Chapter 3

Jake looked how Phillip switched on the TV and pressed a hidden button on the backside. The picture in the TV became blue and a white field appeared.

"What is the number?" Phillip asked.

"What is that?" Jake asked back.

"That is a magical picture-phone-line! Just the person who should get the call, can use it. All knowers and main-dragons have this system. It's just for them. And just for each contry. Imagine... all American Knowers and your family have a connection to this system. And than... in Canada they have the same system but can't communicate witht the other contry... do you understand me now! And now... What is the number?"

Jake dictated the number of Trixie and a minute later maybe she appeared in the TV. Jake looked on the now 25 years older woman. When the older Trixie see the young Jake threw the TV, she was shocked and shouted.

"O MY GOSH... Jake what happend with you?" the older Trixie shouted under shock. "How is that possible?"

"I'm an other Jake!" Jake began and start to explain his situation.

Trixie listened Jake's story and was astonished. She couldn't belive it. There was a second herself in another world. Just younger. In an world where the magical-world was still a secret and she don't have to lie to everybody she know. But when Jake called where he knows so much above thier world, Trixie was confused.

"Did you said, they wanted to visit me because my husband drunk a shrink-potion?" the adult Trixie asked.

"Yes, something like that!" Jake said.

"That explain everything. 2 days ago I got a call from your wife. She said that I should hide my magical-potions better. And that I should trust her!"

"You mean, they are not visiting you today or the last days? Well, after they traveled 3 days to the past they could prevent something! Like the fact that your husband found out that you where a human-assistant of the first American-Dragon..." Jake said and laughed. But in that moment, a door behind Trixie opened and Jake recognized Kyle.

"WHAT?" he shouted.

"Kyle... u... I..." Trixie stammered and turned back to the TV "I call back later." Trixie said shocked and switched of her TV.

Jake was also shocked. "Oups... Now I'm the reason why he found out everything!" Jake said ashamed. Phillip shaked his head.

"I can't belive it! They don't trust me... that's understandable. But you..."

"Yes, I know... But I couldn't know that Kyle was standing behind the door." Jake said and walked outside again. "We have more important things to do now!"

"Do you mean... I can come with you to a dragon-job? YEAH... finally!" Phillip cheared but became serious again.

"Okay, what do you think about thier, or 'my' neigbours! Who could be have a reason to kidnap them all?" Jake asked.

"Status 'A'! I don't know anything!" Phillip said. "But let ask his girlfriend first? I've heared they had a date last Saturday!"

"Okay, lets try it!" Jake said and both walked threw the rain to the Burton-house. "Her name is Nancy, right?"

Jake rang the doorbell and a few moments later a young blonde girl opened the door. Jake was shocked... she looked very much like Rose.

"Yes, what can I do for you?" Nancy asked.

"Rose?" Jake said shocked.

"No, my name is Nancy! Here is no Rose!" the girl said and Jake looked on Jake. "Jonny... what did you did with your hairs?"

"Oh... sorry... No, I'm not Jonny! I'm his 'cousin'... and my name is... emmm... Beyoncè Timberlake!" Jake lied and was shocked about the fact that he was a very bad liar.

"Beyoncè Timberlake? What is that for a totally unreal name?" Nancy asked confused.

"Emm... My parents are hippies!" Jake lied. "Sorry that we disturb you but we just have a few questions."

"What questions? Sorry but my parents aren't at home and my brother is visiting a friend. I'm alone." she said and Jake could see her winking. "I really would like to help you! But I have no time! Good bye, Beyonce!" she said and hold her hand so that Jake could shake it.

When they shaked thier hands, Jake could feel that she gived him a little piece of paper. The girl closed the door and Jake and Phillip walked back to the Long-house. When they where in the house again, Jake read the note, Nancy gived him and was confused. 'To dangerous here, 30 minutes, our school...'

"Phillip... is it possible that she knows something?" Jake asked after Phillip read the note. "Where is this school?"

"Follow me!"

Lao Shi stood above the cooker and stired in a cooking pot. Almost 2 hours passed since Jake disappeared. Jonathan entered the kitchen and smelled on the substance in the pot.

"Ugh... that smells like sulfur!"

"I know but that is the only way to find out with which potion this boy came to your house. Maybe I can also make a potion which sends us to the place where this boy come from!"

Jonathan walked back to the living room and had to think about Portugal and a name: Pedro. When he sat down on the couch and talked with his wife he had to think about Pristina, in Kosovo. And about a wizard. He walked back to the kitchen to Lao Shi.

"Hey, do you know a wizard in Pristina, Kosovo?" he asked the old man.

"A wizard in Pristina? Hmm... I know just one! I read about him in a magical magazine. He had a theory about a second world... O my gosh! Jonny..."

Jake and Phillip stood under the umbrella in front of a big building. It was the High School, Jonny and his friends are visiting. The rain became harder and it was cold. Jake had to 'borrow' some of Jonny's clouthes because it was so cold. When they stood in front of the main-entrace, Jake looked around. It was quiet. All students and teachers gone home. Here was nobody. But than Jake could hear something from the bushes.

"Pssst... I'm here!" a girl whispered from the bushes.

Jake and Phillip walked closer to the bushes. A few moments later, Nancy came out of the Bushes. She coverred her face under her jacket and whispered.

"Sorry, for that way but I'm afraid that they observe me!" she said afraid and the both boys followed her inside the school.

After she opened the door with a credit-card (which surprised Jake very much) they walked threw the dark corridors and finally arrived a group of lockers.

"What do you want?" Jake asked. "Why you couldn't talk with us in front of your house!"

"In front of my house, it is to dangerous! I found this note in our mail." she explained and gived Jake a little piece of paper. It was the same massage Phillip got, just in English. "And before I ask you your real name, I have to say: I know about the thing!"

Jake was surprised: "You mean, that thing?"

"Yes, the big thing! That Jonny is the, you know!" Nancy said and opened one of the lockers.

Jake could see that it was hers. Inside was a big mess. But finally she found a photo of her with Jonny. "You see, you can trust me!"

"Okay," Jake said. "My real name is Jake Long ...I'm from a other world, where the magical-world isn't exposed and I'm Jonny's father."

Nancy was confused. "You are his father? How old are you? That can't be true!"

Before Nancy finished her sentence, Jake transformed and stood now in his big red dragon-form in front of Phillip and Nancy who where astonished.

"I'm in this world his father. Look we have the same colour!" Jake said and transformed back.

"I can't believe it... a real dragon!"

"Wow... In this world the magical-comuntiy hides very good." Jake said. "Okay, and now tell us what you know!"

"Okay... Last Sunday, I could see how Jonny transformed and fly away. It was so cool... my boyfriend is the American-Dragon... but that was also the last time I saw him. The next day he, Grant Feldman and Pedro Ferre... Cappe... I don't know how to spell his name, didn't came to school. I wanted to talk with them but thier house was abadoned. Pedro's parents called the police and Grant's father... I sure he didn't react that his only son is missing. He is so often drunken, his half brain have to be rot away."

"The police is involted?" Jake and Phillip asked.

"Yes Jonny! Oh... sorry but... you exactly looking like your 'son', you wear his jacket, but you are smaller and your hair is difficult. And did you said other world or past?"

"I'm from an other world! In my world many people are 25 years or more younger. Or Phillip here... he is not existing in my world."

"And who are you?" Nancy asked Phillip.

"I'm a Knower Status A!" he answered.

"Oh... status A!" Nancy said.

"You know about that too... awww... sorry, I forgot in which world I am." Jake said. "And where is Jonny's locker?"

Jake followed Nancy to the other side of the corridor. And presented them the locker.

"Here is it. Locker 167B. But I don't know the combination." she said.

"Let me!" Phillip said and start to turn the lock. After just a few seconds the locker was open. Jake and Nancy where very surprised. "If you want to ask me how I did that, my schoolmates steal my stuff so often, I learned to open the lockers of others just to get back my property!"

"You whould be a great burglar!" Jake said when he start to search in Jonny's locker.

In the locker was a bigger mess. On the door was a picture of Nancy hanging. It smelled like sweat. Many papers and books layed inside. Also two empty can's layed inside. Jake looked on each paper he found. But that where just average notes.

"Wow, that he have from me!" Jake said during he searched something important in the papers. "And he is so average!" Jake said after he found a history-test with a C.

"And I've helped him!" Nancy said.

Jake looked further and finally found a list with names. Jake read the list and was shocked. All the people on the list, where his classmates. And four names where strikethrough with a red pen.

"What is that?" Phillip asked.

"That names... that are 'my' classmates. And also many other names. Did something happend in the last days with four people?"

"Well, Friday, in the news they told that they found four dead people in an alleyway in Manhattan. The police thinks that they where killed by a magical-creature..."

"What! Oh my gosh!" Jake said. "But, why Jonny have this list?"

He looked very long on Phillip and Nancy.

"Oh, please... that's stupid. Jonny didn't killed that people." Nancy said. "I know your son. Or I mean I thaught I know him. But he couldn't kill that people."

"But what is that list meaning?" Jake said and got an idea.

End of Chapter 3

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