Chapter 7: History Lesson

That morning, Rose woke up and found Jake gone and scratch marks on the couch. Ignoring the marks, she walked into the kitchen and then his room. Not being able to find her in the house, she walked over to his grandpa's shop. She walked in and found Fu on the computer. "Hey Fu, have you seen Jake anywhere, I am getting kind of worried about him."

"He could have gone out for a while to think or something, you don't need to worry." Fu said.

"Ok, oh by the way; does Jake dragon up during the night while he is asleep?" Rose asked.

"I don't think so, why do you ask?" Fu said getting interested.

"When I woke up this morning, I saw scratch marks on the back of the couch." Rose said starting to worry again.

"We had better head to the house and figure out what is going on." The two got up and headed for the house. Jakes sister was over by the couch with a worried look on her face. "Haley, what are you looking at something?" Fu asked already knowing what she was looking at.

"There are scratch marks on the couch Fu and Jake is nowhere to be found." Haley said as she started crying.

"Let me look at those scratches Haley." Fu said as he walked up to the couch. Haley moved out of the way to let Fu look. The next thing they knew, Fu was sniffing the scratch marks as well as the rest of the couch. "Rose and Jake were here last night, but there was one other. From the look of the scratches and the smell, I would have to say that Jake was taken by the demons." Fu explained to the two. "I will tell gramps, as for you two, don't go after him, stay here and wait. I have to go." With that said, Fu started to head out the door when Jakes grandpa walked into the house. "Hey gramps, we have a problem. Jake has been taken by the demons."

"Then give me time to make a demon potion." Gramps said as he headed to the shop.

"Fu, what is a demon potion and why can't we just go and rescue Jake?" Rose asked in a hurry to get Jake out of there.

"Look Rose, if you even try to get Jake, you will be killed as soon as you take a step into the underworld. A demon potion is a special potion that can take a day or two to make. It allows anyone who drinks it to become a demon for one twenty-four hours." Fu explained.

"So why is the underworld so deadly to me but not Jake?" Rose asked confused.

"Here is the story Rose, you may want to sit down." Rose and Haley sat down and Fu began. "You see, a long time ago before the demons were dangerous, people would come to the underworld by transporting with the demon itself. Back then, demons were very weak and couldn't do much to protect themselves. Some of the humans would kill the demons out of fear. So we made an agreement with the demons, and they would actually use demons then to help with protecting the magical world." Fu took a break to say something. "The offer we made to them was that, if they helped us, we would disguise them so that the humans wouldn't notice them." Fu paused again and then continued with his story. "Those were good times until the Dark Dragon made his appearance. The Dark Dragon made a better offer to the demons. He would make it so that humans and the magical creatures would die if they entered their realm. There was a glitch and the dragons were unaffected by the spell. The dragons didn't hurt the demons, so they didn't mind. The demons agreed but they didn't turn on the magical world, because we had helped them for many years and there were no problems. The demons signed papers saying that they wouldn't attack magical creatures or friends to the magical creatures unless the magical world interfered with any of their plans. That is the other thing; the Dark Dragon also gave them power to be able to defend themselves." Fu stopped to let the two soak in the information. After two minutes, Fu started talking again. "So you see; the only ones able to enter the underworld are demons and dragons." Fu then walked out the door and toward gramps shop.

"So Rose, can you wait a few days to save Jake?" Haley asked

"I think so, but my last question is; where did the guardians go; I haven't seen them for two days now." Rose said frustrated that they may have deserted them.

"Who knows, but we only have today and tomorrow to save him before the charge is complete and we have to fight." Both Rose and Haley looked at the ground with depressed faces.

In the underworld, Jake was sitting in the middle of his prison looking at the ground and then heard a voice. "Hello dragon, are you enjoying your stay here?" The demon said laughing.

"Actually, I am very uncomfortable, but that is what you're going for isn't it?" Jake asked though he knew the answer already.

"Just to let you know, we know that you know about the stone and it will be fully charged by tomorrow, so enjoy yourself."

"Isn't it supposed to take three days though?" Jake asked getting really worried.

"Yeah, it is supposed to, but we found a shortcut to charging it." Then the demon walked off laughing.

"Aw man."