A/N:What is up y'll?Hope everyone's having a good Christmas so far.Now,I know this seems...odd.But I'm addingtwo final,addtional ch's. to The Last Phoenix.Explaining things like when Rose and Jake looking for a place to hide away at,everyone's action to his dissapearance and then I will be posting one final chapter after this that will be the ending with Rose and Jake facing off againist someone consumed with pure darkness,someone...who I'm not about to reveal 'til next ch. sorry.Well,on with the ch!

Their very first day together on their own...

A crisp,cool breeze hung in the air and picked up enough to where it brushed againist Jake's face every few seconds but that wasn't the actual thing that made him restless.It was the thought that him and Rose were offical runaways and in serious trouble if they ever decided upon going back.His began to lift his lids slightly and a flash of dawn was spontanuous to reach his now partially opened eyes.Yawning with drowziness still clinging and holding onto him heavily,he rolled over on his other side to escape the daylight that was pullulating the whole stony grey cave with it's faint but strong whiteish-yellowish rays,

"Rose?"Jake whispered out to her in a low voice,not yet able to see her because the light was still streaming in like a sea of luminance,"Are you awake..."his eyes increased in roundness,as he bolted upwards and onto his feet,all he saw was empty cave floor,"Oh no...this isn't happening!It can't be."

"What can't happen?"

"Not again..."

"Not again what?"

"I can't believe this is for real!"

"Real what?"

Jake was about to mutter on again with how he thought Rose might have been captured,when he sensed a friendly yet impaitent presense behind him,taking a moment for to recover from his shock,he turned to see Rose standing four or five feet from him with her hair braided down to her feet and instead of seeing what she had been wearing the previous day,she was dressed in her Huntsgirl unifrom but had a white tank top from her long-sleeved green Ninja shirt and no mask of course,

"Rose,"Jake breathed easily,inhaling and exhaling with relief rising within him,"You're okay,"his eyes darted down to a long stick with some odd-looking fish caught on to it by long thin white strings off to the right of her on floor,"I guess you've been busy but why did you go out fishing for so long?"

She only mock-smiled at him,"Breakfeast,"was her causual response,as she shifted her weight a bit to allow him to see the high clustered up logs she seemed to carry with ease on top ofaslightly bulging arm,"Want to ignite it?We sort of rain out of matches last night."

Slightly mystifed by the weird way she was acting,Jake flashed her a smile and morphed into his Dragon form as the stream of daylight was lessening it's brightness.She only nodded back briefly,before setting down the the logs two at a time which only took her a few seconds which was surprising since she had gathered ten in all.Jake shifted back down to his human and the two sat about a foot from each other on a large boulder.Soon,despite Jake's unsureness about the fish for Breakfeast idea,the too had roasted the strange,silver-scaled fish and began to have what might have been all they ate for a while,

"It's all about conserving,"Rose told him discreetly,as she watched him take medium-sized chops of his every so often,"Because if were living like this,then it's time we started getting use to it.Get it?

"Well...getting it isn't the part I'm having trouble believing,"He told her grinningly,watching with amusement as she only plucked tiny pieces one at a time and plopped then in her mouth,"You don't look too hot,"the words came falling out all of a sudden,"Uh...not saying you're 'not' hot.I'm just say-"

"You're worried that I'm having seconds oppions,"She awnsered for him questioningly,her sapphire eyes lined with knowingness but she only let a contented smile cross her features when she saw that he was feeling the same way she was,"A bit,"she sighed wistfully,wishing she could turn time back around and maybehave approached Jake more heedfully,"I just can't shake the feeling their already looking for us."

Jake's smile vanished,"Yeah,I can't believe this is acutally for real and that I might never see my family or friends or..."he paused when he saw a very thin side wall of tears in one of her eyes,as he reached out and swept one of his medium brown hands right across hers,what he said next to her gently completely caught her off guard,"I know it's gonna be hard.But for right now,were each other's family."

"You're right."Rose replied in agreement,her spirits starting to lift,"But I don't think a cave is my number one place of choice to live for whatever time were out here,"she pointed out mendaciously,her eyes roaming over the top of the cave ceiling and then over at Jake's,"We need to build a home instead."

His jaw nearly dropped at her seemingly absurd suggestion,"Build a house?"he repeated her words haphazzardly,both brows rose as he inquired with his mouth still agape,"You're kiddin' me...right Rose?"

"Kidding?"This time she repeated him quzzically but then smiled slyly when she hinted that one of his top abilities probably didn't include much building,"Well..."she began to tell him innocently,her cerlean eyes sparkling roguishly againist the rising pale pink and orange sun,her attiutude somehow between the Rose he always knew and the Huntsgirl he sort of wanted to forget,"I guess you could say that."

Jake couldn't help but smile after her warmly as she winked over her shoulder only once and gathering up her postions consisting of the spectre used to defeat Huntsman only two days ago,her still just barely damp cloths from before and her brown-leather knapsack,started towards the cave's opening as the still streaming light captured her in a whole different light.She was changing right before his eyes,still somewhat clinging to her old attitude she had yet to abandon but still showing the side of herself most memoriable to him.But as Jake himself got to his feet,he couldn't help but start to feel a sort of foreboding sensation.Yet he put it to the back of his mind instantly,when he saw the Phoenix him and Rose had saved in all her flare-blazed embodied self,Azarvion,along with her one foot tall hatchlings meeting them at the door.That's when he realized,the life he just so recently knew was not yet in the past.In fact,the past was waiting outside for him and maybe even Rose.Just plotting away,waiting for them to come out.

Meanwhile at Grandpa's shop...

Laoshi stared blankly at the now blackened glass orb that had lost it's one-hour daily magic showing powers a long time ago,which he had used to observe Jake as he had been suppose to watch after the Phoenix and her offspring.But now,because of the image of Jake not at his post,stories from one of the only known innerdimensional Magical cities and a pairing up with an otherwise thought as ruthless young Huntstress gung ho on slaying and selling creatures just like Huntsclan members before him had sent his Grandson for a seven year sentencing.Mainly on the basis because it was illegal to take a human to any Magical part of the world and to put the life of a gorgeous yet evasive last Phoneix,

"Have you been up all night staring at that thing?"Fu Dog's sudden interposement onto his thoughts caused Laoshi to leap up into the air in surprise and materialized his navy tail as gravity saw to it he return immediately,"Uh..."his canine companion chuckled nervously,"Sorry about that."

His coiled-up tail did one clean bounce like a spring and once then gave away,he plopped back down hard on the wooden chair he'd been sitting at all night,"Yes and you're forgiven,"the aged Chinese Dragon told Fu Dog wearyily,bags evident under his eyes from lack of sleep,"Anything on Jake?"

The six hundred-year-old Sharpi's ears dropped at the mention of Jake,"Nope,nothing on whether or not they were going to ease up on the kid,"he sensed Laoshi's pain,which was somehow between feeling like a traitor for exposing his honest,cocky but still cool Grandson over to the Council and angry for the sentencing he got,Fu told him assuaringly,"Jake'll be fine,you got to believe at least that much."

Laoshi only grunted rigidly as he placed index finger and thumb up to rub his temples feverishly,but the glass ball in front of that was suppose to be out was illuminating now.Gingerly,he reached down to tap it and jerked back when Counciler Adam's face appeared in it,"We have serious news for you Laoshi,"he told him with a note of suspciousness towards Laoshi in a distinct undercurrent to his voice,"You're Grandson has escaped.He and the 'former' Huntress have fled but were not sure where...however,once we find them it's not going to be like last time...Are you listening to me?"his voice was still evenly unsettled with a slight temper,"Jake Long is a wanted Dragon...well,he is now.Most of the Councilers and myself had good,heated arguement last night.The final decision was we were going to release him but by relieving him of the title American Dragon and put on parole.We were even thinking of compromising the young Dragon's relationship with the Huntsgirl,um,Rose.But that this has happened,I suggest you ready yourself and get involved withthe search for Jake and his Girlfriend."

To Be Continued shortly...

Yes,I will be showing what has happened to the rest of the Long family and J&R's face off with the baddest of the bad the...and that's where I draw the line!Unforunately,until real soon!

LP