[A/N: I'm so sorry about the long wait everybody! To be honest, I'm not exactly done with season 1 yet. Like what I did with Dani Phantom Season 1, I want to make an origin episode. You know, the day when Jackie discovers that she is a dragon. But honestly, unlike Dani Phantom, I can't exactly brainstorm clear enough of where to start, how to make it go along...you all get the point. If I can't think of anything or if you guys don't want me to make an origin episode, then I'm just gonna have to complete this season (don't worry, season 2 will come soon, as soon as I finish catching up my other stories, and I'll throw in an entirely GB of American Dragon: Jackie Long, like Perci Jackson and the Olympians and Rachelle Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. If you guys would love to help me get some ideas, I'm all ears. You can leave a review or a private message for me if you want me to post an origin episode. I would VERY much appreciate it. Anyway, enjoy!]

Season 1 Episode 24

The Hunted

One day at Millard Fillmore Junior High, Jackie Long was at her locker while she beatboxed and pulled out her book for her next class. Shr then closed her locker, where her all-time crush, Ray Killdragonosa, was standing next to her with his kind smile.

"Hi, Jackie, you got a second?" He asked as he held up his hand where his dragon-shaped birthmark was, making Jackie stare at it when her memories flooded in her mind that day she discovered that her crush was working her her archenemy, the Huntsman, and that Ray was Huntsboy.

Ray/Huntsboy (Voiceover):

It's the Mark of the Huntsclan. It assures me that I was born to do one thing: slay dragons!

"Oh, hey, Ray." Jackie said sheepishly. "Um...sure, I have a second and, whoops, there it went. I gotta get going to the place where Rotwood sprinkles magic dust on me, sorry." She then speed-walked down the stairs while she hid her discomfort from Ray.

Ray has been a little confused since this past month, Jackie has been avoiding him like she was scared of him. "Um, okay. Some other time?"

Later on after school, Jackie and her best friends, Travis Carter and Spuda Spudinski, hid behind a row of bleachers in the basketball court.

"Three, two, one." Jackie said before right on cue, Ray walked from the corner of the building, just minding his own business while Jackie sighed in frustration and disbelief. "It's just so wrong: the boy of my dreams turning out to be in tight with the Huntsclan."

"Things could be a lot worse, you know, you could be in love with your mortal enemy." Spuda said dully, but then she realized what she just said. "Wait...nevermind."

"Now whenever I see him, it's like I don't know whether to kiss him…" Jackie then breathed a fireball on her hand while she frowned a little. "Or to incinerate him with a fireball."

"Yep, sounds like true love to me, sis."

"You best check yourself, Jackie. Remember, Ray is the Huntsboy and the Huntsboy is bad news." Travis said as Ray walked next to they, but he luckily didn't notice them. "He may be all love and gravy for you himself, but he would slay your dragon tail in a heartbeat if he knew the truth about you." Jackie then looked down like she didn't want to believe her best friend, but in a way, he was right.

Later that night at the medieval apartment in the center of Manhattan, Ray entered his bedroom and sat on his bed before he picked up a photo of himself with Jackie when they were at their first school dance together. He then hugged the picture frame lovingly, since he still had a big crush on Jackie, despite the fact that she has been avoiding him for a couple of weeks.

"Huntsboy, it's time to prepare for the Grand Equinox Hunt." His master, the Huntsman, said from the other side of the door.

"Coming, master!" He called before he twisted a football stand when it activated a secret wall where Ray kept his weapons and Huntsboy suits stode. He picked out of his suits from the Friday hanger as he stared at it before he sighed, but slipped right into it.

Ray followed the Huntsmaster across a tunnel cave. "Your training is nearly complete, Huntsboy, but you still must slay your first dragon in order to take your rightful place in the Huntsclan." He said to his apprentice.

"I'm ready, master."

"Good, because this year's hunt will feature a very special prize." He held out his staff and revealed a projection of the American Dragon. "The pelt of the American Dragon." Ray then glared underneath his mask at the sigh of the dragon he has been trying to slay since the very beginning, now more determined to finish off his formidable mortal enemy.

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!)

Later that night at Manhattan, Luong Lao Shi and his sidekick, Fu Dog, took Jackie to Central Park where they found a group of pixies yelling at their other, and what caught Jackie's attention was that there was a glittery golden apple hanging over a stream.

"What's with the ruckus, G?" Jackie asked.

"A dispute between two tribes of meadow sprites, observe: the tribe on the Northern bank claims the enchanted apple because the tree grows on their land, but the fruit hangs over the territory of the Southern tribe, so they believe it rightfully belongs to them." Lao Shi explained.

"So, what up? I mean, who decides which tribe gets the apple?"

"Ah, you do, young one."

"The American Dragon is judge and jury, kid." Fu Dog said with his arms crossed. "So go ahead and judge, and, you know, jurify."

"Yeah, okay, no problem." Jackie said as she cracked her knuckles. "Just sit back and watch the AmDrag do her thing. Dragon up, yo!" She shifted into her dragon form before she flew off to the sprite tribes.

"I'm laying three to one biscuits that the kid crashes and burns inside of two minutes. Any takers?"

Jackie landed between the stream while the sprites stopped yelling and stared up at her. "Listen up, y'all, American Dragon is here to lay down the law on this apple business, you heard?" She picked the enchanted golden apple from the tree before she began to choose. "I hereby declare that the apple belongs to...the Northern tribe." The Northern sprites began to cheer while the Southern tribe slouched in disappointment. "It only seems fair since the tree is-"

An elder spirit of the south bank immediately flew up to Jackie. "The ancient texts of Gohansai clearly define airspace rights of our own sprite territory!" He said.

"Really? Oh, uh, my bad. Then I decree that the apple rightfully goes to the Southern Tribe-"

"WRONG!" A northern bank tribe interrupted as he flew up to her. "The sacred scrolls of Hingham Rue state that all fruit belongs to the land from which the tree holds its roots." The sprites began to yell at each other again.

"Okay, just chill! Look, I'll just slice this baby up, that way both of you can share."

"No! Cutting the apple will destroy the fruits magic properties."

"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right. I-um...I knew that."

"Choose, and choose now, dragon, or our tribes will decide this matter for ourselves." The Southern pixie demanded before he spoke a little French and the sprites began arguing again.

"No, hold up! There has to be a peaceful way to settle this. Uh...do you guys know rock, paper, scissors? Eenie, Meanie, Miney, Moe? Anybody?"

"MAKE FOR THE APPLE!" The Northern sprite exclaimed.

"FIGHT TO THE CORE!" The Southern sprite added.

The sprites flew up to the apple in Jackie's hand while she tried to keep it away from them. "No, wait! Stop! GRANDPA!" She exclaimed before she tripped onto the stream and changed back into her human form.

Luckily, Lao Shi flew in his dragon form when he snatched the golden apple from his granddaughter until he swallowed it whole. "There is no more apple, and no more reason to fight. Are there any questions?" He said simply. The sprites began to grumble to themselves, but they decided to be at peace silently as they flew away before Lao Shi changed back into his human form and held his granddaughter up. "Magical creatures look to dragons for strong leadership and guidance, never forget that, young one. You must always show great poise and-" He suddenly burped out the enchanted apple's steam before he smiled sheepishly. "Excuse me."

"Hey, you could've at least saved me a bite, Grandpa. I'm hungry like a wolf over here." Fu Dog said as he held up the apple steam.

Later on, Jackie flew over the city in her dragon form for an afternoon flight while she kept thinking about about her grandfather told her.

"Strong leadership, right." She said to herself until a green energy bean suddenly zoomed right in front of her face, making her yelp in surprise as she halted in midair. She glanced down and saw Huntsboy aiming his high-tech arrow as he prepared another green energy arrow.

"How's my aim, dragon girl?" He asked rhetorically as he smirked underneath his mask.

"Totally lame, you missed! And missed again!" She looked up when she saw bricks falling straight towards her as she used her reflexes to avoid getting herself whacked in the head before she faced Huntsboy again.

"Catch me if you can!" He jumped off the building and flipped on a lightpost before he fired an energy box at a manhole where he jumped in.

Jackie followed him inside to a dark train subway. She used her enhanced eyesight before she found Huntsboy running into a corner when she flew after him, but then got flash-blinded by green light as she shielded her face.

She adjusted her vision and saw the Huntsclan and its Huntsmaster surrounded her. "Congratulations, dragon girl."

"You've fallen right into our trap." The Huntsman said with his sinister voice.

The Huntsclan men surrounded Jackie until she thought quick when she whacked them out cold with her tail. "I'm sorry, Huntsfool, but you left the back door open! See ya!" She exclaimed as she flew down the subway, but the Huntsman remained unfazed by her supposed escape.

"Oh, it's all part of the plan, dragon." The Huntsman used his staff to melt down the wall next to him before he ripped out a couple of cords for the train tracks. "You're about to catch the downtown express."

He switched the railroad tracks as the train rode down the track Jackie was flying down and was about to have a head-on collision. "Uh-oh! Not the face! NOT THE FACE!" Then she crashed into it when she got knocked out cold and blacked out.

Several minutes later…

"Heads..no...tails! No! Heads! Wrong again. This just isn't me day...again." Jackie could hear someone with an Irish accent said in frustration before she began to regain consciousness when she opened her eyes and saw a leprechaun in front of her, flipping a golden coin with a chained-up ankle until he noticed Jackie opening her eyes. "Hey, guys! The dragon's awake!"

Jackie groaned as she rubbed her head to rid her concussion. "Since when is the downtown express ever on time?" She asked herself.

Suddenly, a girl grabbed her eye and began inspecting her. "No sign of intracranial trauma or subdural hematoma." She said, and Jackie noticed a barefeet giant girl and a tiny brownie.

"Uh, no sign of inter-suba-what?"

"You're fine."

"Dragons rescue us." The giant girl said childishly.

"Rescued? Us? With my luck, no, not likely." The leprechaun said before he flipped a coin. "Tails, no."

"Where an I? Who are-" Jackie began to ask.

"Oy! Watch where your tail's sitting, dragon!" The brownie exclaimed.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't even see you down there." Jackie removed her tail off him.

"How would ye like to see my fist hanging down your throat, then?"

"Oh, don't mind Reggie, he's a brownie with some anger management issues." The girl said.

"Oy! I don't have 'anger management issues'! I manage to get angry just fine, thank you very much!"

"I'm Silver." The girl showed her tail, revealing that she was a mermaid. "I graduated Aqua Cum Laude, Atlantis U."

"Congratulations." Jackie said.

"The giant is Bertha."

Jackie suddenly recognized her. "Hey, I remember you. You were the dull giant who competed in Eli Pandarus' private island pageant."

Bertha clapped her hands like she had just won an award. "Dragon remember!" She said before she held out her feet, making everyone plug their noses. "Bertha's feets smells bad."

Reggie groaned from the stench of the giant's feet. "That's putting it mildly." He said before he began to feel nauseous. "Are we going into a tunnel? It's getting so dark…" He then fell unconscious.

"And the neurotic leprechaun is Clooney." Sliver said as she gestured to the troubled leprechaun.

"Look, I'm not neurotic, okay? I'm just very, very unlucky." Clooney said as he placed the coin he flipped on the back of his hand. "Okay, I'm thinking heads, so I'll go the other way and guess tails." He removed his hand and his smile dropped. "Ooh, darn it!"

"Look, the name's Jackie Long, I'm the American Dragon. Just hang tight and I'll have us out of here in no time flat." She said confidently before she tried to pulled her chains in half, but they remained in tacked as she pulled harder and then tried to bite it with her dragon teeth.

"Save your strength, Jackie, these chains are reinforced with unicorn horn, even you can't break them." Silver explained.

"But-but-but what are we doing here? Where are they taking us?" She looked around and realized that they were trapped inside a Huntsclan hover vehicle.

Silver looked out the ceiling bars as she pointed to the night sky. "See the elliptical position of the moon? My guess is that we are the special guests for the Huntsclan's Grand Equinox Hunt."

"The Grand Eq-what now?"

Later on, Jackie and the rest of her new friends found themselves tied up to wooden poles at a Huntsclan camp, where the Huntsman stood before his prey. "The Grand Equinox Hunt: for thousands of years, our order has lived by one simple code- the way of the hunt." He explained in front of everyone before he walked up to their bonfire. "Tomorrow at dawn, each of these creatures will be released, and given a ten minute head start, then we shall track them down and bag them as our trophies."

"But the grand prize is mine." Huntsboy cutted in. "Tomorrow, I swear on our ancestors that I will slay the American Dragon and fulfill my destiny!" He removed his glove and showed his army his dragon-birthmark, which was apparently the Mark of the Huntsclan. Everyone began to cheer of Ray's speech in triumph, but Jackie leaked a tear when she felt heartbroken that her crush was trying to kill her willingly.

"Oh, Ray...why?" She asked mostly to herself quietly before a leak dripped from her chin.

"Slay the dragon! Slay the dragon!" Bertha chanted until she noticed that Jackie was staring at her oddly and fearfully. "Oh, right, sorry."

Later as the night went on, most of Jackie's new friends went to sleep while she continued to struggle to break herself free. "Let me at the Huntsclan! I'll take them all on meself!" Reggie exclaimed.

Jackie groaned until she managed to set her own tail free as she smiled before she heard someone coming when she quickly hid her free tail. "Dragon, I just wanna have a good look at you before I slay you tomorrow." Huntsboy said as he approached her.

"Look all you want, the view is mighty pretty, but what say we dial down the whole slaying part?" Jackie said.

Huntsboy then began to take a closer look at the dragon like he was beginning to recognize her own voice, despite how many times he tried to kill her in the past. "There's something very familiar about you. Something in your eyes and voice." Jackie glanced away when she began to realize that Ray was starting to remember her.

Jackie then tried to reach into the boy of her dreams and see if there was any good in him. "Yo, Huntsboy, why are you doing all of this? What did I ever do to you or the Huntsman? You know, I'm just about your age."

"I am marked." He revealed his dragon birthmark as he frowned under his mask. "It is my destiny." He then turned away as he slipped his glove back on.

"Hey, I got a birthmark on my tummy that's shaped like the state of Florida, it doesn't mean I'm gonna move there." While Huntsboy wasn't looking, Jackie reached her tail towards the key that was strapped around his belt and hid it before he noticed. "What matters is what's on the inside of someone's heart, doing what you think is right."

"You don't know me, dragon."

"I know there's more to you than that. Maybe you could be a little rough around the edges, but...every ball of pyro as gotta have a ray of sunlight."

Ray's eyes went wide when the dragon said that. "Wait…" He turned to Jackie with a look of suspicion in his eyes. "What did you just say?"

"Uh, I just mean I think there's another side to you. Have you ever stopped and considered that the master, who has been raising you probably since birth, has been lying and deceiving you for his own personal reason, has no care in any world besides his own greed and hate?" Huntsboy stared at her while he cocked an eyebrow and crossed his arms. "What I'm trying to say is that I'm not your enemy, I've never even met you until the day we first fought at Central Park. Just because there are some bad magical creatures out there, doesn't mean they're all evil, some part of your heart has to believe me. Is there anyone out there you deeply care about and wouldn't actually want you to do this?" That made Huntsboy's eyes go wide before he looked down like he was thinking about someone he personal knew besides the Huntsman. "You're not like the Huntsman, you're you."

Huntsboy's face began to tremble a little before he went to the dragon girl's face. "I'm not like the Huntsman, true...yet. But I will be, after I slay you tomorrow. And you're right, there is someone out there I really care about, if my master ever understood that I'm doing all of this so I can finally be with her."

Jackie's eyes went wide when he said that before he stormed away, leaving the dragon and her new friends by themselves. "Because of me...Ray's doing all of this...because he wants to be with me."

"Sorry, lovergirl, but it looks like you struck out." Sliver said.

"Guess again, Silver." Jackie smirked as she held up the Huntsboy's key she snatched from him.

"Hey! She has the key! Hooray!" Bertha exclaimed until Jackie quickly covered her mouth with her tail. "Oh, right."

Jackie began unlocking all of her friends from the poles before Silver took the key and tried to unlock the chains keeping them together, but it wouldn't even fit. "The key won't work on these locks, we're stuck together." Silver said.

Later on, Clooney, Reggie, Jackie, Silver, and Bertha began to tiptoe their way out of the Huntsclan campsite until they accidentally tripped over each other.

"Get them stinking toes out of my face, you wretched giant!" Reggie snapped before he began to feel nauseous from the bad smell again. "I think I see the white cliffs of dover." before he collapsed onto the grass.

"Keep moving, it's almost dawn." Jackie said before they quickly made their way into the forest as the sun began to rise.

Back at the Huntsclan campsite, the Huntsman and Huntsboy were inspecting the empty poles and realized that their preys have escaped, and they realized that they were unlocked, but broken off.

"The prisoners have escaped, master. I-I don't know what happened." Huntsboy stuttered.

"Disappointing, Huntsboy!" The Huntsman snapped at his apprentice. "Release the hounds!" The Huntsclan men released the three-headed cerberus hounds as they barked and ran out of their cages. The rest of the men ran out of their tents and grabbed their staffs as one blew on his horn. "And let the hunt begin."

Jackie and the rest of her new friends ran across a stream before they stopped for a breather. "Alright, no need to panic." Jackie said until they heard a horn being blown in the distance, catching their attention until they realized that the Huntsclan was beginning their Equinox Hunt.

"Is that the ice cream man?" Bertha asked dully.

"Guess again." Reggie said to the giant.

"Every magical creature for themselves!" Sliver exclaimed before they all tried to run in separate directions until their chain thrusted them back as they grunted on the grass.

"Aww, man!" Jackie complained.

"Fan out." The Huntsman said as they walked across the forest for any signs of their magical creatures. "Silence." Everyone remained silent when they heard a distant hammering coming from nowhere.

"That way, master!" Huntsboy said as he pointed to their left before he ran off.

Reggie kept on hammering a tiny stone on his ankle chain, but it wouldn't even budge until he accidentally slammed it onto Clooney's thumb.

"Ow! That was my thumb! Now I'll probably get a blister, I just know it." He exclaimed before a large bump appeared on his thumb. "Yep, there it is."

Silver picked up their chain as she inspected it. "This metallic alloy is fifty percent iron, thirty percent titanium, and twenty percent unicorn horn with a hardness level of-" She said.

"Oy, Miss Know-it-all Fishtail, why don't you shut your big, smart hole for once?!" Reggie snapped.

"There's no way to break these by-"

"Everyone, get down!" Jackie warned before they hit the dirt when they saw the Huntsclan walking into the meadow. "Fasten your seatbelts, y'all about to fly the dragon airlines. Now can I get a whoop whoop!" Jackie expanded her wings until Silver took out a ruler and measured her wingspan.

"Sorry, Jackie, but it's scientifically impossible for your wings to displace enough air to-"

"Hey, all I know is I can get you from this place to that place! Check me out." She began to fly into the air with Silver, Clooney, and Reggie holding onto her for dear life while Bertha hanged from her chain, but Jackie strained and struggled to stay on the air.

"Bertha flying! Bertha like butterfly!" She said before she got caught inside a tree, causing every else to get tangled up inside as well.

"Ah, that's really nice flying, princess reptile. I oughta punch your lights out for ya, ya no-good winged reptile!" Reggie exclaimed.

"Shh!" Silver shushed before she gestured to the Huntsclan walking underneath them.

"Quick, hide!" Jackie said before they dug their faces deep on the leaves to hid themselves from view.

"They couldn't have gotten far." The Huntsman said.

"Uh oh, these leaves, they're covered in pollen." Clooney said nervously before he felt a sneeze coming on. "Ahh...ahh...ahh-" Jackie, Silver, Reggie, and Bertha all immediately covered the unlucky leprechaun's nose before he could catch the Huntsclans' attentions.

"Move on." They all began to walk deeper into the woods.

They uncovered Clooney's nose when they believed they lost them. "Ah-CHOO!" His friends stared at him with worry. "...You don't think they heard that, do you?" They heard weapons being trigger when they glanced down and realized that the Huntsclan did hear a sneeze coming from the trees. "Yep, that figures."

"OPEN FIRE!" The Huntsman immediately fired his staff at the magical creatures until Jackie swung her tail at the base of the tree, fall to the ground before it slid down a hill. "After them!"

The tree splashed onto a river as it floated down the current until Jackie noticed that there was a waterfall at the end of the river. "Silver, get in the water, you gotta use your fins to get us to the other side." She told the mermaid.

"Uh, yeah, about that, I...can't really swim. I'm afraid of the water." She said reluctantly.

"You're afraid of the what?!"

"You're a mermaid, for the love of piccadilly circus!" Reggie exclaimed, just as confused by this ironic turn of events.

"Mermaid no swim?" Bertha asked in confusion.

"I know, I know. Look, it's kind of embarrassing." Sliver said as she looked down before they all yelled when the tree began to plummet down the waterfall with its passengers. They all walked off the tree, now all soaking wet as they stopped at a field of gas geysers.

"Geysers." Jackie said.

"Uh, ix-nay on the dragon fire-aye, Jackie, the gas coming out of these geysers is highly flammable."

A personal raincloud then loomed over Clooney before it began to rain on him, but he didn't seemed fazed by this at all. "Uh, does this happen to you a lot?"

"Oh yeah, it's part of the whole 'unlucky' thing." He said before a lightning struck on Jackie, electrocuting her as she screamed. "See? See? Everyone I love, I end up hurting!"

Bertha then heard a horn being blown before she pointed up at the cliffside, where the Huntsclan stood. "Huntsclan coming! Huntsclan coming!" She warned.

"Fire at will!" The Huntsman ordered before he and his men before firing with staffs and high-tech arrows of green energy at the magical creatures, making them run off as they screamed until they hid behind a geyser and poked their heads out.

"Is it over?" Silver asked.

"Oh, it's over, alright." Reggie said as he glared at everyone. "Look at us! We've got a freaking giant, un unlucky leprechaun, a mermaid that can't swim! You know, I think we're one pathetic bunch, and I hate each and every one of ya, even myself!"

Magical creatures look to dragons for strong leadership and guidance, never forget that, young one, Jackie remembered her grandfather once told her before she was captured.

"I'm surprised we made it this far, they're just gonna zap us with that green energy stuff." Clooney said sadly.

Jackie allowed the leprechaun's words to sink in before she held up the chains that kinked her with everyone else. "Green energy stuff…" She said, until she smiled with an idea. "Listen up, y'all, the AmDrag has got a plan."

The Huntsclan scouted around the geyser field until Huntsboy saw the American Dragon flying in the air. "There." He said as he pointed at her before he fired an energy arrow at Jackie, but she held out the chains as it sliced off the unicorn horn-reinforced chain with no problem.

"Yeah, now wave your chains in the air, wave 'em like you just don't care!" Jackie rapped as her new friends stared up at her in amazement.

The Huntsclan before open firing their green energy bows while Bertha held up Silver as they chains were sliced off and then Huntsboy fired his arrow at Clooney and Reggie as he sliced off their chains.

"Hey, it worked!" Sliver said with a smile.

"Oy, let's clear out of here!" Reggie exclaimed before they broke into a run.

"One dragon shishkabob coming right up." Huntsboy said as he prepared his green energy bow and aimed directly at Jackie.

She noticed before she glanced up at the gas clouding up the entire feel, making her remember that Silver once warned her that it was highly flammable. "Time to turn up the heat, yo." She said before she spew her fire breath into the air as it turned blue and loomed over the Huntsclan.

"Fall back!" The Huntsman shouted before he, his apprentice, and his men followed him out of the geyser fields.

Jackie and her new friends later found themselves a little cave for refuge as she held them removed ankle cuffs off them.

"Ooh, those things really chafe the ankles, you know? Anyone bring any aloe?" Clooney said as he rubbed his ankle.

"Well, I hate all of ya guts, but I wish you luck just the same, farewell." Reggie said as he began to walk out of the cave.

"Wait! We have to stay together." Jackie said.

"Oy, what are you talking about, dragon?"

"Look, we don't stand a chance out there by ourselves, the Huntsclan are just gonna pick us off one at a time."

"Jackie thinks we do gooder together?" Bertha asked as she placed some chain pieces together.

"Yeah, way gooder. I mean...look, I say we're through running and hiding, I say we take the fight to them."

Reggie then smiled in agreement. "Oh, yeah, a little payback. I like the sound of that! I'll say we-" He began to shout again, until he walked right into Bertha's smelly feet, making him fall unconscious again.

"Sorry." She said.

Later on, Jackie began to draw out their plan and just finished explaining to them what to do when they returned to the Huntsclan campsite to send them off running and hiding themselves. "So that's the plan. We hit their camp at sunset, any questions?" She said.

"Just one: are you like completely bananas, las?" Clooney said.

"We're not warriors, Jackie." Sliver pointed out.

"Yeah, well we still got a couple of hours to change that, you feeling me?" Jackie said.

Despite their reluctance, Jackie has decided upon herself that she could train her new friends how to fight and fight off against their fears like she always did. Jackie made Clooney a wooden boomerang with her claws before she told him to throw it at a Huntsclan dummy. However, after he threw the boomerang at the dummy, it flew back to him when it threw his hat off while he ducked until it came back and smacked him on the head. Jackie later tried to make every air kick, but that only ended up making Silver trip from her fins while she threw Reggie into Clooney's mouth.

She later sliced a piece of the boomerang she just made and gave it to Reggie, who tried to hurtle it to the dummy, but ended up hitting the grass instead. He growled before he hopped onto the dummy's head and teared it to shreds, making Jackie facepalm herself. Jackie later tried to help teach Silver how to swim when she dove into the stream, but the second Silver poked her fin in the water, she shrieked and waddled away in fear, making Jackie sink underwater in frustration.

She then made them air kick again, until another lightning cloud appeared above Clooney's head and tried to zap him before he ran away from it while it chased him. Jackie then sliced up a giant club for Bertha before he took it and tried to whack the dummy, but ended up throwing the club straight into the air before it landed on her foot, making her hop around in pain. Jackie facepalmed herself again as she shook her head.

Later, everyone returned to the cave as the sun began to set, but everyone was in total bad shape.

"Bertha's foot is smelling and hurting." She said.

"Oh, me bruises have bruises. Oh, wait...that one's a mole, I should probably get that one checked." Clooney moaned as he rubbed his knee.

"This isn't going to work." Silver said to Jackie.

"Trust me, I'll give you guys lots of cover from the air. I-" Jackie said until she heard another horn blow when she turned around and found the Huntsclan emerging from the forest. She then turned back to her new friends. "Get down! I'll lead them away!" She then flew out of the cave. "Yo! Hunts-chumps! Over here!" The Huntsman fired his staff at the dragon, but she dove down and avoided it while she flew up to a cliffside. "Haha! Is that all you got?"

"Try this, dragon!" Huntsboy retorted before he wrapped her up with the same unicorn horn chains and thrusted her to the ground while she grunted.

"Excellent chain work, Huntsboy, it looks like you will have your dragon trophy after all." The Huntsman said to his apprentice.

Silver, Clooney, Reggie, and Bertha all overlooked from behind a bush while they watch the Huntsclan escorting their dragon leader back to their camp. They wrapped her up in front of a bonfire when nightfall has finally arrived, where they would begin to slay Jackie.

"Well done, Huntsboy, now finish her, become one of us." The Huntsman said as he handed Huntsboy his staff.

Ray took the staff and approached the dragon girl while Silver, Clooney, Reggie, and Bertha watched from behind a tree. "Okay, just like Jackie planned it." Silver said to her friends.

Ray aimed his staff at the dragon while he stared at her in silence. There's something familiar about her, Ray thought to himself as he stared into her eyes.

"What are you waiting for?!" The Huntsman snapped at his apprentice impatiently.

He heard someone clear his throat when he turned around and found Clooney standing there. "Um, excuse me? Is there a dress code for this party? 'Cause all my dresses are at the cleaners." He said.

"Get the leprechaun!"

"Come on! Come on! Don't let this be my lucky day." Clooney flipped his coin and then smiled before another rain cloud appeared above him. "Looks like rain." He ran past the two Huntsmen before his cloud zapped them with its lightning before he zapped a stash of staffs to set them on fire. "Anyone else feeling unlucky?"

"Bertha charge!" She shouted as she stomped towards the camp with Reggie holding onto one of her pigtails.

"Now you're gonna get it, you!" Reggie shouted.

"Take defensive positions, we're under attack!" The Huntsman called to his army.

Reggie hopped off of Bertha and landed on top of a guard as he shoved his hood over his eyes and landed on the grass while he made a run for it. He ran between another guard's legs before the blinded one collided with him as they fell unconscious.

Bertha began sticking her smelly feet into the tents of the other Huntsclan men, making them nauseous enough to fall unconscious. "Smell Bertha's feet, smell the feet." She said as she waved her foot around and knock more of the men unconscious from the bad smell.

Reggie ran away from another group of Huntsclan men until he was caught in a dead end of boulders before he turned to the guards. "I oughta take you on all myself." He said before he took a deep breath and calmed down. "But instead, I'm gonna take a nice deep breath and do the wise thing." He took a pebble from the pile, enough to cause an avalanche of boulders to rolled after the Huntsclan, making them run for their lives while Reggie leaned against the rock and tossed the pebble.

Jackie struggled to break free from her chins until she noticed that two Huntsclan men were preparing their high-tech bows, when a giant waved splashed over them and knocked them out. She noticed that Silver was on the water while she smiled innocently.

"Silver, you did it! You swam!" Jackie said proudly.

"Well, I am a mermaid." She pointed out.

"Smell feet! Smell feet!" Bertha said as she lifted up a couple of men with her toes before she dropped them while they fell unconscious.

Silver pulled out a key from one of the men and used it to unlock Jackie from her chains. "Time to give y'all that air cover I promised." She said before she flew into the air.

"Fall back into the woods! Retreat!" The Huntsman shouted to his men before they all quickly ran into the woods, except for Huntsboy when he stopped and glanced up at the sky when Jackie spat a fireball at the Huntsman's rear, making him scream in agony.

"Ha! Now that's what I call lightning a fire under someone's-" The Huntsboy threw a bola trap at Jackie as it took her by surprise and wrapped her around a tree.

He then stormed up to her while he charged up his staff. "It's over, dragon! Say goodbye!" He exclaimed.

Jackie's eyes went wide. "RAY, DON'T!"

That made him stop short when his eyes went wide in shock and confusion. "Wha...what did you call me?"

"Ray, if you want to say goodbye...say it to my human face." She shifted back into her human form, confirming to Ray that the dragon he has been trying to slay all this time was the girl of his dreams, Jackie Long. "Ray...it's me."

"...Jackie?" He removed his mask and stared at her in stunned silence, but he frowned and battle cried as he ran to her and charged up his staff. Jackie braced herself for the worst, but it never came when she looked down and noticed that Ray has sliced the ropes off of her. He then ran away from Jackie just like that without looking at her.

"Ray, wait!" Jackie was about to chase after him until she tripped over the bola ropes and she watched as the boy of her dreams disappeared into the woods without a trace.

"Jackie! Jackie! Jackie!" Bertha, Clooney, Silver, and Reggie chanted for their dragon leader while she appreciated, she was more worried about Ray, now that they both knew each other's secrets.

"We did it! We really did it!" Silver exclaimed as she hugged Jackie.

"Hey, maybe my luck is finally changing after all. Heads." Clooney said before he flipped his coin, until Jackie quickly caught and smiled down at the leprechaun.

"Sorry, Clooney, but I'm gonna need this." Jackie said to him.

Jackie found a telephone booth while her new magical friends watched until a random man walked up to the booth in confusion. "Oy, what are you staring at, then?" Reggie snapped at the man, making him fall unconscious.

"Hey, what up, G? Uh, any chance you and Fu can drive upstate and pick up me and some friends?" Jackie said over the phone.

Lao Shi and Fu Dog immediately managed to find Jackie as they took her back to Canal Street Electronics after they returned Reggie, Clooney, Bertha, and Silver back to their rightful homes in the magical world.

"Well done, young one. You show great skills not just as a dragon, but as a leader." Lao Shi said to his granddaughter as he poured himself some tea.

"Yeah, but I'm not so sure about letting the Huntsboy know who you really are." Fu Dog said with uncertainty. "It kind of takes away from the mystery, and the romance, and the va-va-va voom of the whole thing, don't you think?"

"If the Huntsboy has truly changed, he could become a valuable ally in our struggle against the Huntsclan."

"Not only that, but he's gonna be my main squeeze." Jackie added with a smile.

The next day at Millard Fillmore Junior High, Jackie opened her locker as she explained to her friends everything that happened when she was a guest in the Huntsclan's little Equinox Hunt.

"Don't you guys see? Ray let me go, Huntsboy let me go." Jackie said to Travis and Spuda. "And he once said that he was trying to slay me, because he wanted to finally be with me."

"Yeah, Jackie, sure." Travis said sarcastically until he scowled at his dragon friend. "In a really messed up and dysfunctional way."

"Sounds like true love to me." Spuda said.

"And now what you think, everything is going to be all love and gravy between the two of y'all?"

"At least we can finally talk." Jackie admitted with a shrug. "No more secrets, no more kung fu, just him and me." She closed her locker.

After school, she and her friends hid behind the same basketball bleachers where they would normally see Ray walk. "Three, two, one." Jackie counted.

However, all she saw was her rival, Brenda Morton, walking out of the corner with her friends. "So I was like no way, you better run." She said, while the trio stared at the cheerleader dumbfoundedly until Jackie looked down.

Jackie immediately went to Principal Derceto's office and asked her about a student named Ray Killdragonosa. "I'm sorry, Jackie, Ray is gone. He transferred out of this school yesterday." The principal said as she turned to her with a file.

"Transferred?!" Jackie exclaimed in shock. "Where'd he go?! I mean, I need to get a hold of him!"

"Well, there's no forwarding address here, nothing." Derceto then gave Jackie a look of pity. "I'm sorry, Jackie, he did leave these for you." She handed her a picture of her and Ray together at their first school dance together, and a note with her name on it, written in Ray's handwriting.

Jackie walked out of the office while she ripped the envelope and pulled out the letter before she examined it as it read:

Dear Jackie,

I can't even describe how sorry I am for not realizing sooner. You were right, everything you said back at the fields were all true, and I'm sorry I didn't listen to you. All I ever wanted was to be with you, I guess you could forgive me, but I don't think I'll ever forgive myself for being an idiot the whole time. You'll always be the girl of my dreams, neither of our secrets will ever change that, and I'm sorry I had to leave you so suddenly.

I know we'll see each other again someday, but don't come looking for me. Promise me you'll stay strong, Jackie, for me and everybody. If the Huntsman knew who you really were, he'll come after you and everyone you know and love: he's very persistent and dangerous, he will never take failure as an option and he won't shrug off what you and your grandfather did in the past; he will want revenge, one way or another. Be the ray of sunlight I believe you are, and thank you for opening my eyes.

Ray Killdragonosa (if that's even my real name)

Jackie's eyes began to leak tears as she read the letter. When she finished, she hugged the letter close to her heart as she leaned against the wall and sat on the floor, she then buried her head under her legs as she began to cry slightly with her shoulders jerking up and down.