Chinatown Dragon 3: Return to Chinatown

Chapter Eleven:

"So, where are we going exactly?" Rose asked as she and the others slowly continued down the sidewalk. Even though they were on their bikes, Sue, Sid and Tobey were riding slowly so Rose and the two men, who Rose had learned were named Jim and Harry, could keep up. Jake and Sun had soared high above, until Sue had told them to go on ahead of them. That was when Rose had to ask.

"Does it really matter?" Sue demanded. "You'll find out soon enough. Anyway, after we finish recruiting, we're going to all got to Chung Li Park and wait."

"That's the plan?" Rose asked, not believing her ears. "We're just going to wait? What if they're not at or going to Chung Li Park? And even if they are there, what about my sister? I seriously doubt she'll be there."

"We'll rescue your sister after we defeat the clan." Sid replied. "And if the clan isn't at Chung Li Park, then we just might be out of luck."

"Wonderful…" Rose muttered forlornly.

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Finally, after about a half hour of walking, Rose, Sue, Sid, Tobey, Harry and Jim saw Jake and Sun once more. They were both still in dragon form, waiting outside a large, rusty gate. Sun was waiting patiently, while Jake was leaning against the gate in a bored tone.

"It's about time…" Jake said, but he soon regretted speaking when he caught Rose's scowl. "Oh, sorry…"

"Sun…" Sue spoke. "Do you mind opening the gate? You can put the soup in the wagon."

Sun nodded and she flew over to the wagon, setting the buckets of hot and sour soup down on top of the others as she flew over to the gate and sliced the chain and lock away with her tail before pushing it open for the others.

Sue, Sid and Tobey rode their bikes in first, followed by Rose, Jim and Harry, and Jake and Sun went last. The heroes continued to walk through the cemetery until Sue, Sid and Tobey stopped their bikes in front of a large statue. Realizing who the statue was of, Rose gaped as she slowly walked over to the statue and put her hand on it. "General Yang…"

"You know about him?" Tobey asked.

"Of course I know who he is." Rose replied. "The Huntsman taught me everything about him, namely his retreat tactics."

"Yo, really?" Jake asked.

"You think that when I ran during the ski trip, it was because I was being a coward?" Rose asked, narrowing her eyes. "I was leading you right into a trap. I can't see how anyone would fall for it, but they do."

Jake opened his mouth as if he was going to say something to her, but he changed his mind and instead asked: "Wait, how is a dead general going to help us?"

Sue didn't answer him, and instead went over to the wagon and grabbed a bucket of soup, setting it down in front of the statue. Rose and Jake then watched in surprise as the steam from the soup started to magically make the stone dissolve away. When the stone was completely gone, General Yang was standing there, alive and in the flesh. Or so it appeared…

"Who has summoned me from beyond the grave?" Yang rasped. "More enemies?!" From behind his cape, the general pulled out a long stick, which he twirled around, ready for battle.

"No!" Sue called out and stepped up to the general. "General Yang, do you remember us? We were the ones who delivered you to your welcome home meal. Remember?"

The general stared them all down before he lowered his stick and smiled. "Aw, yes…" he said. "Good…My friends…Why have you summoned me?"

"You see, general." Sue replied. "We have a problem. An evil clan of warriors have stolen our Nana's magical recipes, and we believe that they will use them to bring a dangerous man back to life. They have also kidnapped our friend's sister. We request the aid of you and your soldiers in order to fight them. And in return, we have brought soup for your entire army."

General Yang looked longingly at the soup, before nodding, his army of soldiers arriving at his side as he grabbed the bucket. "Very well…" he said.

"Thank you, general." Sue replied respectfully. "We need you to head on down to Chung Li Park as soon as possible. We'll be there just as soon as we get our Nana."

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By the time Sue, Sid, Tobey, Jim, Harry, Rose, Jake and Sun arrived back at Wu's Garden, it was pitch black outside. Sue opened the door to the restaurant, which was followed by the ringing of the bell as they all walked inside.

Only, something strange had happened. All of the lights were off. "This is unusual." Sue said as she reached over, blindly searching for the light. When she finally found it and switched it up, she wished she hadn't. Standing in the middle if the room was a girl in a blood-red Huntsclan uniform and mask holding a staff. In back of her, sitting against the counter were Nana, Mr. Wu and Barney, all tied back-to-back and gagged.

Sue, Sid and Tobey were all too shocked to do anything, giving Rose the perfect opportunity to speak up. "You…" Rose growled, taking a fighting stance, but Sue grabbed her shoulder.

"No…" she told Rose. "Remember, you can't let your anger get the better of you!"

"Why don't you just shut up, Sue, and let the traitor fight me?" the huntress, who rather oddly, until now, neither do nor say anything, suddenly spoke.

Sue was just about to ask how the girl knew her name, but Sid beat her to it. Well, kind of… "Wait, Tiffany?" Sid asked.

The huntress lowered her staff slightly and brought her hand up and removed her mask. Tiffany smiled. "Hello, Sid…"

"Oh man…" Sid made a disgusted look. "I was crushing on an evil ninja!"

"You know, it happens, dude…" Jake replied, before his attention was turned back to Tiffany as she spoke. "Yes, Sid…" Tiffany replied. "It is unfortunate, because I am under orders to kill all of you, except Huntsgirl. Not to worry though, you traitor, you will join your disgusting friends very soon. Oh and maybe Barney, maybe I'll keep him as my prisoner…"

"I hate to break it to you, Tiffany, but it's not going to happen!" Sid declared as both he and Rose took off at her. Sid reached her first, but Tiffany swung her staff up at him, so that it would slice into his stomach. Sid managed to grab hold of the blade, saving him from the attack, but he was still lifted off his feet and slammed against the ground, hard. And before Rose could even react, Tiffany jumped up and kicked Rose in the chest, slamming her against the floor, where she slid back over to Jake and Sun.

"Really?" Tiffany mocked. "You were a great Huntsclan warrior?" Before she could say anything else demeaning, Sue and Tobey were on both sides of her. Tiffany easily jumped up and kicked them, knocking them down. "You're weak! All of you!" She finished.

Rose growled as she picked herself up off the ground and charged at the ninja. However, Tiffany was ready, and she was able to dodge Rose's furious attacks and even managed to deliver a painful blow to Rose's gut. With Rose distracted, Tiffany managed to grab her arms, lift her off her feet and slam her into Tobey, who was just starting to stand up from the previous attack.

"ROSE!" Jake shouted, and with a flash of blue energy, both Jake and Sun transformed into dragons and flew off, leaving Jim and Harry slouched in the corner cowering and hugging each other. From behind, Barney and Mr. Wu's eyes widened in shock at the sight, as Sid slowly got up and started to untie them.

Tiffany crouched down and fired her staff, the beams blasting holes into the ceiling and walks. Jake blew fire at Tiffany, and the young huntress was just barely able to dodge the attack, but as she flipped backwards, she became cornered by Sue, Sid and the now free Nana.

Sitting up, Rose could see this, and trying to calm herself down, she jumped up and ran at Tiffany, kicking her down. Tiffany managed to flip backwards and land on her feet as Rose landed. Don't let your anger get the best of you…Rose's mind warned her as they faced off. Grinning Rose dropped to all fours and swung her foot at Tiffany's but the huntress jumped up, landing on Rose and slamming her against the ground. Thinking quickly, Rose brought her head up, making contact with Tiffany's forehead. As Tiffany groaned in pain, Rose brought her feet up and kicked Tiffany off of her.

Tiffany yelped as she was thrown off of Rose and slammed into the ground beside Tobey, who kicked her off of the ground, where she was slammed into the nearby wall, her staff clattering to the ground. Tiffany dropped to her knees dazed, but she still tried to reach for her staff, only to have it kicked away by Rose, who then delivered a punch to the huntress' face. Tiffany slammed against the wall once more, and panting heavily, looked up as Jake, Sun, Sue, Sid, Tobey and Nana approached her.

Genuine fear in her eyes, Tiffany scrambled to her feet and sprinted out the door. Rose smiled, but it faded when Sue grabbed her. "What did you do?" Sue demanded. "You let her get away!"

"Of course I did…" Rose smiled once more. "Jake, follow her! She'll lead you to Jessie!"

Jake nodded and turned with Sun before they lifted off the ground and flew out the door.

"Why didn't you go with him?" Tobey asked Rose.

"I don't know…" Rose muttered. "Just worried about how she'll react, I guess…"

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By the time Tiffany entered through the sliding doors of the Huntslair, only her father was still at the lair. Her father stood in front of the shackled Jessie, working on his staff. He turned and noticed his daughter, who was bruised and panting. "Tiffany, we will go to Chung Li Park the second this dragon is disposed of. Huntsmistress' ord…Wait, what happened?"

"There were too many of them!" Tiffany explained as she caught her breath. "There were two dragons and the others knew kung fu! I couldn't take them all, so I ran."

Tiffany's father lowered the weapon and turned to face her with a stern look in his eyes, just as a piece of the wall was blasted off and Jake and Sun flew in. The look in Tiffany's father's eyes turned to rage. "You stupid girl!" he shouted. "You led them right to us!"

The Chinatown Leader then turned with his staff glowing, but before he could attack, Sun rammed into him, sending the leader slamming against the wall and making him drop his staff.

Jake could sense by the way that Tiffany stood that she was exhausted, so her flew up to her and tried to slam his tail into her, but the huntress flipped sideways and landed on her feet right onto the staff. As her feet touched the staff, it started to transform into a hover-board. As Tiffany started to hover in the air and fly at him, Jake's eyes widened. Tiffany sped to the other side of the room and turned. "Let's see how you like it when I can fly too!" Tiffany exclaimed as she started to shoot at him in a collision course.

Thinking quickly, Jake ducked as the board got close enough, his claws scratching at the bottom as she passed by, ripping out some of the circuits. The board went out of control, swerving across the room with a yelling huntress. Finally, the board just stopped in mid air, throwing Tiffany from it. Tiffany slammed against the wall hard, and she could feel the feeling of cold, metal shackles closing around her wrists, trapping her. Turning her head, she could see that Sun was shackling her father to the wall as well. Tiffany turned her attention back to Jake as she sensed the dragon right in front of her. Anticipating an execution, Tiffany squeezed her eyes shut, only to open them again with surprise as Jake simply removed the key from her belt.

Jake got to Jessie and slowly undid the chains around her snout before unlocking her shackles. As soon as she was free, Jessie rubbed her wrists as Jake walked back over to the captured hunters. "Did the Huntsclan go to Chung Li Park?" Sun was demanding, only the Chinatown Leader was keeping silent. "Did they?!" Sun demanded again, but still got the same result.

"Let me handle this." Jessie offered, flying over to Tiffany and bringing her claws up in order to bring them down. "Where is the Huntsclan? Remember how vile and bloodthirsty we dragons are? Well, you guys were right. So, are you going to tell me?"

Tiffany started to breathe heavily and started to sweat. Finally, she spoke, or rather shouted: "They're at Chung Li Park! Please don't hurt me!"

Jessie lowered her claws with a twisted grin. "Thank you…"

Jake smiled at looked down at the green goop on his arm, and he could see Nana on the other end. "They are at Chung Li Park." Jake explained. "Head on down there."

From the other end, Nana nodded and covered the screen up. Turning his attention back to the other dragons, he spoke: "Let's go stop the Huntsclan."

Taking off into the air, the three dragons flew out from the hole created, leaving the two hunters behind.

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At Chung Li Park, the Huntsmistress and Huntsboy stood over a large cauldron as the rest of the clan stood behind them. Huntsboy handed his mistress an ingredient, who then poured it into the cauldron. As Huntsmistress looked at the water changing color, she grinned.

"Tonight will spell the end for all magical creatures…"

END CHAPTER

A/N: Please review! What did you think about the fight at Wu's and the lair? Too long, too short and anti-climatic, or just right? Please tell me what you , do you think it was out of character for Sun to be interrogating Tiffany like that? I mean, she's obviously a pacifist, but does that mean that she can't still be a little forceful at sometimes. What do you think?