Chapter 11: Rose is the Cure
In a further area about thirty miles away, Chang is getting ready for the Dark Dragon and Jake to arrive. She had already finished a much better lair and has started collecting three of the ingredients for a very powerful spell which is forbidden by the Dragon Council. After collecting all of the ingredients for the spell, both evil dragons appeared. Chang handed the Dark Dragon the items and went to stand guard to make sure that no one interrupts. Jakes stood on the opposite side that someone is most likely to come from. The spell takes one hour to fully complete so the Dark Dragon needs all the time he can get. A half an hour later and there has been no interruptions.
Half an hour earlier after freeing Rose, the whole group had made it back to the hotel and tried to figure out where the Dark Dragon could have gone. Lao Shi had made extra tracking potion just in case the Dark Dragon wasn't around when they went to get Rose. However they didn't expect for Jake to be with the Dark Dragon so they were able to use something of Jakes to track them down. They grabbed a few sphinx haired nets and twenty minutes later and they were on their way to find Jake. They wasted no time and went as fast as they could to get to Jake before anything really bad happens. It took them another thirty eight minutes to arrive at the new lair. The group looked out in amazement at the size of the building. After looking for a few seconds, they walked into the building and found Jake standing guard and Jonathan trapped Jake in one of the nets. When they walked up to Jake, he had disappeared. Everyone looked around surprised and then a net came down on top of them except Rose who managed to dodge it.
After dodging the net, Rose started running toward the Dark Dragon but was cut off by Jake and knocked her backward onto the ground. The Dark Dragon then ordered Jake to attack Rose and he did, verbally anyway. "Hello hunts girl, here to kill dragons I assume."
"Jake, you know I'm not with the hunts clan so don't relate me to them and the only dragon I am here to kill" But before she could finish, Jake cut in.
"Just like the hunts clan to come after us dragons. Why don't you leave before you get hurt?"
"I am a dragon and I am here to" but once again she was cut off by Jake.
"You're to kill us. You betray the dragons and join the human race. You don't care about anyone but yourselves." Rose tried to get him to stop but he wouldn't listen. "Go back where you came from hunts girl and leave us real dragons alone." Then the Dark dragon told Jake to hold Rose off for one more minute. Jake attacked Rose who was now crying knowing that this was no dream and Jake was really saying this to her. Rose was knocked back into a wall and then Jake jumped on her and threw her in the opposite direction. "Come on Rose, fight me." Rose then tried to run around Jake but he caught her by the right wing and tore it a little causing her to bleed.
"I can't fight you Jake, I just can't." Rose said in pain as Jake jumped on her again right as the potion that was on him started wearing off.
"Rose, what are, ahhhhh." Jake yelled as something hit him in the back. A purple aura circled him and his skin turned black and red.
"Jake!" Rose yelled as she ran up to him to hold him up.
Then the Dark Dragon started talking to her. "Give up White Dragon, he is my servant now. The spell cast on him has never been broken by anyone. Not even I can break the spell once it's cast. The only way to cure the spell is to break you boyfriend. Killing me will do nothing for you, Jake will still be under the spell until he dies. You see, there is no cure for him now. Now, I will let you live however if you leave now and never bother me again or you can join me. At least then, you can be with your boyfriend. Here is how it's going to go White Dragon, you can kill him, join me, leave, or you can die, the choice is yours." Then Jake attacked Rose again but unknown to all of them, Roses wing healed itself. Jake attacked quicker this time though and scratched right through her skin causing her to bleed again. Rose knew she had to start moving but she couldn't stand the thought of killing Jake so all she could do is dodge. "By the way White Dragon, he will move faster and he became stronger, so good luck." Jake quickly attacked again but missed this time. By now her wound has healed going unnoticed again by everyone. Then Jake grabbed her claws and then started wrestling with her trying to make her fly over the nearby edge. He threw her to the ground and went to stab her but she flipped over and he got her wing again but this time ripped part of it off of her body so that it is left hanging. He grabbed Rose and flipped her around.
Jake lifted his claw into the air getting ready to stab her but then Rose noticed the mark that is on his left hand. Then she remembered what it was she had said. 'We are connected to each other by this mark.' Then she remembered what Lao Shi said. 'You have powers that no other dragon has.' Then she thought that maybe she could break the spell after all. Rose grabbed Jakes left hand with hers and a flash happened. The flash is so bright that everyone had to close their eyes to keep from being blinded. After a few seconds of everything being white, it had faded. Rose looked up and saw that Jake is his regular color again and felt like she was given tons of energy pills. She felt her wing heal and actually feel the darkness inside Jake leave. Then the two stood up and found that the net that covered the others is gone and they are all standing in front of the two. After a few seconds of figuring things out, the group of heroes turned toward the Dark Dragon and got into a fighting position.
