Dave was tied up and gagged. He was also unfortunately in his human form. He struggled against his bindings as the Dark Dragon dragged a claw lightly down Dave's face. "Such a pity that you turned to Laoshi for training. The old fool, passing on his ways are just going to lead to the downfall of multiple dragons," he said as he continued to run the claw down Dave's face.
"Yo, Dave! Are you in here?" Dave heard Jake yell out. Dave knew he couldn't warn Jake. 'The bindings or something is stopping me from using my dragon form,' Dave thought. Then he watched the Dark Dragon fly of but not in the direction of Dave's voice. 'It's a trap!' Dave yelled in his head.
He saw Jake fly into the room. Jake spotted Dave and landed in front of him. Jake took off the gag when a syringe with a slightly long needle penetrated Jake's arm. It came out a few seconds later. Jake fell to the ground in his human form. The Dark Dragon laughed and threw the syringe into the lava. "A special potion. It stops dragons from transforming and leaves them in their human form for either two weeks or until they get the antidote," Dark Dragon said with an evil laugh. Dave felt anger surging through his body. He struggled again.
The Dark Dragon noticed this. "You want to fight? Very well," the Dark Dragon said. The Dark Dragon cut him loose and then a sword was thrown in front of Dave. Dave got up and grabbed the sword. "This is my grandfather's sword! He gave this to me! How do you have it!" Dave asked the Dark Dragon angrily. "I went and found your old house. I destroyed it but I took this sword with me," the Dark Dragon told Dave.
Dave growled and wove his sword at the Dark Dragon. The Dark Dragon smiled. "Bring it," he said. Dave charged at him and the Dark Dragon knocked him back into the wall but he got lucky and hit the ground instead of the lava. Dave got up slowly but then Jake grabbed onto Dave's hands.
"Give me the sword. I will fight," Jake told him. Dave nodded and gave Jake the sword. The Dark Dragon just watched, waiting for the next move. Jake ran forward and fought him, trying to not get hit as Dave did.
Dave saw an item that was silver. He snuck around the battle between Jake and the Dark Dragon to see what it was. Jake clashed the sword against the Dark Dragon's claws, trying to bring him down. Dave reached the item and it was an open briefcase. Inside it were two syringes with liquid in them. He grabbed one and took a deep breath and injected it into himself. He felt his dragon powers come back. He had the antidote. He ran towards Jake. He slid the last yard and stuck the syringe's needle in the very bottom of Jake's leg and injected the liquid into him. Dave pulled it out and heard Jake say, "Ow! What was that for!"
"We got our powers back," Dave said, grabbing his sword back and transforming. The Dark Dragon shot fire at Dave. Dave avoided it and shot his own fire back at the Dark Dragon. Jake then transformed as well and fought along side Dave. Fire being shot in all directions, they fought like this for several minutes, no one even got hit. Then Dave and Jake quickly flew out. "I can get you another time. Don't think you are free yet my dragons," the dark Dragon said with a smirk.
The race continued. It ended with Dave going through the third ring first but with Jake right behind him. "Dave Halan! You passed the third test as well as every test!" Kulde said and Jake, Dave, Laoshi, Rose, and others cheered. "And Dave Halan. Laoshi is now your official master!" Andam said. Dave couldn't of been happier.
An hour later…
Dave, Jake, Rose, and Laoshi entered the elevator and went back to New York City. When they arrived, they went to Laoshi's shop and Dave put his sword away so that no one would be hurt accidentally by it. Dave pulled Jake aside and gave him about a thousand dollars. "What is this for?" Jake asked. "Tomorrow, spend a day with Rose. Do things together, have fun, that money is yours to spend on doing things with her tomorrow," Dave told Jake. "I can't take this much money," Jake said. "Yes. Take it. It was money I was going to use on running away from Yonkers. I feel like this is my home now so you use the money," Dave said. Jake gave Dave a quick hug. "Thank you!" Jake said. "No problem. Just have a good day tomorrow," Dave said. They then went to bed, but not before Jake and Rose gave each other a five minute kiss before they went to bed.