All Jack ever heard about in the city was how great the Fudou family was. They were well-respected, and each member of the family were supposedly brilliant dragon tamers, especially the heir the the Fudou name, Yuusei. Or whatever. Jack did try not to care. But it was impossible not to care. After all, how could he when everything was always about the Fudous?
It was hardly fair that the Atlas family was just 'second-rate' compared to the great and famous Fudous. Even his family thought so. It seemed impossible to rise above them, and it seemed like the whole Atlas family, even though they still tried, had decided this was their fate. All of them, of course, except for Jack.
The idea had come to him when he was looking after Archfiend - the dragon he received as a baby and had named when he was young which, at the time, sounded really cool, but not so much now he was older. There was a way to get rid of that other family's fame and glory. He would have just had to wait until it was late enough at night, when he was certain the whole town would have been asleep.
The next morning, when Jack was checking on the dragons, he rushed back home to bring his family troubling news. "The eggs! They're missing!" he told them. "I think I saw Yuusei hanging around last night, too," he added, feigning worry. The family rushed to report this and, once they were all gone, Jack couldn't help but smirk.
He had to hide his smirk when they found the eggs that Jack had planted in the Fudou home, and he had to hide his smirk when Yuusei was cast out. And of course, it was hard to hide the smirk once Stardust was locked away. From the look the whole city had, Jack knew this would be the end of the Fudou family's reign as the top dragon tamers.
After that day began the reign of Jack's family as the top tamers. Fame and money began pouring in, when there was a time they had nothing. Jack was loving this; people cared about his and his family's work. And soon, all of this would he his. He had no plans to stop here, either; his goal was to reach a global scale one day.
As a year passed, Jack was still totally milking the fame for everything it was worth. He would be lying if he said he wasn't loving it. And he felt no guilt for his actions. It was about time that someone else enjoyed glory for a little while, anyway. In fact, he rarely even thought about Yuusei anymore. Wherever he was, it was a good riddance. He was not missed, anyway.
In this time, he had offered more to the people than the Fudous ever did. Jack had begun putting on dragon shows, showing off his family's most beautiful dragons to the public. He thought it was a spectacular event, if he said so himself. Honestly, he was proud of himself. Though he had done something morally disgusting, Jack was truly reaping the rewards.
Occasionally during these shows, he would ride on Archfiend up into the city's sky, and from below, he could hear the people's shouts of delight and clapping. Waiting for it made the applause so much sweeter and so much more appealing. Though, still, Jack wished he never had to wait for it in the first place. But now, he could not complain anymore.
Life was good to Jack. He had everything he wanted, at last. He was loved, and he had fans throwing themselves at his feet. And no one could take that away from him.
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