Gathering All the Pieces

Brad Morton and his son are enjoying a happy dinner together when something unexpected happens. Someone throws a grenade and gas leaks its way out of it.

"I don't get it." Brad says. "The Bradster has just won a big game. This shouldn't be happening."

Sleeping gas covers the whole house and soon everyone falls asleep. 88 and 89 teleport themselves inside the house wearing gas masks and easily steal Brad's quarter of the ancient disc. After that, they teleport themselves away.

Meanwhile, Kyle Wilkins, Jr. is driving Laura Spudinski to her home after a date.

"Laura, I must admit that, despite my fears, I enjoyed this night." Junior comments.

"Do you really mean it?" Laura asks.

"Yes." He answers. "I expected you to force me into one of these boring fancy restaurants."

"Oh, no." She replies. "My Mom is the one who enjoys these stuff. I don't understand why so many people spend all that money on those meals if real food is cheaper."

"Me neither." He says. "And I was also afraid you would take me to one of these boring activities from the chess clubs."

"Don't worry." She says. "I know a date requires something special."

Kyle, Jr. suddenly stops his car as he notices something odd around the Spudinski Mansion. "What's that?"

"Oh, no." Laura exclaims. "It must be the robbers Doug's Dad warned mine about." She then pulls her cell phone and calls for help. "Doug? It's Laura. Please tell your Dad something wrong is happening at my house. Thank you."

88 and 89 throw sleeping gas at the Spudinskis just like they did at the Mortons and then enter the mansion to steal their part of the disc. Kyle, Jr. and Laura go to the gate and notice the guards are already sleeeping. She then tries to open the gates but Junior stops her, saying they'd better wait for the police and she agrees. Before the cops arrive, 88 and 89 leave the mansion and the two teens prepare to fight them.

"We don't have time for this, 88." Huntsboy 89 says.

"You're right, 89." 88 replies. "We've already got what we wanted." He says and then they teleport themselves away.

Right after that, the police arrives and the two teens give their statements. Jake Long and Eric Mason enter the house with special masks to search for the Spudinskis. After finding Spud and Stacey, the Detectives drag them out the mansion so they could breath normally. Spud is the first one to wake up.

"Whoa, dude." Spud says. "What happened?"

"Those Huntsclan guys I've warned you broke into your mansion, Spud." Jake explains.

"Weren't them arrested?" Spud asks.

"They were bailed out." Det. Mason answers.

Meanwhile, Hans and Sun were allowed to visit helga on the magical prison the ex-Councillor Chang was locked away after being revealed to be in cahoots with the Dark Dragon. Hans Rotwood was really shocked when he was told his wife is a dragon but got over well about that. Well, at least better than the expected, which wasn't too much anyway. The Dragon Council didn't like the idea of telling him about that but realized they had no choice after the trouble Helga caused. Sun is the first one to talk to Helga and she is very angry. And we know someone is in trouble when Sun is angry.

"Helga, why did you do that?" Sun asks.

"Mom, I wanted to have dragon powers and nobody was using Detective Long's." Helga explains.

"It doesn't justify what you did." Sun angrily says and then leaves. Then it's time for Professor Rotwood to talk to his daughter.

"So, Helga, are you and your mother dragons?" Professor Rotwood asks.

"My Mom is a dragon but the trait has skipped my generation." Helga explains.

"But how did you manage to steal Jake Long's powers?" He asks.

"The Dragon Council had removed his powers as a punishment for marrying a dragon slayer." Helga says.

"What?" Rotwood asks, surprised. "Is Rose a slayer? The Rose that used to be one of my best students? Well, I can't blame the Huntsclan for trying to learn from me."

"Aw, come on." Helga says. "Now you know about Mom's side of the family, I'm finally free to tell you how inaccurate you are. Lavender scent? Scales that glow in the dark? The Chalice of Tharanoushis[sp? being created by elves? You keep showing pictures of a Wood Nymph and tells your students it's a Fairy. For someone who claims to be an expert about mythical creatures you know little to nothing about us."

Professor Rotwood was shocked at this. All that time he was wrong. Granted, there were occasions where he would point out there's no solid evidence to prove or disprove some thing said about magical creatures and he admits on occasions that he made a few mistakes but he never thought he could commit so many of them someone from the magical world would say he's not an expert.

Meanwhile, the Police Station is informed of the two robberies and reinforced the security around the disc quarter confiscated from Rotwood as evidence against the Huntsboys. They've even furnished themselves with gas masks. Seeing this, 88 and 89 decided to get back to Brad's home to grab something that'll help them to get the last part.

In the next morning, Comissioner Morton calls Jake for a private talk.

"Did you call me here, Sir?" Jake asks.

"Yes." The Comissioner answers with a sad tone. "I've got this message from the thieves."

He reads it and is shocked. 88 and 89 kidnapped Brad Morton's son and want the last piece of the ancient disk as a ransom. The Huntsboys will later contact Jake to deliver instructions of where to make the delivery but they've already said on the note that Jake must deliver the piece all by himself. Jake later goes to his home to wait for further instructions.

"Jake, you can't do that." Haley says. "It must be a trap."

"Haley, I'm a cop now." Jake replies. "I must take the risk."

A letter enters through under the door and Doug opens it. "Dad, this message tells you to deliver the last piece at the academy. Do you know what does it mean?"

Jake nods in agreement and knows where to go. The same place where Rose pretended to slay him in order to return to his life several years ago. Upon arriving there, he sees 88, 89 and Tood, the last of them tied, and blindfolded.

"Did you bring what we asked you to?" 89 asks.

Jake shows the piece. "Yes. Now release him."

"First you must give us the last piece." 88 replies.

"How will I know you'll keep your share of the deal?" Jake asks.

"We only wanna hunt magical creatures." 88 explains. "We have no interest to have the police after us for kidnapping the Comissioner's grandson. Just place the piece on the floor and step away from it."

Jake does as instructed and then 88 grabs the piece and uses it to restore the disk. While he enacts some magic words, 89 teleports Todd back to Brad's home.

"Have you finished?" Jake asks. "Because I see no more slayers here."

"Oh, believe me, dragon." 89 says. "They're on their way." He says and then points the Huntstaff at Jake to keep him from grabbing the disk from 88.

A new Huntsclan will rise. Please R&R.