It begins with Jake, Fu dog and Lao shi walking by the street at night. There was an emergency related to the magic world and some creatures said there was an unknown monster stealing souls at the sewer so they needed to help of the American dragon to calm it down. They knew they have reached the place when they saw some goblins running off from the sewer.
The schools homecoming dance was in two days and Jake didn't want to step into a sewer because he might get a skin reaction to whatever it was down there, but still he had to go and check things out as the American dragon.
When Jake climbed down into the sewer he was attacked by a strange creature but it was all dark and he couldn't recognize it. They both fought against each other but when Jake exhaled fire the other creature ran away scared of the fire.
At the next day, Jake, Trixie and Spud were skating their way to school talking about the dance. Trixie said she would be doing her yearly charity action by taking Spud to the dance while Jake said he would ask Rose out. They arrived to school and they were talking at the lockers when Brad Morton approached them.
- Hey Jake can i talk with you for a second?
- Look there Jake this is your opportunity. - said Trixie pointing at Rose when she walked by the corner to her locker.
- Not now Brad i have something important to do right now...
Jake immediately started to walk in Rose direction trying to look confident and handsome when he ask Rose if you would be his date for the dance but Jake was too distracted that he was hit by someone else's locker door. And felt to the floor.
- He thought he could, he thought he could …- Said Trixie.
- What's do you mean?- Asked Brad
- Poor Jake tried to ask Rose for the dance.
- Oh. Rose… it's that so? Huh he is wasting his time, I've heard she is going with someone else.
Said Brad in a rude tone before he left. Trixie and Spud went to help their friend since Rose and Brad were already gone.
- Hey yo Jake. What was that?
- Yeah you couldn't even get close to her. It's probably that smell that got you knocked out.
- You Jake can pull it out as long as he pop up a couple of mints or bubble gum before he asks some girl out.
- So that's what was smelling funny… supercalifragilistic chronic halitosis
- Eww what is that? That's just funky
Jake hadn't noticed it before but he actually had bad breath. So he decided to wash his teeth and mouth and chew a gum. After the first period Jake saw Rose walking on the corridor and he decided to ask her again, this time he would walk in the middle of the corridor so no locker could hit him. He was determined to get to Rose when he slipped and fell on the wet floor next to the "caution wet floor" sign. By that time most of the students in the Hallway had already walked away but Rose noticed him and immediately went to his aid.
- Oh my god are you alright?
- Sorry hehe… i just… you know wet floor….so i was wondering if you had any plans? for the dance
- Oh I'm going with Brad, he just asked me.
- Cool that's great! I have a date too
- Cool who you bringing?
- Oh you don't know her, she is not from school, but she is hot. I just wanted to make sure you were taken care of.
- Yes she is been taken care of! - said Brad who suddenly got close to them and grabbed Rose's hand before leaving.
- Yo what's wrong with him?
- Yo we are here for you Jakey
Both Spud and Trixie got close after Brad and Rose left.
- Let the crying begin.
- Dude. No time for tears. I just told Rose that i was showing at the dance with a hot date. I gotta find one.
Spud tried to tell Jake that if he doesn't find a date he could wear a wig and pretend to be a girl but Trixie stopped him and told Jake he will find someone but he had to start asking other girls, and wash his mouth again cuz he still smell funny.
For the rest of the classes Jake asked all the girls he could but all of them just run off because of his bad smell. Some simple found an alibi to get away but others toll him directly he should do something about his breath. It was almost midday when the school counselor made an announcement to evacuate the school because of an unknown odor that could probably be a gas leak.
At canal street electronics, Jake was complaining about having bad breath at a time like this, Lao shi only told him it was natural because he was a young dragon with maturing fire breathing glands. Jake insisted on asking his grandfather for a cure for the bad breath.
- I got a dance to go and a lady friend to impress, there must be something in those books about how treat a stunk mouth.
- Brahh dragon breath is not important, what is important is for us to identify the creature in the sewers.
- Yeah but what will people think when they smell my breath
- You should not worry about other people's perceptions of you
Then Fu got Jakes attention and the boy followed the old shar pei to the back of the store.
- Are you nutts? Taking advice from someone who hasn't had a date since the Ming dynasty it's just wrong. I got the solution to all of your problems.
Jake saw the dog mixing some ingredients and then pouring the resulting potion into a fang-shaped talisman.
- Here you go kid. As long as you wear this bad breath is nothing but a distant nightmare.
- Fu you're the best!
- Yeah yeah i know. Now about your date, we still have to find you one.
- But i already asked every girl in school.
- Who said anything about school? C'mon follow me, we are going out.
Jake and Fu left the store and walked to the closest subway station. After a while they reached the last stop on the route and Jake was about to leave when fu stopped him and say they still have another stop. That's when the train kept moving and the wagon they were in passes through a wall. Both the kid and the dog were now in a different part of the city, one that Jake have never seen.
- Welcome to Magus Bazar kid. Anything you need you can find it here.
- Yo Fu this is incredible! Why didn't i know about this place?
- There are lots of things you still don't know about the magic world. Now stick around me i know some ladies that might be interested on being your date.
Jake and Fu walked through the crowded street, everyone in there seemed to be magical in some way. And the thing on the stand were definitely magical (or at least most of them) from potion ingredients to stolen human left shoes.
At the Bazar Fu presented Jake to some of the girls he knew, Veronica a human with the lower body of a spider. Sara and Kara the oracle twins… but just knowing this three Jake though he wouldn't find someone appropriate for the dance. Jake kept walking through the crowd until he lost sight of Fu. Searching for his friend Jake found a pretty young girl of his age. Probably one or two years older, she was looking at some moon rocks when Jake talked to her. Her name was Jasmine and she was nicer than what he though. Jasmine was in New York for a couple of days to visit her family and she also mentioned she had some trouble by staying out at night. Jake invited her to the dance and she accepted but when Jake asked for her address to go and pick her up. She refused and said it would be better if she went to Jake's house instead. When everything was set Jake noticed the people at the bazaar making a tumult and the boy saw that Fu was in trouble with some goblins. Jake said goodbye to his new date and turned into a dragon to save his friend.
The day of the dance arrived and it was 8 o'clock when Jasmine knocked at Jakes door. His parents were so busy embarrassing him on his first date that they didn't noticed when little Haley opened the door to see Jasmine standing at the door frame. Haley as usual need to embarrass his brother by telling Jasmine some secrets about him.
Jake got rid of his parents taking pictures and went straight to Jasmine and tried to leave as fast as he could but Susan stopped them just to take some pictures of the couple. Then they departed to the dance.
When they arrived, Jake presented Jasmine to all of his friends and danced with a lot of guy staring at her. When Jake saw Brad and Rose dancing he decided to go and present them to Jasmine. And so he did, the blonde couple were dancing and talking when Jake introduced them to Jasmine, then everything suddenly changed and Brad stared at Jasmine with furious eyes saying nothing. Rose actually started a conversation with her but Brad went to grab some punch.
Jake noticed that all the attention was on him and his date and that made him feel overconfident and started to show off by dancing and acting like of he was actually drunk. After an hour Jake was enjoying the party by himself since Jasmine was surrounded by most of the guys in the room. He could barely remember something about talking Jasmine home early. Before 10:23 and 15 secs but it was almost 10:20
Jake saw Rose sitting at a table alone with a sad face. And that's when Jake found the opportunity to dance with her. Rose said Brad went for some fresh air but that was like 20 minutes ago, she deduced that he went to admire Jasmine like the rest of the guys. And so Rose and Jake started dancing. A couple of minutes passed and all the guys suddenly spread from the center of the dancefloor.
Right outside, at the back door was Brad just sitting alone when he noticed someone was coming or actually leaving the dance thought the back door. He wiped his nose and stood up. There he saw Jasmine rushing out of the building. She asked him what was he doing outside? But the guy said he was taking some fresh air because…. Well he stopped there and asked the same question to her, why she was leaving from the back door without Jake?
Before she could answer her eyes turned red and Brad felt paralyzed. He couldn't move, he couldn't say a word and the moon was shining on top of the sky. Brad could do nothing when Jasmine kissed him with her bright red eyes. The boy's body collapsed on the floor with his eyes still open as for Jasmine she returned inside the building acting calm and confident.
After some minutes dancing with Rose, both of them fell because they tripped on something or someone who was laying on the ground with no apparent reason.
Jake asked they guy if he was alright but he answered nothing his eyes were wide open which means he was awake but his body seemed to be paralyzed.
Jake knew something was wrong and he looked for the cause of it, until he saw Jasmine kissing some guys and taking something bright out of their mouths. After the kiss the guys simple fell to the floor. Jake told Rose to wait for him as he ran towards his friends, he asked Trixie if something was off with spud but she said she had everything under control until she looked to her date and noticed he was just lying on the chair next to her with his head hanging and his mouth drooling.
Jake immediately hid under the table and called Fu dog from his cell phone.
- Hey yo what's up kid?
- FU! i think there's something wrong with my date and all the…
- Wait. Date? What date?
- Jasmine, i asked her out at the bazaar cause she seemed normal and hot and now she is….
Jake could hear his grandpa saying something about a Nix and then Fu told Jake to keep Jasmine busy until they arrive.
At that moment Jake heard a tremendous growl and he looked at the stage where Jasmine turned into a winged creatures with a long tail, all of the students who were still standing suddenly fell when she absorbed a lot of shiny things coming out of the bodies.
Jake turned into a dragon since there was none who would see him and he fought with creature Jasmine. He didn't want to hurt her but at the same time he couldn't let her steal the souls of more people. Stopping her was hard thou, she was strong and fast like Jake in his dragon form.
Finally after a long fight Jake received help from his grandpa and Fu dog who gave him a potion. Jake drank it and felt something tingling in his body. Then Fu told him he wasn't supposed to drink it but to pour it over Jasmin since the potion strips the magical powers from anyone who touches it.
Jake turned back to human as he saw his grandpa losing his soul against Jasmin. Jake then tried to fight Jasmine as a human but she caught him first with her tail. The moment jasmine was about to take Jakes soul, he removed his magic necklace and his bad breath returned making the Nix throw him away.
Jazmin took a few steps back then she tripped and fell down hitting her head and knocking her out. She lost consciousness and her body turned back to normal and all the souls were set free and returned to their respective body.
Jake left the dance afterwards with his grandpa and Fu dog who were carrying Jasmine. But before he could call it a night Rose approached him and thanked him for everything that night and kissed him in the cheek. Somehow Brad was walking out of the alley with the worst headache when he saw Rose kissing Jake. He immediately hid and heard Jake falling downs the stairs of the entrance.
