Chapter 8
LaoShi and Jonathan leaved the plane and walked threw the airport of Shannon in Ireland. Both were surprised when a blone man behind a classwall hold a big piece of paper with LaoShi's name on it. Both walked closer to the wall and the old man saw that it was the wizard who they should meet in Tirana.
"Are you...?" Jonathan wanted to ask.
"Yes... yes..." the wizard said with a strange accent and read from a piece of paper. "After...I heard ... that you will... needing long time... to arrive my, I came to you ad met you her... A collegueg is live her in Irland. I kan use him labor."
"Oh... that's great..." Jonathan said friendly and turned to his father-in-law. "He don't understand us!"
"Yes, I know... but he is our only chance to find Jake!" the old man said.
"I under-stad you!" the wizard said and presented a earplug in his right ear. "Just spek... I doing rest."
Relieved that he will understand them, both start to tell what happend in the last hours. Than the old man presented the wizard the leftovers from the portal which appeared in the kitchen of the Long's.
"Follow me!" the wizard said and after they got FuDog from the baggage claim all leaved the airport.
Meanwhile, Jake and the others looked shocked on Pedro who just told them about the death of a dragon.
"What did you said?" Jake asked shocked.
"He is dead... in the humans-world news they told that a dragon fall from the sky in Russia. Wait... I show you!" Pedro explained and all walked downstairs.
In the living room Pedro pulled away a bookshelv and opened a hiden box behind it. Inside layed maybe 20 or 30 video-tapes, next to a couple of full-wine bottles. Pedro finally found the right tape with the date from 6 weeks ago.
"Jonny is not allowed to tell me something about running investigations. But a few days ago he showed me that tape to warn me! He said that terrorists from the magical-world plan an attack somewhere in Russia. All dragons investigate where they are from. Now it's clear for me... they are here! That terrorists kidnapped us and your wife and thier cousins!" Pedro told and switched on the VHS-recorder to play the tape.
"What, my 'wife and thier cousins' are also kidnapped. But what have her cousins to do with that all?" Jake asked.
"They are knowers status A!" Pedro said and surprised Philip. "And now listen... that is a programme from the humans-world..."
Jake looked into the TV where a news-programme he knowed was airing.
"...that we got the confirmed report... that a dragon crashed into a apartment-building in the city of Nishny Novgorod in Central-Russia. This pictures, from the Russian news showing the dead dragon laying in front of the building..." the woman in the TV told.
Jake was shocked. He saw a big green and blue dragon, laying on his back, in front of the door of a tall typical-east-european apartment-building. Six floors above him was a destroyed balcony and a couple of broken windows. The dragon-tail smashed on a parked car and all over where shocked humans.
"...eye-witnesses said that the dragon fall from the sky, smashed into a balcony in the sixth-floor and fall on the ground. They said that it looked like he was dead before he hit the building... This pictures remembering us on January 1995 when a dragon crashed into a market in Stuttgart, Germany and exposed the hidden magical-world... With us in the studio..." Pedro stopped the tape.
"Oh, my gosh!" was the only what Jake could say. "Do you think that the terrorists killed him because he knowed to much?"
"Yes,... and because he talked with Jonny... they think he also know to much!"
"Okay, now we know what's going on..." Jake said. "Terrorists... maybe from New York, maybe from Russia, are planing an terrorism-attack on the building of the United-Magical-World-Building! The dragon of Central-Russia, you said, found out who they are or from who they are and was killed six-weeks ago. But because he talked with Jonny 8 weeks ago they kidnapped him, although he didn't know anything about that all..."
"That's a trace!" Philip said. "And the wizard was just a victim because he talked with Pedro."
"Yes... we have to go back to the magical-world. Where did it happend?" Jake asked.
Maybe an half-hour later all stood on the magnus-bazaar. Jake regocnized everything. The roads, the market-stalls and and and. They stood in front of the Scoop and looked around. At this time, 1am, the most people where at home and sleeped. Jake hide his face so that nobody recognize him and looked on that place where the dead-bird hit Grant. Than he flew with Philip above the place and looked on everything.
"Jake stop!" Philip said and pointed on the roof of a building near the Scoop. When Jake flew closer, he could also see footprints on the roof. "In the magical-world of Manhattan it's stricly prophibitted to walk about the roof. The material in this old part of the city is, if it rains, very slippery and you could fall down."
Phillip jumped from Jake's back and start to investigate the footprints. "Someone stand here!" he said and than walked carefully above the roof. Phillip was right with his story. It still rained very hard, and it was really very slippery. Than both looked down into an alleyway, and saw directly next to a 'No Parking'-sign some skidmarks from tires.
Both leaved the roof and go to the place where the skidmarks where to investigate them. "The car was small!" Philip said.
Jake was not surprised that Philip knowed very much about that. "Really Mr. Gil Grissom? Do you also know who drove the car?"
"Maybe I can help!" a female voice said and scared both. Than Jake looked up and saw a woman standing on a window behind them. "Sorry, I didn't wanted to scare you!" she said and than Jake recognized her: she was the woman who contact him after Spud wanted to buy something in her shop but had to threw out him because he was a human.
"Did you see what happend here?" Jake asked and walked closer to her.
"Why do you ask?"
Jake lifted his head and presented his face, but not his hair. Than she thaught that he is Jonny. "Oh... American-Dragon, I'm so sorry... I didn't recognized you! Well... here is parking strictly prophibited. Two day's ago I heared how a car-door closed, so I looked outside and saw here that red Fiat standing. I opened the window and shouted that they should go away from here. The driver was so scared, by the way he hide his face from me, that he raced away and crashed into a marked-stall just a few metres away. The other person in the car, a human, is in coma now. He is not identified yet. The driver, leaved the car uninjured and ran away. He is missing."
"And the licence-plate?" Phillip asked.
"The licence-plate... emmm... Oh, yes... it was M1C-UZ/08! But the police already know that the car was stolen! Did they didn't talked with you about it? And by the way, are you one of the new guys he wanted to introduce?" she asked Phillip.
"Ahhmm..." Phillip was confused. "Yes! And, No the police didn't said it us because... we and they are very busy!"
"Oh, than good luck! I hope I could help you!" she said and closed the window.
Pedro and Nancy who heared everything where surprised. Pedro remembered the accident. And that just a few moments later they where kidnapped. But it also looked like the magical-world don't know that they are missing.
"They have no clue what happend!" Jake realized and got an Idea. "She said that he is in coma! Pedro... they showed you here everything... where is the next hospital?"
"Just two blocks away!"
"Okay... let's go!" Jake said and togehter they flew to the hospital number 3. Jake covered his black hairs under the hood but showed his face, than they walked into the quiet hospital. Althouth it was midnight, it seemed very full here. The ogre-woman from behind the information desk greeted them and asked friendly what they needed. "We have to see the man, from the car-accident on the bazaar two day's ago!"
"Okay, I call the doctor!" she said and saw Phillip sweating. "Hey boy are you okay?"
"Yes, why?" Phillip asked and than he realized that Nancy could see the injuries, his classmates made, on his neck and back.
"Oh, my gosh! Don't worry... American-Dragon your friend is in good hands!" the woman said and a nurse took Phillip to bring him to an other doctor.
"Wait... I have to..."
"No, Phillip! You should show that an doctor! It won't need long time!" Jake said and Phillip gived up and followed the nurse. His wounds hurt really hard.
A few minutes later a troll in a doctor-dress appeared and greet them all. "American-Dragon, I'm very proud to see you! But I have a bad message for you!" he said and all followed him to the basement, into the morgue. On the table layed the covered dead body.
"He is dead?" Jake asked shocked.
"Yes, his injuries where too hard. We couldn't do anything for him. He died 2 hours ago!" the doctor explained. "Why do you ask?"
"I'm missing someone!" Jake lied. "May I see him?"
"Yes, but alone! The coroner wasn't here until now!" the doctor said and Jake followed him alone to the table.
Jake felt very strange in that room full of dead people. And now he had to look on a dead human. Jake was scared.
"Ready?" the doctor asked and Jake agreed.
Than the troll lift the towel away and Jake could now see the face of the around 40 years old human and was shocked. Although he was twenty-five years older he was sure that that man was one of his classmates. A friend of Brad! Jake was really scared...
"Is he it?" the doctor asked.
"What?"
"Is he the man you missing?"
"No... no... he isn't it! Sorry but I don't know that man." Jake lied and leaved the morgue.
"Wait before you go... we found this in his pocket's! You should know it! And the car is in the police-station on the other stree-side!"
"Yes, thank you!" Jake said and took the big brown envelope.
When he met Pedro and Nancy in the waiting-area and waited for Phillip he opened the envelope and found some polaroid photos of Jonny, Grant and Pedro walking above the magnus-bazaar and than a note with an adress in Magical-Harlem.
"Look... they observed you!" Jake said and found some other photos. On one of the photo's he could see a woman (his wife) from backside working in the garden. On another picture he saw Jonny, Grant and Pedro sitting with another boy in the school-cafeteria and eating thier lunch.
"I can't believe it!" Nancy said. "... I'm in a magical-hospital!" she said happily and astonished.
"When will she calm down?" Jake said annoyed to himself and looked outside. There was really a police-station on the other street-side. A few minutes later Phillip arrived with a bandage above his shoulders and around his neck.
"That was a good idea... during they cleaned my wounds I talked with them, they have really no clue what happend. And also nobody know that Jonny is missing!" he explained.
"That means we have a ticket into the magical-police-station!" Jake said and all walked to the other side of the street. When they enterred the building, Jake saw the magical-socialism world seemed exactly like the humans world. Instead of the police-officers who looked like russian officers. Jake said what he and his 'friends' wanted and the officer escorted them to the garages where the destroyed Fiat stood in a bright room.
"Good luck!" he said and leaved the room.
"Thank you... well, Phillip you are the CSI! What we have to do?" Jake asked and toghether they all start to investigate the car.
At the same time in Jake's own world...
Lao Shi and Jonathan entered a house in the humans-world in a suburb of Shannon. Another wizard greeted them and smiled.
"Welcome in Ireland! I'm glad that I can help you!" the Irish wizard said and toghether they walked into the basement where a big professional laboratory was. "Paç fat. A nuk e pista!" he said to the other one.
"You are speaking Albanian?" Jonathan asked.
"Yes, because that we are friends! Do you want a cup of tea? My human-wife is very interresting in seeing a dragon and for you she make her special-mix!"
"Not yet, thank you!" Lao Shi said and walked to the table. The wizard was astonished about the leftovers and mixed very long on it.
"Telling me... ever you knowing abut you know!" the wizard said.
"Sorry, what do you mean?"
"Tell me, I translate for them!" the Irish wizard said in Albanian. "He will understand you he is wearing that earplug."
Jonathan and Lao Shi start to tell everything they knowed and remembered...
On the same time...
Jake, Phillip, Pedro and Nancy investigated the hardly damaged car. The around 20 years old Fiat had a write-off. For Jake, it was a miracle that the driver was not injured. After a couple of minutes Phillip found some fingerprints.
"Let's look who drove!" he said and walked to the computer on the other side of the room. Like a professinal profiler he scaned the fingerprint into the computer and start to search in the database.
"More and more, I feel like a character from CSI!" Jake said before he found a piece of paper under the passenger seat and saw that it was a part of the note he got from the doctor in the hospital. "Hey they are from the same piece of paper." Jake said and hold both parts together.
Now he could see that the adress had a message with it... 'Make it quiet!'
"Hey, we have a match the driver was..." Phillip said and than was shocked.
"What?" Jake asked but Phillip hold his hands above the picture and the informations in the computer.
"Okay, I show you... but you will don't like it!" Phillip said and presented Jake the search-results.
"Oh... my... gosh...! BRAD MORTON!" Jake shouted and saw the photo of Brad from 1993. Than he start to read: "Brad-Robert Morton, born 23rd June 1966 in New York City, arrested in 1995 in Guangseng, Draco's Islands by the family of the former American-Dragon Jake Long. Sitting for the rest of his live in the prison of Turuap, Draco's Islands. Crimes: Almost exposing of the magical-world in 1981 and 1983; Attack on the American-Dragon headquarter in Canal Street Electronics in 1984; Injuring of Frederick Buttersleeves in 1982, two times in 83 and 1988; Hijacking of magical-stuff in 1982 and 1990; Huntsclan membership in 1995; Homicide of Arthur-Paul Spudinski and Frederick Buttersleeves in 1995; Terrorism attack's in Guangseng, Batutinkyj and Delbylger, Draco's Island... and and and..."
"He kidnapped him?" Nancy asked. "But how is that possible? He is sitting in a magical-prison! On a island in the Pacific-Ocean!"
"Maybe he is the big boss!" Phillip said.
"No, I know Brad... for a so big plan he is too stupid..." Jake said. "But... here in this world maybe..."
Miles away, in the humans-world in a warehouse in Harlem... someone stood in front of a TV and watched the humans-world news...
"...in the car with a licence-plate from the magical-world was the wallet of a missing boy found. The 15-years old Pedro Ferreria Capelo is missing since yesterday..." the anchorman told and the person in front of the TV laughed.
"You will never arrive your plans...!" a woman shouted.
"Shut up!"
"Mom, you should do what he say or he will kill you first!" Jonny said.
Jonny was bind up with Grant on chairs with shinx-hair. Behind them the both cousins of his mother, knower with status A, where also bind on chairs. His mother was in a cage in a very dark corner of the hall, hanging 5 metres above the floor.
"Hey, Sal, Andrew... I'm so sorry that he kidnapped you, too." Jonny's mother said to her both cousins.
"It's not your fault! If we knocked on the door before we entered the room we haven't seen your son transforming. More our status don't allow us to know..." one of them said and was interupted.
"Be quiet!" he shouted and walked to an table, filled with all files, all poitions and all book's from the headquarter. "By the way your files are very interresting! You are allowed to know the secret but you are not allowed to go with them on missions. You have to swear to inform them above all strange happenings in your area, and you are not allowed to enter the magical-world alone!"
"Awww... be quiet. You have no clue!" Grant said annoyed.
Grant had to think on Pedro, who was free and who will help them. And on the bottle with the potion he hide in the headquarter under the mashine, if they don't found them Pedro would remember and get help. Jonny was looking on the person who kidnapped them.
"Mom, was right! You are a stupid-guy!" Jonny said.
"QUIET! You're mom... do you know what your mom did with me since 1983. Detentions, house-arrests... and Frederick... she gived that boy back what I tryed to destroy for years: his self-confidence! And than she hit that baseball bat on my head, since that day I have cronical headache!"
"That's your own fault!" Mrs. Long said.
"Shut up you... awww..." Brad shouted angrilly and walked to the exit to one of his helpers. "I go to the airport, the plan is running! Keep an eye on our guests... esspecially on the woman in the cage: she is more dangerous than her husband and her son together..."
End of Chapter 8
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