Chapter 10: The last chance!
During Jake and his father talked in his dreams, concilour Andam talked with some nurses. Everyone leaved the room so that Andam was alone with the sleeping Jonathan. He hold his hand on Jonathans face and whispered some words...
"Okay, dad!" Jake said to his father. "When I wake up, I observe Lockjelly! Maybe he walk directly into our trap... dad... what is?" Jake asked after his father didn't react.
"Sorry, Jake but I feal very strange..." he said, but a loud voice interrupted him.
"Hello, hello... Mr. Long, American-Dragon, are you hear me?" Andams voice said.
"YES!" Jake shouted. "What's going on?"
"Your mother called! You have to wake up." Andam said.
"OKAY!" Jake shouted back.
"WAIT!" Mr. Long shouted. "And what is with me?"
"Your are ... okay... for the moment." Andam said.
"Well. Dad I go back and do what I said. And you can... visit Lockjelly again, or aunt Patchouli..."
"Gosh... I forgot her totally! She was for a walk with me and your mother. How is she?" Jonathan asked.
"Well... after we told her the truth, she became crazy, flipped out and became unconscious." Jake explained.
"What? She knows the truth?" Jonathan asked worried.
"I explain you that when you wake up. But now I have to wake up and talk with your boss!" Jake said.
Before Jonathan could say him that he will stop working for Lockjelly when he woke up but Jake disappeared.
Jake woke up after Haley poured a glass of cold water above him. Jake screamed and looked angilly on his sister.
"What? I tried everything. But you drunk to much of this potion! What did you find out?" Haley asked during Jake changed his wet clouthes.
"It was Lockjelly!!! He found out our secret! And he found out a way how he could use this magical-disease!" Jake explained.
"Yes, and we found out that Lockjelly first tried to kill everybody in the plane! This disease was just Plan B!" Haley said.
"That's unbelivable..." Jake said during both walked down the stairs. "...and it's not just the airline he wanted to destroy, many companys will go bankrupt and Lockjelly will get everything."
"Is that true?" Trixie asked. "He wanted to make my mother workless..." she said angrilly.
"Not only..." Jake start to explain. But than the phone rang and Susan took it.
"Yes!"
"Listen..." a angry voice said. "I know that you know the truth, but I will never go to prison or whereever. I want every evidences, which blame me or my company. And you will bring me it. Midnight! At the bridge!"
"Lockjelly!!!" Susan shouted angrilly. "Never, never, never!!!"
"Really... well if you don't want the antidote..."
"No, wait!!!" Susan shouted and everybody in the room now looked at her and listen to Lockjellys voice.
"Yes, if you give me what I want... I give you what you want! But I want that a human bring the evidences you 'monster' and if I see someone other, or someone of your conspecifics, I will threw it into the river! And your sister-in-law, too!" Lockjelly said evilly.
"What?" everybody in the room shoutet.
Than the voice of Patchouli appeared in the background. She screamed and cried. Susan didn't understand anything but Lockjelly start to talk again.
"Well, midnight! Not later! And the human have to come alone, than I tell you where this annoying woman is, she have the antidote in her pocket." he said and hang off.
Susan looked worried at her family. Everybody was quite now. What should they do now?
"Wow, hahahaha... in 2 hours it's all over!" Lockjelly said with a smile.
"Are you sure? Sorry, but how we know that they don't trick us. Or that they come with some of them conspecifics!" his brother asked.
"Don't call my family mosters!!!" the handcuffed Patchouli shouted. "You are the monster here!!!"
"SHUT UP!" Lockjelly shouted and hold her mouth. "And now, say me what do you do here?"
"What does Patchouli do in Lockjelly's house?" Lao Shi asked confused.
"Maybe, Lockjelly burgled into the shop, during she sleeped and kidnapped her." Spud said. "Or she woke up and walked herself to Lockjelly."
"Why should she do that?"
"Because I know what you did! Years ago! You almost killed hundreds of people only for money! And now... the same!" Patchouli shouted angilly.
"Really, if my plan worked right, your brother is already dead. And nobody had to hear about this monster-disease. But because the friendly woman thier failed... all passengers survived. And my both scientists are dead! So I can't stay here. But before I flee, I finish this all. And your brother's family will help me with that."
"They will never help you!" Patchouli said and spited into Lockjellys voice.
Meanwhile, Lockjellys brother walked to the woman who still stood in the dark corner. He looked at her and was wondered.
"By the way, who are you?"
"Im the one who will get 10%! And the reverenge!" she said and walked to the window. "I lose my father, and the American-Dragon should lose his father!"
"Is that true?" Fu talked into the phone. "Yes, thank you!"
"Who was that?" Jake asked.
"A employee of the morgue, who have contact with the magical-world! The both pilots, who died... one was anesthetized with a old magical potion, like chlorophorm or something else. And the other one was hypnotized with a 'I have to do it... spell'. It losed it's effect just seconds before the plane crashed."
"That means he woke up and pulled the plane up again, before it crashed steep into the earth it crashed rough horizontal, so that the passengers had a chance!" Trixie said and wrote it on a picture of the plane-wreck, she took just hours before.
"And what has Lockjelly to do with it?" Haley asked.
"This potion he, or someone other, used was often used by the huntsclan!" Fu said.
"That means someone from the huntsclan helped him! But how is that possible?" Jake asked. "I mean the whole huntsclan is destroyed! And all over the world, the most huntsclan-facilities are also destroyed by the dragons and other magical-creatures. Who is that one from the huntsclan?"
"Who knows? Many huntsclan members had family, who had a normal live! Maybe it's someone of them who wanted reverenge." Fu said and looked at the evidences. "Did he said on which bridge? I have an idea!"
Spud walked threw the darkness above the pedestrian zone of the Brooklyn-Bridge. It was cold and quiet. There were no traffic, no other pedestrians or any noise. It was too quiet for New York. Althouth it was almost midnight.
During he walked, the Long's sat in thier old blue combi and listen the quiet radio. Trixie sat in the luggage space and watched into a little TV, which showed what Spud saw.
"Are you sure that that will be work?" Jake asked.
"We can see and hear what Spud does or talk! He can't hear us but he know what he have to do!" Fu Dog explained.
During they talk, LaoShi's mobile-phone start to rang. After he talked to someone he said: "We have just 2 hours before the first sick human will die!"
"And Jonathan?" Susan asked worried.
"He has around 3 hours!" LaoShi explained worried.
Before he could finish his sentence, Spud's voice appeared in the radio.
"I can't see anyone! I walk further... wait, I see someone, a man..."
Lockjelly saw Spud, walking with a heavy briefcase. A few steps away from him Spud stopped and put down the briefcase on the wooden ground.
"Where is she?" Spud asked angrilly.
"She is safe. For the moment! But don't use any tricks. When I disappear, she will visit the fishes!" Lockjelly said and pointed at the briefcase. "Show it me, but from far. If this is a bomb or something else..."
Spud opened angrilly the briefcase and presented Lockjelly the photos and documents they collected.
"And now say me where Patchouli is! And the antidote!" Spud said.
"First walk away a few steps! And hands up!" Lockjelly said and Spud did it.
With raised hands Spud walked backward a few steps away. Lockjelly looked at the briefcase. And took it. After he start to laugh he grab into his pocket and showed a gun...
"Do you really think that I'm so stupid!!!" Lockjelly said and shoot two times on Spud's chest, who fall down to the ground lifelessly. "NOW!" Lockjelly shouted.
Than the loud scream of a woman filled the air. The Long's who heared everything, got in panic.
End of Chapter 10
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