Lao-Shi watched as his Grandson stepped out of the cage leaving behind a very bloody Hansworth, the secret of his office had been exposed, and he owed it all to the traitor. When the Dragon Council was founded off of the foundations of the old Empire, the first Pro-Tempore was shrouded in controversy and he rumors had it that he had made a bargain with the Huntsclan, but the details were remained hidden. He clutched the Cain in his hand and hobbled forward out of one of the small coves in the massive chamber room, never had he been seen walking with it but he was going to make an exception. Lao-Shi's face had wrinkled more and more, the stress of the war was not helping him at all, as he approached his Grandson a scowl came over his face.

"Does he have nothing to say," Lao-Shi spat looking at the cage. "Or does he have more lies to spread about his own kind? He won't have to wait too much longer! I'll kill him…"

Jake held out a hand, "Is what he said true?"

There was no more hiding this secret, after more than a thousand years of keeping this secret under wraps it was going to crash down, "Yes, I confirmed it after the Diamond was stolen"

"So our ancestors went back on their part of this deal, and that's what had caused all of this?"

Lao-Shi nodded, "Correct, but that Diamond needs to get back here now! Or we are all doomed"

He agreed with that, but the only question was did the Huntsclan know how to induce the Diamond power. Could the Huntsman know how to expose the entire magical world? It wouldn't matter anyway, the weapons of the humans could destroy them within hours, "Is there anyway you can find a location, that potion to find its whereabouts? Anything"

"I have found a location, I was coming here to tell you that, but I saw that you were still in the middle of the interrogation," The Older mans face crinkled into a deeper frown, "Its on a chain of islands on the southern coast of the California in the United States, isn't your son-in-law-"

Jake growled baring his teeth like a dog, "He's not my son-in-law, he's a bug!"

"I'm sure that he knows if there is a base on those Islands or not, I suggest that you question him and if possible have him help you." Lao-Shi suggested mockingly.

Putting his hands on his hips, he seemed to be stewing angrily in his mind, he didn't want to release the little bug. His daughter was going to be a mother because of him and if it weren't for his daughter than he would have broken the man's neck with his bare hands, and smash his skull with his heel. But his Grandfather was right as usual, Johnny was the son of the Huntsman and that psychopath must have showed his son anything, "Issue the order to release him and bring him to my family's quarters, if I'm going to even consider this than I need a few words with him, But I swear I am on the verge of snapping his pathetic little neck!"

Lao-Shi smiled at Jake, "I'll have it issued immediately…"

The sounds of giggles were coming in from the large kitchen in the Long's makeshift home, this was one of those moments that Rose valued. Alyssa and herself had almost forgotten about what had happened earlier today when they attacked Johnny, there was a large bowl of strawberries and a smaller bowl of whipped cream next to it on the large table. They were so much alike almost mirror opposites of each other besides their age and the fact that her daughters hair was a little bit more darker, "So your father trips over his skateboard and lands face first in the cement and he looks up to me and grins, I don't know how he still managed to stay so cute…"

"Oh my god" Alyssa laughed almost choking on the strawberry she had in her mouth.

This was maybe the second time that they had one of these talks about there life as teenagers and beyond, "Mom, about earlier today-"

Rose raised a hand, "Don't say anything about that, I thought we weren't going to mention it"

"It's not that," She smiled meekly. "I just wanted to know were you learned to fight like that"

She smiled, that was a story that she knew couldn't be explained in minutes but Rose was going to make an effort to slim it down, "You're father told you that I was the Huntsgirl at one time"

Alyssa nodded, knowing her daughter wasn't blind to that she grabbed a berry out of the bowl and light dipped it in the cream, "I had been taught to fight like that since I was able to walk, don't mistake for passive Alyssa, giving Johnny a piece of my mind wasn't my first rodeo"

"You almost threw him through a brick wall!" Alyssa sardonically exclaimed

The older woman shook her head with a bemused smirk on her face, "I'm already a force to be reckoned with, but with one cub and another on the way, I can get very mean"

She was amused that her mother had used the 'Mama Bear' analogy, but that didn't surprise her since her father had used it a million times before, "What do you think is going to happen to him, is Dad going to have him killed or something? I mean I'm about to have his kid"

"Don't worry honey," Rose said taking her daughter hand in hers and squeezing it tightly. "I'll make sure that doesn't happen to him, and if your father does that I'll be a special pain to him"

"Gonna give him another scar when you give birth to my new baby brother or sister?" Alyssa questioned trying to relieve the mood that the previous subject had brought them into.

Rose lowered her head and a grin spread across her face, "I might, and you're going to have a brother for future information…"

Oh that was something between to funny to laugh and just unfiltered excitement, but then she seemed to have a feeling about her own child. Would it be a boy or a girl? Would she be a total pain like she considered herself to be when she was a younger kid, there was no way of predicting the future, "I'm so happy Mom, I really don't know what to say…"

"Well it will be a lot easier this time" She said reaching her arm down and rubbing her belly.

Alyssa's eyes narrowed, "What do you mean?"

"Well having to push a pot roast out of my loins, while simultaneously looking out for the Huntsman who wanted me dead after he found out who the baby's father was, is something I will always be grateful for," Rose mused. "But what I don't understand is how you much history repeats itself, but the mark of the Huntsclan skipped you for some reason, maybe because of your father, but a thought occurred to me…"

She leaned forward closer to her mother leaning on her elbow and resting her head in her hand curiously, "And what would that be exactly?"

"The mark skipped your generation probably because of your father, but seeing as the father of this child is a member of the Huntsclan," She paused frowning slightly. "I'm beginning to think that this child will have your Dragon powers as well as the mark…"

That wasn't a pleasant thought, the ramifications of that would be astronomical and the fact that she would have been technically the first 'half' child born wasn't that pleasing either. She was thankful for the first time about that knack of her father's blood to skip generations, "I have no idea how that is going to work, I'm not going to let this child become a hunter, I'll tell you that"

"There are something's that we cannot control" Rose mused taking another strawberry in her mouth and picking the stem off rather forcefully and putting it into the small dish.

He really didn't believe that he was about to do this, when he had locked Johnny away Jake was intent on keeping him in their. The halls of the Palace prison were more elaborate and taken care of then the other prisons, his footsteps sounded off through the narrow concrete corridor, Jake looked to the sides and saw the prisoners looking up at him. Jake had put every one of them in that prison and he could feel the hate coming from him, he stopped for a moment and turned to the cells, "Do you have something to say to me prisoners?"

Jake didn't get a response, turning on his heal he walked down the corridor, a single door came into his sightline, A guard stood in front of the door, "General, what can I do for you?"

"The Prisoner you brought in here today, I want to bring him out…" Jake said quietly.

The guard was puzzled, "Are you sure sir?"

"Yes," Jake nodded affirmatively. "He's crucial to my investigation bring him now"

Once again he had been put in a Dragon Prison and then put in another one, when the guard had come to his cell and almost threw him out, he wondered what was going on. The same clothes he had one when Alyssa's parents had done their number on him, were ripped and dirty from the grunge of the cell. They approached a door that seemed to be made out of stone, but when they stooped in front of it and it began to open, his mouth widened to find Mr. Long there.

"Mr. Long," He said wishing he run his fingers in his hair to sooth the awkwardness. "What are you doing here?"

"John, you and I need to have a talk." Jake said his eyes borrowing into the younger mans.

AN:/ Thank you all and please review.