[A/N: I have to be honest, this is one of my favorite episodes, because of the whole 'Rotwood getting constantly injured' gag, it's just so fun to watch and the one time something on this show makes me giggle. Anyway, enjoy!]
Season 1 Episode 14
The Ski Trip
Snow has fallen over Manhattan for the month of February, the month of love for one another. Jackie Long and Ray Killdragonosa have decided to give their first date a try and went to Central Park together. They also wanted to do one before they got all prepared for this annual school ski trip they all signed up for, and Jackie loved to snowboard just as much as skateboarding. Jackie and Ray were both currently examining a snowman they have just completed together.
"Oh, he has your eyes." Ray said to Jackie. He was wearing a magenta winter coat, white winter pants, black combat boots, and white earmuffs to keep his ears from freezing.
"But he has your smile." Jackie added with a smile. She was wearing a red winter sweatshirt with a yellow turtleneck shirt underneath, longer jeans, and gray boots.
Ray then chuckled a little at the carrot nose. "I don't know where that nose came from, though."
"Hmm...I think he's missing something."
"Arms!" Ray then ran off to find some sticks for the snowman's arms, leaving Jackie alone for the moment.
Jackie smiled before she shifted her mouth into a dragon's and blew fire at the snowman, creating an ice statue of Ray himself. "Well what do you know? Ray has a twin."
Ray came back and gasped in surprise as he dropped his sticks to the snow, gazing at the ice statue of himself. "Jackie! How did you…" He turned around and smiled at his date in amazement. "Thats...that's awesome!" He then crossed his arms and smiled in amusement. "The girl certainly has some hidden talents in her sleeves."
Jackie giggled a little. "Trust me, you have no idea. And it's not as awesome as the real thing." Ray uncrossed his arms as Jackie leaned in to kiss Ray, but kinda forgot how short she was, so she shifted her feet into her dragon forms to give her some extra height.
Then their perfect date was cut short when Ray's radio-like device began beeping, catching both of their attentions as Jackie quickly hid her dragon feet and Ray stared down at his device with a look of urgency. "Sorry, Jackie, I...I have to go. Well, uh...bye!" And he ran off, leaving a baffled and confused Jackie alone as the ice statue snapped in half.
The next morning outside of Millard Fillmore Junior High, all of the classmates were all packed for their annual ski trip on Valentine's Weekend. Jackie was pumped for the trip, especially since not only her best friends, Travis Carter and Spuda Spudinski, were coming along, but also Ray himself, and she couldn't wait. All the students were lined up for the school bus heading for the winter sports resort they go to every year.
"I'm telling you, it was the most perfect first date ever...until he took off for no reason." Jackie said with somewhat disappointment as she stuffed her hands into her coat pockets. Most of the kids were having a big snowball fight as most kids ducked to avoid getting hit.
"Girl, what's up with the two of you always almost kissing? I'm growing impatient with this." Spuda said as she carried her snowboard. She was wearing a yellow sleeveless winter ski vest over her shirt.
"Yeah, how come whenever you two link up, one of y'all always got to bounce off somewhere?" Travis asked Jackie as he turned to her. He was wearing a dark purple sweater with a blue scarf around his neck, a red winter hat, light purple mittens, blue winter sweats, and white winter shoes.
"Well...I got dragon business and Ray always has aerobics or something." Jackie pointed out reluctantly.
"Uh, Jackie, not to bust your bubble, but if it was gonna happen between you and Ray...you think it maybe would have happened already?" The trio ducked from rapid snowball fire before they straightened up.
"Chin up, girl, maybe you two can hang out more once aerobics season is over...or dragon season." Spuda said.
Jackie sighed like Spuda mentioned something she never considered thinking about before. "Spuda, that's just it: dragon season's never gonna be over." Spuda used her board as a shield to avoid getting hit by a couple of snowballs while Jackie made a look of determination. "If I ever want things to happen with Ray...I gotta tell him the truth."
"The truth?" Travis asked as they walked up to the bus.
"The truth. This weekend, I'm telling Ray I'm a drag-" Travis and Spuda quickly covered Jackie's mouth once they reached their least favorite madman-like teacher who was apparently chaperoning the ski trip, and he was a big manic when it came to magical creatures, but he had no idea that one of his troublemaking students really was one.
"Ms. Long, I didn't know you were coming on the school ski trip." Professor Rotwood said as he checked his attendance while he smirked down at his troublemaking students. "What fun this weekend will be."
"You have no idea." Travis said with a chuckle before the trio ducked as the snowballs flew over their heads and smacked their teacher dead on, making him yelp in surprise.
Theme Song:
She's cool, she's hot, like the frozen sun
She's young and fast, she's the chosen one
People we're not braggin'
She's the American Dragon
She's gonna stop her enemies with her dragon power
Dragon teeth, dragon tail, burning dragon fire, a real live wire
American Dragon! (Jackie: Dragon up!)
American Dragon!
She's the American Dragon (freestyle with the dragon)
Her skills are getting faster
With Grandpa the master
Her destiny will walk up streets
Show time, baby, for the legacy!
American Dragon!
(Jackie: From the J-A, to the C, to the K-I, to the E! I'm the mack-mommy dragon of the NYC, ya heard?!)
American Dragon!
(Gramps: Jackie! Get back to work!)
American Dragon!
(Jackie: Aww, man!)
On the school bus after all the students attending the ski trip, Rotwood wrote down the word 'chape' on his clipboard. "Ah, chaperone, from the frenchchape meaning…" He said calmly before he snapped harshly at his students as he teared his paper into bits. "If you hoodlums think you can get away with anything on this trip, you've got another thing coming! I did not spend eighteen years at Farmersteichen University to babysit children on a ski trip, so you will behave or you will be gone! Questions?" He walked down the aisle as the students stared at him.
"Looks like somebody forgot to drink his camomile tea this morning." Spuda said to her friends, referring to their permanent cranky mythology teacher. She sat next to Travis while Jackie sat in front of them by herself.
Jackie scoffed as she managed a smile. "Tsk, it's cool, not even Rotwood's gonna ruin this weekend for me."
"Uh, yeah, about that." Travis said as he rolled his eyes, knowing what Jackie's gonna do that weekend on the trip. "I don't think Ray is ready for the D word."
"But he needs to know the real me. Besides, this weekend's Valentine's Day, it's the perfect time."
"So, what are you gonna do? Slip a valentine under his door?"
"Yeah, with like a cute little picture of a puppy on it!" Spuda said before she cleared her throat. "Roses are red, puppy tail's waggin', by the way, I'm a dragon." Jackie sort of frowned at her dull friend. "Would you like me to write that up for you? Yes, say yes!"
Jackie frowned determinedly. "My mind's made up, I waited too long to tell you guys the truth about me. I'm not gonna make the same mistake with…" She said until she saw Ray walking into the school bus, making the Chinese girl smile brightly. "Ray!"
"Hey!" He waved back.
"Hey, I saved you a seat."
Before Ray could do anything, Rotwood rudely dragged him onto an available seat. "Enough with the dilly-dally, take your seats!" He exclaimed impatiently as he placed Ray on a seat neat to Brenda Morton, Jackie's mortal arch-rival and the school cheerleader.
"Hey, hey, Ray-alicious!" Brenda Morton said to him flirtatiously.
"Hi, Brenda." Ray muttered as he looked away in annoyance. Ray has never really forgiven Brenda for abandoning him during their first school dance during the whole Incubus incident, so it really caused her to lose half of respect from Ray since he showed mixed feelings whenever he was around her, but mostly negative. He also got annoyed by her constantly trying to steal him away from Jackie, not to mention she always flirted around him with multiple love gifts and hated how she always talked mostly about herself instead of him.
"So guess what? I turned over a new leaf, a leaf of sensitivity and compassion...you know, junk like that. Watch this." Brenda began grunted with effort before she managed a small tear from her eye, making her cheer at her accomplishment. "Yeah! That's right, I'm not afraid to cry! Whoo! You like that baby, don't you?" Ray only groaned even more in annoyance.
"Oh, I'll give that shallow puddle something to cry about." Jackie growled in jealousy as she glared murderously at her arch-rival.
A couple hours later, the school bus had finally arrived at the Ski Lodge Resort where the kids are free to do some winter sports like snowboarding and skiing, hangout with friends, have nice cup of cocoa to warm themselves, and enjoying the snow.
"Attention, students, I hold in my hand the key to your happiness." Rotwood said as he held up the student's ski passes for their rooms and revealed their room number. "These are special ski passes issued by the school, you must keep them on your person at all times." The bus stopped and opened the door before the kids immediately cheered and hopped off their seats. "Wait! I did not give-" The obsessed mythology teacher got stampeded by the students as a bone was heard snapping from a kid stepping over him too hard before all the kids ran out. Professor Rotwood moaned in pain. "Oh...something broke! No, wait, I think it's just a sprain!" But his leg cracked again. "Oh no, it's broken."
The trio walked out of the bus with their overnight bags after they got their ski passes.
"You know, Jackie's not the only one with a hookup to make this weekend." Spuda said to her friends.
"Who you checking for, sisham?" Travis sassed.
"Not who, what. The ski lift is my valentine this weekend." Spuda stared up at the ski lifts riding either up or down the mountain, making Jackie and Travis stare at her oddly. "He's playing it cool right now, but by the time this bus pulls away on Sunday afternoon, he will be mine."
"Yo, Jackie, can you translate Spuda for me, please?" Travis asked his dragon friend.
"Spuda's never made it on the ski lift. She's kind of...terrified of it." Jackie replied with a shrug.
"Not terrified...respectful." Spuda reassured before she walked up to the trail of the lift. "Ok, boy, come here, gently." But as soon as a lift rode up to her, she shrieked in fear before she cowered on the snow. "Okay, terrified!" Jackie and Travis exchanged odd looks with each other about their dimwitted friend.
Later on, the teens went into the resort building where they began searching for their assigned rooms. Jackie, Spuda, and Travis walked down the second floor hallway as they stopped at Travis' assigned room.
"Room two fifteen, this is me." He said as he slipped his pass into the slot while it accepted. He opened the door and revealed that his roommate was in fact Ray, who was currently unpacking all of his things.
Jackie went wide eyed in surprise before she smiled sheepishly and then dragged Travis before he could walk in and closed the door. "You're rooming with Ray?!" She exclaimed to her friend.
"Not if you don't let me through the door, I'm not." Travis said with a small frown.
"Ok, ok, here's the plan. You two are to stay up all night laughing and boy-talking about me, then in the morning, you'll give me the four-one-one about Ray's hopes, dreams, and favorite rock band music." Jackie then threw her arms in the air in triumph. "Yeah, baby, I'm in!"
"Yo, Jack, boy-talk is not my speed, ok? Travis does not do the laughly-headed, rock band listening, noggie-locking, girl-liking, light popcorn nibbling flim-flam."
"I'll give you ten bucks."
That immediately changed his attitude. "Make it twenty and I'll tape record home boy snoring."
"Deal." Jackie and Travis fist bumped in agreement.
Travis reentered his room with a bright smile. "Ray! Boy-headlock!" Ray stared at him oddly as the African-American boy closed the door behind him.
Jackie and Spuda went up to the third floor together and stopped at room three fourteen, Jackie's assigned room.
"This is me." She said before she slipped her pass through the slot and accepted. She opened the door and just for her luck, she had Brenda Morton as her roommate, who was currently painting her toenails.
"Hey, look who gets to room with the new, sensitive, softer, Brenda." She said before she suddenly picked up a football and threw it straight onto Jackie's stomach. She flew out of the room and collided with Spuda as they flew into another room across.
"And this must be my roo-whoa!" Spuda said as she stood up and saw two boys pillow-fighting with each other. "Happy Valentine's Day to me!"
The boys halted their fighting and gasped when they saw Spuda in their room. "What are you doing?!" One boy exclaimed.
"Get out of our room, you weirdo!" The other shouted before they began smacking their pillows onto Spuda as she grunted from being hit.
"OW! Medics! Medics! AAH!" Spuda exclaimed as Jackie picked up Spuda's ski pass before she walked into the room and pulled Spuda out while she examined her friend's room number.
"Uh, Spuda, I think you got the wrong room." Jackie pointed out.
"If this room is wrong, I don't want to be right." She ran back into the room where she got beaten up by the boys smacking her with pillows, making Jackie flinch a little before she tossed the ski pass aside and walked away.
Later on after everyone got themselves unpacked and used to their roommates, everyone followed Rotwood, who was now one crutches due to his fractured leg from being trampled by his students, and he lead them all to the ski lifts where he began explaining the rules to everyone present.
"First, school rules before you do the shushing of the slopes, we must discuss a few safety guidelines." Rotwood began strictly before he lifted one of his crutches up. "Now, number one: always approach the ski lift with care as you-AAH!" The German teacher yelped in surprise when his crutch got caught by a ski lift as it lifted him off the ground. "Already take me down!" His students watched as he fell off the lift and splated onto the ground while they heard bone breaking, but they merely stood where they were and stared down at their teacher who apparently kept on getting injured. "What do you call it again when ze broken bone protrudes from ze flesh?"
Then the students walked to the ski lifts while Spuda approached her best friends, now all covered in feathers. "What happened to you?" Travis asked his laid-back friend.
"I got the wrong room." She replied.
"Speaking of rooms, how's that boy-talk going?" Jackie asked Travis with an anticipated and eager smile.
"Mm, we were…"
"What did Ray say about me?"
"Well, we…"
"He likes my hair though, right? Does he like my hair?"
Travis frowned in annoyance since his friend kept on interrupting him before he could even answer all of her questions. "Well, we-"
"Shh! There he is!" She saw Ray waving to her before he began walking over to them.
"Jackie, I am warning you, think this thing through." Travis was still very doubtful about his friend telling her crush about her secret life as a magical dragon, and he even remembered the first time he and Spuda learned Jackie's secret. "Take it from us, it's not the easiest thing in the world finding out your friend is a-"
"DRAGON!" Ray said out loud as he pointed to Jackie.
Travis and Jackie's eyes went wide in surprise. "W-what?!"
"Your snowboard." Jackie glanced down at her board and realized he was just talking about the dragon design on her board, much to her relief.
"Oh, yeah! Snowboard, dragon. Heh, that's right. You still got that birthmark?"
"It's kind of permanent." Ray held out his hand that had his birthmark shape exactly like a dragon, Spuda and Travis stared at the birthmark in somewhat amazement before they straighten up.
"Hey, I have a birthmark, too!" Spuda said before she turned around and was about to pull her own pants down until Travis quickly shoved her roughly into the snow.
"Oh, Spuda, no! You nasty!" Travis exclaimed as he covered his face in his hands, looking disgusted.
Jackie and Ray stared at them oddly for a second before Jackie cleared her throat and smiled at her crush. "Uh listen, Ray, speaking of birthmarks, there's something I wanted to talk to you about-" She began.
"Ray-alicious!" Brenda Morton called out as she approached to Ray, making his and Jackie's smiles drop. "Oh hey, you've got a little something caught in your jacket." The cheerleader then reached out and pulled out a rose and held it in front of Ray. "I got you a rose 'cause I know how much you love 'em and that's what senstive girls do, right? They give boys roses and junk like that. Man, I rule at this stuff!"
However, when Ray took a whiff of the air, his eyes suddenly went wide before his face began twitching. "Ah-ah-ah-ah-AH CHOO!" He sneezed, making Jackie and Brenda jump a little from the force before he wiped his nose.
Jackie frowned and placed her free hand on her hip. "Uh, he's allergic to roses, Morton." She pointed out.
Brenda just ignored her when she dragged Ray onto a ski lift with her, ignoring him plugging his nose to keep the rose smell away from him. "Sneezing is just the ticket to pleasing." She said as the lift rose up to the top of the mountain. Of course, Ray was not too pleased that Brenda was still hitting on him and was completely ignoring his constant annoyed faces.
"Ok then, we'll talk later! No problem!" Jackie called after Ray before she slumped in disappointment. "We're cool...cool."
Travis then approached Jackie with his look of doubt. "Jackie, you gotta stop thinking extra hard about this Ray thing. You don't see Spuda going around being all obsessive over some boy." He said as he gestured to Spuda, who was gazing dreamily at the ski lifts before she began daydreaming about her literally marrying a lift and having half-human/half-ski lift children.
"Quiet, Lifty Jr., mommy's trying to clean." She said absentmindedly before Travis dragged her to where the ski lifts started.
"Alright, Spuda. Let's cut the chatter and get down to the matter. Mastering the ski lift is all about making booty to the bench contact." Travis and Spuda both crunched down as a lift approached them. "Alright, come on. Now don't be afraid to put some hip into it."
Unfortunately, while Travis made it onto the ski lift, Spuda was knocked onto the snow with her legs sticking out. Jackie just stood there and stared at her friend with her hands in her pockets. "How was that?"
Travis stared at her in disgust. "Uh...your birthmark is showing."
After Travis traveled down the mountain, Jackie and Travis then held onto Spuda as another lift approached while she sat on the lift, but then got catapulted off as she shouted and landing on the snow near her friend's feet. Spuda then took a pair of ski pushers before she ran and then catapulted herself into the air, but ended up making her fall through a tree and landed in the snow, her winter clothes ripped out. Spuda emerged from the hole in the snow, naked and shivering madly with her teeth chattering. "Oh, I need a h-h-heater!" She then calmed down as her friends ran up to her. "On the upside, I've mastered the art of snotsicles."
Jackie and Travis exchanged looks before they suddenly heard a fearful-sounding roar coming from the distance, catching Jackie's attention. "Ear of the dragon." She said before she shifted her ear into her dragon ear so she could hear where that roaring was coming from.
Up on top of a mountain, a real life abominable snow monster was dangling with its ankle caught in a rope. Near it, Huntsboy was also present while he answered a video projection of his master, the Huntsman, from his staff. "You've done well, Huntsboy." He said.
"Thank you, Huntsmaster. You can send the Huntsclan to pick him up at sundown." Huntsboy said.
"The Huntsclan? Why should I send them when you're already there?"
Huntsboy made a look of disbelief under his mask. "Master, I captured the creature like you asked, but-"
"But nothing, you're not a child anymore, Huntsboy. Come home with the pelt of the abominable snowman...or don't come home at all." With that happy note, he powered off his video message while the young apprentice sighed in frustration.
"I may be wrong, but I think abominable over there might be an endangered species." Jackie said, catching Huntsboy's attention as he turned and saw her standing right next to him in her dragon form while she smirked.
"The only endangered species I see around here is you!" Huntsboy retorted before he suddenly leaped at her while she yelped and quickly knocked herself onto a tree behind her and then snow buried her. "Hmm, white's not really your color." Jackie quickly breathed fire to melt the snow off of her before she flew up and avoided the Huntsboy while he stabbed the snow with his staff. Huntsboy and the American Dragon then circled around as they prepared for their moves. "What are you doing here, anyway? If I didn't know any better, I'd swear you were following me."
"Well, maybe I am."
"Well, maybe you should stop!"
"Maybe you should chill!" Jackie then flapped her wings as she created a breeze the shook a tree's branches, making Huntsboy gasp as he looked up and the breeze made snow fall right on top of him, burying him in the snow. He shouted as he jumped out of the snow pile and Jackie watched as he ran into the forest. She then glanced down and found a ski pass sticking out from the snow. "Yo, you forgot you're…" Jackie's eyes went wide in realization. "Ski pass?!" She suddenly realized that the Huntsboy was accompanying on the school ski trip and was apparently one of the students signed up.
The next day at the resort was Valentine's Day, but of course Professor Rotwood was acting like a total dictator since he was been constantly injured every time he talked or walked around the resort.
"You, no skateboarding in the lodge! You two, separate!" Rotwood said as he moved towards Jackie and her friends while he glared down at them. "You three, feet off the coffee table!" Unfortunately, his crutch got caught by the moose adorned antlers and the teacher yelped as he tripped down the stairs before something broke. "Don't worry, that was just my crutch!" But then he fell down the stairs again while he grunted before another crack was heard. "That was my leg."
"So anyway, after he ran off, I found this." Jackie told her friends as she pulled out the ski pass Huntsboy left behind.
"Hold fast! Only people from our school have those." Travis said with wide eyes.
"Exactly! The Huntsboy's here on the ski trip! He's one of us!"
"Whoa! Happy Valentine's Day to Jackie. Roses are red, violets are blue, your archenemy goes to school with you. Harsh!" Spuda said with surprise in her eyes.
"Ooh! We got a rizz-at in the hizz-house!" Travis said.
"Now all we gotta do is just set a trap."
Jackie looked around and then saw someone from an entrance wearing a mask, making her alarmed. "That's him!" She exclaimed before she leaped impulsively and tackle a harmless mannequin to the ground, much to her surprise. All of the students laughed hysterically at the Chinese-American girl before they walked away.
"Yo, I don't think attacking mannequins qualifies as a trap, girl." Travis said.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. It's not like the Huntsboy would just be hanging out in the lodge."
Of course, Jackie spoke too soon while from behind her, Ray was hiding behind a corner as he sent a holographic video message to the Huntsman. "What do you mean you won't be bringing me an abominable snowman pelt?" The Huntsman said, sounding very displeased.
"Don't worry, I have something better: a dragon skin. I'll be slaying it tonight." Ray vowed confidently to his master.
"Hey, did I hear you right?" Jackie said from behind Ray, making him perk up in surprise before he quickly hid his device behind his back.
"Jackie! Oh, well, I was…"
"You're going sleighing? 'Cause I love a good sleigh ride! In fact, maybe you and me can go sleighing tonight. See...there's something I want to tell you and-"
"Hey, Ray!" Brenda cutted in as she smiled flirtatiously at Ray, much to his and Jackie's annoyances again. "Oh look, I think you dropped something." While Ray looked down, the cheerleader pulled out a bouquet of roses. "More roses for my Ray-alicious!"
"AH-CHOO!" Ray sneezed again while Jackie flinched a little, but looked as annoyed as he was. "Brenda!" But she didn't listen again as she dragged him away and he groaned in frustration while he plugged his nose.
"Yo, that fool is going down!" Jackie exclaimed, finally having enough of Brenda always meddling on hers and Ray's good times together and flirting with him, not to mention she was ignoring the fact that Ray was allergic to roses, seeing it as his way of being pleased with it.
"Forget her, we got bigger flapjacks to flip." Travis said as he placed a hand on Jackie before she could give Brenda a piece of her mind.
Jackie and Travis then disguised Spuda as a leprechaun, hoping it would lure out Huntsboy. "Uh Jackie, I feel the need to tell you that I'm a little disturbed by this plan." Spuda said with doubt while she stayed on her knees to look short.
"I'm more disturbed by the fact that Jackie not only owns a leprechaun costume, but brought it on a ski trip." Travis said before he turned to Jackie. "What up with that?"
"What? So I overpacked." Jackie admitted while she shrugged sheepishly.
Then Spuda began her act while Jackie and Travis ran to their hiding spot while she scooted across the floor with a fake leprechaun accent. "Oh gosh, begorrah. 'Tis a sad thing indeed to be a little, lost leprechaun. I do hope a ninja hunter doesn't come upon me, don't ya know?" She said before a student exited his room.
"Gotcha, Huntsboy!" Jackie tacked the student with a blanket, but then stopped when she saw it was just an actual student.
"Uh, actually, it's just Hunter." He said before he admired Spuda's disguise. "Hey, are you a leprechaun?"
Jackie smile sheepishly. "Uh, you're just seeing things. It's an advanced stage of altitude sickness."
"Whoa, leprechauns rock!" He began poking Spuda's forehead while Travis approached his friends.
"Uh, my room now!" He said before they walked away from Hunter and made their way to Travis and Ray's room. "Yo Jackie, this thing has gone way too far. You're tackling innocent-" He began as they entered his room, but then he faltered when the trio saw Ray, shirtless and doing some chin-ups with little strain and grunted each time. "What that?" He then flipped above his bed and began doing an advanced form of push-ups and then did it with just one hand.
Ray stopped when he noticed Jackie, Spuda, and Travis staring at him in awe and amazement. "Ah! Uh...hey there." He said before he flipped off his bed and leaned against it with a smile. "I was just, um...getting in a quick, pre-ski workout." He then laughed like it was completely normal.
Of course, Travis apparently didn't exactly buy it since he immediately dragged Jackie and Spuda out of his room with a look of suspicion on his face, like there was something off about Ray. "Yo, did you see that?"
"Heck yeah! Ray is totally buff!" Jackie exclaimed in amazement before she high-fived Spuda, but Travis made a dubious flat look like his friend was just being stubbornly clueless. Later on, the trio returned to the lodge and hid behind an empty register desk, and they planned on using the intercom to lure the Huntsboy into the lodge so Jackie could nab him and ask some serious questions like what the Huntsclan's main goal was besides capturing a random abominable snowman. "Trust me, Trav, this plan is foolproof." She then grabbed the intercom mic and spoke into it. "Attention in the lodge. There's a collect call at the front desk from…"
Jackie then handed Spuda the intercom. "Huntsmaster." She finished before Jackie placed the mic back on the desk.
She peaked over the desk and saw a man walking into the lodge, humming to himself. "Here he comes." She then impulsively leaped over the counter and tackled the man to the ground while he yelped. "Wrong number, Huntsboy! Think you can hide under all that padding?" She suddenly realized it was just a grown man and she knew Huntsboy was no older than her own age.
The man began speaking in a foreign language she couldn't understand, but he looked as startled as she was and he said. "I do not understand English. I only want to make use of the bathroom!" He then screamed and ran into the men's room.
Jackie stood up to her feet. "Ok, maybe we need a new plan."
"SHHH!" Travis interrupted before he drag her close to him and he pointed to where Ray was talking to an injured Professor Rotwood.
"So, I must have lost my ski pass somewhere. Do you think I could maybe...get another one, sir?" Ray asked his teacher politely.
"Well, uh...normally I would never allow it, but seeing as you asked so nicely, I'm sure I could allow it." Rotwood said while Ray smiled in gratitude.
Then a random boy accidentally ran into Ray. "Oh, excuse me." He said.
"AIIIIIYAH!" Ray cried as he, in self-defense, grabbed the boy and threw him off his feet while he slammed him right onto Rotwood, making him cry in agony.
"AAH! My ribs!" Rotwood exclaimed.
Ray gasped when he realized his mistake before he walked backwards slowly and then made a run for it.
"Ok, y'all saw that, right?" Travis said like he knew something Jackie should know by now.
"Yeah, Ray's aerobics classes are really paying off." Jackie said, looking amazed by her crush's mad skills and that he just gave her least favorite teacher some more 'fun' even if he didn't mean to. Travis rolled his eyes and rubbed his head at his stubborn friend.
Jackie then entered her room until she saw Brenda listening to the news. "Girl, check it out!" She said before she turned up the volume.
"Hale-force winds and heavy snowfall will combine to create blizzard conditions." The radio announced.
"Hear that? Blizzard coming in, and the ladies like myself love the blizzards. It gives men a chance to cuddle with the women and makes them all snuggley!" Jackie stood there with her hands on her hips while she gave her rival a flat look. "I'm gonna totally make my move with Ray tonight, I got all the junk for romance!" Brenda began pulling out some random love-related junk from her bag. "Chocolates, candlelights...and more roses!"
"Brenda, get these five simple words straight into that thick head of yours...Ray. is. allergic. to. ROSES!" Jackie exclaimed, enough to make Brenda cringe from her outburst. Brenda quickly recovered from her shock before she pulled out a music box. "And let me guess, those are for love music."
"Are you kidding? These are just so I don't have to listen to him talk, his annoying sneezes, or you for that matter." She slipped on her earphones. "What? What? I can't hear you!" Jackie only groaned and rolled her eyes in annoyance.
Out on the second floor lodge, Rotwood stood there on his crutches with his neck braced, his head bandaged tightly, both of his legs casted, and both of his arms broken and wrapped. "Don't worry about me now, huh? My teutonic blood allows me to endure extraordinary high levels of pain." He said before he began feeling dizzy and looney from all of his painful injuries. "What's that, mother? The chickens are loose again?" He sighed before his drowsiness got to him and he fell straight out of the window and crashed outside where he gain even more injuries.
"This is it, I've got to tell Ray I'm a dragon before Brenda gets a chance to make her move!" Jackie told both of her best friends, looking more determined than ever to tell her future boyfriend-to-be the truth about herself so he wouldn't have to listen to Brenda just talking about herself and giving him roses, despite the fact that Jackie herself as told her numerous times that he was allergic to them.
"Uh, Jackie...I don't want to be the one to bring this up, but seeing as you're blind as a bat, haven't you noticed anything strange about the way Ray has been acting?" Travis said with emphasising as he gestured to Ray, who was having cups of hot chocolate with his friend, Connor.
"No."
"Denial, party of one, your table's ready." Spuda said like it was time for Travis to reveal his suspicions to Jackie.
"Peep game, Jackie. The missing ski pass, the ninja body slam, his last name's Killdragonosa...the pro-wrestler biceps, girl! I'm sorry, Jackie, but Ray is totally Huntsboy, and I'm not about to let you go tell your archenemy that you're a dragon! I mean, think about it!"
Jackie then gave her best friend a look of suspicion herself. "Hey, you're pretty sure about this...too sure! Maybe 'cause you're hiding something! You know, I searched every boy's room this weekend except yours, Huntsboy!" Jackie said accusingly as she pointed at Travis, making Spuda gasp in disbelief.
Travis rolled his eyes, knowing that she was just being too stubborn to accept the truth. "Okay, now you just bugging, girlfriend. If I were him, I would have shut you down by now! You can't touch my ninja business!" Travis pointed out. "I'm sorry, but it's Ray."
"Roses are red, Jack needs a toy, 'cause she just found out that Ray is Huntsboy." Spuda recited before she smiled like she was proud of herself. "Man, you know what? I am good at this stuff!"
"Seeya." Ray said to Connor before he walked away past Brenda while he frowned determinedly.
"Oh yeah, and now for a little Ray-Brend alone time." Brenda said as she rose from her seat and took the bag of goodies and began following Ray outside.
"I'm sorry, Jackie, but who you gonna trust? Us or him?" Travis asked Jackie, referring to Ray. Jackie saw Ray walk outside and was about to follow him herself until her best friend stopped her. "Jackie, are you listening to me?!"
"Yeah, can we talk about this later?"
Travis held onto Jackie's arm and tried to hold her back. "No, we cannot talk about-OW!" Jackie shifted her arm into her dragon form's, enough to create heat that forced Travis to release her from the burn.
Jackie glared at him as she shifted her arm back to normal. "I want to find out the truth myself." And she walked towards the exit.
"Alright, okay, but don't come crying to Travis when that he-warlock filets you with his hunt-stick-thingamabobby!"
"Roses are red, Spuda is afraid, Travis's ticked off, Jack's getting slayed." Spuda said.
Travis grabbed his other best friend by her winter vest. "You! You've got to shut that down!"
Outside in the blistery wind blizzard, Brenda walked out in the middle of the snow, ignoring the strong winds while Jackie followed her from behind. "Ray! Ray-alicious!" She called out before she tripped and Jackie covered her face from the frozen wind shear hitting her hard. Brenda got back to her feet like nothing has happened. "Ding-ding, handsome! You've got a ticket for the Brend-a-rail, now boarding at station love!"
Jackie rolled her eyes in annoyance, but then got back to the situation at hand. "Eye of the dragon!" She said before her eyes glowed red. She zoomed her enhanced vision onto the faint familiar-looking figure up on top of a cliffside. She groaned as she rubbed her eyes and looked again to see Huntsboy's faint silhouette standing there. "Dragon up!" She shifted into her dragon form and took off into the air before Brenda could even notice. She flew up to the cliffside and saw Huntsboy walking around an abominable snowman that was caught in a net. "What exactly did I tell you about trapping innocent creatures?"
"Hmm, you don't look so innocent to me." Huntsboy retorted as he pointed at her.
Jackie took a step forward, but only to step on a rope as it snapped in half. "Huh?" But before she could react, a wooden cage fell on top of her and trapped her inside. "Aww man!"
Back inside the lodge of the resort, Travis paced around to himself while Spuda sat on a couch, with her usual dull face. "You know what? Forget her! Let her fend for herself out in the snow with a blizzard and a ninja." Travis said with frustration.
"I'm worried about her, too." Spuda said while she looked down.
"Well, come on, then. We gotta get our rescue on!" Travis and Spuda ran for the exit, but when he opened the door, they instead found an injured Rotwood standing there.
"B-b-eh-heh-ha! Where exactly do you think you're going?" The German teacher demanded before a good chunk of snow from the roof slid off and fell right on top of and Rotwood, burying him underneath. "Cold." Seeing their chance, Spuda and Travis ran past their least favorite teacher and went out into the cold blizzard to rescue their friend.
Spuda and Travis covered their faces from the blistery winds while they walked across the snowy fields. They eventually found Jackie's footprints on the snow, until they found some dragon prints and saw where they ended. "There! Jackie's footprints!" Spuda said as they approached the end.
"I'm guessing that's where the wings kicked in."
"There's no way we could walk up that mountain in this storm!"
"Who said anything about walking?" Travis gestured to the ski lifts that were still operational, but thanks to the strong winds, they shook madly around until one snapped off and flew away in the blizzard breeze. Spuda gulped nervously at the sight.
Back on the cliffside, Jackie struggled to break free from the wood cage while Huntsboy gloated over his capture. "Looks like you're mine at last." The ninja slayer said.
"How long do you think a wooden cage is gonna hold in the American Dragon?" Jackie retorted while she glared angrily at her enemy.
"Long enough for me to slay you!" He then pointed out his staff, ready to impale her. Jackie inhaled and then tried to breath fire at Huntsboy, but a gust of wind blew in and sizzled out her fire stream, leaving her coughing loudly. "Oh, is the big, bad blizzard wind too much for your wittle dragon fire?"
"Yo, sweetie, you're the wind beneath my wings." Jackie opened her wings just as another gust of wind blew in and lifted the dragon off the ground in her cage. "Yeah!" Huntsboy watched as the dragon flew over him and headed straight for the snow off the cliffside. "Uh oh!" The cage crashed on the snow and even though Jackie was set free, she tumbled across the snow while she shouted. She rolled down the hill while she got trapped in a giant snowball.
"Ray! Ray, baby!" Brenda called as she voice echoed through the mountains. "Where are ya?! Come on, don't be shy! Time to par-tay!" Brenda got knocked back by Jackie and sent herself tumbling off the snow while she got trapped in a giant snowball and rolled down towards the resort.
The ambulance arrived to give Rotwood some more treatment after they unburied him from the snow he was trapped in. "Really, this is silly. I am-I'll be fine. My bones just need time for the healing required. Is there a hot chocolate?" The teacher said as the medics rolled him up to the truck. Brenda approached them on her snowball and then whammed right onto Rotwood, causing him to yelp on more pain.
Back on the mountain, Jackie groaned and rubbed her head before she looked down and saw her teacher and rival from after Jackie whacked Brenda like that with her snowball. "HYAH!" Huntsboy cried out as he jumped out of nowhere and tackled onto Jackie's back.
"Yo, get off my back, sir!" Jackie exclaimed before she threw him off and he landed on the snow.
"Give it up, dragon!"
"Never!"
"Fine!" Huntsboy dropped his staff and it shifted into a snowboard. "Catch me if you can!" He mounted on his board and rode on it while Jackie tried to tackle him, but he was already riding down the mountain trail.
"Snowboarding, that's what I'm saying!" Jackie used her claws to saw off a good chunk of tree bark off before she shaped it into a board of her own. She jumped down the mountain and rode after Huntsboy.
"Not bad! Let's see how you do off the trail!" The dragon slayer steered himself off the trail and into the forest while he ducked from the branch.
Jackie managed to slice the branch off with her claws. While Huntsboy rode across the tree obstacles, Jackie knocked down a few trees with her strength while she grunted and continued catching up to Huntsboy. "That the best you got, Huntspunk?!"
They both slid back onto the trail and began boarding side to side into the air briefly. "Hah! Nice moves, dragon!"
"Right back atcha…" Jackie halted her board while she used her wings to land on the snow safely. "But you need a pair of wings to really catch air." Jackie then flew over to where Huntsboy rode up and then whacked him with her tail, sending him flying off his board and the trail.
"Whoa!" He landed near a tree and apparently a bush of roses while his snowboard shifted back into his staff.
"Ha! How do you like me now?"
Huntsboy got back up to his feet with his usual glare underneath his mask. "You'll pay for that!" He was about to escape until Jackie stopped him by shouting.
"Leaving so soon? Stick around a while!" Jackie snapped some icicles off a tree and threw them at Huntsboy, trapping him on a tree trunk by his elbows and knees, making him struggle to break free.
"Go ahead! Finish the job! The Huntsclan will find you soon enough! Trust me!" Huntsboy then went wide eyed before he felt a sneeze coming on. "AH-CHOO!" Jackie jumped a little when she saw the bush of roses next to him. "Oh no, not again!"
Jackie looked surprised that he was actually allergic to roses. "Actually...I don't." She then pulled off his right-handed glove and saw a familiar-looking dragon-shaped birthmark on his hand, and she realized it was the exact some one Ray had, and now she knew the horrible truth, whether she would believe it or not: Ray was Huntsboy. Jackie made a look of disbelief and her eyes went wide. "They were right!"
Huntsboy broke free from his icicle trap before he held out his dragon-marked hand. "You like it? It's the Mark of the Huntsclan, it assures me that I was born to do one thing: slay dragons!" He then leaped for his staff and held it out. "Say goodbye! AI-YAH! (AI-YAH….AI-YAH…)" Unfortunately, his battle cry was enough to make the snow tremble, making them both freeze with wide eyes when they saw an avalanche hurtling right towards them.
"WHOA!" Huntsboy and the American Dragon exclaimed in unison while Jackie managed to fly into the air, but Huntsboy wasn't as lucky when he got carried away and got sent off the cliff.
"RAY!" Jackie exclaimed.
Ray screamed until Jackie caught him and carried him into the air. "Huh?" He looked up at the dragon who just saved his life, despite how much he tried to slay her. "What are you doing?!" He gave her a punch, but this didn't faze her while she dropped him back onto the snow. "Why did you save me? We're mortal enemies or did you forget?!"
Jackie gave him a look of hurt like the boy of her dreams just broke her heart, indirectly at least. "I wish I could, but there's more between us than you know." She was about to walk away, but got stopped when she heard Ray shout at her while he aimed his staff at her back.
"Dragon, you saved my life, but that doesn't change my destiny! Any last words?"
"EAT SNOW, HUNTSBOY!" Spuda exclaimed from the ski lift with Travis next to her before they both leaped off and tackled Ray to the ground. They both got to their feet while Spuda held onto his arm. "Whoa! Did you see that?! I did it! I've mastered the ski lift!" Huntsboy blasted a beam at a ski lift, making it crash right on top of Spuda and forced her to release him. "Ow!"
"Another day, dragon, I'll slay you yet!" Ray shifted his staff into his board before he slid into the forest and disappeared.
"Ain't you gonna go after him?" Travis asked Jackie.
"Let him go." She said while she shook her head in despair.
The next day at the resort, it was the last day after everyone got themselves packed up before they could head back home to Manhattan, but everyone hanged at the lounge for their last day.
Jackie sighed before she turned to her friends. "I should have trusted you guys all along." She said miserably.
"Hey, don't even sweat it, Jackie. If you ask me, Ray wasn't all that, anyway. Listen to this." Travis said before he pulled out a tape recorder before he played Ray snoring, very loudly. "He snores like gravel in a blender. Plus, you should see homeboy's feet, he puts some serious ninja wear and tear on them joints. Oh, and don't even get me started on sharing a bathroom!"
Later on that day, the students boarded into the school bus to head back home to Manhattan. Rotwood was seriously all casted, bandaged, and held still by a wired bed, thanks to all of his severe injuries he has suffered during the ski trip. He muffled while he ranted inaudibly, thanks to his mouth being bandaged, and he cried in agony when a boy accidently tapped him with his skis. He and his friend shrugged and saw Brenda wrapped in a blanket, since she apparently caught a cold from being rolled down the mountain from the other night during the blizzard.
"Hey, gentlemen, I'm offering approved rates on the Brenda Express. Who's riding? All aboard! AH-CHOO!" Brenda said before she sneezed loudly, much to the boys' disgust and they walked right past her.
Jackie slumped on her seat with Travis and Spuda sitting behind her. Spuda looked very miffed for some odd reason. "I can't believe the lift threw my off him again! I'm over between me and him!" She exclaimed.
"Oh, here comes trouble." Travis said to Jackie as he pointed at Ray, who entered the bus and approached to Jackie.
"Hey, Jackie!" He greeted cheerfully. Jackie remained silent and crossed her arms like she thought the polite personality was just a cover. "Listen, I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to hang out this weekend."
"Hey, you were busy." Jackie said with a shrug as she glared out the window.
"So...you wanted to tell me something? Is this seat taken?"
Jackie began having flashbacks of the past, from the first time they saw each other when Jackie first bumped into him at school, and it became love at first sight. She then remembered the two of them slow dancing during their first school dance, and Jackie rested her head onto his chest. Ray also tried to wrap his arm around Jackie, until he sheepishly hid it from her while they were rehearsing for a school drama club play, and the time before they left for the ski trip when they almost kissed each other. However, those good memories were scorched away when Jackie remembered revealing Huntsboy's birthmark, proving that Ray was her mortal enemy she has been fighting since her first day of training. After that night, Jackie was still overwhelmed with disbelief, since she has recently discovered that Ray, the boy of her dreams, was also her mortal enemy, Huntsboy. She remembered how he was allergic to roses, and more importantly, she remembered that Lyle, the oracle of bad stuff, forewarned her that she would learn the dark, awful truth about Ray Killdragonosa. It was devastating enough and she felt like she was just downright miserable that Ray was working for the Huntsman, thinking that it was his destiny to slay dragons. And now, she felt like she was no longer safe while she was around Ray.
Jackie looked away sadly from the boy of her dreams. "Sorry, it is." She said to him, despite how much she still genuinely loved him.
Ray looked a little sad himself before he walked to the front of the bus. Spuda and Travis exchanged glances before they looked down pitifully at their heartbroken best friend. Jackie watched and looked ahead before she closed her eyes and a tear leaked from her eye and down her cheek before it dripped off. When the teardrop landed on the bus floor, the tiny tear puddle steamed from Jackie's dragon heritage.