Chapter 8

All over the blackout-zone the situation became better. The people calmed down and the police and the fire-brigade could work again. Frederick, Jacob and his parents where alone now in the little town. After all lights switched on again, the warning siren also switched on and confirmed what Jacob's mother told them. It began to rain and all start to run away. They knowed the rain was contaminated.

Frederick smashed against a door and burglarized into a evacuvated house. They where safe from the rain but they had to find a way to contact the others. The phone worked and Jacob's parents called with their other children who where safe in magical-world. When she start to call Jake's cell phone, Frederick got a strange feeling.

The boy who let him free. He couldn't smell him because the silver weaked him. But when he ran back... he could smell a little bit of him. He knowed him. He was one of his former classmates... than he remembered who it was...

Jake and his friends still stood on Grond Zero and looked on the three other persons. Jake still had the strange feeling that it was not Pandarus, but another person he didn't like. But Jake had no other choise, he placed the chest on the ground and than they walked a few metres away. Jake could hear that his cell-phone rang. But he didn't took the call. He just looked on the three persons who winked and showed that they should walk more away.

Jake and his friends looked around. The energy was back, and all cars and other things worked again... was it that guy in the wheelchair when he saw them arriving. Or was it just random that all switched on again. Jake could hear his cell-phone rang again. Carefully he took it and looked on the display. He could see the number but no name. During he still looked on the three dark persons who walked to the chest he took the call, in the hope that it was his family.

"Yo! Who is there?" Jake said quiet.

"Hello... Dragon Boy... this is the mother of you know! From Pennsylvania! Listen your half-bosnian friend is here! He is safe!" a woman said and Jake regocnized her. Jacob's mother!

"Really, finally some good news!" Jake said and wanted to hang off but than he listened further.

"Listen... your friend told me that he escaped because one of this guys who kidnapped him let him free. And he said that it was one of your classmates."

"What!" Jake said louder and the three dark persons lift thier heads to look at Jake. The finally opened the chest and the person in the wheelchair looked for something inside it.

"And he also said... or mind... howsoever you call it when... aww... forget it... he said, that he think that BM is the big-boss!"

"BM? May you talk more understandable!" Jake said confused.

"No, oh my gosh... we are afraid that someone can hear this call... I mean... now! Because your world is... exposed." she said and Jake was so shocked that he couldn't say anything. "Hello, are you listen? I've said that your world is..."

Jake was shocked. It was unbelivable. They where afraid that thier world will be exposed for hours. And now he had to hear that it already happend.

At the same time, all over the world, meteorologists could see that the wind changed and the radioactive rain was now on the way to New York City. At the same time they activated the warning sirens on the whole East-Coast.

Jake and his friends where shocked when they heared the warining-siren above the city. Jake had a terrible feeling... the siren was because the magical-world... the humans where afraid... Jake looked on the person in the wheelchair who hold a big red jewel in his right hand and laughed. Jake lost now the control above himself. He was so angry that he took Trixie and Spud, transformed and start to attack them.

"YOU!" Jake shouted angrilly.

But before Jake arrived the person in the wheelchair it shouted: "STOP!" and lift his hands. Jake could feel that he stooped in the air and couldn't move. Also Trixie and Spud couldn't move. Like statues they hung in the air and where shocked, because they knowed that voice. Now they knowed, who was the person in the wheelchair: Brad!

"Are you surprised?" Brad said with a evil voice after he pull out the cap and his mask. "Yes, you are surprised! I'm also surprised, because I thaugt you where light-red, but you are dark-red..."

"BRAD?" Jake and his friends said shocked. "How did you..."

"What? How did I freeze you in the air... that was very easy with that little thing!" Brad said and presented them a reparied wand. Jake could see that it was Pandarus' old wand. "And with that thing!" Brad said and presented them the red jewel. "And now I will find that what that old idiot never arrived with the help of that red little thing."

Jake and his still shocked friends looked how Brad hold the jewel up in the air and read something from a book. A few seconds later, Brad stood up and could walk again. "Awww... what for a great feeling! Can you imagine how terrible my life became after you send my father to prison? Of course not! We lost everything. The police found out that the most of our things where bought by money, my father 'extorted'. My mom and me we lost almost everything. We had to leave our house and move to that old, and dilapidated apartment. And than, three months after we had to move in there, it happend! I fall down a stair in this house, after that accident I was bind on that stupid wheelchair. But that accident had never happend if you and your stupid little werewolf friend..." Brad talked further during he could see that one of the both other guys start to sweat very hard.

"And because that you did that all?" Jake asked.

"Well, if I didn't spy you out... I've had never found out your secret. And than I investigated a little bit. Before my accident, I traveled to the place where that wizard died. Oh yes, he is really dead... and than I took his wand. Than I read some of his notes and his books..."

"What? You can read?" Spud said and everybody had to laugh.

"SHUT UP!" Brad shouted and lift the wand. Jake and his friends lost thier voices. "Well, than I found out that he looked for something called the Can of Pandorra. And than I found out how I can find it. With the help of that little thing!" Brad explained and hold another jewel from the chest in his hand. "But than my accident happend and I couldn't work further, so I called a little bit with our classmates and I got help."

Jake looked on the both dark persons and the also pull out thier masks. The both other guys where Brad's best friends. One of them looked astonished on Jake and said: "O my gosh, Rotwood said the truth!" But the other one didn't said anything and sweat futher. Jake saw that he was afraid because someting. But not because Jake.

"Than I found out that this jewel can give magical-powers to that guy who touch it. Than we found Pandarus old hideouts and than I need a way to keep 'you' under control!"

"Frederick and the blackout!" Jake said.

"Yes, but first I need a way to bring you out of the city. And than I found out that Frederick is a gigantic talking dog..." Brad said and all could hear a angry bark.

Jake forgot to hang off and on the other side of the line Frederick, Jacob and his parents could hear everything. Frederick was really angry now. And barked angrilly.

"...wow, Hello Freddy..." Brad said, took the cell phone which layed on the ground and smilled. "You thaught you can hide in East-Europe from me but I found you. I followed you before you move away, and than I saw your little friend. And that was the plan. If Jake knows you, he have to know this other dog..." Brad told and another werewolf barked. "... than I wrote that massage and he had to call who... the american-dragon, the protector of the magical-world republics of New York, Tennessee and California!" Brad said and presented a two years old magical-week magazine he found in one of Pandarus' hideouts.

"And you knowed that I will go there to help him!" Jake said angrilly.

"Yes, I'm not so stupid how you think. I mean... wait what does Freddy does in the near of the other one... he was alone in his prison and... You!" Brad said and pointed on one of his friends. "WHY IS HE FREE? TELL ME THE TRUTH!" he shouted and a white flash hit the head of the boy.

"I've let him free, because I found out that you lied on me and told me that my parents are safe. BUT YOU KILLED THEM!" the boy shouted and lift a picture of his parents, they where in one of the planes which crashed. On the way to Honolulu! And you told me that Frederick is a dangerous monster, I found 'Pandarus' Books and Notes' and found out that he and other of this creatures are not dangerous."

"AND BECAUSE THAT YOU CHEAT ON ME!" Brad shouted and became really angrilly. With a wink of the wand, Brad smashed the unarmed boy against a wall a few metres away. Jake was shocked. After he he saw the hardly injured boy, he thaugt he couldn't survive that.

"Oh my gosh!" the other one shouted. "They where right! You are a monster, Brad!"

"Quiet!" Brad shouted and smashed him against the wall to. Both boys layed senceless, or maybe dead, on the ground. "Traitors!"

"What did you did?" Jake wanted to say but he had no voice.

"And now back to me! Well and with this little thing here, I will do that what that stupid old idiot never arrived." Brad said, laughed and hold the blue jewel up in the air. A flash appeared out of it and hit the ground near one of the construction sides. Jake could see that someone came out of the big hole and was shocked, it was the Can of Pandorra! "Your world thaugt, that it can hide it under a building!"

Jake couldn't belive it. He delivered Brad a jewel, with found the Can of Pandorra. But what does Brad want's with it. He was a human, and he used magic from a jewel. He had no own powers.

The can land in Brad's hands and he laughed! Than he took a piece of paper and looked on Spud.

"That are your words,... Arthur!" Brad said and start to open the can.

Jake wanted to stop him, but could still not move. On the other side of the line, Frederick heared everything and knowed what will happen.

A bright light blend the whole city when Brad opened the can. All over the people where shocked when they saw the bright flashes above Downtown. Just less of them knowed above the magical-world for now and hoped that it meaned something good. But at this moment Brad hold his hands into the open can and a bright second flash appeared during Brad's scream was hearable above the whole city. A few seconds later, it was over. Jake was still blend from the light, but could see that Brad was staning above the can. His hair became as white as snow and he was taller.

"No!" Jake thaught. "NOOOO..." he shouted and found out that his voice came back.

Trixe and Spud could also talk again.

"WOW! That feels so good!" Brad shouted. "And now I will get my father, and we go to show the world your world, Hahahahaha..." Brad said and pointed with the wand on a place on the ground.

A flash hit the ground and the dead body of Officer Morton appeared with the rope around his neck. Brad start to scream and run to his father. But he was dead... for hours. Jake saw how a tear appeared in Brad's eye and than how he became angry. "You!... You killed my father!" Brad shouted and smashed with magical-help all three against the same wall like the others. Thew the cell phone he could hear barks, so he send a spell threw the phone and all four appeared above the cell phone.

Frederick was shocked when he saw Brad with magical-powers. Jacob's dad wanted to shoot, but with a fingersnap of Brad the gun became a toy. All four where smashed against the wall to and layed with Jake, Trixie, Spud and the both other boys on the ground.

"You will pay for the dead of my father!" Brad shouted and send a bright green magical-flash to them.

A second later they all disappeared. Just a big black stain left there.

Brad start to smile: "Bye bye..."

End of Chapter 8

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