Chapter 5: First investigations!
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The most people in the hospital got in panic. The soldiers, with thier protection-suits, locked all doors, brought isolation-stuff and send everybody who hadn't contact with the crash-victims away.
"Ahhh... what happens here?" Patchouli asked shocked.
"The wrong!!!" Jake said a little angrily. "Where are Mom and Haley we have to go!"
Jake took his aunt and pull her behind him, threw the hospital. Jake knowed they whould be stay here when the soldiers catch them. And they had to go out to find out where or what made all that people ill. After he found his mom and his sister and explained everything everybody ran to the stairway and up to the roof...
"What do you want? We have to stay here!" Patchouli said worried.
"NO, we can't stay here! We have to find out who is the liable for that all!" Jake said very fast before they arrieved the looked door to the roof.
"Why?" Patchouli asked before she could see how Haley opened the door with a foot-kick. "How did you do that?" she asked shocked during they ran outside.
"...okay...I have to say it: But you should sit down before!" Jake's mom said.
"Why?" Patchouli asked. She didn't saw that meanwhile LaoShi in his dragon-form and Fu Dog standing behind her.
"Aww... what does Jonathan's sister do here?" he asked and Patchouli turned to see him.
The once everybody could hear was a loud scream before Patchouli got unconscious...
"Daddy, we wanted to say it her carefully!!!" Susan said angrily during Jake and Haley transformed and everybody fly away from the hospital, with a sleeping Patchouli as passenger.
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In the electronic-shop, Lao Shi presented a big file the lab send. During Patchouli still layed sleeping on the couch, Jake's grandfather presented him and his family some facts above the disease. When Trixie and Spud arrive in the shop, too, he start his lecture.
"...Well, Jonathan and all 19 other sick people have Type 1 of this disease! That means that nobody is contagious until the moment they..." than Lao Shi interrupted.
"What moment?" Haley asked.
"...The... the moment they... die!" he said and everybody start to annoy.
"DIE!" Jake shouted. "You you mean that..."
"Calm down... Jake when we find the source nobody will die! I hope!" Lao Shi said. "Type 1 is the most harmless version of this disease. It's not contagious and the patient don't suffer. But when, 'WHEN', the patient dies, the whole pathogens will leave the sick person and jump on other, healty people. That's the way the disease use to spread."
"But you said, that it's one of the most dangerous things in the magical world?" Spud said.
"Yes,... when a person get Type 2 of it... that happens when he infect by a Type 1 patient, there is a 20% chance that it increase to Type 2! This version is more contagious than a cold!!! And than the patients not in a coma... it's very painfully!"
"Please, no terrible details..." Haley said. "But why is this disease now dangerous for humans..."
"That's the million dollar question!" Lao Shi answered.
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"...the WHO made some precautions on 3 hospitals in Manhattan and one in the Bronx! The 20 patients, who all survived the 217-crash on Wednesday, are all in a coma and not responsive! The millitary closed all hospitals until the moment the have more informations above it..."
She said the cab-driver he should switch off the radio. She couldn't calm down... she couldn't sleep last night... she was worried.
After the cab stopped in front of the little building of the airfield she leaved the cab, took her baggage and walked to the man who stood next to the gate. He wanted to kiss her but she turned her face away. She was angry.
"What?" he asked confused.
"You ask me 'What'!!!" she said angrily. "I swear you, if I had nothing to do with this all, I would go to the police and send you directly to prison, myself!"
"Ohhh... please calm down! I found a beautiful place for us... there we can stay until all it's over." the man explained and opened the door of a little 2 seats plane.
"Why are you so sure that all will be over?" she asked with angry voice.
"Because, 'she' told me that it's not contancious and our little 'friend' is one of the patients. He will never wake up again, hehehe... go ahead, laugh!!!" he said to her and try to kiss her again. But she turned her face away again. "Bahhh... do what you want! But you should be happy... only 20 will die! And not 75, what we thaught first!"
With this words he started the motor and the little plane disappeared into the skies.
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The news called it now the "Mystery of 217". In all newspapers and in all TV and Radio-News they said: Nobody should get into panic. It's all okay. They is a simply answer for it. But that was a big lie.
"What's with the people?" Trixie asked. "Everybody want to know more above it! And if they find out that it's a 'Magical-Disease'... that could make a big panic, maybe a war between both worlds and ... and ..."
"Trix.... you watch to much 'End of World-Movies'!" Jake said.
"Sorry, but... is there any... scenario, or something else for this?" Trixie asked Fu Dog.
"Well,..." he began. "...the magical comunity has emergency-plans for: earthquakes, tsunami-waves, meteor-impacts, a firestorm, a economy-crisis, alien-attacks..."
"And?!" everybody shouted.
Fu Dog gulped: "But for the case that a magical-disease hits the humans-world there is no plan! Because nobody could guess that it will ever happen."
During everybody annoy again the phone rang. Everybody wanted to get the phone. During they fight, only Spud arrived it.
"Hello!"
"Hello... Mr. Lao Shi?" a voice said.
"No, this is Arthur Spudinski speaking! Are you the lab?" he said during the Long's still tried to arrive the phone.
"Yes, and we have the test-results! But it will annoy you all!!!" the man said and explained Spud everything.
Shocked he hang off and and turned to the now quiet Longs and Trixie. With wide opened eyes he said: "It's a crime!"
"What?" Lao Shi asked confused.
"The lab-guy said, I explain it on the easy-way: Someone took the normal form of the virus and used some humans and magical-tecnology to build a completely new disease..."
"WHAT?" everybody shouted again.
Lao Shi ran to the phone and called the dragons-concil. After he explained everything he hang off and walk into the other room. There he took a little blackboard and a piece of chalk and wrote something on the board.
"The concil is confer about it, they will call back! Now we have to find out where this new disease has it's origin!" Lao Shi said.
"How much time we have?" Jake asked and everybody was quiet now. They know, this was important!
"...The longest time someone survived with Type 1... was 3 days!" he explained and wrote it on the board.
"3 days!" Jake said worried. "That means we have time until Sunday!"
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"...around 16 hours after the first of the 20 patients was discovered... our channel got following report: A group of experts is on the way to New York to help the local ones. This group of 4 doctors will work at each affected hospital in Manhattan and in the Bronx... In a first statement of this experts, it's giving a appeal to pacification. The disease is not contancious... I repeat: The disease is not contancious..." the anchorman told and Haley switched of the TV.
"Those experts... are the concilours, yes?" Haley asked.
"Yes! With thier appearence they want to calm down the world!" Lao Shi explained. "They will talk a little bit with the reporters and everybody will send the typical rubbish in the TV again. Like before the crash."
"Okay and who will investigate what?" Jake asked.
In the last hours the made a little plan, to find out the orgin. They had, until now 4 different places to investigate: The plane wreck, the local magical-comunity, the Montreal magical-comunity and Jonathan, because he was the first who fall into the coma.
"I think this plane-crash was not a terrible happenstance!" Lao Shi said. "Maybe someone knowed that this new disease is in the plane and wanted to hush up his 'mistake' or 'attack'!"
"I could ask my mom something above the crash!" Trixie said. "She works for the same airline and when she start with this job she flew the same plane-modell."
"Great! You investigate the crash!" Lao Shi said. "And you Spud," than he pointed at him "you use your computer-skills and hack into the central-computer of the airline. All what could help to find out, why only one-fourth of the passengers are sick and the other ones are all healty, until now."
"I do my best!" Spud said and started to work at the computer.
"Susan, go home and find out in which hotel Jonathan stayed and when he visited the local magical comunity. That would help." Lao Shi said and Susan get her jacket to walk home, but than she realised that Patchouli slowly woke up.
"....hmmm... where I am?" she said with a tired voice.
"What should we do with her?" Fu Dog asked.
"I think we should tell her the truth!" Susan said. "It's her brother who is in danger!"
After everybody was quite, Patchouli opened her eyes and smile to Susan.
"Hi, Susan! How are you?" she said with a smile.
"Oh,... yes, so-so! And you?" she asked friendly.
"Ughhh...I had a very strange dream... I was fleeing from the army and than a big blue moster stood behind me and..." Patchouli than woke up and completely and realised the big red dragon tail behind Jake.
She start to shout again, very loud. Than she jumped off and ran out of the shop, still yelling. When Jake and his mom catched her some people on the street, looked very confused.
"SORRY! SHE FORGOT TO TAKE HER MEDICINE!!!" Susan shouted and pull Patchouli back into the shop. Than she hold her mouth and talked very slowly with her.
"Please, calm down! I can explain everything! But first, you have to be quiet and you have to listen me! Please! Your brother is in serious troble..."
Patchouli was quiet now and Susan start to tell her everything. From her birth, to the moment Jonathan discovered it, until now.
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End of Chapter 5
How will Patchouli react? Have the people a chance? And who is the 'friend'?
The story begins now. It was yust the prologue.
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