Chapter 13: Regression

"What is that racket!!!" Jonathan yelled over to his kids, from his room. He was the only one who had work tomorrow, so he needed the sleep.

Rose glared at Jake, both frozen in their place. Then, she let out a giant blast, from her Huntstaff. Jake quickly dragoned up, and avoided it. With his tail, he made sure he took hold of his cell phone.

Haley Long was awakened from her sleep, and opened her mouth to the site of the broken window, and the girl blasting at Jake. With the window way block, he flew out from his room door. "Watch mom and dad!" Jake said, as he flew down the stairs. Rose followed.

Plasma beams went everywhere, ruining the walls, and stairs of Jake's house. But that didn't concern Jake right now. Because if he gets hit with one of those blasts, it could just ruin his life.

"Hi-yah!" Rose said as she leaped from the stairs down to the first floor. As fast as he could, Jake rushed out of the front door, and flew into the streets. He looked back; he had at least a good yardage between her and him. With the coast clear, grabbed out his cell phone and placed a call.

The phone kept ringing and ringing… "Come on…" Jake prayed.

Then, someone answered. "Talk to the Fu." Fu Dog called out his usual greeting.

"Fu!!!" Jake cheered out, but he looked behind him, and Rose was right on his tail. He dodged upward, avoiding the pointy part of her sword.

"What's the matter kid?" He questioned as he heard all the noise and stifled yells.

Flying on his back, Jake pushed Rose backwards with his hind legs. Flipping back around, he flapped his wings as fast as he could. "Oh nothing. Except that fact THAT ROSE IS CHASING ME TRYING TO SLAY ME AGAIN!" He screamed on the phone.

Fu muffled the phone, from the loud screaming. "Okay, okay. Well, the good news is that I found out what's wrong with her. Someone gave her a flaw potion."

"A flaw potion." Jake questioned. Suddenly, Rose jumped onto his back, trying to push him down. Jake shifted back and forth, trying to knock her off, and keep the cell phone in his hand.

"It's a special potion that brings out the negative and obsessive aspects of a bad habit. With a drop into a blood vessel, birthmark, or scar, it will bring out the worse habit or anger issues the person has gone through. But the looks of it, her worst habit was fighting magical creatures…"

Jake reached over his tail, and wrapped Rose around it. He then threw her backwards, thrashing her to the ground. With no pain from the fall, Rose jumped to her feet and started blasting at Jake again as she ran. "Just tell me how to make her stop!" He yelled flying from side to side in the alley they were currently in.

Fu started prancing through the door, looking for some more ingredients as he held the phone in his mouth. "I'm working on the spell that will cure her. Bring her to the shop, and it should be ready."

"I'm on it." Jake hung up the phone, and kept it tight in his grip. He leaned in his body, trying to go as fast as he could. Meanwhile, Rose was still blasting at her target. The closest she got, was blasting his tail. Luckily it was only the tip, so it didn't burn that bad.

Racing down the alley, Jake made a quick turn down the next street. The shop was only a short walk away.

Jake flew right into the shop; Rose coming in exactly after. Flying around the room, Jake was dodging the blasts that came from the Huntstaff. Fu was on the side of the store, stirring a small bowl with a giant spoon. "The potions almost ready. But you have to keep her still kid!"

"That's kinda not an option right now!" Jake called out. More blasts came outward, ruining this room also. A blast hit right at the desk Fu was sitting in. "Hey!" Fu said. He then grabbed the potion, and put it down the ground, where he can avoid the plasma beams.

Trying to save Rose was harder than it looks. How was he supposed to keep her still without hurting her? That question rolled through Jake's mind. But it was all over, pretty fast.

Suddenly, one of the blasts short right on Jake's side, making him fall flat on is back. Rose leaped into the air, and charged her staff right at Jake. "It's over, dragon!" She yelled.

A scared face appeared on his face. But he thought up a plan, and quick. "Not yet!" He answered, and blew a fireball right at her. Rose went falling backwards, over to the front door of the shop. Her Huntstaff went flying out of her hand, and over to the ground. As fast as he could, Jake flew over and grabbed the sword. Just as Rose lifted up her head, Jake switched the staff at stun and shot a direct hit of the beam right at her. Rose was rammed right into the door, and didn't move.

Fu ran over to her. "She'll be out, for awhile. Jake, carry her to the desk." Jake soared over, and grabbed Rose. Setting her down gently on the desk, Jake returned to human form.

Ducking down, Fu grabbed the potion he kept on the floor, and moved it back on the table. Stirring it just one more time, the potion let out a purple smoke. "Okay, the potion's set." He then handed Jake, a knife.

"What's this for?" Puzzled as to why Fu gave him this small carving knife.

"Well in order for the potion to work, it needs to set into the exact place where Rose had first got it. And guessing by her glowing birthmark, that's the place."

"So…couldn't you just pour it on her?"

Fu covered his face, why wasn't he picking up on this!? "It needs to be set in newly opened flesh. This means you have to carve through her birthmark, so we can enter in the potion."

WHAT!? That's what was basically on Jake's mind. "You mean I have to carve open Rose's skin! Fu, that'll hurt her! I can't do that...-" Throwing the knife back on the desk, Jake refused his request. That seemed like murder, stabbing a knife purposely on the one he loved!!!

"Come on kid, it's the only way we can turn her back to normal."

Jake stared at the cold body of Rose, if he doesn't do this, Rose might never return back to normal. "Okay, I'll do it!" He cried out. Grabbing the knife, Jake closed his eyes as he first stuck it into Rose's skin. A loud yell let out from her, as Jake continued around her birthmark.

"Now go through her whole birthmark." Fu continued to stir the potion, as Jake went further down her arm. He just felt like crying right now. Rose was screaming on the top of her lungs, from the pain. It was a cruel and painful way, to cure someone from this potion.

Rose tried moving her arms, to prevent the pain. But Jake held her down, so she wouldn't move. The knife carving through her skin, Rose's green eyes were opened wide, almost to the point of tearing up…

Finally, Jake finished the last of her birthmark. Fu poured the potion, all over her arm. As it went into the open flesh, a sizzling noise could be heard. Then…Rose's eyes and birthmark slowly were returning to their normal color.

I know what you are thinking, WTF!! xD. This was the whole reason, I wrote the story. That part of Jake carving into Rose's skin, that is what I imagined first for my story. Don't ask me how I came up with that, because random thoughts like this happen a lot. :)

The next chapter shall be the last. I hope you guys enjoyed reading this as much as I like writing it :D

Oh yeah...as I promised before. This is the defined term of Regression: Reversion to an earlier or less mature pattern of feeling or behavior. Or in other words, to bring back old anger, or bad habits.