Chapter 10
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Jake was very surprised above Frederic. He knowed his secret for only 1 day, and Frederic had more good ideas and plans than Spud or Trixie. During Jake think about Frederic's 'abilitys', Frederic ran into a police-station where some people ran out. Only one officer was still in the house when Frederic come back and opended an umbrella.
"What? Your plan was to find an umbrella." Jake moans.
"No! That was laying on the table. My plan was to ask him where the hotels are. I've said him that I miss a friend who lived in a hotel here, but I didn't know in which." Frederic explained.
"So, he said you where the hotels are. Okay where and how much?" Jake asked.
"Fortunately, there are only two hotels in this village. But, unfortunately one of them collapsed during the earthquake." Frederic told and pointed at two buildings near them, one intacly and one totally destroyed. "The destroyed one, was closed for remodeling. But they interrupted it because someone told them, they need special-experts for the cellar. Maybe it's in that one."
Jake looked at both places. Than he decided: " Okay, Frederic. I go to that destroyed one, I'm stronger and can go deeper into the debris. And you look in the other one, go into the cellar and look for all what doesn't look normal."
"You mean, every little detail. I understand!" Frederic said and both ran away.
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The still panicly people all over the island ran away from the towns and villages. The farest point on the island was the capital on the east side of the island. The people wait all over on the beaches and the airport for help. Someone tried to arrive a ship by a dinghy.
Pandarus looked at this from his hideout. The suite he had was a construction-side (from outside). And it was on a beach on the north-side. He had a good view to the volcano and the main roads. He took his baggage and lay it on the bed, than he took his mobile and press some buttons.
All over the island, Pandarus employes, who also wanted to flee, took thier mobiles and Pandarus talk to everybody of them:
"Here is the boss! Because of that unforeseen eruption the whole operation is stopped. Everybody have to flee from the island as fast as possible. With other words: you all fired!... Good luck!"
Pandarus switch of the mobile and also sat down on the bed. He took a box with some little bottles and look for his transport-poition. He opened a little bottle, said: "New York, Pandarus Tower, 90th floor." and turned the bottle on head. But it was empty.
"NO!!!" he shouted and stood up. "Awww.... the emergency-bottle is in the hideout." he said angrly and ran out. His employes all gone, so he had to go back to the hideout himself. There he had the rest of the potion. He walk out threw the ash-rain to a parked car, snaped with his fingers so that the door opened and the motor started.
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Trixie and Spud still tried to get free. All in the room could see the disaster on the screens. Spud almost give up when he saw a young red-haired boy on one of the little screens. And short time after, he saw him again: "FREDERIC?!"
"What? What's with Frederic?" Trixie asked confused.
"He is here! He is the lost bondsman! Do you understand, Trix? We are safe?" Spud yells happily.
"Yo, Spudinski, I think the heat here makes you more dazed than normal! If this is possible..."
"But you said that you could saw Jake at one of the screens. Well, if Frederic was Pandarus' bondsman he could tell it Jake, maybe, because he know about Pandarus plans."
"You mean we have a chance?" Trixie asked.
"Yes, I hope." Spud said and everybody start to smile.
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During Jake started to dig threw the debris of the destroyed hotel, Frederic ran into the intacly one. Every minute they could hear a terrible explotion from the mountains and the ash-rain got stronger and stronger. Frederic found the door to the cellar and ran into it. It was dark and the light doesn't work. So he run back and look behind the reception desk for a flashlight or a candle.
"Oh, please. I haven't enough time for that." he whispered to himself and opened every drawer and cupboard.
Than his mobile rang. Frederic was confused and raised. "Hello! Who disturbes?"
"Frederic? It's me!" a man said.
"DAD!?" Frederic was shocked. "I can't talk now,... I... I have to help a friend, now. Bye!" he said and switch off.
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Thousand miles away, Frederic's dad started to cheer.
"Honey, our son finite found friend's." Mr. Buttersleves yells happily.
"I hope it's not that depraved Morton-boy!" his wife whispered in Bosnian, with a worried voice, and turned to her husband: "Oh, that are great news!!!"
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Frederic, was wondered that his father could arrive him. But he didn't have time to think about it, he looked and finally found a flashlight. He run back and walked down the stair to the cellar-corridor. In that short corridor where four locked doors: laundry, storeroom, basement heating and the restroom for the employes.
"One, two, three or four?" Frederic said to himself. In which room he should start to search.
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At the other hotel, or in it's debris, Jake found a piece of a flyer. He started to read it: 'Hotel Sandy-Beach, founded in 1995.' "1995?! The document dad readed had to be more than 20 years old. So this hotel didn't existed in that time." Jake realized and turn in his dragon-form. All people where gone, so he could fly to the other building without to be seen.
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The Long's heared the doorbell and walk to the front-door. Sun Park was standing thier with two boys, who talk in an ohter language.
"And?" Jonathan asked.
"No chance! We told it the Romanian-Dragon and he travels back as soon as possible to Romania, there he will go to Moldova to the dump. That's the only thing we could do." she explained and entered the house with the boys.
"And who are those?" Susan asked and looked at the boys.
One of them took a little microphone from a backpack and start to talk, the Longs and Sun could hear his words like from a old tape:
"We, are friends of the Bosnian-Dragon. The woman told us, that the boy who talk with us is helping the American-Dragon on a exploding island. The boy seemed sympaticaly, and everybody is worried so we decided to wait, too. Maybe we can help." the boy said into the microphone.
"Okay, be our guests. We wanted try to arrive Jake on phone again. You can sit down!" Jonathan said and pointed at the couch.
The both boys looked very confused and stared at Jonathan. Than he turned to Sun: "Could it be that we understand them, but they can't understand us?"
"Oopppsss... that is the thing I forgot!" Sun said. "But now, how you wanted to arrive Jake?" she said and everybody sat down. The both boys now understand what Mr. Long said.
"Well, Pandarus had some equiptment, we found out in that documents, and he used something of that to disturb the signals." Jonathan said.
"Yes?"
"Well, but I've heared that some people could use thier phones after the first eruption. That means..."
"That means, the mashines he used are destroyed, by the fire on the mountain." Sun realized and took the phone and call Jake's mobile. But she couldn't arrive him. "Oh...no... we still can't arrive Jake. Does everybody knows Frederic's number?"
Everybody shake his head.
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Jake met Frederic in the cellar.
"Frederic, it's here!" Jake said. "The other hotel didn't build in that time."
"Okay, I was in the restrooms, in the basement... nothing! But there is something what you should know. My cell-phone had a signal. My father arrived me!" Frederic said and showed his cell phone.
"That means that the Sphinx-Hair-mashine also disturbed the signals, we can call again..." Jake said and took the mobile to call his parents.
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The Long's got a shock when the phone start to rang. Jonathan took the phone and start to talk.
"Hello!"
The voice at the other side was very weak, he couldn't hear it very well. But than he realized that it was Jake.
"Jake? Is that you?" his father asked.
"... y...sss..."
"What? I can't understand you!"
"..An...now...?"
"A little better!" he said relieved. "Where are you?"
"....in..the..ho...l...the valve...!" Jake's voice came very bad.
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"Frederic, I'm going up. Maybe, he can't hear me, because the signal is very bad here in the cellar." Jake said and ran up the stair.
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"Jake?"
"Dad? Can you hear me better?" Jake asked now clearly hearable.
"Yes, now it's better! Jake, we have here the plans and blueprints from the valve. It's in one of the cellar rooms." Jake's father explained.
"Yes, we know that! And in which? There are four." Jake said.
"Wait.... ahhhh... it's the first door on the left side, when you walk down the stair." Jonathan said and Jake shout it down to Frederic who opened the door. It was the laundry.
"And now?" Frederic shout from downstaris and Jake asked it his father.
"Now at the right wall is something what look like a .... beeeppp...!"
"Dad? ... Dad?" Jake looked at the display, the battery was empty. Jake ran downstairs and give Frederic his mobile back. "Thank you, the battery is empty!" He said a little angrily.
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"Awww man!" Jonathan moaned.
"What?"
"We lost them! Now they are totally alone!"
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"Jake, look thier!" Frederic said and pointed at the wall near the floor. "The tile, it's upside down?"
Jake saw that Frederic was right. One of the little tiles on the wall was upside down. Jake push at the tile. Immediately thereafter, the floor start to shine in a white, shiny light. Than a hole, as big as a door appeared and showed some steps and a platform at the end.
"Here is it!" Jake said and both walked down the wooden stairs to the platform.
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End of Chapter 10
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