rollerblading." Rose conceded before suggesting rollerblading as a future couple activity.
"I guess we could try that some other day, I wont laugh at how you are now as I bet you can remember how bad I did when I tried playing soccer." Jake told his girlfriend good naturedly.
"So, Kyle and I are going to work on our social studies project back in my house so I guess I'll see you guys later." Trixie bid her friends goodbye before leaving with Kyle.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. I'm supposed to meet Stacey at the ice cream parlour for our date. See you later, Jake and Rose." Spud said to his friends before riding off to meet his sorta girlfriend on their date.
Jake and Rose then decided to just take a nice walk in the park where they just sat on a park bench and talked about anything and everything there is to talk about. As it got dark, Jake then walked Rose home and kissed her goodnight before making his way home himself.
Rotwood had been spying on his former student from a nearby rooftop. It appears to him that Rose is the most important thing to Jake, something that could possiblybe his downfall.
So what do you guys think? I wouldn't want to get the main story started until about chapter 3 so yeah this was a breather chapter. I hope you guyslike it and please keep up the reviews. Until next time.