(A/N) Hello all, and welcome back. Sorry, my internet has been down for quite a while. Plus I've been in Paris for two weeks. Well, anyway, thank you for your reviews. My internet is down right now, so I can't check on them. In fact, I'll just change this when I get the chance. One with the chapter.
American Dragon: Jake Long, Dragon Double
By Dark Magician Boy
Chapter 9: Unbreakable Spell
Jade looked around, leading the group cautiously. This maze seemed vaguely familiar. She had seen it in Greek mythology class.
Fu Cat looked cautiously about as well. She had scaled this maze in the past. How it had managed to find it's way here, she did not know.
"Uh, hello? What's with you two?" Trixie asked, waving her hand in front of Jade's face.
"We should have never taken that turn," Jade said, not paying attention to Trixie's hand which was so close to her face, Trixie could have easily smacked her.
"What, what's wrong?" Rose asked, and Jade didn't answer till they reached the heart of the maze, where the statue of a man with wings stood. Engraved at the base of the statue were the words, A simple piece of string can lead you out of the darkest of places. In the man's hand was a stone ball of yarn.
"Oh no," Jade said, staring up at the statue, mainly at the ball of yarn.
"For the last time, what is it?" Rose asked impatiently, looking up at the statue as well, studying the saying.
"Only one person has ever escaped this maze alive," Jade said, transfixed at the ball of yarn still.
"You don't mean," Fu Dog started, but Fu Cat finished his sentence.
"That's right. We are in the Maze of King Minos. The only man to ever escape this maze was Theseus, prince of Athens. And he only escaped with the help of King Minos' daughter, Ariadne. Hence the string."
Fu Cat's words silenced everybody. They were under the impression that they would never get out of there. But there was another problem, and it was a mere two walls away. A breathing, snarling, angry, but most of all, hungry problem.
"Wasn't there some sort of creature that they put in the maze?" Rose asked Jade, and Jade's trance broke at those words.
"The minotaur," she breathed, and the snarling could suddenly be heard in the dead silence.
"We need to move," Jade said right away, and the group took off at a run, being sure to turn left, then right, continuously, so they would at least be led in circles.
Somehow, the walls of the maze had been turned into potion and book shelves, and Jade had an idea.
She grabbed a random book, stopped the group, and started to flip through the pages.
"Um, Jade? Something tells me that this isn't the best time to find a good summer read," Fu Cat said anxiously, but Jade didn't listen as she reached a page, and ripped it out.
She muttered something, and suddenly, the page on the floor began to blow around and grow larger. Designs were stitched into it, and it slowly turned from paper to cloth, until finally, it was no longer a page, but an Arabian magic carpet, capable of fitting them all.
The group piled on, Jade at the front. Then Jade said something in a strange, foreign language. The carpet lifted from the ground, and took off at warp speed to the roof of the room.
The second they were above the shelves, Jade said something else, and the carpet hovered above the heart, where if they looked down, they could see some sort of strange beast, with glaring red eyes.
Jade sprouted her dragon wings, and took off. There were at least five exits. Four of them would lead to alternate dimensions. One of them would lead back to the temple. She needed to find the door with marble lining.
Jade flew off towards the one to the left, as the carpet followed her, then landed at a large door.
She took the handle, then turned it as she heard several clicking noises, until she came to a fifty foot wall of water, about to crash down on where she had entered. She shut it immediately, and took off toward another door.
This one had rubies engraved onto the handle, which she took into her hand and turned the knob.
This door led to a planet with a strange surface, filled with craters, and strange creatures with oily blue skin.
Jade slammed it shut as the creatures had began to approach her, took in a breath, then sky rocketed towards the third door.
She imagined that this one would be wrong too, not noting the marble surrounding the door as she opened it. This one, sure enough led to the main corridor of the temple.
"I found it!" Jade called back, and the carpet rose from one of the shelves, then flew off in her direction till it reached her.
The carpet dumped the group into the temple, then flew back into the maze, never to be seen again.
They ran towards the staircase at the front of the temple, as one of the doors blasted open, and the Huntsmaster flew out of the blast, scratched in several places.
Jake and Cameron ran out after him, then morphed back to human, catching up with the others.
"HALT!" The Huntsmaster called, and they stopped in their tracks as the Huntsmaster began to recite something, in the strange foreign language that Jade had spoken in earlier.
"NO!" Jade screamed at the top of her lungs, launching herself at the Huntsmaster.
But an invisible barrier protected the Huntsmaster, and Jade bounced off, back towards the group.
"Now one of you will remain here forever, while all the others are brought back to our world," he said, turning towards them.
"And I choose," Huntsmaster, his finger lifting up.
"YOU!" he said, pointing at Rose.
At that moment, everybody there began to lift into the air except for Rose, and there was a loud CRACK, as everybody began to fade.
The last thing Jake realized before he was totally gone, back in his own body, was that Rose was the one holding the potion.
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Jake took in a gasp of air, and sat up to look around. He was back in his living room, and everybody was waking up. Everyone except Rose.
"Rose?" Jake asked, leaning over to see Rose. Her eyes were shut tight.
"We have to fix this," Cameron said.
They could see that Huntsmaster had gotten here first, and had kidnapped Haley, along with having exploded several furniture pieces.
"Let's go!" Jade said, sprouting her dragon wings along with all the others.
Fu Cat jumped up on Jade's back, and Fu Dog jumped up onto Jake's. A green fire began to glow around Spud and Trixie as they lifted into the air. They still had Fu Dog's enchantment.
Kara and Sara took Spud and Trixie by the hand, and they flew out a giant hole that was in the ceiling.
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"Jake! Fu Dog! Grandpa! Help!" Haley screeched as Huntsmaster flew on his hover-board towards the Statue of Liberty.
The sun was setting, and the moon was just now rising. It was almost evening.
Haley was trapped in an energy cage that hung off of the end of the board, which grew to the size of whatever was trapped within it.
She had managed to go full dragon at one point, but it did no good as she quickly ran out of energy, and morphed back to human.
"You will make a good hostage," Huntsmaster said as he placed her atop the torch in the energy cage.
The group drew closer. They could see the green light coming from atop the torch on top of the Statue of Liberty, until they could see Hunstmaster's red eyes.
Jake, Jade, and Cameron's dragon wings shrank back in as the group dropped to the floor of the top of the head.
"Attack me and the girl dies!" Hunstmaster said, clicking a button on his staff as the cage began to shrink slowly.
"JAKE!" Haley screamed at the top of her lungs, curling up as much as possible.
"Don't you mess with my little sister!" Jake said, and they approached the Huntsmaster for a final face off.
"DRAGON UP!" Jake, Cameron, and Jade said in unison, as energy flowed through the air, and lightning broke from the sky.
Jake turned into fire, and then reformed as a dragon, while Cameron and Jade turned into a snow form of themselves, and it blew into a flurry, twisting around each other until they made two perfect dragons. The snow crumbled away to reveal Jade and Cameron in dragon form.
The Huntsmaster jumped forward with his staff bared, posing for battle, as energy bolted from his staff to form demons made of electricity.
"Cameron and I will go after Huntsmaster. Jade, you go and get Haley. Spud Trixie, Kara, Sara, you take care of all the electri-demons. Fu Dog, Fu Cat, make sure you don't fall off, and give us energy when we run out," Jake instructed.
"Right," They each said, and they ran into battle.
Jade flew high up into the air, and dove down to the tip of the torch.
Haley jumped for joy when Jade came into view, and Jade reached her claw towards the cage.
But then, the cage fraction that she reached for turned into a slime mouth, and began to eat at her claw, pulling her into the cage.
Jade quickly went back to human, and the cage left her alone, going back to guarding Haley.
"It's locked onto your DNA. It only goes for you," Jade said, and Haley sighed, leaning back to the wall of the cage.
"I have an idea, but I need some of your blood," Jade said, and Haley nodded eagerly, as Jade reached through the cage as if it was air. It obviously only attacked dragons.
Haley formed a claw, and scratched her hand, taking in a small breath, and giving Jade a wipe of her blood.
Jade pulled her hand out quickly to make sure the cage didn't go for her, turned back into a dragon after putting the blood into a sac, and took off, high into the atmosphere.
Trixie kicked at a demon, but it pushed her off.
She fell for a second or two, but then flew back up, and kicked at the demon, forcing it to vanish.
Spud watched as two demons came at him from both sides. He knew how to handle this.
Just as the two were about to hit him, he shot up into the air, as the two demons collided, and vanished in a flurry of electricity.
Kara leaned back as a demon jumped at her, forcing him to fly over the edge, and plummet to the ground, exploding.
"Well, can't really predict anything for you," Kara said, looking at the scorch spot, a distance below.
Sara ran from a pack of demons that chased her until she turned around, causing a puzzle among them.
"Somebody's going to trap and explode you," she said, her eyes flashing yellow for a second.
They stared at her puzzled, then ran at her.
But at that moment, Jade came down from the clouds with a smear of blood.
Jade pulled out the plastic dish the blood was on, and sprinkled it over the demons.
They looked at the blood sparkled on them, and continued.
But Haley stared as the cage around her began to blob, and it left her for the demons.
It captured the demons, but since it was capturing energy, it simply captured itself.
The cage with the rest of the demons within it blobbed for a few seconds, then exploded due to an overheating of energy.
Fu Dog and Fu Cat passed out life giving potions to everybody as Jake and Cameron fought, and as they drank them, their cuts, bruises, and scars vanished. They were perfectly clean.
Cameron jumped up, evading Huntsmaster's swing, and blew a cloud of ice shards in his face.
Jake added a small cloud of fire, melting the ice into water, temporarily gagging Huntsmaster.
But then, in blind fury, Huntsmaster clicked his staff to the ground of the head of the Statue of Liberty, and suddenly, it began to rumble for nearly three minutes.
And in that three minutes, Kara, Haley, and Fu Cat fell off, plummeting towards the concrete ground, which was at least half a mile away.
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