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American Dragon: WotF Ep.5 pt.2

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Now then, at this particular moment in time, Jake was left completely undecided about what he was going to be doing next, seeing as his first initial plan for starting out this day at Coney Island was actually finished a lot more quickly than he originally anticipated it to be. He, of course, was able to realize that it was still far too early in the day for him to start heading right over to the beach area to try and meet up with Rose, seeing as she was most likely still in one of the many fun houses to be found around here and all and everything. And so, Jake decided that he was going to go along with the most simple of solutions that he could think of at this time and place; he was going to go over and join Rose on the inside one of the local fun houses and then start heading over to the initial beach area right along with her, much later on. However, just before Jake was getting ready to do just that, there was a sudden blast of fire that just barely flew over his spiky, green-outlined hair. It wasn’t as powerful as, say, Jake’s very own dragon fire breath, of course, but, it was still strong enough to cause an explosion that was large enough to send anybody who was able to see it running and hiding within a mere few seconds of time, and to cause Jake himself to try and look and see where it came from in the first place.  

 

That was when Jake was first able to discover that it was none other than the exact same fire-blowing, Firefighter helmet wearing ‘performer’ that he saw from before within the freak show tent earlier, only this time around, he was considerably more ‘different’ than he was before. The same of which could be said about the other two ‘performers’ of the freak show; the proper mannered bearded lady and the bald, mustache-sporting strong-man. They were all changed in a very unique and different way, a very mystical and monstrously different to be precise. For, you see, at this exact same moment, the bearded lady was now a dark shade of green and had scaly-skin with dark black hair and blood-red eyes, in the same vein as, say, a nix, and her world-famous beard was now twice as long as it was before and it was acting almost exactly like the green snakes that occupied the Gorgon sisters’ world-infamous style of reptilian type hair. So, at this point, it was quite accurate for one to say that she was like a gorgon mixed between a soul-sucking nix and the world famous bearded lady type of sideshow attraction and she was angry at this moment.  

 

As for the strong-man, well; he was now looking more akin to a mustache-sporting ogre, only this ogre had eyes that were colored a nice thick blood-red as well, and he had six strong arms to show off his large green biceps this time around, not just two. And then, there was the earlier mentioned fire-blowing guy, the guy who uses a firefighter helmet as a hat and who once used and relied on a torch for his initial fire-blowing sideshow shtick. But now, the guy looked like he was a mix between a dragon and an ogre, with the ogre side being the most dominant of his features and now, rather than relying on a torch to breathe fire, he was, at last, able to produce flames of his own, that might not have been as powerful as Jake’s, but were still plenty as lethal. Now, suffice it to say; this was more than enough to leave Jake feeling completely taken back by what he was currently seeing, and that left him open long enough for the bearded lady to actually grab a hold of him, using nothing but her new longer, much darker and more monstrous beard, of course. At that point; all Jake could really do as a response to all this was say--

 

"Um-uh, hey, um-uh, l-l-look, uh, if-if this about that whole, uh, unicorn incident from way back when, uh..."

 

It was at that very same moment when our young teenager, Jake Long, was suddenly able to hear what sounded like a very raspy sounding voice chuckling very evilly, although, he was not able to tell which direction that it was coming from until its source actually decided to show himself. It was, of course, the Kelpie who was doing all of the wicked laughter at this time and once he finally made himself known to the young ensnared disguised dragon at this particular moment, he immediately dropped his own human disguise and revealed himself to be the fish-humanoid Kelpie that he really was, which was all done while he was responding to Jake's earlier words by saying--

 

"Oh-ho-ho, no, nope-nope-nope, this goes way beyond that, my dear American Dragon, much-much-much far beyond that, indeed"

 

--right before he started chuckle rather evilly yet again and we get a quick close-up shot of Jake’s both worried yet surprised face

 

However, it is at this very same moment that we are suddenly treated to yet another quick scene transition, and this one actually ends up bringing us straight back to where Rose was, which was still touring her chosen out Funhouse, all of the way up until she finally spotted what looked like yet another possible Funhouse mirror. She began to inspect it a little bit for a few seconds or so, and when it seemed like just another mirror from her point of view, she dismissingly said to herself--

 

“Huh, funny, I-I never would have thought that this part of the Funhouse would have had any of its own fancy mirrors hanging around…”

 

--all while, somehow, failing to notice that, while she was talking, her, apparent, reflection within the mirror was, actually, not following her every movement any more, as one would expect a normal mirror to do. However, just when she was about ready to walk off and be on her own merry way, she heard a very familiar voice tell her that--

 

“Oh, it doesn’t, you foolish little girl you…”

 

And then, upon realizing that the very same voice that she had just heard was remarkably similar to her very own, the lovely young Rose was very quick to turn herself right around in order to see where it was initially coming from. That was when she was able to see that the very same ‘mirror’ that she had just recently passed by was actually not a mirror in the slightest and the initial mirror ‘reflection’ of herself that was in it was actually no mirror reflection, to be certain. For, you see, as it would happen to turn out, what Rose had actually just passed by was, in fact, another doorway to be found within this particular Funhouse and what she had originally thought was just a simple reflection of herself was actually a perfect looking doppelganger of herself, right down to her fair and soft feeling skin, her bright blue eyes and her wavy, golden-yellow colored hair. However, shortly right after this very same aforementioned doppelganger had just started to move and then had placed herself in a position where she could then look at the real Rose face-to-face, something soon began to change rather drastically about this mysterious twin duplicate of Rose’s, in a very monstrous type of way, no less, as well. For you see, in almost a complete and total instant; her bright yellow hair and soft pale skin both changed colors and became two different shades of blue, her hair becoming the darker shade of blue at this time. And, what’s even more so is the fact that her aforementioned hairdo was actually made to suddenly begin flowing just like a ghostly woman’s crazy hairdo would be made to do in some kind of old horror movie classic and her facial expression was made to look like that of an angry Nix, complete with her bright, yellow glowing eyes and her snarling mouth filled with rows of razor sharp animal-looking teeth.     

 

Now then, needless to say, this was all, most definitely, more than enough to leave Rose completely and utterly flabbergasted as a result, and it most certainly did not help move things along when this mysterious and monstrous looking doppelganger of Rose’s actually began to multiply itself, causing there to become exactly seven of the monstrously ugly versions of Rose at that exact same moment and right after they had all started to snarl and hiss at the real Rose, they soon all began to attack her in a very vicious manner. This is where we are, once again, made to have yet another immediate scene transition, which then takes us straight back to the where we last saw our young and sassy other lovely lady friend, Miss Trixie Carter herself. Now, as one would expect it to be the case; she was still playing quite a few video games while she was still with the arcade of her choosing, all of the way up until she was, at last, made to turn herself around, after something was thrown right near her in that general area within the video game arcade itself. It was much to Trixie’s considerable, and understandable, horror to see that it was actually a trio of very odd looking monsters that were the ones responsible for that aforementioned projectile, and as they were all beginning to advance upon her at this exact same moment, which caused the rest of the video game arcade patrons to run away screaming, Trixie was also able see that these monsters all looked remarkably similar to the ones that were, apparently, a part of a nearby video game, much to both her equal amount of shock and of confusion. However, it was only within the next few seconds or so that Trixie’s main emotion became fear once again, as the three monsters all began to continue their advance against her, with the clear intention of trying to do her harm.

 

We are then brought right back to the duo consisting of both Arthur P. Spudinski and his pixie assistant, George, who were both now preparing themselves to start thrilling their respective taste buds with the well known delicacy of Nacho chips covered with exactly two layers of melted up cheese. However, what the two of them were both still woefully unaware of at this point was the fact that old Eli Excelsior Pandarus himself was still lurking and sneaking all around and about in the background at this time, with his mysterious and still chained-up pet monster still being made to move ever so closely right behind him. In fact, the two nacho cheese-eating protagonists were both so ever so certain of their apparent sense of complete and total safety at this point that they both soon got back to talking amongst themselves, mostly about George’s proposal to be made a permanent assistant to the group once again. And while the two of them were both talking with each other about that very same topic yet again, old Eli Pandarus and his unseen monster were both getting themselves ready and into position, with the specific intent of them both doing our young, unsuspecting Spud an extremely dangerous amount of bodily harm. Not that he or his pixie were able to really notice it, mind you, due them both being so wrapped up within their own conversation mind you. In fact, they were both so very much focused upon their own specific discussion that they didn’t hear Pandarus tell his pet that it was ‘show time’.

 

It is from that point forward that we are, at last, able to see the true nature of Pandarus' mysterious and beastly creature, which, at this point, has been revealed to be none other than an incredibly three-headed Chimera, the exact same type of creature that Jake and his 3 friends had all encountered and fought during their adventurous trip within the dream corridor (see the episode "Dreamscape" for more details in regards to that encounter). Now, the beast was most definitely bound and tied by Pandarus' magical chains, which were wrapped around both his two massive monster paws and his three multi-animal heads, up until Pandarus decided to finally release the three headed, snarling beastie and sick him on Spud without the latter ever even realizing it, not even for a slight, single moment of his time at the very, absolute least. This was actually just the thing to make Old Eli Pandarus feel all the more confident about his plan succeeding in full, however, what he did not expect to happen was what occurred during the conversation between Spud and George the pixie. For you see; while George and his enormous human employer were both talking about George's desire to be made a permanent assistant to Spud and his friends, George decided to demonstrate a very special ability of his which he believed would help to strengthen his case about why he would make an excellent and ideal assistant for both Spud and the rest of the main group. It was a ‘pixie-dust’ related move, of all things, if you can believe that and it was considered to be a very powerful technique amongst pixies and other various fair-folk.

 

But, before he would even begin to practice this very interesting technique, George had first decided to take a quick look around in order to make doubly certain that he and Spud were both, relatively, alone free from on-lookers at this current time. And, upon taking such a quick look around and, apparently, finding no trace of anyone who was close enough to catch a glimpse of any of George’s special performance, somehow even missing the Chimera that was slowly approaching them with dark intentions in the process, the pixie then began to perform his pixie-dust-related trick. It, apparently, involved him extending out his arms, which he did during this demonstration, and then, letting out a puff of his own personal kind of pixie produced dust. Now, this would have then been the point where, once the enemy of the pixie had, at least, part of their body covered by the previously mentioned dust, the pixie would have then been able to magically deliver any type of attack or blow to the aforementioned foe, without even having to get up all that close to them. George would then proceed to moderately demonstrate this technique to Spud, but, what he did not know, however, was the fact that, right after he actually managed to release some of his pixie dust out when he first extended his arms, the Chimera that Pandarus had just recently sent right after them had actually managed to walk right into it and got it on most of its middle, lion-themed head and, subsequently, its general main face out the three different ones that it had.

 

This allowed George to, essentially, pummel the Chimera while he was still demonstrating his technique to Spud and he was, basically, doing it all without ever even realizing what was currently happening at this time. And then, finally, once our little George's pixie-dust-related demonstration was nearly at its total and complete end, the tiny pixie then decided to finally finish it all up by giving it a hypothetical finishing move, which, of course, was translated directly towards Pandarus' own pet Chimera and even sent it flying right back to the evil wizard, and even caused it to land directly on top of him, much to the evil Pandarus' anger and annoyance. But, before we are actually allowed to see what was made to happen right after that, we are then made to come right back to where both George and Spud were still sitting and eating, and, what's even more so is the fact that the two of them were both still completely oblivious about the apparent attack that they were just narrowly able to avoid. But, regardless of all that, however, the two of them both continued to have their discussion about whether or not George would make a good permanent assistant or rather Spud just continued to sit there and listen to George while he explained thoroughly why he was exactly what Spud and the others needed for an assistant, all while he was still eating his cheesy nachos, of course. This was the point where we are suddenly treated to yet another voice-over sequence, and this one showed us just what was going on between Jake, Rose and Trixie and their respective attacking foes.

 

Now, for all intents and purposes; this voice-over that was currently being heard at this particular time was, basically, just George explaining why he would make a great assistance to Jake in terms of his duties as the American Dragon, be it as an advisor during his many battles, a personal confidant for all of the stress that it would likely bring or even as stress reliever who would simply keep a list of all of the things that can help calm him down. It was during the point where George was at the part about being an "advisor during his many battles" that we are shown exactly just how Jake was handling things on his end. And suffice it to say; he was actually dealing with the 'enhanced' Freak show performers rather nicely; he was outmaneuvering them, we was turning their own powers against one another, he was even able to take care of the Kelpie himself once the opportunity was, at last, open to him, regardless of what previously acquired forms that the latter tried to use against him. Then, about the same time where that part about being "a personal confidant to Jake for all of the stress that his job would likely bring" was verbally brought up, we are then suddenly shown just how Rose herself was dealing with her numerous doppelgangers while she was deep within funhouse of her choosing, and, much like how Jake was with his problem, Rose was actually handling things rather well, to be perfectly frank. She was fighting off the duplicate horde with a great amount of style and panache and was even able to destroy each and every single one of them, once she found out what type of physical force was right amount needed to shatter them like glass (hehe, get it?)

 

And then, once we are, at last, able to, finally, return to our young, sassy, female friend, Miss Trixie Carter, we are shown that she too was actually holding her own up quite nicely whilst being pitted up against the video game monsters that had come to life, who were all currently attacking her at this point. She was using nothing more than a simple mop as her weapon of choice at this time and, while her skills were nowhere near as strong as, say, Jake or Rose’s, she was still managing to keep herself safe from her attackers. This was also the point where we, the audience, could actually hear George the Pixie explaining to Spud that he could also be of some use as a “stress reliever who would simply keep a list of all of the things that can help calm him (Jake) down”. And it was during this particularly interesting part of the voice-over sequence that we, the audience, are, at last, able to see that the Pooka was rather quick to make his initial presence known to young teenage girl by jumping right on top of her head. This, of course, turned out to be an incredibly stupid idea on his part, though, naturally, seeing as all Trixie really had to do was simply toss him aside and then, she was free to continue defeating the video game monsters, using nothing more than her simple mop as a weapon, no less, as well.

 

It was at this point that the scene then, at last, came right back to both George and Spud at their position, where the former tried to conclude his argument with the latter by saying that, when he is around to help the group, they’ll never have to worry about any more unpleasant surprises ever again. And then, almost as if it was on the exact cue of what George had just said, Eli Excelsior Pandarus himself suddenly made an appearance right onto the scene and his Chimera was standing right there, next to him, like a common, well-trained poodle. Now then, as one would expect it to be the case, Pandarus had just made a ‘witty’ comment about ‘no more unpleasant surprises’ as his opening line and, as he proceeded to explain about his own ‘devious’ desire for sweet revenge in a very hamming-it-up-type of way, he also began to gloat about how, even as they all spoke right now, his associates were all taking care of Jake Long and his two lady friends, which left Spud himself (and his pixie by extension) completely at the mercy of the “incredible wizard, Eli Excelsior Pandarus” and his pet vicious monster, the blood-thirsty Chimera. Or, at least, that was the way that the old, wicked Eli Excelsior Pandarus was, initially, expecting the situation to be like, at first, but, then, just as soon as he heard what sounded like a person whistling directly at him, he turned around and saw that it was none other than Jake Long who was responsible for that very same noise, all while he was floating right there, in midair, in his full red and yellow American dragon form. And what’s even more so is the fact that both Trixie and Rose were both actually standing right there next to him at this particular moment in time and they were both also holding the unconscious forms of the two associates that Pandarus was just speaking of; the Pooka and the Kelpie, both of whom were, undoubtedly, taken straight out of the game during the initial fight sequences that were shown to us a little while earlier.

 

Now then, as one would most likely expect it be the case; this was more than enough to cause our dear old friend, Eli Pandarus, to actually start losing some of his confidence about his revenge schemes at this moment and it showed in the way that he made a somewhat angry and somewhat sheepish looking face, as did his pet Chimera, although to a somewhat lesser extent. However, this did not stop what was to come right next afterwards, for you see; while George and Spud would both just continue to eat their cheesy nachos, they were both, apparently, treated to a little show of some kind, which consisted of both Pandarus and his pet Chimera being viciously pummeled by both Jake and his lovely girlfriend, Rose, in a way that was so, apparently, violent that we, the audience, are not even allowed to actually see it. In fact, the only thing that we really are allowed to see at this point is what looked like the satisfied smirk of both Trixie and Spud during all of this and the indifferent and neutral looking-type face of George the pixie, who was still chewing on a single nacho cheese chip at this particular time, by the way. Then, all of a sudden, we are soon brought, immediately, right back to the D.O.R.C.S.’ submarine, deep underneath the Hudson River, and once we are finally brought right back to the interior of the aforementioned submarine, we are then shown that, not only was the Siren, Vicki Fickling, was still aboard, reading her own magazine all by her own lonesome self, but we are also shown what looked like a magical portal of some kind actually opening up right on the submarine’s essential bridge. Now, admittedly, this was hardly even enough to attract the attention of the young Miss Vicki Fickling at this time, but she soon took an ‘active’ interest into it all when she actually saw the sight of both Eli Pandarus and his pet Chimera actually running right through it, the latter of whom was currently carrying within his arms the unconscious forms of both the Kelpie and the Pooka.

 

This, of course, resulted in some playful minor teasing from Vicki Fickling right after the portal finally started to close right behind the two of them, seeing as she could quite easily tell that this, of course, the result of Pandarus’ plan falling flat on its face. However, this pretty little moment of banter between both Eli Pandarus and Miss Vicki Fickling soon came to an abrupt end when yet another portal actually started to open right up on the Submarine’s essential bridge and this time around, it was actually the type of portal that a Krylock would be able to make all on its own and, what’s more so; it was none other than the mysterious Ekaj Gnol who was the one to exit it. And he wasn’t all on his lonesome at this point in time either, for you see; coming right out of the portal right alongside him was none other than the three Gorgon sisters, along with the Shark-man, Tiburon, and the Ghostly soldier, Shackles Jack. Apparently, it seems that all did indeed decide to actually take him up on his offer to accompany him on his little ‘errand’ and they all appeared to be quite happy that they did agree to do such a thing, which they were all being very vocal about to be sure. This was when they all noticed what was clearly the only real proof that they all were all going need to know that the old wizard, Eli Excelsior Pandarus’ plan had failed dismally without question, not that it was of much concern to old Ekaj Gnol, that is, seeing as, when he came over to comfort the Chimera that Pandarus had apparently acquired with his assistance, he simply stated that, now, the group was just one attempt away from complete success as members of the D.O.R.C.S.

 

Meanwhile, though, way back within the main, general area of Coney Island itself, we are shown that, once again, our dear young friends; Jake Long, Rose, Trixie, Spud and George the pixie were all back onto their initial schedule for this particular day, with a few tweaks having been made to it, in light of the recent encounter with both Eli Pandarus and his three 'friends'. For one thing, they had to move around their originally planned out lunch period in order to make it so that it would coincide with a full group activity, due to the fact that they were all back together ahead of schedule. And, in light of the more recent tiring out events that had just transpired for exactly three out of five of the group's main members, it was decided that their first full group activity of the day was going to be some time spent on the general beach area of Coney Island. This actually turned out to be a pretty good idea, to be perfectly honest, seeing as both Jake and Rose were already planning on heading over towards this area anyways, prior their two respective attacks and all, and since they were all in desperate need of some good resting time, which was needed before they could go into the water after eating anyways. But, in any event, though, they were still all able to debate on whether or not they all wanted to keep George on as a full-time assistant and after much thought and discussion amongst themselves, they all decided that they were all going to need a little bit more time to debate on this particular subject before they could make a unanimous decision. Now, George was actually quite capable of accepting this as an answer to his initial proposal, but, once he was finally able to start talking underneath his breath without being noticed or heard, he vowed to himself that, one way or another, he was going to be the permanent assistant of this group, no matter what.

 

(Episode Ends)

 

Author’s Notes: If I may reiterate; Not exactly how intended this episode to be written down, but, I still hope that it was still a good read. This is proving to be more difficult than originally thought.

Part two of the fifth episode of my fan-made sequel series to American Dragon: Jake Long. Sorry I had to divide it into parts, but the whole thing was just too big.

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This was a GREAT read in my opinion. :)