Chapter 6: Knower

Everyone was surprised for a moment. And shocked. But than everyone remembered the court and what happend before and after.

"Wow... I have to say... that I'm shocked." Rogers said and sat down on his armchair. „You know that after the court... the concil prophibited me to contact you?"

Trixie crossed her arms and shake her head. "No! But I hoped that you can help us." she said and handed him the letter she found.

Carefully he took it and start to read.

Meanwhile in the Carter's house...

Trixie's mom read the latest articles in the Internet. She saw the pictures and finally found what she looked for... a picture where she could see the registration. „N-LMQ91" she said and took one of her own books to look.

Before she changed to the jumbo-jet she flew the 767 and note down everything, every flight-number, every registration and every problem that occured. There was nothing, the plane never had any problems. It was 17 years old but in really good condition. When she remembered the good old times on her old plane the phone rang.

"Hello!"

"Captain Carter, this is Jameson from the marketing department speaking. We need your help!"

"Help? What do you mean? Listen, I can't! My daughter lost a friend in this crash..."

"Oh, we are terribly sorry for that! But the NTSB wants someone from the airline for help..."

In Brooklyn,...

The human wife of the wizard prepare to leave the house. A car in front of the house honked.

"That's my sister... I'll be back in a couple of hours." she said and kissed her husband. "Will I ever understand your world?"

"Who knows? Bye, Vicky. Have fun at the mall." he answered and smiled. When she was gone he went back into the living room to Spud who laid on the couch and Trixie who stood next to him. "So... A KNOWER! There was a rumor in the magical-world that the human friend of the American-Dragon has something magical... but a Knower!"

"And what is a Knower?" Spud asked carefully.

"Yes, what is he?" Trixie asked too.

Rogers sat down on a armchair and looked on them. "Sit down young girl and I will tell you." Carefully he lift his hand over the small table in front of him and the both teenagers could see that the glass start to bright. The curtains closed and all lights switched off. The both teenagers stood up and came closer to the table. On the glass a long text, like from an encyclopedia, appeared. "A Knower is a person, mainly a human, with the ability to see the truth. Another kind of Knower is someone who is able to see the future in his dreams or get in contact with the deaths. Many Knowers have no memorys on thier normal dreams."

Spud agreed.

"Hmm... and than... wait I have to scroll down..." he said and made some moves with his hand so that the text changed. "In the letter was standing that you are that kind of Knower, that needs an parent to awake this power. I don't mean your mother or your father! A magical who is standing next to you and who has the power to interact with others souls."

"What... no never!" Spud said. "Listen I just came to find out who did that to me and..."

"That is not something someone can do with you... that is innate."

"Innate? You mean... my mother or my father...?" Spud asked with fear.

Rogers lowed down his hand and the table became a normal glass table again. "Yes! But it is possible that thier powers never woke up. I need more informations about you. You said that you normally don't remember your dreams till the day the plane crashed?"

"Yes!" Spud answered and told what he saw in his dream.

"Wait... you say that you fight with someone in the plane who talked with you. And that someone caused it." Rogers said and became totally pale.

Spud agreed. "And yesterday night, and now I'm pretty sure,... the passengers contact me! And when I woke up... I had blood on my body."

When Trixie heard this her heart-rate increased. The atmosphere was horrible in the darkness. It became silent when Rogers turned on some candles and turned to Spud.

"I need to try something!" he said and with a wink the table moved away and some other candles turned on. "Lay down on the couch. And you have to help me!" he said to Trixie.

Trixie followed the instruction and pulled away the most furniture from the couch. Spud laid down and Rogers hold his hand over Spud's head.

"Please, what ever happens... don't open your eyes before I don't say you can do it... I need to see what you see. And you..." he turned to Trixie. "...In the shelv behind you is a blue magical-camera. Turn it on and film us."

"What are you gonna to do?" Spud asked with fear.

"That what you see is not only when you sleep. And now close your eyes and don't open them."

Spud followed. Trixie pressed play on the around 15 years old camera and hold it on the both males. Slowly Rogers put his hands on Spud's head and whispered some strange words. Before Spud could react he felt that he was falling. He also still fell when he watched threw the window in his living room when something broke the glass and attacked him...

The awake Trixie was shocked when he saw the both men start to tremble... than she remembered the camera and hold it closer to them...

Spud meanwhile could hear voices... his owns and Trixie's... than Trixie came to him and hold a postcard in her hand.

"Look... Jake send us a postcard from Portugal!" Trixie said before she melt away and Spud saw into a flickering TV-screen. The TV than began to air an news-programme.

"That the engine ripped away and hit the tail. The tail ripped off and the plane got out of control." a male voice told and a animated plane showed how the plane crashed.

"Will that be a problem?" Kulde asked.

"When these both humans are away we can start to get them back..." Kukulkan began but was cut off by the loud noise of an engine. Spud could see clouds. He was holding something but he was not able to see it.

"Help us! Help us!" the people appeared again.

"HOW?" Spud asked. "HOW?"

….

Trixie got a shock when she saw that Spud start to fly. In fear she fell backwards and saw that Spud and Rogers start to float higher and higher over the couch. The flames in the candles became bigger, wind blew threw the room.

….

Spud stood now in front of the people from the plane.

"Can you see us?" the chorus said.

"Yes... yes... I can see you!" Spud said and smiled.

"Than help us..." the crowd screamed in sorrow and tried to reach him. "HELP US..."

"OPEN YOUR EYES!" Rogers screamed.

With a loud scream... Spud opened his eyes and both fell down on the couch. Rogers fell on his back. The house began to shake. Trixie screamed and pressed herself against the wall. Books and other things start to fell out of the shelvs. It felt like a big fist hit the floor from downstairs. The lightbulps explode... Than it was quiet...

Trixie wailed. Spud got horrible headache again. Rogers hold his head. Blood dropped out of his nose and he breathed hardly. Trixie who was still in shock saw him and became mad.

"WAS THAT REALLY NECESSARY?" she shoted mad. "We came to get help. We didn't want to make a remake of The Exorcist!"

"Trixie..." Spud began. "I know what happend..."

"What?!" she asked confused and put away the camera.

Spud breathed fast. So many things made sense now. "Trixie, it's true... all this is not that what had should happen... the engine!"

"The engine?" Trixie asked.

"You have to find the engine!" Rogers said and put a towel for his nose. "I knew it,... I knew it..."

"What?" the both teeangers asked.

"I was afraid in the court and didn't told it but..." he began but stopped.

"WHAT!" both asked mad.

"Short time before the plane crashed... I think I saw how... how something surround... yes... surround the engine." Rogers explained. "I don't think that this was an accident, too. But one thing I know now... you shouldn't trust the concil."

"Yes! Me, too!" Spud said and looked on Trixie. "The engine! We have to find it!"

"What do you say?" Trixie asked mad. "How do you want to do that? The engine is laying on the bottom of the ocean. And how we get to Maine?"

"I know someone from the magical-elevators who can help you!" Rogers said...

Just minutes later both left the house and stood in the garden behind the house. Rogers handed Spud a little vail with a pink liquid inside.

"That helps for the night. I have to fly to Kangerlussaq tomorrow again. Meet me on JFK at 9 and tell me what you find out. Don't use your mobiles or your your E-Mail accounts. And what ever happends... don't talk to anyone you don't know or don't trust."

After these words both felt that the ground shaked and seconds later a big metal box, the elevator, poped out of the ground.

"Go,... before my neigbours see it." Rogers said and the doors slid open. The troll inside looked seriously. After they where in the doors closed and the troll began to talk.

"So... Roque Island, Maine! Are you sure?" he asked worried.

Trixie and Spud agreed and so the elevator start to move and slid back into the ground.

Rogers stood there for a few moments and looked on the place where the elevator disappeared in the ground. "Good luck!" he whispered and walked back into the house.

The living-room was a total mess now. With some winks with his hands the books and other interiour flew back into the shelvs. Than he took the camera to look what happend. After he prepared everything he sat down on the couch and switched on the TV. The video began on that moment he whispered the spell. But just seconds later he saw that there was more than just the average power that surronds someone in this moment. The screen became static and than normal again. Than something shot out of Spud and hit the camera. The screen only flicked for the rest of the video...

In fear Rogers let the camera drop and stared in fear on the static screen for some minutes. He even didn't realised that his wife came back and stood behind him.

"Henry... what happend here?" she asked in shock and saw the static TV. "Please don't tell me we have a poltergeist again!"

Henry turned to his wife and looked on her worried. Than he looked on his unborn baby. She saw the shocked impression on his face and knew that it meant trouble.

"V... Vicky... do you remember what I told you about the dragons-concil?" he asked slowly. She agreed. "Wh... I think... It's time that you visit your parents for some days..."

In the elevator the both teens sat on the ground when the elevator shaked and moved very fast to somewhere. After a minute maybe the shaking stopped and the both felt that the elevator ploped out of the ground. The troll put his hand on the door and turned to the both teens.

"I will wait here!" he said before he opened the door. Cold air blew into the small cabin. It was foggy and they could hear the waves of the ocean.

Carefully they stepped out. Threw the fog they could see the trees and rocks of the island. They turned back to the troll who hold a small map in his hand.

"Listen... we are here, near the beach. The plane crashed here on this peninsula, that's a quarter mile. Good luck." after these words the elevator disappeared.

Trixie and Spud looked around. Around them was the hilly forest. Both start to walk. West of them was Patten Cove, where the man with the camera filmed the crash. The way was difficult. The forest was dark but slowly the fog faded. After two minutes they found the first debris. Trees where damaged. Papers and burned clouthes couvered the branches and bushes. It start to smell like burned wood, fuel and meat...

"Spud, I'm afraid!" Trixie said and became pale. "What are we looking for?"

Spud did not answer. He just walked further. A burned seat hang in a tree. Trixie stepped on a Portugese passport. They could hear people. When they saw that the trees some feet ahead where destroyed both stopped.

"Trixie..." Spud began. "Are you ready?"

She agreed and Spud took her hand. Together they arrived the top of the hill. What they found behind... both should never forget...

End of Chapter 6

What do you think? To dark? To much horror? I promise that the next chapters will be very exciting.