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Please note that Jake has never actually met the Dark Dragon as Jake Long, in this life he only heard of him and saw his statue in the great hall on Draco Island. I got some PM'S asking about how to pronounce Cienna's name so here it is; Cienna (See- N- ah)
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Jake's POV

I was sitting alone, thinking about all that has happened the last few days. This is why I'm here, She's the reason. I never thought that I would be more than the American Dragon, that's a big title in itself, and now I'm suppose to kill the Dark Dragon... my father. The thought of me being his son sends chills down my spine and makes me nauseous. I turned to see Cienna walking down the path to where I'm sitting, I scooted over on the log I was sitting on and motioned her to sit next to me. She sat next to me and we sat in silence for a few minutes, I soon noticed that she's a bit shy despite our first impressions of each other. She turned to me,

"I'll leave to go to the states with you." She said shakily, obviously not for the idea of leaving eveything behind.

"Are you sure thats what you want?" I asked, oddly quiet. She looked at me for a few seconds and looked down,

"It's what I have to do." She muttered. I placed my hand on her shoulder comfortingly, "It's OK" I said simply, she nodded and I removed my hand from her shoulder and changed the subject,

"What did you see? In the river."

"I saw a lot of things..." she started, trying to remember... or forget.

"Start from the beginning." I encouraged.

"I was sitting by the water with your grandfather, he asked if I wanted to go back with you. When he left I saw someone standing on the other side of the river..." She told me her story and what she saw. I don't remember that one. She sat embarrased,

"I saw the woman too." I said turning to her, she found comfort in the fact that she wasn't the only one to see Claws. It was my turn to tell her what I saw, leaving out some details after all, what girl wants to know you dreamt of her and she was dead in a pool of blood. Romantic, way to set a mood. When I finished we sat for a while thinking about what we just heard from eachother. I stood up and announced,

"We should go tell Gramps so we could get going." She nodded and took my extended hand.

"Thanks, Jake" she said,

"Thank you for sharing" I replied with a smile. She smiled back and we headed back towards Gramps and the others.

Cienna's POV

We packed up and got ready to leave, a sudden wave of anxiety hit me, "I can't fly." Jake and Lao Shi looked at each other considering the possible dilemma.

"...We could run back, G" Jake suggested, I could run pretty fast in my dragon form but I'm not sure how long it would take to run to New York. He continued,

"I could run with her and bring Trixie and Spud, you could fly up ahead and bring Fu." He seemed set on running, I think his back was sore.

"If you insist. I'd rather Fu was with Cienna though." Lao accepted hestitantly.

"Alright. Lets head out" Jake morphed into his dragon form, he was a deep but bright red western styled dragon with green spikes running down his back and tail. His claws were blue-gray and he was fairly musclular in his upper body, overall quite impressive.

I had diffuculties transforming myself but I eventually made it with some instruction (pretty embarrasing!), I felt very selfconscience of myself (a scraggly weak dragon) next to them (not so scraggly). Jake had Trixie and Spud on his back and Fu jumped on mine. Now that I thought about it, I haven't really spoken to Trixie or Spud since I met them, they were probably given the stay-away from Lao Shi or Jake until I was considered "not a threat".

We set off through the woods, Jake was in front and was effectively dodging trees, I on the other hand, not so much. Everytime I scraped a tree or branch Fu would clutch to the back of my neck and hide to avoid getting another branch to the face. We got into a clearing and Fu yelled at Jake and I to stop. I noticed that I was scraped all over and Fu wasn't much different. Lao Shi landed and Jake did a slow U-turn and walked up to us.

"Is there anyway we can avoid the trees for a while?" He asked while picking twigs out of his rolls and fur.

"Oh, sure! Why don't we take the highway!" Jake said sarcastically, Fu slid off my back and walked over to Lao Shi

"Sorry kid, I'm gonna travel with Gramps for a bit." I felt humiliated and I guess it showed,

"Don't worry..." Jake said to me with a kind smile, "...I ran INTO the trees." He and his friends started to laugh at the memories, even Lao Shi was amused at the thought of his young grandson running into a tree. We turned towards the trees and saw something emerge from the end of the field, thinking it was a human Jake, Lao Shi and I quickly turned back into our human forms, dropping Trixie and Spud.

Jake's POV

I couldn't tell what was coming out of the woods, we can't be too close to anything public, I would hear it! As it got closer a few others emerged from about the same area it exited.

"Come now children, lets get out of its way." Gramps herded nervously. As he led Trixie, Spud and Cienna out of the way I made sure whatever it was didn't attack us while our backs were turned. As they got closer I could identify them by their scent... Goblins. There was something wrong with them though, they were mutated somehow (aside from the fact that they had wings), one noticed me and started running towards our group. There are too many of us to cover! Instead of attacking I turned into my dragon form, threw Trixie and Spud onto my back and ran. Cienna quickly got the hint and morphed too, she followed behind us for a bit, I didn't want to go too fast in case she couldn't keep up but I didn't want to compromise my friends. I quickly saw a troll's dugout home and banged on the door as loudly as I could. An older troll opened the door,

"I'm the American Dragon and I need you to look after these humans for me!" I rushed, the troll nodded comprehensively,

"I understand, they'll be safe with me." She pulled my friends through the door, Trixie yelled,

"Yo, Jakie, don't...!" the door slammed behind her before she could finish. I turned around to see Cienna panting behind me, the goblins were gaining up on us.

"They aren't that fast so we have the upper hand." I informed her

"What do we do?!" she panicked. She hadn't been trained for something like this without steroids or drugs so doing this sober and untrained would be hard and I haven't gained much experience in my four months, two of which I had on-the-job training. Run was all I could think of... too late. The goblins had caught up to us and were wielding clubs, now almost 10 of them.

Where's Gramps?!

I jumped at them and started to fight them head on, Cienna was attacked by two medium built goblins, she started to fight them strategically... just like me. She's copying me! I decided now would be a good time to show off and deliberately pointed out her weaknesses hoping she would catch on, she did. Soon she had gotten through her attackers and was fighting next to me, we fought them all and were down to our last goblin before Gramps decided to show up.

Gramps POV

Jake and Cienna had cleared almost all the goblins before I found them, where were Trixie and Spud? I landed behind my students and they retreated behind me, obviously tired now. I finished off the last one and he fled (not that there was anything left in him), exhausted, the two youth layed down breathless.

"Where are Trixie and Spud?" I asked urgently, as if on qeue Trixie and Spud ran out of a Troll dugout,

"Jakie!," yelled Trixie, peeved, "Whats wrong with you bro?! You just decided to ditch us with some random troll..."

"You could've died Trixie, I needed you out of the way so you'd be safe." Jake snapped at her still on the ground

"Who were they?" Spud finally spoke out

"They were Apalachian goblins" I informed him. Cienna got up and was followed by Jake,

"I would have been overwhelmed if it weren't for Cienna, she learns fast!" Jake was apparently gracious in having backup and was excited at her performance, I wanted to know how she could fight as well as he said she did "without any training". Something felt odd about her, maybe I underestimated her abilities. But how could she have fought off those goblins? How did Jake fight off those goblins?

We recollected ourselves and started with our old pattern, Cienna was travelling alone this time.