A Dragon's Crimson Cry
By: Tippi
A/N Here the next chapter some secret of Jake is revealed.
Bloodmoon13- I know it was re introduced suddenly sorry but I didn't feel every chapter I had to add in Jake secert training and lessons. He's been taking lessons once a week for a year now and he praticed in secret when he had free time.
KaliAnn- It was intentional as I didn't think with all the family problems his mother should be free of fault.
Ch 89 Pre Birthday Winter
The cold weather continued on for the next two weeks of March in fact it got colder every day. And today the 17th of March it was dipping below zero.
"I don't remember it ever being this cold in March" Trixie said as the four walked home bundled up like it was still the middle of winter.
"I know what you mean March is like supposes to be the start of spring" Spud remarked.
Suddenly snow began to fall and the wind picked up. All four wrapped their arms around them selves and shivered at the sudden increase in cold. The four made it to the shop by the time they made it inside the snow fall became a blizzard.
"Man I have never seen it this bad" Jake said looking out the window as they shook the snow off them selves. "If this keeps up I'm going to spend my 14th birthday tomorrow snowed in."
"Weird" Al said having removed his mittens and was currently fiddling with his iphone.
"What's so weird" Trixie asked.
"I'm looking at the weather and there's no prediction of a blizzard" Al said.
"Yeah but the weather men are always wrong" Trixie responded.
"It's not the weather men it's the conditions," Al started to explain. "These conditions shouldn't make a blizzard. To add I'm looking at the weather all over the state and this city is the center of the cold weather and the cold weather is spreading out over the map."
"Yep the definitely qualifies as weird" Jake said.
"Jake" his grandfather's voice called from the back.
Jake sighted and slumped his shoulders and walked to the back followed by his friends.
"What is it" Jake asked.
"It's on every channel. This weather is completely un-natural" Fu said who was seated in front of the TV.
"Yeah well Al bet you to the punch, he's already filled us in on the whole weather out of whack thing" Jake informed.
"This weather can only be magical in origin" LS said.
"We figured that out got anything else" Jake said.
"Not really" Fu responded translating LS's silence.
"But if what they say in less then a week all the country will be like it is above the Arctic Circle. And the source of the weather is most likely somewhere in the city and once we find the source we can stop it" LS said.
"Great and where do we find the source we don't exactly have a starting point" Jake informed.
"Okay I think the best bet for the source would be the center of the blizzard and according to the images and data I up loaded it's the statue of liberty" Spud said looking at his laptop screen.
"And there you go" Fu said.
"Well let's go" Trixie said with enthusiasm.
"No way you look outside lately it's a storm out there" Jake said. "It's going to be hard enough for me and gramps to get through."
"So back to the side lines for the sidekicks" Trixie said.
"Let's go young one, Fu" LS said transforming getting ready to leave.
"What, do you really need me, I mean like you said it's a storm" Fu tried but LS wasn't letting him off.
The two dragons left with the dog while the elf and humans stayed behind.
"You know I'm kinda glad we're not going that weather looks nasty" Spud said looking out the window.
The two were having a hell of a time flying through the storm and Fu was having a hell of time staying on the blue dragon. The wind whipped hard and the heavy snow fall pretty much blinded the two reptiles. The worst was the cold, in their dragon form they were more affected by it.
True there were dragons that lived in countries with cold climates but those dragons had lived there all their life's had a way to internally conserve heat and keep the core body temps up. But LS lived in (non-mountain areas of) China most his life and Jake was raised in New York neither of which had ever had this cold of weather.
As they finally made it to the patch of land the stature had been built on the two could no longer take the cold and turned back to human at landing.
The three, even Fu, were bundled up their warmest winter wear but they still felt the cold as their current position was the center of the storm and the coldest place.
"Okay we're here but where's the cause of all this" Jake said as he shivered.
"I'd say it's whatever's up there" Fu said pointing to the torch.
A bright blue light was coming from it and the storm clouds swirled around it like a cyclone.
"Let's take care of this quickly" LS said hating the cold as much as Jake was.
The two transformed again flying up toward the torch but they were half way there when a strong wind hit them slamming them back to the ground.
"That's was unexpected" Jake said pulling his face out of the snow.
"I'd know some one show up to stop me soon" a voice said.
There was a sudden swirl of snow and a woman's figure appeared. Her hair was snow white as was her dress that was speckled with ice blue snow flakes. Her eyes were solid white but even more unusual was her skin was blue like she'd frozen.
"Hm two dragons and their dog" she said looking them over. "Can't stand my cold?"
"I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say you're responsible for the weather we've been having" Jake said standing up and trying his hardest not have his teeth chatter.
"You would be correct," she answered. "Why young dragon is it not to your liking?"
"No! And why are you doing this and who are you" Jake demanded.
"I'm Zar but more importantly I'm one of the few survivors of an ancient race" Zar said. "My race has gone by many names winter witches, arctic fairies, but what ever name we were called it didn't matter because we practically ruled the world during the ice age. But then it ended and the earth began to heat up and we had to leave to the coldest places on earth we could find. But even then our race was slowing dying out."
"So let me guess you're trying to make another ice age" Jake said.
"A smart one aren't you" Zar replied.
"But I got too asked how" Fu said.
"O simple I placed a power ice crystals in strategic places all over the world. Amplified by my own power the crystals are much stronger and can reach further. This crystal in the torch is just the first to activate once it's storm reaches it's full size it will cause all the others in the surrounding areas to activate and it will continue like that till all the crystals in the world are activated sending the world into its second ice age and my race will rule the world again" Zar explained.
"Not if we stop you" Jake responded.
"Good luck, the only way to stop the crystals is to destroy me, but that's not happening" Zar said as she waved a hand and a great wind blew.
Jake, LS and Fu crouched down so not to be blown back by the wind. Once it stopped Jake and LS went forward to fight.
Zar kept blowing them back with cold wind and shooting off ice attacks. The cold was taking a toll on the two and they reverted back to human their dragon forms defeated by the cold.
"Ha you thought you two reptiles could stop me" Zar laughed then sent another powerful wind sending LS and Jake back a few feet planting them in the snow.
Jake was so angry and frustrated that he subconscious reached into his well of power and brought forth his inner fire that was the source of his fire bending abilities.
Suddenly fire erupted from his hands melting all the snow in a five foot radius.
LS who was woozy from the cold was brought into more awareness as he felt a radiating heat. He looked to see Jake standing in battle stance with fire coming from his hands.
Zar stopped her laughing and realized her mission was about to become a lot harder and also got into battle stance. With a quick stare down the two went at it. Jake using every fire attack move while Zar used every winter related attack she had. The two were going at it like you couldn't imagine.
Fu and LS were so stunted by what they were seeing that they just stood there watching mouths agape.
In dragon history it was said that a long time ago sometime while Rome was still at its height 7 ancient dragons had the ability to bend fire the original fire benders. These 7 were the ones to teach the fire elemental elves to also control fire. They say the descendents of those 7 also inherited the ability but as time went on the bloodline became more diluted. The ability was eventually lost to descendents and the family tree of the blood line was lost to the sands of time.
To think that Jake was a descendent of a long lost blood line and had an ability also that to have long ago been lost was nothing short of amazing. It also brought a sense of pride to LS even if the blood may not be from his side but from his dearly departed wife's side of the family.
Zar and Jake were continuing there fight the heat of Jake's fire weakening Zar and in turn the cold from Zar's ice and wind attacks were weakening Jake. They were at a stale mate.
"You can keep going but in another two minutes it won't matter" Zar gloated.
Even Jake's most advance fire attacks couldn't bring this fight to end in the time he had to. Jake was going to try a move that he'd been trying to perfect for weeks but had yet to successfully pull it off, this was to be his one last ditch effort.
Jake took in a deep breath and focused on the positive and negative energy that was flowing around him. He used his chi to pull apart the two when they were pulled as far as they need be Jake let go. The two were coming at each other full force and at the moment of impact Jake directed the power forward straight at Zar.
The result was Zar being hit right in the chest with a bolt of lightning. The attack greatly injured her while also knocking her unconscious. The storm weakened and only made it to the coast line of New York now that Zar wasn't awake to use her powers to amplify it.
To be safe Jake repeated the action but this time aiming at the crystal in the torch. The lightning attack shattered the crystal and the strange weather and cold ended.
~Back at the shop~
"They must have done it" Trixie yelled looking out the window at the storm less city.
"O good old sun" Spud said seeing the sun appear as the clouds vanished.
"Everything clear and back to normal with the weather center" Al added looking at his iphone.
Now that the fight was over Jake dropped to his knees the whole ordeal took a lot out of him. LS and Fu ran over to Jake to keep him from falling face first into the quickly melting snow, now that the temp was in the 40's.
Zar slowly rose to her hands and knees.
"You little reptile" she hissed. "How dare you do this to me, to my plans."
All three looked at Zar; it appeared as if she were beginning to melt.
Her race couldn't live in places were the temp reaches above freezing for long and since she was so badly injured she couldn't last more than a few minutes.
"Curse you" Zar said than the next minute was basically a puddle.
"Well done young one" LS said helping Jake back to his feet.
"I guess I got some explaining to do too" Jake weakly said.
"Most definitely" LS answered.
Jake told his grandfather the whole story as he flew the exhausted teen home.
"So a few elemental elves, Fu and I are currently the only ones who know" LS asked as they landed on the roof.
"Yeah now" Jake said.
"Well young one lets try and keep it that way for now" LS said turning back to human.
Jake didn't know why his grandfather seemed so keen on keeping this a secret but he was fine with keeping it as such and didn't question him.
"And what do you want for your 14th birthday tomorrow" LS asked Jake as they were leaving the roof.
"Sleep" Jake answered, "And maybe a new skateboard."
LS had his reason to keep such a thing a secret. He was already certain there was a mole in the council informing the dark dragon whether the rest of council would admit it or not. LS was going to use what he knew about Jake as their ace in the hole.
A/N I'm sorry it wasn't exactly a birthday bash but I needed LS to find out about Jake's little ability his party will be the next chapter, the whole fight took up more space then I intendeds so I cut off before the party with is a short chapter.