To melissalovesdogs: Thank you

To HORSELUVER101: Yeah, I know :)

To RadiantBeam: Ouch, I hope someone caught you. Yeah she did. Yes, Rose and Jake will get the real Violet to come out, with a little help from Haley.

Chapter Ten

"Haley, did you find anything?" Jake asked excitedly. He, Farrell and Haley were in the library trying to find out what had happened to Violet.

"I'm looking! I'm looking! Researching isn't something to be rushed, why do you think I would always start doing my homework the moment I got home?" Haley said, annoyed.

"But what do you think they did?" Jake asked, flipping trough the pages of a book. On a normal day he'd have fallen asleep by now, but this was definitely not a normal day. "Hypnotism? Or do you think she was possessed? Or mind control?"

"I dunno," said Farrell. He turned the page of the book he was reading, it was entitled Mind Control: Have Your Minions' Minds Completely Under Your Control.

"I'm not sure, but I think its hypnotism," Haley said, she paused to think, "Yes! I think I came across a book of it once!" she began looking through the book titles on the shelves.

"Jake, can you ask the librarian if there was a black dragon who borrowed a book here once?" Haley asked, "I'll be in the Dark Arts section," she said and walked away.

"I thought I was the older sibling," Jake muttered as he walked off to the librarian.

"I did too," Farrell agreed.

"Excuse me, but did a black dragon come here and borrow a book recently?" Jake asked as calmly and politely as he could.

"Why, yes, if I remember correctly it was-"

"JAKE! JAKE! I FOUND IT! GET OVER HERE!" Haley said excitedly.

"Oh, and can you remind your sister this is a library, shh!" said the librarian.

"Yes, ma'am," Jake said before running off to his sister, Farrell running behind him.

"What?" they asked excitedly.

"Come, take a look at this," Haley said, pointing at a page in the book. Farrell climbed onto a shelf and leaned over. He smiled.

Jake leaned over and took a look, he read it carefully before saying, "I dunno how you did it, Haley, but you did it!"

Rose fought as well as she could, but she soon grew tired. "Not as young as you used to be, huh?" said the dragon.

Rose didn't reply as she ducked and saw the dragon's tail fly over her. "Getting tired, mom?" the evil Violet asked. She laughed when her tail came back and hit Rose's head.

Rose tried to stand up again but her body wouldn't cooperate. Her limbs were weak from attacking and defending, ducking and dodging, running and jumping. 'Get up, Rose!' she thought.

"Too tired and weak? Now you know that a dragon is much stronger than a simple minded human like you," Violet laughed.

'Simple minded? No one calls you that and gets away with it!' she practically screamed it out in her mind. 'I'm too tired, I can't fight anymore, my body can't take anymore of this,' another part of her mind reasoned out.

"Can't take anymore of this, mommy?" the dragon clutched Rose's throat and raised her off her feet. Rose struggled but was too tired to make the dragon let go.

"Any last words?" Violet asked.

"Put her down!" said a voice.

The dragon turned her head in the direction of the voice. There stood Jake, Haley and Farrell. Jake was holding a thick book of some sort.

"Redeo, reverto ut da unus prius. Quasso da magus, procedo, Violet!" said Jake, reading the words from the book.

The dragon released Rose. Her red eyes slowly turned into their natural blew color and shape. "Oh," Violet groaned, "What happened?" she rubbed her head. She felt like all the information in it was all messed up.

"MOM!" she screamed when she saw her mother on the ground. It all came back to her. She had attacked her mother and brother; she didn't know why, that part was blurry.

"Rose!" Jake ran over to them.

"V-violet," Rose held Violet's purple dragon hands weakly.

"Mom, I'm so sorry," Violet sobbed, tears running down her violet dragon cheeks.

"It's all right, Vi," Rose replied softly, "It wasn't you,"

"But mom, if dad hadn't done what he did I could have…" she lowered her voice, "killed you," she said those two words so quietly that her parents just barely heard it.

"Violet, stop being so hard on yourself," Rose said, "I forgive you,"

"Thanks mom," Violet hugged her mother tightly, "I love you and I'd never ever do that intentionally."

"I know Vi, I know," Rose said gently. She wiped a tear off her daughter's cheek, "It's all right, I'm still here, alive. Jack's still okay too," she said, pointing at Jack who was being carried by Haley in her dragon form.

Haley gently lowered Jack and put him down next to his family. Violet hugged her brother. "I'm sorry, Jack."

"It's okay, Violet," Jack smiled, hugging his sister back.

"Yes, Violet, we've forgiven you already," Jake said, joining the hug.

Rose joined in. "No matter what happens, we'll always forgive each other."

"Uh… as much as I'd hate to interrupt this," Farrell said, "but we've still got a city to save."

Violet's eyes widened, "Oh no! If we don't stop them they're gonna put the plan into action! And I've seen his army; he has lots of dragons under his control, a lot of them were hypnotized like me."

"Then we'll race our own army, I've done it before and I can do it again, this time with you guys to help," Jake said determinedly.

Yes, I know, not as long as the others, but at least tell me what you think.