Chapter Two: The Silence of Reality
Jake sat quietly at the table in his grandfather's shop. It was only 7:00 a.m., but Jake was dressed and fed. The silence in the old shop loomed in the air, suffocating him. He walked up the wooden stairs, emerging on the rooftop. He walked over to the edge of the roof, peering down at the bustling city below. He sighed. So this is it, today's the day.
Two months ago,the Dragon Council had discovered that the Huntsclan was planning a mass attack on the magical world. This was unlike their usual pathetic stabs at murder. They had tens of thousands of Hunters ready. Jake and Lao Shi had been training harder than ever. Jake hadn't really thought much of it at first, but after he saw how upset, and…possibly scared Grampa looked; Jake understood that this was nothing to be dealt with lightly. He actually started taking training seriously, practicing all day. Slowly, he became stronger, quicker, and more strategical in battles. Now, his grandfather was easy to fight, though Jake never told him that.
He felt an unfamiliar, and a bit nerve-racking, sense of foreboding. He thought about everything his grandpa had ever taught him. It's all led up to this… he thought. Everyone in the magical realm had always known that a battle of these proportions would come, but they didn't expect it to be so soon. Now, nixes were scrambling for moonstones (1), a Gremlin army was being drafted (2), and Magus Bizarre was no longer the happy hub-bub of a marketplace; it was nearly evacuated.
Here, in the early morning, though it was anything but quiet, it was calm. All the noise of the city seemed far away, like he was watching it on a television screen. The wind bit coldly against his face, but he couldn't bring himself to return to the shop. Returning to the shop meant returning to reality, facing everything that was evil, and, hopefully, winning. Standing on the rooftop, he decided that whatever happened, he would accept it. Whatever fate had in store for him, whatever challenges or obstacles that got in his way, he would face them.
He gave himself a reassuring nod before heading back down the stairs; back to reality.
I donno if this was in the show, but in RadiantBeam's story, Trust, Jasmine controlled her nix powers with a moonstone.
Gremlins will be used to destroy the Huntsclan's staff's and other technology.
Okay, please review! I know, another short chapter, but I'm kinda gonna be goin' back and forth between Jake and Rose's points of view. The next chap will be Thorn's POV, and long. I'll see if I can get it up tonight!