A Dragon's Crimson Cry
By: Tippi
A/n
Ch 70 Being me not so Great
The day started as usual, he got up, he went to school but when he got back from school he was unhappy to find his grandfather was waiting for him. It could only mean more work for the American dragon.
"So what are we doing here again" Jake asked dressed as a shoe shine.
"Waiting, it's a stake out" LS answered.
"So put some elbow grease on those shoes" Fu added.
"Okay I know I'm not suppose to question my dragon master but why am I a shoe shine" Jake asked.
"Undercover" Fu said.
"How many shoe shines do still see in the city, especially in the middle of the night? We would have been less conspicuous if we dressed like business men" Jake said. "Plus I feel ridiculous in this."
"Hey cheer up you're out here doing the whole dramatic, heroic American dragon thing in my book that's glamorous" Fu said.
"When does the glamorous part start" Jake asked.
"Now" LS said as a city bus pulled up.
The doors opened and a troll stepped off.
"That's him" Jake said looking down at the photo and back at the arrival. "I'm going in" Jake continued making a move.
"Wait," LS tried "goblins have a very sensitive sense of smell. Element of surprise is very…"
The goblin sniffed the air before exclaiming "dragon" and bolted just as Jake was about to grab him.
"Important" LS finished as Jake missed his target.
Jake ran after him and dragoned up. He tripped over a trash can, slid on mud across the street knocking into the goblin sending them both into a roll into a brick wall. It would have been the desired effect if Jake hadn't lost him when a trash can that was against the wall didn't fly up when he hit it only to have it land on his head. While Jake was getting the can off the goblin tried to make an escape by fire escape. The stairs not making it to the roof and had the goblin make an attempt to shimmy along the building by rain gutter.
"Yo it's over goblin" Jake said flying up toward him.
But the gutter was giving way to the goblin's weight turning the gutter at a slant and spilling the collected gutter water right into Jake's open mouth. As Jake was coughing the water out the goblin lost his grip but before he could fall very far Jake caught him. But to add to Jake's bad night he caught him in front a window that was opened by a fat lady who was getting ready for bed.
"Dang peeking tom" she yelled then processed to hit Jake with a broom.
While he was getting broom whacked he dropped the goblin who fell toward the alleyway below where LS was waiting, in dragon form, and caught him before he hit the ground.
After a few hits with the broom Jake to fell toward the ground.
"I got ya kid" Fu said coming to stand below Jake with his arms out. "What am I thinking" Fu said realizing catching a full sized dragon was stupid.
Fu then moved a dumpster below Jake. Jake landed on the top of the dumpster and bounced off into an open man hole. Some sewer sludge landed on LS's shoes while he was tying up the goblin's hands (in human form).
"Hey kid looks like gramp's shoes need another spit shine" Fu dog said with a laugh to Jake in the sewer.
"Aw man" Jake said from down in the sewer.
The next day at school Jake meets up with his three friends.
"Hey guys" Jake called out to the trio in the hallway.
"Yo, Jake I was talking to you last night at the skate park but, o ya you weren't there" Spud said.
"Sorry I had this thing last night" Jake explained.
"Check it we were all about to do some serious shredding but then these fancy pants rich snobs show up and booted us out" Trixie said.
"Yeah so they were all like get out and we're all like no you get out and their all like our dad's own you" Spud said repeating what was said last night.
"Man I hate rich snobs" Al said.
"But you're rich" Trixie informed.
"Yeah but I'm not a snob about it and these aren't fancy pants" Al said mentioning to his jeans.
"Anyway, what Spud was trying to say is it's not a game, we going to show them later who really grinds the half pipe. Now let's roll" Trixie said pulling open a class room door and walking in.
Spud followed but tried to push the door open.
"Man this door is like broken, okay one more time" Spud said pushing again.
"And he passed 7th grade how" Al asked.
Then some girl and Rose talking got Jake's attention.
"Ear of the dragon" Jake whispered as he got behind a locker row.
"He is pretty cute" the other girl said.
"Pretty cute, I just want to wrap my arms around him" Rose said.
Jake got a grin on at hearing that and walked up to Rose.
"Hey Rose" Jake started "I heard you're conversation and I feel the same way."
"You think Jaren MacArthur's cute too" Rose asked skeptical.
"Yeah I totally… who" Jake asked coming to realization that the two where on a different page.
"Jaren MacArthur," Rose said opening her locker wider to show a poster of the teen pop singer she had tapped on. "He sings that song Girl Don't Be Trippin' he's playing radio city tonight."
"O yeah what I meant to say was uh… want to see some cool skate moves" Jake quickly said putting his helmet and doing some moves on his skate board.
While Jake was doing a spin he lost balance sending his skate board across the hall, to bounce off some lockers, narrowly miss a group of students and firmly wedges it's self into a picture of Rotwood hanging on a hallway wall. As Al took the moment to laugh at Jake's accident that caused the scene that looked like Rotwood having a board stuck in his mouth the real Rotwood came forward.
"Mr. Long might I have a word with you" Rotwood said keeping his anger rather well hidden.
Rose and the other girl gave a few giggles as Jake walked to a no doubt bad conversation.
~Jake and Rotwood alone in the classroom~
"Jake Long I don't like you, now do you know why I don't like you" Rotwood asked.
"Because my Mac daddy moves are so fly" Jake suggested.
"No, no, no it's because you have a bad attitude" Rotwood answered. "You have lack of respect toward authority figures and mediocre grades.'
"First I'm 13 not many 13 year olds respect authority and the grades aren't my fault I'd have more time to study if I wasn't out all night learning to be a drago… a drag racer" Jake said making a quick save of his secret identity.
"A drag racer" Rotwood asked.
"Yeah you know like go carts" Jake said pretending to steer while making noises of a car engine.
"Enough with the noises" Rotwood said. "I think it's time I find out more about you, Mr. Long."
"Hey, no prob. Let's see… I'm a Pisces, I dig extreme sports, I like girls…" Jake was listing off things about him self.
"Eh, no, I meant a parent teacher conference, tomorrow, 4pm" Rotwood said. "I'll be looking forward to it" Rotwood then spilled coffee on him self. "That was deliberate."
Later while heading home Jake was accompanied by Al.
"So a parent, teacher conference, although for you it's more of a grandparent teacher conference" Al tried to joke but seeing it wasn't working went on. "So how you going to tell your gramps" Al asked.
"I was thinking of telling him before bed and hoping that he'll be too tired to get angry" Jake explained.
"Good plan, hope it works, bye" Al said parting ways with Jake about 5 blocks from the shop.
~Once Jake got home~
"I'm telling you G being the American dragon is seriously ruining my life, I wish I could just pass the baton to the next kid and be done with it" Jake was telling his grandfather as the man was fixing a toaster.
"Sorry young one but the duties of the American dragon fall to you and you alone" LS said putting the toaster down. "Speaking of duties Fu dog preformed a truth spell on our goblin friend" LS said mentioning to the goblin in magical cage watching TV.
"The orb of Malorphis" Fu said setting down a magical holographic book and opening to a page that projected a picture of the orb. "Is it A) a funky paper weight of B) a great big ball of evil" Fu asked. "If you picked B you're right. It seems Ralph here was going to be paid a hefty sum to pick up the orb from the huntsclan and deliver it to a goblin crime ring in Ohio."
"Hey goblins got to eat too" Ralph said in his defense.
"The orb holds a high constitution of dark magic in the wrong hands it could be highly dangerous, that's why you must intercept it" LS said to Jake.
"Don't sweat it I'll just go dragon and…" Jake was saying.
"No it is best you do it undercover, as the goblin" LS explained.
"Okay but how is something this handsome going to turn into something that…" Jake said pointing to Ralph only to have the goblin growl back.
"Please we both know you're not winning any beauty contests" Jake answered to the growl.
"Dragons have natural shapeshifting abilities" LS said.
"Is this anything like learning to go from human to dragon and back again because that took like a week and I don't think we've got that time" Jake explained.
"No Fu dog will make a potion to tap into that ability" LS answered.
"Unicorn hoof clippings, ogre nose hair, and bottled troll belches" Fu said throwing all of it into a blender then turning it on.
Once blended Fu poured it into a glass then handed it to Jake.
"There you go one shapeshifting smoothie with wheatgrass enhancement" Fu said.
Jake took a whiff of the concoction and held it at arms length.
"Well bottoms up kid" Fu said.
"Easy for you to say you don't have to drink it not to mention the smell at the fact you said everything that was in it out loud for me to hear" Jake said before plugging his nose and tried to get it pass the tongue quickly so not to taste it like he did medicine.
"Uh that's nasty I'm going to totally Ralph" Jake said swallowing the stuff and gagging before he turned into the goblin.
"Dude check it out. I'm Ralph the goblin" Jake said looking at him self.
"Ralph is not that big in the hips" Ralph said.
"Hey Fu how long does this shapeshifting mojo last" Jake asked.
"One serving gives you about 24 hours of shapeshifting fun" Fu answered.
"Alright" Jake said with great enthusiasm.
"The meeting with the huntsclan is in an hour" LS informed. "You should use this time practicing goblin voice."
"Yeah and I wouldn't go to crazy with all the shapeshifting the more you use it the harder it is to control" Fu warned.
"Wait, are you saying I can shapeshift into other people" Jake said getting a mischievous grin on. "Check this" Jake announced turning into his grandfather. "The sparrow with the most of patience is more patient than the one who's impatient" Jake said all spiritual like.
"You said it just like the old man" Fu said laughing.
Jake turned into Fu then said "Yo forget about it, I'm going to go bet some dog bisects and give my self a flea bath."
"I don't talk like that" Fu said stopping his laughter.
"Until the potion wears off you won't be able to use any of your dragon powers, you must take this mission very serious" LS said.
"Don't worry G I'll be very serious" Jake said before shifting into the huntsman. "Now brothers and sisters bust a move and bring on the huntsclan" Jake yelled.
A/N