Jake Long (Earth 1)

**Jacob Luke “Jake” Long** is a young Draconian/Human hybrid who appears as a Chinese American teenager who lives in New York City and serves as its Magical Protector.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Draconian/Human hybrid Physiology:** As a Draconian, Jake possesses a myriad of superhuman abilities native to his race from his maternal side. While he starts his career still learning them, these powers develop further and strengthen over time. Certain abilities for dragons may vary such as breathing ice instead of fire their main abilities are:

* **Shape-shifting/Transformation:** File:Mqdefault.jpg  Dragons have the ability to transform between their human-form, and their dragon-form at will. The nature of the transformations vary with the type of dragon. Sometimes, their transformation may be accompanied by flames which quickly ran across parts of their bodies although it is unknown if it is for every dragon. For Jake and Lao Shi, it has been observed as a thick, engulfing, blue smoke-like aura which usually would stem from hands to cover their body. For other dragons, the colors may vary. Dragons can also transform specific individual body parts such as arms, legs, ears, eyes, etc., into its counterpart dragon form. With the aid of a special potion, all dragons possess a latent "all-purpose" ability to transform into any person they chose, however doing so also temporarily blocks their use of their other dragon powers for approximately 24 hours. Although dragons have superhuman endurance, too much damage can reverse a transformation and possibly leave them unconscious.
* **Flight:** Dragons can fly quite fast and are quite maneuverable which is useful in combat for dodging and attacking, as well as traveling across the city quickly. Some dragons, like Lao Shi, don't have wings. So they receive a little help from magic, and not only can they fly, but also dodge and attack targets.
* **Dragon Claws:** This ability is complemented by their dragon claws, which have been shown to be able to rip through solid concrete and other durable forms of matter. For example, Jake's feats of strength have been exhibited numerous times throughout his brief career, such as being able to hold or overpower large magical creatures, or uphold large inanimate objects. Their claws can also pick locks and scratch enemies or objects.
* **Eye/Ear of the Dragon:**  File:American Dragon Jake Long Enhanced Vision.gif   All dragons' vision and hearing are increased exponentially. They are able to enhanced vision to utilize a natural form of infrared vision or other kinds of vision like x-ray vision and night vision simultaneously, allowing them to see in the dark and see at longer distances than humans. With their dragon vision, dragons are not only capable of seeing in darkness, but capable of seeing through some objects. Their hearing can pick out individual sources of sound which is either far from them, or obscured by noise-making or sound-blocking obstacles this was demonstrated by Jake many times. For dragons like Jake, when he uses his dragon-sight his eyes glow bright red, and when using dragon-hearing his ears grow longer although there maybe various other colors for the eyes and ears of a dragon.
* **Dragon Teeth:** Dragons have extremely sharp teeth. This means one can bite through steel or even if they can not their teeth will be undamaged.
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* **Breath Weapon:** A staple associated with most dragon mythologies, most dragons can breath fire at will, and some such as Councilor Kulde can manipulate and breathe ice or Councilor Andam can manipulate and breathe lightning meaning they are capable of controlling it. The colors for fire breathing may vary. Dragons are capable of producing steady streams of flame or as fireballs. In some cases Dragons can also breathe other elements like Councilor Andam can breathe lightning. and Councilor Kulde can breathe ice from his mouth and the icy breath of his species can encase an enemy in ice. For example, Jake eventually learned to handle fire without harm to himself. Dragons are also shown to breathe fire, even in their human forms.
* **Doppelgänger Technique:** A dragon power inherent to all dragons is the ability to project their personal chi to create one or more temporary copies of themselves known as doppelgängers, described as a defensive technique used to distract or fool enemies during battles. Creating a doppelgänger comes from the dragon's personal and limited amount of life energy. So making multiple copies can cause them to become weaker overall. The nature of a copy depends on the type chi amplifier used to make it. One formed from a positive amplifier will be good and follow the goals of the original, while any made with a negative amplifier can gain a life of its own, often be evil, and turn against its maker.
* **Dragon Scales:** The skin of a dragon is extremely tough and highly resistant to damage although extremely sharp objects can scrape their scales. Their scales also allow them to be immune to most forms of magic, unless the magic is very powerful or combined with another magic user. According to Rose, dragons have a soft underbelly. It has also been shown that they have a weakness behind their left ears which is considered a lethal strike in there can result with instant death.
* **Dragon Tail:** Like many dragons, Jake has a tail. Like his arms, it has impressive strength as well as excellent length, maneuverability, and balance. Jake occasionally uses it for a sneak attack upon an enemy or to access objects beyond his normal reach. It can extend to any length, wrap around and immobilize anyone in its coils.
* **Dragon Feet:** It gives Jake and all dragons a little extra height but so far Jake has been the only one to use it. He used it sparingly, such as while trying to kiss Rose and being taller in a photo.
* **Dragon Arm:** Seen only once, Jake used it to manipulate enough heat to stop Trixie from preventing him from going to see Rose.
* **Dragon Wings:** Dragons grows wings as an extension to their back in their dragon form. Placed near their arms, it can be assumed that they grow out of their shoulders like the wings of a bird or bat and follow the arm-finger format, where the arm is the first curve protruding from their backs and the fingers are the branching bones from the end of the arm's curve. As such, Jake for example can feel and control each joint within his wings. Therefore, adapting to use his wings and dragon form in general may have required a great deal of training and patience to be accustomed to the new anatomy upon transformation.
The natural position of the wings of a dragon is half closed and placed behind their backs, but in flight or combat, they are spread wide in order to provide momentum in movement. In one scenario, Jake spreads one wing open and the other in its usual half closed position; as this was seen only once, it can be assumed that some dragon such as Jake has difficulty moving one wing to a certain position without moving the other. In some birds, the joints are aligned such that moving one wing without the other can create discomfort or even pain; the same factor can be applied to Jake and other dragons if applicable.
Jake prefers to spread his wings high and wide. Jake's wings lack any form of muscle along the "arm", showing he is young and have yet to grown to his full potential as a flier. The membranes of his wings are immune to fire and cannot be burnt as easily as those of bats. Their wings are immune to wing clippers as they do not rely on feathers.
* **Dragon Tongue:** This gives all dragons the ability to lengthen their tongues to catch, grab, or tickle objects and enemies. Their tongues are similar to snakes being forked shaped.
* **Fire Resistance:** Dragons are nearly fireproof. They can take direct fire from other dragons directly with little to no injury. Some dragons like the Dark Dragon are even immune to extreme heat like lava. The lateral in this case came out of lava when he found Jake Long.
* **Cold Resistance:** Dragons are able to withstand cold temperatures that would be problematic for humans. The biggest demonstration of this was by Jake during The Ski Trip where he was outside during snow storms and even standing on ice and snow for prolonged periods without him showing any apparent discomfort, though it prevented him from using his fire breath.
* **Resistance to injury:** Dragons have superhuman durability, endurance, and stamina. They can be smashed into solid objects, such as a a brick wall with little injury, and can fall from heights which would kill a normal human.
* **Enhanced Speed:** Jake and all dragons have enhanced speed in both ground and in flight.
* **Enhanced Reflexes:** Jake and all dragons have enhanced reflexes. They can dodge most attacks which would be impossible for a human to dodge in both dragon and human form.
* **Enhanced Strength:**  File:Download (34).jpg  All dragons can lift anywhere from 5-25 tons and much more if angered or under extreme stress. This was demonstrated by Jake a few times as he has been able to carry heavy magical creatures and even full-sized giants and was able to break through steel.
* **Enhanced Agility:** All dragons possess enhanced agility in their human form and dragon form. This allows them to perform incredible acrobatics with no effort whatsoever and in their dragon form they are very flexible.
* **Underwater Breathing:** In Feeding Frenzy, Jake was seen swimming and even talking underwater. Suggesting all dragons have the ability to breathe underwater. This manifested as a glowing light blue aura while being underwater.

**Draconian Guardian:** The Draconian Guardian

### Abilities

* **Dancing Skills:** Jake is a great break-dancer this is also one of his natural skills. It is also worth noting this is not a Draconian trait. Although it seems to be common in Jake's family, as his grandfather Lao Shi was a great dancer as well.
* **Skateboarding:** Jake is also great at skateboarding. He can do cool tricks and air flips with his board.
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His skateboard has a dragon similar to Rose's birthmark painted on it. While in human form, Jake mostly uses his board for transportation. Before Jake got his Draconian powers, he used to hit the skate park with Spud and Trixie, but his Draconian duties began to take up too much of his time spent with his friends.
* **Gifted Athlete:** Jake is great at acrobatics and can-do somersaults, backflips, and many other acrobatics, but this may be due to his Draconian heritage. Also, this ability is mostly used while Jake is in human form.

### Weaknesses

Along with dragon abilities comes specific weaknesses able to leave them unconscious, or even dead:

* **Sphinx Hair:** Dragons have a weakness to Sphinx Hair. Woven into a net it can render them completely powerless. Too much exposure may even leave a dragon unconscious.
* **Strong Winds/Intense wind:** Strong winds can prevent a dragon from using their fire breath, depending on its intensity.
* **Left Ear:** Dragons possess a weakness behind their left ear where a clean strike can result with a kill. As learned in the Huntsclan Academy, a surefire way to kill a dragon is by striking it behind the left ear. During Rose and Jake's climactic battle in the Academy, Rose struck Jake in this location, seemingly killing him, thus allowing her to go back in the field in New York. However, during the battle, the duo utilized a faulty potion Jake and Spud made while undercover at the academy, giving Jake the temporary appearance of death, and thus sparing his life.
* **Magic:** Dragons can be vulnerable to select spells, potions, and even the magical powers of other magical creatures like Gorgons which are very powerful to affect dragons. Gorgons can turn all living beings, dragons included, into stone. Even weakened Gorgons can blast waves of energy that can be lethal. Also in the same way potions can give dragons greater magical prowess, certain potions can be used to put them under mind control, temporarily strip them of their powers, or immobilize them.
* **Brockium:** Brockium is a chemical substance that forces draconians to shape-shift into their dragon form unwillingly. It was developed by Sigmund Brock in his attempt to expose magical creatures to the world.

### Former Powers

**Werewolf Physiology:**

* **Werewolf Transformation:**