I do not own American Dragon:Jake Long, or any of its characters. I do, however, own the character Natalie Portman, and Disney doesn't, so they can stick that in their pipe and smoke it!
"You Raise Me Up:Part Three"
Jake stared down at the remnant remains of the potion that was supposed to free himself from the problem of being found out by not only his school, but ultimately, everyone else! There were no words to express his anger. But there were thoughts. Thoughts of strangling Fu Dog.
"Fu! What the hell, how could you drop it?", Jake screamed at the dog trying to bick up the broken remains of the vial.
"Look, kid, read my lips: First,that kid basically checked me. He hit me hard. And second", said Fu Dog, holding up his paws. "When you don't have thumbs, it can be kinda hard to keep a hold of something! Gimme a break!"
Jake growled at Fu, but he was right. So Jake backed off a little, and slumped into one of the lobby chairs. "Aww, man. What am I gonna do now?"
"Can't really help ya on that one, Jake", Fu said. "The movie's just about over. Go on in and try and enjoy it; maybe I'll think of something else."
Jake obeyed, but hesitantly walked back into the theater where the end of "Brainless, Computer-Snatching, Marathon-Running, Virus Giving, Brain Stealing Alien Invaders from Jupiter" was near. Jake slumped down into his seat next to Rose, except Rose wasn't there anymore. "Just great. Now my date's ditched me", he sighed. "How can this get any worse?"
Rose hadn't left him, though. She was in the bathroom, talking on a communicator to the Huntsmaster. "Huntsmaster, the movie is nearing its end. You may want to be ready to come in and get the dragon when his identity is revealed."
"That will be good. I shall be there momentarily. Come to me when you see me, and we will capture the dragon"
"Of course, Huntsmaster. I shall see you soon", and Rose walked back in the theater where Jake was now sitting alone. "Hey, Jake, didn't know you'd came back", she said to him.
Jake turned to her. "Hi, Rose", he said quietly. The end credits of the movie were now showing, and Natalie was making her way up to the front of the theater, with Brad by her side. He seemed quite interested in the revelation, as did everyone else
"Jake, I'll meet you up there", Rose told him. "I gotta go tell my uncle that the movie's over".
"Yeah, sure, okay", said Jake. "Might as well get outta here too, before the angry mob gets to me".
"Yo, dude, come on. We gotta get on up there. Move your butt", said Spud. Jake was blocking their row of that now consisted of just the three friends from getting out.
"Oh, sorry, man", Jake said. He stood in a back corner. If I can stay back here, close to the door, He thought to himself, Then maybe I can get outta here quickly.
Most of the locals had left. Apparently, they didn't want any part in some school kid's business. Natalie was up there, all smiling and everything, when she began to speak.
"All right, everyone, settle down. Now, as you well know by now, I was rescued from the fire at my apartment building by a real-life, actual dragon. He took me up into the sky and I was able to fly with him. As I flew with him, I noticed that there was something very familiar about him. He definitely acted and sounded like someone that I know from school. He kind of even looked like the person."
"After he set me down, I left, so I didn't see him change back. I wanted to kind of respect him. However, after I went back to my parents to tell them that I was all right, a boy that I know very well came up to me and asked me if I was okay."
Natalie's eyes got all dreamy, "I looked up at him, and saw the same face that I saw in the dragon's face. It was then that I knew who the dragon was."
"Wait a minute, looked UP at him? Came to her afterwards? Oh, god, no", Jake whispered to himself. "She was never talking about me. She doesn't..."
"Everyone, I'd like you to meet my rescuer, a person who has been a good friend to me all my life", as she stopped for a moment to build the suspense, and then blurted out, "Brad".
"What the...", Jake stuttered. "She thinks the dragon's Brad?"
"OH, BRAD!", came the chorus of just about every girl in that crowd. They ran up at Brad, reaching for him.
"W-wait!", Brad yelled out at everyone. "I'm not the-"
"Dragon!", shouted a voice from behind them. Everyone whirled around to see what looked like a man in a long cape, a dragon-head-like helmet, and some kind of weapon in his hands. Next to him stood a girl about their age, with blond hair and blue eyes, covered head to toe a ninja-like uniform. "The Huntsclan", Jake whispered. Then he yelled, "Everyone get outta here!"
"AAHH! It's the girl that was holding me hostage in the fire! Save me, Brad!", Natalie screamed.
The "Save us all, Brad" cry was commonly heard in the next couple seconds, as they pushed him up to the front. "Y'all better watch out now, 'cause Brad's about t' kick your ass!", said someone in the crowd.
"Wait, I'm not...", Brad panicked, as the Huntsmaster used his weapon to shoot out a net that engulfed Brad.
"Gahh! Someone help!", he screamed, as did everyone else, seeing their "savior" now caught in a net.
"Aw, man, they're gonna take Brad!", Jake said. "I gotta go save him- even if I don't like him." With that, Jake stood behind the Huntsclan where he couldn't be spotted (he made sure this time), and yelled "DRAGON UP!" as his body was engulfed in fire and changed to that of the American Dragon!
"Hey, Huntspunk! Look behind you!", he yelled at the two. "They whirled around, only to be thrashed by Jake. Jake used his tail to trip the two, and ran toward the net that held Brad.
"Wait, there's the dragon! We do not have the right one", the Huntsmaster turned to Huntsgirl, annoyed. "I shall deal with you later, but first we must capture the REAL dragon!"
"Hey, it's another dragon, and it looks like the one Natalie told us about! Brad's got a brother or something!", exclaimed someone from the crowd. They still weren't getting the point. Jake used his claws to slash open the net that had been holding Brad, and Brad took this opportunity to run very far away.
"Wait, Brad, come back and help your friend fight him!", Natalie yelled after him as she ran out of the theater.
"Ha! What now, Huntsman? Afraid that you can't touch this?" Jake taunted.
"Grr.. Get him!", the Huntsmaster screamed.
"It'll be my pleasure", said the Huntsgirl, and sped the now-dormant Jake. "Yah!" She cried as she flew in with a kick, but Jake matched it with a block. This continued for a while, each meeting the other's attacks with some kind of defensive move. There was going to be no clear winner, unless someone stepped in. Which was an opportunity the Huntsmaster gladly took.
"Hold him still, Huntsgirl. We shall finish this now." He raised his weapon as Huntsgirl held him tight. Jake didn't know what would come out of that thing but he didn't want to know. Unfortunately, Huntsgirl had a tight grip on him, so he couldn't move. "Aww, man", he said, bracing for impact.
But nothing happened. Jake looked up to see the remaining students standing in front of him, blocking the weapon's path. "Out of my way, children", Huntsmaster said. "This is none of your concern.
Trixie stepped out in front. "We may not know who the hell he is, but you're not gonna hurt him. "School pride", she said, "Even if he may not be from our school. You're still not getting to him."
"Yeah!", came the battle cry of the hundreds of kids that stood in front of him. And to double it, in came Jake's grandpa, in dragon form, and Fu Dog. "It seems that you are outnumbered, Huntsmaster", said the dragon that was Grandpa.
"Curse you, dragons!", Huntsmaster exclaimed. "Come, Huntsgirl! We shall be back!" And with that, the dragon hunters disappeared.
"Thanks Grandpa", said Jake as they walked back home. Rose had called him to tell him that she was home, so no worries on taking her home. They'd been able to get outta there A.S.A.P., to avoid any further confusion.
"Do not thank me", Grandpa said. "For it was you classmates who saved you this time. However, just because they like you as a dragon does not mean that you shall brag about it at school."
"Uh, Gramps", Jake said. "Natalie never knew it was me. They still don't know I'm a dragon. They thought it was someone else."
"Really?", Grandpa was surprised. "Well, that is good. You shall keep it this way, am I correct?"
"Totally", said Jake. "Don't worry about a thing"
"Yo, Jake, you missed it last night!", exclaimed Trixie. "Natalie said Brad was the dragon, but then the REAL dragon showed up, and was about to get blown to bits when we stepped in the way and saved him! Where were you?"
"Aw, I didn't really care. I still don't really believe she ever knew. Nor did I believe there really were dragons...until last night", Jake lied.
"Well, I heard that Natalie's gonna apologize t' everyone right now; let's go see what she has t' say!"
"Hey, everyone", started Natalie. "Look, I'm sorry I had to drag you all into this, especially to Brad." She turned to Brad. "Sorry I thought you were a dragon. It won't happen again." Then she turned back to everyone else.
"Sorry I kinda wasted your guys' money. That movie wasn't that good, and my facts weren't straight at all. If you need me to, I can repay you all; give back your money."
She was interrupted by Brad. "Don't worry about it, Natalie. We know you're going through some tough times anyway, what with the fire and everything. Aside from the whole getting-captured-and-mistakenly-revealed-as-a-dragon thing, I'm cool with it", he said.
"Man, maybe Brad isn't as bad as we think", Jake said to his two friends.
"Or maybe he just wants her so bad, he's willin' t' forgive and forget", Trixie said. She was probably right.
Just then, up came Rose. Jake hadn't seen her since she left before the end credits. "Rose!", Jake said. "Where'd you go? You missed it all!"
"Heh, uh, family emergency", Rose replied. "We just can't seem to get this whole date thing right, can we?"
"Aw, don't worry. I still had a great time", Jake smiled
"Oh, which reminds me", said Trixie. "Spud, you still owe me for the popcorn you made ME buy last night."
"Oh, yeah, right. Sorry", said Spud. This was one of the times you could definitely tell that if there was any type of relationship going on between the two, Trixie was definitely the alpha.
"Well, now that all that's settled", said Trixie, "It's time for another venture into the wonderful world of Professor Rotwood."
"Yeah, wonder what he'll lecture us about today, how he was fired from every other teaching job he's ever had, for numerous reasons?"
The four friends laughed as they went off to their first class. With Jake's secret still kept, and his bond with Rose just a little stronger, life was just about as normal as it could be in the life of the American Dragon.
END OF STORY
Ok, so that's it. I hope everyone's questions have been answered, and everyone enjoyed my first stab at writing! The direction that I ended up going with this story was the same direction I was going to go the whole time, in case if you think I might've changed it a few times. Well, please R&R, and maybe I'll have another type of fanfic up in the future. Thanks!
Kevin Rutherford, a.k.a YourFavoriteWriterEver, or Spudstix