Dragon

**Animated** | Episode 8 (A.T.O.M.)

**Dragon** is a fictional character from the *A.T.O.M. – Alpha Teens on Machines* series.

He is a Jo-Lan warrior and the clone of Sebastian Manning. He started as a ninja assassin, but chose to leave after Quan tried to kill Axel Manning.

## Personality

Dragon feels that true warrior must walk his path alone which is why he keeps to himself and reveals little about his life. He is thoughtful and calm and overly disciplined. He does not speak often in the first season, but is forced to open up in the second season when Axel pulls off his mask and he learns that he looks just like Sebastian Manning.

He is very loyal towards the person he serves and fulfills his orders to the limit of what he thinks is right. He will protect people he cares for with his life - presumably a character trait he got from Sebastian.

In the beginning of his relationship with Axel, Dragon tried to kidnap him, because he was following Paine's orders at the time. He changed his mind when Paine wanted him to go against his honour to kill a Jo-Lan warrior that is unable to defend himself. Ever since he and Axel began respecting each other as equal Jo-Lan warriors. In the episode "Fathers and Sons", when they find out that Dragon looks exactly like Axel's supposedly dead father Sebastian, Dragon joins them to find the truth. During this time he and Axel form a bond and he said that he would have been proud to be his father, as it turns out that he is just Sebastian's clone.

Dragon was found by Quan at the same time Sebastian disappeared. He trained him in Jo-Lan, taking advantage of the fact that he is Sebastian's clone. Dragon has always been loyal to his master because he took care of him when he did not know who he was. He starts to doubt Quan's ways when he wants to kill Axel and he finally understands that Axel's interpretation of Jo-Lan is better than his original opinion that a warrior must walk alone.

## Appearance

In the first season Dragon wears a dark blue and almost black ninja suit with a dragon's head on his chest. There are three golden shuriken on his arm protectors. He wears ninja tabi (shoes) and a hood that he occasionally pulls over his head. Most of the time he is masked and his eyes appear yellow, which is why his Jo-Lan energy also appears to be yellow.

In the second season Dragon's outfit colour changed to white. The hood, the dragon's head, his arm protectors and his tabi remain black, though. He usually carries a golden katana that can even cut through metal.

## Biography

### A.T.O.M. – Season I

He is first seen when he was hired by unknown clientele to steal an inhibitor that drains its wearer of their strength. He met Alexander Paine when he and Paine were unexpectedly robbing the same place. Paine sent Spydah and Flesh to take care of him only for Dragon to easily defeat them both. An impressed Paine knew he was both a Jo-Lan master and a mercenary and tripled his pay to give him the inhibitor and capture Axel Manning.

He finds the latter task slightly harder than expected. The situation gets complicated with the other Alpha Teens intervene. Dragon succeeds in his mission after he catches Axel completely off guard. When Dragon learns that Axel is the son of Sebastian Manning and seeing how Paine was going to kill Axel while he was wearing the inhibitor, Dragon cuts the inhibitor off him, telling Paine that "A Jo-Lan warrior deserves to meet his end with honor" and that he completed his job. Paine was furious and ordered Spydah and Flesh to attack them, but the Alpha Teens found them and helped defeat them and destroy the inhibitor. After Axel and Dragon both briefly fought Paine, Dragon forces Axel into another fight. The battle was a near stalemate and Dragon retreated vowing that they'd meet again. Axel tried to find out what Dragon know about his father, but it was too late as Dragon disappeared.

Dragon was next seen in Hong Kong when both he and the Alpha Teens were trying to stop the power hungry Terrance Yao from misusing the power of the Sword of Jo-Lan. They were successful in defeating Yao and Axel trusted Dragon to keep the Sword of Jo-Lan safe. The move Dragon used to defeat Yao was apparently only known by Sebastian Manning which Dragon confirms but when Axel inquired if he had learned the move from his father, Dragon avoided the question and leaped off. At the end of season one, he stands atop a rooftop, when a newspaper in the wind blows at his feet. He reads that Paine was arrested and throws the newspaper back into the wind.

## Abilities

Apparently Dragon's and Axel's Jo-Lan skills are always on the same level during the first and second season, until Axel reaches a higher level to fight Quan.

As a ninja, Dragon is naturally good at hiding and sneaking and he also uses smoke bombs to escape. He is an excellent sword fighter and knows how to use the shurikens.

## Gallery

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