A/N:This is the offical last ch. of Beyond A Different Horizon.I've decided to take a massively,climax turn that I have been leading up to with The Last Phoenix,Dragon Steel and now Beyond A Different Horizon.So I hope you're ready,this is going to be a long one.BTW,thnx for all the reviews and keep a lookout from the sequel coming whenever I get around to it.
Continueing...
Jake felt as if a bucket of extreme algid water had been thrown onto him,the realisation he was taking in was more then he could stand to believe.But if he heard was correct,it was taking him a few minutes to recover from the horrific idea that he was related in any shape or form to the Dark Dragon and although the rest of what his Grandfather had told him made for an excellent story,the aftermath of it all still weighed on Jake heavily and refused just to attenuate enough to allow him the floor to speak clearly,
"The...The Dark Dragon is-is my..."he was stuttering deliriously,his mind and pulse running wild,causing him to shot up onto his feet as his all but startled reaction caused his chair to fall back onto the tiled floor with a clack,"You've got to be kidding me!"his eyes were wild with fury,he just couldn't quite grasp the idea he couldbe kin to some one so horrible but when he tried to challenge his Grandfather,he found the only thing he could do was glare with agony at the truth and pant heavily,"I...I guess it has to be."
"I'm sorry young one but I have more to tell,"Laoshi reminded Jake paitently,motioning to have a seat so he could further explain,"I never knew if what he spoke of was the truth,but I did know the spell that Rhea casted onto us had this sort of side affect,"he continued on in a calm and even voice,once his Grandson had turned the chair back onto it's legs and was seated again listening to him intently,"See,I...I could sometimes munipulate time not long after I had returned home.A day or so to be exact.I couldn't acutually control it but I could go back and forth when I concentrated long and hard on it enough.So I praticed and only used it when I had to.The reason it happened is still unknown,just as the reason it worked on me in the first place was.Rhea attempted to find out and so did others but nothing added up.My powers have thinned over the years and I kept them a secret.Even from you're Mother and Fu Dog,everyone nearly.But I was also equipped with a foreseeing power so I could occasionally see glimpes of the future,"his voice grew tight and even a bit shaky as he uttered the final words to his confessions,"Four years ago,I saw that the Dark Dragon was somehow keeping some of his energy stored in the space time continuum.Building and waiting for a chance to remerge back into the world.This year and day in 2015 will be his time to return.Although he's not at full power,he wants to take us both on.So...he's returning to the time 2005.The year he was defeated and you and the former Huntsgirl,um,Rose left.He will succeed in domineering the world,though he will force humans to flee into hiding and even Magical creatures will be torn between the movement.The earth will be horrid and desolate.The Dark Dragon had somehow found the Dragonite without his Grandson's assistance,you...you have the ability of time travel as well Jake.I didn't see how,but I know in some way you are destined to go back.You can combine you're adult soul with you're thirteen-old-year old body to take him on.Because you only inherited half of these powers,you can...you cannot be an adult and a teenager at once in the same time period.What you could do could alter the time period but you will arrive in the midst of the Dark Dragon gaining full power to seize the human race into oblivion completely.As for me,I will not...not be able to accompany you..."
"Grandpa?"Jake,having heard every word but not yet comprehending it all at once,leaned forward and questioned the now pale-looking old man anxiously as he had had to pause to close his eyes and catch his breath,"It's..."a look of sheer poignancy crossed his face,as he reached over and placed a his had lightly on his Grandfather's arm,"It's happening,isn't it?You knew it all along and you knew that you were going to have to tell me before yo-the end neared.And now...what's it from?"
"I'm not sure what but I've known for quite sometime there is nothing anyone can do for me,"Laoshi told him unambiguously,although the knowing that his demise was near still choked him up,he had accepted it long ago,"However,that does not mean you cannot do something for every one else,"his mood lightened a bit,as he went on in the comforting firm manner he was use to up at Jake,"I know you have made some mistakes,Jake and I know you have done great things as well.Even though this may alter time itself,what I am asking of you as you're Dragon Master and you're Grandfather,is to go back in time and stop the Dark Dragon before he finishes off his complete destruction of the Earth and most of it's inhabitence.I know you love you're wife and you're daugther,I know it has been many years since you've been the American Dragon and I know it will be an extremely differcult and painful decision.But you're the only other one who has this ability.The world has a better way of going back to normal if you can stop him,although I don't know where I am or everyone else is in the past it's only safe to say you need to hurry before..."he breath started to catch erratically and he had to take a few deep gulps of air to carry on firmly one last time,"Please,say you'll do this.Even if it changes you're future in the some,you are the only one who can stop it from happening.It's too late for me,much too...too late."
Just as Jake was about to whirl around to get help,he felt a gentle touch on his shoulder and bringing his gaze back just enough he saw an elderly woman that came up to about his shoulders.She was incredibley thin and even aged she looked beautiful,with her jet black hair streaked silver in places and her silverish eyes filled with warmth and compassion.And instantly,Jake knew without a shadow of a doubt,who she was.
"Jake..."His Grandfather told him hoarsely now,it now obvious he was weakening rapidly as he struggled to rise up in bed,as the woman came around and they slipped an arm around each other to pull one another close side-by-side,"This is a very special person,the only other person who knows,"he glanced over at her lovingly and then back at Jake to finish on with a weary smile,"This is Rhea,Jake.You're Grandmother."
The part Asian young man just stared at them,while nodding his head subsumely,"So you need me to go and try to prevent the Dark Dragon from claiming all of the world for Magical creatures,"he allowed everything to absorb at once,as his fears of possibley altering his past might affect the future to the extent that it could exclude his younger brother or even...his daugther,he squared his eyes and told his Grandfather in a wavering voice,"I...I don't know Gramps.I love Casandra,I love Skyler and I do care about the fate of humainty as well as Magical creatures.But asking me to possibly erase people or events from time?I mean...I don't know if I could live without them."
"The others will be entering in just a moment,"Laoshi said promptly,his burnt umber eyes flashing yellow for a few seconds,"Jacob,I know what I'm asking of you is differcult but it's only a matter of time before he wipes everyone away and the future were leaving in now will fall apart.With that one past fabric of time gone,there will be no future,no humans,no hope."he held his Grandson's gaze for just a moment or two longer and told him solemnly,"Do it to protect the ones you care about,you're the one and only one who can stop the Dark Dra...please.You have to do this for the world."
Sensing that people were nearing and that his Grandfather was far too decrepit to put up an arguement of any kind,as he had to seattle back down into bed and seemed to be growing more weak by the second.Jake's eyes unhardened their strong determination not to do anything that might break exsistance,as he sympthaized with him.What choice did Jake have?If his Grandfather told him about these hidden physic powers,about the Dark Dragon and about him being the only one...how could he not believe?Although sometimes he wished he could change his past choices,he knew therewas nothing he could do and if he could help it,he wasn't going to try and change too much of what could or might happen.He turned to his Grandmother,
"Why did I never meet you before?And,why are you hear now?"
Rhea stood up and before Jake with an honest smile crossing her wrinkled light brown features,"I had other things to tend to but I came because I recieved the call from my Daugther.Although we never saw much of each other,I know I couldn't hold back when I knew this would happen sometime around the year."the aged woman reached out gingerly and placing her pruned hands on Jake's shoulders,held him back to take him in and measure him at arm's length,as she noted observantly,"You're a lot scrawnier then Sharron described,tall and handsome.With you're Grandfather's eyes and my smile.Not to worry,Jake.I will explain what I can to them and let nature take it's course.But I need to to slip away as quick as you can,take this very small piece of Dragonite and go somewhere and it will take you back in time."
Jake watched as she slipped her hand into her pocket and handed him a rather tiny piece of the familiar crimson substance,"I'm not going to ask how you scored this,"he told her reluctantly,taking the piece in his hand as he continued on,"But I know what I have to do.I..."his line of speech was cut short by the very near approaching footsteps,as hecame up beside his Grandfather's bed and kneeled down with deep earnesty,"I know what you're asking of me is the hardest thing I'll ever have to do.But...I'm not going to let you down again.After all that's happened and all you've told me,I'm not going to let the Dark Dragon win.Grandpa I'm...I'm very sorry for disappointing you all those years ago.I love Rose but I should have never gone AWOL on y'll when needed.Whatever I didn't do before,I'm going to make up for it."
Without a word,Laoshi used the last of his strength to rise up and bring Jake down to him for a quick but tight embrace,before allowing him to fall back with surprise,"Is that what you truely think?That you somehow failed me?"he inquired Jake with befuddled curiousty,but sank back down into bed and told Jake efficaciously,"Do not ever think in such a manner Jake.You have never once been a disappointment to I or anyone else.Although you were always a bit full of yourself...you're still the kind of person we all hoped you would become.Honest,hard-working and wise...I know you won't let me down this time around Jake,but-"he cut off abruptly,when the door knob slowly began to rotate clockwise,then went on hastily,"Now go,Jake!You must hurry and get back to the past...don't stop.Just keep on going no ma..."
As his Grandfather had to trail off in order to catch his breath,Jake turned to face the now slowly opening door,bracing himself to do what he knew he had to do in order to get past his whole family.He held his breath,as he opened completely and he expectedly strickened faces but with a mission at hand and fire in his heart,he swallowed his pride and simply slipped past them all when he spotted an opening.But most everyone was too caught up in going over to discuss what was wrong with Laoshi,few noticed.However,as Jake shambled briskly down the long hall which would further lead him around a corridor entering the lobby and then out the front doors,Cassie's sharp azure eyes darted over at him and not being able to understand anything that was happening anyways.She glanced up at her Mother only to see her trying to comfort a Haley who was trying to comfort her Mother,so taking that oppurtunity she weaved around some of the adults legs and hurried off after her Father to see what was going on.
I have to get away from here to think some more but then again I don't have time to...Jake allowed his thoughts to run wild once he was out onto the familiar paved paths he had so many memories of tearing down and shreading when he was younger.New York City,would always be his home and doing what he could for those who needed him would always be his passion even if he hadn't always admitted it.His Grandfather's days were numbered,he thought with a strong sense of grimness.But so was everyone else's if he didn't go back into whatever past he had to face.Yet,what would happen once he got there?How would everyone react to knowing Magical creatures were alive and that one of them was taking over?Where did he and everyone else he knew stand?With little reassuance,he started to head towards down the way he knew would take him to his Grandfather's shop so he could have a place to try and test out his so-called hidden time-teleporting powers,when he heard the door slam open and familiar tiny foot steps pattering down the cement towards him that sent chills up Jake's spine,
"Daddy!"Cassie wailed loudly,as she was only a few feet from him now and sprang into his arms instantly,"Why did you run off so fast?"she questioned him immediately,her ususally lively and vibrant blue eyes marked by concern,"Is it because of that story?What's going to happen to my second Grandpa?"
Jake could only look at his hyperly-eagered with admiration for being so tact on what was happening,"Alot's changing for us now,Cassie.You and Sky are growing up,Haley's in college and there's still so much I wish I could see you do...so much I wish I could give you,so much I wish I could make better..."he told her softly but his mind partly off somewhere else as his gaze lingered on her as if to take a final lasting mental picture of her,tears of perhaps never seeing her wonderful face and that his Grandfather was dyingcaused them togather at the sides of his hazel eyes,as he held her for what seemed like forever and then finally sat her down on the ground to tell her in a low,whispering voice,as he went down one knee,"Casandra,Daddy's going away for a while.Possibley even a real long while.I want you to keep Mommy happy and do what you can to help out.Try and be strong,I know you have it in you.Understand?"
"I understand."The child replied stiffly,almost as if she really got what he meant,confirming it by staring up and into his eyes she told him with a cheeky smile,"I know you'll win,Daddy,"she spoke confidently,her tiny heart racing,"I know you can do whatever it is you have to do.You're the American Dragon,you can do anything."
After Jake finally had what he considered her acceptance of what could happen,he stroked her cheek once last time and turned to take off at a jog back to his Grandfather's shop.He didn't know why he wanted to do it there,but something told him it was the right place to.It took him a few minutes,yet he soon found himself staring face-to-face with the now ramshackled electronic shop.Pushing back his uncertainity,used his one of his Dragon claws to unlock the glass door and it caved in instantly.With an agape look,Jake sidestepped it and came into the musty-aired shop,which was packed down by dust and cobwebs.Quickly,he moved into the back where he found it wasn't as bad as the front but everything was cleared off and into boxes.With one good inhale and exhale he reached inside of his pocket and pulled out the chip of Dragonite,squaring his eyes down onto it and putting all his focus onto it at once he found himself a bit too suddenly emersed in it's vermillion rays,he knew that at that very moment he and his Grandfather would be going their seperate ways from then on and forever.Although he worried for his family,he wasn't afraid.For the two greatest Dragons in the world were transcending into and beyond two very different horizons.
The End.
Hope y'll LOVED it!This was a very special fanfic to make and I'm proud to have.Now new questions arouse.What will Jake find when he gets to his 'past'?How has the Dark Dragon going about his plans for world domintation and can Jake make it in time?What will become of his relationship with Rose?And his daugther and younger brother?This may be out in March or sometime later on.Keep watchin' for the sequeal!
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