Chapter 4: The First Task

It was another early morning, except this time it was important. It was the first day of the very first task. All the contestants stood right in front of the stage, as Aylonn was presenting to them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first task of the WDG! For those of you who don't know, the World Dragon Games are broken up into four tasks. The person who scores the most points throughout each task wins. And as the rules states, you are not allowed to give up, until you try the fourth task. The only way you are eliminated, is death!!" He spoke. Everyone was silence after his last sentence, so he tried to change the subject. "Ok… let the first task BEGIN!"

The dragons assembled by an empty lot located on the planet. Jake stood there, along with his grandpa and Fu. Fred Nerk was there also with his dragon master. The rest of the contestants, stood there alone.

"Now, I have each given you a random number. We will go in order, starting with Aldo. Then it will go Hazlin, then Kakiri, Joris, Fred, Taromo. And last we have Jake."

Aldo walked up to Jake, "Good luck," he said, and put on a smile.

Jake gave a nod back at him. Right now, he was his only friend in this competition.

Aldo walked up to the area, and waited for his instructions. The rest of the dragons watched on the side.

"Now, you each will have to fight, and take down one of seven galactic monsters. The faster you take it down, the more points you earn. You may pick one item to assist you in battle, but chose carefully." Aylonn announced.

Aldo went up, and started to freak out a bit. But for the most part, he didn't let it show. Suddenly, with a snap of Aylonn's fingers, a giant monster appeared. It wasn't your normal magical Earth creatures. No, this was a space monster, unknown to most of the younger dragetes.

Aldo dragoned up; His dragon form consisted of the colors brown and green. It was similar to Jake's form, except bigger and stronger. He chose a weapon, and headed into battle. But in less than 10 minutes, the monster was down.

Next up, was Hazlin. From her beautiful human form, you could tell her dragon form was going to be elegant. Her wings were pixie winged like, not common for most dragons. Her scales shimmered in gold and crystal blue. Her attacks also were more ice attacks than fire. She now walked up to the bat. However, her monster was different than Aldo's. It was different shape and texture. But even with the difference, she took it down in less than 7 minutes.

The fearsome Kakiri was next. She dragoned up, and flew to the center. Her dragon form was blood red and blue color. Her face showed anger as she stepped up to play. Her monster appeared, and she prepared to fight.

"Chose a weapon," Aylonn moved his hand to signal the four choices.

"I will use my own two swords," she pulled out her swords, and placed them in her hands.

Aylonn talked it over with his brothers, "Sorry, but the rules state you must pick a weapon…"

She flew angrily over to the table. "AHH!" she sighed in grief, and picked a sword. She flew up to the monster, and gave out another yell. As fire flew off her body, she banged the sword right to the monster. Her strength outshined her body, as in no less than a minute, the monster split into to. She gave a faint smile of pride over to Jake as she defeated the monster in no time flat. She was going to be tough to beat.

Joris was next. His dragon form was orange and a lighter shade of orange. His wings were large; his wingspan outshined his full body length. He flew over, and got ready to battle. He grabbed a sword, and went up to crack it's head open. However, the Galactic monster was not going to let that happen. He grabbed Joris, and threw him back into the crowd. Luckily, everyone was paying attention, as they dodged right before they hit him. The monster started to rocks at him, and to the crowd.

It was against the rules to interfere with the fight. Even so, no one was going to help him by dodging the rocks that were headed toward him. Finally Joris got up, and opened his mouth. Instead of fire coming out, a light yellow beam came out. He used it, to get hold of one of the flying rocks that the monster flew. With it, he could aim it right toward him. This type of Galactic monster's weak spot was his face; so he aimed it right toward him. With one threw, he shattered into pieces. Joris gave a cheerful dance, as he just beat him under 15 minutes.

Fred Nerk was next. His dragon master watched in confidence as he entered the field. He dragoned up, to a yellow and orange dragon. His form resembled a sea dragon, native to Australia. He stepped up, and flew over to the table. He grabbed arrows, to use against this leather typed monster. With a few shots of his arrows, he felt like this was a useless item. However, very soon, he realized there was a giant circle on the back of him. He used his fire beams to shoot as the monster's feet. As he seemed distracted, Fred flew over and shot a couple of arrows at his back. This technique seemed to work, as the monster disappeared into pieces, and the battle was over in less than 8 minutes.

"Beat that," Fred said as he flew right back Jake.

Just before Jake, was Taromo. His dragon form was magnificent compared to Jakes. He had super long claws, and a full armored backside. His wings were long and slender, which were good on air mileage. His scales were black and orange, to give him an eerie look added to his strength. He made his way into the center, and picked a weapon.

His monster resembled a snake. Except this snake, was made of a rock type material. Being the oldest out of the group, he had the most experience with magical creatures. He must of studied hard, since he knew that monster's exact weak spot; his stomach. He flew over to his stomach, and tried to slay right into his. However, the snake's head kept getting in the way, which made it very difficult. Then, while he tried to defend himself, his tail made it right behind Taromo.

Jake felt, a bit compiled to say something. He was used to saving magical creatures, and helping them out when needed. He just felt giving that warning, which he had to. "Dude right behind you!" he yelled.

Taromo turned around super quick, and sliced his tail as if he knew it was coming. Then as he snake noticed his tail wound, he stabbed open his stomach. Ultimately defeating the vivid monster.

Taromo made his way into the crowd, and walked up to Jake. "I don't need you help!" he spoke in his African Accent. Then he pushed Jake on his shoulder as he walked away from him.

Jake felt a bit… stupid. Why did he have to give his opponent a tip? He not only made a fool of himself, now everyone hates even more. But he couldn't let that stay on his mind, because his turn was finally up.

"Now remember young one, chose your weapon wisely!" Gramps mentioned to Jake, just before he left.

Suddenly, Jake's monster appeared in the circle. It was a HUGE monster that looked kind of like a dinosaur. He had a rock like exterior out along with his scales. Accompanied with that, he also had rows and rows of giant teeth.

"What the heck is that!?" Jake asked as he stared at the huge monster.

"It is a Basaurain. An ancient galactic creature." Gramps answered.

"Ahh great…" Jake kidded himself. He sort of remembered hearing that name from studying the last three days. He then dragoned up, and made his way into the area.

Gramps couldn't help but feel a bit, worried for his grandson. He wasn't sure if he was ready, or if he could take down something this big by himself.

Jake flew over to the table, where Aylonn stood. "American Dragon, chose your weapon." He spoke.

Jake looked over at the four choices. There was: a kazoo, a violin, a baseball bat, and a sword. What kind of weapons are these!? Jake thought to himself. It was obvious his choice was going to be the sword.

Jake picked up it, and entered the area. He waited for the signal, and then went into battle. Once the bell rang, he flew up to the monster a prepared to fight. He lifted up his sword, and aimed carefully. The monster did not move a single muscle, which seemed very helpful. The obvious move was to go for the head; so Jake flew up toward it. He lifted up the sword, and with all his might, he banged it on the monster.

Even with all his power he could use, it did not do anything to the monster. "Say what!?" Jake reacted as it had no affect on him. Jake kept banging the monster's head. "Come on!!!" he said as he wanted it to at least hurt him. Finally, the monster went into battle mode, and grabbed the distracted Jake. He lifted him in the air, and tossed him to the ground.

This monster has some strength! It really did put a beat down on the Amdrag. Jake was hurt, but he couldn't give up now. As he fought, the crowd started laughing at his attempt to defeat the Basaurain. Gramps put his hand over his face, for he could not watch Jake make a fool out of himself.

Jake tried to put a smack down on the monster, but his exterior was way too thick and strong. He just kept on getting hurt worse and worse. Finally, the monster did his toughest slam down right on top of Jake. Jake stayed down on the ground, in pain. He didn't know how long he could handle this. More and more, he kept getting weaker and weaker.

Finally, he heard someone yell something from the crowd. "Jake, its knowledge of battle!" Jake recognized the voice, it was Gramps.

But Jake, was very weak. Battling the monster drained him of almost all of his powers. With one option left, Jake thought about his previous nights of studying. Ok Jake, you remember reading about the Basaurain… what did it say!? Jake thought to himself as he flew and dodged the monster's attacks.

He pictured a chapter of a book about Galactic monsters. Ok, I see it, come on what did it say!? He tried to concentrate on his thoughts a bit more… then piece by piece; he started picking up things in the chapters. Ok, I remember Galactic dinosaurs are weak in their feet… but it's impossible to reach them with him all up on me. There was one piece of information that Jake could not remember. What was that last thing?

Suddenly, it came to his mind. YES! Basaurains loud noises! He looked over, to the table, and stared at the violin.

"Great, I shoulda choice that!" He sighed, as he now looked like a fool choosing the sword.

As he stared at the violin, then the sword, he got an idea. "That's it!" He screamed.

Jake grabbed the sword, and brushed it against his back scales. This created a loud screeching sound, which horrified everyone's ears. Especially the Basaurain, he stared to move his hands to his ears, to block the horrendous noise. But being his ears were so sensitive, that didn't even block it. The Basaurain stared to sway back and forth, as he trembled from the loud sound.

With the Basaurain distracted, Jake flipped back the sword and cut off its large feet. With these gone, the rock dinosaur fell to the ground, shattering into little pieces. Jake couldn't help feel but a bit relived, to finally be done. However, he took about 22 minutes to finally destroy him, which put him in last place.

"Well done young one," Gramps said as he was proud of Jake. "But, we have to work on your choices in battle. You almost killed yourself!!!" He then turned back to his angry self.

With a big mistake like that, Jake is not in last place. Can he step up and win? Or will he have more problems that will set him back even more? FIND OUT NEXT CHAPTER!!