A Dragon's Crimson Cry
By: Tippi
Ch 37 Hospital Attempt
The rest of the night Jake didn't have any more dreams. Jake came to a conclusion about his dream earlier last night and left it at that he had to many other questions in his mind to dig to deep in to his dreams.
After breakfast Jake found him self lying on his bed flipping through an old children's book.
Jake flipped the pages not bothering to read the words has he had memorized them years ago.
Jake came to stop at a page that sported a picture of a huntsclan member and a dragon facing off. Jake now knew that this was more then just a story; some how there was something underneath it.
Jake closed the book and went into thought. 'His grandfather was a dragon and he was attacked by a similar man to the one in the book. Was the murderer a member of the same group in the book? Was he a dragon, was he, he's entire family?'
Jake was getting more questions with no answers and currently the only ones who could answer were either in the hospital, maybe still unconscious, or abandoned him.
Jake went downstairs not able to do anything else.
Jake was sitting with his back to the window fiddling with his gameboy when he heard a light tap on the window. Jake turned to see Fu standing outside the window, standing there like he never left.
Jake stuffed the gameboy in the deep pocket of his tan kaki and ran outside to see him.
"Hey kid" Fu greeted once Jake was with him.
Jake crossed his arms over his chest and gave Fu a displeased look.
"Still mad" Fu asked.
"Yes" Jake said giving the simplest answer.
"Okay sorry but I came back" Fu tried. "So how you doing?" Fu asked for a change of subject.
"Let me see, I'm in the custody of the state, I just found out at least one family member is a dragon, I'm talking to a dog, and he's talking back; how do you think I'm doing" Jake answered.
"Okay stupid question but how about I make you feel a little better and we go see the old man" Fu suggested.
Jake liked that idea.
~At the hospital~
Jake was able to walk right in no one taking notice but Fu had to be sneaky knowing there was a no dogs allowed policy.
It took some time but Fu finally able to get in. Jake was waiting for him at the elevator. They were going to have to tread casually any hospital worker saw Fu and they'd be back to were they started.
Oddly enough the floor his grandfather was on was pretty empty. As Jake got closer to his grandfather's room he felt a chill run up his spine like something was wrong.
Jake opened the door and knew what the chill meant. Standing over his grandfather was a man in a surgical outfit with a pillow in his hands. He was holding it over his grandfather ready to place it over his face to suffocate him.
A gasp from Jake stopped the man's moments and had him turn to Jake. Despite most of his face was covered the eyes were well known.
How he had found the very hospital and room his grandfather was in was anyone's guess but that didn't matter at the moment.
Fu bit into the man's leg that made him drop the pillow and try and shake the dog losses. While the murderer was distracted Jake hit the code blue button on the wall. Within a minute two nurses and a doctor were in the room to see the whole scene.
At that moment the masked man had removed Fu from his bleeding leg. Before anyone could further react he produced a green glowing orb that exploded into smoke and in a flash he was gone. Nothing was left of the man but the pillow he dropped and a small puddle of blood on the floor.
Now that Jake was over the fear of his grandfather dieing he dreaded what was coming next.
The police showed up asked the standard questions and collected the blood for DNA. As they did so Jake thought 'they didn't catch him two years ago they're not going to now.'
Jake was sitting at his grandfather's bedside; Fu had since disappeared during the commotion, when he heard two familiar voices say at the same time 'what are you doing here.'
Jake turned to the door the see none other that Lee and Katie.
"Well I'm the case worker they called me in of course" Katie answered.
"I heard it on my radio" Lee gave his own answer.
"Jake you okay" Katie asked walking over to Jake followed by Lee.
"I'm fine" Jake gave his simple answer.
With that said the room fell into silence as the three sat in the room not saying a word to one another.
After about 10 minutes Lee decided to break the silence.
"I don't quit like hospitals" Lee said.
That one comment started a long conversation with him and Lee.
Jake was starting to nod off in boredom from the conversation held between the two adults. Jake could tell by the way the two carried on with the conversation there was something between them. And if any one had been looking closely at his eyes they would of seen crimson lining his irises.
By the time the two took a breather from their talking Jake all but a split second away from falling asleep.
"It's already one" Lee exclaimed looking at his watch.
The sudden exclamation from Lee caused Jake to jerk awake.
"I'm hungry how about you two" Lee asked.
"Maybe we should get lunch" Katie suggested and Jake just nodded in agreement.
"Let's go to the cafeteria" Lee said then got up from the chair and walked out of the room.
As Jake and Katie were getting up from their chairs Jake stated "You like him."
"Who" Katie asked not sure who Jake was referring to.
"Lee" Jake answered.
"No, not really" Katie tried but Jake could see a bit of a blush grace her cheeks.
After the three had lunch afternoon visiting hours were over. That meant Jake had to return to one of his least favorite places.
It was obvious when Jake returned that the director didn't really care where the kids were so long as they were back by lights out.
That night when Jake went to sleep he had a bit of a disturbing dream.
Jake sat cross legged on a red cushion between two white pillars. The room he was in was like a long hall. Lit torches on the multiple pillars lining the hall were Jake's only light.
Another interesting thing was Jake was a teen within his dream. Maybe 14 or 15 it was hard to tell. He was dressed in a regal red robe. The fire on the torches flickered for a moment and you could see two scaled bodies coiled around the two pillars on either side of Jake.
Coming into the light two dragon heads came to each side of Jake. One dragon was maroon and the other blue. The blue one resembled Jake's grandfather.
"You look tired Jake you should sleep" the maroon dragon said in a deep, cold, and calculating voice.
"No Jake don't listen to the maroon dragon, leave now" the blue dragon said with urgency in the voice of his grandfather.
"Sleep, you're so tired, just sleep" the maroon one cooed.
The two dragon's snake like bodies continued to slither around the pillars they were wrapped around. Jake felt his eyes begin to droop.
"No don't, Jake run now get away" the blue yelled.
"Yes sleep forever," the maroon dragon said as it's head came in front of Jake. "Just like the rest of your family" it finished then opened it's mouth shooting forward to consume Jake. Jake shot up in bed sweat covering his body.
After a few minutes Jake was able to calm down and go back to sleep think the dream of no significance.
The next day Jake was looking for anything to do. Jake found breaking one of the rules could be fun.
Three kids ages 11, 10 and 8 convinced Jake to look around fourth floor when the first day there he was told to stay off that very floor.
"What's all this stuff" Jake asked as he looks at the hallway filled with what one could call junk and another treasure.
The fourth floor had many rooms and those two were filled with a trove of items.
There were some old paintings, furniture, books, old toys and clothes. It was like an attic or basement of an ancient house. Of course a lot of NYC buildings were as old as the city it's self and the city was older than the American revaluation.
This building had a date carved on it at the front door that was 1801. What this was used for in the past was anyone's guess.
Jake was a bit to fascinated by everything that had accumulated over time in the storage floor.
The 3 kids plus Jake went to work digging into the vast amount of fascinating items of the forbidden floor.
Jake went into one of the many doors with in the hall. The shades were drawn on the windows of the room so Jake reached for the light switch that had a fine layer of dust on it. With the dim light on, mostly dim due to the fact the light bulb had a dust caked on it, he could see the rest of the room had a similar layer of dust on everything.
Jake walked through the maze of items looking at everything, it was almost like a museum but with out the dinosaur bones.
Jake noticed something on an old table that looked caught his interest. Jake went over to the table to find it was an old fashion sheathed knife sitting next to an ancient vase. Jake picked it up unsheathing it to get a better look.
There was something very different about the knife. Burned into the blade was a dragon's skull. In curiosity Jake looked closely at the top of the handle and saw a familiar symbol. A maroon symbol like the head of a double ax adorned the handle. That very symbol was the one printed on the uniform of the very person he most hated.
Jake dropped the knife on the wood floor in disgust at the symbol. Then he realized in his other hand was the sheath and upon realization he through that to the ground. He then took a closer look at the vase to see the scene painted upon it's surface.
Multiple figures dressed in maroon suits and masked filled to aged glass with a few mystical creatures being chased and attacked by them. Jake lifted up the vase to see the maroon symbol on the bottom.
Jake's felt a sudden shock of hatred threw the vase across the room and it shattered on the opposite wall.
"Jake" and angry voice yelled at him from behind.
Jake was so lost in his mind he hadn't noticed Mr. Lakes come into the room.
"I don't know everything that's been collecting up here but I'm sure that vase was an antic and most likely very valuable and you just break it. On top of which you're not even suppose to be on this floor in the first place" Mr. Lakes went on to yell.
"You in my office now," Mr. Lakes said taking Jake by the arm "I'll deal with your friends later."
A few minutes later Jake was sitting in Mr. Lakes' office. Lakes sat in behind his desk in a nice cushioned chair with giving off the impression of superiority while Jake sat in a simple wooden chair facing him.
"What were you doing on the fourth floor and what do you have say about breaking things that aren't yours" Mr. Lakes asked.
Before Jake could get one word in the door to the office was slung open to ravel…
A/N This may get confusing later on if it isn't already so any questions just ask. Review