Chapter 10
The people followed the instructions from the radio. They closed all widows and covered the broken ones with sheets. Whoever was outside had to wear a gas-mask. The poisonous clouds covered the coast towns and cities. But just a half hour later it was over. The heavy wind blew the clouds away and above the ocean they disappeared. The Huntsclan-leaders were not very happy about that. Now they were out of gas.
"That was Sarin!" one of the leaders said angrily. "It was so difficult to get it... the same gas they used one week ago for that terrorism attack in the subway of Tokyo! It is to sad that we can't blame this creatures for that but now we had it and now we have to wait again before we can attack them again with 'big bangs'."
"Yes... that's evil! But the gas had enough time to be in the streets. There must have been many victims." another one said during they looked at the damaged city of Guangseng.
All over the city the people hid again. Hundreds were injured, dozens were dead. They laid all over the streets and just a few people walked outside and tried to help them. One of the injured people was the mother of the werewolf-family from the Long's basement. Jake's mother helped the father to give first aid to her. Jake and his wife sat with their son in their own corner and watched it. The four children of the werewolf's cried, all were afraid. But nobody could leave the basement because all were afraid that the air was still poisoned.
Spud meanwhile stood with a gas-mask on the roof and looked around. The Huntsclan ship was maybe 3 miles away from the coast and it shipped away. He sat down on his camping-chair he had on the roof and took out a piece of paper to write down further in his war-diary. When he looked down he saw the father of the werewolf-family carrying his dead wife, wrapped into a carpet, to an garbage-container. It looked so cruel to see this. But that was the only way the people could use to bring away their dead family-members.
Several days later...
It rained very often. Because all over were holes in walls and roofs water dropped into the houses. But now the last wood-fires where extinguished. And the poisonous leftovers where cleaned away. Every time when a bomb exploded Jake lift his head and walked upstairs to walk on the balcony to look on the city, to see where the bomb or the grenade explode. The ship in the bay looked creepy. Jake wished that the truth about them in the humans-world will be exposed soon. He walked down to the first floor where he met the three sons and the daughter of the werewolves. All sat in the living-room of their own apartment and looked at a picture of their mother with a candle in front of it.
Jake walked down and met his sister who prepared to leave the house. To get water from the well. She looked worried. She had to think about Grigorj who lives in Hebatov and that district had the most damages till now. But she also had to think about her students and all other young children. 60% of the inhabitants where younger than 12 years. They will have to live all with this memory for the rest of their live. But there was still one good thing. More than the half of them was in this coma so they didn't realized the terrible things which happened. The children of the werewolves where all older so they didn't sleep. But all others...
"What are you thinking about?" Jake asked.
"About... so many things! What do you think? When this will end? When we will be able to go home?" she asked.
"I have no clue!" Jake said and took also a bucket. "I'll come with you..."
Both left the house to walk to the well on the other street side. A long queue waited in front of the well. All protected by the police. as they waited in the queue they saw Grigorj walking to their house. His clothes where damaged and he had a bandage around his head. He was injured. Haley let Jake alone and ran to her boyfriend. Jake saw her talking to him and then she hugged him it looked like he had bad news. Haley walked back to Jake.
"Jake... could you do this alone? I have to help Grigorj, his parents died during the last big attack!" she told.
Jake was shocked. He couldn't believe it. He knew Grigorj's parents. His father was the dragon of Central-Russia from 1975 to 1988. He met him during the dragon-congress in Moscow in 1984. Jake saw Haley walking with her boyfriend into their house. Then he looked up to see Spud standing on the roof. He winked and Jake winked back. How many people have to die now?
The days passed and more and more people lost their homes, family-members or lives. The heavy rainfalls cleaned the grounds from the poison so that in the midlands the people start to plant new plants for fruits and vegetables. The people knew that the Huntsclan tried to destroy their food-supplies to let them starve. The Huntsclan had so many weird ideas to destroy their world and prevent that they get in contact with the humans-world. Because that no reporter was allowed to be on one of the ships. In the humans-world the news about the magical-world became less. Nobody talked anymore about it.
Rhonda Burton sat with the police-detective in her living-room and they talked about the last things the police found out.
"Mrs. Burton... till now it looks like your twin-sister has been kidnapped by the Huntsclan!" the detective told and shocked her.
"Really... I have the feeling that I knew it!" she said. "Do you have any evidence?"
"Well we have the statements of several nurses who worked that night in the hospital. We have the statement of a pedestrian who saw two people leaving the hospital with a baby threw the back entrance." the detective told. "And both wore the same uniforms, the original Huntsclan-members wear."
Rhonda hit with her fist on the table. She was really angry now. Her sister... her only sister was in this organization. And she was killed by this organization. She knew it. In 1983, when she and her parents were informed about her dead, the police told that she was killed by a gun shot. If this creatures are really 'primitive' they wouldn't use guns. She walked to the phone and start to call someone.
"Thank you Detective Taylor! Would you excuse me? I have to make some calls." Rhonda said and pulled out the note-book she found in the Long's house. First she called the family of Jake's wife. To warn them from Brad. She told her aunt who Brad is and how he looked. Then she called a old friend who worked for the press. "Hello my friend... I know you are very busy... but you said if I need help you would help me!"
Two days later it was in all newspapers. Confirmed by the police. Everyone knew now... The Huntsclan kidnapped babies.
On the ship in the bay of Guangseng Brad Morton sat above a satellite-picture of Guangseng. A photo of Rose hang on the wall. Brad studied the map and marked some places. Then he took away the maps and take some of his own 'projects'. In a book he learned how to build bombs. He already finished four bombs which sat in a backpack under his bed. He read the book like no one before. His father would say: 'I wish you learned in school so fast!' But for Brad his father already died after he banned him from home.
After Brad finished his fifth bomb and hide it with the others he stand up to go to the toilet. When he washed his hands he looked up to see himself in the mirror. In his imagination he saw the big black eye Jake's wife made in 1985 after he called them freaks. For Brad this was the biggest humiliation in his life, to be knocked off by a little weak girl in front of the whole school. Although it was Brad's own fault.
When Brad walked back to his cabin he saw a boat with thirty people driving to the island. Brad looked how the boat disappeared in the fog near the coast. 'They are brave' Brad thought. From the around 100 people who wanted to enter the islands just two returned in the last two months. When Brad walked further he heard that someone tried to switch on a TV. But it didn't worked. Since weeks the most hadn't any contact with their families or other people in the humans-world. All was very weird.
In the humans-world the first people start to demonstrate against the Huntsclan. All protected by the police. Finally the people slowly start to realize what's going on. But the Huntsclan still tried to keep the control about the fear of the people. In Russia the Huntsclan advertise with the photo of the young human-girl who left with her vampire boyfriend. The photo of her stirred the people in East-Europe. She was ashamed that the Huntsclan uses her to blind the people. So she decide to get in contact with her own world...
The Russian television aired a video which was in the mail. In the video she told the people the truth about the Huntsclan. And about that what the Huntsclan did in America and on the islands. But the Huntsclan burglarized into the studio and interrupt the video. All over the Russian capital the people could see smoke increasing from the burning studio-building. And of course the Huntsclan blame the magical-world.
"This creatures are so... evil to use the fear of the family of this girl." a Huntsclan-leader told in a interview in a American talk-show several days later. "The people in Russia are all afraid of the fate of Darja Ivanova Shparka!" the man told and presented a photo of her to the studio audience. All became sad...
On the islands nobody knew what was going on. The only good messages where that all Huntsclan members were caught when they tried to enter the islands. All over the people start to get the control above the chaos back. Today was April the 25th, day 69! Jake's shoulder was healthy again so he felt better now. He slowly got the feeling back that he can do anything for his family. The others felt weaker. The werewolves where still sad because the dead of their mother. The leprechauns sat in their own corner and spend the whole day with playing cards and talked to nobody. Jake hold his son in his arms and tried to feed him.
All of them lost a few pounds. Jake's wife, who was every time a very skinny person, looked now like a anorexic woman. Jake helped her to stand up and left with her the basement. It rained very hard. She let the rain fall on her. It was like a shower, a clean refreshing shower. Together they walked through the courtyard. All houses where abandoned now because all hide or already fled.
"Jake... I'm afraid!" she said.
"I know, I'm also afraid!" Jake said before he saw Frederick walking across the street. "FREDERICK!" he shouted and Frederick winked and walked to them.
"Frederick, how are you? We haven't seen each other for weeks!" Jake said.
"It's okay... for the moment!" Frederick answered. "My family is in Hanjavtmhara now! There they are safe. I'm now in the militia!"
"And how is it?" Jake's wife asked.
"Difficult!" Frederick answered. "But I have good news for you... I've checked the phone-lines. In your neighborhood all lines are okay. This is for you..." Frederick said and pulled out a old phone with a dial and handed it to the Long's. "I repaired it... I don't need it but you... I'm pretty sure you want to call your family!"
"Thank you!" she answered. "Oh... Thank you. You are a friend everyone should have"
"Thanks!" Frederick said and became red. "You know... In our school-days you where my only friend. Then you introduced me that world. Here I met the woman I want to spend my life with. You are a friend everyone should have. Or just the good people should have!"
"Yes... thank you for the phone!" she said and followed Frederick a few meters before they said goodbye.
In their house they found a running phone plug and immediately she called her family in California. Just to be sure that nobody exposed them. Then she called Rhonda in New York to find out more about the burglar.
"He disappeared!" Rhonda told. "The guy who burglarized into your house disappeared."
"And how?" Jake's wife asked.
"Please ask me something simple!" Rhonda said. "And how are you? How is Hong Kong?"
"Oh... Hong Kong is... nice!" she said when she looked out of the window. They were in the second floor in the apartment of the leprechauns. "And how are you?"
"Oh... now you're talking about it... It was good that you told me that about my sister. The police found out that it was the Huntsclan who kidnapped my sister..."
"WHAT?" she shouted and Jake who heard everything was shocked.
Both had no clue what now. Was it good that that the whole world knew that the Huntsclan kidnapped babies. But the fact that they knew that Rose was involved was bad because that is a connection to the Longs...
The time passed and the people tried to live a normal life. Children gone to school, woman walked with their sleeping babies threw the parks. Just in the coast-towns the life was difficult. But one good message was that the Huntsclan doesn't get any ammunition till the moment they gave a statement to the people who lost their children...
In all big cities around the world the first demonstrations began. Thousands of people walked with flags across the streets and shouted: Answers!
So the next weeks passed with a creepy silence in all war-areas. This was the first chance for the people all across the magical-world to get a overview from the damages. But this silence should just be for a short time. When the attacks began again the people lost their courage again. But nobody knew that the much bigger disaster will just happen... On June 2nd... In the humans world...
End of Chapter 10
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