Jones

Phantom Spider

— Hank to LuluH33 Encounter in the North

Formerly ranked as No.1, “Phantom Spider", Jones is an accomplished, powerful veteran adventurer. This retired adventurer fought multiple battles and also happens to be Alex's grandfather. He is the main reason why this main character started adventuring.

His skill and experience, especially with *ropes,* are almost unparalled. This renders him as one of the most powerful character in the series. No human was a match for him (aside from one person) and he also trained other adventurers, like Jackal, Alex, Jabba and Delmar

## Appearance

Jones appears to be muscular and has white hair and beard. Alex's red eyes are also inherited from him. His outfits mainly consists of yellow and brown, and he has various pockets dedicated for ropes, bombs, survival tools and all kinds of weapons that may come in handy when adventuring. His two dog tags are in memory of his two animal companions- a deer and a wild boar. His right leg was replaced by a prosthesis with many functions, because he lost his the lower part of his right leg during the battle with the Shark Riders.

### Jones' adventuring equipment

His techniques and fighting style revolves around the use of *ropes*, which was later passed on to his grandson, Alex.

* Rope
* Ropes with hooks to seize targets
* Explosive ropes
* Ropes with mines
* Rocket boots
* Prosthesis that can spray a green sticky substance
* Deadly spider web
* Ropes with mines
* Tiny whirlwind darts
* Ropes with float
* Jetpack

## Biography

### Early life

Not much is being disclosed about Jones in his early life, but he became an adventurer around the time when President Robert, Steel Fang, Adolf and Wolfe Rodrick became Adventurers. Jones became an adventurer known as "Phantom Spider", due to the fact that his techniques and moves are all based on ropes, which resembles the web a spider can spin. He also adventured occasionally with Robert.

### Adventurering Life

Later on, he went to Africa with Robert and visited the Sacred Elephant Village. There, they with the help of Masinga, destroyed giant snakes who were attacking the village. Then, after the fight, they encountered the three sacred orbs. When they inquired the village chief about it, the village chief told them about the first Akhator war, but as it happened millions of years ago, he never thought much about it. After countless adventures, Jones eventually proclaimed the title of he No.1 adventurer.

Some time after, he married an unknown woman and had a son, who is Alex's father. Jones then retired around the same time Alex was born from Alex father and his wife.

### Five years prior/H05 Riders of the Rough Sea

He was rescued by Jackal who he took under his wing and trained him. When he returned to his family, he saw Alex studying hard. He decided to fake his death to motivate Alex to study harder, as well as to learn the connection between Akhator and the Shark Riders' boss.

### H04 Clash of the Invincible Colossi

He made a cameo appearance when Jackal returned from India who had a job from there.

### H18 Scourge of the Beanstalk

**Alex**:"*Did **Grandpa** return? He pretended to be dead, which was wrong... But just forgive him, OK?*"
**Alex's Dad** :"*Oh we know; Dad comes back every two months, only you-*"
— Alex learns from his parents that his grandpa comes back to his old home in Malaysia every two months.

Alex found out that his grandpa kept him in the dark after he saw how hardworking he was after his 'death'.

#### H19 Pursuit of the Daemon Hunters

The following book, Jones made his first debut in Season Two. Since Alex has been banned from adventuring for quite some time, he went to Jones' island and met Jones there, as well as his students. He then assigned them to track down a group of highly skilled hunters, who recently also captured other non-human intellectual races. It turned out that the Ferocious Four were paid a handsome sum of gold to capture the wee folk by Dr Ming.

#### H24 Light of the Star Guardian

Appeared at the end of H24, and was at the hospital Alex was in together with Lulu, his parents, Hank, Marie, Axe, Ming Kong, Goken as his lower back was injured from the sunspot energy from the star seeds, making his legs temporarily paralysed.

### Season Three

#### H26 Escape from the Dark Banquet

Shortly after Alex's abduction by Glee, he went to find The Oracle, hoping that she would be able to divinate where Alex is at the moment with her expertise. According to Lydia, Alex was in London, so he went to London to search for him alongside Lulu and Axe, as well as to hunt down the Ferocious Four. When Alex lost control and went berserk, his location was revealed. Alex tried to strangle Axe but Jones restrained him. He eventually cooled down when Lulu tried to kiss him.

#### H27 Flight of the Ferocious Four

Joined and lead other adventurers and Kelly to hunt down the Ferocious Four, who were then hiding on an island occupied by the Sentilenese. They managed to capture The Void and Woe.

#### H33 Encounter in the North

Joined Aligon and Benny to arrest Nacho, who had kidnapped a famous chef in Sichuan. Nacho got away, and he suspected there was a reason. This led him to suspect that Grease King avoided their attacks to draw out the battle and distract them from the real fight. As the fight continued, most of the protagonists were injured by Sigurd Bodon and his powerful team. He then sprayed a sticky green substancce on the monster that wore Glee and Fury's mask and used his signature move, "Phantom Spider web".

Much to his surpise, Sigurd Bodon removed the detonators of his web, which Jones reacted by remarking, "He removed the detonators? Who is this man?" This implies that he knew it was possible to escape his spider web, but nobody had ever done it before. Sigurd then smirked and replied, "Just a jack of all trades", before wrapping him in exploding firecrackers and heavily injured him.

#### H34 Contest of the Mechas

Appeared at the beginning of the book, severely injured. He admitted that he had never met such a formidable foe like Sigurd Bodon/John Rodrick before.