Season 1 Episode 1

Old School Training

In the large city of Manhattan, New York City, an small, old man with a blue robe and white hair and a Chinese stache stood on a roof and stared at the sunset in the horizon, standing next to a teenage Chinese girl with long, jet black hair with greenish highlights tied in a low ponytail with spiky bangs, a red jacket that should reveal her midriff, but wore a white shirt over it, blue cargo shorts, and sneakers. And next to her was an obese Shar Pei dog with grey wrinkly fur and was oddly standing on two legs.

"This is your territory, young dragon, and you alone are responsible for protecting the magical creatures living within it." The old man said to the girl, gesturing to entire island of Manhattan. "From the centaur herds of Highbridge Park, to secret leprechaun stock exchange, to the gargoyle nest on top of the Empire State Building, to the mermaids of the East River."

"Hey, kid, if you can make it here, you'll make it anywhere." The dog said in a Brooklyn accent before chuckling out loud.

"Ah, no problem, I am totally on" The girl said as she cracked her neck.

"But first!" The old man interrupted sternly. "You must master your dragon training one step at a time. Even a young falcon must stand before it can fly."

"Check this out, Grandpa!" She said cockily. "Dragon up, yo!" She raised up her fist as flames burst through her body and transformed herself into a red western dragon, slim, yet lean and semi-muscular arms. "BAOO! I'm not only ready fly, I'm ready to soar! Represent!" She jumped from the roof and glided across the streets as she cheered. "Oh yeah! Bad dudes beware, cause the American Dragon is in the house! Yeah!"

She danced in midair until she accidentally fizzled back into her human form. She shrieked as she waved her arms madly and plummeted down, but luckily managed to grab hold of the fire escape. "I'm cool, I'm cool!" She said, shaken up by the turn of events and looked down at the street. "Can I get a little help down here?"

Her grandfather and the dog looked over the edge as the old man shook his head in frustration about his cocky granddaughter.

Theme Song:

She's cool, she's hot, like the frozen sun
She's young and fast, she's the chosen one
People we're not braggin'
She's the American Dragon
She's gonna stop her enemies with her dragon power
Dragon teeth, dragon tail, burning dragon fire, a real live wire
American Dragon! (Jackie: Dragon up!)
American Dragon!

She's the American Dragon (freestyle with the dragon)
Her skills are getting faster
With Grandpa the master
Her destiny will walk up streets
Show time, baby, for the legacy!
American Dragon!
(Jackie: From the J-A, to the C, to the K-I, to the E! I'm the mack-mommy dragon of the NYC, ya heard?!)
American Dragon!
(Gramps: Jackie! Get back to work!)
American Dragon!
(Jackie: Aww, man!)

That night in Central Park, the same Chinese-American girl, Jackie Long, her grandfather, and their talking dog walked down the pathway that night at the park. Jackie looked more bored and tired about having to stay up past her curfew.

"We dragons are creatures of immense magical power." Jackie's grandfather explained as they walked until they stopped. "But to unlock your potential, you must keep training and master the fundamentals. Dragon fire!" Jackie suddenly spat a stream of fire, much to her surprise. "Dragon teeth!" Her head shifted into a dragon's. "Dragon tongue!" She then raspberried her long, forked tongue. "Dragon claws!" Her hands and upper body shifted into her dragon claws and underbelly. "Dragon tail!" Her lower half then shifted and her tail sprang out before she finally shifted out her wings.

"Haha. Yeah, I'm all over it, Grandpa." Jackie said as she did a karate pose.

"And a dragon student must obey his or her dragon master, without question or hesitation."

"Totally, I'm all about obeying. Whatever you say, whenever you say it."

Their talking dog sniffed around the grass until he suddenly perked up and cringed in disgust. "Oh yuck! Blue cheese with a touch of sweat sock! It's the Huntsman! I know that foot stink anywhere." He said.

Jackie shifted back into her human form as she and her grandfather approached the dog as he sprinkled some kind of dust that revealed some footprints on the grass while they glowed. "The Huntsman? Are you sure Fu Dog? Well, what's he doing here?"

"Ah, you tell us, young one." Her grandfather said to her wisely. "The Huntsman's footprints are heading north south on the night of a full moon."

Jackie hesitated since she was still pretty new at this and seeing she was have some trouble, Fu Dog gave her a clear hint by imitating a unicorn behind her grandfather's back. She gasped in concern when she understood her dog's gestures. "He's hunting unicorns!"

"Badda-bingo! Give the kid a prize!" Fu exclaimed.

Elsewhere in the park, a man wearing a skull helmet that hid his face and a pelt as a cape, the Huntsman guy Fu Dog mentioned before, was spying on the unicorns drinking by the lake through a telescope behind the bushes.

"Ah yes, the unicorn horns always a valuable quantity at the magical black market." The Huntsman said as he spun his telescope around and it shifted into a staff instantly.

He then sliced the bushes away as he ran towards the unicorns with his eyes glowing red with hunger for their kill. Meanwhile, Jackie, her grandfather, and Fu all watched the whole thing from behind a bush.

"What's going down? Are we gonna crack a can of smack-a-daddy on this Huntsman here or what?" Jackie asked her grandfather confidently.

He shook his head in disagreement. "Ah, not we, you." He said calmly.

Jackie's smile dropped as she gulped nervously when her grandfather said that. "Me? As in alone? Solo?"

"I will not be around forever, it is time you put your dragon training to the test."

Jackie hid her nervousness behind a brave-looking smirk. "Right. Hehe, to put my mad skill to the test. I'm all over it." She jumped over the bush and took a deep, confident breath.

"Hey, hey, hey, make it quick, kid. I'm calling Ernie and laying fifty biscuits on you." Fu said as she walked away to do her job. He suddenly pulled out a drinking cap and a cheer clap glove out of nowhere. He hen pulled out his phone and dialed in a number. "Hey, Big Ernie. It's Fu, I need to make a bet."

Nearby their hiding spot, the Huntsman moved in closer stealthily from tree to tree as Jackie followed him from behind. She peeked from the tree behind him and saw that he was preparing to hunt the two peaceful unicorns that were drinking from the lake, his eyes hungry for greed with no qualms on hunting them down, no matter how peaceful they were.

"Now, give him dragon fire!" Her grandfather whispered softly to her.

Of course, that was exactly what she had in mind as she shifted her head into dragon form. "Taste my fire breath, dirt ball." She said quietly as she glared.

She tried to breath a stream of fire from her mouth, but she instead tooted a stream of fire from her other end, straight at where Fu and her grandfather were. "Incoming!" Fu warned as they jumped out of their bush and is set to flames.

It was enough to startle all of the unicorns into neighing madly in fright before they both galloped away and they disappeared into the night while they all literally turned invisible. Jackie looked embarrassed when she farted a fireball like that as she blushed madly. "Sorry! My bad!" She called out, until she noticed her butt was on fire. "Whoa! Hot cheeks, hot cheeks!" She jumped into a small pond as the cool water sizzled the fire and she sighed in relief and satisfaction as she stuck her tongue out a little.

Unfortunately for her, it alerted the Huntsman as he turned around. "Dragon." He growled before he began to charge straight towards Jackie.

"Dragon up! Oh! Come on, dragon up! Oh! Now would be nice!" She panicked as she tried to shift to her dragon form.

"Say goodbye, dragon!"

He tried to slash his staff at her, but fortunately, she managed to dodge by flipping away with great agility and even managed to shift into her dragon form. "Haha! Is that all you got, cause I'm about to go up there a-"

She got cut off when a boy about her age, a little taller, gave her a swift kick, sending her straight to the ground. "How was that, Huntsmaster?" He gloated as he bowed before his master in respect.

"Very nice, Huntsboy, your training has served you well." He said, looking down at the dragon girl rubbing her head as she recovered from the blow.

Huntsboy gave Jackie another attack as she got to her feet and they circle around. "Come on, now, what's a nice guy like you doing here hunting unicorns?" Jackie flirted rhetorically as she tried to give Huntsboy a punch, but he ducked and he grabbed her arm and kicked her in the gut, making her burp fire and he jumped over her as he twisted her arm the wrong way.

"What's a nice girl like you doing out here as a dragon?" He retorted and he roughly shoved Jackie to the grass.

"Your golden opportunity to slay your first dragon, finish her!" The Huntsman said, as Jackie got to her feet and he tossed his apprentice his staff.

"With pleasure."

Before he could lunge at the dragon girl, a ball of fire suddenly came in between him and Jackie, making a fire wall in the process. She turned and smiled at her grandfather walking calmly to her with Fu Dog behind him.

"This is not over, dragon!" The Huntsman declared before he and Huntsboy teleported out of sight in a green flash.

"Ah, tough break kid." Fu Dog said as Jackie shifted back to human form. "Almost as bad as when you tangoed with those mountain trolls last week." Jackie had a flashback of last week when those mountain trolls kicked her around like a football. Fu chuckled a little at the memory. "Or the week before that, when you took on the giants." In another flashback, she remembered getting stomped by large giants like a pancake. Jackie crossed her arms and blushed as Fu burst into laughter while rocking on his back. "Or the week before that, when those field pixies tossed you a beating!" In another flashback, she remembered the pixies tying her up with her own tail. Guess she wouldn't being underestimating a tiny magical creature again. Jackie growled as he kept on laughing until she spat a tiny fireball on Fu's butt, making him yelp in surprise as he quickly swatted the flame off his fur. "Hot, hot, hot!" Fu made a stern look and pointed at her, ignoring the smoke billowing from his butt. "Hey, watch the attitude there, missy!"

"Young dragon, you must learn that smack-a-daddy does not come in a can. Tomorrow, we step up your training, be at rooftop right after school." Her grandfather said as they walk across the park together.

Jackie sighed and shrugged a little. "Alright, I'll be there, Grandpa."

The next day, at Millard Fillmore Junior High, Jackie was in her Mythology class as her teacher with the balding ginger hair drew on the blackboard, some kind of symbol at apparently represented a dragon.

"Which brings us to the topic of dragons." He said with a German accent. "Now if you turn to page two hundred and thirty-seven of my ground breaking, yet unpublished, scientific study of the magical creatures among us." He walked down the aisle of desk while holding his ruler and tapping it on his hand as he spoke to his students. "Thus, what can we conclude about the size of the dragon's brain?" He stopped at where Jackie was sitting and playing with her textbook as she hummed to herself a little. "Ms. Long!"

He slammed his ruler on her desk hard, making her jump a little in surprise before she opened her book. "Well, um, I would conclude that dragons...have very large brains. I mean, they'd probably be smart and cool-" She began, but got interrupted by her teacher.

"INCORRECT! We can assume that dragon's brain is...about the size of a pea, maybe a walnut."

Jackie eyes went wide when he said that, which she look a little offended by his theory and felt her anger rising. "But I thought-"

Her teacher rudely pointed his ruler at her mouth. "No na noosh! Quiet. Write that down, Ms. Long, it's certain to be on your final examination." He walked away with a smug grin.

Jackie rested her head on her knuckles as she frowned. "Aww man!"

An African-American boy raised his hand. He had short black hair, brown eyes; he wore a blue shirt with a lightning bolt logo, green cargo baggy jeans, and black sneakers. "Hey, yo, Mr. Rot-"

"Professor!" He corrected loudly.

"Yeah, Professor Rotwood..." He said, waving it aside in a heavy New York slang accent. "This is Mythology class up in here, right? So...how can you know about the size of a dragon's brain? I mean, elves, unicorns; that stuff isn't even really, yo."

"He, ya yo yo, huh, we-ell...yes, well, that's this is certainly the belief now, isn't it, you know." He said, laughing nervously while tugging on his bow tie as he walked to the front of the classroom. "However, from the great mind, they have devoted their ideas, including their lives to proving otherwise." He began mumbling random stuff to himself. "This kind of academic courage doesn't come with a pri-prize, unlike being ridiculed by one's colleagues! Or being banished from every respectful educational institution in the world! Or even being-help me-reduced to teaching in the public schools!" He cried out loud like a madman as he snapped his ruler in half. All his students blinked and stared at him in confusion as they remained silent...until the bell rings and they ran out of the classroom like wild horses before Rotwood Rose back to his feet. "Ookey dookey, class dismissed."

Outside of the building, Jackie walked out her school with her helmet on and her skateboard sticking out her backpack, then the African-American boy from before and a lay-back girl with short carmel hair, dark eyes, wearing a bluish T-shirt with a strip over a black long-sleeve shirt, baggy jeans, and sneakers skated right up to her.

"Ay yo, Jackie! What's crack a lating, baby?" The boy asked as he gave her a fist bump.

"What up, Travis? Spuda?" She greeted give the girl, Spuda, a fist bump as well.

"We crushing to Washington Park right about now. Last time we hit that place, Spud got a concussion!" Travis said, knocking his fist on his helmet for emphasising.

"Hahahaha, no way, that was all totally a case of sub-contagious little trauma." Spuda said, earning a confused look from Jackie. "No worries, sis."

"Yeah," Travis shoved Spuda away to a trash bin before smiling at Jackie. "So, are you in, or are you in?" Although he did sound like he was really asking her.

"Oh, I'd love to, Trav, but...I gotta work at my grandpa's shop today." Jackie said reluctantly, looking down to the ground.

"Again?" Spuda popped in with wide eyes. "That's like the...one, two, thirty, twenty, no. Eleventeenth time this week, girl. What up, it's stressing me out?"

"Yeah, girl, for real." Travis said, looking a little frustrated by Jackie blowing off their skating times together. "So, what? We got some child labor in this city or something?"

"Yo, maybe next time guys, alright?" Jackie asked coolly. She really wanted to hang out with her best friends, but she couldn't be late for dragon training, not to mention she wasn't allowed to tell her best friends what she really was. "Holla?"

"Yeah, holla." Travis sighed, giving her a fist bump.

"Adios, gal." Spuda groaned.

Jackie settled her skateboard down on the sidewalk before she rode on it backwards, but then she accidentally bonked into a boy, making him drop his books as they both yelped.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't-" Jackie began to apologize and helped him with his books, but she suddenly gazed into his deep, intense blue eyes and his short, hot blonde hair. He wore a plain white T-shirt, magenta sweats, and white sneakers. He, too, looked lost for words as he gazed into her eyes as well, looking equally as startled as she was. "Um...hi." She said to him, brushing her lock behind her ear.

"Uh...h-h-hi yourself." He stuttered as he blushed a little.

Jackie noticed a dragon-shaped mark on his right hand. "Hey, that's a really cool dragon tattoo."

"It's actually a birthmark. I'm Ray." He introduced as they both stood up.

"Jackie." She handed him his book.

"Well...I'll see you around?"

"Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yes!" She noticed he already left and saw her school rival, Brenda Morton, walking past her as she gave her a dirty glare. "Uh...well, I mean, if I have time and you have time, we could chill sometime. Whatever." Her heart was beating really fast as she dropped her dragon tongue to the ground and had her hands laced to her cheek.

Later on at the rooftop of Jackie's grandfather, Lao Shi's, building, he and Fu Dog were waiting on top for Jackie to arrived as Fu counted down on his watch. "And three, two, one. She's late ah-doo!" He exclaimed.

"I'm here! I'm here!" Jackie exclaimed as she flew to the roof in her dragon form, but accidentally flew straight through a blanket on an apartment landmark wire and slid onto the rooftop on her underbelly, near Lao Shi and Fu Dog's feet/paws.

"Ah, you are late, young dragon." Lao Shi said sternly to his granddaughter.

Jackie looked up at him in disbelief before a blanket landed on top of her "Say what? But like in three seconds!"

His face turned red in anger and irritation. "Three seconds or three hours, LATE IS LATE!"

Unknown to the dragons and the talking dog, they were all being watched by the Huntsman as he spied on them through a telescope. "Ah, yes, do you know what would look magnificent on the hunting wall of the hunts slayers?" He asked wistfully as his young apprentice, Huntsboy, flipped next to him.

"Let me guess..." He said as he took a look through the telescope and watched the American Dragon accidentally tie herself up by a pipe with her own tail. "A pair of dragon scales?" Both of the dragon slayers erupted in evil laughter.

Inside the shop, Fu Dog closed the shop (though most people were confused by how he moved the sign with just his paw), in preparation for Jackie's training in secret.

"Today, we will be begin old school training." Lao Shi said.

"Bring it, G. What are we starting with today? Extreme aerial maneuvers?" Jackie smirked as she backflipped across the main room. "A little fireball actions? She threw a fireball out of sight and flinched when she heard a girl screaming out of nowhere. "I'm all over it."

"We begin in bathroom." He placed a bucket with a toilet wand inside down in front of Jackie, much to her shock and confusion.

"Say what?!"

Inside the bathroom, Lao Shi opened up the toilet lid as she gazed into the ickiness of the toilet water. "You must clean toilet using circular motion. First, clockwise, then counterclockwise." He explained to his granddaughter as he did swirling finger gestures for emphasising.

"Uh, if you say so." She said uneasily as she shrugged.

She was about to grab the toilet brush, until her grandfather suddenly slapped her hand away. "AH! Not with hand! You must clean toilet using only dragon tongue."

"My tongue?! On that?!" She held up the brush that was covered in slime, flies, and other stuff she didn't even want to know was on it before she tossed it aside and crossed her arms in disagreement and disgust. "Na-ah, no way, forget about it."

"Are you not dragon student? Did you know pledge to obey dragon master?"

"I really don't remember every single thing we had agreed upon-"

Lao Shi touched the mirror as it became more like a TV, showing the other night when Jackie fought against the Huntsman, but before it all happened. "Totally, I'm all about obeying. Whatever you say, whenever you say it." She once promised.

Jackie gave him a weak smile, knowing that her grandfather really nailed her there. She reluctantly grabbed the hilt of the toilet brush with her dragon tongue, and it tasted very revolting as her face grimaced. "Aww man! You cannot be serious!" She muffled in disgust.

"Circular motion. First clockwise, then counterclockwise." Lao Shi reminded her as he exited the bathroom and closed the door behind him.

He heard his granddaughter gagging in disgust inside and heard toilet water being cleaned. "This is nasty! I'm going to throw up!" Lao only patted Fu on his head as he kicked his leg.

"Hurry up! Grandpa has more 'old school' training waiting." He called to his granddaughter.

After Jackie finished the toilets, Lao Shi then made her sweep the floor with her dragon tail and even vacuum up all the dust into her mouth, making her burp and gag. He made her use her underbelly to do laundry, but she noticed she was cleaning Lao Shi's underwear, much to her disgust. She had to balance out at getting a signal for the TV as Lao Shi and Fu Dog watched some sports videos, but made it go static. She shifted her hands into dragon claws, but had to rub her grandfather's feet, and it was not a pretty sight. She was made to work on the balancing TV again and this time got it as Lao smiled in satisfaction.

Jackie then had to use her dragon teeth and chop on some of the bushes on the rooftop, but she suddenly went wide-eyed and spat out a bird out that accidentally ended up in her mouth and it flew away in fright. "Ack! That's fool!" She groaned as she glowered.

She suddenly heard her best friends, Travis and Spuda, skateboarding down the sidewalk, not far away from where she was. Her ears dropped in sadness since she wanted to be with them instead of cleaning up her grandfather's entire shop. She heard toilet flushing and Fu Dog popped out.

"Oh, Jackie, I think the toilet's gonna need a touch up!" He said before shutting the door. Jackie growled like a dragon in annoyance as smoke billowed from her nose.

Finally at the end of the day, she used her dragon tail to dump some garbage in a bin and fizzled it away. "You are done with training for today." Lao Shi said to her before he took a sip of his tea.

"Training? You call this training? I call it being your house girl! What does cleaning your toilet and sweeping your floor have to do with being the American Dragon?" Jackie demanded her eccentric grandfather as she crossed her arms and glared at him.

"A seed does not question where the wind takes it."

"In other words, listen to the old man, come back tomorrow and get ready. Fu Dog's gonna need a deep wrinkle massage." He said as he rubbed his stretchy face, which made Jackie grimace in disgust at the sight.

Later on that night, Jackie returned to her home for the night as her mother, Susan Long, began pulling out some food from the refrigerator to prepare some family dinner. Jackie had her hair down since she occasionally liked to wear her waist-length hair in a ponytail when she was outside or somewhere else besides her house.

"I'm telling you, Mom, Grandpa as seriously lost it!" Jackie told her mother, as she grabbed a tray of vegetables from the fridge while Jackie leaned against the counter with her leg and arms crossed.

"Yeah, uh-huh..." She said, but wasn't really paying any attention to her daughter. "HAYDEN! You can chop the vegetables now!"

"ALRIGHT!" A small boy wearing a blue T-shirt and dark blue shorts, who was Jackie's seven year old brother, Hayden Long, ran into the kitchen and shifted his hands into blue dragon claws. "Check out my Japanese Teppanyaki technique!" He began chopping the vegetables with lightning speed.

"I mean, he's trying to turn dragon training into 'gag-me' training." Jackie said before sighing miserably as she crossed her arms again. "You know, days like today make me wish I could just be a normal human, like Dad."

Then, they all heard hillbilly singing entering the house, who could've been Jackie's father arriving from work as Jackie perked up. "Hayden, lose the claws!" Their mother gasped and he shifted his hands back to normal as their father, Jonathan Long, entered the kitchen, mouthing a weird song as he sets his suitcase on the table. Apparently, Jonathan had absolutely no idea that his own kids were mystical reptiles and only his wife knew about them.

"And I used the term 'normal'." Jackie grumbled, earning a glare from her mother.

Her father finally finished his hillbilly singing as he smiled at his wife. "Hey, great news, familia! Guess what? I just landed...the Wholesome Heferer account!" He announced to his entire family, holding a milk carton. "Huh? Okay, Wholesome Heferer is the city's largest organic milk-producer! The head-honcho and his wife are coming over for dinner tomorrow night to seal the deal!" He seemed to talk faster as he became more excited.

"Congratulations, honey!" Susan said to him before she kissed him on his chin.

"Daddy, Daddy, Daddy! Look at the violin piece I composed at school today!" Hayden said excitedly and showed him a music sheet and handed one to him.

"Oh, sport, that is so amazing!" He said as he dragged him out of the kitchen, leaving Susan and Jackie alone.

"Um, Mom...are we ever going to tell Dad that he married into a family of magical reptiles?" Jackie wondered out loud to her mother.

"Uh...of course, dear, it's just that your father's always been so..." She said reluctantly, turning to her eldest daughter as she struggled to find the right words while Jackie cocked an eyebrow. "You know...I think we need to wait for the right moment. A time when...uh. A time when...um…"

"There's a spider on me! Get it off! GET IT OFF!" Jonathan exclaimed in fright as he tumbled into the kitchen with his woolen jumper on him, but he calmed down when he looked more closely and realized it was just a harmless red fuzzy ball on his sleeve. "Oh wait, oh it's just a fuzzy. False alarm." He walked out of the kitchen as he slipped into his jumper like nothing has happened.

"A time when we think he can handle it." Susan finished as she shrugged while Jackie nodded her head in agreement.

After dinner, Jackie then went up to the bathroom where she brushed her long dragon tongue with a toothbrush and toothpaste to rid the disgusting toilet brush taste. "All I can taste is toilet brush." She muffled and gagged as she retracted her tongue back into her mouth.

Then her mother entered the bathroom with a look of pity and understanding. "Listen, Jackie, I know this whole thing has been hard on you. First, you find out you're a dragon." She said as Jackie spat the paste out and examined her dragon tongue in the mirror.

"That's cool." She said before she retracted her tongue again and looked up to her mother with a frown. "It was the whole 'By the way, you're responsible for protecting an entire magical underworld' that's freaking me out."

Susan kneeled to her height and rubbed her thumb on her daughter's cheek. "Well, that's why it's so important for you to master your dragon powers, honey. Believe me, I know your grandfather can be a bit...eccentric, but you just have to trust him okay." She pulled her daughter closer for a hug as Jackie allowed her words to sink in.

The next day after school, Jackie exited the school building and gasped when she noticed Ray talking with his friend and she began imagining him and herself running across the park, ice skating in the arena together, and hanging out on top of the Empire State Building as a plane made 'Jackie Ray 4-ever' while she leaned to his chest romantically.

Her little romantic daydream was cut short when her friend, Travis, began snapping his fingers right in front of her face. "Aye, yo Jackie!" Travis said as Spuda approached and Jackie blinked back to reality. "Don't tell me you're still crushing on that Ray guy again. He's so far out of your league, you don't even know."

"Yeah sis, he's like a tiger burning at the eighteenth pebble beach, and you're like nine plodding a windmill at Coney Island Mini Golf." Spuda said lazily while Jackie gave her an odd look.

"Yo, forget him, we got some serious business. They just reopened the fourteenth street skatepark. We gonna hit that." Travis said excitedly as he fist bumped Spuda.

"Sounds fun, Travis, but," Jackie bit her lower lips and looked down at her watch. "You know I gotta-"

"Jackie, no! Not working in the shop again! That's like the one, two, four…" Spuda said as she began counting to herself absentmindedly.

"Wake up, Jack! That old dude is like stealing your youth, girl!" Travis exclaimed to his friend.

Jackie rubbed her neck as she struggled for the right words to explain why it was important. She really wished she could tell her best friends the truth, but she still wasn't allowed to tell anyone what she was to a human. "I can't." She said sadly as she looked down.

"Alright, but I'm telling you Jackie, ya missing out here." Travis shrugged as he and Spuda skateboarded away.

Then a small blue pixie fluttered toward Jackie after her friends left with a clipboard. "Sign here." She said. The Chinese girl signed her name and the pixie handed her a tiny envelope and disappeared in a puff of dust.

She tore it in half and smoke form of her grandfather's stern face appeared. "Hurry and get to training! Must use dragon teeth to scoop sludge out of Grandpa's rain gutter!" He yelled urgently before his smoke message vanished into thin air.

Jackie began to have second thoughts about trusting her grandfather since all he has been doing was forcing her to clean up his entire shop with her dragon abilities. With her mind made up, she shouted to her friends. "Yo, guys, what up!" And she caught up to them, ready to fun some fun for a change.

On the rooftop, Lao Shi and Fu Dog were waiting for Jackie to arrive for training, but she hasn't even shown up, much to her grandfather's great concern, since he thought either a very dangerous magical creature was attacking her or that he did something to her that made his granddaughter angry with him.

"Aye ya, Jackie is one hour late for training. I've got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach." Lao Shi said in both frustration and then sounded very concern.

"Agh, you're telling me!" Fu groaned as he sat on a beach bench, reading on a newspaper, but his stomach was growling like crazy. "But that's what you get for eating at a place called the Chimney Chonga Chuck Wagon." He jumped out of his sit while holding his stomach and ran to the toilet room. "Aghhh! Hold down the fort, Gramps, nature's calling nine-one-one!" He slammed the door behind him and out of sight.

"Jackie, where are you? Something must be wrong." He said to himself with a bit of concern growing.

Then there was a bright green flash as the Huntsman and Huntsboy appeared right in front of him. "How right you are, dragon." The Huntsman said sinisterly to the Chinese dragon master as his apprentice jumped over and stood behind Lao Shi.

However, the short Chinese man didn't look fazed by this while both of the slayers surrounded him. "Oh...it is always a pleasure...to defeat you!"

He then battle cried as he shifted into an extremely long blue Asian dragon and roared loudly. He faced the Huntsman and spat balls of flames at the man, who spun his staff around and deflected the fireballs. Huntsboy jumped onto the dragon's back and he noticed this as he tried to grab hold of him. But Huntsboy was too quick and agile for him to catch and Lao Shi's body ended up being tangled into a knot and he growled at them. The Huntsman fired a net and pinned the dragon to the wall as he groaned and felt himself growing weaker.

"Forget it, old man, it's pure sphinx hair." The Huntsman said to the elder dragon. Sure enough, Lao Shi morphed back into human form, now powerless and revealed the sphinx hair was a dragon's weakness since it would render them powerless. "Well, one down and one to go." He chuckled evilly as he gloated at his captured dragon.

Not far away, Fu Dog noticed how serious things were and quickly hid back in the bathroom, but unfortunately for him Huntsboy noticed this when he heard the door close. "Okay Fu Dog, just keep quiet, they'll never know you're in here." He said to himself quietly yet nervously.

"Who's in there?" Huntsboy demanded out loud as he turned on the locked knob.

Fu jumped in fear. "OH! I really need to stop talking to myself." He watched the knob turning madly and he desperately tried to look for a way out until he jumped into the toilet bowl. "Here goes nothing." He flushed himself down the toilet as Huntsboy entered the bathroom and looked at the toilet in disgust as the water bubbled.

Elsewhere in a skate park, Jackie was having the time of her life with her best friends. She was happy that she finally got to hang out with her best friends. "This is like the best day ever!" Jackie exclaimed to Travis as Spuda rode down the halfpipe on her skateboard.

Down in the sewers, Fu Dog walked down the gross waters, looking very miserable. "Oh, this is the worst day ever!" He complained. "Lost in the sewers, no cell service. How come Lassie can make getting help stuff look so glamorous?"

"Who dares to enter the lair of the one-eyed sewer troll?" A mysterious voice bellowed in front of Fu Dog.

Fu backed away uneasily. "Easy there, tiger, I was just…" He then faltered and made a perplexed face. "Stan Lipkowski?! Is that you?"

"Fu-ster?" He asked as he stepped out of the shadows, revealing himself to be a giant purple troll with one eye. "Ha, you're a sight for sore eyes! How long has it been? Two, three hundred years? What brings you down here?"

"Serious trouble, Stan, I need to get to the east village, pronto!"

"Say no more, I know a shortcut through the zoo." He lifted up Fu onto his shoulders.

Fu gagged in disgust as the troll walked down the tunnels. "Sewers."

After a fun day of skateboarding with her friends, Jackie returned home and found her mother and younger brother in the kitchen.

"S'up, Mom?" She greeted her.

"There you are, Jackie!" Susan said before she gave her a brief hug. "Hurry and clean up, Dad's clients are already here." She held out a plate of food and held it out to her youngest son. "Uh Hayden, a little help, honey." Hayden shifted his mouth into a dragon's before he breathed fire to heat up the food a little. "Who's ready for mushroom cakes?" She walked out of the kitchen with Hayden following her cheerfully.

Before Jackie could turn on the sink to clean herself up for dinner, Fu suddenly popped out of the drain, making her recoil in shock from his unexpected appearance. "Fu?! Yo, dog, we do have a doggie door." She said, looking a little confused and disgusted.

"Kid, where were you?!" Fu demanded as he wiped the water of his wrinkled fur and glared at the stubborn Chinese girl.

Jackie frowned when she realized why he was there. "Fu, I don't even want to hear it! Grandpa must be bugging if he thinks he can make me clean up his whole shop-"

"You don't understand, kid!" Fu interrupted and he looked very serious as he grabbed her jacket, making her frown disappear. "You left me and Gramps waiting for you on the rooftop! We were sitting ducks out there, when the Huntsman showed up-"

The mention of the Huntsman put Jackie on alert when her eyes went wide. "The Huntsman?! Where are they now?" She grabbed the talking dog's face and stretched his wrinkly head.

"Look, kid, long story short, it ain't looking good for the old man." With his face stretched out like that, his voice sound a little muffled.

Jackie looked down in guilt as she released Fu's face, realizing her grandfather was in danger because of her. "This is all my fault."

"We gotta go get help!" Fu Dog jumped out of the sink and wadded down to the door.

Jackie made a look of confidence and determination with her fists at her sides. "No! I gotta do this!"

Fu made a doubtful look as he turned around and faced her. "Ah, look, no offense kid, we ain't have not time for no dress rehearsal, it's show time! And you even haven't mastered going full dragon yet!"

"Watch me!" Jackie then began concentrating on the power inside of her. "Dragon up!" Flames erupted around her as she morphed into her dragon form and unleashed out a powerful roar. "Hey, I did it!" She looked down at herself happily. "Check me out! I'm the American Dragon!" She unleashed out another roar before she allowed Fu Dog to ride on her back.

"Alright, let's fly kid!" Fu exclaimed, but then made another look of doubt as he looked down at her nervously. "Uh...y-you can fly, can't ya?"

Inside the dining room, Jonathan promoted his merchandise to the clients. "As you can see, we're just you normal wholesome milk drinking family-whoopsie!" He said cheerfully until he accidentally dropped his carton to the floor.

As he tried to pick it up from the floor, Jackie suddenly flew in as she clumsily flew around with Fu Dog clinging onto her as she tried to maneuver out of the room and finally got out just before Jonathan rose back up and looked confused by the client's wide-eyes and gaping mouths. "So...who'd like salad?" Susan offered casually, hoping it would help break the silence.

Back in the rooftop, the Huntsman and Huntsboy both looked down at the old man in the net, all powerless from the electricity and sphinx hair wearing off him and his abilities.

"I'll ask you one last time, old man, where is the American Dragon?!" The Huntsman demanded threateningly.

"Right here!" Jackie said, landing on the edge of the roof with Fu Dog. "Right under your nose! I'm like a booger like that!" She then made a look of doubt. "Wait...that didn't come out right."

The Huntsman was about to make a step towards her, but got stopped by Huntsboy. "Allow me." he said, taking his staff from his master's hand and glared at the dragon girl. "I have unfinished business with this dragon."

He letted out a battle cry and tried to swing at her, but Jackie dodged until she got kicked in the stomach. She managed to regain her balance and she landed in front of Lao Shi. Huntsboy swung at her again and she instinctively ducked as he took part of the chimney instead. She yelped as fallen bricks collided with her head.

"Yo, Big Ernie..." Fu said on the phone. "Yeah, it's Fu. I want to lay down some cookies on a bat." He cringed from the yelling on the other side of the phone. Right behind him, Huntsboy threw Jackie into a wall as the dog continued his little bet. "What are we, strangers? You know I'm a good boy."

He cringed again from more yelling as Jackie got zapped by the Huntsboy's staff and she glared at him in annoyance. He swung at her again, but she managed to kick him away. He dropped the staff as it flew out of his hand and into the Huntsman's.

"Try my fastball!" She retorted before breathing a fireball onto her claws. She threw it straight at Huntsboy, but he managed to dodge and the fire took out a leg of a water tower's leg, and she yelped as it drenched her with water.

"ENOUGH!" The Huntsman exclaimed as he pointed his staff at Jackie. "American Dragon, prepare to become a pair of boots." He then fired a net out of his staff straight at the female dragon.

"Young one, clean toilet bowl!" Lao Shi shouted to his eldest granddaughter.

She quickly allowed his words sink in as she remembered he made her clean the toilet bowl with her dragon tongue. She instinctively shot her tongue out straight at the net heading towards her and spun it around as it entangled. "First clockwise, then counterclockwise." She thought to herself as she spun her tongue the other way and aimed/deflected the net back towards the Huntsman.

"What?! How did she-" He demanded in surprised, until he then got tangled in the net instead as he strained to break free.

Jackie looked surprised that she has actually done it. "Hey...it worked! Haha! Who the woman now, Huntspunk? You what some? There's more where that came from!" She taunted the hunter man.

"EH YA!" Huntsboy cried as he charged straight to Jackie ninja style.

"Young one, sweep floor!" Lao Shi shouted after her. Jackie quickly swept her tail on the ground, knocking Huntsboy right off his feet.

"Ernie! Ernie! Wait! Wait! Wait!" Fu said in his phone excitedly when Jackie began making some progress. "I change my mind, put all my biscuits on the kid. Yeah, that's right! The whole thing!"

Jackie and Huntsboy let out some hand-to-hand combat as they counter attacked each other's blows, and the dragon girl was pretty impressed by his combat skills that would put an athlete in shame. "Hey, check you out, Huntsboy! You're good!" Jackie said as they continued exchange punches at each other. She then dove for him, but he ran across her back and landed back on the ground on his feet. "Whoa, you're really good!"

"You're not so bad yourself, dragon girl." Huntsboy said as he smirked underneath his mask before they began their fight again.

Unaware to Jackie, the Huntsman has managed to pry himself out of the net and out of his own trap. She used her tail to catch Huntsboy's fist and she slipped his glove off. "Hey!" He said as he covered his ungloved hand.

"Kid, behind you!" Fu warned out loud, waving his paws wildly.

She turned around to see the Huntsman charging his staff, ready to fire when ready at her, and Huntsboy managed to grab onto her arms with a very tight grip so she couldn't even evade.

"Oh...I'm so going to regret doing this." She murmured to herself in embarrassment. She then concentrated hard and she farted a fireball straight to the shocked Huntsman as he flew across the street elbow and got implanted through a billboard.

Fu finally managed to remove the sphinx hair net off of Lao Shi as he cried out and changed back into his dragon form. Huntsboy knew that he was now outmatched while released Jackie before he ran onto the roof edge.

"We'll be back." He said as he faced the dragon.

"And I'll be ready." Jackie said confidently before she placed her hands on her hips.

He slipped on his glove back on his hand, covering up his familiar-looking dragon tattoo and leaped onto another rooftop until he was out of sight.

Lao Shi and Jackie both morphed back to human forms. "I knew you could do it, kid!" Fu said happily as he approached Jackie. "I never doubted you for a second!" Jackie cocked an eyebrow at him skeptically. "Okay, maybe I did, but that's why you love me right, come on!"

"Well done, young dragon." Her grandfather said proudly as Jackie grinned at her very first dragon achievement. "But word to the wise, it is not good idea to flirt with mortal enemies. Trust grandpa, he's been there."

"Tch, even a mortal enemy that fine? C'mon, Gramps." Jackie scoffed.

"Many battles lay ahead. We pick training up right after school." He emphasized as he poked his granddaughter's chest.

"I'll be there, Gramps, right on time." She then made a look of regret for ignoring him. "I'm sorry I doubted you."

"Come now, it's late. Fu Dog and I walk you home."

The magical trio walked down the neighborhood to return Jackie back to her house as the sun disappeared and the sky became dark while stars began to pop out. "Ah okay, I get the toilet cleaning and the tongue thing now. No problem, useful. Disgusting, but useful." Jackie began explaining the lesson she learned from her chores.

"Right." Lao Shi replied.

"And the whole sweeping the floor with the tail thing, I see how that's gonna come in handy, too." He nodded in agreement. "But what about the part I did all your laundry. I mean, you had me scrubbing your nasty socks and jocks. Eghh!" She gagged a little at the memory. "What's up with that?"

"What's up was, Grandpa needed his laundry done."

"And tomorrow, you get to do mine. Hehehe!" Fu added with a chuckle.

"B-b-but I just...aww, man!" Jackie complained.