A/N: Chapter 1 of ADJL: Worldwide Crisis. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters except my own. ADJL belongs to the rightful owner.

Chapter 1: The American Dragon

"This is your territory young dragon and you alone are responsible for all the magical creatures living in it. From the centaur herds of Hyridge Park, to the floor of the secret Leprechaun Stock Exchange, from the Gargoyle Nest on top of the Empire State building and to the mermaids of the East river. " Lao Shi explained to his 14 year old grandson Jake Long. They looked out over Manhattan early in the morning.

"Hey kid, if you can make it here you can make it anywhere. Ahahahaha." Lao Shi's sidekick Fu Dog laughs.

"Ahhh no problem." Jake brushes it off easy as he cracks his knuckles. "I am totally on-"

"But first you must master your dragon training, one step at a time." His grandpa intervenes. "Even a young falcon, must stand before it can fly."

"Check this out G! Dragon Up yo!" Jake taps into his dragon abilities. As a dragon, he towers at least 6 feet or higher. Red scales, yellow underbelly and his hair is in the same shape as his human form, red and black.

"POW. I'm not only ready to fly, I'm ready to soar!" He flexed his wings. "Represent!" Running he takes off and flies in the air.

"Woohoo yeeeeaaaaah! Bad dudes beware cause the American Dragon is in the house!" He flies down to show off his sweet moves when his power vanished and he hurtles down into busy traffic. Luckily he grabbed a rail to stop himself.

"It's cool, no prob." He struggles a bit. "C-C-Could you guys, a little help down here." His grandpa shakes his head. The rest of Jake's day didn't go so well, trying to deal with his mortal enemy the Huntsman from nabbing some unicorn horns and utterly failing at it. Well...keeping the unicorns safe was one thing but he can't keep his head in the game when Huntsgirl appears and whooping his butt. Lao Shi urgently trains Jake to no end, he has no tolerance for any more failures.

"Jake you MUST perfect your dragon training. Everyday after school meet me on the rooftop. Don't be late!"

"Awww man." Jake complained.

Ship harbor off of Manhattan...

Ding-dong, Ding-dong. Attention crew members, we have arrived in Manhattan. Prepare in releasing all materials and foreign items. Transportation trucks are stand by ready for transporting. Ding-dong, Ding-dong.

"What? Already in the morning and I am where?" Yuki looked out from box she slept in during the trip. Her eyes bugged out at the tall skyscrapers, the smoke from pollution factories and most of all, the fact that this city was HUGE.

"Wooooow, so this is America?" She looked around, her eyes filled with admiration and excitement.

"Hey you!" A gruff voice sounded. "What do you think you're doing?" She turned around and looked up at this huge man. Probably 5 feet 10 inches with a very, very hairy mustache. He looked stern and lifted her out of the box.

"Looks like you are a stowaway, do you know what I do with little stowaways like you?" He made a not so pleasant sound and grinned. "Off goes your head."

"Well you know what's going off? That inky, dinky and flat out ugly mustache!" Yuki incinerated his mustache just like that. The man gasped like a little girl, rubbing the spot his once manly mustache placed.

"You...how did you DO that?" He leaned closer and his breath smelled like fish and sea brine left in the sun for centuries. Yuki gagged at the smell and she pinched her nose.

"Dude...you reek like the smell of my grandma's old diaper when she was little!"

"Hey, lay off the criticism toots. Health hygiene belongs to losers, not me. I'm too...groovy for hygiene." He did this 70's move that would make a dancer cry.

"Ok a little freaky. Time to go. さようなら sucker!" Yuki used her dragon claws to wiggle out of the man's grasp. As he realized what had happened, she quickly grabbed all of her belongings and jumped off the boat.

"H-H-Hey, someone stop that girl!" Some of the crew members tried to catch her but she proved to be too quick for them and she blended into the busy streets and disappeared.

Lao Shi's shop...

"Hmmm..." Lao Shi looked up, his coffee cup stopping just before reaching his lips. Jake stopped his chores, looking at his grandpa with concern.

"Hey yo G. You ok?"

"Gramps, you okay?" Fu Dog came in. Lao Shi snapped back to reality and looked really ticked off.

"Jake, get going. There is a magical creature lost in Central Park and must be found immediately. Bring it back to me!" He sat down on the couch with his coffee.

"Ok, you chill out and I'll bring back this creature." Jake took off out of the shop. "Dragon Up!" He took to the skies, scouting every nook and cranny in the entire city.

"Now if I was a magical creature, where would I be? Oh wait, Gramps said Central Park. God this city is too huge for my taste!" He growled and zoomed off to the park.

Central Park...

"Okay...I am where exactly?" Yuki looked everywhere. One moment she was on a boat, the next moment she was running from some creepy guys and now she has ended up in a...park.

"Sigh, I wished Oka-san was with me." She leaned to two katanas on a nearby tree and sat down. "How am I suppose to find this 'Lao Shi' person if I haven't even met him." Staring out she watched other kids laugh and play, normal kids. I wonder what it would've been to be normal. She thought. Something red caught her eye and she looked up to see this dragon flying up high, almost like on a search or something. One of the kids said it looked like a cardinal so none of them paid that much attention.

Can it be? Is that the American Dragon?Umm...maybe a signal would catch his attention. Yuki quickly climbed up the tree and shot multiple fireballs into the air. Each shot exploded like the forth of July firecrackers. Now you may be wondering, "Do the kids or anyone else in the park see it?" Of course, but they were kids and they didn't know the difference.

"Hmmm?" Jake looked down at the exploding fireballs. Using his heightened eyesight, he saw a girl waving up to him. "Must be her than." He descended safely and went to his normal human form. Yuki came to meet him.

"Are you the one who did that fireball/fireworks display?"

"...yes."

"You do know that any violation use of fire could cause a wide-spread disaster called wildfire?"

"...no."

"Okay...you're a little odd. Where did you come from? What's your name?"

"Tokyo Japan. Yukiko Kagami but you may call me Yuki." She said brightly. Jake scratched the back of his head in confusion.

"I'm...Jake. Jake Long, the American Dragon." They shook hands. "Come. I'll take you to—huh?" He stopped talking when he spotted a unicorn being harassed by a couple of trolls. "Oooh, those punks are gonna get it! Come on Yuki. Dragon Up!" Dragon replaced boy in minutes.

So that's how he does it? This "Dragon Up" command. That reminds me, Oka-san said that I haven't reached full dragon yet. Maybe...I can reach it by saying Dragon Up as well.

"ドラゴンアップ!" A white flame encased her and she mastered going full dragon right than and there. Standing at 6 feet 25 inches, she has a turquoise mane going from the crown of her head down to her tail, two long horns and four white-feathered wings. The two katanas reached to her power and she gripped them tightly, one in each claw.

"Now that's what I call hot!" Jake looked at her, mesmerized by her beauty. Yuki's roar sounded like the cry of a phoenix, sharp and shrill. Almost every single magical creature heard it. The trolls took one look and ran off like their pants were on fire. The unicorn neighed and galloped off.

"Man, now I don't get to kick any troll butt. It's ok, saves me the effort. Let's go to gramps place." Both Jake and Yuki returned to human form and raced off to Lao Shi's place.

A/N: Done. Hope you like it so far.

ドラゴンアップ= Dragon Up

さようなら= Good bye/see ya later

Feel free to pm me if I need to fix my Japanese because I don't speak Japanese at all ^.^'