A Dragon's Crimson Cry

By: Tippi

Ch 87 Serpent Strike

Jake heard the roaring hiss and transformed heading in the direction. Once over head of the snake he called LS and Fu letting them know the situation and where he and the serpent were but couldn't wait for them to get there before he attacked, the serpent had to be stopped before he fed on the crowd.

"Is this supposes to be part of the parade" a parade performer asked.

"I don't remember it mentioned at anytime" another performer said.

"Just go with it, the crowd loves it" another said as the crowd cheered and clapped at the serpent's entrance.

"O this is great they didn't do anything like this last year" a random on looker said.

"Perfect for the year of the snake" another on looker said.

"Why does the snake have wings daddy" a girl on her dad's shoulders asked.

"I don't know" the dad admitted.

"Maybe it was originally supposes to be a dragon but they changed to make it a snake for this year and couldn't remove the wings" a teen next to them suggested.

As many other on lookers talked about it more and the performers continued Q picked a target.

Seeing the snake rear up reading to strike Jake went into a dive. Jake slammed the snake to the ground stopping its initial attack.

Jake flapped his wings keeping him aloft while Q rises and shakes off the attack. He swivels his head toward Jake his tongue darting in and out as his glowing red eye kept trained on Jake. The crowd cheered as it seemed an even better show was about to start.

Q spread his wings and flew up to strike Jake but dodged it but Jake missed his tail slashing out as he flew by whacking Jake to the ground and knocking the wind out of him. While Jake struggled to take in air Q prepared another strike. He dived down with mouth open. Jake rolled out of the way just in time and Q got a mouth full of road. Q spit out the concrete, landing, and turned back to Jake. Jake shot Q with his fire breath. As expected the fire burned him a bit and it was painful. Q opened his mouth giving a long snake like howl. That gave a Jake an idea how to get the potion into the snake's mouth. Once Q shook off the fire giving a pause to fight off the burning sensation he glared at Jake his eyes flashing a brighter red to show he couldn't be angrier. Jake was getting out the potion vial when Q brought his tail down to try and hit Jake. Jake dodged but the tail came down with such strength it sent a strong wind at Jake that knocked him on his back again. Q tried to bring his tail down on Jake again but Jake did a back flip out of the way. But just as Jake landed he was going to use his plan to give Q the potion only to realize he didn't have the vial in his hands anymore. He looked to Q's tail and saw the broken vial as Q lifted it up.

"Great, just great" Jake said.

Jake was able to hold his own in the battle for the next two minutes it taken for LS to fly in with Fu.

"Kid you okay" Fu asked putting his paws back on the ground.

"What's the talking dog got to do with the New Year" some random person in the crowd asked.

"No," Jake responded. "I can't keep this up much longer and my vial's crushed."

"Good we all brought our own" Fu said taking out his vial.

Jake was to distracted by the arrival to see Q making another attack.

Q made a strike for Jake but LS shot forward with his claws taking a swipe at Q's face making the snake pull back.

"We've got to get the potion in him" LS said coming to stand next to Jake.

"I have an idea" Jake said. "Just get the vial ready and get as close to the head as you can, I'll get his mouth open."

LS took to the sky doing just as Jake said hoping his plan worked.

Jake took in a deep breath then let out a long stream of flames. (The crowd enjoyed that.)

Q reared his head back to let out another snake howl of pain giving LS the chance to drop the uncorked vial into his mouth.

The moment Q got over the pain he felt weaker now. But Q was running on instinct and made a strike for Jake. Now that the potion was in his system he was weaker and slower. Jake jumped up to meet his strike and gave him hard kick to the head. Q was down and out.

The crowd cheered and clapped thinking it was the finally of the show.

"Now what" Jake asked not knowing what to do now that the serpent was defeated.

"We make a magical exit" Fu said taking out a bottle of glowing green liquid.

Fu smashed the bottle on the ground and a green vortex appeared around them transporting them out of there.

The vortex had transported them to a magical warehouse run by various magical beings in out of country trades. They would keep Q chained and sedated in the haul of there large ship till they set sail and docked in Mexico.

Once all that was squared away the three heroes returned home. LS and Fu retired to their bedroom to take a nap before attending the New Year festivity of the evening. Although Jake who did most of the fighting that day didn't have the energy to make it up the stairs and flopped down on the couch in the back.

"That was awesome" a voice rang out.

With much effort Jake lifted his head to see Al standing before him. Jake gave a groan and his head fell back on the couch.

"What's with you" Al asked.

"I just fought off a giant snake" Jake replied into the couch cushion.

"You made it look easy on the TV" Al said.

Jake just groaned again.

"Well I guess I'll let you rest up" Al said turning to leave but as he was leaving he saw a plate of food set out.

He reached to take a piece when he stopped.

"Don't touch that" Jake's muffled voice said from the under the cushion. "That for the ancestors."

"Like they need to eat they're dead" Al said.

Jake let out an angry moan.

"Okay it's cool" Al said leaving completely this time.

It was three hours before the heroes awoke to continue their new year's rituals.

A/N I know this is shorter than my other chapters but that's why I'm posting early. I was also thinking of putting in some of the New Year's more new year's traditions in this but I than it just would be out of place in a wrap up. In the next chapter you're going to meet Al's mom.