The Feral Scream

CH IV

AN: Ok, I'm going to take a different direction from this point on. But that's really it, AND PLEASE REVIEW!

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Life had returned to normal after Jake got back home: Grandpa was still using his confusing proverbs, Fu continued betting on every one of Jake's battles. But after he had seen Rose's other persona, he lost something. He wasn't quite sure what it was, but he knew it had something to do with his losing it in battle. Grandpa understood, however: at least that's what Jake thought.

Jake barely talked to Rose anymore. Every time he saw her, he felt angry: not at her, but at himself. So, he decided to try and get Fu to help him.

"HEY! FU! You there!" yelled Jake as he entered the shop, leaving his bag at the door.

"Yeah, kid I'm back here," replied the dog.

"Fu, I need to ask you somethin'," said Jake, "can you whip up a potion that can help me control my powers?"

"Are you crazy kid?" asked Fu, incredulous, as he turned away from the desk to face Jake. "Those kind of Potions are contraband! I'll get in trouble!" He answered.

"Aw, man, come on Fu, we can keep it between the two of us!" Jake pleaded.

"No way, those potions are notoriously hard to control, and not to mention dangerous!" Fu dog informed him.

"But I need to find a way to control it!" Jake answered.

"Even if I wanted to help you with those potions, the key ingredient is almost impossible to get!" Fu said.

"How 'bout this; if I get the ingredients, you make the potion." Jake offered.

"Fine, but I doubt even you could get them," said Fu, handing over a list of ingredients to Jake, who was rushing out the door.

Jake managed to get to Magus Bizarre, hoping that someone had some of those ingredients. Just after he stepped off the train he took a look at his list. He had seen most of the ingredients before: spider's eggs, some green liquid-- he didn't even want to know what it was made of-- called harpie's milk, and something else, something that was in red print and said: 'be careful getting this one'. It was signed by Fu'I guess this is that dangerous stuff Fu was talking about' Jake thought. It was called 'Dragon's fist'. 'Well, something with that specific a name needs to be easy to find.' Jake thought.

It turned out to be the hardest. Jake had been looking for almost 3 hours when he almost gave up. On his way out, he saw something with the word 'dragon' on it. He sprinted over to the shop, threw a few dollars on the counter, and asked, lifting the bottle, "How much for this?"

The shop clerk turned around-- it was some guy in a blue cloak, obscuring his eyes. "You can have it, it's useless to me," he replied.

"Alright!" Jake said, sprinting to the train as the man was closing his shop.

The clerk went behind a corner, placed a phone to his ear, and spoke, "target has taken the bait."

"Good," came his reply. The voice on the other end was deep and full of malice. "By the end of the week, I will have a new pupil," was all it said and the receiver hung up.

When Jake got back to the shop, Fu was gone, but he left some instructions on the back desk. It read: 'Kid, I was called out by some friends, just leave the ingredients on the desk and I'll have it whipped up by morning.'

"Yeah, right, like I'm gonna wait 'till morning for control over myself," Jake said to no one in particular, and walked into the back.

He had seen Fu make tons of potions before. He sat himself at the desk and pulled out some textbooks. He opened one with a black covering and skimmed past a few pages.

When he found a page with most of the ingredients he had with him, he pulled out a beaker. He threw in all the ingredients and mashed them into a pulp, then when he was satisfied that it was near liquid, he took out the beaker with the word 'dragon' on it. He gave the thing a thorough look and was surprised to see the word 'dragon's fist' on the glass container, and poured it in. he swirled the contents around, mustered up all his courage, and swallowed the whole thing.

He felt the effects immediately: he was dizzy, thought he heard voices, and saw colors swirling all around him, and he passed out. He woke up to what he guessed was a few hours later, to see Fu dog and Grandpa hovering over him.

"What happened?" Jake managed to say lifting himself from the floor.

"You made yourself a potion and passed out, you put in too much dragon's fist, and it overwhelmed your senses." Fu stated.

"DRAGON'S FIST!" Grandpa shouted " How did he get that, it can be deadly to dragons!"

"Well, it's too late to worry about how he got it," Fu said "But now we need to figure how to get it out of his system."

"But I thought it was supposed to help me control myself?" Jake questioned.

"Yeah, actually, I wrote down the wrong ingredient, Dragon's fist is sort of like a dragon stimulant," Fu shook his head "it will actually make your feral side more powerful."

Jake slapped his head " Aw man, Now what do I do?" he said

"There is nothing we can do, sooner or later, the feral side will take total control of your body," Grandpa said, " but I believe I can find a way to protect yourself."

Jake raised a questioning eyebrow "How?"

"I was going to give this to you later, but now I have no choice," Lao shi said as he went to a trunk near a corner dusted it off, and opened it and pulled something out. "This belonged to your Great-grandfather, Jake" he handed him a small box that opened at the corners, revealing a necklace shaped like a yin-yang symbol.

Jake lifted it and put it around his neck. "What is it?"

"That necklace should ward off dangerous emotions and might even suppress the animal within." Grandpa said.

"Awesome, how does it work?" Jake said

"When the necklace glows, it is working," Grandpa informed, "It should ward off the dangerous anger that the feral dragon uses to control you. But remember, it has to be touching you for it to work."

"Awesome," Jake said, heading towards the door. "Well, I gotta get home, Mom will want to know where I am."

The Huntsman knew that his plan was finally coming to fruition; he was finally going to destroy that annoying American Dragon. They might not know who he was, but they had figured out he went to the same school as Rose, she had informed him of their fight on the mountain and it was her guess that they went to school together. And if this was going to work, they needed to lure him out, and there they would destroy him.

So he laid out the plan to his men, instead of a Grand Equinox Hunt, this year, they would all partake in luring the American Dragon to show himself in front of his peers, then they would be able to destroy him if they failed to destroy him at the school.

'I might possibly kill two birds with one deadly, glowing stone' he thought to himself.

"Master," said a voice outside his office "May I enter?"

"Yes Huntsgirl, you may." He answered. She walked to just a few meters in front of his desk and asked, "When is the operation to begin master?"

"Soon my dear, very very soon" The Huntsman saidrising from his desk and walking to the window "We shall finally bring ruin upon this dragon, if we fail to destroy him, we will finally get the information we have desired; his human identity." He paused and added "You are dismissed Huntsgirl" And she left the huntsman just staring out the window, thinking of his soon-to-be most glorious day of his entire career.

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