(A/N) Hi everybody, and thanks for reviewing, K9 the First and hillyhp2590. I love A.D.J.L., so I just had to post a fic, and yes, of course, Dragon Double is well under way. In the last chapter, we found out that the spirit of "The First Oracle" resides in one of these characters. Rose, Haley, Trixie, or Jasmine. Haven't exactly decided which, but I probably will by the next chapter. Anywho, on with the fic!
American Dragon: Jake Long, Dragon Double
By Dark Magician Boy
Chapter 2: Family Reunion
The doorbell rang as Grandpa tossed a cookie to Fu Dog. They had come over for dinner on account of a pipe breaking in his shop due to….. Issues.
"Um, hello. Do we know you?" Jake's dad asked the lady at the door who had a thirteen year old at her side.
Jake's mom walked in and screamed in delight. "Aunt Shui!" she yelled gleefully, and Grandpa, Jake, and Fu Dog gasped in unison.
Great Aunt Shui walked in the door with Cameron, and a Siamese cat at his side. "Hello, uh, Aunt Shui I guess," Jake's dad said, and she bowed.
"Hello Mr. Long. I am sorry, but I was in town and I wanted to visit my little brother!" she said, and she walked over and hugged an unwilling Grandpa.
"Hi little brother," she said, hugging harder, and Grandpa's face turned red as a cherry, and he began mumbling under his breath about being glad to see her too, but Jake could sense a big, fat lie.
The Siamese cat walked up to Fu Dog and put her nose to Fu Dog's with an evil glare in her eye, and Fu Dog began to sweat. Not a he had a crush on it sweat. It was a "he had a big, bad secret that he thought the Siamese Cat would attempt to snatch up at any given moment" sweat.
"We are sorry to disturb you, but more antiques were arriving at my shop today, and I need a place to stay. Would you mind if I spend the night?" Great Aunt Shui asked.
"Oh sure, you can stay in the guest bedroom with dad," Jake's mom said, and Grandpa let out a growl of fury.
"And who is this?" Jake's dad asked looking at Cameron. "My grandson, Cameron, and Jake and Haley's cousin," Great Aunt Shui said.
"Who's this little cutie?" Haley asked cuddling up to the Siamese cat who let out a thankful purr.
"That is my cat, Fu Cat. She's older than she looks," Great Aunt Shui said, and the cat nuzzled against Haley.
"Well, we were just about to start dinner. Would you like to join us?" Jake's mom asked.
"Only if you are having sushi," Great Aunt Shui said, and Jake's mom gasped. "How did you know that I was making sushi?" she asked, and they all gasped except Jake, Fu Dog, Grandpa, Cameron, and Fu Cat.
"Uh, Grandpa? Did you ever tell mom that Great Aunt Shui is a dragon with oracle powers?" Jake whispered to Grandpa, keeping the conversation secret from Cameron.
"She does not know that your Great Aunt is an oracle. Only that she is also a dragon," Grandpa finished, and he turned his gaze to Fu Cat.
"So, you have followed my dog all the way here. He paid you back. So why are you still following him?" Grandpa asked, and the cat looked up at him, her whiskers twitching.
Cameron was attracted to the kitchen by the smell of the sushi, and the Cat opened her mouth.
"He had not paid his full credit. He has only paid one tenth of it," the cat said, and Jake's tongue morphed to a dragon tongue and rolled nearly six feet.
"He said he'd pay 1,000,000, yet he has only paid 10,000. He still owes me money," Fu Cat said, and Grandpa scowled at Fu Dog who chuckled nervously.
"You told me you paid your full debt to this cat!" Grandpa said furiously, and Fu Dog cringed in guilt.
"Ok, so I didn't. But I didn't expect to lose. She was the one to bet 1,000,000, and I figured I could win it off her. But she had that stupid oracle's help. Otherwise, she would have just stuck with her 100, and I could have paid that off, but she had her resources and cheated!" Fu Dog said angrily, scowling at the cat.
"What can I say? I'm a cat. I had resources so I used them," Fu Cat said slyly, and she slinked off to the kitchen and her meowing for attention could be heard.
"Why does she get to go into the kitchen?" Fu Dog asked.
"Because she would eat the entire dinner, following the table, and then leave a scent where it was," Jake said, and Fu Dog sighed as Grandpa and Jake walked into the kitchen for a most likely unpleasant meal.
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"So I finally tell him that the milk is bad, don't give it to the C.E.O.!" Jake's dad said, laughing at his own joke, and Great Aunt Shui forced out a highly convincing, but fake laugh.
"Please pass the egg rolls," Haley said sweetly, and Great Aunt Shui passed a bowl full of white lumps to Haley, and Jake sighed. "Suck-up," Jake thought to himself, but he felt as if someone was listening in.
He saw the cat, crouched by his chair, looking directly into his eyes, unblinking.
"What's wrong with your cat?" Jake asked, and Great Aunt Shui looked over.
"Oh stop that," Great Aunt Shui said, and the cat seemed to come out of a trance, lapped up some milk Jake's mom had set out, and the strange feeling stopped.
"She wanted some of your food, that's all," Great Aunt Shui confessed, and she went back to mingling with Jake's parents.
"So, where are Mr. Cameron's parents?" Jake's mom asked. "Off in China, studying dragons," Great Aunt Shui said, and Jake's dad laughed.
"As if they're real!" he said, and Aunt Shui gasped, got up from the table, and brought Jake's mom with her.
"Have you not told him of your family's power?" Aunt Shui asked, and Jake's mom shook her head.
"We chose not tell him. He's a little, well…," Jake's mom said, but was interrupted by Jake's dad's screaming.
"I'M BLEEDING! I'M BLEEDING! Oh, it's just the sauce. False alarm," Jake's dad finished, and Jake's mom continued. "High strung," she finished, and Aunt Shui nodded as they walked back to the table.
"Ah yes. As if they were real," Aunt Shui said, going along with the act.
"Daddy, dragons scare me," Haley said, acting very well.
"Well don't worry. Your big brother Jake will protect you," Jake's dad said, and Jake nodded.
"As if any dragon is gonna get a hold of my little sister," Jake said, hugging Haley and wanting to blurt out the truth so badly, knowing that Hailey felt the same.
"So, Cameron, do you have any brothers or sisters?" Jake's mom asked.
"Yeah, I have an older sister, Jade."
"Why didn't she come with you?" Jake asked Cameron.
"Yes, why not? There's plenty of room for one more," Jake's dad said.
"I'm sorry my granddaughter couldn't join us. But she had to stay at school late. She's seventeen and she wanted to check out the theatre department at her new high school. Jade just loves the stage," Aunt Shui said proudly.
"Well, what do you know, Haley also enjoys the stage. Looks like we both have female prodigies in our family," Jake's dad bragged.
"Uh, excuse me, Jake? Would you go get the milk. Aunt's Shui's cat is out of milk," Jake's mom asked sweetly, and Jake walked over to the refrigerator.
But when he closed the door, he saw the gleaming face of Fu Cat resting on the counter, eyes beaming at him.
"What is it?" he asked, and Fu Cat whispered into his ear.
"You have relations to that…. dog. Tell him that his time is ticking. And your sister is not a suck-up. She is actually a very sweet, young lady. You should be more like her," Fu Cat finished.
Then she pranced off to the table, getting a lot of "awes", and leaving Jake dumbfounded.
After a few minutes, when dinner was finished, Aunt Shui met Grandpa in the living room, Cameron and Fu Cat behind her, Jake and Fu Dog behind him.
"Perhaps it is time we put our students to the test. Rooftop, 10 minutes," she said. "Only if you haven't predicted the winner of this conflict," Grandpa said warily.
"Dragon's word," she said, and thought to herself, and Fu Cat of course, "and a dragon's word is always a lie!"
"We'll be there," Cameron and Jake said and they both walked in opposite directions towards the escape latch behind Jake's house that went straight to the roof.
When they met at the ladder, Cameron went up first, and then Jake. About halfway up, a question popped into Jake's mind that he asked right away.
"How did you know that I knew about you?" Jake asked, and Cameron stopped, nearly causing Jake to run into him.
"My grandmother told me the outcome of this whole entire evening, and of course, day, except for the fight. I guess she wishes to see on her own how this happens. But odds are, she will go against her word, and predict the future," Cameron said, and he continued his climb, with Jake close behind till they reached the top where the two grandparents were waiting. They had gone through the attic.
"I claim this rooftop a dragon duel. No life force can enter or leave here until it is done," Grandpa and Aunt Shui said in unison, and a green dome closed in on the rooftop.
"Ready?" Cameron asked. "Only if you are," Jake said, and they faced each other in a dueling fashion.
"DRAGON UP!" they both yelled at the same time. Jake's very body turned into a living fireball, and took on the shape of a dragon, and the American Dragon emerged. Jake noticed that Cameron had barely started. This would give him the chance to see Cameron's transformation.
Cameron's body turned into a cloud of snow that blew around the arena, stopped in a spot, and began swirling. The swirling slowly took the form of a dragon, which grew to the size of Jake, but then, even taller.
The silhouette of a head attached to a three foot neck, attached to a dragon body the size of Jake's. So the only differences between him and Jake were the colors and the height of his neck.
And slowly, the snow began to harden, until a tail emerged from the back, and slowly, the snow fell away, and the D. Dragon emerged.
The D. Dragon had a long, slender neck, much taller than Jake's, black fins with a silver lining, sapphire scales, a white underbelly, coal black claws, devilish blue wings, and a tail that was long and limber.
"So this is you," Jake said, looking up at Cameron's dragon head. "No, this is me!" Cameron said, jumping forward and releasing a cloud of ice shards that pierced Jake's scales, and he howled in pain.
"Oh, so that's how you want to play?" Jake said, flying up, and shooting darts of ember directly into Cameron's eyes, and Jake could swear that they simply turned into snow, and quickly fell from his eyes. He hadn't learned stuff this advanced.
Cameron shot ice arrows directly out of his fingers and through Jake's head fins. When Jake saw the ice arrows through his fins, he got so mad, they melted right away, and he darted through the air at Cameron like a missile, and hit dead impact.
Jake looked out of the crater he had made, but standing in front of him sure enough was Cameron. Actually, a bunch of Cameron clones surrounded the arena.
"Which one of us is the real one?" all the D. Dragons joked and laughed.
"Double Image! Cameron is moving so fast, he appears all around us," Grandpa informed, and Jake focused on one. "Well, he's gonna have to stop some tome," Jake thought, and he put his hand through the Cameron clone, and brought it back, as if it had gone through vapor.
He had always wanted to do this since he saw this kind of trick in the movies. If he stuck his hand in the dragon, then the real Cameron who was spinning around the roof would run into Jake's claw.
Sure enough, as Jake put his hand through the dragon in front of him, he felt something hit his hand, and all the clones disappeared, leaving the real Cameron in human form, unconscious in Jake's dragon hands, and Jake morphed back to human, holding Cameron in his hands.
"The winner of this duel is Jake Long!" a deep voice coming from the dome said. "Cameron Shui, for losing the duel, your powers become inaccessible for 24 hours," the voice said, and the dome vanished.
"The temple deceived me," Aunt Shui thought, and Grandpa laughed. "Who's the better sibling now?" he yelled in glee, with a big fat smirk on his face.
Aunt Shui approached Jake, and morphed into a pink serpent with a golden underbelly, took Cameron in her purple claws, flew down back to the alley, morphed back to human, and walked back into Jake's house.
"So, how much more did your parents spoil Aunt Shui?" Jake asked, and Grandpa shuddered.
"It is a story I shall tell you when we train at my shop tomorrow. I want to make sure you are ahead of that boy," Grandpa spat, and he went back through the attic entrance.
"Well, that was an odd way to spend the night. Honestly, I planned on spending it with Trixie or Spud, or," Jake said, and suddenly sounded as if on Cloud 9, "Rose!"
Jake was talking for a few minutes, until he realized that Fu Dog had long since gone in, so he jumped into the attic entrance, and locked it behind him, and eventually, leaving to bed.
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"Jake! Get up!" Jake's mom yelled. Cameron had slept on the floor in a blue sleeping bag, and Jake had slept in his bed naturally, but he had a rude awakening due to his mom.
"Hurry, get up! We're going to see a movie," Haley said in Jake's face. She had snuck in without him noticing.
"But I already have a lunch date with Rose," Jake said groggily. "Well, guess what? We're gonna have to go with you because we're meeting Jade," Haley said anxiously, and she skipped away from Jake's room.
If Rose met his family, then he would be forever embarrassed. But he had also promised Rose this lunch date a few days ago. He said absolutely nothing would get in his way.
"Okay, whatever," Jake said, and he picked up his cell phone, then punched in Rose's number.
"Hello?" Rose's voice rang, and Jake forgot all about his troubles when he heard the voice.
"Do you mind if we change our lunch date to a theatre date in about three hours?" Jake asked, and Rose laughed.
"Oh, Jake it's you! I would love to switch our lunch date to the movies," Rose said happily, and Jake let out a sigh of relief.
"Have you met the new kid, Cameron?" Jake asked.
"Yeah. I hear he's pretty nice," Rose said. "Well, he's my distant cousin, and he's coming with us. Along with his Aunt, and my parents, and my sister, and his sister," Jake finished, and Rose gasped.
"That many people? Well, maybe we could see another movie," Rose suggested, and Jake felt much happier.
"Oh, uh, sure we can," Jake said. "K?" he asked. "K," Rose responded, and they both hung up.
"Ok Cameron, get up, we're going to the movies," Jake said, and he walked out of the room to be enveloped by the smell of pancakes, and he was hypnotized to the kitchen by the fragrant smell of his mother's cooking.
(A/N) So, have you made your decisions on who the true oracle is? Would you like to use a lifeline? Ok, I'll 50-50 the answer. Rose or Trixie. Maybe I'll decide to reveal who it is, maybe I won't. Tell me how much ya want the answers in any reviews ya decide to write, and tell me how much you enjoy da' stowy so faw! Peace out, yoh'!