Her Fate

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

Rating: PG-13

AN: Sorry it took so long for me to update. This week has been hectic.

This Is Where It Ends

"This is it." Boots were zipped up.

"Play time's over." Gloves slipped on.

"We finish this now." She finished as she pulled her mask over her head.

Ocean blue eyes sparkled with a scorching fury; a fire easily seen by all in the room.

She stared intently at each person in the group. "Not everyone is going to make it out of this alive. Now is the only time you can back out."

No one moved.

Rose nodded; pleased. But she didn't smile. She couldn't smile. Not now. She knew she wouldn't smile until Marissa and the Huntsmaster were dead.

Rita cracked her neck. "Then we'd better get a move on. Connor's right, the Huntsclan is strong. And you may die." She told them as she opened her bag.

"What makes you so sure you won't?" Gracie asked, obviously annoyed with Rita.

"Because, I'm intelligent." She informed her as she pulled out several gadgets. "The dog will handle the magic, I'll handle the technology."

"Yo, how're we s'pose to find these Huntsclan freaks?" Trixie asked.

"It won't be hard. They sent us an invitation. They're ready for us." Rose answered.

"I'll just do a quick location spell and bada bing bada boom." Fu replied.

Rose nodded; then turned to Jake. "What about Haley?"

"What about me?" Haley asked.

"Haley, you go home. This is too dangerous and you're too young." Jake told the younger dragon.

"How can you say that? You were younger than me when you first faced the Dark Dragon!" she shouted.

"She is right, Jake, she will come. She is one of the American Dragons and it is time she had a chance to accept that responsibility." Lao Shi spoke up.

"But…" he trailed off and looked at Rose.

"He's right. She's not too young; we were around her age when we were trying to kill each other." She told him.

Jake laughed slightly. "We were never really a danger to each other…"

She sighed, "I know…"

FLASH

"Where is Rita?" Huntsmaster asked.

Marissa shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. Why does it matter, she's not a part of the clan."

"Exactly… I don't trust that sister of yours."

FLASH

"Found 'em! They're in the abandoned warehouse downtown." Fu said.

"Dudes, that's not very original." Spud said.

"The clan rarely is." Rose told them.

"Although, it does carry a certain air of traditionalism." Rita commented.

"That won't help them." Rose told her, slowly shaking her head. "Let's go."

FLASH

"Are you certain the Protector will arrive?" Shing asked, not even bothering to hide his lack of confidence in his current cohorts.

The Huntsmaster nodded his head. "She'll be here."

"She'd better be." Su told Marissa.

"She will; I left her an invitation she can't turn down." Marissa replied confidently.

Kueng was sitting in an old chair with his legs up over the back part of another, asleep.

Su hit him over the head.

"I didn't do it!" he shouted half asleep still.

"Idiot, wake up!" she yelled at him.

"What for? This is boring; wake me when the blonde gets here." He mumbled.

Shing shook his head, walked over to his little brother and pulled the chair from under him; Kueng falling unceremoniously to the ground. "Jackass." He muttered under his breath, glaring at his big brother.

"Immature brat…" Shing replied in the same tone.

"Stop fighting. She's close…" Su spoke.

FLASH

"We're close." Rose said, sitting atop Gracie in the same golden bird form.

Rita was sitting behind her, while Jake held Fu; Lao Shi held Trixie and Haley held onto Spud.

Soon the warehouse came into view.

FLASH

"I see them!" Marissa shouted to the others.

Su, Kueng and Shing wasted no time in transforming into their dragon forms and flying into the air.

FLASH

Lao Shi, Haley and Jake swiftly let go of Trixie, Spud and Fu; Rose jumped off Gracie and hopped onto the Huntsclan staff she took from Marissa in their first fight. Gracie maneuvered and caught the falling three and took them to the ground, leaving the six dragons in the air.

"Rita!" Marissa yelled.

"And hello to you too, little sister." Rita replied as she got off Gracie.

"What are you doing with them!" she asked frantically.

Rita smirked, "I'd love to tell you but I think someone already wants to talk to you."

Marissa turned around only to be cold cocked right in the jaw by a very angry protector.

"Miss me?" Rose asked.

"With every bullet so far." Marissa retorted as she quickly grabbed her own, new, staff and zapped Rose with it before she could react.

The other Huntsclan members then took it upon themselves to attack Rita, Fu, Gracie, Spud and Trixie.

Gracie transformed into a large saber tooth tiger and growled loudly. Trixie and Spud stood ready to fight, pockets full of magic thanks to Fu.

FLASH

"Why would you want to protect her!" Su shouted as she clawed Haley's stomach.

"She insults our entire species!" Shing added as he blew fire at Lao Shi.

Kueng had nothing to say as he attacked Jake.

"Yo, you don't know what you're talkin' about!" Jake yelled as he hit Kueng hard in the stomach with his tail.

"The only ones insulting our species are you and your grandmother." Lao Shi stated calmly as he attacked Shing with his own fire breath.

"What kind of dragon joins the Huntsclan anyway?" Haley asked before she bit into Su's shoulder.

Su bit into Haley's neck and Haley kicked away from the dragon.

Kueng blew fire at Jake; Jake dodged the fire and flew higher into the air, then put all of his force into flying as fast as he could impaling Kueng with his entire body, and hitting him hard in the head, momentarily knocking him out. But knocked out long enough to fall out of the sky and fall right onto a pipe sticking out of the warehouse wall, the pipe going right through his chest, blood oozing out of the wound as he blinked in sudden realization before the world went black.

Maybe he should've paid more attention in his training...

FLASH

Gracie growled as she ripped into one of the Huntsmen with her teeth.

"Yo! There's too many of these guys!" Trixie shouted as she dropkicked a Huntsman.

"They just keep coming!" Spud agreed as he struggled with two Huntsmen of his own.

Rita laughed as she threw an object into the crowd. "Not for long!" she shouted.

Trixie kicked the Huntsman in his groin and ran to Rita. "Tell me you did not just throw a grenade up in this mug!"

Spud slammed the Huntsmen's heads together. Gracie continued tearing the Huntsmen apart.

"It wasn't a grenade." Rita said calmly.

Trixie sighed in relief.

"It was a bomb of my own design."

"What!"

FLASH

Rose jumped up and did a roundhouse kick to Marissa's jaw. Marissa staggered back and then threw herself into a kick to Rose's stomach.

Rose jumped out of the way and flipped behind Marissa then back flipped again quickly to kick Marissa in the back of her skull before she could react; knocking her into unconsciousness.

Rose tore off Marissa's Huntsgirl mask and stared loathingly at her face. She scowled as she lifted her staff and brought it down straight through her throat.

Suddenly she heard a loud explosion and fire quickly began spewing up the walls and through the roof.

FLASH

"Tell me, what the hell made you think you could go and blow the joint up!" Trixie yelled as she, Rita, Spud, Gracie and Fu, whom Gracie was carrying in her teeth because he was knocked out by a falling piece of lumber.

"Well, it killed most of the clan." She defended, shrugging her shoulders.

"It almost killed us!"

"Dudettes, let's forget the fighting and keep running before we get barbequed!" Spud offered.

Trixie and Rita looked at each other and back at Spud. "Right!" they shouted in unison.

Once they made it outside, Gracie placed Fu on the ground, transformed into her normal self and sprouted wings from her back. "Gimme that net thing you have, Rita!"

Rita nodded and gave her the net out of her backpack. Normally she didn't carry around things she didn't invent but with the current situation she had to bring the net of the Sphinx hair.

FLASH

"You killed my brother!" Su shouted at Jake, charging at him with Shing at her side.

Both so focused on catching Jake, they didn't notice the changeling until she threw the net over them.

They struggled in the net as Gracie handed them to Haley and Lao Shi. They all flew to the ground where Jake yelled, "What happened!"

"Ask the demolition queen." Trixie told him.

"It was just a little bomb." Rita spoke in her defense, so innocently Jake could've laughed.

But instead he was a little more worried about something else, "Where's Rose?"

FLASH

Rose coughed slightly as she waved the smoke out of her face, thankful her mask protected her lungs from most of the smoke. She walked through a door into a room the fire didn't get to yet. She slammed the door shut.

"It's so nice to see you again, Huntsgirl." Huntsmaster said sinisterly as he climbed down the ladder from the balcony of the warehouse room.

"I'm not the Huntsgirl anymore, Uncle." She told him.

"No, Rose, you're not are you? I watched your little fight with Marissa… I must say, you're far more dangerous now."

"No, I just don't have a problem with fighting for what's right."

"Or for revenge, isn't that a better word for it?"

Rose scowled at him, "That too."

"Hm. So tell me, Rose, is this where you're going to perform you're little hero speech? Tell me it's not too late to turn my back on this evil? That I can still join you and your little conquest to return the Protectors?" he asked, mockingly.

She shook her head, "No, Uncle, it's way too late for you… and I'm not going to waste my time trying to save you from your own evil."

"So you're going to kill me."

"That's the plan."

"Then your plan is flawed."

"We'll just have to wait and see then."

The Huntsmaster nodded and spun his staff. No more words were needed.

I'm ending this right here. Only one more chapter left and it should be up tomorrow. I wanted to finish this before 2006 but that's just not going to happen. It should be posted tomorrow. Please review.