Three years passed since Jackknife escaped the Dragon world. The dragons searched for him during those years in the different known worlds without any success until something was discovered inside a cavern in an inhabitable section of the Dragon world. They estimated that Jackknife could have use it to escape to another world and prepared an expedition to search and arrest Jackknife.

Chapter 2: Chasing Jackknife

A dragon with red skin except his orange underbelly and his long tail was cleaning his weapon; a large drill named the Salamander Engine. He scratched his yellow hairs and one of his two silver horns with his other hand before continuing cleaning his weapon. His golden armor with a ruby jewel on his cuirass made a sharp song as he moved forward to clean another part of the weapon and a dark gray shirt, a golden helmet with two tubes on it and pant and he wore a red tattered cape on his back.

The name of this dragon is Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV. He finished cleaning his drill and stood up. He put it on his shoulder and walked outside.

"You finished the preparation for your mission son," a voice told him.

"Father," Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV replied.

He turned around and faced his father. He was physically similar to his son with darker scales, many scars on his body with long white hair. He wore a gray cuirass with dark gray pant. His name was Fang Slade Terrestrial XIII.

He glared at his son and made him try to be smaller: "Don't get cocky toward me son. It's not because you are finally a soldier that you can think to be better than me. Remember that you will one day inherit the throne of our clan. You still have a lot to learn before you reach that level."

"I know father," Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV replied nervously.

"Remember that this mission is a vital one. You have to capture the traitor Findar the 100th with the squadron you are in. You will put your training into use in this mission. What I trained you is only the first step to become a strong warrior son. Training is far from over so don't get cocky or too stubborn like you often are. Remember that you cannot fail this important mission," his father said before turning around and walking away. "The clan honor is in your claw."

"I won't disappoint our clan father," Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV replied. He heard the doubtful grunt of his father as he walked away. Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV looked at his drill and said: "I'm going to get this traitor by myself father. I'll show you how strong I am."

He took some cards and put it in a desk before attaching it to his shoulder guard: "Always bring spell cards. I don't want father to lecture me again because I forgot to bring it during my training."

He turned around and used his cape as his wings and flew toward his destination. He reached the cavern and entered in it. He looked at the teleporting device and pressed on a few switched on it as the bubbles, showing the different worlds appeared. He looked at them and searched for his destination.

"I'm sorry everyone, but I'll get Findar the 100th myself. Father will finally see how strong I am. Got it," Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV said as he found the world. He looked at the blue world for a few seconds. "It's a nice world to see from here. Anyway, I already have the coordinates. I think I should use the one the dragons already prepared and starts from there. I already know the stench of the traitor," he concluded. He activated the teleportation device and walked in it, destination; the blue world.

As he reached the other side of the portal, he was in the sky and looked down.

"Ah!" Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV shouted as he started to fall. He used his cape wings to maintain himself in the air and prevented himself from falling. "That was close. I wasn't expecting to fall at the other side. Okay. I have one day to capture Findar the 100th before the other's come here. If I can do it on my own, father will respect me."

He saw in front of him the big city of this new world. Everything he saw was a new discovery as the light of the sun showed him everything. The city was high and different colors that were appealing to the eyes of the dragon. Some part of the city has small buildings and others were much bigger.

"Are they giant living here?" Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV asked to himself. He saw some strange things of multiple forms moving on plane ground painted in gray, he saw some living creatures of flesh coming out of them or entering in it. He was impressed by his discovery, but eventually shook his head: "Come on. I have to focus on finding and arresting the traitor. I have to find him, but where is he?"

He started smelling around and only unknown smelt came in his nostrils. Some of the smells were bad and made him cough while others were tempting and made his mouth salivated.

"There's so many strange smells that Findar could use to hide from dragons here. I need to go elsewhere. Maybe I can detect him that way," he said.

He flew at the directions of the smaller building and heard a strange sound. He saw a metallic object flying at the opposite direction, making a loud sound: "A flying machine...Such weird form."

He flew there and grunted, disappointed that he smelt nothing about his target. Those inhabitants are strange. They are so numerous in one place and this city is so big. This is a strange world indeed. He said in his mind.

Time passed, the sun moved from his left and reached his right. He knew that the day was coming to an end and realised he might have done this for nothing. He passed near a park with a small forest with green trees when he smelt his target.

There he is. Now it's time to arrest him. He said preparing his drill for the battle.

He flew down at the direction of the woods and landed on the ground. He looked around and saw nothing, but he followed his nose at the direction of his target. The wind blew at his face and that made him smiled lightly. With the wind coming at me, he won't be able to smell me. I have the initiative. He told himself as he hid behind a large tree.

The smell was stronger and the red and orange dragon knew he was close. He took a few silent steps at the direction of his target when he saw the green dragon on the ground, facing him. The amber eyes of the green dragon gazed at his eyes.

"Don't think a young dragon like you can outsmart me. I might not smell you, but I heard your armor for a while. I know why you are here," the green dragon said.

"Findar the 100th. Since you know why I'm here, then surrender so I can bring you back to the Dragon world," Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV said, preparing his drill.

"Findar...It's been a while since I heard anyone call me by my title. I am Jackknife dragon," the green dragon replied before the blade of his helmet pointed forward. "I'm sorry, but I have no intention to return to the Dragon world. I value my head."

"Don't worry. I knew a traitor like you wouldn't surrender to the dragon force," Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV said preparing his drill as it made a loud sound.

Jackknife looked at his right and left and smelt, he found nothing: "Where is your squadron?"

"I don't need a squadron to defeat you. I am Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV. Remember the title of the dragon that shall defeat you."

The green dragon chuckled before replying: "You are too young to defeat me by yourself Fang Slade."

"You think that?" Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV replied with a confident smile.

He charged toward Jackknife. His tried to hit his enemy with his drill, but the blade on the head of the green dragon deviate it. Fang Slade grunted and jumped forward to dodge the tail of Jackknife. He faced Jackknife and activated the drill engine. Flame came out of it and Fang Slade charged faster toward the green dragon, aiming for the chest. He succeeded in his attack and Jackknife was thrown against a tree that felt on his head.

Fang Slade saw that the drill didn't penetrated in the scales of his enemy, but saw the damage. Jackknife slowly stood up and grunted painfully before saying: "You hit...really hard Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV. I've received harsher treatment."

"It's over!" Fang Slade said, already charging since the moment Jackknife stood up. He jumped in the air and was about to hit the green dragon when:

"Green Dragon Shield!" a voice shouted from nowhere.

The drill bounced on the shield with a green dragon head. That caused Fang Slade to lose his balance. He saw the green tail coming at him and hit his groin. Fang Slade was thrown against a tree and grunted painfully while his Salamander engine flew farther away.

"Urgh...What happened?" he said as he stood up.

"You will not hurt him!" a voice shouted.

Fang Slade looked at the voice and saw by the side of Jackknife, a small bring with blue hair of that world looking at him with hatred. He gasped when he saw in the hand of the boy's card just like those he had on his shoulder plate.

"So you have some spell cards. Good thing I have some too," Fang Slade said as he took one. He raised it and shouted: "Dragonblade!" the card didn't do anything special. Fang Slade looked at it and shouted the name again. He picked a spell card and try casting it, but nothing happened.

Jackknife laughed loudly for a few seconds before grunting painfully: "It won't work in this world Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV. The spell cards and weapon cards you brought with you cannot be used by us. Only a creature of this world can use it."

The source of energy here is different then. Fang Slade realised.

"Dragon Flame!" the boy said as he raised another card.

He jumped in the air and opened his wing cape to evade the flame coming at him when he saw Jackknife coming at him at fast pace. He saw the face of the green dragon in pain, but that didn't stop him from attacking. Fang Slade didn't have time to defend himself and Jackknife helmet blade slashed the chest of Fang Slade.

"Argh!" the red and orange dragon shouted. He suddenly lost his strength and felt back in a tree: branches broken under his weight until he hit the ground. His red blood started to cover his armor and felt on the green grass of the unknown world. He tried to stand up, but he felt under his body, suddenly becoming too heavy for him and felt against the tree. "Dammit...If only the spell cards...works."

Jackknife landed on the ground and said: "Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV. You are young to defeat me. It was foolish to fight me alone and-"

"Jack!" a voice shouted.

"Tasuku. Stay back," Jackknife told the boy with blue hair.

"You... How can you help a fugitive?" Fang Slade asked painfully to Tasuku. Tasuku didn't reply as he looked at Fang Slade. The injured dragon saw the face of the boy becoming uncertain of what he meant. "You...didn't know."

Jackknife looked at Tasuku and calmly said: "Let's go Tasuku. I'll...explain everything later."

Jackknife lowered his body and Tasuku hesitated a few seconds before climbing on the back of the green dragon. The two left Fang Slade alone.

The red and orange dragon wanted to scream something, but gave up when they were far away. He covered his chest with his arms and slowed down the bleeding. He looked at the ground and saw his spell cards scattered around him. He was about to pick one when he said: "What's the...point? They are...useless."

Fang Slade closed his eyes and thought about a way to get out of this mess when he heard a sound coming at his direction. He used his nose to smell it. He realised the scent was similar to the boy named Tasuku, but also different. He opened his eyes and saw in front of him, a boy looking at him without fear with his black hair except a few red strand of hair.

AC: This is the end of chapter 2.

For those who want to know, Fang Slade Terrestrial XIV is Drum, but I used his title in this chapter.

Next chapter: Crossing path: Gao and Drum.