American Dragon Season 3
Episode/Chapter Three: Siren Games
Jake stood inside Millard Fillmore High School at his locker the first thing on Monday morning. As he pulled out his math book, he found himself quietly rapping to himself. After making sure that he had everything, he closed his locker only to jump in surprise as he saw Danika standing right by his locker.
"Hello, Jake…" she smiled flirtatiously.
"Oh, hey there…" Jake started to back up, not wanting to get into another fight with the newest Fillmore High School swim team captain.
"So…" Danika kept talking. "There is this new movie coming out on Friday, and I was wondering if you wanted to see it with me."
Out of the corner of his eye, Jake could see Rose, the real person he wanted to be with at the moment. "Well, Danika…" he started. "You know I'd love to…"
"But…" Danika pouted.
"But Rose is coming over to my place on Friday." Jake finished, just wanting to get it out. "We're going to catch dinner and a flick without going out and spending money."
"But…" tears started to flow from Danika's eyes. "Why are you picking her over me?"
'Well…' Jake could almost imagine saying. 'She's my beau'
"Because, she needs a friend, Danika." Were the actual words that came out of his mouth. "She just lost her sister."
"Oh, I heard about that…" the tears almost immediately stopped. "Well, if it makes you feel better, we can invite her I guess, but you choosing her over me is just wrong. After all, we are dating."
When Jake didn't say anything more, Danika started to get the hint. "Are you saying that you would rather date her than me?" the tears once again returned.
"Look, I really like you…" Jake started to say, but he was cut off by a sharp pain hitting him as Danika slapped him across the face.
"How could you?!" Danika demanded as she ran away, sobbing.
As soon as he recovered from the shock, Jake turned to look at the sobbing girl, who had disappeared inside the girl's bathroom. He had to make it up to her; Jake was about to run over to the door as he collided with the captain of the football team, Tyler Bane, who was accompanied by his other friends, Josh and Brad Morton. With a yelp, Jake hit the floor.
"Stupid Freshman!" Tyler scoffed and quickly strode passed as Brad and Josh laughed and threw each other a high five.
Groaning, Jake looked up to see the concerned face of Rose approaching him. Jake gratefully took her hand as she helped him stand.
"Those jocks are such ignoramus pigs." Rose spoke.
They both then looked down the hall as all three jocks picked up Frederick and slammed him head first into a trashcan.
BLACKOUT; THEME SONG PLAYS
BACK TO THE SHOW/STORY
Danika was now in the bathroom, sobbing in front of the mirror. There had been a couple of instances where Danika thought she was going to stop crying, but the tears kept coming.
Just as she was about to finally stop, a villainous yet rather sweet voice spoke: "Boys are so stupid, aren't they?" Well, there go those tears again…
Turning her soaked face, Danika could see the grinning face of Vickie as she exited a stall. "Am I right, Danika?"
"Go away, Vickie…" Danika turned, her expression rather ticked. "You caused enough trouble as it is."
"Whatever could you mean?" Vickie asked, feigning innocence.
"You know what I mean!" Danika whirled around. "That little necklace that you gave me—Jake thought I stole it! By the time I was ready to trust him again, he gets a new girlfriend!"
"You mean this necklace?" Vickie reached into one of her pockets and pulled out the necklace before she slapped it into Danika's hand. "Of course he didn't think that you stole it…he thought you were going to kill him with it…"
"What?"
"Come with me, Danika…" Vickie grinned, and for the first time, Danika was frightened by the girl. "I want to show you something…"
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For the longest time, the two girls just kept on walking. Only, Danika could not see where they were going due to the fact that Vickie had asked her to wear a blindfold. Finally, they stopped and Danika could hear Vickie speak: "Okay, you can take it off."
Her fingers trembling, Danika slowly took the blindfold away from her face and adjusted her eyes to the light, but once she did, she couldn't believe her eyes. At first Danika thought that it was all in her head and she tried to rub her eyes, but still the image was there.
Danika was looking at a laptop, and on the screen was a video of a dragon fighting a woman in ancient clothing with hair that almost looked like…snakes. But even this was not enough to prepare Danika for the shock she was about to receive…After the red dragon had defeated the woman by slamming a stone statue down on her, pinning her to the floor, the dragon's form dissolved away into a boy in a red jacket, blue jean/shorts and green spiky hair.
"Jake?" Danika's mouth dropped.
"Oh yes…" Vickie feigned a frown as she slammed the laptop closed. "You see Danika, I was trying to protect you from that monster!"
"What do you mean?"
"He's a dragon, Danika!" Vickie grabbed Danika by the shoulders. "Don't you know what dragons do?"
"No…"
"They prey on pretty young girls, such as you…" Vickie lied through her teeth. "And once they have their victims' trust, well…"
Vickie trailed off, and Danika became both interested and terrified. "What do they do?"
"Well, let's just say that I hope you like barbeque sauce…" Vickie turned around so that the other girl would not be able to see the widest grin in the world.
"No, I don't even like to eat barbeque!" Danika moaned.
"That's why I gave you the necklace." Vickie once again took the trinket out and forced it into Danika's hands. "It wards off dragons and it will keep you safe."
"But Jake didn't want me…" Danika tried to hand it back to Vickie. "He wants the new girl from Hong Kong."
"Oh dear…" Vickie threw out her arms in the most absurd and dramatic performance in the modern history. "Do you know what this means, Danika? You have to give this to the girl to protect her from the monster!"
"But…"
"You may not like her, but you have a duty to protect her." Vickie was just going off now.
"You're right." Danika took the necklace and rushed out the door. As soon as Danika was gone, Vickie turned around and let out a cackle.
"Oh Jake…" Vickie began. "The time for your punishment starts now. Thanks to Danika…chump…you will fall at my feet. And just as you look up to me, regretting all the things you did to hurt me, I will destroy you." Throwing back her head, the room was filled with maniacal laughter.
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The next day at school, Rose reached her locker. As she opened it, an envelope fell out and landed at her feet.
"What's this?" Rose wondered aloud as she picked it up.
On the envelope, the words To Rose, From Jake were scribbled neatly. Interested and touched, Rose smiled as she opened the envelope and the necklace fell into her palm.
CUT TO BLACK; COMMERCIAL
BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
At Jakes house on Friday night, the young teen was pouring him a glass of soda before walking out to the living room. As soon as he sat down and turned on the TV, Jake started to get rather fidgety. Okay, he was excited; this was the first time that Rose was coming over to his place. Soon enough, he heard a smack knock on the door. Grinning, Jake jumped off of the couch and rushed over to the door. After throwing the door open, Jake could see Rose, who was smiling sweetly and looking elegant.
"Wow, Rose…" Jake stammered. "You look…radiant."
"You're looking quite flaming yourself, dragon boy." Rose walked closer and gave him a tight hug. It was then that Jake noticed the necklace around her neck.
"Yo, Rose…" Jake started.
"Yeah, Jake?" Rose let go of him.
Jake tried to find the words, but they just couldn't come out. For a moment, he thought he had recognized the necklace, but now it just didn't register in his mind. After a long silence, he said: "Yo, nice necklace! Where did ya get it?"
Rose giggled. "Silly dragon, you gave it to me, remember?"
Jake was about to point out that he didn't give it to her; that in fact, he had no idea where the necklace had come from, but Rose kept on going. "It means a lot…it was so sweet of you."
It was then that Jake found that he didn't have the heart to tell her that it wasn't from him. In the past few days that Rose had been back, he had seen a completely new side to her, a side that he wouldn't have ever imagined in such a strong and feisty girl. He had seen her very down, broken and full of anxieties. If there was something, little trinket or not, that brought some comfort into her, Jake could not take that away from her.
"So, what movie are we watching?" Rose asked. Grinning, Jake took her by the hand and led her over to the couch. They both sat down and Jake turned on the film.
About an hour and a half into the film, Jake looked at Rose, who seemed to be enjoying the movie. Shrugging, Jake faked a huge yawn and put his arm around Rose's shoulder. At first, Jake was worried that Rose wouldn't like this, but Rose smiled and lied down on his lap. With a smile, Jake closed his eyes and rested his head against the couch.
Suddenly, Jake's eyes snapped open. They were glowing in a light blue color; Jake seemed as if he wasn't himself. Grinning, Jake looked down at Rose's peaceful form and picked her up.
"So…pretty-pretty…" Jake hopped off the couch and walked into the kitchen, fully trapped in a siren trance. Snapping her eyes open, Rose jumped up to see him disappear.
"Jake?"
One in the kitchen, a blue light engulfed Jake and his red dragon form appeared. Continuing his chant of "pretty-pretty", the dragon walked over to the window. After looking straight at the glass, Jake rammed his head through the window, shattering it into tiny pieces. Taking a step back, Jake then reached blindly into the sink and pulled out a sharp shard of glass. Humming romantically, Jake brought his wrist and the shard up, preparing to do the deed…
"Jake!"
The entranced dragon shot his head up with an annoyed growl and finally a grunt as Rose tackled him.
"What are you doing, you imbecile?" Rose demanded as she slapped Jake across the face as hardly as she could so she could get some sense back into him.
"Pretty-pretty…" Jake chanted. "Must do it for my pretty-pretty…"
"Alright, lover boy…" Rose pulled Jake up. "We're taking you to see your grandfather. There is something seriously wrong with you."
LINE BREAK
Lao-Shi was awoken from his deep sleep by a loud banging on the doors of his shop. From outside his room, he could hear Fu Dog yelling.
"Go away, you nasty giantess!" came Fu's angry bark. "If you haven't noticed, dogs can't date your kind!"
"Fu Dog!" Lao-Shi stormed from his room with a look that killed. "If you don't stop your ruckus, you can sleep outside!"
"But Gramps…" Fu whined. "There is this knocking that is annoying the fur off of me! I can't sleep with this going on. Can you please get it for me?"
Grumbling in Chinese as the shar-pei lowered his head and went back to sleep, Lao-Shi reached the door and opened it only to see Rose holding a still dragon Jake by the left ear, resulting in his tail being between his legs.
"Rose, do you have any idea what time it is?" Lao-Shi shouted.
"I'm sorry…" Rose replied, walking in with the submissive dragon. "Really, I am. This is an emergency!"
"Your right, sweetness!" Fu growled. "Trust me, I'm good at hiding bones, and if I don't get some sleep, you'll be sleeping in a hole with lots of slimy bones!"
"Charming…" Rose replied as she turned to face Jake, who she forced into a sitting position. "Listen, Jake did something really weird."
"What did he do?" Lao-Shi seemed bored. Rose though about how she was going to tell him, and after a beat, she brought her lips to his ear and whispered what happened. Lao-Shi's eyes widened.
"I don't know what to do." Rose admitted. "I don't want Jake to get hurt."
As soon as Rose brought her head up, Lao-Shi could clearly see the necklace around her neck. Transforming into a blue dragon, Lao-Shi grabbed the necklace and ripped it off.
"What are you doing?!" Rose demanded. "Give it back!"
"Where did you get this?" Lao-Shi demanded, but Rose did a flip, grabbed the necklace and landed on the other side of the elder dragon.
"Jake gave it to me." Rose said matter-of-factly as she put the necklace around her neck again. "Why do you want to know? What does it have to do with anything?"
"Rose…" Lao-Shi held out his claw, asking for the necklace. "Please, give it to me. Jake did not give it to you. If my guess is correct, I recognize that necklace."
"What do you mean?"
"That necklace holds the power of a siren…" Lao-Shi finished, causing Fu to jump up.
"Did someone say 'siren'?" Fu asked, drowsy. "Now that is a dame I would go out with!"
"Fu Dog!" Lao-Shi shouted. "Come over here! I need you to take a look at this!"
Grumbling, the talking dog walked over to the others. "Okay, what can the Fu do for you?"
"Take a look at this necklace." Lao-Shi threw the trinket onto the counter and the dog hopped up. At first, Fu nudged the necklace with his nose and gnawed on it, much to Rose's disgust.
"Well, what do you think?" Lao-Shi crossed his arms.
"Would ya stop putting pressure on me?" Fu demanded. "I'm just a dog!" Fu reached into his fur and pulled out a magnifying class. After inspecting it, Fu dropped the glass, put the necklace back in his mouth and hopped down to Rose before dropping it at her feet.
"Well, I don't know…" suddenly, before Fu could finish, the dog's eyes, which were looking right up at Rose, started to glow blue and the dog growled playfully. "So…pretty-pretty…"
"Eww!" Rose snatched the necklace up and slowly backed away from Fu.
"That settles it!" Lao-Shi snapped. "I knew I recognized the necklace! It DOES contain all of a siren's power!"
"But then, why would Jake give it to me?" Rose asked, slowly starting to recover from the disgust of Fu Dog's apparent romantic feelings for her.
"He didn't!"
"But…" Rose reached into her pocket and pulled out the envelope. "I found it in my locker in the envelope."
"That's not Jake's handwriting." Lao-Shi reverted back to his human form. "Trust me, after countless 'sick' notes from Dr. Fu Foot; I start to seal my grandson's hand writing away in my head. Rose, you're being used!"
Rose looked down at the necklace, Rose frowned, before speaking: "What should I do?"
"Destroy it…"
"But…" Rose started, but she stopped as she looked down at the necklace and the love sick Fu, who was now lying on his back at her feet.
"Rub my tummy…" Fu begged. Disturbed, Rose turned her attention to the now human Jake who was currently banging his head against the counter.
"Okay, got it…" Rose turned her heel and was about to leave, but Lao-Shi grabbed her shoulder. "What is it?"
"Take Jake with you…" was all Lao-Shi said.
Rose nodded and grabbed Jake by the wrist and pulled him out the door and down the street before they both disappeared. Now alone, Lao-Shi sulked as he turned to go back to his room.
"Wait…" Fu's voice spoke. "Is my pretty-pretty going to give me a tummy rub?"
Annoyed, Lao-Shi turned into his dragon form, picked Fu up by the collar, opened the door and dropped him on the sidewalk before closing the door.
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Moments later, Rose arrived at the docks while still clutching the human Jake's left ear. Looking down at the necklace in her hand, Rose held it out right above the water, she was about to drop it when she heard a shout. Turning her head, Rose could see Danika standing a few feet away.
"What are you doing?!" She demanded as she walked up to Rose.
"I'm getting rid of this…this thing." Rose put it bluntly. Danika didn't take it well and tried to reach for the necklace.
"You can't do that!" Danika pleaded, but Rose was able to block all of her attempts to get the necklace away from the watery resting place Rose was about to give it.
"And why not?" Rose asked.
"That necklace is the only thing keeping you safe from that monster, that's why!" Danika exclaimed, pointing an accusing figure at Jake, who was still trapped in Rose's grip.
"Who told you that load of trash?!" Rose demanded, letting her hand go of Jake and grabbing Danika by the collar of her top. "WHO?!"
"Vickie…" the now terrified girl replied.
"Who's Vickie?" Rose asked, letting go of Danika, allowing the girl to back off.
"Vickie is the one who showed me what Jake really was!" Danika tried to regain her composure. "She is the one who told me that dragons feed on innocent people."
"That sounds like Rotwood…" Rose turned her head and put her hand over the ledge. Danika panicked and tried to lunge for the necklace, but Rose dropped it. With a small splash, the necklace disappeared. Almost immediately, the blue glow in Jake's eyes vanished, and the American Dragon was able to stand up as himself again.
"Rose?" Jake asked. "Yo, how did that happen?"
"I don't know Jake…" Rose replied as she pulled Jake over and hugged him. "But I'm glad that you are okay."
Despite the hug that Rose was giving him and the happiness it brought him, Jake turned his head to see a very confused Danika gaping at them. "Danika, what are you doing here?"
"I don't get it…" Danika said to herself.
"What are you talking about?" Jake asked.
"I just don't get it!" Danika said a little bit louder. "Why isn't he eating you?"
"What?" Both Rose and Jake took a step back. Rose put her hand to her mouth to silent a giggle, but soon she was reduced to hysterical laughing. "Oh, who told you that?" Rose asked as soon as she had calmed down.
"Vickie…" Danika tried to explain, but Jake cut her off.
"Danika, Vickie is evil!" Jake argued, but it was Danika's turn to cut him off.
"That's just what an evil creature like you would want me to think!" Danika retorted. "I won't let you kill this girl!"
"What?" Rose responded as Danika pointed at her. "Kill me? Are you kidding? I can kick this dragon's butt."
"But why would Vickie lie to me?" Danika still wasn't buying it.
"Because she's evil, that's why!" Jake tried to force down Danika's throat. "You don't believe me, come with me."
BLACKOUT/CUT TO COMMERCIAL
BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
Jake and Rose had been able to convince Danika to show them where Vickie was living. They were standing in front a huge building that appeared to be an abandoned warehouse.
"Are you sure this is the place?" Jake asked. Danika could only nod slightly, as at the moment she was afraid that a masked girl clad in a blood-red ninja outfit would plunge her staff through her heart. "Why don't you back off and give Danika some room, Rose?" Jake seemed to understand that Danika was nervous.
Mumbling, Rose nodded and backed off as Danika bent over and pulled out a key that was underneath of welcome mat. "This girl seems to want to meet us." Rose said. Danika nodded and unlocked the door; pushing it open.
With his signature cry of "Dragon up!", Jake transformed into a red dragon and swooped into the warehouse, while a nervous Danika allowed Rose to go in. Making sure that no one was looking, Danika shut the door and walked down the corridor until she reached the large room where Jake and Rose were standing. Jake walked over to a desk and grabbed hold of the lap top.
"That's it." Danika said. "That's what Vickie showed me." Nodding grimly, Jake opened the laptop to be greeted with a picture of Vickie herself jumping over a shark.
"She has a big opinion of herself, doesn't she?" Rose asked.
Jake seemed to pay no attention to this remark as he clicked on a window, making a file of pictures pop up. In the file, there were pictures of Jake as a human, Jake as a dragon, Lao-Shi and Fu Dog, Nigel Thrall and Rose.
"She has files on almost everyone at school that is magical or involved in the magical world…" Jake gaped.
"And look at this…" Rose walked over to the other two holding a crumpled piece of paper.
"What is it?" Jake asked.
"It looks like this girl has been making a list of ways on how she wants to destroy you." Rose grimaced as she handed it to Jake. "It has got to be the most demented and disturbing thing I have ever seen."
"Oh my god…" Danika's mouth dropped. "You guys are right."
"Is that so?" a voice came. All three whirled their heads over to a dark corner as the gleaming face of Vickie emerged. "I had such high hopes for you, Danika. I just didn't count on the fact that you were a filthy traitor. And a slayer! Well, with all the power of a dragon and the only remaining Huntsclan member, I really shouldn't hold back like I did last time. Poor Danika! Always falling for my tricks…"
"Not this time you evil monster!" Danika vowed.
"Okay, well I guess I'm in really big trouble…" Vickie grinned, entertained. "But you three made a fatal mistake!"
What happened next was too surreal for Danika to decipher. Vickie opened her mouth and shouted out a blue beam of energy, causing some plaster and beams to crumble and fall. Danika was so frozen in her shock that she didn't see a stone coming at her until it smacked her in the face. Jake looked on in shock as Danika crumpled to the floor.
Laughing evilly, Vickie hunched over as the back of her shirt appeared to rip. By the time the blue energy faded from her back, two black wings had appeared. Still laughing, the monstrous nerd launched into the air, soaring in a circle and shooting blue beams of energy at Rose, who always managed to run and dodge all of them. Rose jumped and skidded to the corner before whipping out her staff.
Enraged, Vickie let out a shriek as she shot herself at Rose like a speeding bullet. However, Rose fired her staff and a green plasma shot hit Vickie head on. Grunting, Vickie hit the ground, rolling and skidding across the room before she hit a wooden beam. Dazed, Vickie dropped to her hands and knees as Rose started to walk over to her.
As Rose prepared to bring the staff down, Vickie regained her senses and grabbed hold of the staff. Shocked, Rose could do nothing as Vickie pulled the staff, slamming Rose face first into the beam. Rose recovered quickly and she kicked Vickie in the face before back flipping over and grabbing her staff. Vickie stood up.
"It ends now…" Rose charged at Vickie, but Vickie spin-kicked her. Rose briefly fell to her side, but jumped back up only to be hit by a blast of green plasma. With a yell of pain and shock, Rose fell to the ground. Vickie grinned evilly as she threw the staff to the ground.
With an enraged roar, Jake spread his wings and slammed his tail into Vickie, who once again slammed against a wall. However, Vickie landed on her feet and blasted a blue energy wave at Jake. The blast caught Jake off guard and he was thrown to the ground. A cackling Vickie soon appeared in his vision and mounted him, pinning him down by the neck with one hand, while the other held out a small dagger.
"Forget the siren powers…" Vickie seethed. "I'm having dragon blood tonight, and there ain't anything anyone can do to stop me!"
"Is that so?" a green blast suddenly hit Vickie, and the siren was thrown off of Jake. Getting up, Jake could see Rose with her staff; however, she soon lowered and used it to support her weight.
"Rose!" Jake rushed over to the hunter just as the staff became too unsteady for her. The staff clattered to the floor, but Jake caught Rose before she hit. "You're alive…"
"Of course I'm alive…" Rose smiled mischievously as Jake pulled off her mask. "Just like you, I don't give up easily. Now, help me up so I can finish that witch!"
"Rose, you're hurt…" Jake tried to reason, but out of the corner of his eyes, he could see the battered and enraged siren slowly get to her feet. "Rose, it doesn't matter if she gets away…"
"Yes it does…" Rose slowly reached for her staff and shot a green blast at the siren just as she started to charge. The blast hit Vickie right in the feet, causing her to flip over and land hard on her stomach with a grunt.
Shaking with rage, Vickie slowly got up just as Rose struggled to do so, despite Jake's efforts to keep her from getting back into the battle.
"So, this is how it ends?" Vickie growled.
"Oh, Vickie…" Rose retorted. "It will only end for you…"
"Are you kidding?" Vickie laughed. "You took a full hit from your plasma thing! You should be dead!"
"But I'm not, now am I?"
"Look at you!" Vickie nearly shouted. "You're about to collapse! You can't continue this battle!"
"Maybe I can't…" Rose slowly raised her staff. "But I have to try." However, the staff fell to the ground as Rose collapsed onto her knees.
Grinning with satisfaction, Vickie prepared to destroy Jake, only to have Jake's tail slam against her ankles. With a yelp, Vickie flipped high into the air before coming down with a thud right by Danika's unconscious form.
As Jake rushed over to Rose, Vickie grinned as she picked herself up, eyeing Danika. After getting Rose to lie down, Jake turned to face what he expected to be a defeated siren, but he was surprised to see Vickie standing and smiling victoriously as she clutched onto the unconscious Danika's hair.
"Trust me Jake…" Vickie warned. "This is far from over! Just know that either way you will be mine. I may have lost the battle, but I will win the war. Get ready, Jake. Because when that day comes, you will die. But in the mean time, enjoy your victory! I may have lost, but I am not going home empty handed! Well, ta!"
Laughing evilly, Vickie took off into the air with Danika as her captive. Vickie slammed against the ceiling, and it gave way allowing the two to disappear into the night sky.
"No, Danika!" Jake shouted, but he was useless. Danika was gone…
"Don't worry, Jake…" Jake suddenly felt a weak hand grab hold of his claw. Looking down, Jake could see the smile of Rose. "We'll save her…"
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Back at the shop, a still dragon Jake watched as his grandfather laid the now unconscious Rose onto his couch. Both of Rose's parents were on the other side of Jake, looking anxious.
"Is she going to be okay?" Rose's mother asked.
"Don't worry…" Lao-Shi spoke as he grabbed an elixir bottle from a shelf. "She will be just fine. This elixir will restore her back to full health." Lao-Shi reached the unconscious warrior, hopped up onto the couch and slowly opened her mouth and poured the potion in.
At first, Jake was worried that the potion wasn't going to work and the girl of his dreams would never wake up. However, Jake felt a rush of relief as Rose groaned before she started to stir. Tears started to flow from Rose's mother's eyes as she and her husband embraced each other. After a moment, Rose slowly rose into a sitting position, in which both of her parents embraced her.
"Thank god you're okay!" Rose's mother tried to hold back her tears.
"We thought we'd lost you!" Rose's father added.
The only thing keeping Jake from joining the hug was his grandfather grabbing onto his shoulder. Sighing, Jake's dragon form was replaced with his human one.
"You did well, my grandson." Lao-Shi smiled.
"Thanks G…" Jake replied. "But, Vickie is still out there."
"That is true." Lao-Shi agreed. "And there is no saying what havoc she is causing or what torture she is performing to Danika."
"Then what do we do?" Jake asked.
"For now, there is nothing we can do." Lao-Shi sighed. "We should wait until Rose has fully recovered and can fight again. Then, I will send you to save Danika and stop Vickie."
LINE BREAK
The sun was about to set and Jake was now all alone at the skate park. It had been 5 days since the battle and Jake had not heard from Rose since her parents had taken her home. The biggest fear for Jake was that Rose hadn't recovered the way she was supposed to. Now THAT was a scary thought…
"Hey stranger…" Jake suddenly turned as he heard the voice of the person who had been haunting his thoughts and dreams for the past five days. "Are you ever going to teach me how to skate board?"
Jake smiled. Rose had recovered quite well in the past 5 days. The only thing that seemed to scream that she had been severely injured was a really bad limp that occurred as Rose walked over and sat down next to Jake.
"Rose, where were you?" Jake asked. "I was so worried about you!"
"My parents wouldn't let me leave the house…" Rose replied. "Especially if it was to see you…"
"Say what?!"
"They don't trust you, Jake." Rose leaned against her boyfriend. "They never really did; not even after we moved back here. Now that they think something horrible has happened to me, they don't want me helping you anymore."
"But…"
"Don't worry, Jake…" Rose grinned mischievously. "I'll still help you in any way I can."
"But what if your parents catch you?"
"Well…" Rose frowned, and she thought about it for a second. "I'll just deal with that when it happens."
Jake nodded; then together, he and Rose looked up at the sky and wondered what was going to happen next.
END EPISODE; CUT TO BLACK
A/N- So, I hoped you enjoyed this. Be sure to look out for the next chapter, which I am just confirming that there will be, just in case the ending made you feel like this would be the end.