Chapter 8: Company secrets
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Jake entered satisfied the shop to tell his story, when he realised that nobody was there. Only the sleeping Patchouli layed on the couch in the back-room. During he walk threw the store Jake found a note on the desk:
"Come home! We have to change our headquarter. Before you go change the Chlorophorm tissue on Patchoulis face! ...Spud..."
Jake leaved the building threw the back door and flew in his dragon-form home. Jake entered his house at that moment, his friends and family entered the house trew the front door.
"Hello! ... Jake are you there!" his mother said.
"In the kitchen! I had to fly back from the store! Why I should came back." Jake asked a little worried.
"A man looked threw the window and saw our documents and the pictures. He ran away. Now we are worried that he calls the police or someone other that we investicate this crash..." Fu Dog start to explain but Jake interrupted him.
"Do you mean that..."
"Don't worry! They will only see a closed store with a sleeping woman." Spud explained. "By the way, there was a woman in the plane..."
"Yes, I know! I saw her in dad's memories! During my visit in his dream and his memory I found out that she and the sick people leaved the wreck on the same place!" Jake told.
"And where?" Susan asked and presented the sketch of the plane with the points.
Jake took a pen and draw a red line on the right side of the cabin. Near the rows 11 and 12. Jake explained what he saw, and everything what he knowed.
"Dad said that he doesn't know her. And she was sick... maybe...!"
"She isn't sick. We checked it. She was in the same hospital but she is healty." Fu said.
During they talked above that what they found out, LaoShi and Trixie came back.
"Why you leaved the shop? We arrived at the shop and only Patchouli layed thier. What happend?" LaoShi asked angrilly in chinese before the doorbell rang.
"Oh no! Did they found where we live?" Haley asked worried.
Everybody was quiet now. If the man who looked into the shop called the police or army... they couldn't think about it. Spud walked slowly and carefully to the window and looked out. A blonde man and a young woman stood on the stair in front of the door and waited.
"And?" Susan whispered. "What do you see?"
"Two people, but I doesn't know them." Spud explained.
Jake sneaked to the window and looked outside, too.
"O my gosh... it's she..." Jake shouted and ran to the door. He opened and greet the both people.
"American Dragon, I have some informations for you... I mean... my fiancee have some informations for you..." the man said and presented his fiancee.
Jake saw that it was the woman who sat next to his father. Both entered the house and introduced themself.
"My name is Johnson. Peter! And this is Vickie, she saw the picture of your father in the TV and decided to talk with you but... she is a little... afraid from you!"
"Afraid!... O... human, right?" Jake realised.
"First I thaught, that it is really interresting that my fiance has magical powers. But when he told me about dragons I was really.... but you look very well..." she said slowly.
Jake knowed what she meaned. But he ignored it. After all sat down, and Susan brought some drinks the young woman start to told.
"In the plane there was a man. Around 20 or 25 years old. He was really bad. He had a bloody nose and he said that he feel pain in his stomach..." she told.
"Yes, that are symptoms!" Fu said and the woman start to cry.
"O my gosh, the dog can talk!!!" she shouted but calmed down immidiately. "Sorry... I have to accustom things like that... well, I looked for the man... I'm a nurse and I thaugt I can help. But I couldn't do anything for him. He needed a doctor... so I leaved him alone."
"Did you touch him, or he someone other?" LaoShi asked. "And where he sat?"
The woman stood up and walked to the sketch of the plane-cabin. She tried to remember but it was difficult. "I was here... and he was ... one, two, tree,... here, seat 13F. But I didn't see him for the rest of the flight."
"Why?" Jake asked.
"Because, I'm felt very bad, too. I had to puke and I almost did it on your father."
"Yes, I saw it! I visited my fathers memory! And there I saw you. First I thaugt that you infected him but... by the way... what had you, or have you? And why are you not sick." Jake asked her and looked at her.
"I don't know it! But I'm very happy that I don't sick because, the doctor in the hospital, said me, after they checked me... that I'm pregnant." she told and hold her stomach.
"O... congratulations!" Susan said. But Lao Shi interrupted her.
"That's it!" he said.
"What?" everybody asked.
"She is not sick, right! This new version of the disease, only hits humans. But she is pregnant... from a wizard!!!" he explained. "That means that the baby will become a wizard, too. And it's not endangered by this disease. It safed you!"
The woman start to cry again. She was relieved, but she also felt guilty. After a half hour, she and her friend gone. And the Long's looked at the plane-sketch. The man was the first who leaved the plane threw that hole, and he got in touch with everybody who leaved the plane threw that hole. Trixie looked at her notes she made and realized that 13F was the seat where she found the pathogens.
"But there is still one thing we don't know!!! Who is the liable? The orgin?" LaoShi said angrilly. "Who is that man?"
"Wait..." Spud said and looked at the passenger-list. "Randy Miller...13F and there isn't more above him."
"Than search for him! With this thing... how is it called... Google!" Lao Shi said and Spud start to search the Internet.
After a few seconds Spud found something but was really shocked. "A.... he is a colleague of your father..."
"What?" Jake said. "But dad said he never met him before!"
"The company of Lockjelly has a list of all his employees on his web-site. Your father and this Randy work in different sections. And under both pictures is the word 'fired'!"
"'Fired'! Lockjelly really think that both will die!" Susan said angrilly. "Awww... I will this...."
"Mom, calm down..." Haley said and hold her mother. "Nobody will be fired. But this is a trace."
"Haley is right! He is sick for the longest time!" Fu explained. "He can say us how he get sick. Or who infected him!"
"Yes, your right. If this is one of Lockjellys dirty plans to... no no, he only exaggerated." Susan said and took a tissue.
"Who exaggerated?"
"Your father, some years ago, when he started work for Lockjelly, he thaugt that he wanted to kill him!"
"What? Why?" Haley asked under shock.
"Lockjelly send your father to a buisiness-meeting to London. It was around,... two months before you born Jake." she said and looked at her son. "I was pregnant with you at that time, I know it. ... Than after they flew around one hour... a bomb exploded in a toilet aboard. Your father got hadly injured but the plane could make a emergency-landing but 15 people where injured and one was dead."
"Oh my gosh... and what was with dad?" Jake asked.
"He woke up after a couple of days. He thaugth that Lockjelly wanted to kill him because... your father heard something..."
"What did he hear?" Lao Shi asked.
"He didn't remember but it was something illegal. Something his boss did." Susan explained.
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Mr. Lockjelly walked up and down in his living room. With a glass of bourbon in his hand he sat down at the fireplace and looked at the fire in it. During he sat there the door to the room opened and a woman entered the scene. Lockjelly turned and smile.
"My wife and my daughter doesn't at home! We can speak open and free." Lockjelly said and the woman sat down. She still hide her face but Lockjelly could see it. "Is our problem gone?"
"Not yet! But he will never wake up. I know it. The once chance they have is our legman. If he survives more than 3 days... it's difficult to explain." she said. "Can I have a glass, too?"
"Of course, by the way... why do you help me with my plans? Why did you gave me that 'Monster-disease'? And where are my both scientists?" Lockjelly asked and drunk his bourbon.
"They are dead!" she said and Lockjelly was shocked. "I haven't any chance! He wanted to talk with the police and she felt guilty."
"And the other things?"
"Okay... I gave you that pathogens for my own reverenge! His 'dragon-son' also destroyed the live of my family!" she told. "So, I think when his father dies, he could be infected! So we both get what we want! You can process your plans without to be menaced by your employee and his monster-family. And I get my reverenge!"
"Now I understand!" Lockjelly said and smiled.
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The Longs, Trixie, Spud and Fu sat in the living room for hours and planed thier next activities. Jake decided to go back into the dream-corridor, to talk with his dad and this man. He was the only one who had any contact with the other passengers. At the same time Spud looked for a motive, Lockjelly or someone other could have to kill so much people.
"Gramps, do you have a 'sleep-potion' or something else. I slept the whole day and I don't know..."
"I know what you mean!" LaoShi said and took a bottle from his bag. "One spoon is enough, to sleep for 6 hours." he explained but Jake didn't hear it and took a big sip directly from the bottle. Jake felt asleep instantly.
"Opps! He drunk enough to sleep for a day!" Fu said and everybody carried Jake upstairs into his bed.
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Jake opened his eyes and stood in the dream-corridor. He saw his father sitting in the corridor, in front of Mr. Lockjellys door, and looked shocked and worried.
"Dad!" Jake said and sat down next to his father. "What happend?"
"I was always right!" he said worried. "I was always right!!!"
"With what?" Jake asked.
Jonathan stood up and opened the door to Lockjellys dream. Jake saw that it was the same office like in his fathers dream, but now Lockjelly has the nightmare. His father made it. Jonathan hold Jakes arm and lead him to a memory several years ago. Both stood now in a dark office, Lockjelly and a other man stood in it and talk. Jake saw a younger version of his father walking infront of the door and listen.
"With that plan we can buy the most shares of them and in just 2 days we can liquidate this company and fire everybody." the other man said. "We will earn millions with this. And the best is, that everything will be trade outside the stock market, so the price for a share will not increase during we buy it!"
"Great! Wait, there is someone!" Lockjelly said and realized Jonathan behind the door.
"And that isn't all!" Jonathan said and both stepped into the memory a few days later.
Still in this office Jake saw now how Lockjelly switched on a TV and searched for the news.
"Do you think that it work?" the man asked.
"The Atlantic-Ocean will destroy every evidences. And he will talk to nobody because his dead body will recovered,... never...!" Lockjelly said.
Jake looked shocked on his worried father and shaked his head. Both leaved Lockjellys dream and walk back to Jonathans.
"I didn't remember anything after the explosion! But now, during my visit in his dream, I found out that he plan the same thing with the stock market - cheating, again. At the last time it didn't worked because the other company was sold to someone other who safed the jobs of the people, but now he planed it again, but now such bigger!" Jakes dad explained and both entered his dream.
"But this disease? How he get this idea with the disease?" Jake asked worried.
"He knows our secret!" Jonathan explained and the shocked Jake almost fall down.
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End of chapter 8
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