Disclaimer: Hey everyone; I do not and (unfortunately) will never own the American Dragon Jake Long television series or story line.
Note From the Writer: Hi everybody!Thanks sooooo much for the awesome reviews that I have been receiving. I understand that the last chapter was confusing as to where Jake was and what exactly was going on, but all this information will be coming out in future chapters really, really soon! I am sorry if it causes any confusion, but it is a good mini-cliff hanger and I promise that it will all come together and make sense in the end! Enjoy this next chapter! :D
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"Jake! Jake!" he heard as a frantic yet delicate female voice that could only belong to Rose called desperately to him. "Jake, please wake up!" Jake felt as Rose gently rested her hand on his forehead for a couple of moments and sigh before softly stroking his face with her fingers before leaving and distantly telling someone that he still has a high fever and chills.
"Who's he? It can't be me can it?" Jake thought foggily as he tried to remember where he was and what he had been doing when suddenly it all flooded back to him. The room, the pain, and the threat. He began to sweat and feel chills course his body as the realness of the situation set upon him. Immediately, his eyes flew open and he rolled over just in time to noisily throw up heaves of vomit onto the floor.
"Ughhh...thats nasty!" stated Trixie as she quickly retreated from the room with Spud on her heels, who was pinching his nose together and waving his had in front of his face to clear the smell.
"Jake!" exclaimed Rose, who quickly picked up the empty trash can next to her and thrust it under his head, ready for his next heave of vomit.
"Where..." started Jake before he was interrupted by another wave of vomiting. Rose stayed and rubbed his back the entire time, reassuring him that she was still there and that this would all be over soon. Finally after another good couple of minutes his his nausea and pain began to disappeared and he began to quit vomiting.
"Spud, can you get Jake a glass of water please?" called Rose to the other room that which Spud and Trixie had retreated to.
"Yepadoodle!" said Spud and he casually walked over to the sink, grabbed a glass, and filled it up with semi-cold hotel flavored sink water.
Jake lay back after he finished vomiting. "Ughhh..." he moaned lowly so that it was barely audible as he took his hands and dragged them down slowly down his sweat sheened face. "Where am I?" he murmured, unable to raise his voice any higher than a low whisper.
"Shhh, Jake. You need to rest now, we will answer all of your questions later. For now, just slowly drink some of this glass of water to rehydrate yourself." said Rose gently as she held out a glass of water for Jake to take.
He slowly reached out his hand and gently took the glass from her and brought it up to his mouth. When he attempted to drink some though, he began to mildly chock on it. "Smaller sips Jake," said Rose who continued to rub his back until Jake had finally drank about a quarter of the water in the glass. He set it down noiselessly onto the night stand table beside him, then turned to look at Rose.
"She has no idea how much I have missed her." Jake thought as he studied her beautiful face, allured her amazing robin blue eyes that shone like lights every time they looked at him and her gentle smile towards him which made his heart melt. A small tear escaped the corner of his left eye. "You have no idea how much I have missed you Rose," Jake lamented sadly as he continued to study her face.
Suddenly another small wave of pain washed over Jake's body as he faintly heard the Dark Dragon whisper, "Do not forget the threat, American Dragon," which was followed by an evil, throaty laugh that began to fade away slowly.
"Did you hear that?" Jake asked Rose.
"Hear what?" she asked, "I didn't hear anything."
"Its him," Jake murmured softly to himself as he felt his body shiver again.
"Its who?" questioned Rose, confused.
Jake shook his head and attempted to sit up. "I need to speak with the Dragon Council immediately. This is urgent!"
"The Dragon Council?" exclaimed Trixie. "Jakie, what the heck happened to you is what we're all concerned about! You can go see thoughs other sorry dragons later after you give us the entire 411 on what happened!"
"Fine, but first off, where am I?" Jake questioned.
"Your back at your awesome hotel man," said Spud casually as slumped against a wall. The dragon council transported you here after you went bezerks as started doing your little dying fish on land thing."
"You had us all scared to death Jake!" said Rose, fear lingering in her eyes. "One second we were hugging and catching up, and the next you get as stiff as a board, your eyes glass over, and you fall face forward onto me before you fell to the ground having what appeared to be a massive seizure. It was terrifying Jake! Everyone around us was running around and screaming instructions at one another as your seizure began to get worse and worse until your eyes were rolled back into your head and you were shaking so bad that I was sure that you were going to die! Then, you just suddenly stopped and lay perfectly still, like a breathing statue, except with a mask of horrible pain on your face. It appeared as though you were in a coma, but we all knew that something much more serious was going on. From there, the Dragon Council opened up a portal and sent you back to your hotel room, requesting that you come and talk to them immediately. Now Jake, you have to tell us what happened!"
Jake was silent for a couple seconds as he put his thoughts together. Finally, he blinked a couple of times, looked at the surroundings around him and stated, "the Dark Dragon is coming back...he told me so himself."
P.S.: I am soooo sorry about not posting this story yesterday. I had to go to work with my parents (my mom said that it would be better than staying at home all day and becoming a permanent couch potato, lol!) Anyhow, I'm home today so I will be sure to upload another installment or two today! :D
