Act II: The Legend Exists
For the next four days, Jake, Gigo, Excalibur, One-eyed Skill Gainer, Gagaga Cowboy, Gauntlet Launcher, Zubaba progress through the forest. During the trek, Skill Gainer use his knowledge of remedies to help recover Zubaba General and Gauntlet Launcher fixed up Zubaba General's armor. Jake also notices that Winged Kuriboh is getting more close to him. He doesn't know why Winged Kuriboh is doing it but he suspects that Winged Kuriboh might sense some of Mana's presence on him. Whatever the trouble, the group marches on.
As they walk down the trail, they manage to come across a cliff wall. The group's eyes wide open as they see the trail boundaries going up the cliff.
"By the Dragon Pits!" Excalibur sputtered, "Is this trail carved by giant snails?"
"We could climb." Jake said. When he was younger, his father taught him to climb rocks. As he thought about, he thought how his parents are doing.
"Easy for you to say." Gauntlet Launcher said, "You can fly!"
"Hey! It's only fair that consider you all can't fly, I'll climb with you all." Jake told his group.
"Not true." Skill Gainer said as Winged Kuriboh float next to him, "Winged Kuriboh shared this same attribute with you."
"That still does not change the fact that I'm climbing with you guys." Jake said as he summon both of his blades and stabs them to the cliff wall. Jake then starts climbing up the wall with his swords. Jake looks at his team and said, "You guys coming or what?"
"I ain't much of a good climber." Gauntlet Launcher said.
"Do you have any grappling hooks in those gauntlets?" Zubaba General asked Gauntlet Launcher.
"No. I just don't like climbing." Gauntlet Launcher said.
Skill Gainer pulls out both of his swords and used the them to climb up the wall. "Well, its the only thing in our way." said the one-eyed samurai.
"My comrade in arms," Excalibur said to Gauntlet Launcher,"Don't be scared of this challenge. I'll help you climb up this cliff."
"You sure?" Gauntlet Launcher said as he starts climbing up the wall with Excalibur behind him.
"I'm sure as my sword." Excalibur said as he pulls out his sword.
Most of the swordsmen in the group use their swords to climb while Gauntlet Launcher, Gigo, and Gagaga Cowboy climb with their hands. Gigo, due to his prowess as a lizard humanoid, carried Flip the Baby Tiragon with Excalibur's permission. Winged Kuriboh fly right next to Jake as he climbs. Jake doesn't mind Winged Kuriboh is flying next to him is just Winged Kuriboh's presence reminds him too much Mana.
Oh Mana, where are you? Jake thought as he climb, I can't live without you now. You taught me how to believe in myself. I will find you.
"So despite having a nice party, the magic map didn't bright up." Gauntlet Launcher asked as he climbs cautiously.
"No it didn't." Jake said.
"I think it might only light up if true teamwork is shown through us." Skill Gainer said as he stabs one of his katana to the wall.
Gigo jumps up and grabs a ledge next to Skill Gainer with Flip holding on to dear life. "That probably means stop arguing with a team member about the way he fights." the humanoid lizard says.
"Oh goody." Zubaba General said, "We're going to start to argue on a cliff wall."
"We're not arguing." Gigo said, "I just proving a point."
They kept traveling up the cliff wall. Gauntlet Launcher stop a couple times but Excalibur keeps encouraging on. Jake manage to reach the top with Winged Kuriboh next to him. When Jake got to his feet he sees an assortment of rocks. The rocks made a shape of a circle. At the center of the rock circle, Jake and Winged Kuriboh was able to see a bigger rock size of a cat that is different from the rest. Unlike the other rocks, this rock is perfectly curved and rounded.
Jake walks on top of the rock pile and walks to the perfect rock with Winged Kuriboh behind him. As Jake and Winged Kuriboh got closer, the rock began to glow in white light. Jake picks up the white rock and examines it.
Skill Gainer, Gigo, and Zubaba General reach the top of the cliff in time to see Jake examining the rock, which now grows very bright white.
"What is that Jake?" Gigo said as he puts Flip on the floor.
"I don't know." Jake replied, "It's some glowing stone." He turns to Winged Kuriboh, "Let's get back to the others with this thing." Jake and Winged Kuriboh went back to the group as Gigo and Zubaba General attempt to lift up Gauntlet Launcher.
"Don't let go!" Gauntlet Launcher said shakingly.
"Oh we're not letting you go." Zubaba General said, "We're just lifting your ass so you don't plummet down to the ground and end in a splat!"
Gauntlet Launcher's eyes lit up as he muster enough force to pull himself up and ran from the edge of the cliff. Excalibur then got up from the cliff with the help of his sword.
"That is one giant who is afraid of heights." Excalibur said as he puts up his sword. He then sees what Jake got. "What in the stars is that?" Excalibur asked Jake.
"I don't know." Jake said as the stone grew brighter, "But I think it's doing something." Jake puts the stone down grabs his weapons. Gagaga Cowboy, who is the slowest climber, arrive just in time to see what's happening.
"Jiminy Crickets." Gagaga Cowboy said as gets up and points his gauntlet guns at the stone.
The group watches as the stone shines brighter and brighter. Then the light disappears. The group look at the egg very cautiously. Flip went up to it and sniffs it.
"What just happen?" Jake asked as carefully touched the stone with one of his swords. As it did, the stone rolled towards Jake. The stone then hatched slowly.
"Something is inside the stone." Gauntlet Launcher said as he points his gauntleted hand at the hatching stone.
"The question is what is it?" Skill Gainer said as he gets in a defending position.
The top portion of the stone pop open to reveal its content. Inside the stone is a cat-sized dragon with whitish-blue skin. The young dragon cried as it got of its egg.
"By the saloon, its an egg!" Gagaga Cowboy said as he puts down his gauntlet guns.
"The stone is nothing but an egg with a baby dragon." Jake said as his swords disappears. He walks up to the dragon infant.
Gigo also walks up and looks at the dragon. A closer examining it, Gigo's eyes went wide open. "Guys," Gigo stutters, "It's….It's…"
"Don't stutter it, spill it!" Gauntlet Launcher yelled.
"It's a Blue-Eyes White Dragon." Gigo said.
The group stayed silent. Blue-Eyes White Dragon are the powerful dragon is all of extraordinary three only known Blue-Eyes, Azrael, Ibris, and Dijbrael, also brought Blue-Eyes' reputation of ruthlessness and unmerciful. Jake and Gigo found out a couple weeks ago from a tablet that their mother, Kisara, was killed by a mechanical being and she hid one of her unhatched younglings somewhere before her sad fate.
"A Blue-Eyes?" Excalibur said, "A Blue-Eyes?! Lets kill it!" Zubaba General and Gauntlet Launcher follow Excalibur and ready to kill the Blue-Eyes hatchling.
Jake got in front Excalibur, Zubaba General, and Gauntlet Launcher. He is very shock about Excalibur's solution for the young dragon. "Excalibur." Jake said in shock, "Why do you do such a thing to a young thing. I know the Blue-Eyes is unmerciful but killing this young dragon might cause a turn up."
"And if we don't kill it, our gooses will be cook by the hatchling's kin." Excalibur said as he pulls out his sword.
"So thats what you been known as? A baby killer?" Jake said as Gagaga Cowboy and Skill Gainer walk next to him, "This young dragon is just hatched and you want to kill it? Kill it and you will be no worse than the Blue-Eyes White Dragon brothers."
Heroic Champion- Excalibur looks at Jake then at the hatchling. Then he looks at Flip, who and Winged Kuriboh is watching the whole thing. Excalibur knows in his heart that Jake is right. But Jake has no idea what the Blue-Eyes kin had done to him.
"All right." Excalibur said as he puts up his sword, "But if that dragon backstabs us, its dead."
Jake nods his head as Excalibur, Zubaba General, Gauntlet Launcher, and Flip walk away to set up camp. Jake walks to Gigo who is still studying the young dragon. Skill Gainer and Gagaga Cowboy also observed the hatchling.
"Why did you guys stick with me?" Jake asked Skill Gainer and Gagaga Cowboy, "I thought you guys don't like each other and want the Blue-Eyes dead like everybody else."
"Despite our differences in our fighting styles." Skill Gainer explained, "But we might agree in one thing: Killing the young is dishonorable. I seen the Shien's men killed young children with my very own eyes."
"Back where I come from when I was young, " Gagaga Cowboy said, "The sheriff forced some of my friends to a gun duel. They are no older than ten."
Jake is shocked to hear what the duo had experience. There's no way I'm not going to give this dragon to its brothers. Jake thought.Gagaga Cowboy remove his quilt and uses it to wrap the young dragon. He then gives it to Jake.
"Aw Jake." Gigo jokingly says, "You look so cute with baby." Jake blushes as Gigo, Gagaga Cowboy, and Skill Gainer laugh. Winged Kuriboh flies next to Jake trying not to laugh at Jake. "So what are you going to name her?" Gigo said.
"Her!? How you know it's a girl, you pervert!" Zubaba General as he heard the conversation where the others set camp at.
"The hatchling is the last offspring of Kisara!" Gigo yelled at Zubaba General, "The law of dragon offspring is at least one dragon offspring is a girl. It's Dragon Biology!" Gigo turns back to Jake and says, "So what are you going to name her?"
"Why me?" Jake asked.
"I'm not the perfect one of giving out names." Gigo answered, "And those guys don't care what you do with it."
Jake look Skill Gainer and Gagaga Cowboy and both of them shrug. Jake looks at the young hatchling and the hatchling looks back. He smiles as figured out the dragon's name. "Kisara." Jake said, "Right after her mother."
"All right but one thing still bothers me." Gagaga Cowboy said, "How did the dragon survive that long inside that egg."
"A dragon can develop inside the egg for 40 years." Gigo explained, "Tust me. I took Dragon Biology."
"Then lets take a different turn." Skill Gainer said as he walks to the camp.
Jake looks at the Blue-Eyes hatchling, who is now asleep in his arms. Mana, Jake thought, I hope when we find you, you can accept this dragon like you accept me despite my status.