Chapter 4

Jake walked threw the empty school and left it. When he stood in the rain, he looked on the list again. On the backside was a second list with names. Over the names where two words in the dragon-language.

"Hey, what is with you?" Phillip asked when he and Nancy leaved the school, too.

"I have the strange feeling that this list is a dead list!" Jake said. "Okay, I'm sure Jonny have nothing to do with the murder of this 4 people... oh my gosh and I know them all... But here is a second list. You have the dictionary, please translate this!"

Phillip took the dictionary from his pocket and looked for the right words. Jake looked on the sky. The wheather became bader.

"Let's go back home!" Jake said and decided to walk, Nancy was too much afraid that someone observed her, and his 'future' home was not far.

"Jake... this words are meaning: prison and the other one is meaning something like 'already'!"

"Already in prison!" Jake said and take the list back.

On the list where five names. Two of the names where wrote in red: Brad Morton and Olivia Mears. Behind the names stand Turuap and Albany. Albany he knowed but what or where was Turuap.

"Wow... Turuap." Nancy said. "That is a very famous little town on Draco's Islands near Guangseng. There is the biggest prison for war criminals! It's like a magical Guantanamo."

"Brad is in prison?" Jake asked.

"What... Brad Morton?" Phillip asked. "Oh... yes... you, I mean your other you told me above him. He was a part of the 'new huntsclan'. He committed several bomb attacks in Guangseng and Batutinkyj, another big town on the islands, he killed more than 30 humans, and two wizards. He alone, destroyed 20 buildings and he wanted to kill you and your family."

"And why?" Jake asked shocked.

Phillip start to tell the story, the other Jake told him a few months ago.

FLASHBACK

A big armed ship on the sea near the Draco's Islands. It's the 24th June 1995. Since 4 months the new huntsclan is bombarding the islands. Threw a pair of binoculars, Brad Morton could see burning buildings and cars. With guns and rifles some members gone to the islands and shooted on everything they could see. But many of them disappeared.

"Are you hungry?" a other member asked and hold a can of chilli in his hands.

"No, thank you!" Brad said and walked back to the little table in his small cabin. "Is this the newest map of the islands?"

"Yes, I think! What do you planing?" the other one asked.

Brad looked very long on the map of 5 islands, with 3 very big citys and many smaller towns and villages. He identified the three big citys: Guangseng, Batutinkyj and Tunchong. In the north of Guangseng he marked the village of Turuap, because satelite-pictures showed that there was a prison. He also marked the little town of Vurkala in the north of the same island and in the south of Batutinkyj because there was also a very big building.

Outside they could hear that a new rocket was started. Brad and his colleauge ran to the little window and saw how the rocket explode in a high-building in a suburb of Guangseng.

"Yeah, take this you 'creatures'!" the other one yelled happily. Brad just smiled and gone back to his map.

"I will go with the next group to the island." Brad said.

"What? Are you crazy? Just five returned in the last 2 months! They will catch and eat you!"

"I have to go! I want my reverenge!" Brad said and took a backpack and a hunsclan wheapon.

"Wait, what reverenge?"

"For her!" Brad said and presented him a picture of Rose. "He killed her, because she was in this organisation. I don't know what he is... a human or one of them? But he and his family are in this city. I will find them all." Brad told and leaved the cabin.

He walked upstairs and followed the other volunteeres to the small boat.

At the same time, a 26-years-old Jake Long was sitting with 20 other persons in a basement and waited. They waited for weeks. For moths. But it haven't became better. Jake looked on his wife who layed in the bed and sleeped... for the first time since one week. Than he looked to his mother, his sister and her boyfriend. Haley's boyfriend, a dragon from Russia, lost his parents one month ago.

They where tired, hungry and thirsty. They shared the basement with a werewolf-family from Guangseng and a leprechaun-family from Germany. They where 21 people in 3 little rooms with one toilet. Three times per day, one of them had to walk to a well at the other side of the street, to get 2 buckets of fresh water. And one time per week human-soldiers, who where friends of dragons or helped with evacuvations, threw a pack of supplies down. They also had a working TV and a radio. Every day, at 6 p.m. a 'news-programme' was on air. So they get a few informations above that what happens outside.

Jake hold his little son in his hands who was in a coma. Jake cried. He was afraid. Will his son survive? Or will they find them and kill all? When Jake wanted to give him some water, he realized that the water was over.

"Who goes?" the father of the werewolf-family asked. They talked in Dracos.

"It's okay... I go!" Jake said and stood up.

When he leaved the basement for the first time since two weeks he was shocked. It looked worse than the last time. Everywhere in the walls where holes from gun-shoots. Some balconys where ripped away. And in the middle of the courtyard was a big stain of blood. Carefully Jake walked to the gate to the road. Far away he could hear a big explosion and gun-shoots. All over he could see smoke rising up into the sky.

"Don't worry Jake!" he said to himself. "It's all over soon!"

When he walked above the street he saw a long queue of dragons, fairys, humans, ogres and other creatures waiting for water. A police-officer was stainding on the well and keep an eye on the well. Jake waited maybe a half hour before he could fill his buckets...

At that moment, Brad and his comrades arrived on a destroyed dock a mile away of him. It was creepy quiet. They walked above the destroyed streets, filled with damaged and destroyed cars. All over, holes in the walls and broken windows.

"It's quiet!" Brad said.

"Yes, let's look for some of this things!"

Brad walked above a big square. What nobody knowed was that under the square, in a big catacomb, 40 thousand magical-creatures hide, with food, water and energy for 3 weeks. And every month, the magical-world sent on the magical-way new supplies to all big hideouts and evacuvation centers. Brad hold his huntsclan-gun and walked closer to a building.

"TAKE THIS... HUNTSPUNK!" someone shouted and than two humans fired with pistols from a roof on Brad.

Brad hide behind a heap of debris and looked up, to see two humans standing on the roof of a small building and firering on Brad who was alone. Brad took his own gun and shooted three or four times before he injured one of them. The other one wanted to help him and turned, so Brad took his change and ran away.

"Because that just so less returned." he realized. "This 'traitors' killed them!"

What Brad didn't know was that the one who he hit on the roof was Spud. Spud hold his hand above his wound. It was painful. And he needed urgent help. The other one (Frederick Buttersleeves) gived first aid. But Spud could feel that it was over.

"You need to go to the lazaret!" he said.

"No... no... it's too late..." Spud stammered. "This... guy... that was... Brad!"

Frederick got afraid. Now he remembered, it was really Brad. But before Frederick could say something, Spud was dead. Slowly he covered Spud's dead body with a blanket, but when he stand up someone killed him, by a shoot in his head. Brad found the entrace and the stairs to the roof. He was not surprised to see Spud and Frederick here, on the same island with Jake...

A mile away... Jake arrived back in the basement. Everyone was happy above the water and not surprised about the long time he needed. Someone switched on the TV. And when Jake looked on the watch, he saw it was time for the daily news. A few seconds later a short melody came out of the TV and on the screen they saw the symbol of the local TV-station before the anchorman appeared. The picture was very bad.

"Good evening! Today, on day 127 of the war, we have to say that we lost the contact with our stations on the other islands. But by morse code they send us that everything is okay, and that the huntsclan still couldn't arrive the coast. In some villages far away from the coast, big groups of refugees can't be furnished further, althouth they are safe there. Also we have informations above the explosion of some missles in the city centre of Batutinkyj..."

Jake listened exactly what the anchorman told. Every day he hoped that the anchorman will say, the war is over!

"...that after many explosions of car-boms in magical-areas all over the world, the situation in Manhattan, in the Republic of New York became better. After a cruel terrorisim attack of the huntsclan on a restaurant in the humans-world with more than 150 victims... more and more humans demonstrate against the huntsclan. A report from Mexico City says that the huntsclan raped and killed 5 women and thier familys because they said bad things above the huntsclan in the humans-world television..."

Jake was shocked. But also a little bit relieved. It looked like the humans-world will now see the real face of the huntspunks.

"...by the United Nations. The huntsclan is now prohibited in Germany, Denmark, France and the United States. A hour ago we got the unconfirmed message that the Big-Hunter is prisioned by the UN. Further they reported about 300 victims in European Magical-Communitys..."

Jake could hear his wife crying. He turned and saw his wife sitting in the dark corner on the bed. With the sleeping Jonny in her arms. She cried. And Jake understood her. He was also very afraid.

Meanwhile, Brad was walking across the city before he finally found a building with people inside. Brad hide behind some trash-bins and could see threw the windows of the 3 floors high building. What Brad didn't knowed was that this people where humans who wanted to safe thier furniture.

Slowly Brad sneaked to the open door at the front side and deposited a little bomb directly behind the front door. A self-build bomb. After he switched it on he sneaked away and hide behind the trash-bins again. After he was sure that nobody was here he took a remote-controler and activated the bomb. A big explosion made a big hole into the wall. Brad could hear crying people and saw how the entrace of the building disappeared. He could hear how balks start to burst and finally, maybe 30 seconds after the bomb explode the house collapsed and ripped down the two buildings next to it.

Satisfied Brad walked further threw the hardly damaged city. Everywhere across the streets he saw tree stumps. The population fell almost all trees in the city for cooking and heating. Overhead lines for buses crushed and layed on the streets. And everywhere the populations build walls of cars in the streets to protect themself. When Brad arrived another big square he was shocked. Just a few metres away, he could see how the other new huntsclan-members sat, bound on street-laterns on the ground. All with a tape above the mouth. A wizard walked in front of them, took his wand and start to concentrate.

"Aww... magic..." the wizard said in German. "Help.. me and send this devils to the prison of Turuap!" just a moment later a flash came out of the wand and all 5 disappeared in a white cloud. Brad was shocked. He saw how some ogres in police-uniforms came to the wizard and shaked his hand.

"Well done!" one of them said in English. "Let's hope that the last reports from the humans-world are right and they really come to help us!"

Before they realized Brad, he ran away.

Jake and his family still sat in thier basement. In the TV was a comedy-programme airing. To cheer up the population. But it not really helped. Jake just looked on the door to the stairs and asked himself what he can do. Without powers and alone with 20 hungry and sick people...

At the same time Brad arrived a tall building. It looked like a office building. 10 floors high, all windows broken and the door was open. Brad entered the building and when he was sure that he was alone, he layed a second bomb next to the entrace. When he was far away enough the bomb also detonated and the half building colapsed. When he walked futher he took a spray from his backpack and wrote with red color on a wall: JAKE LONG, I FILL FIND YOU!

One day later: After a long journey, with a stolen car, and the fear to be killed by a so called 'traitor' he arrived the city of Batutinkyj. The big seaport-city was more destroyed than Guangseng. A bridge to the next island was also destroyed. Brad entered the big city and the next bomb explode in a small apartment-building in the east of Batutinkyj. The next bomb explode in a small pharmacy closer to the centre.

Brad traveled back. He hold contact with the ships. But what Brad didn't knowed was that ships of the humans-world and several planes where on the way to stop the huntsclan...

FLASHBACK ENDS

"And they didn't catched Brad?" Jake asked when he sat with Phillip and Nancy in 'his' living-room.

"No! Well, he was on the way back to Guangseng! Because he found out in Batutinkyj where your mother had her apartment.

Jake looked very long on a picture of a older him with a baby. On the picture, Jonny was just a few weeks old. Outside the storm became worse. Nancy was siting next to him and drunk her water.

"And what is with you?" Jake asked her.

"My parents are really not at home! They are visiting friends. And my brother will sleep in a friends house tonight. I'm alone." she told. "Because that I was so afraid when you came Jon... oh... sorry, you looking like your son..."

"It's okay. You are looking like the girl I love!" Jake said and Nancy smiled.

"Oh, really?"

"Ehhem... do you want to hear how you captured Brad? We also should don't forget why we are here! 4 or 6 people are missing... and two of them are your family!" Phillip said.

"Oh... yes, sorry tell furhter! How did we got Brad?" Jake asked and Phillip told further.

End of Chapter 4

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