To Love or to Spy?

"Jake, what did your folks want?" Trixie asks as Jake puts his cell phone back inside his pocket.

"They just told me some people moved into the house next to ours." Jake explains. "And Dad said Haley might have a crush on the new boy."

"Cool." Spud replies. "But, what if that boy is the slayer Rose has been training?"

"Sorry but I've never been trusted with the identity of the new Huntsboy." Rose explains. "Probably I never will unless I miss the chance of leaving the Huntsclan when I become an adult."

"Lucky slayers who reach adulthood are allowed to live a year as normal people to decide between being a slayer of living a civilian life." Jake comments. "And I don't think that's the case with Haley. A dragon falling in love with a slayer? What's the odds of it happening… twice in the same family and the same generation?"

"I see what you mean, Jake." Rose maliciously replies.

LINE BREAK – The Hunter Household

"Seth, you do like that Haley girl, right?" Bob Hunter asks.

"Er, I think so, Dad." Seth answers, wondering why his father is making such a big deal.

"You better not, because she might be a dragon." Bob replies.

"Are you sure, Dad?" Seth asks, hoping Mr. Hunter is not.

"Yes." He seriously answers. "Remember the previous Huntsmaster?"

"The one who trained my tutor?"

"Exactly. You wouldn't know but, back in 1986, when Jonathan Long still was in High School, he called a radio show to tell he found out his girlfriend from back then was a dragon," Mr. Hunter says. "The previous Huntsmaster, then a Huntsclan apprentice, captured Jonathan Long to force him to tell the dragon's identity but Long refused and managed to resist until some dragons rescued him."

"Maybe they gave him some memory-erasing potion and he found somebody else." Seth suggests, hoping that Haley isn't a dragon.

"That's what the Hunts-council thought when I didn't find anything during college." Bob Hunter replies. "But then these files on the American Dragon gave me another clue." He then shows files with pictures of the American Dragon. "Pay a closer attention at those pictures of the dragon's earlier days in action."

Later on, Mr. and Mrs. Hunter lead their son to a secret chamber (a bombproof shelter installed during the Cold War days) where they show him a video of teenage Jonathan Long being rescued. "Recognize any dragon at this video, son?"

"Well, the red one looks like the American Dragon but if the video is from when Jonathan Long was a teenager it can't be him." Seth argues.

"Actually, it can." Bob replies and then point to a certain file. "At some point, the American Dragon prevented the former Huntsmaster from obtaining the Uchrono Hourglass. I believe that the American Dragon, tired of lying to his human father, went back in time to have him knowing the truth from the beginning, like one could accept dating a monster."

"Maybe he just wanted to prevent the former Huntsmaster from becoming a threat to the magical community." Seth meekly suggests.

"Maybe so." Lucy replies. "That's why we're here. To spy on the Longs for clues."

"But Haley cannot be a dragon." Seth says. "She's so nice."

"The same can be said of your tutor when she's at her civilian identity with humans who don't know about us." Lucy Hunter tells her son, who's now trying to picture 'Huntsgirl' and 'nice' together. "We'll tell more details when you become an adult."

"Stay close to that Haley." Bob orders his son.

"Yes, father." Seth replies, equally happy and worried.

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