After talking with Jake and Adrianne, Ben got in bed and
stared at his ceiling. He thought about a few things: regents, the
prom, but mostly about Becca. Her blonde hair, her brown eyes,
her beautiful form, and of her magnificent personality. What
he loved most about her was her happy-go-lucky personality. She
was like a breath of fresh air to him, the only thing that kept him
from being completely emotionally empty. He smiled and realized
he really did love her. Unfortunately for him, she was in love with
someone else. She wouldn't tell him who, but he assumed it was
Jimbo.
Man, Jimbo had ruined all his hard work and sacrifice to get
Becca. First, there was last year's prom. Jimbo and Becca snuck
into the prom from the bathroom window, and they ended up being
part of the prom court somehow. Then, it was the whole thing with
the Operation Pineapple, which was a plot of Jimbo's to get back at
Ben for making him do something which he won't even dare think
about. It involved himself, Becca, and a giant piece of pineapple.
Not a fun experience.
Suddenly, the phone rang. Ben grumbled because he had just
started to fall asleep. 'Who could be calling at 11 at night?' he
thought as he grudgingly got up and answered the phone. "Hello?"
he said tiredly. "Ben? It's me, Becca." He heard her sweet voice
through the receiver on the phone. His sleepiness instantly
dissolved. "Why did you call so late at night?"
"Jimbo called and asked if you still wanted to go to the prom
with us in our carpool. He said that you might, but I was supposed
to ask you first. Well?" she said expectantly as Ben breathed a sigh
of annoyance on the other end. "No, I'll find a different way to get
there. Tell Jimbo I'm out," he said as he hung up the phone with a
disgusted look on his face. He went back up to his room and went
online, hoping that there was someone he could vent to. There
wasn't. So he went on one of the forums he happened to be a
member of and complained to the people who were online then.
They all told him to shut up.
There was one person, however, that told him to get in a
private chat-room with him. Ben agreed and accepted the invitation
that appeared on his screen from evildude434. Evildude434 told
him that the way to win her heart was to impress her with some
kind of power she didn't know he had, like strength or brains. Ben
replied by saying that she already knows everything about him.
Evildude434 put up a devil face and typed "Not everything." And
with that, the mysterious character logged off. Ben frowned
because he thought he knew what evildude434 was talking about.
********************************************
"Perfect. He fell right into my trap." The cloaked figure
signed off-line and smiled evilly. "The boy will soon bend to my
will. Mippa! Mullog!" Two imp-like creatures hopped into his
throne room. "Yesh Mashter?" The concealed figure turned toward
them. "I want you to get this young boy to show his powers at the
prom tonight. And you may use this." He handed them each a card
with an image printed on it. One was a muscular figure with a
completely blank face. The other was a beautiful woman . "I will
make Adrianne mine, and she will feel my pain!"
********************************************
Becca dreamed that she was walking on an ocean full of
flowers. It was daytime in her dream. She was barefoot wearing her
periwinkle prom dress. She looked up at the sky, and realized that
she was now underwater. She swam to the best of her ability, but
something was holding her in place. She blacked out.
The next thing she knew, she was standing on a big boat.
Amber, Ben, Jimbo, and Adrianne were there too. The seas
were rough, and Adrianne almost got tossed overboard. Becca held
onto the railing, but it disappeared. She almost fell over the side of
the ship, but a shining figure in red armor caught her and carried
her safely to the boat's destination. How she knew the destination
of the vessel, she had no idea. Her savior looked at her, and she
almost saw his face when...
********************************************
Riiiiiiiiiiiing! Becca's alarm clock went off. "I forgot to turn
it off," she mumbled as she went to put the thing out of it's misery.
She hit it on the surface fairly hard. She muttered something about
suing the company that made it as she tried to go to sleep again.
She did fall asleep, but she had her standard Jimbo-will-you-
marry-me dream. No more of the boat and the figure in red armor.
She hoped that it would turn out to be Jim, but somehow she knew
it wouldn't.
********************************************
Jake woke up again at about noon. He thought back to this
morning when he had had Adrianne in his arms for a brief moment.
She was still on the couch, asleep. She really was pretty. Maybe he
could ask her to dance with him at the prom.
Then a thought crossed his mind: What about that strange
rock he found two days ago? He felt it in his pocket of the pants
from yesterday that he had forgotten to take off. He quickly got
dressed in new clothes. He had tan khakis, a navy shirt, and his
nice warm wool socks. He put the precious jewel on a string and
put the string around his neck. He thought about his dream, and it
still scared him that he might die saving someone he hadn't seen
the face of. As he walked out of his room, he saw Adrianne waiting
for him in the kitchen.
"I'm going to need a prom dress," she said, hoping he would
take her hint. "I'm going to need to a suit," Jake replied. "Would
you like to pick out a dress while I pick out my suit?" Adrianne
laughed. "What's there to pick out? Guys always have the most
boring clothes. Don't you agree?" Jake nodded. "Girls usually
have better clothes than us guys, and it's not fair. You all get to
wear bright colors, and dresses, and what not. But guys get to wear
just one type of clothing all the time."
"You need to get a life." Adrianne said to him. They both
broke into peals of laughter as she said that. "You know what I just
realized? I don't have any extra clothes. You wouldn't happen to
have anything for me to wear, would you?" Jake raised his hand.
"Wait here." He went into his bedroom and rummaged around in
his dresser until he came out with some rather feminine clothes.
"I have no idea why these are in here, but you can keep them
afterwards. A keepsake of our time together." Adrianne smiled and
went into the bathroom to put them on. "How do these things fit
you? They're so big," she said from within her makeshift changing
area. "Fit into what?" Jake asked her. "The shirt," she replied.
"They seem to fit an elephant." Jake frowned. "I don't have any
pair of pants bigger than a size medium." Adrianne laughed.
"What's so funny Adrianne?" She came out of the bathroom
wearing the clothes. "I was trying to wear one of your towels."
They both laughed.
********************************************
Becca was depressed again. She still couldn't remember what
the face of the man in red armor was, at least she assumed it was a
man. 'Well, Bec, you know what they say about assuming,' she
thought to herself. ' When you assume, you make an ass out of you
and me.' She was thinking of calling up Jimbo and talking to him
about it, but she decided to go see a counselor instead. Counselor
Diana. She had a last name, but Becca could never remember it for
the life of her.
Councilor Diana was a rock that she could hold onto. Becca
remembered when she had first called up Diana Hotlines on the
phone and talked for hours about Jimbo and Ben and her wacky
love life. Diana just listened, as if she had nothing more important
she could be doing. Becca liked that feeling. She also got that
feeling very vaguely when she was talking to Ben. It was as if
he......... no. It couldn't be. Ben was just her friend, nothing more.
She decided to call up her councilor.
"Hello? Councilor Diana? I've got another Jimbo problem."
The councilor on the other end laughed. "I figured as much. It's
always a Jimbo problem." Becca frowned. "Actually, this time it's
more of a Ben problem too. I think Ben is jealous of Jim for some
reason. Every time I bring up the subject, he just kinda zones out,
ya know? It's as if........" she trailed away. "As if what?" Diana
asked. "Never mind," Becca said as she nervously got dressed.
"It's nothing. 'Bye!" She hung up
********************************************
"It's the perfect bait," said the cloaked figure. "It's too easy.
The Red Dragoon is madly in love with her, and he would do
anything to prove it. All we have to do is bait her! Mullog!" The
imp-like creature Mullog crawled over to him. "Yesh Mashter?" it
crooned. "You have the Faceless Card, right?" The creature
nodded. "Yesh Mashter," it said. "Use it on the girl named Becca.
The Dragoon will fall to her charm and he'll think she finally
wants him," the hooded figure said. "It's just too easy!" He cackled
again.
"Eevano." A woman's voice echoed through the halls of his
palace. "His Majesty wants that girl quickly, so I suggest you kill
her before you get too emotionally attached. This councilor scam
isn't going to work forever. Becca is smart. She'll find you out, and
then she'll get her Dragoon friend to kill you." Eevano laughed. He
put a voice changer up to his mouth.
"She won't figure it out," he said, sounding like Councilor
Diana. "I killed the real councilor a long time ago. If she comes to
visit her, she'll get a real surprise, and then we'll have her." He put
the voice changer back down.
"Why do we need her anyway? Adrianne is the one with the
special powers," he asked. "The master requested her personally,"
the woman replied. "He wants her to absorb the special powers
concealed in her. So we capture both of them."
********************************************
"So you've driven how many times before?" Adrianne asked
as she got into his dad's brand new, $10,000 Tiburon. "I told you,
lots of times," Jake lied. "You're a poor liar." "I know," Jake
replied as he buckled up. He pulled out of the driveway, and
promptly hit a mailbox. His mailbox.
"Now, this dress shop is just down the street, right? I mean,
you're not driving me all over town in this thing, are you?"
Adrianne said timidly. Jake lined the car up with the road.
"Adrianne, will you relax, nothing is gonna happen."
They pulled out of Jake's driveway, and again hit something.
It was someone's blue bin. "Recycling can be so annoying," Jake
quipped as he backed the car away from the deformed recycling
bin. Neither of them noticed a black car right behind them. At the
wheel was a strange, imp-like creature who worked for Eevano. He
was the tallest one, tall as a human, so he could drive a car. The
imp put the car into the drive position and went after Jake and
Adrianne. Jake and the mysterious black car pulled out of Jake's
street, and the black car followed him to the dress shop.
Adrianne went inside. "I'm going to go pick a dress out. Will
you wait for me here?" Jake nodded. Adrianne was right in front of
the store when the imp-like creature grabbed her and shoved her in
the trunk of his black convertible. "Help!" she yelled as he was
taking her away, but no one seemed to hear. It was as if they were
all in a trance. "Jake!" Jake jumped over to the imp-like creature
and demanded he give Adrianne back. The creature just glared at
him and threw some whitish powder at his face, shoved Adrianne
in the trunk, and drove off. Jake fell on the ground with a sickening
thump.
"I......... can't......... lose her," Jake said as he tried in vain
to rise. A man in a black cloak ran over to his side and poured a
silver-colored liquid in a perfect circle around Jake's body.
"You're going to be okay," the man said as Jake was
mysteriously able to stand again. "Who are you, and how do you
know about-" "No time," the man said as he swung into the
Tiburon. "Jump on the hood. Only you can save her now."
********************************************
Becca put the phone down on the receiver. 'How could I be
so stupid?' she thought. 'Man, she just doesn't care. No one does.'
Her brown eyes wet with tears, she picked up the phone again and
dialed the number of the only person she wanted to talk to right
now. Ben. It was strange, feeling one way about Jim and a totally
different way about Ben. They were just so similar. Like brothers
almost. 'Maybe it's not Jim I like,' she thought.
A crash came from her kitchen. Her thoughts interrupted, she
walked into the room, and found no one there. 'That's odd,' she
thought. Then a tiny imp-like creature jumped on her back and
pulled her to the floor. Ben was on the line.
"Becca? Becca, hello?" He heard her screams over the phone.
"Hold on Becca, I'll be right over."
********************************************
Jake followed the instructions of the mysterious man and
jumped on the hood of his car. "Not yet," the man yelled up at him.
"I have to save Adrianne, you told me so yourself," Jake replied.
"No, first you need to unleash your hidden power." Jake's hands
went to his neck and felt the green sphere. He focused on the desire
that powered his life: the desire to save the earth. 'Wait, that's not
it,' Jake thought as he felt the change take him over. The stone was
already working it's magic. It was the desire of the spirit that lived
in the stone that the world be saved.
Finally, the change was complete. Jake could feel his body
become a living weapon. Fortunately for him, he had parked the
car in a remote parking area and no one saw his transformation.
Precious time had been lost during this time, so Jake felt it crucial
to use all the time he had left wisely. The strange man started the
car, or so Jake guessed because he felt a sudden jolt as the car
started moving.
They chased after Adrianne and the imp-like
creature for a full five minutes at top speed before catching up to
them. Jake pulled out his giant cannon and fired a concentrated
beam of energy at the lock on the trunk. The lock melted off, and
the trunk flew open as Adrianne pushed with all her might. Jake
leapt over the gap connecting the two cars and rapped his arms
around Adrianne. "You're going to be alright now," he said with
what he hoped to be a comforting tone. She looked up at him and
smiled. The trunk came crashing back down on them, but, thanks
to Jake's enormous wings, it didn't shut. This is probably a good
thing, even though they could have just pushed upward to open it
again since the lock was broken.
With a giant leap, Jake flew into the air with Adrianne in his
arms. He looked into her green eyes, and said "You okay?" She
nodded. He held her closer as her flew up higher. "Where would
you like to be dropped off?" "At a friend's house, right there," she
responded and pointed at Becca's house. "I'm not a taxi service,"
Jake said, and Adrianne laughed. "Sorry." Jake shook his head.
"No really, I don't mind. It's on my way."
He dropped Adrianne off when he noticed Ben's car in the
driveway. 'Hmm, that's odd,' he thought to himself. They went
inside to find Becca on the floor crying, and Ben doing his best to
comfort her. "I'm gonna stay here and do what I can to calm them
down," Adrianne said as she ran over to Becca. "Oh, and by the
way," she said as Jake left. "Thank you, for saving my life." Jake
smiled again. "Don't mention it." He ran out the front door and
flew on his giant mechanical wings back home.
Becca's tears hit the floor with a splash as Ben and Adrianne
tried to get some kind of reason as to why she was flooding her
house. Becca opened one eye, and it's icy-blueness glowed with a
hint of cruelty as she uttered one terrifying word that made Ben
start to sweat: "Dragoon."
********************************************
A/N: Well, what do you think? Just to show my lack of
creativity with names, Lord of the Rings fans should spell Mullog
backwards, and LoD fans, which there should be a lot of here,
should switch the vowels in Mippa. I know this chapter wasn't a
very long one, but it will get better at the prom and going to the
prom. I might just have to split up the prom into two separate
chapters! Now for a title.............
stared at his ceiling. He thought about a few things: regents, the
prom, but mostly about Becca. Her blonde hair, her brown eyes,
her beautiful form, and of her magnificent personality. What
he loved most about her was her happy-go-lucky personality. She
was like a breath of fresh air to him, the only thing that kept him
from being completely emotionally empty. He smiled and realized
he really did love her. Unfortunately for him, she was in love with
someone else. She wouldn't tell him who, but he assumed it was
Jimbo.
Man, Jimbo had ruined all his hard work and sacrifice to get
Becca. First, there was last year's prom. Jimbo and Becca snuck
into the prom from the bathroom window, and they ended up being
part of the prom court somehow. Then, it was the whole thing with
the Operation Pineapple, which was a plot of Jimbo's to get back at
Ben for making him do something which he won't even dare think
about. It involved himself, Becca, and a giant piece of pineapple.
Not a fun experience.
Suddenly, the phone rang. Ben grumbled because he had just
started to fall asleep. 'Who could be calling at 11 at night?' he
thought as he grudgingly got up and answered the phone. "Hello?"
he said tiredly. "Ben? It's me, Becca." He heard her sweet voice
through the receiver on the phone. His sleepiness instantly
dissolved. "Why did you call so late at night?"
"Jimbo called and asked if you still wanted to go to the prom
with us in our carpool. He said that you might, but I was supposed
to ask you first. Well?" she said expectantly as Ben breathed a sigh
of annoyance on the other end. "No, I'll find a different way to get
there. Tell Jimbo I'm out," he said as he hung up the phone with a
disgusted look on his face. He went back up to his room and went
online, hoping that there was someone he could vent to. There
wasn't. So he went on one of the forums he happened to be a
member of and complained to the people who were online then.
They all told him to shut up.
There was one person, however, that told him to get in a
private chat-room with him. Ben agreed and accepted the invitation
that appeared on his screen from evildude434. Evildude434 told
him that the way to win her heart was to impress her with some
kind of power she didn't know he had, like strength or brains. Ben
replied by saying that she already knows everything about him.
Evildude434 put up a devil face and typed "Not everything." And
with that, the mysterious character logged off. Ben frowned
because he thought he knew what evildude434 was talking about.
********************************************
"Perfect. He fell right into my trap." The cloaked figure
signed off-line and smiled evilly. "The boy will soon bend to my
will. Mippa! Mullog!" Two imp-like creatures hopped into his
throne room. "Yesh Mashter?" The concealed figure turned toward
them. "I want you to get this young boy to show his powers at the
prom tonight. And you may use this." He handed them each a card
with an image printed on it. One was a muscular figure with a
completely blank face. The other was a beautiful woman . "I will
make Adrianne mine, and she will feel my pain!"
********************************************
Becca dreamed that she was walking on an ocean full of
flowers. It was daytime in her dream. She was barefoot wearing her
periwinkle prom dress. She looked up at the sky, and realized that
she was now underwater. She swam to the best of her ability, but
something was holding her in place. She blacked out.
The next thing she knew, she was standing on a big boat.
Amber, Ben, Jimbo, and Adrianne were there too. The seas
were rough, and Adrianne almost got tossed overboard. Becca held
onto the railing, but it disappeared. She almost fell over the side of
the ship, but a shining figure in red armor caught her and carried
her safely to the boat's destination. How she knew the destination
of the vessel, she had no idea. Her savior looked at her, and she
almost saw his face when...
********************************************
Riiiiiiiiiiiing! Becca's alarm clock went off. "I forgot to turn
it off," she mumbled as she went to put the thing out of it's misery.
She hit it on the surface fairly hard. She muttered something about
suing the company that made it as she tried to go to sleep again.
She did fall asleep, but she had her standard Jimbo-will-you-
marry-me dream. No more of the boat and the figure in red armor.
She hoped that it would turn out to be Jim, but somehow she knew
it wouldn't.
********************************************
Jake woke up again at about noon. He thought back to this
morning when he had had Adrianne in his arms for a brief moment.
She was still on the couch, asleep. She really was pretty. Maybe he
could ask her to dance with him at the prom.
Then a thought crossed his mind: What about that strange
rock he found two days ago? He felt it in his pocket of the pants
from yesterday that he had forgotten to take off. He quickly got
dressed in new clothes. He had tan khakis, a navy shirt, and his
nice warm wool socks. He put the precious jewel on a string and
put the string around his neck. He thought about his dream, and it
still scared him that he might die saving someone he hadn't seen
the face of. As he walked out of his room, he saw Adrianne waiting
for him in the kitchen.
"I'm going to need a prom dress," she said, hoping he would
take her hint. "I'm going to need to a suit," Jake replied. "Would
you like to pick out a dress while I pick out my suit?" Adrianne
laughed. "What's there to pick out? Guys always have the most
boring clothes. Don't you agree?" Jake nodded. "Girls usually
have better clothes than us guys, and it's not fair. You all get to
wear bright colors, and dresses, and what not. But guys get to wear
just one type of clothing all the time."
"You need to get a life." Adrianne said to him. They both
broke into peals of laughter as she said that. "You know what I just
realized? I don't have any extra clothes. You wouldn't happen to
have anything for me to wear, would you?" Jake raised his hand.
"Wait here." He went into his bedroom and rummaged around in
his dresser until he came out with some rather feminine clothes.
"I have no idea why these are in here, but you can keep them
afterwards. A keepsake of our time together." Adrianne smiled and
went into the bathroom to put them on. "How do these things fit
you? They're so big," she said from within her makeshift changing
area. "Fit into what?" Jake asked her. "The shirt," she replied.
"They seem to fit an elephant." Jake frowned. "I don't have any
pair of pants bigger than a size medium." Adrianne laughed.
"What's so funny Adrianne?" She came out of the bathroom
wearing the clothes. "I was trying to wear one of your towels."
They both laughed.
********************************************
Becca was depressed again. She still couldn't remember what
the face of the man in red armor was, at least she assumed it was a
man. 'Well, Bec, you know what they say about assuming,' she
thought to herself. ' When you assume, you make an ass out of you
and me.' She was thinking of calling up Jimbo and talking to him
about it, but she decided to go see a counselor instead. Counselor
Diana. She had a last name, but Becca could never remember it for
the life of her.
Councilor Diana was a rock that she could hold onto. Becca
remembered when she had first called up Diana Hotlines on the
phone and talked for hours about Jimbo and Ben and her wacky
love life. Diana just listened, as if she had nothing more important
she could be doing. Becca liked that feeling. She also got that
feeling very vaguely when she was talking to Ben. It was as if
he......... no. It couldn't be. Ben was just her friend, nothing more.
She decided to call up her councilor.
"Hello? Councilor Diana? I've got another Jimbo problem."
The councilor on the other end laughed. "I figured as much. It's
always a Jimbo problem." Becca frowned. "Actually, this time it's
more of a Ben problem too. I think Ben is jealous of Jim for some
reason. Every time I bring up the subject, he just kinda zones out,
ya know? It's as if........" she trailed away. "As if what?" Diana
asked. "Never mind," Becca said as she nervously got dressed.
"It's nothing. 'Bye!" She hung up
********************************************
"It's the perfect bait," said the cloaked figure. "It's too easy.
The Red Dragoon is madly in love with her, and he would do
anything to prove it. All we have to do is bait her! Mullog!" The
imp-like creature Mullog crawled over to him. "Yesh Mashter?" it
crooned. "You have the Faceless Card, right?" The creature
nodded. "Yesh Mashter," it said. "Use it on the girl named Becca.
The Dragoon will fall to her charm and he'll think she finally
wants him," the hooded figure said. "It's just too easy!" He cackled
again.
"Eevano." A woman's voice echoed through the halls of his
palace. "His Majesty wants that girl quickly, so I suggest you kill
her before you get too emotionally attached. This councilor scam
isn't going to work forever. Becca is smart. She'll find you out, and
then she'll get her Dragoon friend to kill you." Eevano laughed. He
put a voice changer up to his mouth.
"She won't figure it out," he said, sounding like Councilor
Diana. "I killed the real councilor a long time ago. If she comes to
visit her, she'll get a real surprise, and then we'll have her." He put
the voice changer back down.
"Why do we need her anyway? Adrianne is the one with the
special powers," he asked. "The master requested her personally,"
the woman replied. "He wants her to absorb the special powers
concealed in her. So we capture both of them."
********************************************
"So you've driven how many times before?" Adrianne asked
as she got into his dad's brand new, $10,000 Tiburon. "I told you,
lots of times," Jake lied. "You're a poor liar." "I know," Jake
replied as he buckled up. He pulled out of the driveway, and
promptly hit a mailbox. His mailbox.
"Now, this dress shop is just down the street, right? I mean,
you're not driving me all over town in this thing, are you?"
Adrianne said timidly. Jake lined the car up with the road.
"Adrianne, will you relax, nothing is gonna happen."
They pulled out of Jake's driveway, and again hit something.
It was someone's blue bin. "Recycling can be so annoying," Jake
quipped as he backed the car away from the deformed recycling
bin. Neither of them noticed a black car right behind them. At the
wheel was a strange, imp-like creature who worked for Eevano. He
was the tallest one, tall as a human, so he could drive a car. The
imp put the car into the drive position and went after Jake and
Adrianne. Jake and the mysterious black car pulled out of Jake's
street, and the black car followed him to the dress shop.
Adrianne went inside. "I'm going to go pick a dress out. Will
you wait for me here?" Jake nodded. Adrianne was right in front of
the store when the imp-like creature grabbed her and shoved her in
the trunk of his black convertible. "Help!" she yelled as he was
taking her away, but no one seemed to hear. It was as if they were
all in a trance. "Jake!" Jake jumped over to the imp-like creature
and demanded he give Adrianne back. The creature just glared at
him and threw some whitish powder at his face, shoved Adrianne
in the trunk, and drove off. Jake fell on the ground with a sickening
thump.
"I......... can't......... lose her," Jake said as he tried in vain
to rise. A man in a black cloak ran over to his side and poured a
silver-colored liquid in a perfect circle around Jake's body.
"You're going to be okay," the man said as Jake was
mysteriously able to stand again. "Who are you, and how do you
know about-" "No time," the man said as he swung into the
Tiburon. "Jump on the hood. Only you can save her now."
********************************************
Becca put the phone down on the receiver. 'How could I be
so stupid?' she thought. 'Man, she just doesn't care. No one does.'
Her brown eyes wet with tears, she picked up the phone again and
dialed the number of the only person she wanted to talk to right
now. Ben. It was strange, feeling one way about Jim and a totally
different way about Ben. They were just so similar. Like brothers
almost. 'Maybe it's not Jim I like,' she thought.
A crash came from her kitchen. Her thoughts interrupted, she
walked into the room, and found no one there. 'That's odd,' she
thought. Then a tiny imp-like creature jumped on her back and
pulled her to the floor. Ben was on the line.
"Becca? Becca, hello?" He heard her screams over the phone.
"Hold on Becca, I'll be right over."
********************************************
Jake followed the instructions of the mysterious man and
jumped on the hood of his car. "Not yet," the man yelled up at him.
"I have to save Adrianne, you told me so yourself," Jake replied.
"No, first you need to unleash your hidden power." Jake's hands
went to his neck and felt the green sphere. He focused on the desire
that powered his life: the desire to save the earth. 'Wait, that's not
it,' Jake thought as he felt the change take him over. The stone was
already working it's magic. It was the desire of the spirit that lived
in the stone that the world be saved.
Finally, the change was complete. Jake could feel his body
become a living weapon. Fortunately for him, he had parked the
car in a remote parking area and no one saw his transformation.
Precious time had been lost during this time, so Jake felt it crucial
to use all the time he had left wisely. The strange man started the
car, or so Jake guessed because he felt a sudden jolt as the car
started moving.
They chased after Adrianne and the imp-like
creature for a full five minutes at top speed before catching up to
them. Jake pulled out his giant cannon and fired a concentrated
beam of energy at the lock on the trunk. The lock melted off, and
the trunk flew open as Adrianne pushed with all her might. Jake
leapt over the gap connecting the two cars and rapped his arms
around Adrianne. "You're going to be alright now," he said with
what he hoped to be a comforting tone. She looked up at him and
smiled. The trunk came crashing back down on them, but, thanks
to Jake's enormous wings, it didn't shut. This is probably a good
thing, even though they could have just pushed upward to open it
again since the lock was broken.
With a giant leap, Jake flew into the air with Adrianne in his
arms. He looked into her green eyes, and said "You okay?" She
nodded. He held her closer as her flew up higher. "Where would
you like to be dropped off?" "At a friend's house, right there," she
responded and pointed at Becca's house. "I'm not a taxi service,"
Jake said, and Adrianne laughed. "Sorry." Jake shook his head.
"No really, I don't mind. It's on my way."
He dropped Adrianne off when he noticed Ben's car in the
driveway. 'Hmm, that's odd,' he thought to himself. They went
inside to find Becca on the floor crying, and Ben doing his best to
comfort her. "I'm gonna stay here and do what I can to calm them
down," Adrianne said as she ran over to Becca. "Oh, and by the
way," she said as Jake left. "Thank you, for saving my life." Jake
smiled again. "Don't mention it." He ran out the front door and
flew on his giant mechanical wings back home.
Becca's tears hit the floor with a splash as Ben and Adrianne
tried to get some kind of reason as to why she was flooding her
house. Becca opened one eye, and it's icy-blueness glowed with a
hint of cruelty as she uttered one terrifying word that made Ben
start to sweat: "Dragoon."
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A/N: Well, what do you think? Just to show my lack of
creativity with names, Lord of the Rings fans should spell Mullog
backwards, and LoD fans, which there should be a lot of here,
should switch the vowels in Mippa. I know this chapter wasn't a
very long one, but it will get better at the prom and going to the
prom. I might just have to split up the prom into two separate
chapters! Now for a title.............
