I'm sorry about calling Susan Helen in the last chapter. It will be fixed.

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Jake's Lehrer/Danny's Mistake

Ding dong! The song of the doorbell rang throughout the Long residence.

"I've got it!" Jonathon called.

Jonathon opened the door to see a monocled man standing on his porch.

"Hello," said the man bluntly. "You are Mr. Long, I presume?"

"Why, yes! And who exactly are you?" Jonathon asked.

"I am your son's Mythology teacher, Mr. Rotwood. I have an amazing extra credit opportunity to discuss with you. Your son will get enough extra credit by accepting this to raise his grade from an F!"

"An F? I knew my little Jakeroo isn't a good student, but an F? I thought he'd at least respect his teachers enough to try to get an A."

"Respect?" Rotwood screamed. "That little dummkopf (1) of yours has no respect! He is one of the hooligans that toilet papered and repainted meinen Auto (2) last week! Es war sehr nett - neu, rot, und schnell, (3) before he got to it!"

Rotwood composed himself. "But no matter, your student has an amazing opportunity, and I think even your little comedian can handle this assignment. After all, he does like being in front of crowds."

"Well, I suppose discussing this extra credit option would be a good thing for Jake," Jonathon acknowledged. "Why don't you come in and take a seat?"

Once he was comfortably sitting in the Long's living room, Rotwood said, "Tell me, Mr. Long. How would you feel about your son speaking in a school assembly?"

"I wouldn't have a problem with it. May I ask what he would be speaking about?"

Rotwood sighed.

"Very few students are showing interest in taking Mythology class anymore," he informed Jonathon. "I was thinking, if he could give a short speech on a mythological creature of his choice, it was raise interest in the class."

"My Jake could do that."

"Very good!" Rotwood declared. "And a favor, Mr. Long? I'm not entirely comfortable with selecting your son as the speaker, but no one else is willing to do it. Please try to make sure he doesn't say anything inappropriate."

Danny cringed. Jake's grandpa may have been small, but his fury was the size of Goliath.

"Do you not realize how much danger you've put the magical world into?" he shrieked.

"Yes," Danny answered, "but . . . "

"Your actions were extremely selfish! If I had jurisdiction over you, you would be banished from all society!"

Danny tried to break in, "You do realize . . . "

"Your dragon master must be ashamed! You broke the secret that's been protecting magical creatures for thousands of years!"

"Jake?" Danny asked, looking to his peer for help.

"Hey, I'm just glad he's not yelling at me for once," Jake said, shrugging.

" . . . and now we are all in danger because of you, you stupid teenage boy! I bet you didn't even think about your duties as a dragon!"

Danny wasn't going to endure the old man's shouted spiel anymore. Eyes green, he bellowed, "You think I let them find out on purpose? I was scared of what my own parents might do to me if they found out, let alone people who don't care as much for my well being! Why would I let them find out?"

Danny frowned and asked, "You do realize I'm not a dragon, right?"

"Ay yah!" Lao Shi cried. "Regardless of how they found out, the magical world is still in danger. You may not have meant for it to happen, but it is still your fault. You and Jake need to fix it."

"Why does Jake need to fix it?" Danny asked. "He didn't do anything."

"Because it is his duty," Lao Shi responded. "You two had better get started. I have some business I need to take care of."

"Fu!" Lao Shi called from at the door. "Keep an eye on them, and make sure that the miscreant Jake brought over doesn't cause any trouble."

"Me?" Fu asked. "Let him cause trouble? I never let that happen. Name one time I let that happen, just one time."

Danny jumped. "He talks!" he exclaimed.

This outburst earned Danny a strange look from the occupants of the room.

"I thought you were part of the magical community, and knew about animal guardians," Fu stated.

"Fu dog, don't let this turn out the way it did when you were watching those two pathetic members of the Huntsclan, 88 and 89," Lao Shi cautioned.

"Hey!" Fu protested. "That was a one-time incident!"

"Oh really? Just keep an eye on him!" Lao Shi ordered.

Walking up to his own house, Jake said, "What a night. We were racking our brains 'til midnight, and haven't even got a hint to what a solution could be."

"Yeah, this stinks," Danny agreed.

As soon Jake opened the door to his house, he saw his angry parents.

"Jake Long!" Jonathon shouted. "You are officially grounded! Failing Mythology? Coming home late? This calls for some serious parental action."

"And you!" Susan shouted, pointing at Danny. "Don't think that I don't know you that you have something to do with this! I knew you were trouble!"

"Jake, there will be no video games for you for two weeks!" Jonathon announced. "On top of that, you will not go skateboarding or "hang out" with your friends until you've got your speech done! Is that clear?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be trouble," Danny told Susan. "I'm only here until my parents come get me. It shouldn't be more than a few days."

"Dad, what speech?" Jake asked.

"Your extra credit speech! Your teacher's giving you an opportunity for extra credit. You've got to write a speech on your favorite mythological creature, and give it in your school's assembly. If I were you, I'd hop to it, and get the speech-writing out of the way!"

"You better not be here for more than a few days!" Susan screamed, pointing a finger at Danny.

"Don't worry Mom. Gramps already chewed him out." Jake said.

"Chewed him out? What did he do?"

"Fill you in later," said Jake.

"It was an accident," Danny said quietly. "And I'm trying to fix it, before there's any more damage."

"What happened?" Jonathon asked. "If it's something dangerous, I think we should know what you did before allowing you to stay in our house!"

"There was a security breach," Jake said, in way of explanation. Glaring at Danny, he added, "A big one."

"It wasn't really avoidable," said Danny. "It wouldn't have been as bad if the media hadn't found out. It was just some information on an accident that happened in my parents' lab months ago. The victim was fine. Unfortunately, the public having the knowledge created severe danger."

Danny dropped his voice to a whisper, so that only Jake could hear. "But the knowledge you're most worried about was well known long before the newspaper article that got me in trouble was ever published. Amity Park already knew about ghosts when they found out about me."

Rose comes in next chapter!

Translations:

Lehrer - teacher

1. dummkopf: loosely translated, it means 'dummy'.

2. meinen Auto: my car. (I'm not sure if I got my grammar right for this. I know that with a direct object, and a 'der' word, mein turns to meinen. But is Auto a der word?)

3.Es war sehr nett - neu, rot, und schnell,: It was very nice - new, red, and fast,