Chapter 6

Jake waited very long in 'his' garden before Nancy and Philip came out of the house with some belts around thier shoulders.

"And this one is for you!" Philip said and presented Jake a group of belts he should wear in his dragon form.

"What for this things?" Jake asked and looked confused.

"That is a law!" Philip explained. "And now transform... all dragons have to save passengers with belts so that they can't fall. In 1982, the Polish Dragon take two human friends as passengers. When they flew into a storm both fall from his back and got hardly injured after they land in a sea... the rest you can imagine!"

Jake now understand and transformed. After he bind the belts around his body Nancy and Philip climbed on his back.

"Oh my gosh... that is so awsome!" Nancy said. "A flight with a dragon...!"

"Calm down, it's my third flight..." Philip said and pulled a live-vest above her head.

"Is that not a life vest used in airplanes for water-landings?" Jake asked.

"Yes, because we will fly above water we have to wear them the whole time! Listen,... I don't know why they have all this laws but they have it. Worldwide! And now rise up I have to think!" Philip said and closed his eyes. "Stay on the place... just rise up!"

Jake did what Philip said and increased. He could hear that Philip counted the seconds. After 11 seconds he said: "STOP! And now right... more more... and stop and now fly..."

Jake could see that they where flying to the Atlantic-Ocean. "Hey... yo, do you really know where we fly? And open your eyes!"

"I do my best! The last time they flew me to the magical-world I couldn't see and hear anything... that was a rule for knowers. And now we have to fly a couple of minutes but not fast."

Jake flew around 500 feets above Queens and looked down to see 'his-future-neigbourhood'.

"Where do you know this Danika?" Nancy asked. "You said you know her!"

Jake remembered: "Oh... yes... She is a girl from my school! We had three or four dates. What does she do in the magical-world?"

"Well, In this massage stands that she was married with a wizard from 1993 to 2002!" Nancy said after she read the different massages again.

"Dragon-Jobs by mail?... I will never understand this world!" Jake said before he turned right after Philip said it and could see something strange in the air. It looked like the air in this place had a different colour. But I seemed like Jake was the only one who could see it.

He flew closer and when they flew in it, they found themself in the magical-world. Jake looked back to see New York but the New York he knowed, disappeared. Now a group of many smaller cities and towns where all over the place. Jake saw two indipendent cities on Manhattan and it seemed like Brooklyn and Queens where also two indipendent towns. Just the Brooklyn Bridge was still there. Jake was astonished.

"Wow... that is... that is..."

"A cheap copy of the Soviet Union!" Nancy interrupted him.

"Owww... yes your right!" Jake said when he flew closer to Manhattan (City). "A few days ago I watched a TV-programme about city-building in East-Germany..."

"Before you say it... yes it is a copy of the Soviet Union!" Philip said and pointed on the large buildings build by 'large-panel system building' "The republic of New York was long time under the gouverment of the magical Soviet Union and New York and many other Magical-gouverments are socialist!"

"What?" Jake asked.

"Just fly I exlplain you later. It's another kind of socialism." Philip said and looked on a big street map of Manhattan. After he found the adress he pointed on a tall building near the river. Jake could see that in the humans-world, there had to be Greenvich Village. The buildings in Downtown looked older. Also European style with small streets. The city was going to Midtown with Suburbs and small cheap single-family houses. And all over trees across the roads. And all over poor people with a income of just 200$ per month. He land on the roof of the building and the both humans jumped down from his back. Jake transformed back and ran to the side to look down.

Jake saw old european cars standing accros the street. The walls where clean, no dirt and no grafittis. Each apartment had a balcony. The pedestrians weared cheap clouthes and seemed happy. But under thier umbrellas he couldn't see thier faces. Two little shops where in the lowest level, but that was it. It was a typical suburb in a socialist contry. They walked threw a unlocked door and walked down the stairs. They had the flat number of Danika and a minute later they stood in front of the door. Jake knocked...

"Aww... when she see my face she will get an shock for life!" he whispered before a around 40 years old woman opened the door.

"Yes... I... J... J...Jake?" the adult Danika said shocked.

Before someone said anything Jake and the others entered the apartment. "I know this is a shock for you... I'm a Jake Long from another world and I'm here because my 'son-in-this-world' is missing and in your ex-husband's car is a wallet found which is the properity of a friend of him."

Danika stood with open mouth and looked confused on the three teenagers in her living-room.

"What ow... my husbands car... where?" she stammered.

"In the humans-world, near Albany!" Philip said like a policeman in a crime-series.

"In... aww my god..." she said and walked to a window and lift a pack of ciggaretes. "Whould you excuse, this is a shock!"

All agreed. Danika opened the window and ignited a ciggarete for herself. She looked like she is getting a heart-attack. "Oh my gosh... Jake, is that really you? Are you really from another world?"

"Yes! From a world where magical-creatures are not exposed!" Jake said. "Please, I have no time to explain... 6 people or 4... I don't know are missing and your husband had contact with them before they dissappeared. Please tell me what you know. We are old friends, old mates... I don't want to tell you old but..."

"Okay... Okay... On Monday, Harold called me and said that he will come to Manhattan. To visit Edgar... our son!" Danika said and pointed on a picture of a 8 or 9 years old boy on the wall above the TV. "He said that he will come by car. But he didn't arrived. I've send Edgar to an friend and told that his father arrives later. And now I have no clue how to explain him that his father could be dead..."

"No... no no, he is not dead." Jake said but was not sure. "What for a car he drives?"

"He drives a dark-blue Lada! Shiguly, I think. Why?" Danika asked.

"Is that a russian car?"

"Please, what?"

"Is a Lada Shiguly a russian car?" Jake asked again. He remembered that the police-officers said that they found the wallet in a russian car and Jake wanted to be sure that he was on the right way.

"Yes, yes... it is a russian car! From the soviet time!" Danika agreed and suck on her ciggarette. "He bought it in 1999! Why you asked, Jake?"

"The car was found by the humans-world police!"

"What? In the humans-world? A car from the magical-world in the humans-world... that is..."

"What is that meaning in this world?" Jake asked. "Danika, I'm from the time where we dated, if we dated in this world..."

"We never had a date! We were good friends but..." Danika said confused.

"Oh really... in my world we had!... Okay and now answer my question."

"There is a agreement between both worlds: If a car or something other stuff is found in the humans-world and they find out that it is from the magical-world all have to be send to the police. The police have to bring it to an warehouse in Queens. It's magical safed and a restricted area. Magical creatures who lost things in the humans-world can get back thier stuff thier. If they have luck. The most humans keep magical-stuff."

"Really?" Jake asked.

"What do you think why the humans-world knows our currencies. Fortunately they didn't saw Spud's face on the 5 roublar-note. But it's true: 1996 a boy found the wallet of an vampire during he was playing with a friend. He showed the wallet his parents and they sold the magical-money to the press."

"And how much is that?" Nancy asked.

"I don't know exactly, 35 cents, maybe!" Danika answered.

"Okay, thank you Danika... you where a great help... we go!" Jake said and he and Philip took Nancy who demonstrated. "You haven't seen us! Understand! We go!"

"No wait..." Nancy demonstrated further. "... I want to find out more above living in the magical-world... no..."

"When we found Jonny, he tells you everything you want! If they don't delete your memory!" Jake said when they walked upstairs again.

In Jake's own world... Lao Shi and Jonathan sat in the plane to Europe. He half way was over, the most passengers sleeped. Jonathan wrote everything he remembered on a piece of paper.

"Anything else?" Lao Shi asked.

"No! That is everything! Okay, you said from another world... In thier world I'm dead. The magical-world is exposed. A war happend. And Jonny, that's his name, is the American Dragon. And furhter I remember a cassete-player but I don't know what it have to do with them."

Lao Shi looked on the notes. What happend in the six days since they where back in thier world?

Jake flew with the both humans high above the magical-world.

"...I mean that serious." Philip told. "They can live with them here in this world. Here is all cheaper. After the war, almost the whole economy of Magical New York was destroyed. 60% where jobless..."

"I know... Jonny told me that!" Jake said and flew back threw the portal into the humans-world. "Okay, you have the map... where is the crime-lab?"

"The crime-lab? No... let's go to the warehouse...!"

"No... do you really think that the humans-world will bring a car, full with blood and the wallet of a missing person back to the magical?" Jake said and land on the roof of a tall building.

"Yes, you are right!" Philip said and opened his backpack. "Fortunately I took this little computer from the headquarter..."

Philip hold a mini-typewriter in his hands and was working, like he was writing a letter. Jake walked up and down before Philip finally found the adress of the right crime-lab.

"Very good, let's go!"

"And how we get into it?" Nancy asked.

"On the magical-way!" Jake answered and flew with his both helpers to the building.

It was a tall skyscraper full with labs and police. Jake land near the lab, and hide behind some containers. He could see the garages. And all over the place, cameras, sensors and guards.

"And how we get into it?" Jake asked and remembered that Nancy asked the same a few minutes ago.

Philip hadn't any potions. All they had in thier headquarter was stolen. They needed a trick. But than Jake remembered that he had something in his pocket. During he searched his grandfathers shop for the hourglass he found a little bottle with a purple liquid. He had no clue what it was, but he had also not any time to find out. Jake threw the bottle against a wall, and a few seconds later, all security-guards fall asleep.

"Wow! That is luck!" Jake said and all three ran into the building. And there they saw it. In a locked room, behind some walls of glass, was the dark-blue old car with the foregin licence-plate standing. Jake tried to open the door. But it didn't worked. Jake walked to one of the sleeping guards and finally found the key to open the door. All three stood now in front of the car. It was unlocked. The passenger-seat and the drivers seat where full of blood. And there where the police found the wallet was a little plastic-sighn with the number 1 on it.

Jake opened the driver's door and searched with a flashlight for any evidences. It smelled like blood and like cleaning products. Someone cleaned the car before the blood was smear above the both front-seats. Nancy and Philip also looked with flashlights in the car-boot and the backseats for any traces. Than Philip found a disk under the drivers-seat.

"What is that?" Jake asked.

"Who know's!" Philip answered short before he took a little plastic-bag and layed the disk inside. Than he took a swab and took some blood from both seats. The seats in the rear where totally clean. "That's strange!"

"What?" Jake asked again.

"Normally, when you shot or beat or scratch someone blood is sprinkling everywhere. But here... look's like someone painted the blood on the seats. Let's look what for blood that is!"

Philip walked to the cuboard on the wall and looked for something.

"You know very much about crime-scenes. Did you studied that?" Jake asked Philip who found a spray in the cuboard.

"No... I saw all episodes of CSI!"

"Which CSI?"

"All three!"

"Wow, in this world my life is like from the TV. I live in the house of the King of Queens. My wife is driving the car of Monk's first assistant Sharona and now we inwestigate a crime-scene like Gil Grissom, Horatio Gaine and Mac Taylor..."

"Now... in the humans-world the people know that luminol just shows human-blood. Not magical-blood." Philip said and sprayed on the swab. The blood on it start to shine light-blue. "That's human-blood!"

"Human-blood!" Jake said and looked in the car again. "On the seats is more blood than a human has in his body."

"In the magical-world vampires can buy human-blood in bottles but that is very expensive!" Nancy said after she found a coin in the car-boot.

"In bottles? I say it again... I don't understand your world."

"That is just a rumor!" Nancy said further.

"I know that it is true. I sold a half litre to an vampire." Philip told and Jake and Nancy looked confused on him.

"Hey,... he didn't beat me. That was threw a injection. And I needed money!" Philip said before they leaved the room again. Jake closed the doors of the car and they hoped that nobody will find out that they where here. They leaved the building. The rain stopped but it was cold. And now around 11am.

"Let's go back! Looking on that was it on the disk." Jake said and together they flew back to Queens.

After Jake arrived the house again he saw shocked that the door was open.

"The door!" Philip said. "I know I locked it when we leaved the house."

Jake hold both before they could walk to the door. He wanted to look first. Jake walked to the window and looked into the kitchen. The kitchen was empty but he saw dirty footsteps. Carefully Jake entered the house. He had no clue who the burglar was. Or what he or she was. Carefully Jake opened the door between kitchen and living-room to see a senseless boy laying on the floor.

"Oh my gosh... Pedro!" Jake shouted.

End of Chapter 6

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