Chapter 2
For Jake Long's wife was a trip to her family like a jackpot. So she was really excited when she sat in her living room and stared into the TV where her husband Jake appeared. Jake Long sat in thier apartment in Guangseng, the capital of the Draco's Islands and was just half awake. In New York it was morning, but on The Islands already night. Jake yawned when his wife talked further.
"Jake, please!" she said. "You have to come! Do it for me!"
After Jake yawned again he said: "But, I have to work... and your family doesn't like me very well so it makes no difference..." he was tired because he had a long day and it was sleeping time on The Islands.
"Jake... you missed so many of my family-reunions that a third of them think that you are dead, another third thinks that we are divorced... and the rest thinks that you avoid them."
"They have no clue how right they are...!" Jake said tired.
"JAKE WAKE UP!" his wife shouted when Jake almost fell asleep again.
"Sorry... I had to fly to Manila and back, three times today... Okay... I can't promise it... but I try my best to come. But one thing I have to say... Your family is crazy!" Jake said.
"Yes,... the same I think about your family!" his wife said annoyed. "But not Philip... he is okay!" The doorbell rang. "Oh, that's Pedro! I have to switch off... good luck!" she said and switched of the TV.
Pedro Ferreira, the best friend of her son would look for thier house in the next days. When she opened the door, the young teenager from Portugal looked really mad on her when he stepped in. "I hate your weather!"
"I hate it too!" she answered and closed the door.
"You have luck... California! I wish I can come with you!" he said before he pulled down his jacket and exposed a pullover in the colours of the Portugese flag: "Short time before we came to America... my grandmother made this pullover for me. 'Because it's so cold in America' she said. But even this is not helping and I wear a second one under it." he said and presented the second pullover.
When Jonny and Grant came down the stair and saw Pedro in his too big Flag-Pullover both had to laugh.
"O my gosh... Is that the thing from your grandmother you never wanted to show us?" Grant asked.
"Yes, and now forget that you ever saw it and go to your plane... If it's starts in this weather and leave before I'm really jealous." Pedro said annoyed and put the baggage to threw it out.
"Wow... what for a great temper you have today?" Jonny said before all three left the house.
His mother handed Pedro the key. "Okay, the newspaper... the mail. And keep and eye on the window upstairs I told you. Keep and eye and close it when it wents open."
Before she could finish Pedro smashed the door close. She just shaked her head and took the baggage to carry it to the car.
"What's going on with him?" Jonny asked confused.
"That's because the weather! He is a powerless werewolf... he don't have the ability to withstand this temperatures."
The both boys understand. Eight months passed since Pedro was bite by a lycan and transformed into a werewolf without control above his powers. They had to switch off his powers to clean them in a little bottle in a shelv in their secret basement. I would need years before they can give him his powers back. Till them he would be weaker than in his human-days...
"I'm not willing to tell him that we are liable for his worse grades in P.E. and sports. Or for his sleeping-problems..." Grant said during they load the baggage into the old combi which stood in the garage behind the house.
"You will have to!" Jonny's mother said when they start to drive away...
When they drive away, Jonny and Grant could see that Pedro closed the broken window with duct-tape. During they drove the car slippered in every corner. Jonny's mother had problems to handle the car in the snow, but finally they arrived the portal to the magical-world. She drove to it and land on a checkpoint where all three had to show thier passports and let in. The streets in the magical-world where better cleaned (with magical-help) but the weather was worse.
Finally she arrived the magical La Guardia Airport. She parked and all three walked threw the airport. Fortunatelly all magical airplanes could fly in the most terrible storms so that the flight was on time during they had never got a flight in the humans-world. Finally they sat in the plane to Monterey, during the plane rolled above the airfield Grant looked out of the window but couldn't see anything allthough it was bright day.
"The weather is terrible!" Grant said. "But now tell me something about your mothers family!"
"You will see yourself when we arrive!" Jonny said when the plane start to race above the runway and take off to increase into the grey sky.
Meanwhile, in California.
In a little village in the Magical World a young couple walked on a beach in the bay-area. The couple, a dragon and a human-girl where for the first time togehter in the magical-world. The dragon pointed on a hilly area with some small houses on it.
"And there is Magical-San Francisco! On this hills." the dragon said.
"You are kidding? This village is Magical San Francisco?" the girl said wondered before they arrived something what looked like a phone both but had a screen with the number '0.3' on it. "And what is that?"
"That is a public seismograph! Right now the earth is quaking here with a magnitude of 0.4 on the Richter-Scale... now with 0.8... 1.3... 2.1..." the dragon said worried before they could feel the vibration and finally that the earth was really quaking.
The girl screamed, the heared loud noise. The dragon transformed and flew with his girlfriend up to the air. In fear both could see how a big crack opened in the ground and ripped apart a small hill. Threes fell over, windows bursted... but than it was over. The dragon land again and both looked in fear on the crack which ripped apart the whole hill.
"Oh, my gosh... how hard was this quake?" the dragon asked.
"3.8!" the girl said.
"Oh... please... 3.8 is just enough to let glasses and bottles fall over..."
"But look on this!" the girl said and pointed on the public-seismograph where the magnitude 3.8 blinked red.
"What but... that's impossible... how could that make that..." he said and pointed on the big crack in the landscape again...
In the humans-world, meanwhile on this place was just a road. But in this road was now also big crack. Instead of this the people in the humans-world didn't realized the earthquake.
Meanwhile, the airplane with the Long's and Grant start to sink. The weather was sunny and clear when they land on Monterey-Airport near the city centre of Magical-Monterey. Magical-Monterey was much bigger than Monterey in the humans-world. The centre was like each other magical-city a mix of traditional west-european buildings and sociallism city. The wide suburbs had small houses and where going till far behind the hills. Magical-Monterey was with a population of 190 thousand people the smallest capital of Magical-America. As fast as possible Jonny, Grant and Jonny's mother left the magical-areas to enter the human areas.
"Mom, why do you run to fast?" Jonny asked.
"Because I told Sal that we will arrive with a humans-world plane and the plane from New York land more than a half hour ago..." she said before they walked threw the portal and stood in a hidden place in the humans-world.
All three walked threw the terminal and finally saw him. Just Grant was astonished when he saw who Sal was! Sal, the cousin of Jonny's mother was a tall man with brown hairs and weared a black t-shirt with a jeans. The other people in the terminal looked to them when they arrived. All people stared. For Jonny's mother that was no surprise.
"Hey... you are... you are... this guy..." Grant stammered. "This guy from the second team in... in this show... The show where so often explode something!"
"Yes, that's true!" Sal said and turned to his cousin. "HI! How are you?"
"Aww... Great, It's a good feeling to be here in the sun..." she said when they left the building and they stood in the sun. "Awww... that's wonderful!"
"I saw the news... the weather in New York is really bad, right?" Sal asked and saw that his cousin was mad on him.
"Never mention the bad weather in New York when I'm listening. I'm here to recover from it so don't remember me." she said during she threw her baggage on the loading area of Sal's truck.
Toghether all four drove threw Monterey...
"And the explosion with the popcorn-truck... or your funny accident with the skate-board... In the Internet the video of this is a hit!" Grant said. "And it's really real?"
Sal was a little bit annoyed from all the questions: "Yes, I told you... we are no actors! All experiments we make are real, and the only one who tries to prevent it is our insurance!... Oh, by the way... mom want's to introduce you to someone..."
"Aww... when she will accept it... I'm not divorced and not widowed!" Jonny's mother said annoyed before Sal drove on the driveway of a nice single-family house on a hill above the centre. "Jake will come. He will arrive tomorrow!"
"And the other guys... the main hosts... they are funny! When they start to dispute, is that real or do you have a script?" Grant asked, but Sal didn't answered, he just turned to his cousin.
"Who is this boy and why did you take him with?" Sal asked confused before the door opened and a woman with grey hairs ran out.
"SWEETIEE... awww... I'm so happy that you are here!" Aunt Mary said and hugged her. "Come in... Andrew is here and Uncle Louie and Aunt Elenor..."
Together they entered the house. Grant felt like back in the 80s when he stood in the big living-room. But he couldn't think long about it before a man left the kitchen and hugged Jonny's mother.
"Awww... Uncle Sal!" she said happy. "I missed you!"
"I missed you too. Oh... Jonny come and hug me too!" the older Sal said and Jonny joined the embrace. Grant joined it too and confused Sal Sr. "I can't remember you?" he said confused when he saw Grant.
"My name is Grant! And I'm a part of your family now!" he answered and confused all much more.
"I explain you it!" Jonny's mother said and took her uncle and her aunt to walk with them to the garden to the other people. "Sal, show the both guys where they will sleep!"
During the both boys walked with Sal threw the house, Jonny's mother talked with her 'parent-replacers'. What nobody knowed was that just 50 miles away a farmer stood on a field of apple-trees (in the humans-world) and investigated them. He was satisfied that all was okay and walked back to his house... but short time after he entered his house he could feel something. When he saw on the kitchen table he saw the dish vibrating before he could feel the earth quaking...
Immediatelly he hid under the table. The earthquake was heavy and made unbelivable noise. Windows burst, wood fall from the celling. Dish fall from the shelves. He could just hid further under the table, till the moment the house collapsed over him...
Outside a long but small crack was covering the whole farm. In the around 1 mile long crack several trees and a tractor disappeared. The farm was totally destroyed by the heavy earthquake,... but just a half mile away, in the next town, nobody realized what happend.
In Monterey meanwhile, Jonny and Grant arrived in a small room with one bed inside.
"We had no clue that you come with a friend so we have no bed for him..." Sal said and shocked Grant.
"So why you don't build one! I mean I your show you build a whole house in two minutes?" Grant said.
"Yes, but that's under time lapse so... oh, here you can sleep on this!" Sal said and pulled out a air mattress from the shelv.
Before Grant could say something everyone heared a ringing from Jonny's baggage. Sal was confused, because it sound like a phone...
"What is that?" he asked.
"That? That is my... alert clock... I forgot to switch it off, so why do you don't leave us alone so that we can prepare and... you know." Jonny lied and banned Sal from the little room. He walked immediatelly to his bag because the ringing was comming from thier emergency-phone. "Aww... that's great... a dragon-emergency when I am in holidays! Hello... this is the American Dragon speaking!"
The voice at the other end of the line sound worried: "American Dragon... I'm here in the bay area, in Hayward, 18 miles South-East of San Francisco... A earthquake made a big crack into the landscape."
"A earthquake?" Jonny asked. "But I thaught that earthquakes are typical for California?"
"Not this one... A hill has been ripped into two parts!" the man on the other side told.
"What? How hard was the quake?"
"That's the thing... the earthquake was just hard enough to break a window. And now we have a big crack in the landscape... I have no clue what happend but you should look on this... Where are you know? In New York?"
"No, I'm in Monterey!"
"Monterey?"
"Yes, I visit my family... my human-family... okay I'm on the way. We will be there in..." Jonny looked on a map. "...in around one hour maybe..."
"Okay, hurry up,... the people here are worried." the man said and hang off.
Jonny took the phone back into the bag and looked on Grant who tried to inflate the mattress himself: "Forget that... we have a dragon-emergency!"
"And what?"
"A earthquake ripped a hill into pieces. But the earthquake was not strong enough!"
"Why are they worried? The earth is quaking here so often..."
"Yes,... because that we should ask an expert before we fly!" Jonny said and both left the room.
"And who?"
Jonny didn't answered. He just jelled: "MOM!"
His mother sat with the rest of the family in the garden. She was explaining her uncle and her aunt why Grant lived now in her house. Before she could finish she heared Jonny yelling her name. She stood up and walked to her son.
"Something happend? Is the room to small?" she asked.
"Yes, it is to small... and we got a call from Hayward." Jonny told and explained everything the man on the phone told him.
"Hhmmm... that's strange. Look for it. That are just 70 miles!" his mother said. "I will go to the seismologycal-institute in the magical-world, I will call you... And now go before they realize that we leave..."
"You want to leave? Why? You just arrived!" Aunt Mary asked confused. She heared the last sentence and stood now behind them. Scared, Jonny's mother turned and looked on her aunt.
"We leave... because we... want to show Grant the town!" she lied and hugged Grant. "We will be back right for the dinner!"
Before her aunt could answer all three left the house and ran away. Jonny's mother was sad that she had to leave just 5 minutes after she arrived. All ran threw the neigbourhood to a field of trees. There was hide a pedestrian-portal to the magical-world.
"Okay... here it's safe. Transform. I call you when I got more informations." Jonny's mother said.
Jonny meanwhile transformed and Grant weared now his human-supporter-uniform. Grant climbed on Jonny's back and together the flew away. She meanwhile entered the magical-world. Jonny flew deep above the humans-world. But than,... he flew above the house they just left. In the garden, where all family-members where right now, the younger children looked up and pointed on them.
"WOW... the American-Dragon!" one of his younger cousins yelled and the whole family looked up.
Grant immediatelly hid his face and Jonny flew faster. "Oups! Well... now they have something to talk about!" Jonny said ashamed and flew higher.
In the garden meanwhile, the whole family was astonished. Many of them saw a dragon live for the first time ever.
"Wow... the American-Dragon visits our town!" Uncle Sal said.
"Yes, just to sad that she, Jonny and Grant left before..." Andrew said to his father.
Jonny's mother meanwhile, walked thew Magical-Monterey. In the old city, which was not harmed by the war of 1995, the people recognized her. Here she won the biggest magical Song-Contest in August 1984. For many Califonian's she was the face of the 'good human'. Woman weared dresses, she desinged. People read her book: 'My life in the magical-world' and here everyone knowed her name and her face. So the people followed her with thier eyes when she arrived the 'Seismological-Institute of the Califonian Democratic Republic'. A building on a small hill, in a suburb. She walked up the stairs and entered the building. Inside a seismologist welcomed her immediatelly.
"Hello,... Nice to see you..." in that moment he said her name a loud ringing filled the air but stopped immediatelly. "Oh no not again..."
"What was that?"
"This alert sounds everytime when the earth is quaking somewhere stronger than 3.0!" the seismologist, a troll, said.
The troll escorted her to the main-room where around 30 seismographs made scratching sounds when they record all tremors and shocks across Magical-California. They walked between all the very old mashines and finally arrived the seismograph which caused the alert...
"Here... 3.2 Santa Cruz!" the scientologist said.
"Dr... I'm here because the earthquake in Hayward today."
"Oh... yes... Hayward, here it is!" he said and walked to an seismograph on the wall. "Hayward... 11:20 am... 6 seconds with 3.8! I heared above that that the earthquake ripped a hill into two pieces. I'm pretty sure that that was not the earthquake. I show you..." the troll said and walked with her to an map on a big screen. "Normaly, the earthquake had to be feelable across the whole bay-area. All what you see red on the map."
On the map the whole San Francisco bay was red. Than the troll pressed some buttons on the computer-keypad and the red area became very small. Jonny's mother was astonished... the area where the earthquake was feelable was just as big as three football-fields...
"How is that possible?" she asked.
"To tell you the truth... I have no clue!" the scientologist said and looked on the map.
Meanwhile, Jonny and Grant flew high above the coast. Jonny flew as fast as possible so that they hoped to be back before someone become suspicious. Both arrived the Bay Area.
"I have never been in San Francisco!" Grant said when they saw the city of San Francisco on the left side and Oakland on the right side. They where still in the humans-world. Both could see a big crack in the street near the water.
"So that's the humans-world... and what happend in the magical?" Jonny said when he saw that there where not any other damages in the humans-world. In front of them was Hayward and there nothing happend... but when both entered the magical-world they where shocked. A big crack... several miles long and around 2 feets wide was covering the landscape. Several roads and a energy-line where destroyed. Instead of big towns, in the magical-bay-area where just little towns and villages. The crack was going between the villages Hayward and Alameda Bay and was now filled with water from the bay.
"That's looking like someone digged a new river to the bay!" Grant said and took his camera to take some photos.
Jonny start to sink. They had to look on this.
Meanwhile,... Sal and Andrew where standing in thier parents kitchen. Both helped thier mother with the dish for the others.
"Do you have any clue where our cousin and her both boys are?" Andrew asked.
"No... but they ran out like they where afraid of something!" Sal answered before the doorbell rang.
Sal walked to the front-door where he found a big flower basket with pralines. Sal was wondered above the present and took it into the house. He placed the basket on the kitchen table and read the card.
"Dear Sal, I'm the biggest fan of your show! I love the experiments you and the others do... but especially I love you... A Fan!" Sal read on the card. "Wow! That's nice!"
"Look's like you have a very special fan!" Andrew said and became jealous. He still waited for his success.
Sal took some of the pralines from the basket and tried them. "Hmmm... but they are tasty!"
What both didn't saw was that hiden under the flowers was a small microphone. Somewhere in a hilly area behind the city someone saw Sal and Andrew on a black-and-white screen. The person could also hear everything.
"...I think she have a secret!" Andrew said.
"What for a secret?" Sal said and laughed.
"How right you are!" the person on the screen said and laughed maniacly...
End of Chapter 2
This Earthquake Story has nothing to do with that what happens right now in Japan. This story is already 2 years old. The characters Sal and Andrew basing on real people who are popular. But they have nothing to the with the originals. Please review!
