A Dragon's Crimson Cry

By: Tippi

A/N I'd like to remind everyone Jake has just started speaking again but he hasn't for two years so he doesn't always speak in full sentences yet and when he speaks picture it all horse and kind of cracked.

Ch 33 Smarter Than the Average Dog

Fu was standing at the doorway to the roof in a moment of shock at what he just saw. The commotion on the roof had woken him up and he ran up to see what was happening he got there just in time to see the huntsman making his way toward Jake.

What just happened wasn't what Fu was expecting to happen.

Fu finally pulled him self out of his shock and saw LS laying unconscious. Fu ran over to the old man and shook his shoulder with his paw.

"Gramps, gramps, speak to me" Fu pleaded.

Then Fu noticed that Jake was looking at him with a risen eyebrow.

"I mean a… woof, woof" Fu tried to cover up his mistake.

Jake just crossed his arms and gave Fu a serious look.

"You got me" Fu admitted.

"I knew it" Jake yelled in his horse cracked voice as he pointed at Fu.

But Jake immediately dropped it as his eyes fell on his grandfather. He ran over to him dropping to his knees looking for any sign of life in his grandfather's body.

The light rise and fall of his chest was the only sign he was still alive.

Knowing he had no other chose Fu pulled a cell from his folds and dialed 911.

"I need an ambulance at Canal Street Electronics there's an injured old man on the roof" Fu said into the phone then hung up.

Luckily the police would leave the call at an anonymous good citizen when they came and didn't find the caller.

The police showed up about 6 minutes after Fu made the call. They came to find a worried boy and dog sitting on either side of an unconscious elderly man. On closer inspection they realized it was Jake Long and his grandfather.

LS was taken in the ambulance while Jake and Fu (since Jake wouldn't let go of the dog's collar) were loaded into a squad car.

Before they closed the car door Jake grabbed the officer's sleeve and was able to get out the words 'detec…tive Lee Da…Da… Dawson.'

"Sure" was the officer's reply as he closed the car door.

Jake put his hand up to the car window as he saw the ambulance speed away with his grandfather.

~At the police station~

Jake and Fu were alone in the captain of the precinct's office. Jake and Fu were sitting across from each other in two of the four chairs in the room only a low table separating the two occupants. As they sat there Jake was staring hard at Fu with accusing eyes.

Fu felt as if the eyes were burn holes through his skin.

"Okay enough with the eyes," Fu begged "just tell me what you want."

"Truth" Jake said pointing an accusing finger at Fu.

"Okay where to begin" Fu said to him self.

Fu took a deep breath and began to explain about how he was 600 year old canine from an ancient breed of magical animals that can talk and have other human characteristics.

Finally Fu finished taking a big intake of breath. Despite the information he was just given Jake seemed to be rather passive about the whole thing.

Seeing that Jake wasn't hanging there with his mouth open and surprised expression on something Jake said earlier came to mind.

"How long have you known" Fu asked.

"6" came Jake's simple answer as he held up six fingers.

"6, since you were 6," Fu started. "I don't believe this I've been barking and walking on four paws for the past 4 years for nothing. How?"

"Not stupid" Jake answered.

"Leave it to a kid to accept a talking dog than think their imagining it" Fu had to explain for him self.

He saw Jake make a motion with his hands to go on. There was more Jake need to know.

"You know the whole explanation about me and everything is easy to explain but everything else I think is better explained by some one else, like Gramps" Fu pressed knowing full well not only was LS suppose to be the one to someday tell Jake but also he wasn't a dragon expert.

"Why" Jake yelled.

"Why I won't explain anything else to you or why no one else ever told you" Fu asked.

Jake put two fingers up mentioning he meant the second one, with some what of an angry look on his face.

"Don't be mad at Gramps for not telling you. It was your mother that asked him not to tell you, at least not till you were older. Gramps was only fulfilling your mother's wish" Fu said trying to calm Jake.

Jake was upset it was easier to be mad at Gramps you can't be mad at your now dead mother.

Jake was thinking this had to be the weirdest day ever. First he finds out his grandfather's dog is some magical talking canine, his grandfather's a dragon, and his grandfather didn't seem too surprised to see a man wearing a skull. On top of that all he was keeping all a secret. Jake could only imagine what other secrets were being kept from him.

A/N This may get confusing later on if it isn't already so any questions just ask. Review