So, here's how Emma decided to deal with her grief. Not very intelligent of her, is it?
You know the drill. I don't own AD:JL


The Last Huntsgirl Chapter Seven

Emma watched the red speck that was the American dragon get smaller and smaller before disappearing. Tears ran down her face as her last hope flew away. Jake would never trust her. She had to do her research on her own. But how? She wasn't magical; she just had ancestors who were magical. She couldn't communicate with magical creatures. She couldn't even mix a potion correctly.

Emma sat down and hugged her knees against her chest as her last supply of tears ran out. No more would come. She was suddenly filed with a blinding emotion. Fury swept through her, a storm that obliterated everything in its path. Then it disappeared, and Emma felt like an empty husk, devoid of emotion, pain, and hope. She got up and walked home slowly, no longer caring.


The next day after school-

The school bell rang and the students poured out in a flood. Trixie and Spud were sitting by the doors, waiting for Jake. When he finally emerged, Trixie was on him in a flash.

"Yo, Jakie what'd you do to that Emma girl? She didn't show up at the skate park yesterday, and wasn't at school either." Jake shrugged.

"Maybe she was sick," he said.

"Or maybe, maybe you hurt her feeling so bad that she went home, and won't communicate with anyone. She won't do anything but read," Spud said. Jake looked at Spud suspiciously.

"Hold up. How come you know that?"

"Jakie, we went to see Emma after she didn't show up at the skate park. She just sits there, and doesn't do anything. You really broke her heart," Trixie said, her voice getting softer. Jake turned away. He didn't want to be burdened by guilt.

"You know, if you wanted to, you could go back and talk to Emma," Spud said thoughtfully. Jake frowned.

"I don't think so…" he began, but then Rose ran up to them.

"Jake, you have to come. Please! It's important!" Jake took one look at her face and nodded. Spud, Trixie, and Jake raced after Rose.


A few minutes later-

They had arrived at Emma's apartment complex. A small speck was on the roof of the tall building.

"Jakie, what is that?" Trixie asked. Jake looked at speck.

"Eye of the dragon," he murmured. Immediately he saw it. It was a girl with black and lavender hair. She was standing at the top of the building, on the very edge. As though she was going to jump. Jake's eyes snapped human again.

"It's Emma. She's going to jump off the building!"

Rose nodded quietly.

"I went to see her, but she only told me a few things. She said that she had nowhere to go. Her adopted parents had decided to send her back to the orphanage, and with you refusing to help her find her true family, well, she decided that it was all over for her."

"You did try to talk to her, didn't you?" Trixie asked.

"Yes, but she said, 'If Jake really does care whether or not a Huntsgirl leaps off a building, bring him to me, and have him say it.'" Jake looked at the girl on the apartment complex.

"We have to be able to stop her!" Jake said desperately. Suddenly, he heard a clock strike four. On the second strike, Emma hurled herself off the building.

"No!" All four cried out at the sight of the last Huntsgirl leaping to her death. In a flash, Jake was a dragon, but Rose tried to stop him.

"Jake, it's too late. Nothing can save her now." Jake took one look at the girl falling through the air.

"Emma!" he shouted. The figure turned its head to look at him. And stopped falling. Everyone, including Emma, looked up in surprise. Emma was suspended in the air by a pair of lavender wings, the same color as the streaks in her hair.

"She's a dragon," Rose whispered.

"Either that, or she's some sort of mutated alien," Spud said.

Emma glided toward them on her wings. Once she reached the ground, they disappeared in as purple mist engulfed them.

"I'm a dragon," she said, and then passed out.


What a way to find she's a dragon, huh? Falling to your death, and then suddenly you're not falling anymore, you got these great flapping things attached to your back. That would be so cool.
Chapter Eight will soon be up! What will Jake do with Emma now that he learns she's a dragon? And just who is Emma's true family, anyway?