Chapter 2

Jake was still under shock when Phillip tried to talk with him. Jake looked around. It rained outside. He was standing in a little living- and dining-room with furnitures from the early 90s. On the walls hang pictures of Jonny, from his baby-years til today. Also photos of a adult Jake. And one photo of Jake's wedding, with a covered face of his wife. Jake thaught, this house looking like the house from King of Queens. Just with other furniture and a big black stain on the celling.

"You know them... but how is that possible? And who is this portugese boy?" Phillip, who was totally confused now, asked.

"Emmm... what?" Jake said.

"I asked you... Where do you know them?"

"They where in my world... there the older version of Rotwood died. The cassette-player... the war..." Jake said and saw a newspaper laying on the table.

Jake was searching above the sites and found finally an article above the magical-world: "Troll taxi-driver scares humans... O my gosh... this is the world, where every human knows the truth!"

"Not the full truth!" Phillip said.

"Yes, I know! Jonny told me that above the identitys and the 'cold-war'... by the way, where do you know Jonny's secret? He didn't told me about you!" Jake said and looked on the sick boy who still drunk his water.

"I found out it after they tried to find out who wanted to kill me!" the boy said.

"Kill you?" Jake asked shocked.

"That's difficult to explain. Because I am related with you, or your son, I'm a possible target for magical-terrorists." he began to explain. "One day, I colapsed and they had to bring me to a hospital. In the humans-world! Later they found out that I get a diabetical-shock because a classmate of me manipulated my injections. Oh my gosh... my classmates... I wish I have more contacts in the magical-world so that I can curse them..."

"Okay... okay, okay... so you found out who my 'son' is! Well, and than?"

"Than I had to swear that I tell it nobody. I have 'Knower-Status-A'! But I don't want to be just a Knower!"

"And what is a Knower?" Jake asked now more confused.

"A Knower is a person who knows the secret-identity of a magical-creature. But I have just status 'A'. That means I haven't any contact with the magical-world. And they are not allowed to tell me anything. I also don't know other Knowers but I think two of them also disappeared!"

"What? Okay, now tell me please... Why did you captured me?"

"Okay... Today we have Wednesday! Sunday, your son called me and asked me how I am! I told him the same like ever... my classmates are devils, my parents never at home... the same like ever! Well... after a few minutes he said goodbye because he had to go for a dragon-job. I don't know for what but they had to go." Phillip told.

Jake tried to remember. Than he had to thaught on Trixie and Kyle. Maybe it had something to do with them. Why he also didn't know!

"Jonny said, that he will call again later because he have to tell me something important." Phillip said. "But he didn't called, so I tried to call him, but I arrived nobody, not Jonny, not Grant, not your wife. On Monday... I was in school... I found this in my locker." Phillip told and presented Jake a note in a strange language.

"And what is that meaning?" Jake asked.

"I didn't know! But fortunatelly I 'stole' that dictionary from your son's headquarter." he said and gived Jake the Draco's dictionary. "It's for the dragon-language. My status don't allowed me to learn it. But I didn't listened. So I found out that this massage is meaning: 'I get them, and I will also get you!' First I thaught that this is a bad joke. But the language..."

"And than you came here?"

"I had to... after I found the massage. And when I wanted to leave the school, one of my classmates..." he said but stopped talking.

"Yes?" Jake asked. "What did your classmate?"

Phillip said nothing. He just turned and presented Jake his injuries on his back. Jake was really shocked. It looked like someone hit him with fists and than tortured him with a knife. "Oh my gosh... how evil are your classmates?"

"Very evil! And the worse thing is that I need almost a whole day to arrive here in your house. I live in Chicago... and I had to buy a plane-ticket with the credit-card of my mother... but when I arrived here I met nobody. All abadoned... I tried to contact someone, so I walked to his school. But there they said me that he was today not in school with two other guys from his class."

"And where they are?" Jake asked.

"That is the reason why I 'kidnapped' you... they are all missing!" Phillip told.

In Jake's world, Lao Shi and Fu Dog finally arrived the Long's house where the whole family, Trixie and Spud waited for them. The old man was shocked when he entered the kitchen and saw the mess, and the big black stain on the ground.

"And you are sure?" the old man asked Jonathan.

"Yes, I'm pretty sure. That was my dead brother!" Jonathan explained. "But he was thinner and the boy looked very ill."

"Did your brother died by a disease?" Lao Shi asked. "If this was really Robert, he maybe found, because he also knowed Susan, out the truth and used magic to become healty?"

"No, Robert wasn't sick! He was killed in a car-accident! But this boy was not older than 12, and Robert was 15 when the car hit him..." Jonathan sat down and closed his eyes. "I have the strange feeling that there is more... that was not Robert, maybe... no, that is a stupid mind!"

"I'm not 12! I'm 14!" Phillip told during Jake followed him to the 'headquarter-basement'.

"What? You are looking like... Oh, I understand sorry..." Jake said.

Phillip switched on the light and Jake finally saw the headquarter. It was a little basement. On the side, two open filing cabinets stood next to a old dirty couch. On the other side was something what looked like a workplace. A big wooden mashine with a keypad, a telephone, some switches and lamps stood on the wall under a big map of the 'Magical-Republic of New York'. Next to Jake was a big locker standing. Open and empty.

"I didn't touched anything, I found it so how you see!" Phillip explained.

"What do you mean?"

"Normally, this room is so safe, nobody can enter it without a special key. Just Jonny, Grant, you, your wife and the Knowers can enter this place. But when I arrived, the door was open, the cabinets and the drawers were open... and all where empty. Normally this cupboard is full with seized potions and thier potions they need for work (truth-potions for example). But look, someone, or something took them all. And this cabinets... normally full with files..."

"Important files?" Jake asked.

"Very important! That are not just files above the people they observe or the Knowers like me... there are files above magical-creatures who live in the humans-world, above magical-projects in the humans-world and and and... If someone in the humans-world read them... that would be give a disaster."

"Now I'm understand why you are worried. But how did you find me?" Jake asked.

"There where you stand was a little white bottle on the ground laying with a piece of paper. The message was 'P help'. 'Phillip help us.' So I understand it. Than I walked upstairs, opened the bottle and that white portal appeared. I wished that I land there where someone is who can help me and than, I land in your kitchen. I knowed how you look, because I saw a old photo of you. So I thaugt, Jonny send me to the past to get you for help... But I got 'you'!"

"You mean, I'm here not by random. I'm here to help you to save my 'future-family' if I will ever meet 'my' wife in my world and this world... I mean in this world..." Jake was confused about that what he said. "Now I have headache again!"

With a tweezers, Lao Shi picket up some of the black dust from the floor and took it into a little bottle.

"It will need a few hours... but maybe I can find out what for a potion that was." the old man explained. "And where the boy came from!"

When Lao Shi began to mix something, Jake's parents, Haley, Trixie and Spud waited in the living room.

"What was that for a mind you had, Mr. Long?" Trixie asked.

"I don't know... before that thing appeared, I had a long dejavù. Like the whole evening is happening again. And when the light switched off, I had to think about two boys... and a third one from Spain or Portugal! I don't know why, but..." Jonathan said.

"Portugal? Why I have to think about werewolfs when I hear that?" Susan asked herself.

Meanwhile, Jake looked outside. It still rained very hard. And it was quite, no traffic, no pedestrians... nobody! Jake looked around and saw his 'future-present-neigbourhood'. A suburb with small single-family houses and very small gardens. Each house looked like the other, very old and a little bit dirty.

"Wow... what for a nice place to live!" Jake said with a sarcastic voice.

"It was better here, when you moved here! I don't know how the neigbourhood run down! My parents moved to Chicago before it happend and before I was born. Okay, I tell you now what I know above the people here..." Phillip said and together they leaved the house threw the front-door and stood on the porch.

Jake looked on the house directly on the other side of the street. It was the dirtiest of all. Phillip told, that Grant lived there before he had to move out after the attack of his violent father and his drug-addictable stepbrother. The Feldmans. On the left side of the Feldman-house was a empty house. On the right side, Jonny's girlfriend Nancy Burton was living with her younger brother and her parents. In the next house a portugese-family lived, two sons and two parents (Jake knowed that Phillip meaned Pedro's family). And with the neigbours directly next to Jake's 'future-home' Jake's future-wife had a terrible dispute, after a falling tree damaged the fence and the Long's car. Jake followed Phillip to the garage behind the house. He opened it and Jake saw a old yellow-grey combi parking inside.

"They let thier car here. And look, do you see the broom hanging on the celling?" Phillip asked and Jake looked up to see a broom next to a old carpet. Hide between the balks.

"A flying broom and a flying carpet?" Jake asked.

"Yes, they let them here! So, I don't think that they leaved thier house themself."

Jake than remembered, that they land three days after thier visit back in thier world. In this world also 6 days passed since they where back. Jake thaught about that what Jonny told him when he explained why he land in his world. Jake had to think about Pedro who will get, or already got his werewolf-powers back. On the explosion in a kitchen of a wizard in the humans-world. And than on the reason why they leaved thier house... Trixie and Kyle!

"I think I know who I can ask!" Jake said and walked back into 'his house'. He searched the drawers for a notebook or something else. Than he found one with some telephone numbers and than the number of Trixie and Kyle Wilkins...! When Jake took the phone from the table Phillip stopped him.

"Wait, there is a easier and safer way to call them!"

End of Chapter 2

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