Chapter 5

FLASHBACK

Back in Guangseng, Brad walked across the streets of the hardly damaged city. It was the morning of the 27th June 1995. When he sat down behind a wall, to drink some water, he took the photo of Rose again. The photo was from May 1982, when Rose was for a 'very short time' Brad's girlfriend. He tried to imagine what happend in August 1983 when his father came to him and told him that they found her dead-body in front of a hospital...

Just a few blocks away, Jake leaved the basement again to get fresh water. He hoped that the news where true and the humans-world is really comming to help. The anchorman told about 3000 inoncent victims in the humans-world, maybe more! When Jake stood in the queue he imagined what will happen if the humans really come. After Jake got the water he slowly walked back to the basement...

From far away, Brad could see Jake walking across the street and entering the courtyard. Brad took his gun but Jake was to far away and on the other side of the street where to much people. He needed something to send them away... than he remembered that he had a last bomb in his backpack. Brad sneaked slowly closer to the group of waiting magical-creatures and hide behind a wall. When he turned, he was shocked to see two dead adult humans laying next to a dead little human-girl.

When Brad saw the blonde hair of the maybe 10 years-old girl he had to think on Rose... slowly he sneaked further and layed the bomb between some trash-bins in the small alley between two four-floors high houses. After he ran away and the bomb exlode both buildings start to collapse. Brad could see that a man jumped out from the third floor of one of the houses. He heared people crining and shouting. But he also saw that the group at the well disappeared...

In the basement, everybody could feel the explosion. That was close, everybody thaught. The father of the leprechaun-family walked slowly to the door to outside and opened it. He was scared when he saw that two buildings at the other street-side collapsed partly. But he was more scared when he saw Brad comming to their way. With a gun in his hands.

"O my gosh, he has a gun!" the leprechaun said, took his 4 teenager children and ran with them to the backside of the basement.

All other people did the same. Jake took the sleeping Jonny and did the same, but when he looked for his wife he was shocked: she was in the toilet and didn't hear anything. The light switched of and it was dark and quiet in the basement than the door smashed open and Brad jumped down, now standing face-to-face with Jake who hold his son in his arms.

"YOU!" Brad shouted and lift his gun to hold it on Jake's head. "You killed her!"

"WHO?" Jake shouted scared. He had no dragon-powers. He hold a three years-old boy in his arms and couldn't safe him or himself.

"I MEAN HER!" Brad shouted and presented Jake in the darkness the picture of Rose. Because the door was open Jake could see with the sun-light from outside the photo. "She wanted to safe the world against monsters like you and your... progeny!" Brad said and hold the gun on Jonny.

"I didn't killed her! Her master killed her... I wanted to help her after it and flew her to an hospital... but it was to late, she was dead before I arrived there..." Jake said scared.

"YOU LIE!" Brad shouted again and hold his gun on Jake's face again, but before he could shoot, Jake could see his wife standing behind Brad with a baseball bat in her hands. As hard as possible she punched against Brad who smashed to ground and became senceless. When Brad entered the basement she hide in the toilet and saw the baseball bat of one of the werewolf-children. She took it to defeat Brad from behind. Jake was so happy and huged his wife. He was happy, for the first time since weeks...

FLASHBACK ENDS

"... and than Brad Morton was your prisioner!" Philip finished the story.

"And what was with Spud and Frederick?" Jake asked after he remembered that he told above them earlier.

"They where found and buried! That is so sad... Frederick had two little children."

"Really?" Nancy asked.

"Your other you..." Philip said to Jake "...told me that Frederick married a dragon and lived on the islands since 1992. He has two sons... twins. They now growning up without father."

"Oh my gosh, this is really sad!" Jake said and looked threw the window. It was late. And it still rained very hard. But than he saw the lights of a police car holding in front of Pedro's house. "Hey, what's going on there?"

In Jake's world... Lao Shi walked up and down during he talked on the phone. The rest of the family, instead of Jonathan, didn't remembered Jonny, Grant and Pedro. And Jonathan also just remember the wizard from Kosovo.

"Yes... yes... aha... no..." Lao Shi said and than shouted something angrilly in cantonese. "Is that everything? Okay, bye!"

"What?" everybody asked.

"Okay, it's look like we got visit from another world, but because the past in thier world is changed they didn't come to us. Jake is now in this different world. Just I and Jonathan remember 'a little bit'! But when he said: wizard from Pristina, I remembered the most. But I think I found a way to find Jake... the wizard can use the leftovers of the spell the boy used, to find a way to thier world. He want's to meet me. I will travel to Pristina and you come with me!" Lao Shi explained and pointed on Jonathan.

"What, I? But why? I'm just a human? A human who..."

"Who is the only one in this room who remembers a little bit what should happend! So let's go... we make a trip to Europe!"

In the other world, Jake, Nancy and Phillip looked outside. A policecar stood in front of the house of Pedro's family. Jake could see how two police-officers leaved the car and walked closer to the house.

"What's going on?" Nancy asked.

"I try to find out!" Jake said and walked to the door.

"No" Philip shouted. "If Pedro's parents see you they will think you are Jonny and you are missing!"

"Oh right... but!" Jake said but than saw a jacket with hood hanging next to the door. "Is that Jonny's? I just borrow!" Jake said and put the hood above his head and leaved the house.

He sneaked threw the rain and hide in the bushes in front of Nancy's house next to Pedro's house. "Ear of the dragon!" Jake whispered and his right ear transformed so that he could hear exactly what they talked. A woman opened the door and looked worried.

"Hello, did you found my son?" she said with a soft accent.

"Good evening, ma'am! We found you son's wallet!" one of the officers said and they presented her a dirty wallet. Jake listened further.

"Yes, that is Pedro's! Where did you found it?"

"Well, that is the mystery! The local police found this wallet in a parked car, near Albany!"

"Albany?" she asked and Jake remembered that Olvia Mears is in the prision in Albany.

"And the big mystery is that the car had a licence-plate from the magical-world." the officer said and Jake was shocked.

"From the magical-world? But how...?"

"We don't know ma'am! The police stopped because they saw the old russian car parking with a foregin licence-plate next to the street. When they saw that the door was open they found the wallet..." the police officer read from a note-block.

"Eye of the dragon!" Jake whispered to read the notes. On the block he could read the number from the licence-plate: N2C-GU/34

"...no, my son hasn't any contact with the magical-world!" Pedro's mother said. "This is all so..."

"I know Mrs. Ferreria, but we also have to say that the car was full with blood..."

"WHAT!" she shouted. "Was it Pedro's blood?"

"We don't know! We need something from your son for a DNA analysys. A hair maybe or a tooth-brush..."

Before the officer could finish his sentence Pedro's mother collapsed and cryed. Jake hide further in the bush during the officers helped Pedro's father to carry her inside. When the officers where away, Jake ran back to 'his' house and closed the door.

"N2CGU34! N2CGU34!" Jake said. "Is there a chance to find out which car in the magical-world has this number?"

Meanwhile, in the other world... Jonathan. Lao Shi and Fu Dog arrived on the airport.

"Why me? Why I remember and Susan and Haley not?" he asked his father-in-law.

"Who know's dauther's-husband? Well... our plane start's in 20 minutes and after the stopps in Shannon, London, Frankfurt and Tirana we have to rent a car and drive." Lao Shi said and presented Jonathan his 4 tickets.

"We have to make 3 stopps? And than we have to drive threw a foregin contry by car? Is there no easier way? And faster?"

"I tried everything! All flights are overbooked. If we used a magical-airline we had a direct connection but... Or I call the wizard... he should come to Tirana... Than we don't have to rent the car..."

"That's great! By the way, in the plane I have to call Mr. Lockjelly! How can I explain that I'm on the way to Europe instead going to work?"

"Ehmmm... you fill find a good story!" Lao Shi said before he said to Fu that he had to travel in a animal-boc in the cargo-room. When they walked threw the terminal to the check-in desk Jonathan had to think about magical-airplanes. Than he remembered.

"His name was Jonny... and he told me that Jake will work for an airline!" Jonathan told.

"Yes,... yes... that's good the memory comes back..."

During his father and grandfather are travelling to Europe, Jake followed Philip to the headquarter and Philip looked for an switch on the big wooden mashine.

"Your son... explained me one time how this thing is working,... for emergencys... there have to be somewhere a button or a switch to turn it on..." Philip said and looked everywhere before Jake found the plug on the ground.

"Do you looking for this?"

"Oh yes, thank you!" Philip said and took the plug to insert it into the power point. "Normaly, this mashine is on the whole day. Someone switched it off."

The big mashine turned on. Two lamps switched on and it start to beep. A few seconds later they heared how the mashine wrote something like a typewriter. Than 3 or 4 sites of paper came out of the mashine.

"Oh... your son got mail!" Philip said. "That is the way your son got his messages from the magical-world. Here look at this... the number on the plate was N2C-GU/34, right?"

"Yes!" Jake said and tryed to remember. "Yes, that is the number. Why?"

"The car is registered on a missing wizard. Here..." Philip said and presented Jake the message from the typewriter. "N is meaning Norfolk, 2 is meaning not the city of Norfolk, it's meaning the area around Norfolk, C is meaning that it is a civil car. G-U and 3-4 is just a average combination. The car is registered on Harold Parker, 40, living in Cheasepeake, and he is driving a dark-blue 1992 Lada-2107 'Shiguly' and he was on the way to Magical-Manhattan to visit his human Ex-Wife who reported his disappearance."

"Hey, if they found the wallet of Jonny's friend in his car, that means Pedro and maybe Jonny and Grant where in this car." Jake said. "Let's ask his Ex-Wife. Who is she?"

"Her name is ... Danika Hunnicut!"

Jake was shocked. "Oh, my gosh I know her! She is living in the magical-world? Wow... Okay,... let's talk with her!" Jake said. "Where is the entrace to the magical-world?"

"I don't know... Status A!" Philip said and shaked his head." But I have an idea where a entrace could be!"

Lao Shi and Jonnathan sat in thier seats and waited for the take-off. On the monitor the safety-instructions where airing and the plane rolled slowly above the taxiways of the airport.

"Okay, we will meet him in Tirana! There he have a friend who have a lab! Before we meet him we have to remember as much as possible!" the old man said.

"Okay... the whole evening I have to think about cancer!" Jonnathan said. "And about a city... Guatseng... Guandgong..."

"Guangseng?" the old man remembered.

"Yes, yes... something like that!" Jonathan said and looked outside. Just a few moments later the plane rised up into the dark sky. Both hoped that the wizard could help them.

End of Chapter 5

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