American Dragon: Haley Long (Season One)
Chapter/Episode 8: Dragons of the Jury
Brad Morton sighed as he leaned against the wall in his office, as the female officer sat at his desk, typing on a laptop, the female officer growled in frustration as the laptop froze. "Curse you, you blasted 2007 model!" the officer cursed.
"Sarah…" Brad finally spoke. "Are you sure you really want to do this?"
"Of course I want to do this…" the officer replied. "You shouldn't be worried if we get got. Your daddy got you this job; he'll protect you. Besides, you don't like these dragons, do you?"
"Of course not!" Brad replied. "I just—I just don't get your plan, okay…"
"Then it's a good thing I have a higher IQ than you do…" Sarah replied, rolling her eyes. "Perhaps it's best that you don't know what's going on…"
"Officer Thornton!" a new voice called, and a few seconds later, a new police officer who had combed back blonde hair, glasses and a uniform that looked a little too big for him appeared in the doorway. "Officer Thornton, I got what you wanted me to get."
"Excellent!" Thornton said, getting up from her chair and snatching a brown folder from Deputy Nolan's hands as he held it out for her. Officer Thornton chuckled as she undid the seal and pulled out a piece of paper, which she looked at with sparkling eyes.
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BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
Police Chief Brad Morton Senior sat in his desk writing a report when Officer Thornton appeared in the doorway, followed by Brad and Deputy Nolan. Morton Sr. looked up from his paper. "Yes?" he asked. "What do you want?"
"Well, sir…" Thornton said as she walked up to his desk, placing the paper she pulled out of the folder onto his desk. "It appears that President Brock has issued a decree that says that dragons are un-welcomed here."
"Let me see that…" the chief demanded, and Thornton handed it to him. After looking at the paper for a second before he set it down. "This is forged…"
Thornton's eyes widened. "What?" she asked. "What would make you think that?" She was sweating…
"Do you think I'm stupid?" Morton Sr. demanded. "My son may be a little slow, but I know a forged document when I see one…"
Thornton was sweating as the chief stood up from his seat. Thinking quickly, Thornton reached toward her belt and grabbed her gun pointing it at the chief. "Not so fast…" Thornton warned. "You aren't going to ruin this. Here…" Thornton then turned to Nolan and handed him the gun. "You take him out of here and place him in one of the cells…"
"Why do I have to do it?" Deputy Nolan asked, his hands shaking with the gun. "Why can't you do it?"
"Oh, well…" Thornton answered. "Well, you're involved now, so you do it."
"I think this is going too far…" the deputy moaned, but nonetheless, he pointed the gun at the chief. "Come on, sir…" he ordered in a timid voice. Chief Morton growled in anger, but he obeyed, walking out of the room, followed by Deputy Nolan.
"So now what?" Brad asked.
"It's just a small setback…" Thornton answered. "But don't worry. I can pass this off as real."
"How?"
"My cousin…"
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Thornton and Brad stood on the front porch of a nice house somewhere in Manhattan. Brad whistled in amazement as Thornton reached up and knocked on the door before stepping back. "So, what can your cousin do for us?" Brad asked her.
"Would you just wait?" Thornton barked back, only to turn her head as the door slowly opened and she could see the face of a clean-shaven, blue eyes, combed black hair, and even though it was early in the morning, a suit and tie. "Hello, cousin…"
"Sarah?" he asked. "What do you want?"
"Brad, this is my cousin…" Thornton seemed to ignore her cousin. "…Michael…"
"Sarah, what do you want?" her cousin demanded, raising his voice. "Why are you here? We haven't seen each other in years. What do you want?"
"Michael, I have something for you to look at…" Thornton replied.
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A few moments later, Thornton sat on the opposite side of her cousin at the kitchen table as she handed him the forged document. "Well, this is obviously forged…" Michael said the second he looked at it. "But that is just because I've worked with these kinds of things."
"My father also didn't fall for it…" Brad, who was leaning against the kitchen counter, said.
"That's because he's also had experience…" Michael rolled his eyes. "Listen, I'm not trying to put you down, because the truth is, the idiots who are on the jury because they got jury duty, as well as the judge herself, probably won't know that it is a faked document."
"Wait, so you know what I want to do?"
"I'm not an idiot, Sarah." Michael replied. "You've hated dragons for as long as I can remember. I'm sure you want to trick some poor fool into arresting all dragons…"
"Actually, that isn't what I want…" Thornton replied. "Just one; that's all I want. Perhaps then it will show dragons and all other magical creatures that we do not want them around. Then, they'll leave."
"Well, I'm sure that there'll be a trial…" Michael started to drum his fingers against the table. "And I'm guessing that that is why you came to me…"
"I guess you could say that…"
"Well, then all I have to say is one thing…" Michael stood up. "If I help you, what is in it for me?"
Thornton didn't seem surprised that her cousin asked her this, but she still just stared at him for a minute. Then, she smiled and spoke: "You'll see in time…"
"You have no idea how you're going to pay me back, do you?" Michael asked with a small frown, but then he smiled slightly. "Alright, I'll help you, and in the meantime, I'll let you think about it. After all, we're family, and family should help each other out, right?"
"Sure…"
"Well…do you have any ideas on the poor dragon soul that you want to make suffer?"
Thornton seemed to think about this for a second, before she finally smiled and turned to Brad. "What was the name of that boy you didn't like in high school that turned out to be a dragon?"
"You mean Jerk Long?"
"Yes!" Thornton exclaimed. "Didn't he have a sister?"
"I think so…"
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"Now, Haley!" Sun Park, who still had a bandage wrapped over her arm, stood behind her pupil; Haley was in dragon form with a blind fold over her eyes. "Sometimes, you may not be able to see what is going on in a battle. You must lean to trust your form and skills."
"But Sun…" Haley asked. "Isn't that what my 'eye of the dragon' is for?"
"Haley…"
"Alright, alright…" Haley gave in. "Now what?"
"Alright, just trust yourself." Sun instructed. "Now, use your tail. Punch! Swipe! Tail! Swipe!" As Sun instructed, Haley followed all of Sun's orders, lashing out with her tail and claws. "Very good, Haley! You can stop now and take off the blindfold."
Haley sighed with relief as she reached up and pulled off her blindfold, blinking when she found the sunlight a little too much. "Now what, Sun?" she asked.
"Well, now…" Sun started to say, but she was cut off as she heard loud sirens coming toward the shop. Both dragons turned around as they saw a hovering cruiser stop in front of the roof. The doors opened, and both Brad and Thornton stepped out of the car.
"Haley Long?" Thornton asked.
"Yes?"
Before Haley could respond, Brad reached onto his belt and pulled out a single cuff. "You're under arrest…" Thornton finished. "Revert to your human form and don't fight us, or we will be forced to hurt you…" Haley was so frightened, her pink dragon form fading away as Brad walked up behind Haley, pulling her arms behind her back, opening the cuff. As soon as Brad closed the cuff after pulling Haley's hands together, the cuff immediately shrank, coming down hard on Haley's wrists, making her gasp in pain.
As Haley found herself being forced over to the car, her heart started to race; throwing a glance to Sun, Haley called: "Sun, what's going on? Please do something!"
Sun was completely in shock, but she managed to make her way to Thornton. "What is going on?" Sun demanded. "What has she done?"
Thornton just smiled at the Korean Dragon. "Don't worry…" she said. "I have a feeling that young Haley will be out in no time…"
Before Sun could say anything more, Thornton then walked off, getting into the cruiser, which already had Haley locked in the back. Sun then just stared in shock as the departed.
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BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
Haley shivered with fear as she was lead down the dark halls of the nearest prison. She turned her head and looked at the bars and beyond, into the dark and damp cells. Finally, Brad halted her and he reached for his belt, pulling out a key and unlocking the bars to the cell that they were standing in front of. As soon as Brad slid open the cell door, he shoved Haley in roughly. Haley stumbled across the ground before she fell over, and since her hands were still locked behind her, she fell over onto her stomach as Brad walked away.
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Sun sat in the Long residence not long after Haley's arrest with sorrowful eyes as she watched Susan cry over her husband's shoulder. "How could this happen?" Jonathan asked. "What has she even done wrong?"
"She hasn't done anything wrong, Mr. Long." Sun answered. "I am certain that this is some kind of misunderstanding…"
Susan sniffled as she removed her head from her husbands shoulder. Wiping her eyes, she spoke: "What should we do? Our daughter can't go to prison, Jonathan!"
"We'll get an attorney, honey…" Jonathan said reassuringly. "Like Miss Park said, I'm sure that this is all a big misunderstanding…"
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Haley was lying on her side in her prison cell, in a near fetal position; she suddenly lifted her head up off of the ground when she saw the female officer who had arrested her appear at her cell door. "You have visitors…" she muttered as she slid the door open, and the next thing she knew, Sun, her mom, her dad and a woman she had never seen before walked into the cell.
"Haley!" both of her parents called for her, and the rushed over to her, pulling her up into a sitting position. "Are you okay, Haley?" her father asked her. Haley simply nodded. "Its okay, Haley; we hired you an attorney."
Haley then looked up and stared at the new woman, who had her brown hair pulled back; she wore a blouse and a tie with a coat over it as well as a skirt. She smiled kindly at Haley. "Hello, Haley…" the attorney said. "My name is Michelle Cade, and I'm going to help you." Then, she turned to Thornton. "You can let her out of those things now. She's not going anywhere."
"I don't have that kind of authority…" Thornton lied, trying to avoid eye contact with the attorney.
"Then do you mind telling me why this young girl is even here?"
"I wasn't told…"
"I find that very hard to believe…" Cade replied. "Whatever, can you leave us alone?" Cade watched as Thornton left the cell before she returned to Haley. "Okay Haley, I'm going to do everything in my power to get you out of this."
"What should we do?" Susan asked.
"Well, since we have no idea why your daughter is in this predicament, I do not yet know the evidence against her."
"Can you please just tell us what we need to do?" Susan asked.
"I would advise you to find someone who could testify in favor of Haley…" Cade answered. "A friend, perhaps…"
"She unfortunately doesn't have any friends…" Jonathan answered. "She's never been very popular…"
"Are you sure that there is no one who would want to help her?"
Jonathan was about to answer, but before he could, Sun beat him to it: "Well, there may be one person who would be willing to, but I'm not quite sure…"
"Ask her…"
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"They got her an attorney!" Thornton exclaimed as she sat on the opposite side of her cousin at his house. "They got her one! Who in their right minds would defend a dragon?"
"Of course they got her one…" Michael rolled his eyes. "And it doesn't mean that the attorney cares. It could just mean that the attorney only care about money. Or perhaps she doesn't even know…"
This made Thornton smile. "She may not know, huh? Well, she's going to find out. This is where you come in…"
"Of course this is where I come in." Michael rolled his eyes again. "Do you know who they got to defend her?"
"Some woman named Cade…"
"Oh, she's good…" Michael looked down at the table, but then grinned. "But of course, I'm better…"
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Sun Park flew high in the sky the next afternoon until she reached Millard Fillmore High School; Sun landed right beside the stairs and ducked down just as the bell rang. Seconds later, the two doors opened and the students poured out of the buildings. Sun watched as all of the students left, until she finally caught sight of the girl she needed. And what luck, she was the last person to exit.
"Leah!" Sun whispered, calling out to her and making the girl turn around, looking for the voice. "Is someone there?" Leah asked.
"Leah, it's me…" Sun stood straight up, making Leah back up with a now nervous look on his face. "Leah, don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. I would never do that."
"What do you want?"
"Leah, please just listen to me." Sun pleaded. "Haley's in trouble, and she needs your help."
"Why does she need my help?"
"Haley's been arrested…" Sun explained. "I do not know the reason, but I know it has to be some kind of misunderstanding…."
"You still haven't explained why…" Leah cut her off.
"We need someone to defend her during the trial." Sun admitted. "You're the only person I know who could possibly help her."
Leah just stared at Sun for a moment. Finally, she opened her mouth. "I…I don't think I can help you…"
"Why not?" Sun asked. "Haley needs you! Didn't she help you when you needed it?"
"You mean when she saved me from being blown up?" Leah demanded. "Yeah, thanks for that! Because Haley saved me, I should completely forget that it was one of her kind that did that to me in the first place? Or how about the fact that it was a dragon that hurt my brother?"
Sun just stared at Leah for a moment before she looked down at the ground. "When are you going to learn that is not the fault of our species for what a single dragon has done? Yes, there are bad dragons out there, but there also bad humans who would do the same thing to someone like you. Just something for you to think about…" Then, flaring her wings, Sun took off into the air, flying away and leaving Leah alone.
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"So, you didn't get her friend?" Cade asked as she sat on the couch at Canal Street Electronics next to Sun. "That's a real shame. Someone will have to speak in Haley's defense. You know, say something along the lines of 'she could never do anything like that' or 'she was with me when the crime occurred' or something around those lines."
"Well, it really seems like she didn't want to do it." Sun sighed. "I can't force her to help."
"Actually, if the person knows something, I think there could be a way…" Cade smiled slightly. "Does this girl know something that could help Haley?
"No…" Sun answered. "I was actually just thinking that…" But before Sun could finish, both could hear the ringing of the bell above the door. A moment later, Leah stepped into the room with an uneasy look on her face. "Leah…" Sun asked. "What are you doing here?"
"So, this is the girl?" Cade asked.
"Yes." Sun answered. "Can I help you with something, Leah?"
"I…" Leah started to say. "I…I…I thought about what you said before…and…I'll help you. I'll testify for Haley."
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Chief Morton growled as he sat in a dark prison cell right in front of where Deputy Nolan was sitting, with a very worried look on his face. "Sir…" the deputy finally spoke. "Sir, you know that I'm just following Thornton's orders, right?"
The chief didn't answer.
The deputy decided to continue: "I really don't want any trouble. I'm going to let you out. You know, as soon as Thornton tells me it is okay to. Listen, you won't be mad, will you? I don't want to get into any trouble. I've worked hard to get this far here…" By this time, Deputy Nolan was pacing around the room, having gotten up out of his seat.
Watching the deputy pace, the chief smiled. "Of course I'm not mad at you…" he said, making Deputy Nolan turn around with a relieved look on his face. "I understand how you are just following orders. You won't be in any trouble, unfortunately, Thornton and my son will. So, why don't you just…give more your gun and let me out. I'll just put you in here for the time being, but I promise that no ill-fate will await you when all this is over…"
Hearing this, Deputy Nolan's face lit up, and he nodded with relief. "Okay…" he sighed, reaching for his belt and pulled out his gun, handing it to his chief through the bars. Then, Nolan reached for his keys and unlocked the cell door, sliding it open and allowing Chief Morton out of the cell.
Chief Morton then grabbed hold of the cell and closed it, then turned to Nolan, who now looked confused. "Give me your cuffs…" Chief Morton ordered.
"But, aren't you going to put me in there?"
"Just do it!" Chief Morton ordered, pointing the gun at the deputy. Now trembling, Deputy Nolan reached for his belt and pulled out his single cuff handcuffs, handing them to the chief. "Now put your hands together and place them against one of the bars."
Nolan nodded and did as he was told, and the chief put the cuff around the bar and the deputy's hands before locking them, making Nolan wince in pain. "What are you doing?" Nolan asked. "I don't get it!"
"Congratulations, son…" Chief Morton smiled. "You are the only person on this planet who is stupider than my son…" Then, Chief Morton turned and walked away.
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The next morning, Sun Park, Leah and Haley's parents all sat together in the court room, as Cade stood in front of them. "Okay…" the attorney started. "Today is the big day. And to start things off, I have no idea how this is going to turn out, but I'm going to do my best."
Both Jonathan and Susan looked at each other before they both looked at Cade. "That's all we can ask of you…" they both said in unison.
"Well, I just wish that I had been told more…" Cade added. "This just isn't fair. I don't get it. Why won't those officers tell me more? Well, it is what it is. So Leah, you have your story, right?"
"Yes…"
"I think we should go over it just one more time." Cade said, but before she could say anything else, the doors to the court room opened and Michael entered the room, followed by Thornton and Brad, who entered, each on the opposite side of Haley, who was in chains and in dragon form.
"Haley…" Susan exclaimed, burying her face on her husbands shoulder at the sight of her daughter as Thornton brought her over to the table where her family was sitting and sat her down.
"I was never told she was a dragon…" Cade stared at the dragon sitting in front of her. "Oh well. I'm not going to just leave the case. I'm going to help you out. In fact, I think I may even have an idea…"
"What?" Sun asked. "What are you saying?"
"Just trust me on this one…" Cade whispered back as the room started to fill up, the jury members all sitting down as the bailiff walked up and addressed everyone in the room.
"All rise for the honorable Judge Camryn!" the bailiff ordered as the judge entered the room, everyone in the room, except Haley, standing.
"Be seated…" the judge demanded, and everyone sat back down. "Bailiff, care to tell me the case?"
"Parents took these police officers to court after they arrested their dragon daughter…" the bailiff spoke. "According to these police officers, the president has declared that magical creatures are not allowed in the country…"
This caused much whispers from everyone in the room. Cade turned to Haley's horrified parents and whispered to them: "You didn't tell me that this was the case…"
"We didn't know…" Jonathan replied.
Cade sighed as she brought her hand to her head. Lowering her hand, she sighed again. "Well, I'm not just going to give up on you…"
"Yes, your honor…" Thornton stood up. "We were just following orders. We had no idea that the family would be taking us to court…"
"I didn't ask…" the judge responded. "And personally, I just want to get this over with? Do you have a witness, or whatever to call to the stand?"
"I do your honor…" Cade stood up. "I call Leah Belden to the stand…" As she spoke, Leah slowly stood and made her way over to the stand, sitting down as Cade approached her, holding a bible in front of her. "Place your hand on it…" Leah complied as Cade continued. "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?"
"I…I do…"
"Alright Leah…" Cade began. "Do you mind telling me how you know Haley?"
"Well, we go to the same school…"
"And where is that?"
"Millard Fillmore High School…"
"Okay…" Cade nodded. "Well, you agreed to testify in Haley's defense, so you must have some sort of reason. Do you mind telling me the relationship between you two?"
"Well, we don't really have one…" Leah answered quietly. "In fact, the only reason I have even said anything to her is because she saved me…"
"So a dragon saved you?" Cade smiled as she turned to the judge and then the jury. "I think that is the perfect reason why this whole 'outlawing dragons' thing should not be happening right now…"
"…But…" Leah added. "…She saved me from another dragon…"
"You see?" Michael stood up from his seat. "That still proves that dragons and other creatures do not get along with us. On top of that, I also have the document that reveals the president's decision…" Michael then reached into his coat and pulled out the piece of paper. "It states that dragons have until the end of the month to get out."
"Really?" Cade retorted. "Then you don't mind if I see the document?" When Cade said this, Thornton's eyes widened as she got from her seat and rushed over to where her cousin is standing. "You don't need to see it! The bailiff and the jury members all saw it! What makes you think you'll see anything different?"
"Well gee…" Cade's smile widened. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were hiding something. So, why don't you prove to me that you're not hiding something by showing me that document?"
"I'm not hiding anything…" Michael replied.
"Then give me the document…"
"Just give him the bloody document!" the judge called out. Michael growled as he handed over the document, a now nervous Thornton moving passed Cade and over to Leah.
"Thank you…" Cade smiled as she took it. The attorney stared at the document for a moment before she turned to everyone in the room. "This document is obviously a fake." This caused somewhat of a gasp to come from the "audience". "Yes…" Cade continued. "As you might be able to tell if I were to show you this, you'd be able to see that the date this was signed was the exact same day as Haley's arrest."
"That doesn't prove anything!" Michael defended.
"Actually, it does…" Cade said victoriously. "Do you really think it's possible for the declaration to be made known in only a few hours? To actually have the document in your own hands?"
"Yes."
"Alright…" Cade replied. "Well, I think it should also be made known that…a few of these words are cut and pasted…"
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Michael declared, but Cade simply ignored him and walked over to the judge, handing it to her. "I think you'll see what I'm talking about."
The judge took the document in her hands and looked at it. "Yes, I can see it." She then turned her head to the guards in the room. "Guards, place the three under arrest."
Thornton watched as the guards were upon her cousin, knocking him onto his stomach as the pulled his arms behind his back and slapped cuffs around his wrists. As he pulled up to his feet, Thornton shouted at him: "I thought you told me that you fixed the document up!"
"I did…" her cousin replied. "Thos cut and pastes were made by me to rearrange some of your words…"
Thornton growled in annoyance as she saw the guards now advancing towards her. On the other side of the room, Brad slowly started to stand up as he saw the guards coming for him, cuffs in one of the guard's hand. Brad quickly turned, jumping over the table, trying to get out of the room. Looking for an exit, Brad quickly spotted the window and ran for it, but he found himself blocked by Jonathan, Susan and Sun.
"No one does this to our daughter…" Jonathan growled as he and his wife corned his sides while Sun stood in front of him.
"Get out of my way!" Brad exclaimed, hitting Jonathan and Susan in their guts as they tried to tackle him. As Jonathan and Susan doubled over, Brad dodged an attack from Sun, the Korean Dragon falling to the ground on her stomach as she missed her target, and jumped up, crashing through the window, landing roughly on his feet.
Brad recovered quickly from the landing, and he stood up, running into the street, just as a rather old looking car screeched to a halt in order to avoid hitting him. Brad yelped in surprise, but he then smiled as he stared into the windshield. He couldn't see the driver's face, but he now had an idea. Pulling out his gun, Brad walked over to the side of the car and opened the door, sitting down in the passenger's seat as he closed the door.
"Give me your car…" Brad ordered, but his eyes widened when he realized who was sitting at the wheel.
"Hello, son…" Chief Morton smiled at him. "Give me that!" He added, snatching the gun away from his son. "We're going to go for a little drive…"
Brad's shocked look soon turned into one of fear, and he tried to turn and get out, but the lock slid down, leaving Brad to helplessly try to open the locked door to no avail as the car sped off.
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Back in the court room, Thornton took a step back as the guards surrounded her. She knew she was trapped. But she would not give up that easily. Reaching into her belt, Thornton pulled out her gun and reached sideways, grabbing Leah by her arm and pulling her out of the booth and over to her. Thornton put her arm around Leah's neck, and as she hoped, the guards started to back off.
"That's right…" Thornton grinned. "I'm not going to prison now or ever. Let me out of here, or this girl will pay for your stupidity…"
Haley's eyes widened as she saw Thornton walking passed her and to the exit with Leah as her hostage. Thinking quickly, Haley shot her tail backwards, turning her head to see Thornton yell as she tripped over her tail, falling onto her back, her arm leaving Leah's neck. Haley then turned her head to the judge as she spoke.
"Haley Long, your case is dismissed." She said. "And you are hereby exonerated." Haley watched as one of the guards came toward her and slowly unlocked her cuffs. As soon as the cuffs were pulled away, Haley stood up, reverting to her human form as her dragon master and parents walked toward her with smiles on their faces.
Haley smiled back at them before she turned her attention to Leah, who looked ashamed. "Thanks again…" Leah said quietly. "And I'm sorry…"
"For what?"
"For judging you for what someone else did to my brother…" Leah stared at Haley. "I appreciated you saving me, but I was still a little nervous. Is…Is it okay if we, you know, just start over?"
Haley thought about what Leah said for a moment before she smiled. "Of course…"
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The next morning, Haley sat on the couch at Canal Street Electronics, bored out of her mind. Just as Haley was about to stand up and practice some fighting techniques, she heard the bell of the shop ring as someone entered. Haley soon saw that the person was Cade, as she stepped into the back room. "Hello, Haley." She smiled.
"Hi…"
"Well, I just came by here to tell you…" Cade walked over to the couch. "…that those two cops and that prosecutor have been locked away, and they will remain that way for a very, very long time."
"It doesn't matter to me…"
"Really?" Cade asked. "They tried to get rid of you."
"It's not the dragon way to hold grudges…" Haley answered.
"Well, I also wanted to tell you that the court wants to offer you compensation for your ordeal…"
"It's okay…" Haley answered. "I've been through worse."
"Oh…" Cade was a little shocked. "So, you don't want it?"
"Not really…"
"Oh…" Cade was a little surprised. "Well, that's fine. Well Haley, it was a pleasure…" As she finished, Cade brought her hand up and offered it to Haley, and a moment later, Haley accepted it, shaking her hand.
"Haley!" Sun's voice called out, and both Haley and Cade could see Sun entering the room. "Haley, we have a dragon emergency! There is a fight going on between a human and a gang of mountain goblins! You must hurry before the human gets hurt!"
"On my way, Sun!" Haley exclaimed, jumping into the air in a flash of pink light as her dragon form appeared. In a flash of pink, Haley sped out of the room.
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Haley stared down at the ground as she flew toward her destination. As she looked down, she could see humans on the street. Sighing, Haley looked up from the ground. She knew that many humans would never change their mind about dragons.
Haley sighed again. She knew she couldn't control what others thought of her, or her kind, but she wished that she could. With one final sigh, Haley continued on her way.
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A/N: So, how was that? Not the most exciting chapter/episode, but I think it's kind of important. It was also a little difficult, as I have no knowledge about how trials work. I did a little bit of research (and when I say a little, I mean a little), but overall, I know it's not very accurate.
So, some reviews would be nice.