Jake arrived home that night electrified with the possibliity of being able to advance from what a person might consider apprentice level to full-fledged paladin of the United States.The idea was so remarkably unbelievable,that he was having a tough time concentrating on using the information he had gathered for his homework that day to write his report for History.Man,my life could not be any more perfect right now,he thought as rested an elbow on a mid-contemplated word on this spiral notebook,fully allowing himself to get lost in his daydreams.Of course the Huntsman isn't going to be gone forever and Gramps will be but...uh,he'll come by on the holidays.

Placing his chin into a cupped palm,he finally glanced down prosaically at his spread of incompleted tasks and let loose large,elongated yawn but before he allowed himself to douse off,he was prompt to swat himself across the cheek and then feeling the sting of it,placed his hand more tenderly to the place.Guess I don't know my own strength anymore,Jake thought in slight surprise and turned his ebony eyes onto the large,green numbers of his sleek black electrical clock that read precisely 9:24.

"Wow,"he said to himself with some weariness to his words."I usually don't feel like I have to crash until at least 10:30,maybe all that stuff they told me was just a little more harder to stomach then I realised...I really have to learn to pay attention more."

"Jake!"Spud's excited voice reached his ears and what followed was his friend banging into the room,veering his gaze around the almost every which way and once he caught sight of him,grinned wider and came headlong over to him."Dude,check this out!"

But he only etherised in and out another yawn,replying indifferenttly as he let a medium stack of pages in one of his books he had lifted up by means of his thumb,fan out in a light yet coinciding motion."I'm sort of swamped at the moment,Spud.Can you-WAH!"

In a matter of only seconds,he felt someone topple over him and would have reacted instinctively by pushing them off,had something not landed onto his face that felt cool and stickily blobby at first.Gritting his teeth in annoyance,Jake was about to at least move out from under him,when the liquid dripping off of his face started to feel like it was pulling.Frantically,realising Spud had already gotten off of him,he leapt onto his feet to run to his bathroom.This stuff feels like glue that's come alive,he thought with a little panic starting to rise in his chest and was about to the door,when he caughtsight ofwhat color the stuff was as it stretched off of him and pulled him forward a bit as it did.

"Spud."Jake began semi-calmly,as he inched over to the side and fingering his crow bar that was normally used to get open his locker if it got stuck,raised it up charily into the air and postioned it with it's dipping hook facing him."Mind telling me what this thing is?"

"It's..."He heard Spud tell him in a slow,nervous voice."It was sort of to help you when you try to do stuff like homework,since everyone figured with all that's happened today that you wouldn't be able to concentrate."his words ceased as he thought for a moment and then inserted infomatively."Oh and you're only suppose to use a small,half-handful of it once per night on you're forehead and let it take the thirty to forty seconds it needs to absorb into you're mind before you fall asleep and then it helps you think clearer."

Feeling a streak of uncertainty cross into him,Jake inquired him in a hard gulp."And if you happen to get too much of this red gunk on you're face,then what ha...happ...ens."

The room seemed to spin,all the possessions he could still make out,began swirling into vibrant colors before his eyes.Moaning with a flood of aching in certain tendons in his body,he started to sway and stagger about as everything grew brighter and fainter.At one point,he felt Spud trying to grasp his arms in order to assist him to move to a chair but then all feeling left his body and was replaced by a fizzling numbness,before every last ounce of cognisance drained from the young dragon's body and he collasped.

Spud watched his friend lying there as the livid,bubbling cerise substance engulfed what was left untouched of Jake's head and then appeared to soak into the top of his scalp without a second's which further action to take,he tried to move forward to at least get his friend in a sitting postion just as Trixie entered the room and with her lower jaw jutting open,she hastened over to the scene before her and dropped to her knees on the other side of Jake.Together,the two managed somewhat easily to lift his arms over their shoulders and once that was accomplished,they moved forward to Jake's swivel computer chair and drapped his body down onto it,having to move him up a few times before he would stay put and only slumped over somewhat.

Feeling a little shaken,she turned to Spud with a pitch of worry in her voice."Dude,how did Jake get knocked out cold like this..."her words vanished in a sharp gasp,as one of his shoulders started to move upward but stopped on her exhale of breath."Spud,what on earth happened?I told you all this was a bad idea from the moment you snagged the stuff off the shelf to the moment we decided we were just going to turn it over to Jake because you were so worked up about going to jail and...hey,hey he's movin' again."

His whole upper body seemed to twitch and turn,as though something were trying to come out of him.The two teens kept exchanging unknowing looks with one another for a few seconds,before something thrusted forward onto the floor and made the two jolt backwards into Jake's bed.With a bold expression crossing Trixie's dark features,she yanked off the green comforter from the bed and sprung forward over whatever and/or whoever was now on the floor.Putting an arm onto one side,she motioned for Spud to go and do the other.After a few moments had passed,they brought their sides inward enough to where Jake's face and feet stuck out.It took some time to realise just how violently he had lunged forth and the two now looked at each other fearfully for him.

"I don't know what happened,"Spud explained to her as they dragged him over to his bed,his voice and eyes marked by bewilderment."All I did was come into his room,slip on his rug and then the next thing I see,he's got the stuff on his face.Will...will he be...?"

"Yes."Trixie breathed with some carefulness,though she felt herself relaxing."Looks like he's gonna be asleep for a while.But..."she turned scrutinising eyes on him."You're sure that's all that happened,cause we don't know what all that crud could do if it's all used."

They both continued to talk amongst themselves,turning their eyes away from the bed as Jake lay completely topid under the padded,chartreuse cover .Something within him was revolving and expanding,like the mucilaginous material that had splattered onto his face,it worked it's way threw every last skin cell and fiber.Into his blood stream and collecting over his insides,until the uprising of a shoreless power bursted and someone arouse from the depths of his soul to a solid and physical state.From the being's eyes,he saw the two chattering with one another and thinking for a second with the urge to do a little damange also surfacing,he put up both his hands and gave the brown-haired boy in front of him a good shove.Then before the African American girl could turn to see him,he fell back in a flash into Jake and bolted them both upwards,to where the girl crinkled her brow at the floating body in mid-air;which left the daemon in a tight spot and so he awakened himself within Jake Long's body,lowering it down some and feeling more grasp,he got to his feet as he watched the girl help her friend onto his feet and the two started to back away.Both looked like they had just commited something horrible.

"What's the matter?"he asked them slowly,drawing up his head a little more while assuming a sort of aloof state."You two look like you've gotten you're faces slapped."

"Jake."Trixie floundered her words but came over to his side to steady him as he seemed to be slightly unstable."We could ask you the same thing,how are you feeling?"

He almost pulled away from her touch,feeling little more then irritation but as he kept his eyes on her,seeing the connection that the two seemed to share and keeping in mind that both looked equally worried,noting they're age similiarity,he was able to figure out what kind of relationship his other self had with these two...they were all friends.Perhaps even best ones.An idea started to fomulate and he pushed aside some of his orginal intentions.

"Look."The evil eidolon spoke to them,trying his best at matching Jake's voice and even gave them a reassuring smile."It's been a long day and I do feel kind of tired...uh,"he was quick to recall the events that had had to occur for him to make his re-entry into the regular world,then told them with only a bit of difficulty to sound normal."See,I've been a little jumpy lately because I'm suppose to be on the watch for an invisible type of magical creature that's been roaming around loose.So if I kind of seemed a little on edge..."

"No,it's okay.We just weren't sure what would happen since that stuff got all over you."

Raising a curious brow at the girl,he turned to look down at his feet where a somewhat large but emptied beaker laid rolling a bit and without giving it a second thought,he inclined over and snatched it up.Gripping it's rotundity,he turned it around in a few angles and just to give them a show,examined it coolly just a few extra moments longer.Then smirked as he discovered it was a rare potion that reverberated any level of dark magic that was created;from the body of any living creature.But as pertinence to his idea molded into a more formated plan in his mind,a need to get the two to leave so that he could begin thinking through and setting up such a grand scheme set in,so he turned to them both as the tension between them started to fall and apparent normalcy returned.

"I've gotta get back to my work,why don't ya'll leave and we'll catch up tomorrow?"

"Alright,"Trixie replied back in a convinced tone,giving a little nod to Spud as she began to exit."Just be sure to get some extra shut eye,you're Gramps told us to remind you to be sure to be well-rested and whatnot to help get ready for you're pre-grad."

He felt an interest spark up in him,so he inquired her creepingly."Which stands for...?"

"Uh...pre-graduation."She awnsered with an odd look crossing her visage."You sure-"

"Yes,yes.I'm fine."Yang blurted out,moving forward and putting his arms around their shoulders,illiberally steered them out of the room."Don't let the door slam on you're way out..."he let another pearl-toothed grin cross his tawned features."I'll do that pleasure."

"Dude."Spud asked him in an unusual no-nonsense voice,putting a hand to interlude him closing the day all the way,leaving it ajar enough to where they were face-to-face,then he asked him."Something's up with you,"he told him with some suspicion starting to arise in his beige eyes."Just...uh,get some sleep and try not jumping for joy anymore."

With that,the two left his wake and he was left to his conjuration.He knew he only partly acted as the real Jake and from that point on would make it seem like the teen boy was starting to become corrupt until everyone would believe he had turned on them.But this time around for my next appearance,he thought with some self-reprehension.I am going to have a better grip on myself.Normally,clones have a tendency to become single-minded and even reckless the first time their created.But since this is going to be my second one,I'm actually going to have a more well-rounded goal in mind.Those other clones could barely think for themselves but I'm different...

"So..."Yang started and sequestered himself from the real Jake's body,narrowing his fire filled eyes on him he let Jake's still unconscious self,for the third time,fall to the floor."I've let you're pathetic friends get away for now but I want to make sure you're wide awake for when you get what's coming to you."he could feel his the cruelity starting to grow inside of him,reveling in it."I am going to get make you're life a living nightmare and you won't know until it's too late,when everything is goneand everyone you ever loved hates you."

To Be Continued...

A/N:There's a little more to the whole 'bottle' incident that will be more explained in a further chapter.But yeah,Jake's life is about to take a turn for the worst.Bye.

LP