Chapter 7
Jake leaved with the others the house again.
"Are you sure, you want to come with us?" Jake asked the visitors. "In this world you have to be more carefully!"
"Yes, why not! It was originally our problem!" Jonny said and transformed.
Grant and Pedro climbed on the back of the big red dragon and Trixie and Spud did the same on Jake's back. They start to fly above the big city. Nobody, instead of Pedro, was amazed. When they land behind Rotwood's house it was early morning. And it was very quite on this place.
"Yes, we know that house!" Grant said. "During the war it was destroyed by a car bomb of the huntsclan!"
"Was the war very bad in the humans world?" Jake asked and realized that Jonny became sad.
"Yes, it was!" the other dragon said. "The huntsclan killed so much people. The shooted on innocent humans, on bright day, in the middle of the street. Fire, bomb-explosions, and Manhattan (in the Magical-World) was cut off from the rest of the world. The same like happend in 1948 in West-Berlin. In the humans-world maybe 100 buildings, from small one family houses to big appartment-buildings where destroyed or hardly damaged. But, in the magical-world around 'fifty-percent' where damaged or destroyed. And that alone in New York City. And now the magical-community of New York is one of the poorest worldwide!"
"Really?" Trixie asked and all three boys agreed.
"In our world, the humans-world just know, that the people in the magical-world earn just 180$ per month (in New York). And around 20% are out-of-work." Pedro explained. "And the Roublar is very weak. And that is the reason why there is a conflict, they say that all magical-creatures wanted to steal thier jobs, because they work for less money."
"What is a Roublar?" they asked.
"That's the currency of magical New York!" Grant explained and showed them a one Roublar note with Spud's face on it. "One dollar are 14 or 15 Roublars! And the Draco's Island Inour is 24 per dollar!
"You told something above, stealling jobs! And the humans-world react how?" Spud asked.
"Different! Maybe two-thirds of the humans like magical creatures and they want to help them!" Grant told. "The rest doesn't like them, because they think: the're dangerous, they will eat us, they will steal our freedom and our money... I mean it was a topic of the last presidential election!"
"And how?" Jake asked before he start to unlock the door.
"Well, one candidate said, he will promote friendship between both worlds. The other one said he will protect us (the humans-world) from the magical-world."
"And who won?"
"Nobody, the vote for the other, the neutral, candidate! But if they vote for friendship or cold war whouldn't help them. There is a bigger chance to win in the lottery, instead to see a magical-creature walking threw New York City." Pedro told. "I mean, everybody knows, but nobody see them, until know... I mean... look at me, I'm one of your biggest fans. I stood very often with the binoculars on my window and watched into the sky. And now I have to hear that you just live 3 houses away. You are my best friend...!" he said to Jonny.
"Hey, I told you that I was not allowed to tell you the truth! But I did something for you..."
"And what?" Pedro asked.
Jake didn't listened to that was they talked. He walked threw Rotwood's dirty house and looked for something, the other Rotwood maybe forgot. A map, a wallet or everything else they can use to find him.
"YOU DID WHAT!?" Pedro shouted from outside.
"... yes, I know! But if you ever move back you are a part of a wolf-pack." Jonny said.
Jake looked outside and saw a half-transformed, and a little angry Pedro standing there. "What happend?" he asked.
"Do you know what your son did?" Pedro asked and Jake shaked his head. "He introduced me some boys from Porto, in the north of Portugal, where I was born. Now we are really good friends and stay in touch! And now I have to hear that they are werewolfs, too."
"We just wanted to help you!" Jonny said. "And it was his idea!" he said and pointed on Jake who was confused.
"Could you talk later above that! Did you forgot, that we have a crisis here?" Jake said angrilly and the three boys where quiet again.
"Sorry!" all three said and Jake walked back into the professor's house.
The older Rotwood, stood with some other people in a subway station. Fortunatelly the lines where the same like in his world, so he found the right subway very fast and was on the way to the Empire State Building! The highest place in this city was the big antenna on the roof.
"Just one hour, and everbody in this city will know the truth." he whispered to himself. "But I should reduce the intencity."
"Oh... I can smell him!" Pedro said during they walked threw the house.
"O... yeah... I forgot... your sences are also better. Better than mine!" Jonny told him.
Jake got an idea: "Hey, what do you think, are you able to find him?" Jake asked.
"Okay, I try it!" Pedro said and start to smell and search like a dog.
"Hey, what did you tell him in the last year?" Jake asked his son.
Jonny get closer to Jake and start to whisper: "I told him, that he was beat by a dog. And that he is so weak, because he..."
"I've heared that!" Pedro shouted from outside.
"Wow, he has really good senses." Jake said and leaved with the others the house.
The group followed the werewolf-boy to a alley behind some garbage-containers. On the other street-side was the house of thier classmate and a police-car stood in front of it.
"Uhhgg... I think he stood here!" Pedro said and pointed on the backside of the container.
"What happend here?" Spud said and looked on the other street side. "Is this not the house of one of our classmates?"
"Yes, that's right!" Jake remembered. "I was here for one time. But why is the police here!"
Jake walked above the street and saw some skidmarks on the asphalt. And on the other side, a few drops of blood. Jake got a worried feeling. Something terrible happend. Jake's friends and the three visitors waited on the other side of the street, during he walked up the stairs to the house. In that moment two police officers leaved it.
"Excuse me officer, what happend here?" Jake asked carefully.
"Who are you?" one of the officers asked.
"I'm a friend of the family!" he answered.
"Than we have bad news you..." the officers told.
Jake walked back, under shock. That what he heared was so bad, that he wished that he could change the past.
"And, what happend?" Trixie asked.
"He is dead!" Jake said shocked. "Our classmate is dead! He died in the hospital last night! He killed him!"
"What?!" everybody said shocked.
"He ran on the street and was hit by a car! Short time before it happend, he started to shout something above fire-breathing monsters. Rotwood used that mashine to change his mind. We have to find him before it happens again."
Jake transformed and grabled his friends. Jonny did the same and all fly up in the air. When they where high above the city they stoped and looked around. He could be everywhere!
"Do you know how that mashine works?" Jake asked, still under shock. "Or how it looks?"
"It looks like a old cassete-recorder!" Grant explained. "And it had a little antenna on the side. And a tape in it! But I'm not sure!"
"A antenna? That's it! It works like a sender! Rotwood's biggest dream was to discover the magical-world. Well, what if he wants that all think that he discovered it!" Spud said. "He want to use that thing to tell all humans the truth!"
"Awww... maaannn...!" Jonny shouted.
"That's another evidence... he is your son!" Trixie whispered into Jake's ear.
"If the same happens like with your classmate... that whould give a disaster!" Grant said. "But for that he needs a very big antenna!"
"But where in this city he will found a antenna like that?" Trixie asked.
Jake looked around and saw the big antenna on the top of the Empire State Building.
"I think I know where we can find him!" Jake said and everybody looked on the building.
Sun read some books, to find a way to wake up the sleeping Rotwood. She found nothing. The only thing, she found out was that Rotwood stole that potion a few days ago from the electronic-shop.
"I wish he is awake!" Haley said. "Than I can curse him for that what he did with Jake!"
The sleeping (awake) Rotwood said: "I know, it was bad! Please, wake me up! Please! I don't want to lay here for two months!"
"Haley, stop talking!" Sun said shocked.
Haley turned to her and Sun winked, so that Haley should come to her. Jonathan and Susan who entered the room just a few seconds before also walked to her, to hear what's going on.
"Shhhh... I found out that a negative side effect of this sleeping potion is, that the person who took too much will sleep, but he will hear and see everything!" she whispered.
"What?! Do you mean that he heared everything what you did and said?" Susan asked shocked."
"Yes, do you know the reciept for the memory-potion?"
"Yes!"
"Well, cook a glass of it! When we wake up him he should forget that he saw his older version."
Rotwood 'said': "Yes, please! I want to forget what happend. I've learned my exercise: don't get in contact with the magical-world. Please, I doesn't want to know what will happen with me in twenty-years."
"I hope Jake and our 'grandson' will find him before something terrible happens!" Jonathan said and looked outside.
The older Rotwood sneaked threw the corridors and finally found the 'workers-elevator'. When he stood inside he took the 'cassete-recorder' and start to record a new comand: "Magical-creatures exist! And Professor Hans Rotwood discovered them!" he speaked on the tape and take it. After he kissed the tape he took it back into the recorder.
After a minute or more, the doors of the elevator opened and Rotwood walked up the stairs to the door. When he opened it, the wind blowed hardly threw the building. There he stood, high above the city on the top of the highest building in the city. The high antenna, was directly above him.
"Here we go!"
Jake and the others got closer and closer to the building. They had less time before the whole city will freak out!
"I can't believe it! I know it for just a few hours and I fly with you to a dragon-job!" Pedro said satisfied.
"Yeah, you can be happy!" Jake said annoyed.
A few moments later, they saw a man walking above the little path around the antenna.
"There he is! Let's stop him!" Jonny shouted and he and Jake start to attack.
Rotwood, who didn't see them, conected the cassete-recorder with a big piece of metal of the antenna before he pressed some buttons on the recorder. When he saw the two dragons and the others he start to shout.
"Too late, Jake Long and... emm... Jake Junior or however your name is...!" Rotwood shouted and pressed play.
Jake and his friends where shocked, when they saw, just a few steps away, a bright green energy beam comming out of the building and start to blend the city...
End of Chapter 7
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