Chapter 7: A Need to Win

Note: I know I am rushing a bit at the chapters, but I want to work on my sequel stories. So I need to finish this one before I can start xDD

Jake and Gramps walked next to each other, at the end of the second task.

"Well done, young dragon." Gramps said to him, as Fu dog was now walking toward them.

"Yeah, I did to good, didn't I?" Jake gave a smile, acting like his cocky self again. But this time, he had way more confidence in himself.

"Awww man, you put the smack down on those chumps!" Fu dog joined in the conversation.

"Just wanted to show them, not to mess with the Amdrag!"

"Ahh don't sweat it kid. You might not win a popularity contest, but you sure can win this!" Fu dog joked, but Jake rolled his eyes.

It was the next day, after the second task. Jake and Gramps had practice all day in the arena. It seemed Jake's attitude about the competition suddenly turned around.

Jake was determined more than ever to win the World Dragon Games. Not only win respect from the other players that doubt his powers, but for his Gramps.

This is why, Jake spend the rest of the day training. And not once, did he complain. He pushed himself as hard as he could, until he was as tired as he could be. So by the next day, he was ready for the third task.

Aylonn approached his brothers, and discussed plans for today's competition.

"Are we still going with the schedule?" He whispered to them.

"Yes. Go along with the 'planned' third task. Just, don't let yourself get lost in your words again…" Bailatic answered, thinking that Aylonn might blurt out their secret plan.

"Do not worry yourselves," he spoke to them, then walked up over to the center of the audience.

"Welcome contestants to the Third Round!!" Aylonn announced over to the crowd of contestants. He directed the group to another empty section of the planet; this is where the task will be held. "For your next task, you will each get hit with these poison energy balls."

Aylonn lifted up his arm, and out came a purple ball floating from his grip. He tossed it up and down, to show the crowd. He then closed up his fist, and it disappeared. After, he moved his arms, and across the way, came out 7 giant tanks, filled with these strange balls. "You must dodge these balls as they come right toward you. You must destroy any that are in your way. The person, who destroys the most balls, will be our winner. But, these balls are highly poisonous; get hit by one of these babies, and you'll be out cold for a day."

"However, in this leg of the race, you are not allowed to use any weapons. You are only to use pure strength." He screamed out to them. "Now, separate down from each other, and let's start.

The task was similar to a batting range if you were to play baseball. However, you had no bat to protect yourself from the flying balls. Even so, get hit with this ball when it explodes, you get injected with the poison.

The teams aligned next to get other, spreading out from one another so they won't have to fight for each ball.

Jake walked over to the line, to set himself a place. There was an open spot by Kakiri, so he made his way in between her.

"If you were smart, you'd think to not stand by me…" Kakiri looked over shoulder at Jake. With her warning, Jake continued down the line.

Jake watched as one by one, each of the dragons gave him a nasty look. He stared right at them, as he made his way down the line. Finally, he found an empty spot, at the end of the line. He put himself there, and gave out a smirk, one that showed he really wanted to win.

At the sound of the pistol, the game begun. Out from the tanks, came tons of balls shooting out at the same time. Each headed right toward the competitors. Not only did they have to destroy the upcoming balls, they had to make sure they didn't miss one, or get hit by one on their body.

Kakiri, since she did not have her swords, was at a disadvantage. But she did not let that stop her. As the flying balls came toward her, she would cast out a shield of fire, destroying any of the energy balls that ran into it. Even if this was effective, it only lasted about a minute, and wore away lot of her total power.

Hazlin used her ice breath, against these energy balls. With a blow from her mouth, she could freeze about up to 10 balls at once. Once they were frozen, they stopped flying, and shattered to the ground. But it was hard for her to focus not just on the balls she was trying to destroy; and she often found herself barely dodging a flying ball.

Aldo used his tail of course. He turned around, and lifted his tail. His tail had a pointy spike at the end of this, so whenever a ball would it; it would pop. However, since he faced the other way, the poison did not take affect. But, since was looking in the opposite direction, if were not to pay attention, he could easily get his by one of these flying balls.

Taromo used his own two fists. With a jab left and right, he kept on destroying any nearby balls. He would punch them away, and watch them explode out into the distance. You could tell that Taromo was very strong. Not only did he have strength, but he was very angelic with using it too. One by one, he destroyed each of the upcoming balls. However, how long before this move tires him out? Will he have enough energy to dodge the balls that he has missed?

Fred used his fire beam to destroy the balls. This powerful beam could wipe out any of the balls that were right in front of him. And with his perfect aim, he could get almost all the balls that were headed his way. But since he was a good flyer, his feet skills he still needed to work on. No one, not even himself, was sure he could avoid the balls that came toward him, to not get him hit with the poison.

Joris was at a very disadvantage. His specialty was flying, which he could not do in this task. He wasn't sure how he could prevail in this situation. Both his fires, and his strength, were weaker than the rest of the dragons. At the beginning of the contest, he decided to use his fire to help him out. But being it so weak, it could only destroy about 2 of the balls at a time. This meaning, he had to spend a lot of extra time dodging the balls that he had missed.

Jake Long took a different approach. Instead of using one power, he decided to go with two of them. His fireballs were very strong, and useful. Plus, his claws were powerful to use too. With that, he would shoot fireballs at upcoming balls. And if he were to miss a couple or two, he could pound them with his mighty claws.

Gramps and Fu watched from behind. They had to keep their guards up, as there was tons of flying energy balls heading their way. If they weren't careful, one of them could hit them by mistake.

After exactly 2,000 balls were shot out of each machine, the machines stop. The dragons gave out a tiring sigh, as the competition had ended. The gathered around, to here the results…

"The results are in, and I might just say they are really close. Coming in first, with a count of 1451 balls, is Hazlin!! In second, we have Jake, with 1303 balls!"

Jake paused for a moment, wow second place, he thought. It was way better than he expected, but he excited to see that he was getting really far into the competition.

"Next, we have Kakiri in third place with 1256 balls!"

Kakiri let her jaw drop down in shock. "I GOT THIRD PLACE!!!!!!!" She screamed, and let out a blast of fire from her body. Aylonn, stared at the angry girl, and didn't say anything until she calmed down.

"Umm… our fourth place winner is Aldo, with 1238 balls! Fifth place we have Taromo with 1198 balls. And our last two winners for this are Fred with 1003 balls and Joris with only 945 balls."

"In the end, here are the latest results before we enter the last competition!!" Aylonn said, reading off the calculations off a piece of paper. "Still in our top spot, is Kakiri!! Not to far from her, we have Hazlin, then Jake! And lastly, we have Taromo, Fred, Aldo, and Joris trailing behind. You four will need to work harder next time, in order to catch up."

The player gave some good and bad feedback at the results, but it there was nothing they could do. "Now players, go get some sleep and rest. TOMORROW MORNING, we shall start the last task. Then, we shall know who is this year's champion at, the World Dragon Games!" Aylonn laughed out loud. The competitors left for the hotel, as Aylonn walked over to his brothers, to discuss the plans for tomorrow's final task.


Yes, either the next chapter, or the chapter after that will be the last one. I know, this story went by fast, but that is how I intended it to be. Sadly, there will not be a sequel to this story. But with the ending like the one that is coming up, it will be impossible to write a sequel xD.