Post by Atecom on Dec 18, 2005 0:08:53 GMT -5
The following tale is absolutely true and by that I mean that its lies, but they are entertaining lies and in the end is that not the real truth? The answer is no.
Well its been a while, but Here it is the first chapter in an eagerly anticipated (By a cult following of 5 people) sequel to dragons and glory, Long days of fire. I will not be responding to reviews in the story this time, but if there are pressing matters which need to be attended to, I will reply in an e-mail. I will also take more time and care with this story, so I probably won’t be updating as often.
Also be aware that even though this is a sequel you do not have to have read D&G, everything important will be explained here. Well without further stalling I give you the next (and probably last) instalment in the 2 part miniseries.
Chapter 1: 3 Weeks
The city of New York is a busy metropolis in the North East of the United states of America. Of the several places that make up the CBD, the most populace is Manhattan. There is a certain school in Manhattan of which one student has a very different and desirable ability. The student in question can lick his eyeball with his own tongue and would provide his friends with hours of amusement unparalleled to any television show. But there is another student with another, greater gift or power. Depending on the viewpoint, it is either more or less desirable. This student is named Jake Long.
Jake used to have the secret ability to turn into a dragon. While now he still has the ability, it is no longer a secret but this is through no fault of his own. It was three weeks ago today when the world found out about his power and was forced to realise that the supernatural may actually be an existent force in our world.
On that day, 3 weeks ago a group of international terrorists led by German Wilhelm Roentgen and under orders from the Middle East seized control of the Kepler building and took hostages. What they didn’t know is that deep in the vaults in the basement of the building one of the most powerful orbs was being stored. After the terrorists made threats of torching the building, or SWAT going in for a takedown, Jake and his grandfather Lao Shi knew that they had to secretly extract the magical creatures or else they would almost defiantly be found or die. After hatching a plan to get them out and going there, their efforts were hampered by the hunts clan. In the struggle the terrorists caught them and managed to take them hostage and found out that the orb had great powers. Jake managed to get free from the terrorists and what followed was a battle between Jake and the terrorists. Wilhelm grew corrupted by the orb and was driven to the edge of insanity by this dragon who wouldn’t leave him alone. Eventually the hostages rebelled and SWAT intervened, which caused Wilhelm to blow up the building. Wilhelm escaped on his helicopter and Jake pursued him. After Jake lost Wilhelm for a bit he realised that the chopper with Wilhelm and the orb had crashed. Jake got there to find that none other then the dark dragon had taken the orb. He then knocked Jake unconscious and disappeared. (For greater detail of the previous events read Dragons and Glory)
The powerful orb known as the orb of mysticism is said to have such a great power that no mortal could begin to understand the full extent of its abilities. Its easiest use is to use it to tell if a certain being has magical abilities or not. It is a small fragile blue sphere. If you look through it at a magical creature, it turns red. From this we learned that Wilhelm may indeed have magical abilities but what, nobody knows. Another problem with the orb is that it is believed to be able to break very easily. This is a problem as it is a hub and cental storage device for all magic on earth. If it were to break it could destroy every magical creature therefore it is best that it is well protected. Another problem is that it can easily corrupt the people with purest of hearts if they know about its power. Due to this event 3 weeks ago, the entire world and magical world now knows about its power.
Jake was walking to school with his friends. It would have been the first time since the terrorist attack that he would have been to school. He and his grandfather had spent the first week after recovering from their injuries sustained at the hands of Wilhelm and his men. They then spent the next week looking for the dark dragon but to no avail. It was as if the dark dragon had just disappeared. They all knew that the mortal world was in great danger while he was gone. He was probably finishing assembling his dark army, corrupting them with the orb of mysticism. Once he had them, there would be little anyone could do to stop him. Jake had to stop worrying about that for now. Nothing could be done. He was more worried about the reaction he would get from his fellow school students now that he was going to school and they knew his secret.
He entered the school. Everyone was staring at him. It was very different. Jake felt a little unnerved by this but he knew that he would have to get used to it. Jake walked to his locker. A kid suddenly jumped out, punched Jake in the back and pushed him head first into his locker. He then ran back to his friends shouting “Ha I just beat up a dragon”.
Jake recovered then looked at him menacingly. “Ok I’m sorry, please don’t kill me I won’t do it again.” Jake just shrugged and put some books in his locker.
One would have thought that Professor Rotwood would have been happy to find out that he had a dragon in his class but then again one wouldn’t know Rotwood well enough.
“Jake come here” yelled a familiar German voice as he walked past the classroom. It was a bit of a relief as the last German guy who spoke to him was also trying to kill him.
Jake walked slowly into Professor Rotwood’s classroom. He was sitting at his front desk and did not look very happy. Jake had recently been through an event which nearly cost him his life with a German guy who was a hell of a lot more scary then Rotwood. He didn’t care much that Rotwood was angry.
“You mean to tell me, I’ve been trying to teach kids about creatures that they don’t believe in, all my life and I’ve had one in my class all year?”
“I guess so”
“You guess so. Jake, Do you know how much easier it would have made my year?”
“But the dragon council forbids it”
“Well I forbid you not telling me.”
“Okay, I’m a dragon”
“I’m not in the mood Jake, yet I did have my suspicions, I remember the time I caught you. When I went to show everybody, you popped out in human form with a dragon mask on. That was not very nice. You had better start co-operating or else you are in for a big shock young man”
“Whatever” Replied Jake
“Dismissed” Shouted Rotwood
Jake walked out of the classroom. He wasn’t scared of Rotwood, he could now object to anything that he said and he could get away with it. Very few other events happened that day at school but Jake had noticed that everyone’s feeling towards him had changed. There was a sort of difference. At the end of the day it was a kind of relief for Jake to leave school. He would be away from their staring eyes. Sometimes they would annoy him so much that he would be on the brink of shouting ‘What do you want?’ The teacher’s comments for everyone to stop staring at him only made him feel worse. He felt special. A thought crossed his mind. ‘If I had the orb of Mysticism, they would not annoy me like this.’ He stopped and scolded himself for thinking such things. No body should own the orb.
Jake was thinking about that event 3 weeks ago. He knew that Wilhelm vowed to get back at the American Dragon any way he could after he was taken by police but more pressing matters were on his mind. The dark Dragon was in possession of the orb. Who knows what kind of things that a dangerous creature like him could do with an orb like that.
Jake stopped off at his grandfather’s electronics shop. He opened the door and the familiar ring of the potential customer bell filled the shop. Unfortunately this normally only ever indicated people who would remain potential customers until they left. Jakes grandfather was at the counter. He had only recently been released from hospital, his bruised face required a lot of treatment and still now, 3 weeks after the beating there were small bruises and scars on the old man’s face. Jake turned on the radio There were 2 major criminal events on. One was the trial of Suddam Hussein. There was nothing interesting there because the case had to be postponed because Suddam was complaining about being made to walk up stairs or something. The other was the impending trial of New York terrorist Wilhelm Roentgen and his men. The future of Michael Hunt was uncertain. It is known that he was a terrorist to begin with but in light of his service with Jake, he may be given some leniency But it was clear that he couldn’t be acquitted because thinking that he was hallucinating the event would not hold in court. He also had the drug dealing charges against his name.
Jake turned off the radio. Nothing interesting was on.
“Yo G, any word about the location of the orb from the dragon council?”
“No young one, the Dark Dragon and the Orb are still at large”
“Anyone suspiciously missing?”
“No! No one knows what he is up to.”
‘This is bad’ Jake thought.
Soon enough though, Jake began thinking of something else. He hadn’t seen Rose or the Hunts master since the terrorist attack and that was the first time he had seen her since she transferred schools after the grand equinox hunt. There had been no reports about her or the huntsman in any newspapers, it was as if they did not exist. Jake sighed. He had hoped that he could sometime patch things up with Rose but it didn’t seem possible at the moment.
Jake decided to go home. His grandfather was still not in any fit position to train him even though injuries on dragons seem to heal quicker then on humans. It was estimated that he only had one week before he was back to full strength. He sadly opened the shop door and listened to the bell. “Cya Gramps he called on his way out.” For someone who was considered a world hero he sure did seem down and depressed.
Jake was greeted at the door by his little sister Haley. “Hello Jake, your late” she said in a know all tone. Jake had forgotten he was having dinner early that night because his parents needed to go out. He walked through the door and into the dining room.
“Where have you been Jake?” asked his mother in a partially annoyed tone.
“Sorry, I stopped off at grandpas shop on my way here.” Jake replied almost in a whisper. Jake realised that he felt very tired. He had his dinner but continued feeling more and more fatigued. He then excused himself from the table and stumbled up the stairs to his bedroom. He felt that he had a large headache. All he wanted to do was get to bed. He lay down on his bed then closed his eyes and then fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes, he was somewhere else. He couldn’t tell where he was, but he was in the air. The sky was grey and all around him debris lay burning. A heavy wind picked up. In the distance he noticed the orange glow from more fires. His first thought was that he was in Hell. Everything was so dark, quiet yet turbulent and noisy at the same time. He saw a figure in the distance coming towards him, still too far away for Jake to see who it was. Jake squinted towards the figure. It came closer until its figure was recognisable. It was the dark dragon. He came closer then started flying towards Jake at a rapid speed. Jake saw that he had the orb. The Dark Dragon closed in when suddenly he dropped the orb. Jake watched it fall then shatter on the ground. At this point Jake woke up in a pool of sweat.
It was five o’clock in the morning. ‘Aww man’ Jake thought to himself ‘I hope that I can get back to sleep now.’
As if to answer no, there was a knock on his window. Jake rubbed his eyes and stared. Outside, Lao Shi was waiting and he was in dragon form. Jake groggily got out of bed, stumbled over to the window and opened it. “G wats up?” Jake yawned.
“Jake, you must accompany me to my shop immediately there is a pressing issue which must be discussed”
“But Gramps, its 5 in the morning I have school today”
“No school for you today”
Jake thought about this. No school meant no Rotwood and no public humiliation. “Ok” Jake agreed I will go with you. Jake got changed into his everyday outfit and then turned dragon and followed Lao Shi out the window.
‘I wonder what is happening‘ Jake was trying to figure his situation out. Lao Shi was not speaking and seemed in a great hurry so Jake thought that it would be best not to talk to him until they had reached Lao Shi’s shop.
When they got to his shop Lao Shi beckoned for Jake to follow him into the back room. Jake was a little uncertain but he obeyed. Lao Shi walked right to the back.
“Jake” Lao Shi started “We must head to the dragon’s world and meet up with the councillors immediately.
“What for?” Jake asked
“It appears that they have something important to tell us about the Dark Dragon.”
Well that’s the end of that chapter. Have fun reading. And make sure that you keep the reviews coming, just so I know that I have people reading. Six words makes it 2500 words.
Well its been a while, but Here it is the first chapter in an eagerly anticipated (By a cult following of 5 people) sequel to dragons and glory, Long days of fire. I will not be responding to reviews in the story this time, but if there are pressing matters which need to be attended to, I will reply in an e-mail. I will also take more time and care with this story, so I probably won’t be updating as often.
Also be aware that even though this is a sequel you do not have to have read D&G, everything important will be explained here. Well without further stalling I give you the next (and probably last) instalment in the 2 part miniseries.
Chapter 1: 3 Weeks
The city of New York is a busy metropolis in the North East of the United states of America. Of the several places that make up the CBD, the most populace is Manhattan. There is a certain school in Manhattan of which one student has a very different and desirable ability. The student in question can lick his eyeball with his own tongue and would provide his friends with hours of amusement unparalleled to any television show. But there is another student with another, greater gift or power. Depending on the viewpoint, it is either more or less desirable. This student is named Jake Long.
Jake used to have the secret ability to turn into a dragon. While now he still has the ability, it is no longer a secret but this is through no fault of his own. It was three weeks ago today when the world found out about his power and was forced to realise that the supernatural may actually be an existent force in our world.
On that day, 3 weeks ago a group of international terrorists led by German Wilhelm Roentgen and under orders from the Middle East seized control of the Kepler building and took hostages. What they didn’t know is that deep in the vaults in the basement of the building one of the most powerful orbs was being stored. After the terrorists made threats of torching the building, or SWAT going in for a takedown, Jake and his grandfather Lao Shi knew that they had to secretly extract the magical creatures or else they would almost defiantly be found or die. After hatching a plan to get them out and going there, their efforts were hampered by the hunts clan. In the struggle the terrorists caught them and managed to take them hostage and found out that the orb had great powers. Jake managed to get free from the terrorists and what followed was a battle between Jake and the terrorists. Wilhelm grew corrupted by the orb and was driven to the edge of insanity by this dragon who wouldn’t leave him alone. Eventually the hostages rebelled and SWAT intervened, which caused Wilhelm to blow up the building. Wilhelm escaped on his helicopter and Jake pursued him. After Jake lost Wilhelm for a bit he realised that the chopper with Wilhelm and the orb had crashed. Jake got there to find that none other then the dark dragon had taken the orb. He then knocked Jake unconscious and disappeared. (For greater detail of the previous events read Dragons and Glory)
The powerful orb known as the orb of mysticism is said to have such a great power that no mortal could begin to understand the full extent of its abilities. Its easiest use is to use it to tell if a certain being has magical abilities or not. It is a small fragile blue sphere. If you look through it at a magical creature, it turns red. From this we learned that Wilhelm may indeed have magical abilities but what, nobody knows. Another problem with the orb is that it is believed to be able to break very easily. This is a problem as it is a hub and cental storage device for all magic on earth. If it were to break it could destroy every magical creature therefore it is best that it is well protected. Another problem is that it can easily corrupt the people with purest of hearts if they know about its power. Due to this event 3 weeks ago, the entire world and magical world now knows about its power.
Jake was walking to school with his friends. It would have been the first time since the terrorist attack that he would have been to school. He and his grandfather had spent the first week after recovering from their injuries sustained at the hands of Wilhelm and his men. They then spent the next week looking for the dark dragon but to no avail. It was as if the dark dragon had just disappeared. They all knew that the mortal world was in great danger while he was gone. He was probably finishing assembling his dark army, corrupting them with the orb of mysticism. Once he had them, there would be little anyone could do to stop him. Jake had to stop worrying about that for now. Nothing could be done. He was more worried about the reaction he would get from his fellow school students now that he was going to school and they knew his secret.
He entered the school. Everyone was staring at him. It was very different. Jake felt a little unnerved by this but he knew that he would have to get used to it. Jake walked to his locker. A kid suddenly jumped out, punched Jake in the back and pushed him head first into his locker. He then ran back to his friends shouting “Ha I just beat up a dragon”.
Jake recovered then looked at him menacingly. “Ok I’m sorry, please don’t kill me I won’t do it again.” Jake just shrugged and put some books in his locker.
One would have thought that Professor Rotwood would have been happy to find out that he had a dragon in his class but then again one wouldn’t know Rotwood well enough.
“Jake come here” yelled a familiar German voice as he walked past the classroom. It was a bit of a relief as the last German guy who spoke to him was also trying to kill him.
Jake walked slowly into Professor Rotwood’s classroom. He was sitting at his front desk and did not look very happy. Jake had recently been through an event which nearly cost him his life with a German guy who was a hell of a lot more scary then Rotwood. He didn’t care much that Rotwood was angry.
“You mean to tell me, I’ve been trying to teach kids about creatures that they don’t believe in, all my life and I’ve had one in my class all year?”
“I guess so”
“You guess so. Jake, Do you know how much easier it would have made my year?”
“But the dragon council forbids it”
“Well I forbid you not telling me.”
“Okay, I’m a dragon”
“I’m not in the mood Jake, yet I did have my suspicions, I remember the time I caught you. When I went to show everybody, you popped out in human form with a dragon mask on. That was not very nice. You had better start co-operating or else you are in for a big shock young man”
“Whatever” Replied Jake
“Dismissed” Shouted Rotwood
Jake walked out of the classroom. He wasn’t scared of Rotwood, he could now object to anything that he said and he could get away with it. Very few other events happened that day at school but Jake had noticed that everyone’s feeling towards him had changed. There was a sort of difference. At the end of the day it was a kind of relief for Jake to leave school. He would be away from their staring eyes. Sometimes they would annoy him so much that he would be on the brink of shouting ‘What do you want?’ The teacher’s comments for everyone to stop staring at him only made him feel worse. He felt special. A thought crossed his mind. ‘If I had the orb of Mysticism, they would not annoy me like this.’ He stopped and scolded himself for thinking such things. No body should own the orb.
Jake was thinking about that event 3 weeks ago. He knew that Wilhelm vowed to get back at the American Dragon any way he could after he was taken by police but more pressing matters were on his mind. The dark Dragon was in possession of the orb. Who knows what kind of things that a dangerous creature like him could do with an orb like that.
Jake stopped off at his grandfather’s electronics shop. He opened the door and the familiar ring of the potential customer bell filled the shop. Unfortunately this normally only ever indicated people who would remain potential customers until they left. Jakes grandfather was at the counter. He had only recently been released from hospital, his bruised face required a lot of treatment and still now, 3 weeks after the beating there were small bruises and scars on the old man’s face. Jake turned on the radio There were 2 major criminal events on. One was the trial of Suddam Hussein. There was nothing interesting there because the case had to be postponed because Suddam was complaining about being made to walk up stairs or something. The other was the impending trial of New York terrorist Wilhelm Roentgen and his men. The future of Michael Hunt was uncertain. It is known that he was a terrorist to begin with but in light of his service with Jake, he may be given some leniency But it was clear that he couldn’t be acquitted because thinking that he was hallucinating the event would not hold in court. He also had the drug dealing charges against his name.
Jake turned off the radio. Nothing interesting was on.
“Yo G, any word about the location of the orb from the dragon council?”
“No young one, the Dark Dragon and the Orb are still at large”
“Anyone suspiciously missing?”
“No! No one knows what he is up to.”
‘This is bad’ Jake thought.
Soon enough though, Jake began thinking of something else. He hadn’t seen Rose or the Hunts master since the terrorist attack and that was the first time he had seen her since she transferred schools after the grand equinox hunt. There had been no reports about her or the huntsman in any newspapers, it was as if they did not exist. Jake sighed. He had hoped that he could sometime patch things up with Rose but it didn’t seem possible at the moment.
Jake decided to go home. His grandfather was still not in any fit position to train him even though injuries on dragons seem to heal quicker then on humans. It was estimated that he only had one week before he was back to full strength. He sadly opened the shop door and listened to the bell. “Cya Gramps he called on his way out.” For someone who was considered a world hero he sure did seem down and depressed.
Jake was greeted at the door by his little sister Haley. “Hello Jake, your late” she said in a know all tone. Jake had forgotten he was having dinner early that night because his parents needed to go out. He walked through the door and into the dining room.
“Where have you been Jake?” asked his mother in a partially annoyed tone.
“Sorry, I stopped off at grandpas shop on my way here.” Jake replied almost in a whisper. Jake realised that he felt very tired. He had his dinner but continued feeling more and more fatigued. He then excused himself from the table and stumbled up the stairs to his bedroom. He felt that he had a large headache. All he wanted to do was get to bed. He lay down on his bed then closed his eyes and then fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes, he was somewhere else. He couldn’t tell where he was, but he was in the air. The sky was grey and all around him debris lay burning. A heavy wind picked up. In the distance he noticed the orange glow from more fires. His first thought was that he was in Hell. Everything was so dark, quiet yet turbulent and noisy at the same time. He saw a figure in the distance coming towards him, still too far away for Jake to see who it was. Jake squinted towards the figure. It came closer until its figure was recognisable. It was the dark dragon. He came closer then started flying towards Jake at a rapid speed. Jake saw that he had the orb. The Dark Dragon closed in when suddenly he dropped the orb. Jake watched it fall then shatter on the ground. At this point Jake woke up in a pool of sweat.
It was five o’clock in the morning. ‘Aww man’ Jake thought to himself ‘I hope that I can get back to sleep now.’
As if to answer no, there was a knock on his window. Jake rubbed his eyes and stared. Outside, Lao Shi was waiting and he was in dragon form. Jake groggily got out of bed, stumbled over to the window and opened it. “G wats up?” Jake yawned.
“Jake, you must accompany me to my shop immediately there is a pressing issue which must be discussed”
“But Gramps, its 5 in the morning I have school today”
“No school for you today”
Jake thought about this. No school meant no Rotwood and no public humiliation. “Ok” Jake agreed I will go with you. Jake got changed into his everyday outfit and then turned dragon and followed Lao Shi out the window.
‘I wonder what is happening‘ Jake was trying to figure his situation out. Lao Shi was not speaking and seemed in a great hurry so Jake thought that it would be best not to talk to him until they had reached Lao Shi’s shop.
When they got to his shop Lao Shi beckoned for Jake to follow him into the back room. Jake was a little uncertain but he obeyed. Lao Shi walked right to the back.
“Jake” Lao Shi started “We must head to the dragon’s world and meet up with the councillors immediately.
“What for?” Jake asked
“It appears that they have something important to tell us about the Dark Dragon.”
Well that’s the end of that chapter. Have fun reading. And make sure that you keep the reviews coming, just so I know that I have people reading. Six words makes it 2500 words.