Chapter 3: Stay Focus

Note: If you wondering if I planned to add Fred Nerk in this fanfic… I didn't XD. Actually I was thinking ok, I need a dragon from every continent. Then I was like, whose going to be for Australia..? Then I remembered Fred Nerk is the only Australia Dragon so far… so I had to add him. :)

Jake had another early morning wake up call, as he felt something crawling in his bed. He woke up to find, two snakes in his bed. Jake freaked out and jumped out of the bed and started running around the room. Through the door, you could see Fred Nerk standing their laughing.

"Might want to check for snake bites mate," he joked, and ran off.

Jake started to make his way after him, when he felt a tug on his shirt. He turned around to see Lao Shi right next to him, holding him back.

"Jake! This is no time to mess with Fred Nerk!" He scolded Jake.

"But Gramps-"

"Jake, you have to promise me you will focus these next days; we must make sure you are ready before the competition."

Jake looked down at his grandpa, to see this time he was really pissed. "But I…Fine." He finally gave in. Lao Shi let go of his shirt, and Jake went into the bathroom to get out of his pajamas.

After he was dress, Gramps took Jake out of the rooms. Inside the hotel more, was a giant arena, used for practicing. Gramps set up some relays so that Jake could practice his dragon powers.

Jake walked in, to find 3 rows of giant rings. The rings stood tall in the air, to only be reached by flying. Each row had 5 more rings in it, spread apart from each other.

"Now Jake, I need for you to make two doppelgangers of yourself," he advised.

Jake closed his eyes, and made two exact copies of him.

"Now, I need you to control both of your doppelgangers, controlling their every move."

"You can do that?" Jake questioned, as he had never knew that you can 'control' your copies moves.

"It is a valuable strategy. So you do and make plans, without actually telling your doppelganger. Now young dragon, you need to focus, plan out each of yours and their moves."

Jake closed his eyes again, trying to do what his grandpa is telling him to. "Ok, I'm trying…"

"Now, by controlling your copies moves, you need to navigate all three of you in each of the rows or rings. Without bumping into the ring itself."

The rings weren't arranged in any difficult order, so the task seemed pretty simple. "I'm on it," he dragoned up, and flew into the air. Together then, the rest of this copies did the same.

He made his way threw the first three rings. However, he wasn't focusing enough on his doppelgangers; so they hopelessly ran into the first ring.

With his error, Lao Shi made him start over. "Jake, you need to focus, plan out each of their moves before making your own,"

Jake tried again. However again and again and again, the other two didn't make it through all the hoops. Gramps was getting discouraged by his lack of effort, so he called it a day.

Jake, now sweating, dragoned down and went to the ground. He absorbed his copies, a walked out of the arena. He was tired, and hungry from the long practice day.

He walked over into the hotel lobby, where there was a cafeteria. He entered in, and stood in line. A sandwich popped up there, which looked very appetizing. Jake decided to get it, and he walked over to a table.

Jake took a bite, and swallowed it down. However, his throat started to feel funny. Suddenly, he started foaming out the mouth. Disgusted, Jake started to run around the cafeteria trying to stop the foam.

Freaked out like it was rabies or something, he started to run out the door. However, he turned around to see Kakiri there, staring at him. He had bumped into her, and she did not look happy.

Kakiri grabbed Jake's jacket, and pulled him up to her level. "Listen here, kid. If you ever want to live to see the day you graduate, you damn well make sure you bump into me again!" she yelled, and dropped Jake to the ground.

Jake then noticed that the foam stopped rushing out of his mouth. He looked over, to see Fred Nerk waving snail powder right at his face. He then ran off, as he laughed by Jake's humiliation.

Jake, was super mad now. All he wanted was to get Fred Nerk back. He walked over to another table, where Fu dog was enjoying a nice sloppy Joe.

Jake talked to him, as he guzzled down the sandwich. "So, did you bring any pranks with yah?"

"When don't I ever have my bag of pranks?" Fu said as he swallowed down his sandwich.

Together, Fu and Jake made their way out through the hotel. They searched around to find the Australian dragon. Finally, the found him, along with his dragon master. Together, the two were practicing some fire maneuvers.

Fu dog pulled out a tiny bag from his wrinkles. He then crawled over to Fred, and sprinkled it on his fire as he wasn't paying attention. The dust flowed into the air, and got caught into Fred's mouth. Suddenly, his fire zaps, turned into… flowers?

Fred looked down, to see a patch of flowers falling out from his mouth. "What the?" he was confused. He then turned around, to see Jake and Fu standing at the door.

The two started to laugh hysterically at the site. They turned around to leave the room, but someone was standing right in front of them. Someone that was the one person Jake didn't want to be there right now.

"Ai-yah, JAKE!" Gramps yelled out, as Fu and Jake's smiles were turned down. "What did I tell you about messing with Fred Nerk!?"

Jake looked down, ashamed of himself. Even if he didn't really mean it…

"I'm sorry G. Guess I got a little carried away…"

"Well, let's make sure it won't happen again," Lao Shi yelled. Jake didn't know what he meant, until now.

Gramps grabbed Jake's jacket, and lead him back to their hotel room. There, they spend the rest of today, and the next two days studying. By the third day, Jake was sick of it.

"Come on Gramps, I can't be studying, I'm on vacation!" he yelled as he flipped through another chapter of Galactic Creatures. "Can't we do some dragon training…?"

"I'm sorry Jake. If this is the only way I know you will not play pranks on Fred, then we will keep studying."

Jake, collapsed onto the book. He was so sick of reading. He needed to get out; even if it was for only a minute, just to get a breather.

"Umm… Gramps, I have to use the little dragon's room really fast," He smiled, and walked out of the room.

Then, he looked back to see if he grandpa was watching. When the coast is clear, he made his way out of the hotel.

Jake started to walk around a bit, just to get some fresh air. However, his fresh air was gone, as Fred Nerk walked behind him. He had stuck a pocket firework into his pants, which exploded instantly. Jake freaked out for a bit, but then he started to get mad.

"Dude, stop this. Your gettin' me in serious trouble," Jake said as he was now annoyed with him.

"What, you givin' up so easily?" Fred crossed his arms, to try and intimidate him.

"No, I just want you to leave me alone!"

"Alright then. Guess the merciful 'American Dragon' wants to go home and cry to his mummy!"

Jake, now super pissed off, had enough. He turned around, to face right back at him. "Already that's enough!" he went off, and started to fight Fred Nerk.

Fred and Jake continued this fist fight. Fred then pushed Jake onto the ground. He rolled down, until he stopped right at someone's feet. He looked up to find Kakiri staring at him. She had a menacing frown on her face, "ALRIGHT THAT'S IT!" She screamed out. She pulled out her two swords, and as she did, fire flew off her body. Jake and Fred stared in fear at the site of the Japanese Dragon. "You 10 year olds are going down!"

Suddenly, Aylonn appeared in front of the group. "Hey now. There is no fighting allowed out of the competition. You guys need to save your strength, I mean… for the games… you three should go rest in the hotel. Tomorrow starts the first task!"

The group paused, staring at Aylonn. Finally, as he walked away, Kakiri walked up to the two, and gave them a warning. "I'll be watching you," she whispered, and walked away.

How will Jake do at his first task:) Find out next time in, THE WORLD DRAGON GAMES!!!