An Unlikely Team by Emachinescat
An American Dragon: Jake Long and Kim Possible Crossover Fan-Fiction
SUMMARY: Monkey Fist and Huntsman have teamed up in order to defeat their respective foes. With Monkey Ninjas, goblins, dragons, nacos, spy gear, magic potion, secrets, regrets, and tears, no one is going to escape from this situation without changing somehow.
Disclaimer: I don't own American Dragon or Kim Possible. This is just for fun, and no copyright infringement is intended.
An Unlikely Team
Chapter Thirteen: Rose's Choice
Jake was already half human. During the first fifteen minutes after he had been given the potion, his feet and legs had turned back into human form. But Jake didn't feel like he usually did when he went back to human form; he felt strangely weak. He knew that it was because of the potion, and if help didn't come soon, he would die.
He took a shallow breath. He watched sadly as his arms turned from dragon to human. He could still not get his arms out of the shackles, however, because as his arms shrank back to normal size, the shackles shrank with them. He was too weak to even try to escape, though.
It had been twenty-five minutes. The only part of Jake that was yet to turn into human form was his head. And that was about to change. Huntsman, Monkey Fist, Huntsgirl, and the Monkey Ninjas watched in anticipation as Jake's head slowly morphed into human form.
"No!" gasped Huntsgirl, staring at Jake.
Jake's vision was getting blurry; he could not think properly. He fell to the floor of the cage, barely conscious. His breaths were shallow and uneven, and he felt himself getting weaker by the minute. And, try as he might, he could not fully comprehend what the voices around him were saying, so he stopped trying and lay quiet and still, once again only aware of the persistent ticking sound from the clock in the corner.
But there was conversation going on around him. As soon as Huntsgirl saw who the dragon was, she turned to Huntsmaster with a pleading expression in her tear filled eyes. "Master, can't we give him the antidote? I - I don't think I can handle seeing him… d-d-" She could not bear to finish her sentence.
The two older villains looked at her disapprovingly. "I suspect you know this young fellow, do you not?" Huntsmaster asked, showing no pity in his relentless red eyes.
"Y-yes, sir," Huntsgirl said, looking longingly at Jake, who lay on the bottom of the cage. She continued, her voice stronger than ever. Huntsgirl couldn't just sit back and watch Jake Long die. She cared for him, and she would stop this.
"Give me the antidote," she said.
"NO!" roared Huntsman angrily.
"Then you leave me no choice," the girl said. She looked directly into Huntsman's red eyes and said, "I quit the Huntsclan."
Anger showed in the villains' eyes, but before they could do anything, they heard a voice from the door.
"Did I just hear that right? A bad guy going good? Wow, I really need to have my hearing checked." It was Kim, accompanied by Lao Shi, Ron, Rufus, and Fu. All eyes were on Huntsgirl. She sank to the floor, sobbing. Then she fainted.
"What's wrong with her?" asked Ron, frowning.
"I dunno," said Kim. "I think she's just got a lot of pressure on her right now." Then she turned to Monkey Fist. "Where's Jake?"
"Why don't you see for yourself?" the monkey-man said, pointing to the cage where Jake lay.
"Oh, no!" gasped Kim. "Are we too late?"
Just then the Kimmunicator rang. "Kim!" said Wade. "Jake's signal is fading fast! If you don't give him the potion within the next thirty seconds, it'll be too late!"
"I'm on it!" said Kim. She started toward the cage, potion in hand, but Monkey Fist, Huntsman, and the Monkey Ninjas barred her way. Kim desperately fought them. She had to reach Jake in time.
Lao Shi was furious. He was not going to just sit here while his grandson was weakening by the second. He turned into a dragon, and then, roaring ferociously, picked up Monkey Fist and Huntsman in his gigantic claws and threw them across the room. They hit the wall, then stumbled up, rubbing their sore heads, but were too stunned to stop Kim from using this distraction to hurtle across the Monkey Ninjas and land by Jake's side. She pulled the lid off the bottle, and poured it on Jake's unmoving face.
"NO!" screamed Monkey Fist and Huntsman in unison. Then Huntsman smiled evilly. "I guess I'll just have to finish him off myself," he said, moving toward Jake, who had not yet moved, still unconscious. He pointed his Huntstick at the helpless boy, but stopped short when he saw Lao Shi advancing toward him. Remembering what had happened in his last encounter with the dragon, he retreated toward Monkey Fist. Before anyone could stop him, he used his Huntstick to make Monkey Fist and himself disappear into thin air, leaving the unconscious Huntsgirl behind. He did not leave, however, without the usual vow of, "We will meet again, Dragon."
Kim then busied herself with trying to unchain Jake, whose condition still hadn't improved. She rattled the bars of the cage, but they wouldn't budge. "Hey, Lao Shi!" she yelled across the room. "C'mere!"
The dragon morphed back into his human form and walked across the room, an extremely worried expression on his face. "How is he?" he asked.
"I don't know," answered Kim truthfully. "I just can't believe we let this happen to him. I'm scared that we might have been too late. He hasn't improved any, but he hasn't really gotten any worse either."
"That is a good sign. This potion may take a while to kick in. As long as he doesn't get any worse, he should be okay." But although his words were comforting, his tone suggested that he was still extremely worried about Jake.
There was an awkward silence, which Kim broke. "Uh, the real reason I called you over here is because I can't get this cage door open. We need to get him out of there."
"Ah, this metal is reinforced with special magic. Only a key will open it." He looked distressed once again. "We do not have one. I suppose that we will have to-"
He did not get to finish his sentence, however, because at that moment Huntsgirl woke up. Slowly sitting up and rubbing her head, she declared, "I have the spare keys."
Kim, Ron, Rufus, and Fu looked at her untrustingly. "Look, I'm sorry," the girl began. "I - I just didn't know that Jake-" she paused, staring sadly at Jake's unconscious form, "-Jake was the American Dragon. The truth is, I never really, you know, wanted to slay magical creatures in the first place. I mean, I learned to like it a little because I thought-" she choked on her sobs, but then continued, "-I thought that it was my destiny. But I really like Jake, and when I saw that it was him, I - I realized that this couldn't be my destiny - I care too much about J-Jake for it t-to b-be." She then burst into sobs of pure anguish. "Now he might d-die and it's all m-my f-f-fault!"
Kim, who could tell that she was sincere, put a comforting hand on the girl's shoulder. "Okay, why don't you unlock the cage? I'm sorry that you feel that this is your fault-"
"Although it mostly is," cut in Ron, but shut up at the annoyed look Kim shot at him.
"Listen," said Kim, "you made the right decision tonight. You really must not have been a real villain for you to turn on the dark side so easily. I think that you really must have been forced into this -because I have met some villains who even turned against their own family."
Huntsgirl, who still had her mask on, nodded. Lao Shi did not want to trust this girl, but felt that he had to, for he could see how sincere she was. "Well, we must not stand around here any longer. We need to get Jake out of here and into a safe place," he said. Then he turned to Huntsgirl. "Why don't you take off your mask first, though? I would like to know who you really are."
Huntsgirl took a deep breath, and pulled off her mask. "My name is Rose," the girl said. "I really like Jake, but I do not see how he can ever like me again after what I have done." Tears filled her sparkling eyes.
"I do not think you will have to worry about that. Jake can be a forgiving person, and he really cares for you. He talks about you constantly."
"Really?" Rose said, drying her eyes.
"Really really," said Lao Shi.
Rose took the keys and unlocked the cage door. Then she took another key and unlocked the shackles around Jake's wrists. Lao Shi, in dragon form, picked up Jake, and they left the graveyard and went back to the Long residence. Fu at first suggested taking him to the electronic shop, but Lao Shi said that the best thing for Jake now would be his own bed and for his mother to know what had happened. "Actually," he added, "that would be the best for all of us."
It did not take much pleading for them to allow Rose to come along as well, for she was as worried as the rest of them.
Lou Shi dropped Fu off at the shop because the dog had some things to attend to. When Lou Shi, with Jake, Kim, Ron, Rufus, and Rose arrived on the Longs' front porch, there was silence. Two questions bounced around in everyone's minds; one being "what will Mrs. Long do when she sees Jake?" The most pressing of all, however was, "Will Jake be okay?"
~Emachinescat ^..^