New Chapter, Its clear that some of you are hanging for the action so here it starts.

Chapter 4- Under a blood red sky

They knew that something was terribly wrong, even before they hit the city. Normally they had blue skies over through to the city skyline which could be just made out. But today when they looked, they saw pillars of blacks smoke. The sky seemed blood red and there appeared to be orange fires. Jake realised that this may have been the vision of hell that he saw earlier on in his dream. Things looked even worse when they got closer. Jake could see that no one on the ground had any idea what to do. They were being restricted from going to the city. There were police blockades everywhere. Then they got to the mess of the city. It looked like a post apocalyptic nightmare, rubble everywhere. Many buildings were still standing but were on fire. There was panic on the streets.

It had taken Jake, Lao Shi and Fu 1 and a half hours to get back to the city. "The dark dragon must have a hell of a lot of minions. Jake looked down and saw a bunch of people run into an alleyway. Suddenly a shade appeared and began harassing. They started to run back out of the alley, but a shade appeared on the other end.

"Gramps, Down Here" Called Jake

The three of them landed in the alley. The crowd did not know whether to be scared or happy. The shades growled at Jake and Lao Shi.

"Alright lets see what you got, are you chicken huh?" Fu started taunting them. One of them made a dash for fu, but was stopped by Jake.

"Here have some claw" Jake shouted as he easily dispersed of the shade. The other one growled, but turned and started getting away.

"Oh no you don't" Jake yelled as he flew after the shade. Jake breathed a warning shot of fire and the shade froze. He then turned around to face Jake but Jake did not need to do anything. A man with a large piece of wood, smacked the shade unconscious. The devastation on the ground was much more apparent on the ground then in the air. Jake and the man thanked each other, but the house next to them suddenly exploded. Jake and the man dived for cover. It seemed that everywhere in New York was now some sort of death trap.

'I got to get home' Jake realised. He had no idea what could be happening to his house. On the street he could see looters. Everyone was in a panic. Jake, Lao Shi and Fu flew to Lao Shi's electric shop which was nearby. It was undamaged, luckily but they didn't know for how much longer. Central Park was fully ablaze. The reality of what was happening finally dawned on them. They were too late. Most of New York was already rubble. On a working radio, Jake heard (on a radio station outside the NYC) that the government had authorised Milliary intervention. Jake did not know if that would be much help, the military would be severely under prepared to face the evilest of all magical creatures.

After a while, Lao Shi said "Jake, we must get to your house. If it is still intact, we must get Haley. We must tell your parents to stay indoors at all costs. Then we must head over to Margus Bazaar and see if there is any damage and if we can get more reinforcements to fight for us."

Immediately after he said this, a civilian came flying through the shop window. Outside, an evil troll was attacking him.

Jake and Lao Shi leapt into action. The troll was a little startled and scared at having to face two dragons, but did not run away like he normally would. Jake tackled him into the ground with enough force to knock anything out, but the troll seemed little interested. The evil magical creatures seemed to be stronger then the good ones Jake thought although he couldn't really make a fully founded assumption as he had only gone against 3 creatures so far. The troll got back up. This time Lao Shi tackled it. This time it didn't get up.

"We must hurry, back to your parent's house. I just have to hope that they are alright."

With that Jake and Lao Shi took off in the direction of Jakes house. Fu stayed behind because they believed that it was safer for him in the shop, but he could also get rid of human looters who might try and take advantage of the situation.

Jake's street looked fairly placid compared to the rest of New York, 'They musn't have destroyed here much then' Jake thought to himself. They landed at the front door and knocked. Jakes Dad, armed with a shotgun, cocked it and yelled "Who's there, go away."

"But its me Jake"

"Oh Jake, come on in" He said excitedly as he unbolted the door and opened it.

"Whats Happening?" Asked Jakes mum. "It seems that the world has fallen apart."

"We require Haley." Lao Shi replied. "We need all the help we can get"

"But do you think that she is ready?"

"We cannot burden ourselves with such thoughts, she will do just fine."

(Argh its getting hard to concentrate, the song 'Jump' by Van Halen suddenly Jumped into my head for no reason and I haven't been able to get it out)

"But" Jakes mum continued to protest, but Lao Shi wouldn't listen.

"Either she fights with us, or she dies here. The Dark Dragon is not going to care that she has not had any training. With us she stands a chance. Alone, there is nothing."

Jakes mum was still very reluctant, but gave in.

"What do we do in the meantime?" Asked Jakes dad.

"You two must stay here. You cannot go outside it is dangerous. We on the other hand are going to Margus Bazaar to get help from as much of the non corrupted magical community as we can."

Jake, Gramps and Haley then left. Jakes Dad then Locked the door and returned to his vigilant position. It was still dangerous throughout New York. The police from all districts had decided to work together, and were struggling to get to a central meeting point. The streets below were packed witrh Refugees, all of whom seemed that they couldn't leave New York. It was a site. Several million people unarmed and unprovisioned attempting to make a hasty exodus from New York. The heat at times was unbearable and the fires were so intense that although the air was filled with smoke, The sky was a light shade of blood red. When the trio got to Margus Bazaar, they found that it had been trashed, stalls lying about the place fires etc. It was a splitting image of the rest of New York city. It was also void of all life. Many had managed to escape but some were not so lucky. Their lifeless bodies lined the streets. Or were they the lucky ones? Jake knew if the Dark Dragon was not stopped that everyone may as well be dead.

"It's a terrible shame" Commented Lao Shi.

Haley was scared.

"Don't look Haley" Jake told her, "It will only make thing worse.

The three turned to leave, there had to be someone in the entire city willing to help them but they were interrupted. Two Dragons, Pitch black in colour appeared out of nowhere and blocked their exit. They turned their attention on these two.

"So pleased that you could join us, I knew Id find you here" Boomed a voice from behind them.

They turned around. The Dark dragon was there, just in front of him. He clutched the orb. Lao Shi noticed that something was wrong. Then an idea hit him, with as much shock as when he looked through the orb at Wilhelm and was red. This time when he looked through the orb at the Dark Dragon, It was its Natural blue colour. Lao Shi couldn't make sense of it. The only reason that he could possible find is that the Dark Dragon was a pureblood dragon with no shape shifting abilities, or magical properties whatsoever. But everybody believed that these non magic Dragons had been extinct for millions of years.

"My Dragon Posse and I will make short work of you." The dark dragon Growled.

The three of them prepared to fight. Haley watched Jake to find out what she should do. There were three of them and 3 of the evil dragons, but the evil ones had a huge advantage. While Jake could probably take on one of the evil dragon guards, Haley still had no chance. Also the Dark Dragon was more powerful then either of them and now that he had the orb of mysticism, he was even more powerful then before.

The guard dragons made the first strike, they went for the weakest, Haley. She had no idea what to do. Jake went for the guard dragons before they could do anything to Haley but he was tackled from behind by the dark dragon. It was up to Lao Shi. He sprung into action, grabbing Haley and moving her out of the way, just before the dragon guards got to her. He even added in a fire blast to get them as they passed. Haley copied this action, and they both burned the evil dragons. Jake was hit hard by the tackle but he sprung straight back into action. The Dark Dragon had turned his attention to Lao Shi and became engaged in to hand to hand combat with him. Meanwhile Jake tackled one of the evil dragon guards. It roared as he hit it and it fell crashing through a building. The other dragon guard grabbed Jakes back and did not let go. Jake could not breath fire at the one on his back and struggled to get it off. The tackled dragon recovered and attacked Jakes Front. Jake managed to flame him which forced him back a little. Haley then came in with a flame/Claw attack, and attacked the dragon on Jakes back. It let go, yelped in pain but turned around and swiped its claw hitting Haley and knocking her to the ground. Jake bit the dragons throat as hard as he could. It seemed that the evil dragon would be down for the count when the Dark Dragon broke the combat with Lao Shi and suddenly attacked Jake who was forced to let go. The Dark Dragon hit Jake with such a force that he was knocked to the ground and stayed there.

"Finish him now, my evil Minion, and the power will be yours."

The Dark Dragon then turned his attention to Lao Shi, so that he could not interfere. The other evil guard held Haley back.

The evil dragon laughed as it approached Jake. Jake started to come around, but was still feeling very dizzy and nauseous. The Evil Dragon flew up, spread its wings and raised its claw for one final attack on Jake.

Suddenly a voice popped out of nowhere. "You will not harm him."

Then a green energy bolt suddenly hit the evil dragon from behind and he fell to the floor. The Rose, or hunts girl appeared. She zapped the Dragon another time, then another then another and repeated this ten times. If that wasn't enough, she began beating the dragon on the ground with the staff. Again and again she hit it. When she finally stopped she was puffing and there was a pool of blood lying around the lifeless figure of the dragon.

"Congratulations, Hunts girl. You have finally slain your first dragon"

The hunts master and several other members of the hunts clan appeared on all the buildings around the bazaar. The dark dragon looked around and growled.

"Come" He beckoned to the other evil dragon guard, then took off.

The evil dragon guard tried to do the same, but was attacked by the entire hunts clan and slain.

They then surrounded Jake, Lao Shi and Haley and raised their staffs.

"Stop, wait, do not hurt them" Yelled Hunts girl as she jumped into the circle.

"Hmm, yes" Called the hunts master. "I do not like making truces with Dragons and it pains me greatly to do this but when a maniac dragon seems to be destroying everything with an army of evil minions, we need as many friends as we can get. You three, welcome to the hunts clan, or as it shall be temporarily called the evil hunts clan, because we only will hunt the evil creatures"

"Lets Just stick with the name hunts clan" Rose replied.

"Ok We agree to that" Lao Shi said cautiously.

Jake smiled. He never thought that he would be part of the hunts clan but he didn't mind. It meant that he could spend more time with Rose.

End Chapter

Spoiler- Lets Just say in the next chapter an old 'Friend' Returns