Title: Destined

Author: MidnightzStorm

Author's Note: This is my first ADJL story. It's honestly amazing how this story has just flowed out of mind onto paper. I hope you all enjoy this!

Thanks to: my beta reader dx/dt, she completely rocks and helped me so much with the dialogue.

Disclaimer: I do not own or am affiliated with ADJL, don't sue!

Summary: A prophecy made about Rose and Jake changes everything.

Chapter 1: Prophecy

"From the light on high,
a chance to change your fate." – Remy Zero: Prophecy

Friday night and Jake Long was reading, nearly by choice. He should have been grinding at the skate park or at least catching the latest action movie, but no. He was in the backroom of his grandfather's electronic shop, reading up on troll customs for some troll ceremony that they wanted the American Dragon to oversee. The silver lining to the situation was that his two best friends, Spud and Trixie, were there suffering with him.

"Apparently licking your elbow at a troll means you're calling their mother fat," said Spud in his usual surfer-dude drawl. He frowned and stood up, moving his elbow as close as he could to his head. "It must be possible," he said dramatically. He began dancing around the shop moving his neck and arm.

Trixie and Jake just glanced once at their friend and went back to their books. After years of being friends with Spud, they considered this normal.

"Geez if you raise both of your arms the air you are signaling that you want to fight. Looks like the AmDrag won't be raising the roof to get this party started," he said exasperated, staring at the never ending list. "Can I even blink?"

"According to this list not much: if you blink too quickly in the presence of a female it means you want to mate with her. Ewwww. Sorry Jakey, but I don't want to be any godmother to some freakish trogon," said Trixie, slightly disgusted.

"Oh come on elbow! Just a little further," said Spud still jumping around.

A muffled sound could be heard above them.

"Shhh…Did you hear that?" Jake asked his companions. "Ear of the dragon." He looked up; something was definitely in the vents.

A figure clad in black jumped down from the ventilation system, landing catlike on the floor. As fast as she had landed she stood up, peeling off her black mask and letting her long blonde curls fall gracefully past her shoulders.

Jake beamed at the sight of her. "Rose!" he squealed happily, rushing to embrace her. She quickly gave his lips a chaste kiss.

"What were you doing in the vents? You know we do have doors," he joked as he helped her brush the dust off her sleeves.

"The Huntsmaster is out of town for the night, but still a few of the clan are in New York. I'm certain that I wasn't followed, but I didn't want to advertise where I was going," she explained.

"So the Huntsman is still keeping his eye on you?" Jake asked.

"Yes, he has been more paranoid then normal in the past few months."

"Well he kind of has the right to be, doesn't he? I mean, his niece is a turncoat who is in love with a dragon. If I were him, I would be like totally paranoid too," said Spud, standing still for a moment.

"Thanks Spud," Jake said sarcastically, kind of embarrassed, but mostly annoyed. He didn't mind using the 'L' word to describe his feelings for Rose, but he did not know exactly what she felt.

"No problemo bro," Spud said with a smile. "Rose can you lick your elbow?"

"I never tried," she said with a slight grin, but she quickly turned to Jake, her face becoming serious again, "The Huntsman wants something that is arriving in a fairy shipment this Wednesday. I don't know what it is; I just know it's important."

"Don't worry baby, the Am-Dragon is on the job," Jake said with a cocky smile.

"I'm not worried, but just please be careful, he isn't taking me with him."

"Who is he taking?"

"88 and 89," she answered blandly.

"No sweat, all I have to do is look at those two punks and they run away in terror."

"No it means that he isn't expecting trouble. And if you do show up he is gong to know someone leaked information," she said, her eyes imploring him to understand. "We need to be sneaky about this. Before the ship docks we could fly aboard and retrieve his black-market items."

"But we don't even know what he wants or when the ship is scheduled to dock," said Jake.

"Not true man," said Spud finally breaking from his quest of trying to get his tongue to his elbow. "Do you have the ship's registration number?" he asked Rose.

She nodded and gave it to him as he grabbed his laptop from his school bag.

"Just give me a little time, and we will know what is coming," Spud said, his eyes glued to the computer screen.

"And then we can cross reference the cargo inventory with these spell ingredients. I know he is working on these two lately," Rose said, pulling two pieces of paper from her pocket.

"Okay, while Spud tries to the 411 on the shipment, do you want to help us research troll customs?" Jake asked hopefully.

"I'd love to," she said with a smile.

Rose almost felt normal as she leaned against her boyfriend on the couch. Well, she felt as normal as a girl could get when researching troll customs with her dragon boyfriend.

"So do you know where the Huntsmaster is?" Jake questioned causally.

"Yeah, he is at the Academy. I talked my Aunt into telling him that he was needed up there," she answered, her stomach turning slightly. A month ago she would have been guilty making up such a lie, but after she realized that the woman she considered family had been lying to Rose her entire life, she felt significantly less loyal to the clan.

"Why would she do that?"

"I told her that there was a party I wanted to go to, but the Huntsmaster was keeping me too busy, and I doubted that he would let me go. My Aunt, even though she is apart of the Huntsclan, believes that I should have some fun," Rose finished. She was actually quite proud of her plan. After she left the shop she would go to an actual party. She was going to make sure she was seen by a few people, and if she was really lucky she would come back to her quarters smelling of beer, sweat, and smoke. After fourteen years of having a double life she learnt the best way to cover up lies was to dowse them with half-lies.

"He is going to notice that I had been gone, but after a little while of denying it, I will admit to going to a party."

"Won't you get in major trouble?" Trixie asked.

"Yeah, I'll probably get grounded, but its better then the punishment for treason," Rose said, turning her attention back to the book.

She felt Jake's arm around her shoulder tighten. She smiled sweetly and turned to face him. "Its okay, I have been careful," she said softly.

She hadn't been able to sleep at her normal hours and whenever she could get a chance to sleep she was so tired, that she would forget to use her dream charm. And at school there never seemed to be a moment where she and Jake could be alone. So after two weeks of no dream dates and no contact she had to see him and she believed it was worth the risk.

"I'm not going to let anything happen to you," he told her, gripping her slender figure even tighter.

"And I'm not going to let anything happen to you, Dragon boy," she said smiling and leaning in for a kiss. When he kissed her, she knew he was just kissing Rose and only Rose. Not Huntsgirl, not some other manifestation of her alter ego, simply Rose, and that is exactly the way she wants it. As she felt his hands slide up her back she heard a dramatic cough.

The couple tore a part and fond two girls standing in front of them. The perky blonde of the duo said with a sigh: "It's so romantic." While the raven haired girl next to her just made gagging sounds.

"Uh, Rose have you met Kara and Sara?" Jake said sheepishly.

"Oh yeah your cousins," she said thinking back to last year.

"Actually they aren't my cousins. They are the Oracle Twins."

"Yes and I just had a vision of my darling sister making a prophecy," said Sara happily.

"Wait you had a vision of her making a vision?" asked Jake.

"No she had a vision of me making a pro-hecy," said Kara, rolling her eyes.

"So wait, does that mean the prophecy is bad since she saw you making it? Or is it good because you are making it?" Jake asked, hoping the answer was a good one.

"It going to be good thing, I just hate making prophecies," said Kara.

"Apparently the prophecy has something to do with you, young dragon," Jake's grandfather said as he entered the backroom.

"Oh cool," Jake said.

"Oh great it's coming," Kara said sadly. Suddenly her dark eyes started to glow and she began: "The love that breaks the line of hate will bring the Huntsclan to an end. The child of the American Dragon and the Huntsgirl will bring peace to the magical and non-magical worlds. The child of the Dragon and the Slayer that will end the war comes soon."

"Say what?"