Jake wasn't willing to believe his eyes. It had to be a trick somehow. There was no possible way the wizard standing at the far end of the room was who it looked like.

"Hello Jake." she said.

Jake could hardly speak in his disbelief, yet he still manage to utter one word. "Danika? You're the wizard!" Jake shouted with surprise.

"Please Jake," Danika replied, "Wizard is a term for goody-two-shoes. I prefer witch."

Jake was still in shock, "I... I don't understand."

"Understand what?" Danika asked him, "How you aren't the only person in New York with magical powers, or that the person you've spent the last couple of days searching for was someone close to you this entire time?"

"I don't understand why." Jake answered.

"The answer is simple, Jake. Rose needed to disappear." she replied.

"But why?" Jake persisted.

"Because we were meant for each other, Jake." Danika answered, "I couldn't allow her to just walk in and steal you away, so I made sure to personally greet her at the airport. Sorry about hitting you in the head, but I couldn't have you interfering."

Jake thought back to that evening. He recalled his battle with the trolls, he recalled how he'd been hit from behind, and how he'd never been able to figure out who hit him.

"Of course, it all makes sense now." Jake said, "You were the only person in the street before I entered the alley. I suspected you had followed me, but never really thought about it."

"I just needed a distraction so I could beat you to the airport, however I didn't plan on you defeating my trolls so easily, so I had to take matters into my own hands." Danika said, "You know things didn't have to go this way. Rose could've disappeared without a trace, but instead you just had to find her."

"I'll always find her!" Jake replied.

Danika gave a smirk, "not this time."

Danika snapped her fingers, and all the ogres in the room started to encircle the group.

"I'm going to give you one chance to walk away." Jake warned.

"Funny, I was about to offer you the same opportunity." Danika replied.

"Walk away, Danika." Jake said with anger in his voice.

"No thanks, I'm fine." Danika replied.

Jake changed into his dragon form, "That wasn't a suggestion."

Gramps, Sun, and Haley shifted to their dragon forms, while Nigel reached for his wand, and Fu rolled up the wrinkles on his arms.

"You don't want to do this, Jake." Danika said.

"I know exactly what I want to do." Jake replied.

Danika just shrugged, as the army of ogres started to charge at the group. Jake did a quick tail whip that caught one on the side of the head and sent him flying across the room, while Gramps knocked another one down with a flying kick. Sun and Haley performed some spinning, tag team move Jake could only assume they'd practiced a thousand times. Although it looked funny, it succeeded in knocking down 5 ogres. Nigel seemed to be having a little trouble, as he started to get swarmed by ogres. Jake gave a fire blast to one that was about to hit him from behind. Nigel wasn't using any actual spells, he was shooting bursts of energy out of his wand.

Jake turned his attention to Danika. He studied her, trying to determine what attack she wouldn't be able to counter. He decided to try a quick fire ball. Danika waved her wand, and created an energy wall that caused the fire to disappear the second it touched it. Jake decided he was going to have to get up close to launch a successful attack. He opened his wings, and flew up high, then started to dive bomb her. Just before Jake would have hit her dead on, she teleported out of the way, causing Jake to smash into the concrete floor.

"You don't have to fight me, Jake." Danika said as Jake started to pick himself up off the floor, "You deserve so much better than her. You deserve someone magical, not some foolish mortal."

"There's more to her! You can't judge someone on whether or not they're in a certain group." Jake shot back.

"But we could be a power couple." Danika insisted, "You're still in training, yet you are already one of the greatest dragons alive, and I will soon be the most powerful witch this world has ever seen, together we could rule over all. The magical and mortal world! Just you and me."

"You know you aren't the first person to offer me that opportunity." Jake said, "The last guy who gave me that offer got trapped in an alternate dimension for the next 1 thousand years."

Jake launched another fire ball at Danika, followed by 3 smaller ones. He was hoping that she would only see the large one, and remove her energy field after it hit, allowing the other 3 to reach their target. Just as Jake planned, she put up an energy field to block the fire, but to Jake's disappointment, she blocked all the fire before she took it down.

"Such a beautiful story, a dragon and a dragon-slayer falling in love, do you honestly expect it to have a happy ending?" Danika said.

"It's going to have a happier ending than the story of me opening a can of smack daddy on you." Jake replied.

Jake had determined that it didn't matter what he tried, his fire was going to work, so he tried another physical attack. This time, he was going to try multiple attacks and a fast speed, hoping one of them would be quick enough it would make contact with Danika before she could teleport. He started into a series of quick kicks and jabs, each one only catching air as Danika teleported out of the way of each one. After a few moments Jake stopped, not willing to waste all of his energy on a tactic he was certain would be unsuccessful. If he was going to defeat her, he was going to have to out think her. Come up with something she wouldn't expect.

"Just give up, Jake." Danika said, "You're never going to defeat me."

Jake didn't waste the time to dignify her with a response. Instead, he focused his energy, and created 2 doppelgangers. They triangulated around her. One shot fire, while Jake and the other doppelganger moved in for an attack. This strategy proved to be more successful. Danika wasn't experienced enough to counter all 3 attacks. She was able to block the fire with an energy field, but because her focused was divided on doing that, she was unable to teleport fast enough to avoid the attacks from 2 attackers. As soon as Jake landed a punch, she let out a scream, and the break in her focus caused her energy field to drop, allowing her to catch a fire ball, sending her falling to the floor. Jake quickly grabbed her wand before she could get back up. As Jake reabsorbed his doubles, he turned to see the rest of the group was just finishing battling the ogres. Only one still stood, and a quick blow from Gramps left him on the ground, unconscious like the other ogres.

Jake walked over and grabbed Danika. "Alright, now you have some talking to do."