American Dragon: Haley Long (Season One)
Chapter/Episode 5: Wizard Wands and Dragon Scars
In a dark room, steel finger coverings made contact with a large keyboard as the masked thief looked up at a large, glowing computer hologram screen. On the screen, there was a large image of Haley in her dragon with a bunch of date to the side of Haley's form. "I see that you were able to hack into the Council's files…" a voice asked as the cloaked dragon walked up behind the thief. "Were you able to find any information on our dragon friend?"
"Of course I did…" the thief replied coldly. "But why do you want to know anything about her?"
"Don't be foolish, my friend…" the cloaked dragon looked at the hologram of Haley's dragon form. "One must always learn all they can about their enemies. Then, and only then can you defeat them. This dragon and her master are guarding what I desire and if I can get into her head, she will deliver it to me…"
"And what are you going to uncover about her that will make her hand that thing over to you?" the thief asked. "And if she just gives it to you, then does that mean that you don't need me anymore. Good. Now I want my money."
"Relax, my friend…" the cloaked dragon stepped away from the screen. "I think I have found something. I need you to do two things for me…"
BLACKOUT; PLAY THEME SONG
BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
Haley groaned as she came down the stairs and into the kitchen where her parents were sitting. Jonathan looked away from his holographic newspaper only gasp in surprise as his daughter sat down beside him at the table.
"Are you okay, Haley?" Susan Long asked as she set down her daughter's breakfast, looking at her daughter's appearance. Haley's hair had not been brushed and it was all over the place, her eyes were only have opened, there were bags under her eyes and Haley was still in her pajamas; she looked as though she was about to fall face down onto the table.
"Haley…" Jonathan spoke, repeating his wife. "Are you okay? What happened?"
"I'm fine, Dad…" Haley spoke slowly. "I just didn't sleep well. That's all."
"Did you go to bed late again?" Jonathan asked, looking back at his paper."
"No."
"Was it a dragon emergency?" Susan asked. "Did Sun wake you up late at night again?"
"No."
"Then what's wrong, Haley?" Susan asked.
"I just…" Haley tried to explain, but she found that she was having difficulty doing it. "I…I kind of had a bad dream. Look, if you don't mind, I think I'm going to skip breakfast and I'm going to go up and take a shower instead…"
Before Susan or Jonathan could even say anything, Haley got up from her chair and walked back upstairs.
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Haley came back down the stairs ten minutes later; although the bags were still under her eyes, she looked much better as she was completely dressed for school and her hair was now combed. "Haley…" her father told her from the table. "You should hurry up before you're late for school."
Haley nodded as she reached the door. Grabbing her backpack, Haley opened the door and closed the door behind her. Haley sighed as she walked down the steps leading to her front door before she took off running down the sidewalk. As Haley ran toward her school, a person wearing a blue cloak stepped up to the house. Smiling, the thief put a device back onto her belt as she reached up and pulled her hood over her head.
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The bell rang out all throughout Millard Fillmore High School as all of the students in Mrs. O'Yreal's class sat down at their desks as the teacher entered the room. Mrs. O'Yrael started to close the door behind her, but someone hit the door and started to push it open. Mrs. O'Yrael growled and pulled open the door to see that the person at the door was Haley.
"Aw…" Mrs. O'Yrael grinned. "Miss Dragon, it is always a pleasure to see you arrive late to my class. Now take your seat…"
As Haley started the journey to her desk, the American Dragon looked around to see that everyone in the class except for Leah was laughing madly at the humiliation Haley was now feeling.
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As the bell rang once again, Haley found herself at her open locker as the other students walked around her. Sighing, Haley closed her locker with her books tucked under her arm, only to turn around and see Sierra Tatlock and Olivia Mears standing behind her. "What do you want?" Haley asked.
"Oh, I just wanted to tell you that it never gets old watching you get humiliated by Mrs. O…" Sierra smiled.
"Why don't you just leave me alone?" Haley asked, trying to walk away, but she was called back by Olivia:
"Yeah, it's great to see her get berated like that…" Olivia snickered. "But what would be even better is if Mrs. O mentioned the cut across her eye!"
Haley's eyes widened and she turned around, but the two were already walking away, laughing. Sierra stopped laughing briefly and she turned her head to Haley. "See you later, Haley!" She called before she resumed her laughing with Olivia.
Haley lowered her head and let out a small growl of frustration. Why did some people just have to be so cruel? "Haley…?" a familiar voice came from behind her; Haley slowly turned around to see Leah standing behind her. "Um, hi…" Leah said shyly. "Um, Haley…I…just don't listen to them, okay?"
"I try not to but…" Haley looked at Leah. "…But sometimes it's just so hard! Sometimes I just wish I could just…just…oh, never mind…"
"Haley, from what I've seen of you, you are so good at not letting other people's opinions of you get you down." Leah complemented. "Besides…do you really need to worry about the slash? Can't you…you know? Get it removed with magic?"
Hearing these words, Haley's eyes widened and a wide grin appeared on her face. "Why didn't I ever think of that before?" she exclaimed before she ran off, leaving Leah looking shocked.
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"You want to what?" Sun Park asked in surprise as Haley told her about her plan. Sun sat on the couch in Canal Street Electronics drinking a cup of tea and there was now a small puddle of tea on the floor, which Sun had spit in surprise.
"I want to magically get this removed." Haley said again, pointing to her slash mark as Sun wiped her mouth.
"Haley…" Sun sighed. "Haley…what have I been teaching you for the past ten years?"
"How to be a dragon?"
"Haley, you know that isn't what I meant…" Sun responded, standing up. "I mean lessons. What kind of lessons have I been trying to teach you?"
"Um…" Haley thought about this for a moment before she answered. "Always treat someone as if they are already what we expect them to become, it's wrong to destroy an enemy unless it is the only option…"
"Everything happens for a reason…" Sun answered for her. "Everyone has a destiny, Haley, and everything that ever happens to you always contributes to your destiny. So therefore, I think it would be wrong to get your wound removed."
"But Sun…"
"Haley, the people who make fun of you and your appearances only do so because they are small people on the inside." Sun told her. "It is not you, but them, and if you let what they say get to you, then it becomes your problem."
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Lu Dog sat on the roof of Canal Street Electronics, looking over the ledge and into the sky. The golden retriever sighed sadly as she thought about how stupid she had been to try to rob from this place. Now she was stuck here…
Suddenly, Lu turned as she heard the door leading to the roof opening and closing. Fu Dog now stood on the roof with a roll of some paper in his mouth; the shar-pei seemed happy as he trotted over to Lu, letting the paper out of his mouth and onto the roof.
"Puppy…" Fu smiled at her. "I've completed the plans…"
"What plans?" Lu asked.
"Oh, come on! Are you kidding?" Fu growled. "You told me that you wanted to get canned by the Council, a-goo-goo…"
"Oh, those plans!" Lu remembered. "Wait, I didn't know you were making plans…"
"Well, now you do…"
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"See you later, honey!" the masked thief watched as Jonathan called out to his wife as he drove off in his car. As soon as she knew she was all clear, the thief ran passed the door and turned around the corner on the other side of the house and looked up to see a fire escape ladder.
"Well that makes things easier…" the thief said to herself as she started to climb up the ladder until she was on the top, peering into a window where she could see a bed and other things. Putting her fingers down on the sill, the thief pushed up, sliding the window up and allowing her to get into the room; as soon as her feet touched the floor, the thief looked around to see that the room's walls were all painted purple and there were stuffed animals and some old dolls on shelves. "Either this is the brat's room, or she has a younger sister…" the thief said before she started to search around the room.
After a couple minutes of searching, the thief had found no trace of anything that could help her. Growling, the thief stomped over to Haley's bed, grabbed her pillow and threw it across the room. The thief growled again and was about to storm over to the window when something caught her eye: on the bed, there was a pink book that had been covered by the pillow. The thief looked at it for a moment before she reached down and grabbed it, opening it and reading.
"Jackpot…"
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Laughter rang out through the cloaked dragon's dark lair as he read the book, with the thief standing not far away. "This is just beautiful!" the cloaked dragon laughed. "This is perfect! I commend you for stealing a teenaged girl's diary! This is so cute! She writes about how the nasty humans hurt her feelings by being mean to her for being a dragon! Just adorable!" the dragon laughed again. "Now let's see if…aw, here we are…Perfect! Her scar…That is how I will get to her…"
Closing the diary, the cloaked dragon got up and faced the thief. "I need you to make me something…"
BLACKOUT; COMMERCIAL BREAK
BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
As soon as the bell rang, dismissing the students of Millard Fillmore Middle School, Haley rushed out of the building and waved her arms, transforming into a pink dragon in the middle of the sidewalk. Flapping her wings, Haley took off into the air.
Haley flew for a couple of minutes before she came to an old building; landing on the roof, Haley reverted to her human form and slipped off her backpack before looking at her watch just as a puff of smoke appeared and a man stepped out of the smoke as it faded.
As the person put a wand back into his pocket, he looked up at Haley and nodded at her. "Good…" Haley said. "I was afraid that you wouldn't get my call, Spud."
Spud chuckled as he walked over to Haley and ruffled her hair. Like Haley, Spud had changed a great deal in nine years; he now had a small beard and his hair was longer, the back of it was in a very small braid. Spud wore his regular baggy pants, but he now wore a white tank-top with a coat over it and he had gained a little weight. "How's it going, Haley?" he asked.
"Basically the same as all other magical creatures…" Haley replied. "So, how are things and how is Trixie?"
"Trixie's fine…" Spud answered. "In fact, she made into surgeon school or whatever they call it. I'm not entirely sure if that is the, you know, official name. As for me, Stacey and me are living at my Mom's. No one will give me a job because I'm magical. So…life's just super. So why did you call me? You said something about an emergency…"
"Oh yeah…" Haley remembered. "I need you to do something for me. Can you use your magic to make this disappear forever?" she pointed to the slash mark over her eye.
"Uh, sure…" Spud answered after a moment. "I think I could. Either that or you could end up with a marble for an eye."
"What?" Haley asked, taking a step back. "You did practice your magic, right?"
"Well, sure." Spud answered. "A little bit would probably be a better answer. Wait, what does everyone else think about this? What did your parents and Sun have to say?"
"I never told my parents…" Haley answered honestly. "And Sun didn't seem to like the idea."
In response, Spud looked down at his feet and shook his head. "I don't know if I should do this, Haley." Spud said. "I don't want to go against Sun's wishes."
"But Spud, you have to do it!" Haley begged, rushing up to him. "I've been having nightmares about that night. I had some after it first happened and then they went away. But then they came back not that long ago, and they've gotten worse. This morning was the result of several nights of little sleep!"
"Then don't you see, Haley?" Spud asked her, looking up to meet her gaze. "Then the scar isn't the problem, it's the memory. I can't help you with that."
"Spud, the kids also make fun of it…"
"Do you think my magic is going to change any of that either?" Spud asked. "Scar or no scar, they'll still find something to make fun of you for."
"But, Spud…"
"I can't do it, Haley…" Spud said firmly. "I'm sorry…"
Hearing Spud's words, Haley at first thought to make one more plea, but she knew it would be futile. Growling in annoyance, Haley waved her arms, transforming her into her dragon form in a pink light before she took off into the air.
Spud realized this was happening too late and he stared off. "Haley, come back!" he tried to call to her, but Haley had disappeared. "You forgot your…backpack…"
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The thief sat at a wooden table working furiously on making something as the cloaked dragon stepped out of the dark and up to her. "Well, have you completed it?" he demanded.
"Just a second…" the thief sighed as she picked up a glowing green stick and pushed into a small, steel test tube-shaped object. "Here…" she handed it to him. "Just press that button and it will transform you into anything you want it to."
"And how does it do that?" the cloaked dragon asked.
"Just think of what you want to be…" the thief answered. "Oh, and then you bring it down the rest of your body so that you can fully transform."
"Right…" the cloaked dragon pressed the button the device, causing a small, bright green light to come out. The cloaked dragon moved the device down to his feet and the transformation began. A green light seemed to completely hide the cloaked dragon's body, and when it faded, a wizard stood in its place. The figure had a purple wizard cap that went down and appeared to cover his eyes and cape that had a collar that came up and hid his facial features. He also wore an all dark red robe. "Wow…" he remarked. "Interesting toy…Now, what about my wand?'
"Here…" the thief got up from her seat and walked over to him, handing him a "wand". "I'm leaving now, and you owe me that money." She told him before she started to make her way to the exit.
"Not so fast…" the cloaked dragon, now a wizard, called back to her, making her turn around to face him as he approached her. "You will stay here until I come back with my prize. Then you can go."
"What? How dare you?" the thief growled.
"What's the matter?" the cloaked dragon mocked as he opened the door. "Can't handle a few more hours?" he then laughed as he closed the door behind him, leaving the thief to clench her fists and growl in rage.
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"Okay, here we are…" Fu Dog closed the door as he and Lu Dog stood alone in the middle of a small room where Fu's plans were lying on the floor. "This will be the location where we plot your firing."
"But this is the bathroom…" Lu pointed out in a small, disgusted voice as she looked at the small room, made even smaller by the crammed shower, toilet and sink.
"Yeah, it is…" Fu replied. "But it was the best I could come up with. Let's just hope that no one has to come in her to release some cargo. A-goo-goo-goo."
Lu Dog rolled her eyes as she looked down at the paper. "So, what is the plan you had?"
"It's not just one plan, puppy…" Fu Dog informed her. "It's actually a couple of ideas! I'll list them off to you. My first idea, we place a magic confetti rocket into the robes of every single council member. What do you think?"
"That's a little juvenile…"
"Okay, okay!" Fu Dog gave an exasperated sigh. "How about this: we use magic sneezing salts…"
"Okay, goodbye." Lu Dog shook her head and turned to leave. "We can't go pulling pranks. This is serious."
"Then do you have any ideas?" Fu demanded. "Because if you do, I'd like to hear them."
"Fine!" Lu walked back over to Fu. "Yeah, I have an idea! Here it is: I go to the councilors and ask them nicely to fire me."
It took a moment for Fu Dog to respond to Lu Dog's idea, and when he finally did, Lu was not very pleased. Fu Dog opened his mouth and fell onto his belly in hysterics. "Oh..oh my…oh my god!" he laughed. "Th…That i…is the stu…stupidest idea ever!"
"Oh yeah!" Lu retorted. "I'd like to hear an actual mature idea from you!"
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Haley sped through the air, trying to calm her nerves after what had just happened. She couldn't believe that Spud had refused to help her. Actually, she kind of could. But still, she wasn't happy about it.
The sun had come down and it was pitch black outside and still Haley flew on with no destination. She was sure that her parents were worried about her, but she wasn't a child anymore. She was a dragon, was eighteen and could take care of herself for a few hours. She just needed to clear her head…
Haley continued to fly aimlessly until she felt her heart pounding and felt like she could no longer breathe. Panting, Haley landed in the street and reverted to her human form. As soon as she had caught her breath, she started to look around. She wasn't entirely sure where she was at the moment…
Suddenly, Haley jumped in surprise as there was a small explosion and a bunch of smoke appeared in thin air. As the smoke faded, a wizard with a purple cap and cape and a red robe appeared.
As Haley saw the wizard, she immediately transformed into her dragon form and put up her claws in self defense. "Who are you and what do you want?" she demanded.
"Relax, American Dragon…" the wizard spoke. "I'm not going to hurt you. In fact, I just want to help you."
"How do you know who I am?" Haley demanded.
"The same way that I knew you'd be here…" the wizard said. "My magic; I want to help you. You see, I know how you feel…and I want to take your pain away from you."
Haley's eyes widened and she felt her claws lowering. "How do you plan to do that?" she asked. "How do you know that there is anything bothering me?"
"My dear American Dragon, there is so much that I know…" the wizard poofed away and reappeared in a puff of smoke right in front of Haley and he placed the tip of the wand right in front of the slash mark across her eye. "This is causing you a lot of pain, isn't it? People are making fun of you, aren't they? I can help you…"
"You can help me?" Haley asked, looking up at him. "How?"
"You just leave that to me…" the wizard told her. "There is just one thing that I need in return for my services, though…"
"What?" Haley asked.
"I'm glad you asked…" the wizard responded, and he reached into his robe and pulled out a sheet of folded paper. "Take it…" the wizard urged. Haley slowly reached out and grabbed the paper. Slowly unfolding it, Haley gasped.
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BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
Haley stared in shock at the sketch on the paper. On the piece of paper, she could see what looked like the Ucrono Hourglass. "The Ucrono?" Haley asked. "That's what you want?"
"Is that what you call it?" the wizard asked. "Well yes, that's what I desire. Bring it to me and I shall remove your scar."
"But what do you want with it?" Haley asked.
"How about this…?" the wizard growled. "If you want that scar gone, then you bring me that hourglass, no questions asked…"
Haley stared back at the wizard with a shocked look on her face as she slowly took a few step back. "Oh…" the wizard said after a moment. "I think I understand. I'll tell you what. I'm willing to make a deal with you. I'll give you twenty-four hours to make your decision. You meet me back here tomorrow night at this very time."
The wizard the turned and was about to wave his wand, but Haley called to him. "No." she decided right there on the spot. "No. I'm not going to give it to you." As soon as Haley finished her declaration, she suddenly realized something: the break-ins. "That was what those two were after, wasn't it?" she demanded. "You hired Lu and that other person to steal it from us, didn't you?"
The wizard just stared at her for a moment before he finally spoke: "Well done, dragon." He said. "You finally figured it out. But it's too bad for you that I will get my hands on that hourglass anyway…"
Haley's eyes then widened in surprise as the wizard reached into his robe and pulled out a test tube-shaped item and smashed it against the ground. As soon as the item smashed, the figure of the wizard started to look as though it were being sucked toward the shattered item before she heard a rip and the wizard form disappeared; Haley gasped as she saw a large cloaked figure standing in its place.
"Who are you?"
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Laughter rand out in the bathroom at Canal Street Electronics as both Fu Dog and Lu Dog sat on the floor laughing hysterically. "And then we can put superglue on all of their chairs!" Fu laughed as if he had inhaled nitrous oxide. "Oh, then they'll talk about a sticky situation!"
Lu Dog continued to laugh madly as she got another idea. "Or…" she tried to take a break from laughing as she tried to tell the shar-pei her idea. "Or…we could just kidnap them!"
Lu Dog then broke back into hysterical laughter as Fu Dog stopped immediately and stared at her. "That isn't funny…" the shar-pei pointed out, making Lu stop laughing. Lu just stared at the shar-pei with an apologetic look on her face, but Fu once again resumed his laughing, rolling over onto his back with his paws curving down. Lu just stared at him for a moment before she burst into laughter as well.
"This is slaying me!" Fu laughed and Lu Dog stopped laughing and smiled down at him as Fu stopped laughing and started to smile up at her.
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"Who are you?" Haley asked again as she looked at the cloaked figure standing in front of her. The figure did not respond, and instead jumped up and knocked Haley onto her back. On her back, Haley looked up and gasped as she saw claws.
"You're a…dragon!"
"Yes…" the cloaked figure growled. "And now I'm going to give you another scar across your other eye for refusing my offer!" He growled as Haley felt the claw wrapping around her throat.
Haley could only look up at the covered face, and even though she could see nothing, she found it to be mesmerizing. Just as Haley found herself feeling light-headed from the lack of oxygen, Haley heard a small explosion and could smell smoke. To Haley's surprise, the cloaked dragon turned his head toward whatever was happening; Haley grinned as she took this time to slam her tail into her attacker.
The cloaked dragon grunted as he slammed against the ground, rolling one or two three times before he caught himself and picked himself up, standing back up and coming face to face with Haley and a man with a small beard, baggy pants, a jacket and a white under tank-top.
"Who are you?" the cloaked dragon growled. "And what are you doing her?"
"Well…" the new arrival spoke. "You can call me Spud the Spudnificent and…"
"I don't care what you call yourself!" the cloaked dragon roared. "All I care about is that you leave right now. This is none of your business, wizard. If you leave now, I just may spare your life."
"Oh, I'm afraid that I can't do that…" Spud replied, a large grin on his face. "You see, this dragon you are trying to slay is my best bud's little sis. You see, I was…"
Spud, however, was cut off from his explanation as the cloaked shot at Spud; Spud's eyes widened in surprise and he jumped backwards just in time for the cloaked dragon's speeding claws just miss him as Haley slammed into him.
Both dragons flew sideways, but as Haley flared her wings, the cloaked dragon slammed against the ground with a grunt, only to slowly get up. "Spud, now!" Haley called as tried to deliver several swipes to the cloaked dragon, but despite the blow the cloaked dragon had taken just previously, he was able to dodge every single one of them.
Behind the two fighting dragons, Spud quickly took out his wand before calling out a chant. In a flash of light, a length of chains appeared out of thin air and he magically sent them flying over to the cloaked dragon, just as he swatted Haley to the ground. The cloaked dragon quickly brought his glance away from Haley to Spud, only to see the chains coming toward him; the cloaked dragon quickly responded with a blast of fire, which consumed the chains.
Before Spud could even react, the cloaked dragon was soaring toward him and was now right beside him; there was a blurring flash as Spud yelped as he felt the dragon's tail before letting out a terrified shout as the cloaked dragon threw his tail up, sending Spud shooting into the air.
Spud screamed as he shot into the air, clenching down his fists, unaware that his wand was still in his hand; a giant glowing green fist appeared from the wand as it slipped from his hand and started to fall down to the laughing cloaked dragon. The cloaked dragon was staring up at the wizard, but his laughing stopped when he saw the glowing hand coming right for him. "Huh? AAAHHH!" the cloaked dragon screamed as the glowing hand came down on him, the wand smashing into the cement and making it cave in as dust and pieces of road shot up in a cloud.
Haley groaned as she slowly sat up. Haley immediately caught sight of the dust in the road, but the sound of Spud's shouting pulled her attention up into the sky. Spud had been shooting into the air, but he was starting to fall back to the ground now. "SPUD!" Haley shouted as she as she flapped her wings and took off into the air. As she got closer to spud, she flapped her wings harder and managed to catch the screaming wizard just before he slammed into the ground.
Haley could feel Spud shaking even as she set him back down on his feet. "Are you okay?" she asked him.
"Y…Yeah, I think I'm okay…" Spud answered as soon as he calmed down a little bit. The two then turned and walked over to where the cloaked dragon once stood. As soon as the dust cleared, Haley and Spud could see that the cloaked dragon was lying, limp in the middle of a small crater in the ground.
As he looked down at the defeated dragon, Spud shifted before he looked down to see that his wand was underneath his shoe. Removing his shoe from where it was planted, Spud bent down and picked his wand up before turning to face Haley.
"Did…Did I do that?" he asked.
"I guess you did…" Haley turned away from the crater. "Spud, don't worry about it. It was an accident. Come on, we should go…"
Spud looked back from his wand to the crater before turning back to Haley and nodding. "Okay…" he said before he climbed onto Haley's claws as she took off into the air, both unaware that back in the crater in the ground, the cloaked dragon groaned as his clawed fist clenched.
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"Okay, you can let me down here." Spud told Haley as she soared over the same building that they had met up at earlier that day. Haley nodded and folded her wings in as she landed, letting go of Spud as she reverted to her human form.
"Spud, can I ask you something?" Haley turned to face the young wizard as he tucked his wand back into his pocket.
"Sure, Haley…"
"Why did you come looking for me?" Haley asked. "Did you change your mind about magically healing my scratch?"
"No, I didn't." Spud replied. "I actually came to find you because…" Spud pulled out his wand again, and in a flash of magic, Haley's backpack appeared in thin air and dropped to the ground. "…you left your backpack here."
"Oh…" Haley muttered in a disappointed tone as she reached down and grabbed it before turning around. "Well thanks…I guess…" Haley then transformed into her dragon form and was about to fly off, but Spud's voice called her back.
"Haley, wait!"
"What?" Haley turned around and faced him. "You aren't going to help me out, so then why should I stay here?"
"Haley, can you just listen to me?" Spud asked. "Listen, I know this is going to sound really whacked coming from me, but I think that…"
"That everything happens for a reason?" Haley asked.
"Well…" Spud stopped for a minute. "Well…I wasn't going to put it like that, but yeah. I guess that's how I could put it. Who told you that?"
"Sun."
"Man, I always thought that the one rule that was never to be broken was to always listen to your dragon master…" Spud mused. "You don't believe her?"
"It's not that I don't believe her…" Haley tried to explain. "It's just…I don't want to be teased by Sierra Tatlock and her mindless minions Olivia Mears and Dena Mahen…I just want to be normal…"
"Don't you think that that was what Jake wanted?" Spud asked. "Don't you think that was what Rose wanted? Heck, there were even times during my training that I wished I was just my old Spudical self again! The truth is…we don't always get what we most desire. Usually, we never do…"
Hearing these words, Haley frowned and looked down at the ground, deep in thought. "Well, I should get going…" Spud said. "Stace is probably wondering where I am. I'll see ya later, Haley…" As Spud started to walk away and pulled out his wand, Haley looked up from the ground and turned to face him.
"Spud?"
"Yeah?"
"How do you know all of these things?"
"Well…" Spud smiled. "Despite the way I look and act, I'm actually a genius…" Then, Spud waved his wand and he disappeared in a flash of green light followed by smoke.
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Haley stepped through the doors of Millard Fillmore High School the next morning with her backpack over her shoulders and a much higher spirit. Haley walked over to her locker and opened it as she put her backpack inside after retrieving her book for her first class. As she closed the locker door and turned around, Haley was not surprised to see that Sierra, Olivia and Dena were all standing together.
"Good morning, Miss Dragon…" Sierra mocked. "Are you feeling better today? You looked like your spirits were a little scarred…" This got a laugh from both her minions.
"Sierra, that didn't even make sense…" Haley started to walk away.
"Hey, where are you going?" Sierra demanded. "I'm not done with you!"
"Actually, I think you are…" Haley turned around and smiled. "Because I've just decided that I'm not going to let your insults get me anymore. Well, I guess I'll see you in class…"
As Haley turned and walked away, both Olivia and Dena stared at Sierra as she paled. "Did she just ignore us?" Dena asked.
"I think she did…" Olivia muttered. "Haley's never done that before…"
Dena let out a small cry. "What if she ignores us all the time now? Then who are we going to pick on?"
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Haley entered through the door of Mrs. O'Yrael's classroom to find that there was no one else in the room except for the teacher herself. "What are you doing here?" O'Yrael demanded coldly as Haley walked over to her desk and sat down with a smile.
"I'm here on time today." Haley said. "So I guess that means that you'll just have one less thing to make me miserable for…"
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A/N: What did you think? Please review.