[AUTHOR'S NOTE: QUICK CLARIFICATION ON THE NOTE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST CHAPTER, IT IS A YOU TUBE CHANNEL, I GUESS I CAN'T POST LINKS IN MY OWN STORY.]

Jake kept riding. Thankful to have a little time to himself to think, to say he had a lot to sort out would be an understatement. He noticed a flower stand up ahead and decided to stop. He was browsing over the assorted selection variously colored flowers, when he heard the last voice he wanted to hear right now.

Danika came walking up behind him, "Hey Jake, I thought you were meeting a friend somewhere." She said a little suspiciously.

Jake's speaking abilities hadn't improved much since their conversation almost 15 minutes ago, "I am... it's just..."

Well, he was going to have to come clean eventually, might as well rip off the band-aid and get it over with.

"Danika, you know Rose?" Jake started off.

"Yeah, I think we met once or twice, blonde hair, blue eyes, dragon on her right hand, didn't she used to go to school here?" Danika asked, starting to figure out where this was going.

Jake wasn't exactly sure how to continue, "Yeah, her. She is coming back as a foreign exchange student. I'm meeting her at the airport in a little while. You see, we kind of..."

He didn't have to finish, Danika knew exactly what was going on.

"Oh, I see. I'll catch you later." She muttered, before walking off in a hurry.

That conversation could have gone better. Jake was standing there, when he was suddenly hit with an alarming thought. Was she following him?

Before he could spend anymore time on the matter, he heard a cry for help. It sounded fairly close. Jake took a quick look around to see if anyone was watching.

"Ear of the Dragon." he said to himself.

As his ear morphed, he listened carefully to the cry. It sounded like it was coming from the alley across the street. Jake hurried over there.

When he arrived, it was a scene he has witnessed almost a thousand times before. A leprechaun and his pot of gold, and a group of trolls hoping to relieve him of his precious cargo.

"Hey Ugly!" Jake called out, "Don't you trolls ever have anything better to do than try and steal gold from leprechauns. Why don't you just run on home?"

The trolls just seemed to ignore him. Guess he would have to find something else to get their attention. Jake reached down to his Ch'i energy.

"Dragon Up!" he yelled, as his body morphed. "You just don't listen, do you?"

That managed to gain their attention.

"It's a dragon! Get him!" the lead troll screamed to the rest of the group.

Trolls, Jake thought, they never learn.

As two went charging forward, Jake quickly swung his tail at both of their ankles, causing them to fall into each other. Another picked up a nearby trash can, and hurled it at Jake, who caught it and flung it right back. The lead troll lifted up a club, and gave out a loud battle cry. Jake gave a quick huff of fire, igniting the club. The troll dropped it, as his battle cry changed its tone into a cry of surprise. Before he could do anything else, Jake hit him with a body slam, causing him to fall over

"Aww yeah! That's right! Don't mess with the Am Drag!" Jake boasted.

Before Jake could say anything else, he was hit from behind with a heavy blow to the head, as everything faded to black.

Jake woke awhile later in a daze. As the memories of what happened just before he passed out flooded back to him, he jumped to his feet and took a quick survey of the area around him. The alley was empty. No leprechaun, no trolls, no one. He changed back to human form.

"Yeah they better run." Jake muttered to himself, "If I hit me from behind, I'd make sure I wasn't around when I woke up too."

Jake stepped out of the alley and looked at a clock hanging in a nearby shop. He'd been out for a couple of hours, but that wasn't the part that worried him. Rose's plane was landing right now, and he was still about 10 minutes away from the airport. He would have to track down those trolls later.

He jumped back on his board and hurried over there.

When he arrived, the place was busy like always. Thousands of people coming and going. Jake spent an hour going over the entire place, but no luck. He couldn't find Rose anywhere.