Hello guys, so I know I been dead for 4 years and I have mildly abandoned this site, but this is just a moderate one-shot or attempt to see if it gets enough support since my writing skills have been rusty, I been alright and I re-entered my ADJL phase haha, although here is one PSA, I gotten a lot of PMS offering artistic services and while you are free to draw fanart of my past (very cringe stories) or this one. I am not currently looking to purchase/commission art of my own money, so just wanted to get that out of the way. Now this story is mostly about my Original Character, the Salvadorian born Handyman, Hector Ernesto Melara, the Salvadorian born World Dragon, now I will mostly try to write at least 1-2k words but oh well...might as well try it.
New York. Year 2001.
The bustling city of the big apple as it was its nickname, it was quite a very large city and very active on the surface although upon closer look to the untrained eye there are small rumors of an underground or a secret network of magical beings lurking in every corner in the city, and the protectors of said helpless creatures are dragons, who are sworn to defend the innocent creatures from a magical creature hunter group known as the Huntsclan, although dragons are very expert and are trained vigorously, not every young dragon had the luck of getting their powers when they were around 13 or so years old. Hector knew that, as he was just emerging from his draconic powers appearing when he was around 19 years old, while he had to manage his repair services business, Hector was quite the tinkerer and engineer, who was aware of the dangers of the Huntsclan and the balancing duties he had to at least do to keep the council from interrupting his life since he heard rumors about them, as he wasn't yet introduced to the famed dragon council.
Hector: "Come on...tighten up you loose pipe..!" He said as he then decided to use dragon claws and arm to finally manage to tighten the loose pipe fittings and then he used his magic to turn back his arm to normal. "There we go missus, I fixed the pipe and it should be not leaking anymore...any other repairs you need?" Finishing after he dusted his hands.
The client was impressed with quality of the repair for certain since Hector had the physical abilities of a dragon his repairs were smoothly excellent, after discussing payment and wishing farewell to the tenant of the apartment block, he then bid farewell and walked into an alley and then Hector muttered: "Dragon up!" And he changed to his dragon form carrying his toolkit and toolbelt and proceeded to fly back to his general repair shop. "Man another honest day's work!" - He mumbled.
Hector unfortunately wasn't trained like the rumored American Dragon, or as he head the Amdrag, according to the whispers of his magical clients, apart from offering services to regular humans, he also helped repair general house furniture and fix structural issues with machinery to magical beings as well if they had any urgent issues. One time he remember helping the Gargoyles by reinforcing the statue support at night while repairing the cracks of the concrete, it was sure quite the interesting experience. And thus he made a couple of magical friends and clients along the way.
However while acknowledged he lacked proper martial dragon training he was very proficient once again in technology, mostly he steals Huntsclan weapons and tries to reverse engineer them or find their weaknesses, as its worth mentioning Hector was quite the somewhat unique dragon in terms of his breath and magic capabilities, as he could either breathe fire or lightning but at a reduced strength unlike most single element dragons. While looking for a magical client who requested his services as he went to the fabled Magus Baazar, he went to the location and strangely didn't find anything. Although his wrist device, who he designed to detect huntsclan weapon energy signatures, was starting to beep.
Hector: "Darn it is this a stupid ambush by these guys? Honestly why are these guys so into capturing innocent magical beings?" He said while transforming into his dragon form, trying to hide and see if he fell in an ambush. After waiting for a bit he tried to use his super dragon hearing for any voices and he heard something off, sounded...like a scuffle?
Hector:"Is a fight going on, I might have to take a look and probably assist...who knows maybe its the guy who needed repairs with something..."
After slowly moving into the sound source he saw a red flick of color being tossed across his front view..
Hector muttered quietly: "Wait another dragon in New York? Who is this guy?"
Apparently the dragon he was witnessing get into a tussle was none other that the American Dragon, Jake Long himself, who was getting into a fight with a couple of huntsclan members with his...grandpa and...a Shar-pei? Has Hector only clawed the surface of the magical world and barely knew anything? So many thoughts were going through his head and didn't know what to do.
Hector: "Maybe I can...sneak and try to grab one of the huntsclan weapons while they are not looking...I must be veeeery quiet...I really need more of this.." As soon as he could he sneaked as his best at the rear of and then saw the conclusion of the fight.
Huntsclan 1: "Man this isn't worth it, we are coming back for you American Dragon! You will see and we will get your head as a trophy!"
Huntsclan 2: "Yeah you will see I will...slay...you..?" He said looking for his weapon, then when Jake and the huntsclan guy saw the place where the huntsclan weapon went he saw the purple scales and the Huntsclan members saw it and decided to ditch the attempt to capture a unicorn and ran away. Hector knew he was spotted and he gulped, this is it, he is now known by the American Dragon Himself.
Hector:"H-hey! Don't mind if I take this!" He said grabbing the spear with his clawed hands in his dragon form and tried to fly away however there was another dark blue dragon blocking his path, none other than the Master of Jake himself...Lao-Shi.
Lao: "Ayaaaa where you think your going with that!" He said in a combat pose and Hector definitely knew he could not overcome him in combat or take him on, as soon as he tried to fly to the opposite direction, Jake was blocking him.
Jake: "Yo who are you and what do you plan to do with that weapon!" He said in a similar combat pose analyzing him in every angle.
Hector: "Ay dios.." He muttered as his equivalent of his: "Aw man" Now the Handyman Dragon was in quite a predicament indeed, what will unfold? He needs to think his wording very carefully. Else this could turn into a bad situation. Fortunately Hector did have some tricks up his scaly sleeves...
So...yeah this is mostly gonna be only one chapter unless I get a moderate amount of feedback, I appreciate if you read the whole thing, if this gets enough support I might loosely adapt Hector's position into some existing ADJL season one episodes, and again thank you, I do apologize for being dead, its just I lost my will to write more, but again if I get positive feedback I'll try to continue this but no promises! If your curious of Hector's dragon form it should be the story cover, thank you guys for reading this super short prologe/oneshot? I don't even know what this is tbh. And hopefully you guys have a good one, if you want to know who the artist is who made the cover its a guy named AngeloFalls, go take a gander at his work, he makes fantastic work mimicking eithe season style. Anyways catch you on the flip side.