The Underground Complex of the Juvenile Prison Complex was a hell hole, from the moment he was thrown in here he hated it. But as Mr. Long practically dragged him out of the entrance and threw him into the cool night air, he wondered what had gotten into the man. Just a few hours ago Mr. Long wanted to kill him, and that was an understatement. When Mr. Long's hand clamped around his shoulder again he winced in pain, "Not so rough, I'm kind of sore!"

"Sorry," Jake muttered trying not to punch the kid. "Before I bring you back, I wanted to ask you a few things, you're stupid ass father has stolen the Diamond of Draco, do you know what that is, I'd image that you would seeing as you are the son of the Huntsman?"

Johnny was nervous, he really didn't know what it was, but the name, it rang some bells in his head, "My father did mention it a few times, b-but no, I don't know what it is"

"Well, this Diamond serves two purposes, the first one keeps this island out of sight of the Humans," Jake began folding his arms around his chest to try to shield himself from the blistering wind that was blowing through the Island. "And the second one, controls the power of a Dragon, for example, if it were broken then we would lose our powers, if it were activated by someone who didn't know how to use it properly, then it could kill all of us…"

That wasn't good, he knew his father and if he knew his father like he did then he was searching for a way to use this Diamond. He couldn't let that happen, not to Mr. and Mrs. Long or Alyssa, she was carrying his child, "What has to be done? There must be more of reason to let me go"

"There is, we've located the Diamond to an Island Chain off the coast of California in the United States," Jake said scowling at the kid. "Answer me this and no matter how much the thought makes me want to retch, you can go back to the apartment in the Palace and go to my daughters room and get a good night sleep with her, I cannot believe I just said that…"

The Younger man almost snickered, that sounded very great right now, "You want to know if there is a base in the Channel Islands, because there is one but the beauty of the location is that it is right next to a military base, so any unwanted company, meaning Dragons wouldn't want to show up at the risk of being caught by the US Government, or a band of tourists"

"So there is one?" Jake asked running his hand through his rustling black hair wearily

Johnny nodded, "Yes, it not the fortified, the only defense that I know is a line of gun batteries"

"Gun Batteries," Jake stated more than asked with a slight chuckle in his voice "Since when did they start using Guns, I've been fighting them for months now and I haven't seen a single bullet"

"They're using Gun's incase the US army does discover them I think," He answered. "They think that it's more prevalent to use Guns instead of the energy blast in case there are survivors"

He nodded snorting, "That's smart, It looks like I'm going to have to pick up some guns too, but I don't know where I can pick three thousand assault rifles, you have any ideas?"

"I know a few weapon caches," Johnny shrugged offering the best thought. "I-I could take you to them, but I wouldn't mind some sleep first…"

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Yes, she was almost certain that her Grandchild was going to have the mark, and she knew from real experience that wasn't going to play out well. But they had one chance to eliminate the Huntsclan and she was counting on that, if there was no more clan, then the danger of this child being turned to a hunter was gone. She shuddered at the thought of one day having to kill her daughter's child or even Jake or Alyssa having to do it, or even her unborn child doing it. The conversation between her and her daughter had been tense, Rose put her hands on her engorged belly and she could feel her son kicking on her stomach, "He's getting a little angry…"

Alyssa laughed, "How far are you?"

"Three months" Rose said continuing to pat on her stomach.

Both of them remained silent like that for awhile, it was still rather awkward because all they could seem to think about was what had happened with Johnny that afternoon. But when the door to the apartment opened loudly and then shut just as loudly, they both turned their heads. Alyssa was the first one to fly from her chair and she wrapped her arms around Johnny, she pressed her head into his chest and he could feel her tears soaking through his shirt. He reached up and ran his hand up and down her back comfortingly, "I've missed you…"

"I love you" She managed to shot out of her mouth with her forehead still pressed into his chest.

He pulled her tighter, that was the first time that she had ever told him that and it seemed to warm him up. Johnny locked eyes with Jake as he continued to embrace Alyssa, "Can you two take this to the other room please, I'm still not okay with this, but I'm willing to handle it right now…"

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AN:/ Well I've come to the conclusion that before I got to work on other stories I will finish this one first, it has only a few more chapters and then the epilogue. Thank you for the warm response, for the last chapter, and all of the questions that needed to be answered will be answered in this one.

I hope you had a Merry Christmas, or Chanukah, or whatever holiday you celebrate! Here's to 2010