Chapter 7: Accusations

Rose fumbled with the keys Jake through over at the last second, trying to place it directly into the lock. "Rose, relax, your freaking me out." Roxanne admitted, embraced in the shakes of her sister has caused her own skin to shake.

"How can you stay there so calm?" Rose twitched backwards, evidently not seeing how truly shaken up her sister actually was, "We just left Jake alone? We don't know if he's okay…or hurt…"

"Rose," Trixie held down her shoulders once they walked inside, "Jakey will be fine. He has Sun and Haley, and against trolls and goblins, piece of cake." Slowly they continued forward, until they reached the edge of the couch. Rose's trembles stayed moderate, even as Trixie persisted. "Jake has done this before, certainly has done it without your help." As if that hit a vein to her heart, Rose felt the blood drain her system. Whether not done by Trixie on purpose or on accident, that comment hurt her harder than it should. "What you need to do is relax, and stay confident in Jake's job. He is the American Dragon, and you don't earn that title letting other people handle the dirty work." All those missions, all those depths of danger and valor, it was all Jake. Rose would not have the life she was living now, not have the courage she has now was because of his bravery, not hers. How could she convince others to her willingness to help, when she has done nothing to prove her will?

Trixie smiled at Rose, who had not stopped shaking. "It'll be okay."

"Okay," Rose answered mechanically, but she did not feel okay. She needed to prove it to him that she cared deep enough to take risks, go against orders, just as he did many times before.

If only she was not fighting the trust of her sister right now, so many conflictions! "But I'm going after him he's not back in ten minutes." She pouted, sitting on the couch.

None of her empty threats mattered for a second later Jake, Sun, and Haley entered into the shop. All were perfectly healthy, with no signs of injuries.

Rose got back up first, rushing to Jake. "Everything okay?"

Jake looked up, confused by her tone but smiled anyways. "Yup, everything's fine. We took care of those people, Amdrag style!" Relief flooded Rose, but it was not all flooded out.

After their arrival, everyone sat around the couch to discuss the events that had happened today. "Jake, do you have any clues to why these trolls and goblins attacked us?" Sun brought the meeting to start, addressing the problem head on.

"I'm not sure…" Jake pondered, then decided, "I've have seen those trolls before, the big ones, they belonged to Pandarus. The hob-gobs though, I haven't."

"How do you know they were Pandarus's?"

"Those trolls were magically enhanced by him. They attacked us yesterday too."

"Do you think it was another attack from Pandarus?" Rose added.

Jake had been thinking about this since the end of the attack. These were his beliefs, "I don't know…I mean yesterday didn't seem like a deliberate attack. Felt like we just came at the same time he was causing havoc and looking for his new partner."

"But today must have been deliberate…I heard one of those guys clearly say 'that's them', so they were after us." Trixie brought up.

Spud interrupted, suggesting, "Maybe it's Pandarus's new partner?"

Jake turned his head in thinking position, "Hmm…maybe, but don't you think it's too soon to take action? I mean it hasn't been even one day. Usually this kind of planning takes a couple of more days…I don't think it's Pandarus."

"I guess that's what we'll have to find out," Sun jumped up, anchoring Haley's hand with hers as well. "Haley and I will patrol the city," she held up her finger as Jake was about to cut-in, "Jake, obviously these creatures have harbored some ill-will against you, it's best not for you to be out in the open until we find out what the true motives are."

Before Haley and Sun reached the door, Jake blocked their exit, "Oh hold up. I clearly heard them say them, which means it's not just me. It's probably just another gang who has something against dragons. It's not fair I'm the only one who gets banned."

Sun considered this for a couple of seconds before sighing, "Your right. I'll patrol the city, meanwhile I'll see if any of Fu Dog's resources can pick up anything. But I still want you to stay low key Jake or you Haley, attracting no attention to yourselves until we get more information on this."

Haley re-grabbed Sun's hand, "What about Grandpa?"

"I'll alert him when we have more information, but Lao Shi has other business to take care of with the Dragon Council, we should not bother him with more." Sun looked back at everyone one more before leaving, "And you guys should head home to. Until we know who these creatures are seeking, it is not wise to hang around here unprotected, especially if you are going to remain unhelpful Rose."

"Oh…" Rose scowled, "He told you."

"Yeah…Lao Shi made sure to remind me before he left." Then she proceeded forward, "All of you stay hidden, and alert me if there is more trouble. Come Haley."


Planned this chapter to be longer, but I have a scene in mind for what happens next, and it won't be as cool (or funny) if I did it at the end of this chapter...so here you go. XD =P

What do you think audience? Do you think it was Pandarus again, or Chang, or 88 and 89, or all three, or none...? =O

Oh and since we are talking here, thought I'd update you guys on my life, since we haven't talk in what seems forever. Did I tell you I got accepted to college? Yup, next year I plan to go into majoring into wildlife conservation! :)

Been working on other mediums besides fanfics, been writing a novel (just revising it now), and I plan on submitting it to some publishers soon. :) Also been working on my artwork, which you can check out on my deviantart acc. (same username as my username here).

I've been reviewing some of my older stories (more like cringing over them, so many errors!), and I remember I used to update at least one of my stories once a day...ah...how diligent I used to be. I am trying to strive for that again, but with my busy life...I will make a promise to update at least once a week. X)

After this story and when I finish Huntsclan History 101 (ugh, don't even ask me about Wasted Desires...), I plan to write some of the stories I never got to. When I used to be frequenter, I wrote down about 40 different fanfic ideas...I have accomplished most of them, but looking at some of the ideas I know I need to go back and do them. Look forward to that

Until now, I shall try to update Restricted tomorrow, and finish Hunstclan History over my weekend. X)

Thanks for talking to me guys, see yah!