"I'm so glad, we're back together.". Jenny told him smiling broadly.
"Me too." He replied. They had agreed to meet for lunch. Jenny was no longer upset with his being a superhero and not telling her. It wasn't that she disliked them as he did. She had always thought the supers were like firemen, there when you need them. When Waddles rescued her, she was thrilled. When Waddles showed her the top of the Atlas statue, she was terrified. From that moment on she began to mistrust the supers. They have too much power. They are given too many privileges. They have no control. A super penguin can abduct you, they can do anything.
"I started training with a superhero." He blurted out derailing her train of thought.
"Not Waddle!" She gasped. She still held a grudge against that penguin. She had heard that he broke free from the Malta Group and that Crey and the Freakshow were looking for him. But that was before the heroes disappointed.
"No, it's a dragon." He answered. "You see the thing is he's teaching me a lot, but, well, I hate him. We jjust don't seem to get along at all. Maybe Waddles could train me?"
"That penguin has the mental faculties of a small child." She reminded him. What's so horrible about this dragon, does he have bad breath? "
"Very funny." He said seeing the dragon breath pun. "He teaches me stuff, good stuff, but the way he does it seems like the most difficult, most dangerous way."
"Really," she asked, "give me an example."
"Well," he began, "for starters he put me on top of the Talos statue. You know, the one in Talos Island harbor."
"You went to Talos!" Jenny exclaimed. "You know that I have wanted to go to TI. Why didn't you take me?"
"That's what you heard, 'I went to Talos?" He complained. "I fell off that statue and nearly died!"
"What?" She came back to the conversation. "You fell? What happened?"
"It caught me.". He was reliving the scene where SFD allowed him to fall several feet scaring him half to death.
"I don't follow." She said.
"Oh that dragon caught me inches from the ground. And if that wasn't bad enough," he continued, "he told me to go fight some of those guys with those spooky robes."
"Circle of Thorns. You fought the Circle of Thorns?". She asked very impressed with him. More impressed with him than she had ever been.
"Yes, but," he expounded, "that dragon watched me get killed."
"You're not dead." She said worried that he might be going crazy or something.
"No, I woke up in the hospital after being teleported there."
"You were in the hospital?" Jenny was amazed.
"It was no big deal, but that dragon was there at the hospital to gloat, I guess." He reassured her. Telling Jenny how bad this dragon has been is proving harder to do than he thought. She's not getting the point. The dragon is bad. "You're not getting my meaning, that dragon is trying to get me killed!"
"I don't know," Jenny said, "it sounds to me like the dragon is helping you. He saved you when you fell and he came to visit you in the hospital. He sounds like a good friend to me.
He tried explaining it to her, but the more he tried the more she took the dragon's side. " Girls just don't understand superhero training he thought.