Chapter 7

Nathalie was really afraid when the door opened. Sal had a terrible feeling like something terrible will happen. But than all fear gone when they saw that it was a young boy in a school uniform who entered the house...

"MOM!" he jelled. "Are you home?"

Nathalie said nothing she just hold the mouths of the both men during her son entered the house. He didn't saw the two men in the first moment.

"Our teacher is still sick and they hadn't a... O.. MY GOSH..." the boy said when he saw the both men standing behind his mother. He was astonished. Andrew meanwhile got a shock when he saw the boy. He seemed to be a younger version of his brother.

Nathalie meanwhile give up: "Sal, may I introduce... Paul, my son... and 'your biggest fan'!"

"Oh, my gosh... one of them here... in my house!" Paul said happily.

"Hi... Paul? I'm..." Sal began but the boy cut him off and pulled him to the garage where he had a own little shop. Paul was still very happy...

Jake meanwhile, was with the uncle of his wife in the garden and had to listen his storys. In the last hour he was very hard roasted by the old man. But than Aunt Mary screamed from inside.

"Hey, come in you have to see this!" she jelled.

When both men where inside they looked on the TV. The news aired pictures from the Lassen Peak.

"...that the whole air-traffic is redirected. The gouvenour declared alert for Shasta, Tehema, Lassen and Plumas County. Nobody knows why the volcano became active again without sign..." the anchorman told. "...that nobody knows what will happen now. At the moment there is no danger for the people in the area around the mountain."

"Oh my gosh... first the earthquakes here and than a volcano!" Uncle Sal said and shaked his head before he turned to Jake. "And now to you again! Why we never met someone from your family?"

"My family? That's difficult." Jake said. "My parents died on cancer. My father in 1992, my mother in 2001. My sister is living in Russia with her husband and to my fathers family I haven't a very good contact. Just to the grandson of my uncle... but he is living in Chicago."

"Chicago... Russia? Why I don't believe you? And where is our niece? We saw this dragons flying above the town more often than her since she is here..."

"Hehe... yeah... If you know..." Jake said to himself.

"What did you said?" Aunt Mary asked.

"Nothing!"

"...that also a higher number of earthquakes in the area around the Monterey-Bay occured in the last 48 hours. The authorities said that it is to eartly to..." tha anchorman told furhter and Jake thinked about it...

Jake's wife meanwhile was in the institue again where the seismologyst looked for something in the office of the institute-leader. The office looked abadoned. Everywhere where boxes filled with personal things of the scientist.

"Did he quit his job here?" she asked.

"No,... he is dead! Terrible car-accident, one month ago. He layed in coma for two weeks before he died in the hospital." the ogre told her.

"Oh, my gosh. That's terrible! What do you want here?"

The ogre searched several files. "He had a theory... about a second fault... bigger and deeper than San-Andreas. And much older."

"Really?"

"Yes... he didn't talked very often about it... but he left a file about... here is it!" the ogre said satisfied. "The file is empty! But..."

Both where confused. Documents disappeared. Just seconds later the earth near Fresno quaked. In Madera a new fissure opened...

In a suburb in the north of Madera a long crack appeared on a road... in the humans-world. The little earthquake was not hard, the most people even didn't realized it. But just seconds later water shoot out of broken pipes... In the institute, both saw the lines on the seismograph.

"In the Fresno Prefecture! 2.1... I call the local authorities!" the ogre said and walked away.

During Jake's wife stared on the seismograph her mobile rang... an unknown number called her. "Yes... Hello!" she said but nobody answered. "HELLOOOO!"

"I hope you enjoy this show... I just began!" a very strange voice said.

"WHAT? Who's speaking? HELLO..." she shouted into the phone but the unknown caller hang off. "Hello..."

Jonny and Grant flew above Magical-Monterey. Both looked around to look for the dark-blue delivery van. Than Jonny's mobile rang. It was his mother again... she told him about the strange call.

"Okay... I understand!" Jonny said and hang off. "Mom, Is sure that someone follows us!"

"But what have Sal and Andrew to do with that?" Grant asked confused before he saw a dark-blue delivery van parked between two buildings in a dark alleyway. "Look there..."

In the magical-world, Andrew sat alone in Nathalies living-room when his brother was with Paul in the garage. Nathalie sat on the little terrace behind the house and smoked... Andrew's mobile rang.

"Where are you? I'm in the house of this Nathalie and here is a boy who..."

"Andrew! Please listen! You have to stay there and hide! If she has a alarm system she have to switch on it. And stay in the house. Hide. Nobody should know that you are there... trust me!" his cousin said fast and hang off again.

"Hello...?" Andrew said confused and realized that his cousin was afraid of something.

In the garage meanwhile, Sal stood with his fan on a workbench. The young around 13 years old boy was happy to see one of the hosts of his most favorite TV-show. In the garage he had his own little workshop where he sometimes tries to build the things they build in thier show.

"...that's so awesome! Where you know my mother?" Paul asked.

"Oh... this is a long story..." Sal said and remembered...

Flashback...

It's December 1994. Sal and Nathalie are a couple for 4 years now. They live togehter in San Francisco. Sal just finished the college and Nathalie is nurse in a big hospital in San Francisco. Both prepare for Christmas in a couple of weeks. Both want to drive to Monterey to Sal's parents. They live a normal life... of course Nathalie didn't told Sal about her little secret. But she didn't had to be afraid that he will find out. When she put some clouthes, she found a little box in the shelv. She was confused and opened it where she found a ring... Sal who entered the room was frustrated... he wanted to ask her in front of his family. She knowed what was going on and said... yes.

One month later... the magical-world was exposed. All news-channels reported about the dragon who crashed in Germany into a market. Sal knowed that Nathalie was afraid of something since that day. But he thaught that she is afraid of this creatures...

In February, when they prepared everything for the marriage the Californians declared the evacuvation of the humans-world...

In Monterey Nathalie met Sal on a pier on the beach. She lost weight and looked tired. On the pier she told Sal that she had to go... he have to forget her and that he have to accept it... During Sal looked shocked on the Pacific she disappeared. She walked threw a portal and Sal never saw her again...

Flashback ends.

Sal woke up from his imaginations when Paul snapped with his fingers in front of his face.

"eh... What!" Sal said confused.

"Are you okay... you had this strange view..." Paul said.

"Oh, yes... I just remembered. Well, you have very interesting things here... wow, what is that?" Sal asked and pulled out a strange box with a ventilator from the shelv.

"Oh, this is my self made air-conditioner! I build it for mom's car but..." Paul said and remembered.

Flashback...

Paul and his mother sit in the car driving across the coast. It was really hot inside. Both sweat. Than Paul explained what he did and presented her a button on the end of a cable which came out threw one of the ventilation slots. His mother shake her head in fear but he presses the button. Immediatelly white think smoke came out threw all slots. She makes a emergency-break...

"PAUL!" she screames angrilly...

Flashback ends.

"...she is still mad on me for that!" he said ashamed.

Sal was a little bit astonished. "So young and so smart... your father have to be very proud on you!"

"If I know who he is I would ask him..." Paul began and in that moment Sal felt like someone just woke up him. In fear he turned to the boy...

"Paul... Paul, how old are you?"

Outside, Nathalie smoked the third ciggarette before a man arrived. Her older brother Matt.

"Hey, on phone you sound terrible. What happend?" he asked her.

"P... P... Paul's father...!" she stammered. "He is here!"

Matt who knowed what happend understood her. He took her and both ran inside where they listened on the door, to the garage. Andrew was confused, but than he stood up and walked to them to listen too. In the garage Paul turned to Sal and answered the question.

"I'm eleven! I know I'm looking like thirteen but I'm a werewolf... we grown faster!"

"No I mean... What is your exactly date of birth?" Sal asked and was pretty sure...

"May 9th 1995!" Paul answered.

For Sal that was the confirmation. He counted: "May, April, March, February... Oh my gosh, Paul..." in shock Sal turned to Paul who was confused. "Paul... It's look like... I... I am... I am..."

In that moment the door smashed open and Nathalie ran inside. "NO! I WANT TO TELL HIM THE TRUTH!" she screamed and turned to Paul. "Paul... I have to say that I lied to you... I said that I have no clue who your father is because it happend in the humans-world during the war... but the truth is... This man... Is your father!"

Paul looked shocked in the first moment... than mad... and than he yelled happilly. "Ooooo... my god... my father is... yeaahhhh..."

Paul screamed so loud that the neigbours could hear it. Sal meanwhile collapsed again and layed senseless on the ground...

A few miles away...

In the district of Pacific Grove, Jonny and Grant walked to the parked van. A very old dark-blue Fiat with a licene-plate from the FR Tennessee. Carefully they walked closer to the van... The back door and the drivers door where open. The key was in the ignition lock and on the windshield hang a piece of paper: "Car for free!"

"Look's like the criminals tried to destroy traces..." Grant said and opened his bag where he had his 'human-supporter-equiptment'. He pulled out a flashlight and searched the driver's cabin. It was clean. "No fingerprints... No hairs... no liquids... nothing. They didn't left any traces."

"That's bad let's look for the licence plate." Jonny said and took a little black box, which looked like a calculator from the equiptment bag.

The calculator was a very fast computer with a connection to all databases accross Magical-America, including the car-licence-number-database of Tennessee.

"34-HG-TU-6" Jonny read and the computer searched. "Oh... the van is property of a delivery-service in Magical-Shreveport in Lousiana. Stolen three weeks ago from the parking lot after a employee forgot the keys..."

"But how they got a stolen car above the border to California? All borders in the magical-world are closed. Without passport-control nobody can travel between the states! Maybe the smuggle it above the humans-world or they used a very difficult spell. Or they just shrunk it and smuggled it in a bag..." Grant said and looked further for evidences.

He was confused above all the powders he got from Philipp, a Knower with status A, they safed several months ago from his drug-dealing classmates. Philipp, a very big fan of CSI and police-work, gave this CSI-stuff to them as a present for thier work.

"I wish Philipp is here! He is the only one who knows how to find a fingerprint..."

"Philipp will become one of us some day. But first he have to get the control about his obsession in revenge on his school-mates..." Jonny said and looked for more informations above the car and was disappointed. "Awww man... they faked us! The licence-plate is from a white Volkswagen Transporter... this is the right car but the wrong licence! They are smart!"

"But we are smarter! Try it with the VIN! Have to be somewhere?" Grant said.

During the both boys investigated the van, 30 miles away on the bottom of the ocean, the Cabrillo Canyon became wider...

In the seismologycal institute the alert clock rang again. In Monterey the people in both worlds couldn't feel it... but the earth was quaking again... hard and not far away.

"5.5, Cabrillo Canyon!" the scientologist said.

"What's going on here?" Jonny's mother asked annoyed.

"I have no clue... something like that I have never seen before." the scientologist said. "But I think... It's time to contact the humans-world..."

"WHAT? Are you sure?"

The political-situtation between both worlds was difficult. The magical-world contact the humans-world just in very very important things. It seemed like that what's going on here is one of this really important things...

"I call the president of California... he have to contact the humans-world authorities..."

Jake's wife was shocked. What was going on here? Earthquakes, volcanos and now the canyons on the bottom of the ocean became wider. In fear she looked on the map where all fissures, tremors and other happenings where marked. Than she saw it... all three fissures opened on a almost straight line...

Jake meanwhile walked up and down in the garden of his wifes house. He had this terrible feeling. Like something more terrible will happen. When he was in the bath the water from the faucet became rusty again...

"Hey, what's going on?" Uncle Sal asked Jake when he came outside.

"Oh... nothing! I just wait for..." when he said his wife's name a military-jet flew above the town very deep. "Hey, what do they want?"

It was just a test from the army. But now Jake felt worse. He took his mobile and called his wife.

"Jake, I come as fast as possible!" his wife said. "It look's like a disaster will follow..."

After Jake heared this he had to sit down. On the Draco's Islands the earth is quaking very often... so he knowed what to do. But that what happens here in California remembered him a movie-trailer he saw in TV on the Draco's Islands: Saochiej tadja Ostjorna Dragonajat (Sinking of Draco's Islands)... 'Sinking of California would be a great title if this is a movie.' Jake thaught. 'Oh no... that's stupid. That is just a movie. That will never happen...'

Jake's wife meanwhile, prepared to leave the institute. At the same time the seismologist talked with the president: "Sí... Si senor presidente, muchas gracias!" the ogre said and hang off. "Our president will contact the most important people."

"Okay. I have to go... before my uncle and my aunt are totally freaked out!" she said when she looked on the clock.

It was afternoon now. Outside the traffic and the number of pedestrians became more. People traveled home or to work for the night shift. She tried to imagine what could happen now... Than she took out her mobile again to call her son and his friend.

Jonny who realized that someone removed the VIN and all other serial numbers was annoyed. "Who ever stole this van was smart... it will be very difficult to find out who is the real owner of this car." he said before his mobile rang. "Yes, mom!"

"Where are you?"

"We found the van! The guys left nothing!" Jonny said.

"Okay... call the police... the will do the rest!" his mother said. "Come back home... before my uncle and my aunt will freak out. We have to spend time with them or they will... you know!"

"Okay!" he said and hang off. "Grant... we have to go!"

His mother meanwhile called Andrew... "Where are you?"

"We are still in the house of Nathalie! Why?" he asked.

"Stay there! Don't leave the house! There you are safe! Where is Sal?"

"Oh... Sal... he is..." Andrew stamered and looked on his brother who layed still senseless on a couch during Paul hugged him. "He... is busy... right now!"

"Oh, okay."

"Wait..." Andrew said and walked a few steps away. "Did you knowed that Sal is a daddy?"

"WHAT?" his cousin shouted shocked.

"Yes,... Nathalie has a son! He is looking like Sal... and he is his biggest fan..." Andrew said and laughed. "Did you really didn't knowed it?"

"No!" she said. "Who is he?"

"His name is Paul! A werewolf... This is your fault... Or not!"

"No, I swear I really didn't knowed. Oh... listen... prevent that the boy tells it someone. The boy have to keep quiet. I want to talk with him..."

Andrew handed the phone to Paul: "Your new aunt want's to talk with you!"

"Hello!" Paul said still satisfied. She told Paul everything what's going on. Paul was shocked when he heared it and now totally understood the situation of his father. "Okay... I won't tell it anyone!" he said and hang off. "Dammed... I had something to indicate and now..."

Jake's wife meanwhile walked further threw the streets of Magical-Monterey. After a couple of minutes a little girl walked to her when she wait on a taxi-stand for a taxi.

"Hola!" the little centaur girl said and handed her a piece of paper.

"What is that?" she asked in Spanish.

"A woman gave me a candy... I should give you this!" the girl said and smiled.

Jake's wife unfold the paper and was shocked. It was a faked photo of her. On the photo she layed dead in a pool of blood in front of the house of her uncle and her aunt... In fear she hid the paper in her purse.

"Who and where is the woman?" she asked the girl.

"She looked like a human! But she weared a hood so I don't know her face... but she was very friendly!" the girl said and smiled.

A half-hour later she arrived back in her uncles house. Jonny and Grant already arrived. She locked the door and all windows... Jake could see that his wife was afraid of something.

"What happend?" he asked confused and she pulled him into the kitchen where they where alone.

"That I got from a little girl!" she said and presented Jake the faked photo.

"Oh my gosh..." he said. "Who..."

"A woman... that I know now! The girl said that it was a woman who said that she have to give me this picture."

"Do you have female enemys?" Jake asked.

"I have more enemys than you and Jonny together!" she said annoyed. "But this is a trace! Maybe the person who called me and who made this photo have to do something with all this... strange happenings."

"Why do you think that?" Jake asked.

"Because all this began short time before we arrived here... I'm pretty sure that this is not random!" she said and looked out threw the window to see the town...

End of Chapter 7

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