Post by The Pantheon Dragon on Dec 21, 2005 6:15:32 GMT -5
OK dudes,it's only going to get more suspenseful from here.Hope you're up to it!^_^
Deception:framed or aimed
Jake held his breath,as him and Rose teleported in front on the Eiffel Tower.Releasing it slowly,he turned to face it and looked at Rose out of the corner of his eye.I hope she's right about this,he thought sanguinely,putting all his trust in her at that moment,Or else...
"Come on,"Rose interupted his thoughts,striding over towards the monumential landmark with an air of perseverance hanging over her.
"Um...Rose?"Jake started to say unsurely,"I hope you realize that there's nothing to walk into here,"he began to feel more uncertain now,"Right?"
"Jake,you're a Magical,shape-shifting,fire-breathing,flying lizard who's probabley seen even more Magical things then I ever had or will,"she told him in a voice that seemed somewhere in the middle of the Rose he knew/huntsgirl,but her eyes remained focused particularly under the Tower's long,four legs,"Plaining and simple,there's a special,invisible doorway under the Eiffel Tower that we go through to get there."
"Well,that sure makes things a lot more understandable."
With no more words exchanged,they both started to make thier way towards the first set of legs holding the gigantic structure up.Jake braced him,as him and Rose got further under it and just as Rose reached out and appeared to be grabbing something,she froze up.With her out-stretched arm and hand grasping an invisible knob,she started to grow strangely quiet and Jake thought she was starting to quaver slightly.
"Rose,"He inquired her softly,putting a hand on her arm,"Rose,what's wrong?"but a thought crossed his mind and he let it out before he could remember and retain it,"Are you afraid what you're Uncle will think?"
But to Jake's surprise,instead of acting all weird like she had been whenever he brought up Rose's past,she only nodded her head slowly and steadily.However,when he tried questioning her further,Rose only shrugged and continued into a pitch-black hallway.When she turned to see Jake standing there dumbfoundedly,she wasted no time in grabbing him by the arm and dragging him in,while also slamming the door shut.
"Why's it so dark in here?"Jake asked curiously,his voice reverberating off the darkened walls of the seemingly endless hallway,"Oh!Dragon-ump!"
Rose slapped a hand on his mouth and halted him when he was just about mid-way to dragoning up.Glancing around frantically,she quickly moved backwards,one hand still clamped to Jake's mouth and the other one pulling on his arm along,into a small room with a small sputtering light bulb threatening to burn out.There,Rose got to work unlatching an air vent.
"You see,"She started to tell him as she was in the midst of her task,"This hallway leads to different rooms for different events,known as the Great HuntsClan Hall and the biggest room to show off expensive and rare Magical creatures is at the end of the hall,so..."she gave a small grunt as she lifted the heavy metal frame down from it's place in the ceiling and continued before climbing up by saying,"And there's a few members of the clan with super sensitive hearing,so not that you're little 'Dragon up!' warcry isn't offical and all.But you might want to keep it on the downlow,that is,until we manage to get down this vent and in there."
"So,"Jake began to smirk a little,"You're going againist you're clan to help me out,when just about a week or so ago,you would have destroyed me?"but his smirk vanished and he questioned her seriously,"Rose..."
"No time,"she cut him off,as the two of them scampered on hands and knees down the long vent way,twisting and turning this way and that.
Jake could just barely make out her figure making unexpected halts,turns and moves,but that's when Jake remembered something very important.He could see in the dark!So,murmuring the words "Eye of the Dragon,under his breath lightly.His eyes lighted up a green color and he soon could follow Rose without much more problem most of the way.
"Alright,where here."Rose said after a while,as she moved to the opposite side of the lighted vent going down into some metal room,"This is it."
"Hmm...Ear of the Dragon,"Jake whispered to himself in a hushed voice,as he tilted his head downwards and stuck his long ear of one of the air slits,as his Dragon sense of sound quickly picked up the conversation.
"Was it an easy task,Huntsmaster?"Jake heard someone ask eagerly.
"Well,"The deep,eerie voice that belonged to Huntsmaster began to sigh vauntingly,"We did have to out-wait that silly fortress that the American Dragon set up,but after that we had not much differculty,"he chuckled somewhat darkly,before continueing,"That dense Dragon,it was so easy to snatch the Phoenix when it was fast asleep and unaware of anything!"
"Dense!"Jake blurted out angerily and was about ready to bust out of the vent,when Rose jumped on top of him and held him down.
"What was that?"Huntsmaster said instantaneously,rising to his feet from the long table he and a few others were sitting at,pointing his staff at every given direction,"Hmm,"he murmured with amusement and then turned to the 3 other members,"Go and cut off all ways out of GHH,now!"
Jake and Rose watched the three of them nod with a jolt of energy and quickly make thier way out to inform others of Huntsmaster's order.Although he turned in the way of the vent,he didn't make any moves or advancement towards,instead he only chuckled a bit and headed out a sepearate door then the others.But soon the sound of a blaring alarm went off and Rose lead the way to where she thought the Phoneix might be.
"Dense,"Jake repeated hotly,"I'm about to bust out some moves on that Uncle of yours and show him what a real 'dense' Dragon can do to him!"
"I'm not going to say that was the most stupiest thing I have ever heard;but I am going to say that you need to handle yourself better even when being inadvertently called something,"She told him as they made thier way down into deeper part of the air passage and finished before he could argue by saying,"It's not going to be as easy as you might think,"she sighed as he seemed to want to hear more,"My Uncle will have this whole room guarded by the best-trained and most realible Huntsclan members in a matter of seconds,there's no way I can defeat them alone."
"You're not alone,remember,"Jake took her hand and yanked up on the vent,"We both have our own destineys and right now my destiney is to help everyone who I can out,"he began to climb down it with his hand still gripping her,as he turned to smile honestly back up at her,"What's yours?"
The sound of footsteps charging down the corridor made it seem even more nerve-wracking for Rose to decide.But as they drew near,the thoughts and memmories that she tried to ignore of her and Jake before this whole ordeal surfaced.And although she tried to block them because she was tooafraid to face the reality of what it was then and now,she knew that she had to give her fear a rest and do what needed to be done.
"The same as yours at the moment,"she told him all of a sudden,dropping down into the room with Jake's hand still in her own,"Look there she is!"
Indeed,the Phoenix was standing there rearing up on her back legs threateningly in a fire-proof glass-barred cage.She kept scorching at the bars relentlessly,herdeep blue eyes blazing with a strong and ardent sensation.Jake could feel right away how frightened and despised she was by all of this,like thier was some sort of connection between them.
"We have to get her out of here,"Jake told Rose urgently,starting to make his way over to her cage,"She's been away to long from her eggs,"he paused and then turned to look at her earnestly,"They won't last long without her,we need to get her back to them as soon as possible."
Rose nodded,"I get it,"but she frowned deeply,"But it's fire proof and I'm not all too sure on how to access this kind of trap...that is...unless."
"Unless what?"Jake urged her on hastily.
"Unless this isn't really glass at all,"She crossed over to where Jake was and ran her index finger down one of his slippery bars,"Ah-hah,"she breathed auspiciously,"I knew it,this isn't glass.It's Someanim!"
"Of course,"Jake pretend to laugh,snapping his fingers as if he had known it all along,"Yeah,heh,uh..."he suddenly drew a blank,"What is it?"
"Well,you knowhow there's such thing as fool's gold,"Rose began to explain,examining the white streak on her finger a little closer,"Well,this is almost the same.It's made to look like real glass,but it's nearly 50 times stronger and stands resistent to all types of fire-related elements."
"Then whatcan penetrate it?"
"If you can break something that's 50 times morestronger then ordinary glass,then I think you can pull it off,"Rose told him somewhat flatly.
"Baby,I was born for this kind of job."Jake boasted coolly,as he morphed into his Dragon form and started to curl his claw back in for a punch.
"In here!"someone shouted from the hallway,"I heard someone in here."
"Jake!Quick!Get the Phoe-"Suddenly,Huntsmaster appeared from behind and startled her enough to make her shriek in a startled voice,she shallowed hard and then gasped breathlessly,"Huntsmaster...I..."
"Good work,my dear."He interjected calmly,giving no hint that he felt betrayed by his niece,"You have done just as we planned,right...?"
"Planned!"Jake snapped precipitously,confusion rising,"What PLAN?"
"Why,"Huntsmaster continued on,clamping a hand over Rose's mouth to keep her from protesting,"The plan we fomulated into getting you here in the first place,"he started to grin at Jake's growing bewilderment,"You see,Dragon.We devised at plan for Huntsgirl aka Rose,to pretend to runaway and then decide upon coming to find you.Then,she was to munipulate you into trusting her and lead you back here as we had already wasted no time in getting one of our most grandest of prizes,the Phoenix and you as well.To put in short,Dragon,you've been taken decieved,betrayed,tooken advantage of,ambushed and now captured!"
"You..."Jake shook his head at Rose in disbelief,"You...lied to me?"
"No!"Rose cried desperately,jerking her Uncle's hand off of her,"No,Jake!I didn't lie to you,"her face turned pale,"He's the one lying!"
"Isn't it so convient,"Huntsmaster pushed her aside and kept on with saying,"That all of this played out so well,you're even more pathetic and guilble then I thought.Sure,I underestimated youoccasionally.But you were just our pawn all along and why...because you were senseless enough to trust one of us,"he shifted his gaze over to an enraged Rose,as she stared back venmously at him,"And that one just happened to be her."
"You really did,"Jake just stood there,as he stared at her blankly and emotionless,"It was the perfect plan and you got me to go through with it."
"Please,Jake!"Rose argued weakly,her eyes brimming with burning tears of hurt and desperation,"Please believe me,"she dropped to her knees and stared at him pleadingly in the eyes,"I had nothing at all to do with this."
Jake was so caught up in what Huntsmaster had said,that he couldn't even hear what she was telling him;he barely even saw her there.Was this the same Rose who had only recently wanted to destroy him and then only by a glimpse of fate,had she seen him for who he was,but maybe not truely was.Not the Jake who had always liked her,not the Jake who had countless times had done his job even though it sometimes held him back and certainly not Jake,the one and only American Dragon.
"I wish I could believe you,"he told her dryly,an empty feeling starting to form inside of him,"But there's...I just don't know who to believe now."
"Jake,"Rose whispered faintly,as some of the members of the Huntsclan took her by the shoulder at Huntsmasters signal and took her away to the another room,but she didn't even seem to notice,all she noticed was Jake.Who in one instant,with no soild concrete evidence had just made a snap decision about the whole dilomia.But,Rose thought grimly,she couldn't help but realize with some bitter realization,that he might be right.But,why did she go back to find him?However,when she tried to awnser that one simple question,too many others floated to the surface.
"Well,Dragon..."Huntsmaster announced a little more upbeat once Rose was out of the way,"It looks like you're time has come,however,I must keep you and the Phoenix around for this little ceremony were having in a few hours.Then,"he grinned wickedly,"You're end is finally fufilled."
"The only end..."Jake muttered quietly,his head lower slightly,"Is you!"he bounded forwards,only to end up being pounced on by about seven clan members,"What the...?Why are you...you...you?Uhh...you're gonna pa..."
As soon as Jake was close enough,Huntsmaster sprayed what appeared to be some sort of sleeping gas out at him from a small pink bottle and ushered them to take him off into one of thier other holding chambers.
"Go,"He wasted no time telling them curtly,as he turned to look at the fire-engulfed bird that seemed to get more menacingand restlessby the minute,"And as soon as that's all out of the way,"he sneered,"I will sell you off on the black market for a fortune and my niece's treason will be resolved through an old method of mine...againist her will to do whatever I ask of her.And that will be,to fufill her destiny and slay her first Dragon."
To Be Continued
Deception:framed or aimed
Jake held his breath,as him and Rose teleported in front on the Eiffel Tower.Releasing it slowly,he turned to face it and looked at Rose out of the corner of his eye.I hope she's right about this,he thought sanguinely,putting all his trust in her at that moment,Or else...
"Come on,"Rose interupted his thoughts,striding over towards the monumential landmark with an air of perseverance hanging over her.
"Um...Rose?"Jake started to say unsurely,"I hope you realize that there's nothing to walk into here,"he began to feel more uncertain now,"Right?"
"Jake,you're a Magical,shape-shifting,fire-breathing,flying lizard who's probabley seen even more Magical things then I ever had or will,"she told him in a voice that seemed somewhere in the middle of the Rose he knew/huntsgirl,but her eyes remained focused particularly under the Tower's long,four legs,"Plaining and simple,there's a special,invisible doorway under the Eiffel Tower that we go through to get there."
"Well,that sure makes things a lot more understandable."
With no more words exchanged,they both started to make thier way towards the first set of legs holding the gigantic structure up.Jake braced him,as him and Rose got further under it and just as Rose reached out and appeared to be grabbing something,she froze up.With her out-stretched arm and hand grasping an invisible knob,she started to grow strangely quiet and Jake thought she was starting to quaver slightly.
"Rose,"He inquired her softly,putting a hand on her arm,"Rose,what's wrong?"but a thought crossed his mind and he let it out before he could remember and retain it,"Are you afraid what you're Uncle will think?"
But to Jake's surprise,instead of acting all weird like she had been whenever he brought up Rose's past,she only nodded her head slowly and steadily.However,when he tried questioning her further,Rose only shrugged and continued into a pitch-black hallway.When she turned to see Jake standing there dumbfoundedly,she wasted no time in grabbing him by the arm and dragging him in,while also slamming the door shut.
"Why's it so dark in here?"Jake asked curiously,his voice reverberating off the darkened walls of the seemingly endless hallway,"Oh!Dragon-ump!"
Rose slapped a hand on his mouth and halted him when he was just about mid-way to dragoning up.Glancing around frantically,she quickly moved backwards,one hand still clamped to Jake's mouth and the other one pulling on his arm along,into a small room with a small sputtering light bulb threatening to burn out.There,Rose got to work unlatching an air vent.
"You see,"She started to tell him as she was in the midst of her task,"This hallway leads to different rooms for different events,known as the Great HuntsClan Hall and the biggest room to show off expensive and rare Magical creatures is at the end of the hall,so..."she gave a small grunt as she lifted the heavy metal frame down from it's place in the ceiling and continued before climbing up by saying,"And there's a few members of the clan with super sensitive hearing,so not that you're little 'Dragon up!' warcry isn't offical and all.But you might want to keep it on the downlow,that is,until we manage to get down this vent and in there."
"So,"Jake began to smirk a little,"You're going againist you're clan to help me out,when just about a week or so ago,you would have destroyed me?"but his smirk vanished and he questioned her seriously,"Rose..."
"No time,"she cut him off,as the two of them scampered on hands and knees down the long vent way,twisting and turning this way and that.
Jake could just barely make out her figure making unexpected halts,turns and moves,but that's when Jake remembered something very important.He could see in the dark!So,murmuring the words "Eye of the Dragon,under his breath lightly.His eyes lighted up a green color and he soon could follow Rose without much more problem most of the way.
"Alright,where here."Rose said after a while,as she moved to the opposite side of the lighted vent going down into some metal room,"This is it."
"Hmm...Ear of the Dragon,"Jake whispered to himself in a hushed voice,as he tilted his head downwards and stuck his long ear of one of the air slits,as his Dragon sense of sound quickly picked up the conversation.
"Was it an easy task,Huntsmaster?"Jake heard someone ask eagerly.
"Well,"The deep,eerie voice that belonged to Huntsmaster began to sigh vauntingly,"We did have to out-wait that silly fortress that the American Dragon set up,but after that we had not much differculty,"he chuckled somewhat darkly,before continueing,"That dense Dragon,it was so easy to snatch the Phoenix when it was fast asleep and unaware of anything!"
"Dense!"Jake blurted out angerily and was about ready to bust out of the vent,when Rose jumped on top of him and held him down.
"What was that?"Huntsmaster said instantaneously,rising to his feet from the long table he and a few others were sitting at,pointing his staff at every given direction,"Hmm,"he murmured with amusement and then turned to the 3 other members,"Go and cut off all ways out of GHH,now!"
Jake and Rose watched the three of them nod with a jolt of energy and quickly make thier way out to inform others of Huntsmaster's order.Although he turned in the way of the vent,he didn't make any moves or advancement towards,instead he only chuckled a bit and headed out a sepearate door then the others.But soon the sound of a blaring alarm went off and Rose lead the way to where she thought the Phoneix might be.
"Dense,"Jake repeated hotly,"I'm about to bust out some moves on that Uncle of yours and show him what a real 'dense' Dragon can do to him!"
"I'm not going to say that was the most stupiest thing I have ever heard;but I am going to say that you need to handle yourself better even when being inadvertently called something,"She told him as they made thier way down into deeper part of the air passage and finished before he could argue by saying,"It's not going to be as easy as you might think,"she sighed as he seemed to want to hear more,"My Uncle will have this whole room guarded by the best-trained and most realible Huntsclan members in a matter of seconds,there's no way I can defeat them alone."
"You're not alone,remember,"Jake took her hand and yanked up on the vent,"We both have our own destineys and right now my destiney is to help everyone who I can out,"he began to climb down it with his hand still gripping her,as he turned to smile honestly back up at her,"What's yours?"
The sound of footsteps charging down the corridor made it seem even more nerve-wracking for Rose to decide.But as they drew near,the thoughts and memmories that she tried to ignore of her and Jake before this whole ordeal surfaced.And although she tried to block them because she was tooafraid to face the reality of what it was then and now,she knew that she had to give her fear a rest and do what needed to be done.
"The same as yours at the moment,"she told him all of a sudden,dropping down into the room with Jake's hand still in her own,"Look there she is!"
Indeed,the Phoenix was standing there rearing up on her back legs threateningly in a fire-proof glass-barred cage.She kept scorching at the bars relentlessly,herdeep blue eyes blazing with a strong and ardent sensation.Jake could feel right away how frightened and despised she was by all of this,like thier was some sort of connection between them.
"We have to get her out of here,"Jake told Rose urgently,starting to make his way over to her cage,"She's been away to long from her eggs,"he paused and then turned to look at her earnestly,"They won't last long without her,we need to get her back to them as soon as possible."
Rose nodded,"I get it,"but she frowned deeply,"But it's fire proof and I'm not all too sure on how to access this kind of trap...that is...unless."
"Unless what?"Jake urged her on hastily.
"Unless this isn't really glass at all,"She crossed over to where Jake was and ran her index finger down one of his slippery bars,"Ah-hah,"she breathed auspiciously,"I knew it,this isn't glass.It's Someanim!"
"Of course,"Jake pretend to laugh,snapping his fingers as if he had known it all along,"Yeah,heh,uh..."he suddenly drew a blank,"What is it?"
"Well,you knowhow there's such thing as fool's gold,"Rose began to explain,examining the white streak on her finger a little closer,"Well,this is almost the same.It's made to look like real glass,but it's nearly 50 times stronger and stands resistent to all types of fire-related elements."
"Then whatcan penetrate it?"
"If you can break something that's 50 times morestronger then ordinary glass,then I think you can pull it off,"Rose told him somewhat flatly.
"Baby,I was born for this kind of job."Jake boasted coolly,as he morphed into his Dragon form and started to curl his claw back in for a punch.
"In here!"someone shouted from the hallway,"I heard someone in here."
"Jake!Quick!Get the Phoe-"Suddenly,Huntsmaster appeared from behind and startled her enough to make her shriek in a startled voice,she shallowed hard and then gasped breathlessly,"Huntsmaster...I..."
"Good work,my dear."He interjected calmly,giving no hint that he felt betrayed by his niece,"You have done just as we planned,right...?"
"Planned!"Jake snapped precipitously,confusion rising,"What PLAN?"
"Why,"Huntsmaster continued on,clamping a hand over Rose's mouth to keep her from protesting,"The plan we fomulated into getting you here in the first place,"he started to grin at Jake's growing bewilderment,"You see,Dragon.We devised at plan for Huntsgirl aka Rose,to pretend to runaway and then decide upon coming to find you.Then,she was to munipulate you into trusting her and lead you back here as we had already wasted no time in getting one of our most grandest of prizes,the Phoenix and you as well.To put in short,Dragon,you've been taken decieved,betrayed,tooken advantage of,ambushed and now captured!"
"You..."Jake shook his head at Rose in disbelief,"You...lied to me?"
"No!"Rose cried desperately,jerking her Uncle's hand off of her,"No,Jake!I didn't lie to you,"her face turned pale,"He's the one lying!"
"Isn't it so convient,"Huntsmaster pushed her aside and kept on with saying,"That all of this played out so well,you're even more pathetic and guilble then I thought.Sure,I underestimated youoccasionally.But you were just our pawn all along and why...because you were senseless enough to trust one of us,"he shifted his gaze over to an enraged Rose,as she stared back venmously at him,"And that one just happened to be her."
"You really did,"Jake just stood there,as he stared at her blankly and emotionless,"It was the perfect plan and you got me to go through with it."
"Please,Jake!"Rose argued weakly,her eyes brimming with burning tears of hurt and desperation,"Please believe me,"she dropped to her knees and stared at him pleadingly in the eyes,"I had nothing at all to do with this."
Jake was so caught up in what Huntsmaster had said,that he couldn't even hear what she was telling him;he barely even saw her there.Was this the same Rose who had only recently wanted to destroy him and then only by a glimpse of fate,had she seen him for who he was,but maybe not truely was.Not the Jake who had always liked her,not the Jake who had countless times had done his job even though it sometimes held him back and certainly not Jake,the one and only American Dragon.
"I wish I could believe you,"he told her dryly,an empty feeling starting to form inside of him,"But there's...I just don't know who to believe now."
"Jake,"Rose whispered faintly,as some of the members of the Huntsclan took her by the shoulder at Huntsmasters signal and took her away to the another room,but she didn't even seem to notice,all she noticed was Jake.Who in one instant,with no soild concrete evidence had just made a snap decision about the whole dilomia.But,Rose thought grimly,she couldn't help but realize with some bitter realization,that he might be right.But,why did she go back to find him?However,when she tried to awnser that one simple question,too many others floated to the surface.
"Well,Dragon..."Huntsmaster announced a little more upbeat once Rose was out of the way,"It looks like you're time has come,however,I must keep you and the Phoenix around for this little ceremony were having in a few hours.Then,"he grinned wickedly,"You're end is finally fufilled."
"The only end..."Jake muttered quietly,his head lower slightly,"Is you!"he bounded forwards,only to end up being pounced on by about seven clan members,"What the...?Why are you...you...you?Uhh...you're gonna pa..."
As soon as Jake was close enough,Huntsmaster sprayed what appeared to be some sort of sleeping gas out at him from a small pink bottle and ushered them to take him off into one of thier other holding chambers.
"Go,"He wasted no time telling them curtly,as he turned to look at the fire-engulfed bird that seemed to get more menacingand restlessby the minute,"And as soon as that's all out of the way,"he sneered,"I will sell you off on the black market for a fortune and my niece's treason will be resolved through an old method of mine...againist her will to do whatever I ask of her.And that will be,to fufill her destiny and slay her first Dragon."
To Be Continued