A Dragon's Crimson Cry
By: Tippi
A/n There's a part in here that was brought up in chapter 55.
Ch 72 Broken Crystal
Somewhere in the city late at night a party thrown by leprechauns was going on. A leprechaun was saying good bye to his friends as he walked out the door with his pot gold to head home. His eyes caught sight of a lady leprechaun waving at him and what man can pass up a beautiful lady.
"Top of the evening to you lassie" the leprechaun said taking of his hat. "And what may your name be?"
"Malfunction" the female said in a robotic voice as her arm fell off exposing wires.
"Malfunction is that short for Malory" the leprechaun asked not seeming to notice it was a robot.
As the robot began to short out with sparks the leprechaun continued to flirt.
"Is it just me or are you feeling a spark between us" the leprechaun asked. "What do you think?"
"I think you've fallen for our hunting decoy" the Hmaster said dropping into the ally with Thorn. "We use it to lure out our prey and despite the malfunction it seems to have worked."
"Now had over the gold leprechaun" Thorn demanded.
The leprechaun stepped back and held his pot protectively.
The two hunters were about to move forward when they were stopped by a blast of fire.
"Sorry, I'm going to have to stop you" Jake said in dragon form landing in front of the leprechaun facing the hunters. "But I can't stand girls that are gold diggers, despite how hot they may be."
"You can't stop us dragon boy" Thorn yelled as the Hmaster prepared his weapon.
Hmaster fired but Jake grabbed a garbage can lid and used it as a shield. The leprechaun grabbed the malfunctioning robot and got behind some cans for some cover. Then Jake throws the lid like a frisbee and knocked the staff out of the Hmaster's hands.
"Finish him" Hmaster yelled to Thorn.
Thorn jumped forward. Jake grabbed the leprechaun and flew toward the roof tops. Thorn followed them from the fire escape. Jake landed on the rooftop putting the leprechaun down when Thorn tried to attack but Jake knocked her back with is tail. Thorn landed on her feet and the two continued to fight. The two were using all their martial arts skills going from rooftop to rooftop trying to win the battle.
"Scientific log night 735 of urban nocturnal surveillance, still not sign of the existence of magical…" Rotwood was recording for him self as he scaled a fire escape only to stop his sentence short at hearing Thorn and Jake fighting behind him and turned to see the two. "At last proof of…" Rotwood said lifting up his camera for a shoot before he was pulled from the latter.
"Alright peeper shows over" one of the two officers said as they pulled Rotwood down and escorted him to the car.
Rotwood managed to click the button of the camera as they pulled him down and was holding the photo as they took him to the car waiting for it to develop.
"Wait," Rotwood yelled. "I just captured proof of a magical creature on film. I'm about to become the most respected scientist in the world" Rotwood ranted.
"Sure you are" the fatter officer said.
"I'll call ahead and reserve you a special respected scientist holding cell" the thinner one added.
"Watch the head" the fatter one said pushing Rotwood into the back seat.
~Next day in Rotwood's class~
Rotwood was handing out flyers with his the picture he took last night on it offering a reward for any student that could provide further proof.
"So class feasts your eyes on my latest discovery" Rotwood said.
Seeing the photo, despite how blurry it was, Jake gasped realizing it was him from last night.
"Mr. Rotwood" Trixie said.
"Professor" Rotwood yelled.
"Yeah," Trixie replied "I'm looking at your flyer here and all I see is a great big red and yellow blob."
"Whoa, it looks like my mom's lasagna. My mom's lasagna flying and doing kung-fu" Spud said doing a karate chop with is hand.
"Nein! This is not any pasta, it's a dragon or a sphinx, maybe a griffin I don't know" Rotwood yelled. "But I am the first person to capture it on film whatever it is."
"It looks like pasta" Al said. "Messy pasta but pasta none the less."
"Enough with the pasta" Rotwood yelled.
"But all those creatures are just fairytale, mumbo jumbo stuff" Trixie said.
"O mumblly Jumbally stuff huh, of course just fairytales" Rotwood said. "But let me tell you three things, one there is a magical creature loss in this city, two I'm offering a $500 reward for said proof of the creature and three it's professor Rotwood" Rotwood listed as the bell rang.
As the foursome walked out of class they all stared at the flyer till Trixie spoke up.
"Man Rotwood's trippin' hard" Trixie said crumpling up the paper and throwing it away.
"What, O yeah" Jake said getting over the fact he was on film.
"I wonder if my mom knows her lasagna escaped" Spud asked squinting his eyes at the picture.
"Yeah why don't you asked her and give the answer to me in a week" Al said beginning to walk off.
"Why a week" Trixie asked.
"I'm going to be in Japan with my dad while he checks on his branch of his company there" Al answered.
"He's bringing you on a business trip" Trixie said.
"He wasn't going to but Tokyo, Japan has like the latest technology that we don't get till months later so I go for the latest video games and he gets to keep up the 'loving family' charade in front of his employees. We both win" Al explained.
"Dude can you bring me back a game" Spud asked.
"Because we're all such good friends I bring one back for each of you" Al said putting his arms around Spud and Trixie shoulders and if he had longer arms Jake.
Al left for his trip and the trio left for Trixie's house to play some video games. All the talk about them made the three's thumbs itching to play.
The three sat in the living room play a football game.
"Trixie you and your friends hungry you want something to eat" Trixie's grandma yelled down to her.
"No grams we're good" Trixie replied as the three tried to make a touch down.
Then Trixie's mom walked in dusting off her crystal vase.
"Trixie captain Burials called in sick so I'm doing the whole Landon to Tokyo to L.A. run" Mrs. Carter said. "I won't be back till Thursday, be good, write to your father and listen to your grandmother promise" Mrs. Carter said.
"I promise mom" Trixie said "love you."
"Bye kids" Trixie's mom said proceeding to leave.
"Bye Mrs. Carter" Jake said.
"Fly safe and watch out for flying lasagna up there" Spud said.
Mrs. Carter just blinks in confusion before she walked out the door.
"Trixie you leaving" Trixie's grandma yelled down.
"No grandma I still here" Trixie yelled back.
"You and your friends hunger you want something to eat" Trixie's grandma asked again.
"No we all right" Trixie replied. "Okay only time for one more play" Trixie announced. "Jake, run it deep post. Spud pick up that red dog blitz."
"I'm open, I'm open" Jake yelled.
They make a touch down and won the game. The trio jumped up yelling and cheering. Trixie stood up on the couch, Spud swung his yo-yo around over his head, and Jake did some break dancing moves.
"And the final point is…" Trixie said kicking a pillow.
To bad the pillow hit the crystal vase knocking it off balance causing it to fall. The trio gasped and makes a dive for the crystal but were two seconds to late.
"Oh no, not mom's suitton crystal" Trixie cried.
"Trixie, what's that about the crystal" Trixie's grandma asked.
"No nothing grandma. We're cool, I was just introducing my new friend, Crystal" Trixie said nudging Spud.
"Oh, right, Ahem" Spud started to say. "Yeah, I'm Crystal. Nice place you got here Trixie and that Spud is one cool and hot…" Spud said in a high girly voice before Trixie nudged Spud again stopping him.
"Ow" Spud said at Trixie nudging him to hard.
"Your friend Crystal want something to eat" Trixie's grandma asked once again.
"My mom is going to straight up freak. This was an aquatic, one of a kind suitton crystal. My dad gave it to her on their first anniversary" Trixie explained.
"Actually it wasn't one of a kind" Spud said looking at on of the shattered pieces. "According to this stamp it was a limited edition one of hundred pieces" Spud said "now let's go find another one." Spud then walked into the closet. "Um I'm lost" Spud said realizing he was in the wrong place.
~At a pawn shop~
"You have fine taste" the store owner said taking the vase out of the display case. "Suitton crystal 1912 mint condition."
"Wrap it up Jack I'll take it" Trixie said.
"Yes well, that will be $600" the store owner said.
"Did you just say $600" Trixie asked.
"How much for it un-wrapped" Spud asked.
The owner just blinked at them.
"60, 61, 62" Spud said counting the money they had. "We go $16.62" Spud said once he was done counting.
"I'm doomed" Trixie cried.
"You're going hysterical got a hold of your self woman" Spud yelled grabbing Trixie by the shoulders and shaking her.
"Dudes cool it," Jake said "I've got the perfect idea; we'll just asks Al to lend us the money."
"But mom get's back on Thursday and he doesn't get back till Friday" Trixie said.
"I've got his cell number I'll just make a call" Jake said taking out his phone.
But half an hour later Jake was sent to voice mail again.
"O man voice mail again" Jake said finally hanging up the phone.
"Now what" Trixie asked.
"Meet me here in about an hour I think I might know another way" Jake said getting a smile on.
~At the entrance to the underground fighting ring~
"What do you mean closed till Thursday" Jake asked the current door guard.
"Sorry but some fighter got carried away and destroyed the ring, then a riot broke out with the spectators and most of the rest of the place got destroyed. So now we've closed it for repairs" the door guard said.
Jake just hung his head in defeat now he had to go see his friends and tell them the bad news.
"So how that plan work out" Trixie asked Jake as they got back together.
"I didn't work out at all" Jake answered.
"It's like the world is against us" Spud yelled.
"Hold up we're friends for real and friends for life and together we can do anything" Jake gave a pep talk. "There's other ways we can do this."
They tried house painting, lemonade stand, windshield washing, and performing on the street but lest say everything they tried had one error or another.
"599, 600… Wait a minute we just lost $10.63" Spud yelled as he counted the money.
"I'm doomed, doomed" Trixie cried.
"She's losing it again, woman get a grip" Spud yelled gripping Trixie's shoulders and shaking her again.
"Guys it's just a set back" Jake said pushing between his two friends. Jake took a piece of paper and pencil out of his pocket and set it on Spud's back as he wrote down the math equation he needed to figure out how much more money they needed.
As Jake was trying to do math he turned the paper over to see it was one of Rotwood's flyers.
"Okay guys I've got one last idea" Jake said.
"If this one doesn't work like the last few" Trixie asked.
"Then you are doomed," Jake responded "just meet me here in two hours." Jake took off on his board.