CHAPTER NINE
Drake was sitting at his desk still annoyed at what had happened in the crimes lab a few hours ago. He heart Fu's voice behind him. "Drake" Fu said. Drake then turned around with an angry face and said, "I don't feel sorry for what I just said! OK? Did you see what he did? I mean honestly! I told you I didn't need a partner and look what happened." Fu with an angry look on his face and said, "I wasn't going to ask you about it". "Oh" Drake said flatly. "I got him" Fu continued. "Got who" Drake asked As Fu dragged over a wooden crate. "Kid you know how gremlins can always take things apart to learn how they work but they don't put them back because they don't know how?" Drake then replied, "Fu are you suggesting using a gremlin? He will tear the place apart!" Fu then continued, "will you just listen to me for a minute! Some time ago a group of alchemists decided to do genetic experiments on magical creatures. The end result was a different breed of gremlin. One which can learn how a machine works in a matter of seconds and retain the information and put it to use. I'd like you to meet Bob." He opened the crate and out crawled what appeared a normal gremlin but it was wearing large circular glasses. The gremlin then walked up to the computer and then started circling around it at top speed. Fu then handed him the video camera, he then did the same. In a matter of minutes the camera was hooked up to the computer and Bob continued to type away what seamed to be binary code. A little while later the gremlin whispered to Fu, Fu then told jake what Bob had just said, "He had a little trouble decoding the last portion of the screen but he decoded most of it." They then pressed play and watched what had been recorded. At this point they could clearly see one of the two individuals and were instantly shocked at what they saw. "Fu" Drake said, "is that…" "I think it is…" Fu replied. On the rooftop stood a large red and yellow dragon fighting off the other individuals standing on the opposite side who they could still not make out. Drake knew that this dragon in this video must have been Jake Long. They continued to watch as Jake was fighting this faceless person when suddenly they noticed he was hit with a beam of light his eyes then clouded up and he flew off the screen. "Wait a minute, Drake said. "Play that again." They watched this again. Did you see what happened there? Said drake. He was hit with some kind of spell, it was almost as if he had lost his train of thought. He immediately had a blank expression on his face as if he was under another individuals control. He then turned to Fu who was even more shocked by another image that was on the screen. "That's not all kid…Look!" They saw in the bottom left corner of the screen was the date. And time. March 20th, 9 PM. "Dear God, what have we gotten ourselves into." Drake said to himself.
