Chapter 8: Jack's Last Day with Team Prime?

"Megatron tell your pet to let me go!" yelled Jack as Lamia had a very firm grip on him. "My pet?! How dare you call her my pet! She is my daughter…Lamia. You are nothing but her meal Jack Darby!' Megatron yelled defending his daughter's pride. Then Lamia was about to eat his leg when he remembered that Dracen was his daughter as well, so he thought of a plan to make sure that is theory is correct. "Wait, wasn't Dracen your daughter Megatron? If she was, why did you eat her soul?" asked Jack as Megatron grew furious at him. "Dracen is no more, now her name is Lamia! Plus she has no memory of being Dracen, the only way that she can is for her to pass through the Gates of the Underworld and to get the power that I was supposed to get. Only then will she remember everything." Megatron laughed as Jack saw her eyes turn to the way they were as Dracen, then back to being as they are now.

Then Lamia spoke for the first time—and it sounded like Dracen's voice too. "F…f..father!" roared Lamia as Megatron was so proud of her. "Sweetheart, eat your meal. I will be back shortly; I must get my own meal." Megatron said as he flew off into the night to get an unsuspecting human for his meal. "Lamia please listen to me! Don't do this to me, we are friends! Please…" Jack pleaded as she was devouring his right leg. Then there was a scream and Megatron returned with a lot of humans to eat—about ten to thirty of them and Jack's mother as one of them. "Mom! Megatron let her go now!" Jack yelled/pleaded as she saw him and gasped out of horror. "That will never happen Jack, you are my daughter's meal and your mother is my meal. But don't worry, I promise I will eat her last—so she can watch you get devoured slowly!' Megatron laughed as he ate two humans already.

June saw in pure horror as he son was being eaten alive by a young Dragon and just wanted to help him but Megatron would not let her near him at all. Out of the blue, Optimus showed up to rescue Jack and his mother. "Megatron let them go!" Optimus yelled angrily as Megatron just laughed. "Never Optimus Prime! My daughter will eat your human friend and then I shall eat his mother!" Megatron laughed as Optimus prepared to fight Lamia. "Your daughter will die Megatron! I will kill her and will never allow her to come back to life!" Optimus shouted as he launched an attack on Lamia.

"Optimus wait! It's Dracen! But she lost all of her memories as Dracen!" Jack explained as he tried to stop Optimus from attacking. Then it hit him: Megatron's so called "daughter" was Dracen, now his daughter was eating Jack alive, it was all making sense now. "Don't worry Jack I will restore her memory." Optimus said as there was a very bright light, when it went away Dracen was back and Lamia was dead. "Optimus? Where are we? Why do I have blood coming from my mouth?! And why is Jack partially devoured?!" asked Dracen as Jack fell unconscious. "It's a very long story Dracen. We need to get Jack and his mother out of here now!" Optimus ordered as they left Megatron alone eating his meal—and sleeping too.

Dracen felt so horrible when she learned what happened to Jack, caused by her. "Jack I'm so sorry." Dracen whispered as she stayed by his bedside that night. Raf and Miko could not believe that Jack is alive—just barely though—and that Dracen is back. "Dracen, it's so good to see you! How are you?" asked Miko as they entered the room to talk to her. "Not good Miko, you see…the Dragon that did this to Jack…is none other than me. I was reborn as Lamia, Megatron's faithful and loyal daughter—just like he wanted. Optimus came to rescue him and June when Jack told him the Lamia was really Dracen—myself—and he brought my old life back." Dracen explained as Miko and Raf looked at her is horror.

Then Jack woke up, just to be greeted by a ton of questions. "Hey now, that is enough! Jack is recovering from his injuries!" Ratchet shouted as Miko and Raf were shooed out of the room while Dracen and him talked to Jack. When Jack looked down to his feet, he saw that there was a mechanical leg and that his other leg was amputated—in order to save his life. "Ratchet, what happened to my left leg? Dracen…how?" Jack asked as Optimus entered the room with his mother. "Oh Jack! Your alive! And you, how dare you even come near my son after what you did to him!" June spat at Dracen as she just wanted to kill her. "Mom, she is Dracen again not that other Dragon." Jack said trying to reason with her but to no avail.

"I know very well who she was and is now. Do not make excuses for her Jack; she was trying to murder you by eating you alive! Optimus I want you to bridge me and Jack as far away as possible from here, we will live on our own away from Team Prime. We will move in about ten days, which will give us enough time to find a new house." June said as she was just livid at Dracen for harming her son. Dracen understood what must be done: she had to leave the safety of the Autobots forever if Jack is to stay with them. "No June, you won't be moving anywhere. I will go back to the Dragon realm where I belong, and then I will request the Elders from each Clan to close the gateway. Leaving me trapped with Megatron for all eternity, leaving the Earth and all of you safe from him." Dracen declared as she turned back into her dragon form.

Jack then felt something that he never felt before: true love. "Dracen please don't do this! Megatron will kill you or do worse than that to you if you're trapped with him in that realm! Please reconsider your choice!" pleaded Jack as his mother was about to go ballistic from what he said. "I'm sorry Jack, it's the only way. Besides Optimus has the power of Life and Death now, I'm no longer needed anymore." Dracen said as she was about to fly home forever. Optimus felt so horrible, it was his fault: he failed to protect Dracen from Megatron, and now Dracen thinks that she must suffer for becoming evil and almost completely devouring her friend. "Dracen, wait. You're not at fault here, I am. If I protected you better, Megatron wouldn't have done that to you June this is my doing, please forgive Dracen and take your anger out on me instead." Optimus pleaded as June and Dracen shook their heads.

"Dracen I want to tell you this before you leave, I love you!" Jack stated as his mother was stunned at this new revelation. "You what?! How can you love her after what she did to you?!" June yelled as Jack winced at her rage toward Dracen (note: her rage is about 1million times worse than Darth Vader's when he at his peak of anger!). Then Dracen left as June threw something very sharp at her—aiming for her heart of course—but missed and got her arm/front leg. "Good riddance to her, now Jack you can recover without her nearby. I will check in on you later." June said as she calmed down.

Little did they know that Megatron watched everything and was very pleased: Dracen will be his once again! 'Now to get Dracen to close the gateway to the human realm! Then now one will stop me from doing whatever I please to her!' though Megatron as he flew toward the portal leading to the Dragon realm. Dracen looked one last time at her "home" and started to cry, all of her friends were there and she will never again see them. "Hello Dracen, you are mine one again!" Megatron shouted as he grabbed her and took off to his home within the Dragon realm. This time Dracen didn't even bother to put up a fight as Megatron attacked her over and over again her will to fight was dead, it died the moment she lost all of her friends as Lamia.

"What's this? No fight in you? You are weak and pathetic Dracen! Now you will become my slave!" Megatron shouted as he whipped her with his tail, forcing her to cry out in pain. 'This is my punishment for being born, if I wasn't born then all of this wouldn't have happened. My mother was right about one thing, getting rid of me will solve this.' Thought Dracen as she lost her will to live, even to exist for good. Megatron was tired of beating her up, so he let her be as he cleaned off his body from all of her blood being spilt on him.

Meanwhile Jack, Miko, and Raf were thinking of a way to save Dracen from curtain death. "Optimus if she dies, can you bring her back?" Miko asked as Optimus nodded to them. "I can, but not here. She will come back in the Dragon realm only unless she comes here before dying." Optimus explained as the children were very sad and disappointed. Then June Darby entered the room, crying. "Jack, you're alright. Right? You aren't dead and this is a living nightmare, right?" she asked as Jack nodded to her as she hugged him. "Then it was all just a nightmare then, right?" June asked as this time she saw her son's left leg and was even more horrified.

"Mom, it was no nightmare, but Dracen is in a lot of danger. Please allow her to come back, please?" Jack asked as June remembered about that monster of a Dragon. "No! I will not allow her to come back, she will finish what she started Jack: she will devour the rest of you and then I will lose my son forever! She is nothing more than a monster!" June cried out as she saw the others get teary eyed as well, they really do care about her. Then Ryu appeared before Optimus Prime and the others. "There is a way for her to be redeemed Optimus, she must find the Gates of the Underworld and challenge you to a fight: the winner gets the power of Life and Death. If she wins, then my daughter—not Megatron's—will turn into a Rainbow Dragon and everything will be back to normal. You must try to get through to her Optimus." Ryu requested as Optimus understood what that meant for everyone: a second chance.

Meanwhile, Megatron was just coming back from taking a "bath" when he spotted Dracen limping away from their home toward a group of Water Dragons. "Hey look over there! It's Blackmoon!" a Water Dragon shouted as they came near her. "Someone get the Rainbow Dragon Clan Elder, now!" another Water Dragon shouted as Megatron was listening very closely. But then a Rainbow Dragon appeared and saw Dracen on the verge of death. "This young dragon is too close to death. We must summon the Grim Reaper if we are to save her. Yes I know that he's gone and replaced himself with another person named Optimus Prime, but perhaps he can save her." The Elder said as Megatron was furious at this news.

'I can't allow Optimus to come here! He will ruin everything! I must get her back and then finish what I started, and then no one will save her!' thought Megatron as he held a very small orb of light in his claws, and it's growing every second that passes by with Dracen near death…