Future Dragon: Rose Long (Season Seven)
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Chapter/Episode 3: The Council's Foe
Inside the hospital room, Rose was still on the floor, hugging Jake Jr. and rubbing his back, a smile on her face and her eyes closed. However, when the door to the room was thrown open and Jake stepped inside, followed by Rin, Rose's eyes snapped open.
"Rose!" Jake called in a rather panicked tone as he reached the space in-between the two beds.
"Jake, what is it?" Rose asked, right before she released her son and stood up.
"We need to see if you're hurt, Rose." Jake said as he stepped forward. "Jake." He said, looking down at his son, who turned around to face him, a confused look in his eyes. "You're going to have to be quiet for a few minutes, okay?" Jake smiled.
Moments later, Rose sat down on the bed she had previously been sitting on, Jake standing right in front of her, Councilor Rin walking right up to Jake's side.
"What are you going to do?" Rose asked.
"We're just going to see if they hurt you in any way." Jake said, reaching out and grabbing Rose's chin.
"Did they do anything to hurt you?" Rin asked while Jake smiled at his wife.
"No." Rose answered. "They were good to me."
"Perhaps too good to you." Jake's smile vanished.
"What?" Rose asked, her eyes widening as Jake took his hand away from her chin.
"Rose, Councilor Rin just told me that you were that cloaked dragon in the alley that saved me and Daisy." Jake said.
"Yeah, it was." Rose said. "Was that...wrong of me?"
"What were you doing rescuing your family when you yourself needed rescuing?" Rin asked.
"I didn't ne-"
However, Rose was cut off as Jake reached out, trying to grab the medallion that was around Rose's neck. Quickly, Rose grunted as she launched herself into the air, her stomach facing the ceiling before she managed to somersault in the air. Grunting, Rose landed on the other side of the bed on her feet.
"Whoa..." Jake could only say with shock as he took a step back.
"You were wrong, Councilor." Rin seemed equally as shocked. "She still has moves."
"Rose, what is that around your neck?" Jake asked as he pointed at the medallion.
"It's mine." Rose said.
"No, it's just like what all the others were wearing!" Jake said as he lowered his arm.
"Yeah." Rose replied, putting her hands on her hips. "It was given to me."
"No, Rose!" Jake moaned, his eyes filling with sadness. "Say it isn't so! Just say it!"
"Say what isn't so, Jake?" Rose narrowed her eyes.
"You have Stockholm Syndrome!"
"What?!" Rose's eyes widened, but then they narrowed again. "Jake, I love you, but sometimes I just wish that I had slain you during the Grand Equinox Hunt and I just assumed that Jake Long moved to...Idaho." She finally decided.
"If you don't have Stockholm Syndrome..." Jake said. "...Then why are you wearing what those dragons who kidnapped you wear around their necks?"
"I already told you." Rose said. "It was given to me."
"Why would they give their captive something?" Rin asked.
"Because I wasn't their captive." Rose said as she brought her arms up, crossing them. "They're my friends, Jake."
"Your friends?" Rin asked. "They kidnapped you."
"No, they didn't." Rose held up both of her hands, trying to reason with the two members of the Dragon Council, one of which was her husband. "Well, okay. They did...but they didn't hurt me."
"Obviously not." Jake looked angry. "They just broke your mind."
"No, they didn't, Jake!" Rose insisted. "They didn't!"
"Then what did they do to you?" Rin asked.
"They didn't do anything." Rose answered, trying to calm herself down.
"They kidnapped you." Jake said.
"Okay, yes." Rose said as she crossed her arms. "They kidnapped me. But like I just said, they didn't hurt me. They didn't break my mind and I don't have Stockholm Syndrome, Look at me."
Upon saying this, Rose dropped her arms to her side and grunted as she jumped into the air, flipping onto the bed with her arms outstretched at her sides. "See?" Rose asked as she dropped her arms to her sides. "Honestly, I haven't felt this good in a long time."
"How...How can you do that?" Jake asked, his eyes wide with shock, watching as Rose plopped back down into a sitting position on the bed.
"They're my friends, Jake." Rose said with a small smile. "They didn't hurt me. In fact, they helped me."
LINE BREAK
Still in her dragon form, Holly opened the door of her room and stepped inside, a small glass jar in her hand, closing the door behind her with her tail.
Walking over to her bed, Holly turned around and took a deep breath before she sat down, setting down the jar and then bringing her clawed hand over to her opposite shoulder.
"It's only going to hurt for a moment..." Holly told herself before she squeezed her eyes shut.
However, before she could cut herself, her eyes snapped open as she heard three knocks against her door. "Who's there?" Holly demanded as she stood up from her bed.
"It's just me, Councilor Jennings." Came the sound of Councilor Rin's voice.
"Oh, good." Holly smiled as she started to walk toward the door. "We can finally have that discussion."
"Actually, Councilor..." Came Rin's response just as Holly reached the door and grabbed the knob. "...We need to have an entirely different one now."
"Why?" Holly asked.
"Let me in and I'll tell you."
Outside the room, Rin, in her human form, watched as the door opened and she watched as Holly reverted to her human form in a bright light. "Come on in." Holly said with a smile on her face, taking a step back once the bright light had faded.
Wordlessly, Councilor Rin walked into the room, passing by Holly, who stayed behind to close the door. Reaching the bed, Rin noticed the glass jar. "What are you doing with the jar?" Rin asked as she turned around.
"Nothing." Holly told her as she walked up to her. "So, what's this about?"
"Councilor Long and I just finished talking to ex-Agent Long." Rin said as she crossed her arms.
"And?" Holly asked. "Is she okay physically?"
"Yes." Rin gave a small smile. "It's like Councilor Nerk's chi never had ill effects on her."
"Really?" Holly's eyes widened. "Well, how about mentally?"
"Councilor..." Rin said, her smile fading. "...Councilor Long and I are certain that she's suffering from Stockholm Syndrome."
BLACKOUT; COMMERCIAL BREAK
BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
"Jake, I'm okay..." Rose protested as she lied on her back on the bed, her head turned to the side as her smiling husband as he placed his three year old son down on the bed next to Rose.
"You will be." Jake told her gently as he took a step back.
"I'm okay now!" Rose protested, practically whined as her son crawled up onto her chest.
"Just...try to get some rest, Rose." Jake said, holding up both of him hands.
Sighing in exasperation, Rose turned her head back up to normal as her son crawled up her so that his face was hovering above hers.
"Mommy..."
"Jake..." Jake said as he took a step forward. "...I said that you could be with Mommy, I didn't say that you could keep her from getting some rest."
Seeing that Jake Jr. remained in the exact same position, hovering over his mother, Jake sighed before he walked over to the side of the bed, grabbing his young son and pulling him off of his mother.
"Okay..." Jake said with a smile as he held his son in his arms. "...Maybe Daddy didn't have such a good idea after all."
LINE BREAK
Meanwhile, outside the room, Holly and Rin walked down the hall, heading towards the hospital room.
"Councilor, if you don't mind..." Holly said. "...I have a little task for you."
"And what would that be?" Rin asked as she turned her head to the side.
"How quickly can you whip up a truth serum?" Holly asked.
LINE BREAK
Back in the hospital room, Rose sighed as she stared up at the ceiling. Slowly lifting her head up, she could see that Jake was sitting down at the other side of the room with Jake Jr.
Hearing the door open, Rose rolled her head to the side and saw a smiling Holly walk inside, stopping only to close the door.
"Hey, Rose." Holly said as she walked over to Rose's bedside, finally reaching it, only to turn to the side so she could walk over to Jake, reaching him as he finished standing up.
"Look, we got Rose back." Holly said as she crossed her arms. "That's all that matters, right?"
"Of course." Jake said, but then asked: "Where are you going with this?"
"You'll see." Holly smiled.
LINE BREAK
Pushing open the doors of the Main Hall, Holly walked in, finding Councilor Callum all alone. "Councilor." Holly said as she started to walk up to him.
"Councilor Jennings..." Callum said as he clasped his hands together. "...I think that you will be happy to know that I have finished locking up all of our prisoners."
"Well, that's a shame." Holly said as she reached Callum, putting her hands on her hips.
"Why?"
"Because I want you to bring all of them to the interrogation chamber."
"But...we have her back."
"Exactly." Holly smiled.
"All of them?"
"All except Dragon Rogers." Holly said, narrowing her eyes. "I KNOW she played a major role in Rose's abduction."
LINE BREAK
Quietly, Holly walked back into the hospital room, finding Rose lying on her side. "Rose?" Holly spoke, making Rose open her eyes and lift her head up.
"Yeah?" She asked.
"Why don't you come and follow me?" Holly smiled.
LINE BREAK
The door to a room was opened and Councilor Rin walked inside in her dragon form, holding six vials of a clear liquid in one hand. Rin walked to the back of the room, where there was a mirror and then she turned around as Jake walked in, holding onto the arm of the handcuffed Lista. Then, Callum walked in, holding the arm of the handcuffed Gilda. Callum was followed by a dragon-formed Dragon Council Agent who held the arm of the shackled Cherri, Arkadi, Lexy and Maverick, respectively. All of them had had their medallions taken from them.
Rin watched as the prisoners were all lined up together, all standing side-by-side. Then, their captors walked over to Rin, each taking a vial and then turning back, starting to walk back to their prisoners.
From the other side of the mirror, which, unbeknownst to Lista, Gilda, Cherri, Arkadi, Lexy and Maverick, was a two way mirror, Holly stood in her dragon form watching, her scaly arms crossed.
Just then, the door to the room behind her opened and Councilor Rin walked in, walking up to her side. "Councilor, are you sure that this is a good idea?" Rin asked.
"Of course." Holly smiled. "According to you and Jake, Rose has Stockholm Syndrome. Maybe this will snap her back to normal and she'll tell us which of these dragons were truly behind her abduction."
"If you ask me, Councilor Jennings..." Rin said as she crossed her scaly arms. "...They're all guilty. Even if they didn't take her themselves, they're still guilty by association."
"I agree." Holly said. "But...at the same time..."
However, before Holly could finish, the door opened once again and both Rin and Holly dropped their scaly arms to their sides and spun around, seeing Rose walking inside, still in her human form, accompanied by the still dragon Jake.
"Okay, Rose, help us out here..." Holly said as she walked up the two-way mirror, putting her clawed hands on her hips. "...Tell me exactly who kidnapped you. If it was all of them, say so. If it was only one or two or three of them, say so."
"Okay." Rose said as she walked up to Holly's side.
Inside the room where all of the dragons were being held, Gilda, Lista, Arkadi, Maverick, Lexy and Cherri had all broken apart and were in different places in the room.
"How about her?" Holly asked, pointing at Lexy, who was pacing back and forth with her hands shackled behind her back.
"No." Rose answered. "Not Lexy."
"Him?" Holly pointed at Arkadi, who was standing against the door.
"No."
"Him?" Holly pointed at Maverick, who was standing in the left corner of the room next to Lista and Cherri, all three of them, watching Lexy pace.
"No to Arkadi and to Lista."
"You mean Linda, right?" Holly glanced to the side at Rose.
"Whatever." Rose grumbled.
"And Cherri Solorio?" Holly asked, taking her claw away from the glass.
"Yes." Rose said softly as she closed her eyes.
"And how about her?" Holly asked as she moved her claw against the mirror, over to Gilda, who was standing at the opposite side of the room as Cherri, Lista and Arkadi. "Gilda Addamo?"
"No." Rose said as she opened her eyes. "Where's Savannah?" She asked as she turned to the side.
"Don't worry." Holly smiled as she turned to the side as well. "We already know that she played a role in your abduction."
"But she didn't." Rose said.
"What are you talking about, Rose?" Holly smiled.
"I'm saying she didn't kidnap me." Rose said in an annoyed tone.
"Of course she did." Holly told her. "You may not know it, Rose, but she had to be the one who orchestrated your kidnapping."
"But she didn't!" Rose repeated, louder this time. "None of you seem to be listening to me I DO NOT have Stockholm Syndrome and those dragons that you are holding prisoner in their are not dangerous criminals! They're my friends!"
Now, it was time for Holly to get equally as annoyed. "Rose, you don't know what you're saying!" Holly snapped, pointing at her. "Savannah Rogers had something to gain from your abduction. She's not your friend."
"What could she possibly have to gain?!" Rose snapped back.
"If you knew anything, then you'd understand!" Holly shouted. "But you don't know squat! Savannah Rogers has it out for this entire Council! She probably knew you were Mrs. Jake Long and knew that you vulnerable so she had Cherri Solorio help her get her sweet revenge by kidnapping you!"
"You're wrong!" Rose shouted. "That's not why I was kidnapped. Savannah wanted nothing except to help me! And that second kidnapper you want me to tell you about, you won't be able to find!"
"And why's that?" Holly narrowed her eyes as she put her clawed hands on her hips.
"Because he's stone cold!" Rose told her with finality before she turned and stormed off, pushing both Jake and Rin to their sides so she could stomp away by going in-between them.
Growing her tail, Rose moved it forward and slammed it against the door, throwing it open so it slammed against the building while Rose stormed outside and away, the door coming back and closing behind her.
BLACKOUT; COMMERCIAL BREAK
BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
"You gave them the truth potions, right?" Holly asked Rin as the two of them reached the door to the room where the prisoners were being held.
"Yes, but I'm afraid that I don't understand." Rin said as the two of them stopped. "why did you have me give them all a truth serum if you were just going to ask Rose?"
"I had hoped that she would cooperate." Holly said.
"And she didn't?"
"Who knows?" Holly narrowed her eyes. "You and Jake were right. She has Stockholm Syndrome."
Moments later, Holly and Rin both entered the room, making all of the imprisoned dragons turn around to face them.
"All of you are going to have a little talk with me." Holly said.
LINE BREAK
The doors to the Main Hall opened and the still dragon Holly walked inside, Rin following her, holding onto the arm of Gilda. Rin walked her into the middle of the room, and then she stopped her, Holly turning around to face her.
"What's this about?" Gilda asked in an annoyed tone. "What was that drink you gave us?"
"I'm the one who's going to be asking the questions, got it?" Holly replied as she crossed her scaly arms. "And you're going to answer them."
"I'll tell you what..." Gilda said in a rather manipulative tone. "...You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. You take these shackles off, I'll tell you whatever you want."
"What's your relationship with Rose?" Holly asked, smiling smugly.
"I hate her." Gilda growled.
"So, you didn't take part in her abduction?"
"Absolutely not!"
"And...did you ever do anything to help Rose get back home?" Holly asked, lowering her scaly arms to her sides. "You could have, I don't know, contacted the Council..."
"I tried to force her to leave." Gilda answered, her eyes wide, as if she couldn't believe that she was telling Holly all of this information.
LINE BREAK
Holly now stood in front of Lista, who looked nervous. "So..." Holly said as she crossed her scaly arms again. "...Rose said that you didn't kidnap her. Is that true?"
"No, I had nothing to do with her kidnapping." Lista said.
"Can you tell me who did kidnap her?"
"It was Cherri and Joel."
"Who is Joel?"
"He was a member of our team." Lista answered, the truth serum in full effect. "He's dead."
LINE BREAK
A short time later, Maverick stood in front of Holly, who had her clawed hands on her hips as she smiled smugly.
"So, the kidnapping was done by Cherri and Joel, right?"
"Yes." Maverick answered.
"You had nothing to do with it?
"No."
"Can you tell me about your relationship with Rose?" Holly asked as she brought up her scaly arms and crossed them.
"Any reason why you need to know?" Maverick asked.
"Well, I was going to release you if you cooperated..." Holly smiled smugly. "...But if you don't feel like it-"
"Alright, I get it." Maverick said. "We got along fine. She's a nice woman. Happy?"
LINE BREAK
Now, Lexy stood in front of Holly. Lexy looked very nervous and was breathing heavily. "You weren't behind Rose abduction, were you Lexy?" Holly asked, her scaly arms still crossed.
"N...No..." Lexy managed.
LINE BREAK
Soon thereafter, Arkadi was standing in front of Holly, whose scaly arms were placed behind her back. "Tell me about your relationship with Rose." Holly smiled.
"We get along." Arkadi said in his Russian accent.
"Did you have anything to do with her abduction?" Holly asked.
"No."
"Did you have anything to do with her developing Stockholm Syndrome?"
"I seriously doubt that she has it." Arkadi told the Councilor. "You think she does?"
"I'm the one asking questions here, Dragon Dyalov." Holly narrowed her eyes as she crossed her arms. "Just one more thing." She said in a less hostile tone. "It was Cherri Solorio and a dragon named Joel who kidnapped Rose, correct?"
"Yes." After saying this, Arkadi's eyes filled with sadness, for he had just sold out one of his friends.
"Well..." Holly smiled. "...You've all been such a great help. Now, I know who we can charge with kidnapping...and who we can release..."
LINE BREAK
Moments later, Holly stepped out of the Main Hall, where she saw Councilor Callum holding onto the arm of the still shackled Cherri.
"Last one." Callum said.
"No need." Holly smiled as she held up both of her clawed hands. "We gave them all a truth serum. The answers were unanimous. It was Dragon Solorio. Just take her on down to the prison."
"What about the others?" Callum asked.
"Rose is safe and can begin recovering." Holly said as she crossed her arms. "I really don't care just as long as Savannah Rogers and Cherri Solorio pay for their crimes. We can just...let them go."
BLACKOUT; END EPISODE
A/N: What did you think? Please review. As for the title of the episode, it's referring to Savannah. You know...just in case you were wondering...