Chapter 9
Raymond and Catherine start to investigate the whole house. Harold Grey and his son where carried away and so both could investigate the places where they found the both dead bodies.
The doors and windows where undamaged. Whoever killed them... the Grey's opened the door for him or her. Ray photographed the bloody footprints. Big and clear... from casual shoes. And with a very big size...
Catherine found the same footprints around the pool. And also some little pieces of paper in the grass. She saw that it was a ripped photo of something. Than she start to investigate the big glass-door to the living-room. She found 8 different fingerprints on the glass and on the handle...
Ray followed the bloody footprints to the big black-stain in the lobby. After he photographed it he looked exactly on it. It looked like a damage from fire, maybe from a flash. With a swab he took something of the black dirt to investigate it later in the lab...
Miles away, the white van of Lao Shi stopped in front of the CSI-building.
"Here we are!" the old man said and walked to the others who sat around the senseless Nick. "And how we can enter it."
"Spud is already working on it!" Jake said and pointed on Spud who sat on the laptop and tried to hack into the computer-system of the CSI.
A few seconds later he got a connection to one of the computers. But than Spud stopped immediately and closed the laptop panicly.
"Hey, what happend?" Jake asked.
"They almost catched us... this is a special system. Every computer who tries to hack into the system will be localized and found in a few seconds. If I completed they where here in 10 seconds. We need another way to get the informations." Spud said worried and explained them on the laptop what he meaned.
"Jake..." Jonathan said and walked to him. "How long I have to be a dog? When I will get into my own body again?"
What nobody didn't knowed was that Nick listened everything, because he woke up again. But nobody realized it. Nick listened exactly what Jake told his father about the mirror and couldn't believe it... he also couldn't believe Jake's next proposal...
"What is with him?" Jake asked and pointed on Nick. "Maybe we can use him to get the informations?"
"Ahh... I know what you mean!" his grandfather said. "Someone changes his body with him, enter the building, get the informations and come back. And who will change his body with Mr. Stones."
"His name is Stokes!" Jonathan said. "May I change? I want to be a human again."
"No, you already changed with someone... It's hard to explain... here is the manual!" Lao Shi said and threw a book on the floor in front of Jonathan. "It will explain you what I mean!"
"What is with me?" Jake asked.
"No... If you change with him... he will get your dragon-powers!" Lao Shi said. "That's all in the manual... what does it says?" Lao Shi asked and turned to Jonathan who read the manual.
"The manual is in Kazakh!" Jonathan shouted angrilly.
"Oups, I took the wrong... hehe..." Lao Shi said ashamed and took the book again. "We need someone who is a human and has good computer-skills to get the informations."
Everyone looked on Spud who was confused.
"Why do you all looking on me! Ohhh... I know! You want that I change with him." Spud realized. But before he could react, Jake already turned the window between Nick and Spud to change thier bodys. Immediately after it, Spud woke up in Nick's body and Nick stood there in Spud's body. In that moment everybody realized that Nick was awake the whole time.
"He was awake?" all said shocked.
Nick didn't knowed what happend. When he saw himself sitting, bind up on the chair. In that moment Nick turned to look into a little mirror which layed on one of the working places. When he saw that he was this boy he start to shout.
"Ahh... what did you did with me?" Nick shouted. "That's enough... I go and tell that..."
Nick opened the door to ran away. He knowed where he was and hoped to arrive the building. But than something wraped around his body and pulled him back into the van. It was Jake's dragon tail.
"What... awwhhh... what's that?" Nick said shocked when he saw Jake's dragon tail...
Several minutes later they stood all around Nick, who was in Spud's body, and was bind up on the chair again. During Spud looked on his new body, Jonathan walked up and down...
"Jake I hope for you that this will work...!" he said to Jake.
"Hey look what I found!" Spud said and presented them Nick's gun he found.
"Hey, be careful with that... that thing is loaded!" Nick shouted and Spud screamed and the gun fall on the ground.
Everyone shouted for a short moment, but fortunately nothing happend when the gun hit the ground. Everyone was relieved.
"You are so big in trouble..." Nick said annoyed.
"Please, Mr. Stofes..." Jake said.
"STOKES!" Nick shouted. "When you will learn it... it's Stokes!"
"Names he never learned very well." Jonathan said.
"Awww... and the talking dog again. Please, tell me that that is not 'the thing'!" Nick said more annoyed. "I start to hate 'the thing' although I have no clue what it is..."
"Is that the truth?" Lao Shi asked wondered. "What do you know? And what is that for a thing with 'the thing'?"
"I say nothing before you not explained me what happed here?" Nick said.
"Hey, guys..." Spud said and pointed on himself. "What is now with the plan?"
"Oh... yes right!..." Lao Shi said and hide a microphone and a little earplug on Nick's body. Spud could now hear them and they could hear him. "Just the most important."
When Spud was going to leave the van a cell phone start to rang. Spud stopped, because he felt a vibration in the pocket of Nick's throusers. He found the cell phone and looked on the display... Dr. Langston called.
"Who is Raymond?" Spud asked.
"I say nothing!" Nick said obstinately.
Spud left with Jake the van to take the call... If he ignored it he whould become suspicious.
"Hello!" Spud said and tried to change his voice.
"Ehmm...? Nick?" Dr. Langston said.
Raymond Langston stood in front of the Grey-villa. A few miles away. The coroners carried the both dead bodies into a black van of thier lab.
"Nick is that you?" Ray asked.
"Yes... yes... It's me. Nick... Stokes! Nick Stokes... from the CSI!" Spud lied.
Jake who heared everything was annoyed.
"Nick what happed with your voice?"
"My voice... I... I have... sore throat! Very painful..." Spud said and coughed into the phone. "...very painful!"
"Owch... that sound terrible... you sound like a character from a cartoon-series... Nick I called because I have good news for you... your friend Jonathan Long can't be our offender... we found two other victims... both killed on the same way like Lockjelly... your friend was in interrigation at that time." Ray told.
"Really... That are wonderful news..." Spud said with his normal voice. "... I mean... Oh... what happend?"
Spud listened to that what Ray told him. Jake who heared everything made notes...
"...oh and Nick: Try it with hot milk with honey and butter. That helps." Ray said before he switched off.
In the van Nick tried to escape during Jonathan tried to calm down him.
"You react better than I when I found out it... I became senseless..."
During the both men in the foreign bodies, talked Lao Shi got a call... a montain-troll from Belarus is missing... In Las Vegas.
"Okay... okay... tell his brother that we will look for him... okay... we will find him!" Lao Shi said and closed his mobile. "Awww... that trip becomes more and more annoying."
Nick was now totally exasperated: "Jonathan... if this is really you in this dog body... who is in the prison?"
"The talking dog!" Jonathan answered before Jake entered the van happily.
"DAD... dad you are free!" Jake said happily. "They found two other victims... Oh no that's terrible... but because you couldn't kill them they let you free."
"Really... I get my old body back..." Jonathan said happily. "I told you that I didn't killed him!"
"Yes... okay... when they proved it... but now you can change me back, too. And I promise to forget the dragon, talking dog, bodychanging thing... Oh my gosh... you... you are 'the thing'." Nick said.
"I'm the what?" Jake asked confused.
"The thing!" Nick answered.
During they sat all in the van... Spud entered in Nick's body the CSI-building. Everyone greet him. He greeted back. The most important was that nobody finds out that he was not the real Nick Stokes...
"Hi, Nick!" Archie said when he leaved the restroom.
"Ehm... Hi!" Spud answered back and tried to immitate Nick's voice.
"Nick... what happend with your voice?" Archie asked shocked. "That sounds terrible!"
"Sore throat!" Spud lied again.
"Here try that!" Archie said and give Spud a candy. "That helps the throat!"
"Thank you!" Spud said and walked away.
"Spud... don't talk with them... or they hear that you are not you! You know what we mean!" Spud listened Lao Shi's voice threw the earplug.
Spud start to whisper: "I know but everyone knows Mr. Stores here... I mean Stokes... Okay... I found something..."
Spud entered a office. On the table he saw a nameplate: That was Nick's desk!"
"I found his computer!" Spud whispered and walked to the desk.
During Spud start to search the files on the computer, Nick still tried to escape from the van.
"Mr. Stoges please..." Jake said. "... We really didn't wanted to 'kidnap' you or to change you with a teenager... but we just wanted to prevent that someone finds out the secret. The man who has been killed, wanted to expose us..."
"Would that be so bad?" Nick asked.
"Yes... that would be very bad! Because the people would also find out that werewolfs, vampires, wizards, unicorns and other difficult mythical-creatures exist." Lao Shi shouted angrilly before his mobile rang again and he leaved the van to talk.
"Mr. Stohes, sorry Stokes... Please forgive us... I mean he just know it since a few weeks and he accept it." Jake said.
Nick looked on Jonathan who start to say: "Until the moment they changed me with a dog!"
Before Jonathan could finish his sentence, Lao Shi entered the van again. He was shocked.
"Jake... the missing mountain-troll from Belarus was found. He is dead..."
End of Chapter 9
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