Chapter 9: The big business!
Jake looked confused on his dad during they walk threw the dream-corridor back to Jonathans dream. Jake's dad looked very worried.
"Dad, you said 'bigger'! What do you mean with that?" Jake asked during they entered into Jonathans dream. Still the empty field. "Can you explain me that?"
"Of course," Jonathan said during they walked deeper into his memory and now stood in the cabin of a big passenger plane.
Jake saw a younger version of his father sitting in the cabin and reading a magazine. Both sat down and looked at the worried younger Jonathan. He stood up and walked into the galley to the toilets before a hard explosion ripped away the door of one of the restrooms and Jonathan layed senselessly on the ground. Jake was shocked when he saw that. But just a second later they stood in a hospital-room.
"What happend?" Jake asked.
"The explosion, in the plane, hadly injured me! From the moment of the explosion I hadn't any memory of the flight or Lockjellys plans." Jonathan explained and looked on himself.
In the bed in front of them, the younger Jonathan was awake when Jake's pregnant mother entered the room and start to yell hapilly. They leaved the memory and stood now in the empty dream again. Jake sat on the couch, which was still on the field and looked at his father.
"It's my dream right so I can..." he said and a big screen appeared behind him. "... Oh... good! Jake, Lockjellys plan was to get the majority shareholding of a big insurance-company." he explained and a movie started behid him.
Like a documentary movie, it explained everything what Jake's dad told.
"Well... the company was almost bankruptly... so he could bought the shares very cheaply and outside the stock market... so the price didn't increased during he bought."
"And you?"
"He send me to London,... I mean, into my doom..., because I knowed this plan, I wanted to go to the police but Lockjelly send me into that plane to make this, 'terrorisim-attack'. So there is nobody who could blame him, instead of his brother, the other man you saw, and he is a free and rich man! .... Where I was... o... well, after he bought more that 50% of the shares, he wanted to liquidate the company, that means... selling everything and fire all employes." Jonathan told.
Behind him a fictitious newspaper appeared: Company closed! 5000 people out of work!!!
"And Lockjelly gets millions of dollars!" Jake realised. "But it didn't worked."
"I survived! And the company was sold to someone german businessman. He saved the company and almost all jobs. Lockjelly came to late."
"And now?" Jake asked.
"Now, it's the airline!" Jonathan said. "In consequence of the economical-crisis, the airline, I flew with, has financial-problems. This crash could destroy the company. Lockjelly win! In a few days, they are broke. And Lockjelly can buy the last shares. When he liquidate this company... he could earn billions with the planes... I mean... your friend Trixie told that this is a big company, with many 'big' planes... do you know how much a big passenger-plane costs?"
"Millions!" Jake realized.
"Yes,... and that's not all!!! In Lockjellys memory, I found out that he plan to sold his own company, too!"
"What? Why should he sell his own company?" Jake asked confused and shocked.
"He plans to sell the half of his shares to a mailbox company somewhere in Europe for a high price. Than his brother liquidate the company and he sold the rest of his shares for a bigger price before they lose thier value.! And because so much little companys are depend on our company, InterFly Airways is one of them, they are a clients, many companys will go bankrupt. Tens of thousands will lose thier jobs and the aftereffects will hit everybody... I mean in this times the stock-market is very... temperamental... and I don't know how much people will lose thier jobs after that! And the other clients who will all lose much money, Lockjelly will get it all." Jonathan explained.
Behind him, in the movie, Jake could see how workless people walk threw the streets and look for job.
"And how do Lockjelly that?"
"He transferes the money very easily to his swiss-account and leave the country, maybe he goes to his new villa in Italy or to the one in Spain... I don't now. But he will become so rich that it stinks." Jonathan explained and the screen disappeared.
"And how he found out our secret?" Jake asked. "And do you know who helped him with the disease?"
"I don't know it! I leaved his dream after I heard that he wanted to ..." he stoped talking. It was to difficult for him, to talk above it.
"Dad, it's okay! Stay here and calm down. I visit Lockjelly!" Jake said and leaved his fathers dream.
Jake entered Lockjellys memory and walked threw the office of the company. Jake saw Lockjelly walking out of the elevator and talking into his mobile.
"Marnie... do you hear me... please turn off the music, I have to talk to you..." he said. "I hope you enjoy your party... I come home later, I have to look at that stupid employee... I hope he... what's going on there... I call you back later.
Jake heared loud music threw the phone. This had to be the evening when Jake was invite to Marnie's party, the same evening like... O...now Jake knowed how he found out all. He followed Mr. Lockjelly and saw how he stoped in shock. He hided behind a desk and looked at the on the ground laying Jake.
Jake saw himself laying on the ground during his father fighted with the strigoi. Jake looked at the scene. Lockjelly saw everything from his hideout and after the enemys gone... he still sat there, when Jake's grandfather arrived in his dragon-form and also thier talk after all.
Just a second later, Jake stood in a big living-room. Jake saw Marnie, sitting in a big mess of party-decoration and used dish. After the last guest was gone, and Marnie called Jake, Mr. Lockjelly start to talk with his daughter.
"I don't want that you see this boy again... I found out something... it's so terrible!" he said and Marnie start to annoy. "DON'T MEET AND TALK WITH THAT BOY AGAIN!!!" he shouted. "And now, clean up this mess!"
Jake leaved the dream quikly and ran back to his father.
"After that, I shouted on my daughter! I was so shocked... do you really think that he infected his family before he was isolated?" Lockjelly asked the woman.
"I hope! I told you that it is really difficult!" she said. "But if the plane really crashed, and not took this 'bad landing' nobody ever had to hear above this disease... but you and your 'plan Bs'" she said.
"Yes, I know! This chaos was never planed. But the plane had to explode in a big fireball, and burn everything." he said angrilly. "But now everybody survived, and if those 'experts' find a medicine..."
"Those 'experts' are monster, too. They haven't any chance!" she said and drunk her congnac.
"Yes, yes,... okay, bye!" LaoShi said into the phone and hang off. "That was concilour Kukulkan! The man, we search, have less chances to survive the next night. He will die in the next hours!"
"And Jonathan?" Susan asked him.
"He is in the other hospital, wait!" he took the phone again and called concilour Andam.
"Hello!"
"It's me! How is my daughter's-husband?" he asked.
"Bad! Really bad! I have to say it! He have one day, maybe less!" Andam explained. "Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Yes, keep him alive!"
Patchouli opened slowly her eyes. She was alone in the dark shop and was afraid. But she knowed: Panic is your enemy! She had to calm down. She thaught: Okay, my brother has a family of monsters, and I have a troll as friend... but it's okay.
She stood up and walked to the front door. It was locked. She walked back and found some documents on the desk. After she read the name Lockjelly, she remembered what happend years ago. The explosion, and now this accident. Her brother was always right. She walked to the back-door, but it was also locked. She was alone. After a long while she finally found a key for the door. Outside the shop, she took a breath and yelled, loud and panicly.
After she calmed down she ran away. But where? To the police? Home? Or to the dragons? But than she remembered what Jonathan told her just a few weeks ago: I can be happy to have this family!
What should she do? It was her family, too. She decided to go back to the Long's residence and look for them. During she walked threw the city, she thaught about the both plane-accidents. Maybe there was more than just a happenstance. She entered a phone-both and called the inquirie.
"Can I help you?" a woman asked.
"Yes, I need the adress of a man named Lockjelly! I don't know the nummber or the first name..."
LaoShi looked at the sketch of the plane and all the other documents. He called the wizard and his human-fiancee, but they also couldn't help him. There was one thing he doesn't understand: Why and how did Lockjelly that all? Than he thaught: Lockjelly only wanted to kill Jonathan! Why made he all those people sick? And maybe millions of other people who could be infected, if it's spread, or become Type 2! Than he remembered the crash.
"Trixie... where you have the USB-Stick with the datas from the flight-recorder?" he asked.
"Here," she remembered. "...it was not easy, but fortunately they found that thing just minutes ago. If I came 5 minutes later, it was on the way to the lab. Mom told me that that recorder is the most important..."
"Yes, yes, yes,... you can told me that later... give it me... Spud insert this into the computer!" he said to Spud who still worked at the computer.
He opened the files and a few minues later everybody could see and hear... a good simulation of the flight, but a few seconds before the crash the simulation stopped. Someone switched of the recorders.
"Awww man...!" Lao Shi shouted.
"What?" Haley asked. "What do you think?"
"I think that this all is a big mess!!! I mean, Lockjelly want to kill Jonathan,... sorry Susan... but first he infect a man with a deadly virus and than he induce a plane crash? Why he didn't take a pistole and ... sorry Susan... killed him directly? Why all this innocent people?"
"What is when the plane should just hide the disease?" Spud said. "If it exploded, the fire destroyed everything and burned Mr. Long totally... sorry Mrs. Long..."
"But why this disease first?" Susan asked.
Patchouli leaved the cab and walked above the street to the big, luxury house of Lockjelly. A young girl, maybe in Jake's age, leaved it when she arrived.
Marnie Lockjelly looked sad and tired. But she wanted to go for a walk. It was late, but she need fresh air. When she saw Patchouli she was confused to meet someone at that time.
"Hello! I search a Mr. Lockjelly!" Patchouli said.
"Ohhh... I'm Marnie, his daughter! My father is inside. But he has a meeting, he said." Marnie explained.
"A meeting? At that time?"
"Don't ask me! He is a workaholic!" Marnie said angrilly and opened the door for Patchouli. After Marnie leaved the scene, Patchouli sneaked threw the house and heared a man and a woman talking!
She sneaked to the half opened door and watched carefully inside. Lockjelly and the woman still sat there and talked. She knowed Lockjelly, she met him some years ago for a few minutes, during a christmas-party in the company. The other woman she didn't know.
"And you are sure that we are safe?" Lockjelly asked.
During she tried to understand what they talked she felt that someone was behind her. She turned and saw a evil-looked man behind her. Holding a pistol on her head.
"WHO ARE YOU?" he shouted angrily.
Patchouli was so shocked, that she got unconscious again.
End of chapter 9
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