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It turned out, that spending a Sunday on an empty school with a ghost and a ninja, wasn't so bad. The Ninja had quickly gotten tired of his own guessing game, when he realized that Jake wasn't going to tell him anything, so instead the three of them had just been talking and laughing the entire day.
Around midday, Danny went to get them some pizza, but Jake didn't eat so much, it was still hard and painful for him to move, and he found eating just as painful. The same thing happened later, when they ate an early dinner – also pizza.
"You gotta try to eat a bit more." Danny said.
"Nah, it's fine. Dragons doesn't need to eat as much as humans…" Jake lied, "and apparently ghosts," Jake added, hoping to lead their attention away from him.
"I didn't even think about that," the Ninja exclaimed surprised, "I didn't know ghosts ate."
"oh, um…" Danny began perplexed, looking from the half-eaten pizza slice in his hand to his friends, "Well, you see." Jake felt bad; he shouldn't have jeopardized Danny's secret like that. "Sometimes we do." Danny concluded lamely.
"Aha." The Ninja said unimpressed, he had clearly detected the lie.
"So… What are we going to do? We can stay here tonight, but then we have to find somewhere to hide Jake." Danny quickly changed the subject.
"What do you mean?" Jake asked confused, "I have to get going when it gets dark."
Danny looked from the pathetically weak dragon on the floor, who was even having problems keeping his head up, to each other, then they broke into laughter.
"Why are you laughing?" Jake asked, as he, with difficulty, lifted his head slightly from the floor, "I'm serious." But that comment only made them laugh even louder. Jake snorted offended, and he even realized that a low growl was coming from deep in his chest.
"Sorry Jake," Danny said, as he dried his eyes, "it's just… you can't even stand up."
"Yes I can," he retorted, he got up, ignoring the pain from his wound, "piece of cake," he mumbled under his breath, as he concentrated to stay on all four.
"Jake, you can't be serious. Skulker's still out there somewhere, and you know that he wants to capture you." Danny reasoned, not laughing anymore. Jake laid back down.
"Didn't you have some kind of healing art stuff?" Jake asked, as he turned to look at the Ninja.
"It didn't work that well on you."
"Can't you try again?"
"I guess." He said, as he got up from his chair. He stood up straight, closed his eyes and lifted his hands, so his palms were facing the wound. A few seconds pasted, before two red rays shot from either palm, and hit the wound. The pain soon passed off, as if it hadn't even been there to begin with.
"Wow, it worked, thanks, I feel just fine." Jake exclaimed as he stood up. The Ninja took off his bandage, and they both looked at him in a weird way. "What is it?" Jake asked confused.
"It doesn't look any better." Danny answered confused. Jake, who could finally sit up without any pain, looked at his wound, which was hard for him since it was on his neck. They were right, it still looked pretty bad, like something from a horror movie.
"That's weird, I seriously can't feel it,"
"Try to keep still though, just to be sure." The Ninja said, as he redressed Jake's wound with new bandage from a little first aid bag. That gave Jake an idea, all he had to do, was to get to his own first aid bag, Fu dog had made him a ton off different magical healing potions. He just had to figure out how to sneak away from Danny and the Ninja, just for half an hour or so.
"Maybe you should sleep for a while," Danny said, solving Jake's problem for him, "we can look for another place to hide later."
"Good idea," Jake agreed hurriedly. Then he could sneak away while the others were sleeping.
"Fine, just as long as we don't oversleep, that would be pretty catastrophic." the Ninja said, as he packed away the first aid bag, "But… what do you mean with 'you', aren't you gonna sleep?"
"No. Ghosts don't sleep," Danny answered without looking up from the floor.
He's the worst liar ever! Jake though. It was obvious that the Ninja didn't believe him either.
"I'm going to keep watch." Danny said, "just in case. It's still early evening and someone could possibly come by, and then I'll look for another hiding spot later."
"Fine, but are we seriously gonna sleep on the floor?" the Ninja asked, looking around, as if he expected to find a bed somewhere in the classroom.
"Don't be so girly," Jake laughed, as he made himself comfortable on the floor.
"Girly? Who me? Ha, I'm not girly," he answered offended, as he laid down on a table, with his back to Danny and Jake, "I just don't want my suit getting dirty."
Danny and Jake both grinned, then Jake rested his head under his wing pretending to sleep.
Jake only had to wait a few minutes, before Danny thought that both of them was sleeping, and then he left through the wall without a sound.
Jake waited for a few minutes, until he was sure that Danny wasn't coming back, then he left as well.
It took fifteen minutes before Jake found his way out of the school, he was thankful, and slightly confused, that there wasn't any alarms going off, when he coaxed the doors open or sneaked around in the hallways.
Jake hadn't dragoned down, if he ran into either Danny or Randy in his human form, they would really get suspicious, and his dragon senses could prove useful to avoid such an encounter.
When outside, Jake took off towards his hotel. His wound was slowly starting to act up again, so he sped up a bit.
When he was at the hotel, he flew to the window of his room and opened it, with difficulty, from the outside. He slid into his room and dragoned down, the bandage around his neck loosened, as it didn't fit him anymore, so he took it off. He found the first aid bag in his sports bag.
He searched through the potions in the bag, until he found one labeled 'physical healing' it contained a yellow, almost golden fluid. He drank the entire bottle, and the effect kicked in immediately, he could almost feel his wound growing back together.
Jake sighed, as the potion gave him an amazing sensation in his entire body. He just stood there for a few minutes, rubbing his neck where the wound had once been, when the sensation slowly began to leave his body, tiredness took over, and he laid down in his bed.
I've only been gone for a few minutes, they won't notice if I'm gone for a few more. Jake thought, as his eyelids got heavy, and without a second thought, Jake fell asleep.
When Jake woke up, the first thing he noticed was that he felt great. He didn't feel any kind of soreness or aching, which was quite unusual for him. As the Am-drag he usually had some bruises or scratches from his many fights, that hurt a little, but right now he felt completely invulnerable.
He cracked open his eyes, not really wanting to get up, but he felt like he was forgetting something. He sat up in the bed with a yawn. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he had been sleeping with his clothes on.
Suddenly the events from earlier dawned on him.
"Aw man," he exclaimed, as he dragoned up and slid out of his window in a rush. It was still dark outside, and he could see from the moon's position that he had only been sleeping for a few hours. with a little luck they hadn't noticed his absence yet.
Jake flew as fast as he could, and he arrived at the school in no time, he found his way back to the classroom and tiptoed in. Randy wasn't sleeping on top of the table anymore, instead he and Danny was standing in the middle of the classroom, both glaring at Jake suspiciously.
"Oh… hi guys… I… I was just…" Jake stammered.
"Just what?" Danny asked coldly.
"What the juice!" the Ninja suddenly exclaimed, both Jake and Danny looked at him confused by his choice of words, shortly forgetting the problem at hand, "Your wound! It's gone!"
"Oh… Um…" Jake started, cursing himself, he should have put the bandage back on to hide his missing wound, "I… I guess your art of healing just needed time to work."
"That's not possible, either my art of healing works instantly or not at all."
"Well, then it must have healed by itself." Jake tried.
"Yeah right," Danny said sarcastically, "Just tell us the truth, where were you?"
"I… I just went for a walk."
"And you didn't realize that your wound had healed?" Danny asked, clearly not believing Jake's story.
"I… Um… I'm sorry, but I have to get going, while it's still dark,"
"No, it's me who's sorry," Danny said, "I can't entrust you with the amulet."
"What?" Jake exclaimed surprised, "That's not your choice."
"Yes it is, it's me who has it," Danny said, as he held up the amulet.
"Please Danny, just give it to me." Jake said, mentally readying himself for a pounce.
"No," Danny answered simply. Jake didn't have time for second thoughts, he pounced, pinning Danny to the ground, Danny made himself intangible, but the effect of The-Fenton's-Make-Ghosts-Tangible-Ray was still working, and Jake was keeping a firm hold of Danny's arm, so he couldn't phase through the floor.
Randy pulled out his sword, but Jake was quicker, he pushed Randy over with a flick of his tail. Danny struggled to get up, but Jake held him down. He snatched the amulet from Danny's hand with his mouth, then he let go and ran.
"Sorry," he called back at them, when he reached the door, muffled because of the amulet in his mouth.
Danny and the Ninja's voices followed him, as he ran down the hallway, yelling for him to stop. Jake didn't stop though, he found the way, and took off as soon as possible.
Behind him he could smell that Danny was following him in the air, while the Ninja was following suit on the ground.
Jake, who was used to flying in New York at night, quickly shook off the two pursuers, then he hurried to his hotel room.
He grabbed his sports bag, made his bed and then he left some money, his keys and a note in an envelope in the reception, apologizing for leaving in the middle of the night.
He then left Amity Park flying back towards New York City, but Jake promised himself that he would be back, to apologize to Danny and Randy, when he had dropped off the amulet at Gramps' shop.
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