A Dragon's Crimson Cry
By: Tippi
A/n Sorry this is late I was to tired to proof read last night and this afternoon I kept getting pulled away for things.
Ch 73 He's a Dragon
Jake was on the roof setting up a camera. The camera was on a timer to take 7 pictures in row. Jake quickly got in front of the camera before the timer went off and transformed into his dragon form letting the camera snap the pictures.
Once the camera was done Jake was uploading the photos on his laptop and picked the best 3 printing them out.
"Come on, come on" Jake said impatiently waiting for them to finish. As soon as they were done Jake grabbed them and left.
Jake showed up at Rotwood's place ringing the buzzer.
"Yes who's there, what do you want, go away" Rotwood yelled covering all the basics as he lifted the garage door. "O it's you what do you want?"
"The dollars yo" Jake said holding up the flyer.
"So this is were you live" Jake said scanning the jars of whatever they were then backing up as some green blob attached it's self to the side of it's glass containment. "Nice crib you got mist… I mean professor Rotwood" Jake quickly corrected him self.
"Yes enough with the pleasant chitty chat you got evidence for me" Rotwood asked.
"Yo check these out" Jake said handing Rotwood the photos.
Rotwood flipped through them before tearing them in half and dumping them in the trash.
"Shame on you Jake Long these photos are obviously a ridicules hoax" Rotwood said.
"What, those are way better the lasagna picture you handed out in class the other day" Jake yelled.
"These are too good no one could get that close to a dragon especially an armature such as your self" Rotwood said shooing Jake away.
"You going to sell your what to science" Jake said to Trixie on his cell while he was in the bathroom removing a few scales and clipping a few claws. "No just hold up" Jake said.
Jake once again returned to Rotwood with scales and claws.
"These are fake" Rotwood said examining them under a microscope.
"What those are genuine" Jake agreed.
"Really you should know better then to try and trick a train mythical biologist such as my self" Rotwood said. "I know that dragon claws glow in the dark and dragon scales give of the faintest sent of lavender."
"Lavender, glow in the dark, they do not that's crazy talk" Jake retorted. "You wouldn't know a dragon if it took a bite out of your butt."
"You flaunt your ignorance, Mr. Long. Dragons go for the throat area, and have acute allergies to human bottoxes" Rotwood informed.
"Say what, you know what forget you, you've got to be the worst man in your so called profession" Jake said walking out.
Had he stayed one second longer Rotwood would of burst out with some kind of come back.
As Jake was walking the streets he heard the cry of some one with an Irish accent. Jake ran into an alleyway and used his eyes of a dragon to see Thorn cornering a leprechaun on the edge of a rooftop.
"So much for the luck of the Irish" Thorn said to her cornered prey.
Jake transformed and flew up to the rescure.
"Your time is up" Thorn said throwing a net at the little Irish man.
"I think not" Jake said burning the net away with fire breath and then aiming a kick at Thorn. Thorn dodged and they got into another martial arts free for all the they did the other night.
"Don't you take a day off" Jake asked.
"I've been dreaming about slaying a dragon since birth" Thorn replied.
"Well keep dreaming and find another hobby" Jake said before Thorn kicked him into the wall of a building. She could of continued but she saw two humans coming down the alleyway and didn't want to involve civilians in huntsclan matters, or maybe her doubt peeked in, and took off.
"Maybe we could try back street turtle races" Spud suggested as he and Trixie rolled down the ally.
"Please Spud no more of your schemes I need money, cold hard cash, it isn't just going to fall out of the sky" Trixie said as Jake came crashing down in front of the two still in dragon form.
Both recoiled and screamed at seeing a dragon.
"Wow that is one big lasagna, maybe I'm dreaming, maybe your dreaming, hey what are you doing dreaming about me" Spud ranted but Trixie ignored him.
"Is it dead" Trixie asked going up to Jake and tapping his head.
"It's still breathing" Spud said opening it's mouth with his yo-yo. "Breathing fire" he said as fire came out of Jake's mouth then quick let the dragon's mouth close.
"Big, scaly and breathing fire" Trixie said then had a look at Rotwood's flyer. "Hold up, don't just stand there grab the head" Trixie said going to Jake's back end. "Not my head the dragon's head" Trixie yelled when Spud grabbed her head.
"Finally" Rotwood said using tongs to pull out a tablet from a pot of boiling green liquid. "Scientific log, I will finally decipher the hieroglyphics on the ancient Aztec tablet of monaroly."
"Hey Mr. Rotwood open up" Trixie's voice yelled from the other side of the door while she banged on it.
Rotwood dropped his tablet breaking it and was now in a fowler mood.
"It's Professor Rotwood" Rotwood said opening the door. "Now what is it, what do you hoodlums want" Rotwood asked.
"Where here to get paid" Trixie said holding up the flyer.
"Believe that" Spud added.
"O no I've already had on of your little friend here earlier trying to fool me, I'd not be made of a fool of" Rotwood said pushing the two away. "Now what ever it is take it away."
"Okay we'll just take our real live dragon else where" Trixie said pulling out Jake from behind the wall laying on two skate boards.
"Wait" Rotwood yelled seeing a dragon right in front of him. "Is that a real magical creature, a dragon."
"Well heck yeah, is it what you asked for" Trixie said.
"That's about as much proof as anyone's going to get" Spud said.
"Now chough up the cash" Trixie demanded.
"O yes I'm coughing I'll go get the $500 now" Rotwood said about to got the money.
"Hold up" Trixie said grabbing Rotwood's arm. "We just delivered you a whole dragon to your door you better be coughing up more cash then that."
"Shall we open up negotiations" Spud said.
"Yeah, now that's what I call bling, bling" Trixie said walking off with the money in her hands.
"Money smells good" Spud said smelling the wad of cash.
"I can't wait to tell Jakey he's going to lose his mind when he sees this" Trixie said.
"Wakey, wakey mister dragon" Rotwood said dumping water on the still sleeping Jake.
Jake awoke with quit a start. "Huh what" Jake quickly taking in his surroundings.
"Scientific log, I have finally acquired a actually magical creature" Rotwood said into his recording wearing fire resident suit.
"I did I, professor, I mean roar" Jake said coming to realization.
"I have contained the creature in a reinforced armed van of my own design" Rotwood said when it began to shake at Jake's attempts to free him self. "The specimen shows amazing strength and the ability to fly but the myth about dragons breathing fire have no bases in…" Rotwood was cut off and Jake shot fire of through the bars of the small window in the back.
"Scratch that last comment" Rotwood said ducking behind a table. "Enough with the fire" he said hitting a button that slide a fire resistant panel of glass in front of the window.
Jake tried to break it and melt it but it was resilient.
"What," Rotwood answered the phone as it rang. "O yes bring all of your TV cameras I'll be unveiling my discovery in exactly two hours." Then Rotwood dropped the phone realizing it and a few other things were on fire he quick grabbed fire extinguisher and but them out.
Trixie and Spud couldn't wait to tell Jake the good news and came in through the back door to avoid conversation with any one and went straight to Jake's room.
"Man where is Jake" Trixie said seeing Jake wasn't there. "We're going to have to let him know we got enough leftover cash for some new skate boards and other nice stuff."
"Maybe he's out robbing an art museum or he went on some reality show to win the money or…" Spud was guessing as he sat himself on Jake's desk knocking the mouse bring the laptop out of sleep mode.
"Sush" Trixie said quieting Spud when she saw the pictures on the screen. Both came to lean over the desk getting a closer look at the screen.
"I don't believe it" Trixie said.
"I don't either and I don't even know what it is" Spud said.
"The dragon, Jake" Trixie exclaimed.
"The dragon ate Jake, aw man what a way to go" Spud cried.
"The dragon didn't eat Jake the dragon is Jake" Trixie corrected Spud.
"I'm more confused then usual. What does it mean and how does my mom's lasagna fit in to all this" Spud asked.
"It means we just sold Jake to Rotwood for money" Trixie explained with gilt. "I can't believe we sold Jake out to Rotwood like that."
"Man we really are cold and greedy" Spud admitted "I like so hate us."
"Come on we need to get Jake back" Trixie said grabbing Spud.
The two were banging on Rotwood's door and yelling out his name.
"It's professor Rotwood" Rotwood yelled opening the door. "What do you want go away."
"Listen Rotwood there's been a big misunderstanding and we need our dragon back" Trixie explained.
"I think not it is now my dragon" Rotwood informed. "Now who sent you Dr. Vanhorn with the weird hair or professor Bensly with…"
"Listen no one sent us" Trixie said. "We just want our dragon back we're willing to give you all your money back."
"Plus our $6" Spud added.
"No I've got a press conference that's about to make me the most respected scientist in the world" Rotwood announced. "You want a dragon take this one" Rotwood said handing over a dragon costume he had hung above him then closed the door on them.
"Why didn't Jake tell us" Trixie asked once dismissed by Rotwood.
"We all harbor dark secrets like my third toe is bigger then all my other toes" Spud whispered.
"Keep that to your self we need to get Jake some help," Trixie said thinking for a minute. "I bet his Gramps knows."
"About my toe" Spud asked.
"No not about your nasty toe, about Jake being a dragon, all that running off for family emergencies and working at the shop it all makes sense lets go" Trixie summed up.
"Hey Big Ernie I'd like to place some bisects" Fu was saying over the phone.
"Hey sorry for busting in on you like this" Trixie said coming into the back to see LS.
"Listen I'll call you back" Fu said jumping onto all fours and saying woof, woof.
"If you're here to see Jake he's still out" LS responded.
"Jake, he's a dragon ain't he" Trixie said bluntly.
"Jake, a dragon. No the imagination of the young is like a… butterfly in the rain" LS tried to cover.
"Jake's a dragon, and that probably means you're on too, right" Spud said handing LS some photos of Jake.
"Well I…" LS tried to think up a response.
"Cut the act Gramps they know" Fu said getting back on two legs. "How ya doing kids?"
"Ahhhh! It's that creepy dog puppet and look it really talks" Trixie yelled.
"Very perceptive sweetheart, check out the big brain on this one" Fu said.
"After today nothing will ever surprise me again" Spud responded.
"You must understand Jake and my dragon identity must remain a secret nobody can know what we really are" LS explained.
"Yeah but the whole world about to find out and it's all because our fault" Trixie said then explained the situation.
Rotwood left his place with Jake in the back of his van. Waiting just around the corner in a cab were Trixie, Spud, LS, and in the diver seat Fu.
"Here we go" Fu said hitting petal.
"Shouldn't you be behind the wheel" Trixie asked LS.
"I don't have a license" LS answered.
"Oh but the talking dog does" Trixie exclaimed.
"Well, he has a dog license" LS said.
"Hey do you mind the talking dog is trying to drive here" Fu said.
With some disturbing driving they finally go right behind Rotwood's van.
"Hold it steady" LS said turning dragon and his tail draping over Spud and Trixie making them a little uneasy.
"Gramps" Jake said as LS made a move for the vans back door.
"Another one" Rotwood said looking into his side mirror. "Take this mister dragon" Rotwood said using an oil slick.
The cab slipped on the oil sending it spinning away from the van. LS reverted back to human and he painfully hit the trunk.
Many people honked their horns as the cab was holding them up in the tunnel.
Trixie and Spud ran to an unstuck cab and got in.
"Sorry I'm off duty" the driver said.
"Listen we'll give you all this money if you get us to the Hoboken scientific institute in ten minutes flat" Trixie said.
"Plus six dollars tip" Spud added.
"Buckle up" the driver said speeding off with great incentive.
"Six years ago I was banded from this very institute for my controversial yet brilliant theory on the existence of mythical creatures" Rotwood was saying to the cameras.
The cab stopped and Trixie and Spud dashed out to the back of the van.
Trixie and Spud tried to open the locked door but were having little luck. At the sound of their struggle Jake look out.
"Trixie, Spud I mean roar I'm a big scary dragon" Jake said.
"Kill it Jake we know it's you, we're here to spring you" Trixie said.
"I tried he's got this thing built like a tank you guys better just get out of here" Jake said.
"No way dude" Spud said.
"We're here for you Jakey friend for life and friends for real" Trixie repeated what Jake said earlier. "Now this is how it's going down listen up."
Fu and LS cab came rounding the corner and to a halt just as Rotwood was bout the open the back of the van.
"O no we're to late" Fu said.
When Rotwood opened the back a now human Jake was in the back with a dragon head on.
"Hey Rotwood can I take this off yet" Jake said removing the head.
"You, what do you do with my dragon" Rotwood yelled. "What there was real live dragon I swear" Rotwood said and the camera crews walked off. "This boy is just one of my retched students" Rotwood yelled.
"Really and want to tell why you have one of your students locked in the back of a van" a near by police officer asked coming over to take Rotwood into custody.
Rotwood was yelling about dragons as the policed dragged him off.
Fu was putting together a mind erase potion.
"There you go one mid erase potion to go, many a morning I wish I had this" Fu said handing it to Jake.
"So what I just pour this into Spud and Trixie's drink" Jake asked.
"Yes it will make them forget everything magical they have seen" LS explained.
"But they're my friends" Jake said.
"I know but there are rules the dragon council will not allow them to know" LS said.
As Jake was headed to Trixie's house he was stop by the leprechaun he saved.
"Laddy" he called.
"What is, is it the huntsclan" Jake asked.
"O no just wanted to give you wee something for your troubles" the leprechaun said tossing Jake a gold coin before walking off.
Jake looked at the coin and got an idea. Jake traded the gold coin for the crystal vase at the pawn shop and continued on his way.
"I don't know how you did it" Trixie said looking at the crystal.
"It was easy I just used some gold I got from this leprechaun…" Jake was saying seeing look on the others face and just ended in "it's a long story."
"Listen Jake this whole magical thing we don't care if you're a dragon, a griffin, a werewolf…" Trixie said.
"Or even my mom's lasagna" Spud added.
"Whatever the thing is we're you're friends no matter what" Trixie said. "Now lets get our game on Trixie said going to the game controller putting down her and Spud's drink.
Jake got out the potion vial but after what Trixie said he couldn't do it and emptied the potion into the house plant and joined his friends.
I jail Rotwood was looking at the ripped pictures of Jake was looking into dragons ability to change form.