Jesse was sitting at his laptop and started a video chat with his brother Jake Long. "We really shouldn't be doing this Jesse. Ever since you pulled that stunt back at the palace Gramps has become completely paranoid thinking anyone else could turn on him as well."
"But you know why I had to do it Jake. We can't let him enslave the human race because he thinks they are trying to wipe us out."
"He always had a strong dislike of humans and especially our Dad. He thinks they are a threat and he feels that enslaving them is the best solution but I agree with you Jesse. He has gone too far but I don't like your plan any better. Turning everyone into dragons is gonna change everything and I don't know if now is the right time."
"Now might be the only time. Once he wipes out the base he will commit the dragon army to finding and destroying the machine. Even dad admits that Bahamut entrusted them with this plan years ago because of how the dragons were treating the humans."
"But things have changed since then. The world is so much different than it was back then."
"But have things really changed that much Jake? The dragons and the other magical creatures live in hiding, afraid of what the humans might do to them if they are seen by the public. There can be peace between the mortal world and the magical world but other things will have to change to make this vision of peace a reality. I'm not saying that turning everyone into dragons is the best choice but right now it does seem to be the right one. Now it's time for you to help us Jake. You need to confront our grandfather and try to end this before the dragon army attacks the base."
"OK Jesse I will try. But seriously ever since our last mission against the Dark Dragon a year something has changed inside of him. I really hope you're wrong about him being corrupted by the Dark Dragon but if he is…"
"We will find a way to stop him Jake. We always do."
Jake shut down his laptop and turned around to see Lao Shi looking at him and he didn't look happy. "Is something wrong gramps?"
He just grinned. "There are a lot of things that are wrong Jake. Far too many for me to fix by myself which is why I count on you and Jesse for a lot of things. You two are strong, you are brave, but you also make a lot of mistakes."
"You are right. Me and Jesse have made a lot of mistakes but so have you. We may not be as good as you or the others but that doesn't matter because we always got the job done anyways. But Jesse was right, ever since we rescued you from the Dark Dragon a year ago you have not been yourself. Sure you always did not trust any humans including our father at the time but never like this, never to the point where you wanted to enslave them. It has gotten bad to the point where I don't think you are really my grandfather anymore so why don't you show me right now who you really are."
Lao Shi then began to transform into a dragon but instead of his long blue one he became a large black dragon will a dark purple belly. "The Dark Dragon?!"
"Yes. And I am surprised it took you this long to figure it out."
He then pounced on to Jake as he turned into his dragon form and slammed Jake into the floor. "Killing me won't help you. The Dragon Army will never follow you."
"And that is where you are wrong American Dragon. They have been following me the entire time."
"How?!"
"A dark mind control potion. It works on all the others but apparently it doesn't work on any of the Anceints."
"So my brother and father are still free from your spell."
"For now, but you are too late to do anything to save them. When we fly to wipe out the base I will be there to personally to kill them myself."
"So why don't you just get it over with and kill me right now."
"Because I want you to watch American Dragon. So that you suffer the loss of your family just as I suffered the loss of mine."
Meanwhile at the human base they were preparing for the battle that was to come and Zarthos needed to tell Johnathan the truth about the whole situation. He took Johnathan back to the interrogation room and sat at the table himself. "I have not been that truthful with you John about what is going on. The Dark Dragon is not my son, he is our father."
"What do you mean by 'he is our father'?!"
"After he was done talking to you the day of The Fall I confronted him while he was still with you. He tried to use his fire on me but it ended up hitting you instead because you were between us. I found out the spell he was going to use was a form of Dark ancient magic and that he had been working in the dark arts for a while before that day. He was the reason the humans were being enslaved and the reason Bahamut entrusted us with the plan to turn the humans into dragons. They would have then risen up and helped us take out our father once and for all. I was too late to stop him from using the spell and not only did it kill all of the other ancients but it turned him into the black purple monster he is now. I don't know why it did not affect us but I believe Bahamut was truly watching over us at that time and allowed us to live so we may stop him once and for all."
"I was able to believe it when you said he was your son but this… are all those memories I have of the past all lies?!"
"I admit I did change some of your memories while you were out cold but I did this to help protect you. The truth would have only hurt you and I didn't want you to live with the knowledge that our father turned into a monster that wants to destroy everything good in the world. He is not our father anymore John. He has become a monster that will stop at nothing to destroy all of humanity and anyone else who opposes him. I believe he has been pulling the strings behind the Dragon Army's activities this whole time. Over the last year or so a few human military bases all over the world have reported attacks from flying reptiles with magical guns. I believe he has somehow taken control of your wife's father and has been using to Dragon Army to provoke the humans into open war with the dragons. That was when I went to General Carter and the President of the USA to tell them what was really going on. The situation needed to be taken care of before it started a war between us and the humans."
"Than why didn't my sons know anything about this?!"
"Because he was not telling then anything about this. It seemed that everyone knew about it except for them. I believe he may be using some dark mind control spell to control them and do his bidding and if so that means we cannot hurt any of them when they attack because it will not really be them."
"So what do you suggest?"
"We evacuate the base and move to where the machine is located."
"Tell me where that is Zarthos. Where is the machine really located."
"It is located right below New York City, right below Times Square. There is a secret entrance located in the middle of Central Park that opens to a tunnel system that will eventually lead to where the machine is located."
"Of all the places in the world why are most magical artifacts located in New York City."
"Well if you believe their advertisements it is apparently the most magical city in the world but I really don't care right now. All I can say is that it is there and it is time for us all to go there before our father and his army arrive and wipe this base off the face of the earth."
"No. You, Jesse, Jill, and the humans will go to New York to find and activate the machine but I am going to stay here and hold them off as long as I can. My job now is to make sure my family is safe and right now that includes you brother."
Meanwhile Jake, Spud, Susan, and Haley woke up in prison cells that were once used to hold huntsclan prisoners during the height of the war between the dragons and the huntsclan. It was built to hold humans but not dragons. Jake told spud to stay out of the way and Jake rammed right through the wall and almost fell off the cliff on the other side but managed to open his wings in time. He told Spud to hop on his back and after he broke Haley and his mother out of their cell they started flying off towards the portal. He threw a fireball at the guards near the portal and got them out of the way long enough for all of them to go through it without incident.
"OK guys we made it off the island safely. Now we have to find Dad and Jesse and help them deal with whatever the Dark Dragon has thrown at them."
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