Her Fate

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone from ADJL; I only own those who I make up.

Rating: PG-13

AN: CelloSolo2007, my plot has not changed. It's the exact same plot I had from the beginning, trust me. I just needed a new antagonist. I have it all planned out so don't worry.

Dragon Meets Huntsgirl; Dream Girl

Things were quiet. They've been quiet ever since Rose disappeared. No Huntsclan to bother him. No evil wizards. No kidnapping goblins. No one needed his help.

It was leaving him restless.

He needed something to take his mind off the anger his was feeling. Trixie said that his anguish would soon turn into relief that Rose was no longer around to cause trouble. It hadn't. It had been a whole month and he still felt horrible.

It had been a week since the new girl,Marissa, had showed up. And it had been a week since the cops stopped searching for Rose.

They had searched all over New York. Even Jake, himself, flew around all of New York trying to find her.

He found nothing. Rose wasn't in New York and no one had any clue as to where she could be. He supposed that was why the police quit.

But why did her uncle? One would think that the Huntsmaster would never give up looking for her.

There had to be an explanation. A reason to why Rose left. A reason to why the Huntsmaster doesn't seem to care.

But Jake didn't know the explanation. He couldn't get it. And it made him angry and miserable.

He kicked a rock as he walked down the street and looked up at the moon. It was a full moon. Suddenly he saw Rose's beautiful face in it.

She closed his eyes and shook his head. Suddenly he heard a scream. He immediately turned into his dragon form and took off into the air.

He followed the scream into a deserted warehouse. He couldn't believe what he saw. An elfin woman crouched over a slaughtered unicorn. Silver blood was everywhere and the horn was ripped out.

But that wasn't the worse part. The elf woman was cowering from a young woman dressed up just like Huntsgirl. She was about to strike her down before he flew down in front of the poor elf.

The elf ran away instantly.

Jake took a look at her. This wasn't Rose. This Huntsgirl had a long black ponytail, in the Huntsgirl style, and she had black eyes. "Hey cutie, what's your name?" he asked flirtatiously.

She rolled her eyes, "I'm Huntsgirl."

He scratched his chin, "I don't think so, baby, I remember Huntsgirl bein' blonde and a lot cuter."

He noticed the anger flash in her eyes, "She couldn't handle things and I'm here to take her place!" she shouted as she lunged at him and he tripped her with his tail.

He apparently didn't expect her to recover so quickly because he was caught off guard when she swiftly kicked him in the stomach, hard, as she fell. Before she hit the floor the stopped herself with her hands and flipped onto her feet before instantly kicking him hard in the back.

Jake groaned in pain. She didn't waste any time. Before he could compose himself she zapped him with her staff.

The pain was intense, he was sure that she would kill him. She did nothing. She picked up the unicorn horn from the ground. As she left he heard her say, "I have a deadline. Next time I see you, you'll be dead."

She left the dragon. She would have killed him but her Huntsmaster had given her a specific deadline to have the horn to him and she would not let him believe her incompetent. She would show him she was better than the old Huntsgirl.

FLASH

Spud and Trixie were in Jake's grandfather's shop. Jake was supposed to be there an hour ago and Trixie was about to lose it when Jake limped through the door.

"Yo, man! What happened?" Spud asked at the same time Trixie yelled, "Jakey, you alright!"

Fu helped him to a chair. "Man, kid, what did you get into?"

"Are you faring well, young dragon?" his grandfather asked as he sat down. Jake shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand in dismissal, "Chill guys, I'm cool."

"What happened to you, Jake?" his grandfather asked. "Nothin' much, just ran into the new Huntsgirl."

Trixie's eyes widened, "Another one! Didn't we just lose the first?"

"Yeah, well, turns out the Huntsmaster's been takin' applications." Jake stated glumly.

"So you'll just whip her like you did Rose." Spud stated. Jake shook his head, "It's gonna take more than what I had with Rose." He told them what happened.

"As bad as Rose was, she never managed to kill anyone. She most she did was steal, fight with me and argue with me. This new Huntsgirl, on her first day, slaughtered a unicorn and took me down. She doesn't do the things Rose did. She doesn't banter like Rose and I did when we were fighting, she goes in for the kill. She has a real killer instinct, nothing like Rose. I think she would have killed me if she didn't have other plans. I'm gonna need to train more, I wasn't ready for her, she caught me off guard…"

"We'll strengthen your training, young one. You will need to stop allowing yourself to be distracted though. This Huntsgirl is a bigger threat than the old Huntsgirl." His grandpa informed him.

"Yeah, kid, you're gonna need to stop focusing so much on Rose." Fu stated.

Jake nodded, he knew that. He let himself get caught off guard. He'd have to stop thinking about her so much… He'd have to get over her; to forget her.

He went home with that in his mind. He went straight to bed when he walked through the door.

He closed his eyes in misery.

Dream

He sat up in a field, roses surrounded him. He picked one; strange, roses didn't grow like this. They grow in bushes...

Suddenly a black gloved hand came into view. Suddenly he wasn't in the field anymore. He was on top of a building in his dragon form. He took the hand and looked at the owner of the hand.

It was a woman in a tight black suit. She wore heeled boots and a black mask. The only thing he could see of her were her beautiful ocean blue eyes.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"You'll learn that soon enough, Dragon."

"Why'd you help me up?"

Her eyes seemed to smile at him, "Because… I am your protector."

Well, it took me two days to finish that with all the interruptions I had to go through. I hope you like it and we'll be back to Rose in the next chapter. Please review.