YAY I'm so happy 13 Years of schooling finished, And I got my results back from our end of school exams (For us its called the HSC)

English (Advanced) 80/100
Information Processes and Technology 93/100
Mathematics 70/100
Physics 78/100
Software Design and Development 90/100
Studies of Religion 36/50

UAI: 85.05

That means I Performed better or equal to 85.05 of the state

Well for the second chapter now

Chapter 2- Dragon Council

It was still early at the subway station when Lao Shi, Fu Dog and Jake arrived, so there were not many people about. Lao Shi ensured that no one else was around, then he entered the combination in the lift that would lead it to Draco Island. This time there was no one in the lift. Jake, Fu and Lao Shi walked into the elevator and Jake braced himself. Sure enough the lift zoomed down at its high speed leaving Jake grasping onto the railing for dear life. For some reason neither his grandfather nor Fu seemed to be effected at all by it. Then they got to the bottom and Jake hit the ground hard.

Jake was still recovering from his trip when Fu dog and Lao Shi walked out of the elevator. Jake waited a bit to regain some of his composure and then stumbled out after them Jake looked around. It looked the same as it did the last time he was there. In front of him there was the large building in which the councillors resided. All except councillor Chang, the Chinese dragon who was found out to have been working for the dark dragon.

A strange thought crossed Jakes mind. 'Is there a Tibetan dragon, or a Taiwanese dragon if there is a dragon for every country, because although China doesn't recognise them as countries, they recognise themselves as countries and the U.N even recognises Taiwan as a country. If so it would be fairly reasonable to suspect that these places all had a dragon of their own '

Jakes Grandpa and Fu dog were already halfway towards the building when Jake snapped back to reality and ran to catch up with them. "Hey wait up guys" He puffed while shouting.

Jake caught up with them at the steps. He was sweating pretty heavily by now. 'Man for early in the morning, it sure is hot here' He thought to himself.

As they began alighting the steps, Jake saw councillor Andam waiting for them. He didn't want to seem to waste any time at all.

"come with me immediately." He looked fairly concerned then he walked quickly back into the building. Jake Lao Shi and Fu dog quickly followed. They walked into a hallway and up some steps. After going up and down those damn fire steps in the Kepler building so many times, Jake thought that he would never want to mount another step again but Life just kept presenting him with 3 dimensions and upper floors so he really had no choice. At the top of the step there was a long golden hallway. Councillor Andam hurried to about the half way point of the hallway then walked into a room to the left, beckoning the rest to follow. When the trio arrived into the room, they found that it was some sort of bedroom, it was fairly small just enough to fit only a bed and a desk.

"Thank you for coming on such short notice" Andam started. "I will start by saying this, we still have no idea where the dark dragon is. I shall continue by asking you this. Do you know what a keeper is?"

"All three of them looked at each other and shrugged, even Jakes grandpa who seemed quite learned about things did not seem to know.

"No" they all replied in Unison

"Well that is a good thing then" Replied Andam. "It means that they are able to do their job properly."

The three listeners still had little idea what was going on.

"So if you still don't know where the dark dragon is, why are we here then?" Asked Jake

"Patience young one, I will explain in due time, but there are some things that you must know first. About the keepers. They are a bunch of people, both human and magical who stay together and devote their lives to keeping, interpreting and finding the meaning of prophesies. It is very hard work, but they know exactly what is going to happen before it does. What I'm telling you is absolutely top secret OK? No one else is to know about this ok?"

There was a short silence, then the three responded with an abrupt "OK"

"That especially goes for you Fu Dog, Lao Shi has told me how bad you are at keeping secrets"

Flashback:

Lao Shi: Ok Fu this card contains the secret numbers for all of the United States stockpile of nuclear armaments. You must deliver this to the president, and no one else is to know.

Fu Dog: Got ya. (Starts walking) Hmm I think I shall take this shortcut through dodgy 'Little Arabia' The only place where counter terrorist police have not dared to look because everyone here is heavily armed, and would love to get their hands on any piece of information that might destroy America (Walks through Little Arabia). Hoy, I need a rest. (Walks right into the middle of the Bazaar type of place). Hey what are these numbers anyway? (Shouts) OH my god The code for Americas Nuclear weapons is 5, 3, 8, 9, 16, 4, 6, 9, 32, 49, 23, 8,46, 47, 23? That's the same combination that's on my luggage. (Stops to see everyone look at him) Opps, I mean that isn't the code, I mean Woof (Whispers nervously) he he (Then Runs).

End Flashback

"Ok I got it, I won't tell a soul I promise" Fu dog answered.

"Wait a second" Jake piped in "If these guys know what is going to happen, how come no one else is informed of this?"

"Their rules state that they are not allowed to, especially as it would reveal them to the public. If this happens their ability to translate the glyphs which make up the prophesies would disappear, but they can notify certain people if the prophesies instruct them to. Anyway there is one last thing you must know about the keepers. When an old dragon retires from the dragon council, They spend the rest of their lives as a keeper. Understand everything so far?"

They nodded to show they understood.

"Ok now on to recent events. We had a dragon elder retire from this council a few years ago. His name was Mahkuti. He was a very powerful dragon in his time but old age and senility got the better of him. He became a keeper and stayed in this very room. All keepers are to keep a diary of his findings. He did. He would also often go to the library in order read up on the prophesies. We believed that he was close. Yesterday when I came up to his quarters, I noticed that he was gone. I didn't think much of it until later on last night. He had not been seen. We conducted a search. Neither he nor his diary could be found anywhere but it gets worse. Upon going to the library, we found it a blaze. All books which tell about Draco Island were destroyed. Coincidence? I think not. All the councillors believed that he was close to cracking the case of the Dark Dragon. We also believed that the prophesy was telling him to keep us informed. Now the events as we see it is that the Dark dragon realised this and kidnapped Mahkuti along with his diary, then burned the library so that no one else could translate the prophesies. He has probably killed Mahkuti by now, but we require his diary."

"How can you be sure of most of this?" Asked Lao Shi

"Well we did find one page of his diary. Here it is"

Councillor Andam handed a sheet of paper over to Lao Shi. It had one line on it. Lao Shi Read it Aloud. "One week before the world changes forever."

"So whats that mean?" Jake asked

"I don't know but I do not want to wait around to find out what these changes are." Lao Shi replied.

Andam began again "We belief that maybe if he was able to leave us this diary page, he may have left other pages lying around somewhere. That is what we have to do. We have to go and find these pages that he may have left lying around or both our worlds might be in great peril."

"Well where do we look for them?" Jake asked

"They could be anywhere" Councillor Andam replied "but you will have to search hard or else in a week we could all be doomed"

Jake sighed looks like they had to spend probably their last week alive searching for diary pages which might not even be there.

"Lao Shi, you go off in the direction of the library to search. Fu, you can search down south, but if anyone asks you, your searching for a mythical oversized juicy bone. I will search the hills in the North and Jake, you will have to search to the west. But don't worry, You will have company."

Councillor Andam stepped aside to reveal the person who will be searching with Jake. Before this Jake thought that it couldn't get any worse. He was wrong. There in the doorway stood Fred Nerk, the Australian Dragon.

"Hey mate I hear I gotta get us outta this pickle you put us in. Oh yeah and great job, revealing our secret and everything, leave it up to the loudmouth Americans to do that"

"You come over here and say that" Jake Demanded

"Now, Now, settle down. You two must work together if you are to find any clues whatsoever to the disappearance of Mahkuti. Hurry now. We must go our separate ways. If you find anything come back and ring the bell down the hallway. Its too high a frequency for any human to hear, but we will hear it miles (Damn I'm using the imperial system now) away."

They all walked out the door. Fred followed Jake down the hallway, but did not say anything. They all got into the lift and went down. They hurried through the entrance, then down the stairs. "I bet I find these Prophesies before you" Fred Taunted.

"Like hell you will."

"Immediately Fred turned dragon and shot off west. Jake did the same thing, following Fred.

Fred was flying at full speed. Jake stayed a little behind in order to keep an eye out for anything at all that might have been of interest. Fred Landed on top of a large rock Jake circled the rock once then landed with him. "What is going on?" Asked Jake.

"Well it's like this" Fred replied Deviously. "Ive known about this for a few hours now. I also knew that we would have to fly in this direction. Look down there. See that road? That road is a highway for leprechauns. You know what that means mate?"

"Err no, I still don't get you."

"Simple. If you help a leprechaun in need, it is obliged to grant you a wish. I have set up a simple Leprechaun trap here. The leprechaun walks right into the trap we go down and 'rescue him' then as our wish we say 'Give us Mahkuti's Diary pages' See am I not a genius, "

"God No" Replied Jake "I will not allow you to endanger anything like that"

"Oh settle down mate, it's just a bit of fun"

"Its not fun, its stupid"

"Well take it down then if you really want to spend a week searching for these goddamn diary pages"

Jake thought for a second then he sped down to the trap. Unfortunately he did not realise how cleverly constructed the trap was and got himself caught. Fred started laughing really hard at this.

"C'mon, help me out" Jake protested

"Help yourself out" Fred snapped back

Jake clawed at the ropes, they weren't that strong so he easily broke them.

"You go a bit too far sometimes" Jake said out aloud but then thought 'I've got to figure out away to get him back for all this'

Something then caught Jake's eye. It was a bit of paper, on the rock just below Fred. Jake picked it up. It read:

January 26 214ACL

I feel that I may be close to finding out who or what the Dark Dragon is. The Prophesies tell of a special keeper, this being keeps the orb and is the official guardian of this orb. I feel that maybe this may be referring to the dark dragon. If this is so, then may mercy be upon the world. Some of this prophesies is still unclear, I have translated the glyphs but they still make little sense: 'The one who doth keep the orb, It may be consumed by the keeper, and the keeper may be fell, without consequence of total death. There will be other consequences though.' That is as far as I have translated on that matter. I will keep posting. Regards Mahkuti

"I got no idea what that means" Commented Jake "But I think we are going in the right direction"

"Fair enough, that's a stroke of luck"

"So where do we look next"

"Oh I dunno, lets try that Billabong there"

Fred started flying towards a large, dark Lake. Jake followed him. They spent an hour searching for any more clues, but they found nothing

"Okay, maybe there is nothing here after all" Fred whispered

"Ya think" Jake snapped back

"Okay, calm down mate"

They then heard the bell ring back at the gathering place. Someone else had found a bit of information. Fred of course took off before thinking and smacked right into a tree. It was Jakes turn to laugh heavily now.

"Yeah fair dinkum" (I'm really annoying myself, doing this) Fred said as he rubbed his head, "not like you never did anything like that"

Jake knew what he was talking about, when he was showing off in front Of Wilhelm and he smacked head first into a concrete building and his head had already been sore due to the fact that he had already smacked through several windows that day. Jake had a permanent headache till a couple of days ago because of that.

"Yeah but that was in the heat of battle, not when there is no danger around"

"Whatever"

Fred took off a little more carefully this time but still with a great degree of carelessness. Jake once again followed.

It didn't take them long to return to the building but they were still the last ones there. The rest of them were waiting at the bell. It was clear that they hadn't gotten far in their searching, but it was clear that Lao Shi had more paper, obviously found in the remains of the library.

Jake produced his sheet of paper, but his grandfather had a couple of sheets. Lao shi placed all the sheets for everyone to read:

February 4 214 ACL

These prophesies get harder and harder to translate, maybe it is just me in my old age, that's the way it seems. I had to look back at an older book, and a certain passage caught my eye, roughly translated: 'The dark one will be revealed, No power posses he without the real dark one. He is but a minion after a ball. But in time corruption perishes all, and a conspiracy, 100 years in the making will be revealed'. Regards, Mahkuti

The next one was dated a little later But there were parts burned off

July 5 214 ACL

Not all prophesies are all that hard. I now know there can be hope if it seems like all has failed. This being mentioned, the keeper of the orb, if he is slain while he hath the orb consumed, …………….. still be magic………….. One only must find…………book…………………

That's all that was legible from that one. The last one that Lao Shi had really caught everyone's attention. It was in different handwriting. It was dated only a week ago

August 27 214 ACL

I fear my life may soon be void, but before this happens I believe I will be taken, not at my own will but forced to the Dronshaftbi Mines (Don't bother telling me that no such mines exist I'm well aware of it) in upstate New York. I fear the world may be doomed, I also feel that this will be the commencing point of a wave of destruction that may plague the lands of earth, but Draco island as well.

After everyone had finished reading, Jake presented the note he found.

"That's odd" Commented Andam "Why would that note be so far away from the others?"

"I want to know what it all means" Jake butted in

"It sounds like Big trouble in little New York to me" Added Fu

"Well we have managed to establish the place in which the dark dragon is most likely to attack first." Andam reassured everyone. "To be honest, I don't know how reliable this information is, but its all we got. So I am hereby sending Young Jake, and his grandfather to the Dronshaftbi Mines in upstate New York. Fred I understand that you have run into some problems back in Australia, so I shall dismiss you and you may return there"

"Righto, thanks mate"

Fred gave Jake a nod then flew down the hallway and out the front.

"I will ensure that you know if I figure out what any of this means, but for now Its time that you 2 went to upstate New York for the week. Any questions"

"Ah Yes do we have to go man?" Jake asked a little winy

"YES"

'Ah well' thought Jake, it should be a good trip with his grandfather and Fu dog and he would get to miss a week of school,

End Chapter

I know That I said I would release the first 3 chapters together but Um Well it appears that I have changed my mind. Stick around it gets more interesting from the end of the 3rd chapter. Read & Review, Flame all you want