(A/N) Hey everybody and welcome back. Sorry I took so long to update last time, but that is what is more commonly know as writer's block. Don't worry, this chapter does a little bit of background work on Cameron and Jade, so don't worry, I ain't slippin'! Anyway, thanks for the wonderful reviews (blushes). So, anyway, on with the show. (Waits for a few minutes). This is the part where I start the story, and you shut up and read.
American Dragon: Jake Long, Dragon Double
By Dark Magician Boy
Chapter 6: Cameron and Jade
"Mom, can I help slice the pizza?" Haley asked eagerly. They had ordered pizza hut for the kids, and the adults were just about to go out to see a play. Normally, this kind of thing would occur at the evening, but in this case, it was lunch time.
"Sure dear," Mrs. Long said as she strapped on her fanny pack.
Haley made sure that Mr. Long wasn't looking, then sprouted her dragon wings, flew up to the counter, grew her claws, cut up the pizza, then the hands and wings shrank back in, and Haley plummeted toward the ground.
Fu Cat dived and caught Haley easily, then let her slide back to the floor and accepted a scratch under her head from Haley.
"Aw, you're a sweet girl," Haley said, then she raced Fu Cat into the living room to catch her favorite T.V. show.
Sadly, only Haley's pizza had arrived, because it was a busy day at the pizza place, so the teenager's pizzas hadn't arrived yet.
Jade had come over from her rehearsal to watch everyone, and she had ordered her own separate pizza, while Haley ate hers, and the five teens ate their pizza which had been divided into fifths.
"Bye kids. You be good. Rose, feel better," Mrs. Long said as the four adults walked out the door.
"Thank you, Mrs. Long," Rose called back as the door slammed shut, and the adults walked in the car, drove down the street, and turned towards the theatre.
Jake turned the T.V. to MTV. "Hey, I was watching that!" Haley whined at Jake.
"Yeah, well, now you're watching this," Jake demanded, and Haley stayed silent.
"Jake, be nice to your sister," Jade said, and she turned the channel back to what Haley had been watching.
"Thank you Jade," Haley said in the sweetest voice she could muster.
"Hey. Us sisters gotta stick together while our brothers save the world," Jade said, and Haley came up to sit in her lap.
"Hey Jake, how did that oracle thing work again?" Trixie asked Jake, making Rose and Jade blush.
"Don't remember. What are you saying? You're not an oracle. Your spirit, as my grandpa would say, 'is too wild'," Jake said, and they all laughed at Jake's little joke.
The door bell rang, and Jade rushed to get it.
"Oh, hi guys. Come on in," they heard Jade say, and she walked in, with the two oracle twins behind her.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Jake said, crossing his fingers to hear something from Kara.
"You're going to win three liters of coke tomorrow," Kara said, and Jake jumped in the air and cheered.
"Which expired three years ago," Sara finished. "Aw man," Jake said, landing back on the ground. But then he noticed the hats the twins were wearing, and the boxes they had in their hands.
"You guys are delivering pizza! Ha ha!" Trixie yelled, and Sara looked straight at her.
"Your haircut is going to go horribly wrong and your hair will turn puke green," she threw back, and Trixie frowned.
"Aw dang. I saved up three months to get my hair cut," Trixie whined, and she sat back down.
"Hey, what's so wrong with the color green?" Jake said as he gave the twins their pay and a tip for each, and he took the pizza, as everybody sat down, even the twins. It was their off hour, which had just started. (Weird, ain't it?)
So, for a few hours, they all watched happy bunnies and puppies skip across the rainbow path, until Jake could NOT take it anymore and he switched the channel to MTV just as one of his favorite music videos came on.
"Hey! I was watching that!" Haley defended again, and she switched the channel back.
But, with the power of the remote, Jake easily switched it back.
But then, Haley switched the channel, then Jake. Then Haley, then Jake. They went about this for about five minutes until Haley morphed her head into a dragon head and roared at Jake, who shrank back to the couch in extreme anger and also fear.
"You know what, maybe I should just skip the haircut tomorrow and wait till next month," Trixie said taking another slice of pizza. "I've always wanted to grow my hair out."
"I never said it was tomorrow," Sara said. "Aw man! This is one big rip-off," Trixie whined. "Does everything you say HAVE to be true?"
"Sorry," Sara taking a big bite of pizza. " But the Temple of Oracle contains information so precise, it's never been falsified. It also has secrets such as spells and potions, oh I love secrets!" Sara said cheerfully.
While the others argued on how reliable the temple was, Jade had a flashback of her first trip there.
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"But Aunt Shui, I wanna go to the theatre and learn how to act!" a seven year old Jade whined.
"Ah, but you must learn how to use your oracle powers before the age of fifteen. By then, your powers will disappear completely, and all you will be able to do is change into a dragon," Aunt Shui said as she dragged Jade into the back of her house.
There, her three year old brother, Cameron rested in his crib, sucking on a bottle of milk.
"Now, rest upon the blanket, and set your mind free from the confines of your head. Let it wander until it finds where it needs to be," Aunt Shui said, and Jade closed her eyes, and allowed her mind to wander.
"I feel silly," Jade said as she let her mind drift back and forth from reality and to somewhere that she wasn't exactly sure of.
"Well, the first time, you will tend to feel a tiny bit ridiculous," Aunt Shui warned. "But once your mind knows where to go, you will feel the power rushing through you.
Jade's eyes went cross eyed behind her eyelids, and her conscious mind literally left her brain, and she could see again. Well, it could be considered seeing, since she herself was floating above the room. She could see Aunt Shui keeping quiet, and her body in some sort of trance, and the last thing she saw was her baby brother Cameron, before she was sucked through the roof by a mysterious force.
Jade flew across the ocean, without even creating a sonic boom, until she finally hit land, but kept going till she could tell she was clearly in Greece. She was pretty smart for her age.
She kept hovering until a crack in the ground sucked her in, down and down further until she made it to a structure that resembled an ancient Greek temple.
Jade saw it to be safe, so she ran inside, and that scrolls were strewn all about the place, with girls her age, and ladies to be in about their thirties, and even some as old as Aunt Shui, each flying in and out.
She picked a random scroll and read that her brother would wake up crying in about three minutes, but she dropped the scroll when she saw a very astonishing , and very beautiful scroll, suspended off the ground in the center of the room.
It was golden, with silver writing. But for some strange reason, she couldn't read the ancient writings.
She reached out to touch it, but the second her single finger nail came within contact with it, the mysterious force returned, but sucked her out this time, and went very fast, speeding Jade quickly back into her house, and back safely into the confines of her head.
Jade's eyes shot open bullet fast, and without any control, she recited just as she had seen on the scroll.
"Cameron will wake up in three minutes screaming," Jade said unwillingly, and Aunt Shui nodded, pulling out a stopwatch and timed three minutes. And sure enough, Cameron woke up, screaming his head off for his mommy.
"Good, good," Aunt Shui said, picking up Cameron and cradling him in her arms.
"That place was so welcoming. And that one scroll was so amazing," Jade said, and Aunt Shui's eyes widened.
"You saw the true oracle's scroll?" Aunt Shui gasped, and she brought Jade close as Cameron slowly calmed down.
"Aunty, who's the true oracle?" Jade asked, and Aunt Shui began. Jade always loved it when she told stories.
"The true oracle is a descendant of the mother of Achilles, the sea nymph Thetis. The secret was so great, any recorded relation was eliminated. Only she and the supposedly true oracle can read and understand the ancient writings, written in centaur blood," Aunt Shui said, and Jade shuddered.
"She will be found supposedly in ten years, if the legend is correct, and if it is also correct, she is the exact same age as your little brother is right now," Aunt Shui finished, and Jade stared at Cameron in wonderment.
"Come. We must finish your training," Aunt Shui said, and she took Jade's hand, then led her back to the blanket on the floor.
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"Jade? Hello?" Cameron's voice sounded in front of her, and Jade shook herself out of the memory.
"Sorry. Just remembering something," Jade said, biting down on the slice of pizza in her hand.
"Oh," Cameron said, which forced him into remembering the time when he and Jade had finally started dragon training.
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"Aunt Shui, why can't I go play my video game?" Cameron asked as he walked right behind Jade.
"What makes you so different? I wanna go with my friends to the theatre," Jade said, taking a drink from her water bottle.
"And why does it have to be so far, Aunty?" Cameron asked wiping off a sheet of sweat that was on his forehead.
"It has to be far away so nobody will find us," she said. "And stop whining! The legend clearly states that the Dragon Double must aid the American Dragon in order to rid the world of the Huntsclan. And who is the Dragon Double?" Aunt Shui asked.
"I am," Cameron sighed.
"Who is the Dragon Double's older sister?" Aunt Shui asked.
"I am," Jade also sighed.
"And who is the American Dragon?" Aunt Shui asked the two of them.
"Our cousin, Jake Long," the two sighed in unison.
"Good. Now that we are far away enough, Jade will go first," Aunt Shui instructed.
"DRAGON UP!" Jade yelled, and her body turned into snow, then took on the form, then Jade in dragon form emerged.
"Good. Cameron, you next," Aunt Shui ordered.
"DRAGON UP!" Cameron yelled, and his body turned into ice, then the Dragon Double.
"Also good. Now, target practice," Aunt Shui said, and she threw targets out at them which flew around the deserted area.
Cameron shot ice darts and nailed three of them, while Jade flew up and caught five of them in her mouth, then spit them back out at Aunt Shui, which landed at her feet.
"Speed test," Aunt Shui. "Fly to the bay and back," she said, and Cameron and Jade were off, then about thirty seconds later, the two flew back and ended up in a dead tie.
"Camouflage," Aunt Shui said, and the two dragon's skins changed color until they were virtually invisible.
"Good. Break practice for lunch," Aunt Shui said, and the two teens demorphed from dragon form and ran eagerly to the lunch Aunt Shui had prepared for them.
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"Hey, Cameron? What's up with you?" Jake asked, and Cameron came back from memory lane.
"Oh, sorry! Just, kind of a flashback," Cameron admitted, blushing.
"Well, whatever. You want more pizza?" Jake asked, offering another slice of pizza on a paper towel.
"Oh, um, sure!" Cameron said, accepting the slice of pizza.
"So, is it like, really scary when you go to this Temple of Oracle?" Spud asked.
"Actually, it's kind of welcoming," Sara said cheerfully.
"The only problem is, if more than two oracles have the same vision at a time, it is considered a prophecy, and it sets off a magic time bomb," Jade said, sipping some soda.
"Yeah, but that like, barely ever happens!" Sara chimed once again cheerfully.
But then, as if somebody had pushed a button, Rose, Kara, Sara, and Jade's eyes rolled into their heads, and they began to talk in complete unison, as a mysterious, cold wind blew through the room.
Time's temple awaits
Our oracle nears
Two dragons must mount
To the sum of all fears.
The blood on the floor
Of the hunt newly spilt
Journey to Delphi
And to poison bane's hilt.
As light master wanes
Lover's sacrifice blooms
At the end of the fight
Atrox's shadow looms.
There shall be shown a sign
Black Dragon is near at hand
Tainted shall be soul that was pure
This world, at halt, will stand.
At that moment, the chanting stopped, and all four girls' eyes shut tightly, and each collapsed to the floor, unconscious.
"JADE!" Cameron yelled, rushing to Jade's side.
"ROSE!" Jake said, yelling to Rose's side.
"What just happened?" Spud asked, throwing off the chain, as Fu Cat ran to see what was wrong with Kara and Sara.
"Well, since they just each had the same vision, I guess that means we just heard a prophecy," Cameron said.
"And since more than two oracles had it," Jake began, "That means that they just set off a magic time bomb!"
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Meanwhile, a few miles away, in an overly humongous apartment room, a big red circle went off on a map in front of the Huntsmaster while he had been searching for Huntsgirl.
"What's this?" he asked nobody, then enhanced the image until it was ground zero on the occurrence.
It was a concentration of a high amount of magic, where there were four dragons, one who also had the reading of an oracle, two who had readings of oracles, two animals, and one that enraged the Huntsmaster.
It was the exact reading for an oracle, but it also contained the DNA match of Huntsgirl.
"FOOL!" he yelled, stomping over to the Huntsclan archive. She was in league with the dragons now, and was considered a magical creature, which was against the order of the Huntsclan.
Just as he was about to hit the delete button on Rose's name within the super computer, his index finger hesitated, and he thought.
The DNA reading that had been next to Rose matched that of the American Dragon, so the older dragon must have been there as well.
"This could be used to my advantage," Huntsmaster said, and he shut down the computer, and glanced back at the computer, looking once again over Rose and her oracle readings.
"It could prove very useful indeed," he said, very maliciously.
(A/N) Don't ya just hate cliffhangers?