A Dragon's Crimson Cry
By: Tippi
A/N I'm happy to present you with the next chapter and I hope you had a happy 4th of July for those of you in the U.S.
Ch 101 Undercover in the Academy
In Fillmore middle school it was 7 days till the school's fall dance and everyone was looking for a date before pickings got slim, Spud included.
"Are you sure about this Spud" Jake asked as the four walked with their trays to their usual table
"Yeah, I mean mama Trixie is always ready to help you out" Trixie offered.
"No that's okay Spud is going to find his own date for the dance" Spud said as they set their trays down. "Werewolf Spud is on the prowl" Spud said giving a howl.
"That is the worst werewolf howl I've heard and the White's pack lives four mansion down from us with a tone deft son and uncle" Al informed.
"So who you going for" Jake asked ignoring Al's remark.
"Hm there so many to choose from. There are the jocks, the nerds, the motor heads, the Goths…" Spud went on and on as the other three got to eating their lunch. "I guess I'll just cast out my line and see what's biting."
Spud tried to make small talk with every girl that walked by getting the same 'no' answer from every girl. Spud slumped back to the table defeated.
Later at their lockers…
"Don't worry Spud I'm sure there's plenty of girls that would love to go to the dance with you" Jake tried.
"Absoulty the girls on the lower end of the social ladder are desperate" Al explained.
Jake shot him a glance.
"What too much" Al asked.
"I know it's Trixie I'm worried about, me not asking her to the dance is like going to be the biggest tragedy of her life" Spud said.
"Something tells me she's going to be fine because the good looking rescue crew has just arrived" Al said pointing behind Spud.
Spud tuned around to see Kyle Wilkins handing off a rose to Trixie.
Trixie walked up to the boys and said "I'm going to the dance with Kyle Wilkins; he is fine like lemon lime in the summer time."
"She's crying in the inside" Spud tried to convince himself.
"So who you going with Jake" Trixie asked.
"I think… I'll just go with myself" Jake admitted.
"Dude there is no Shame in going alone as long as you have fun but something tells me you're not, so just say the word and I'll have the two us with a hot babe for each of us" Al said going for his wallet in his pocket.
"You can't use money for every girl you date, their just dating for the money" Trixie said.
"This isn't so much a date as just a one night companion for a dance. If it were an actual date that I'm looking for maybe a longer relationship than one night, then all bills are off the table and in my wallet" Al explained.
"Okay as long as we got that cleared, now about you Jake" Trixie said turning to Jake.
"Come on man there's got to be someone you want to go with" Spud said.
"No not really" Jake said looking at Rose's picture in his locker before slamming it closed.
Jake jumped back as the oracle twins suddenly appeared next to him.
"Sara, Kara" Jake exclaimed.
"Yo it's those freaky oracle twins that see into the future" Trixie said.
"Yeah that's part of being oracles" Al said. "And by the way girls love the individual look with the dyed hair and night and day outfits."
"Thanks and sorry about your gold fish going belly up" Sara said.
"No, Mr. Flipper" Al said crying into his hands.
"Dude it's a fish" Trixie said rolling her eyes.
"I've had that fish for ten years he's been my only friend through my toured childhood of abuse and ridicule from all the kids at my past schools" Al explained still with tears in his eyes.
Kara just huffed and said "Sara had vision.
"How bad are we talking here" Jake asked.
"Go ahead tell him it's your vision" Kara said.
"Don't let it ruin your day or anything but the huntsclan is putting together a plan to rid the world of all magical creatures, o and you're going to get a big zit next week" Sara said.
"Forget about ruining our day more like our lives" Al yelled the news making him forget about his gold fish.
~At the shop later~
"The vision doesn't have any pacifies" Sara said trying to concentrate on what she saw. "There's a circle of skulls, magical creatures screaming in agony, and O I just love the colors of this rug."
"See it's just like Rose told me in my dream, the huntsclan is planning something big" Jake exclaimed. "What about you Kara aren't you suppose to see the good stuff."
"Okay I see girls fighting over Spud" Kara started.
"Really, tell me more" Spud said.
"And I see you coming up with a plan to capture a member of the huntsclan and it works" Kara said.
"Capture a member of the huntsclan, is that possible" Jake asked.
"Well I've been working on a little something that just might do the trick" Fu informed.
~In the park~
Fu set up three technological poles with orbs in a triangle.
"You know how the huntsclan can teleport from place to place, theoretically it's possible to intercept their teleportation beams and catch one" Fu explained as he turned on the computer screen on the prime pole. "The only problem is they're encrypted in a huntsclan code."
"Here let me plug in" Spud said coming forward and plugging his laptop to the prime pole accessing the data.
"The dragon conical has been working on hundreds of years to break the code it maybe impossible…" LS said before he was interrupted.
"Yeah I'm in" Spud said from behind them. "It's pretty tricky but I found a back door someone forgot to close."
"Way to go Spud" Jake said.
"You the man" Trixie added.
"I'm impressed" Al said.
"Wait I'm locking onto something" Spud said as his laptop started to beep and he typed in something.
A green beam connected the three orbs there was a puff and in the middle of the triangle was a little black kitten.
"Aw look at the cute…" Trixie said before all of them screamed as it transformed into a cat-octopus mutant.
"Oops that was a typo" Spud said as the mutant grabbed Jake and Trixie in its tentacles, Al jumped just in time to miss the tentacle meant for him.
"Uh Spud" Jake yelled; Fu was then grabbed by the mutant himself.
"Hey potato boy" Fu yelled.
"Okay defiantly a huntsclan teleportation signal" Spud said hitting the button.
A large puff of black smoke appeared and the trio dropped to the ground now that the mutant was gone.
"Prepare for battle young one" LS said to Jake and they both turned dragon.
The smoke cleared to show two boys dressed in huntsclan uniforms.
"89 we here" the shorter of the two asked.
"Must be 88" the taller one said. "I am so wicked psyched to slay my first dragon."
"I heard that, I'm going to be all like, yo what's up fool, and going to be all like, no spar me mighty 88, and I'm gonna yah and pow and then I'm…" 88 narrated until he and his friend walked right into the two waiting dragons.
"D…d…dragons" yelled 89 as both took off ruing like chickens with their heads cut off.
"Mama, mama" 88 screamed before the two ran into each other knocking both of them out.
"O wait till I tell everyone about this it is going to be the funniest huntsclan encounters ever" Al laughed then stopped. "It's going to be one of the few funny huntsclan encounters ever" Al admitted.
The group dragging the two unconscious boys to the shop and locked them up in an energy cage.
"Who are these clowns" Jake asked.
"They seem to be huntsclan trainees" LS answered.
"Some of the worst if you ask me" Al added.
"Their teleportation beam was going to take them here" Spud said finishing his typing and turning the screen to show everyone some sort of map.
"A huntsclan training facility up state" Fu said. "Nice place lots of parking."
"There's also a central mainframe but I can only access it there at the source" Spud informed.
"Accessing that computer may be our only chance to figure out what the huntsclan is planning but it will involve some dangerous undercover work" LS said.
Next thing you know Jake and Spud were spray painting dragon shaped birthmarks on and suiting up in huntsclan uniforms. They all stood on the roof with the teleportation device set up.
"I think this is a bad idea," Al was saying looking at the two. "I mean a dragon in a school full of students training to kill dragons."
"We have little choice" LS said. "Spud must go to access the computer and Jake must go to protect him and without two showing up the huntsclan may have suspicions."
"Unless you'd like to switch places" Jake asked.
"O no I'm sure elemental elf is what they use for a warm up before dragons, good luck man" Al answered.
"This should put you in the same teleportation beam the two were in when we intercepted them" Fu said setting the controls.
"Get in, get the information, and get out quickly, I to wish you good luck" LS said.
"Spud I just want you to know…I'm going to the dance with Kyle Willcons. I can't believe the realness of that, I can't say that enough" Trixie bragged.
"Okay kids blast off time" Fu said activating the device.
"Are you sure this is safe" Spud asked as the beams started up.
"Sure I'm sure, unless you're wearing aluminum underwear" Fu answered.
"Huh" Spud said looking down at his pants.
In a puff of black smoke they were gone. Jake and Spud reappeared on a round platform in what they could only assume was the huntsclan training school but before they could think further an authoritative voice yelled at them.
"Number 88, 89 you two maggots are two hours late" a female huntsclan member wearing a dragon skull yelled at them and then grabbed them by the wrists.
"Now run, run, run" she said pushing them into the beginning of a dangerous obstacle course.
With no other choices the two ran it.
"Let me hear the primary objective of the huntsclan now" she yelled as she whipped them from behind using a green energy whip.
"To rid the earth of all magical creatures" Jake and Spud yelled.
Jake and Spud made it through the course but got their clothes shredded off and their faces planted in mud.
"Welcome to the huntsclan academy" she said in a clam voice. "You're late for class" she then yelled.
Later Jake and Spud found themselves full clothed in a classroom with a teacher giving a lesson on dragon hunting and slaying.
You could sense Jake uneasiness, on the way to the classroom Jake would tense every time they passed an adult member of the huntsclan and he had to take a few deep breaths to hold off a panic attack. Spud couldn't blame him but he, and Jake, were both worried he'd slip and blow their cover.
The teacher with a metal arm, dragon skull and monocle talked and drew a picture as he told the class a dragon can be tracked from the putrid scent given off form under their wings.
"Yeah I know and their goofy haircuts" Spud yelled form the back of the classroom.
"Spud shut it" Jake said through clinched teeth.
"You 88 front and center, I need a dragon" the teacher said pointing at Jake.
Jake made way to obvious attempt to deflect suspicion and prove he was a huntsclan student.
"I need you to play the part of a dragon for a demonstration" the teacher said.
"O sure I'll just pretend to be a dragon" Jake said coming up to the front of the classroom.
"Class you are about to watch a demonstration from my assistant on how to slay a dragon. Someone who has faced dragons before, huntsgirl Thorn" the teacher yelled.
Thorn came in doing a few acrobats to the front of the class and grabbed Jake. She threw Jake to the ground on his back while he was distracted with seeing Rose again after so long.
"Lesson one never let your guard down" Thorn said rising her weapon. "Dragons are heavily armored around the back and head you want to go for the soft under belly."
Being exposed in an venerable position in front of an adult huntsclan member and apprentice, even if it was Rose, scarred Jake but he used his coping mechanism of joking.
"Hey that's all muscles down there baby" Jake said.
"Dragons also have another weak spot" Thorn said ignoring Jake.
"O I know" Spud said raising his hand. "Behind the left ear right. That's why they're such babies when you flick them behind the ear at the food stand when they are taking too long to decide between…" Spud ranted until he caught a shut it look form Jake.
"I mean that's what I heard and read in books and stuff" Spud covered.
"Right 89" Thorn informed. "A direct blow behind the ear will result in death" Thorn continued lifting Jake to his feet by his ear. "And one more thing never show a dragon mercy, never" Thorn said as she walked out.
Later that night in a huntsclan academy dorm room Spud opened the window and pick up his laptop as the two talked.
"I don't believe it, Rose is here" Jake said.
"And she's teaching a class on how to carve up dragons like a Thanksgiving turkey" Spud informed.
"That's part of the unbelievable part" Jake said. "She let me go and somehow got into my dream to warn my. Why would she do that if she's crossed over the dark side?"
"We can't trust her besides dude we're not here to do the whole broken love connection thing, we're here to uncover the bad guy's master plan" Spud reminded.
"You're right lets do this, I don't want to spend more time then I have to" Jake admitted.
Jake and Spud had snuck their way into the master control room.
"There that's where I need to plug in" Spud said pointing to an open port under a large computer screen.
Jake gave a shiver as every level of the room was crawling with huntsclan members and there was a lot of open space between their hiding spot and the port.
They ducked down as a guard walked their way.
"We've gotta…" Jake got out before he was thrown to the floor by Thorn.
She pulled off his mask.
"Hey Rose" Jake said not able to think of anything else to say.
"Jake" Thorn exclaimed.