Hope you all are doing quite well nowadays. I HAVE cable!!!! Oh, happy days…

Rose sat twisting her mask as Gramps gave Jake some elixir. Rose had never seen Sphinx hair in action before and to her it seemed as if Jake was dieing. The way his face looked as it touched his scales was far too much for Rose to want to see again.

"Rose, what happened?" Rose snapped her attention back to Jake. He was finally awake. He still looked a bit out of it but was sitting up straight. "Did they get away with the talisman?" Jake asked as he looked around to find himself in his grandfather's shop.

"Yes, they did. I'm just glad you're okay." Rose replied as there was a loud crash. They all laughed as they saw what it was.

"Dude, I think that wasn't the off switch."

"Spud, Give me that right now! Next thing you know you'll set off the self destruct on it or something." Trixie scolded Spud grabbing the Huntstaff they had swiped from Blake's crew out of his hands. "I swear boy."

"Well, looks like we'll need to find out what their going after next and beat them to it." Jake remembered that last time Blake had not beaten them to the item but still won " or at least try to."

"Not right this minute kid. Your powers are kinda still taking a power snooze." Jake lowered an eyebrow at Fu.

"What he means grandson, is that your powers need time to repair the damage done to you by the Sphinx hair." Gramps replied taking the elixir and putting it back onto it's proper shelf.

"I don't get it. Last time I was exposed to this junk it barely affected me; all of a sudden my powers are like on shut down?" Jake commented loudly as he tried to stand up.

"Listen kid," Rose helped Jake to his feet as Fu began to explain the horrid effects Sphinx hair had on dragons. "And well, that's why it made you so much weaker..."

"Wait, so you're telling me that because it touched my skin it made me way weaker?" Jake crossed his arms harshly, making him nearly fall over. "Aw man.."

As Jake got to school the next day Rose helped him with his text books. Other kids in the halls chuckled silently at them.

"Well, well look who needs help carrying his books to class. Jake wimpy Long!" Brad teased as Rose glared at him.

"Why don't you ever leave Jake alone?!" Rose started shouted as she started going off on Brad. "I mean what is wrong with you? Are you just so ashamed of what you are and have to take it out on others who have better lives than you?!" Rose's shouting echoed in the halls as the students around them scrambled out of site. Brad stood silently as she and Jake walked off.

"Thanks, although you didn't have to alert the entire world about Brad." Jake said grasping her hand. He had wanted to scream at Brad like that, well not exactly like that, but something along the lines of that.

"No big, I just have always wanted to do that." Rose squeezed his hand tightly. "Besides, no one messes with my B.F."

As they entered into Gramps shop they found the place a complete mess. It looked as if someone had ransacked through just pulling everything apart.

"Gramps?" Jake called out as he looked around; there was neither a hide nor hair of Gramps or Fu dog. "Gramps, Fu!"

"Don't bother; you might as well save your strength for fighting me." Rose and Jake saw a Blake emerge from the shadows. "Well, looks like that little Sphinx hair treatment that I gave you worked out quite well."

"You leave him alone!" Rose exclaimed stepping in front of him. She knew that he was after Jake.

"Clued into my plan now did you Huntsgirl? Well, looks like I'll have to just take you both." Blake grabbed out a small device. Rose's eyes went wide as she immediately recognized the item. "I see you recognize this. Sweet dreams." Rose and Jake immediately fainted.

Ooo, what's up with Blake's plan? R and R!