Chapter 10
Spud, Trixie and the vampire looked outside and saw the plane racing above the runway. Both smiled and winked. Henry was a great help. But when the nose of the jet raised up in the air... the airliner lost something.
The three witnesses screamed in horror when they saw that the landing-gear on the right site broke away... the right engine start to scratch over the runway... than the front gear smashed back on the runway...
Henry tried his best to lift the airliner into the air. But it was to late... when the front gear smashed on the runway again, it broke away... the airliner began to whirl around. In the cabin the people screamed when baggage and other things where smashed threw the cabin... than the fire raced over them...
From the terminal... Spud, Trixie and the vampire could only scream when the airliner, thier friend was sitting in, broke into two pieces... and explode when the left wing hit a high antenna next to the runway...
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Far away... the people could see a big black cloud raising up from the airport. Sirens halled up when fire-trucks raced over the airfied...
In the terminal, Trixie and Spud stared on the big fire on the airfield... The fire shined bright and couvered the whole front-section. The tail of the airliner laid some feet away.
"D... D... Do... you... think... t... th... that he... s... survived?" Trixie stammered.
Spud could see it... The front section was burning... the tail was intact but it was fact... Henry wasn't able to survive that!
Meanwhile,...
A flight-attendant screamed in fear when she realised that she just survived a plane-crash. She pulled on her seatbelts and tried to release herself from the crew seat. The galley in the rear of the cabin was filled with smoke, the cabin was in fire... the galley was destroyed... and her colleague hang dead in her seat... killed by the inventory.
A passenger, who sat in the third-last row arrived in the galley. He coughed and was full of blood. The flight-attendant finally opened her seat-belt and fell of her seat. Her rips and her legs where broken but she only wanted to survive.
Together the both survivors reached the door and turned the handle to open the door. The door slid open normally and fresh air blew into the smoky wreckage. Carefully the man helped the flight-attendent to leave the plane. She fell down and crawled away from the burning wreckage. She coughed and wasn't able to see something. But finally she saw the shape of a person walking threw the smoke.
"HELP ME!" the hardly injured woman screamed.
The unknown person came closer. Finally it reached the injured woman on the ground.
"Help m..." the woman said but wasn't able to finish... Before she could the person grabbled her head, turning it around fast enough to break her neck... and kill her...
The man that followed her, wide his eyes in horror when he saw what just happend with the woman. He tried to leave, but than... he was the one who lost his life... toghether with 39 other people...
In the terminal, the both teenagers slowly walked away from the glass-wall. They ignored all the other people that ran to the wall to see what happend outside. The vampire followed the both teenagers carefully. All three where stared in shock before they realised... that was an assasin...
"I... I... think, it will be the best when we leave now." Spud said. "Leave the city!"
Trixie and the vampire agreed and together they ran down the escalator and between all the other people who stared on the information-screens. They ignored them. They had just one target... leave.
But than the whole situation became worse when a loud bang, like from a gun, filled the air... In shock the people turned in fear, only to see the vampire... with his sharp tooths... with a long wooden pole in his chest... Trixie and Spud screamed when the vampire start to fall apart and the body start to melt. The wooden pole fell out and smashed with a loud bang on the ground... and with a second bang, the impaled vampire explode...
After a very short moment of silence in the terminal a woman, that was full of the vampire's blood, start to scream in horror with wide open eyes and hold her head. Immediately the people around them ran away. Panicly the people droped thier baggage and ran. Some people fell down, other were trempled. Trixie and Spud just moved when a second gun shoot let the screen of a check in desk shattering. A third shoot hit the ground, just a few inch in front of them. In that moment they realised that someone shoot on them.
Both start to scream again... and ran out. Panicked and shocked people ran over the street in front of the terminal. Trixie and Spud could hear sirens of police-cars. In fear they looked around. They need a place to hide... it start to rain... the scene was horrible... people with bloody clouthes ran out and where trempled by others... Than Spud finally saw it... the taxi... the taxi he came with...
"There... the taxi... that's our guy!" he shouted on Trixie and ran to the taxi that just stood there with open front door.
But when they reached... both got one more shock... when they saw that thier driver laid with wide opened eyes on the ground, outside his cab. His legs hanging in the car,... pale... and with a broken neck, too.
Trixie screamed and turned her head away. Spud went down to the driver to feel his pulse... but there was nothing... and he was cold... Spud breathed hardly before he could feel the anger increasing inside him. First the tried killing attempt on him, than Henry, than the vampire and now the cab-driver...
Spud let out an loud and thrilling scream before he pulled out the legs of the dead man of the cab and jumped on the drivers seat.
"TRIXIE, GET IN HERE!" Spud screamed.
The still confused Trixie realised that Spud was going to steal the cab. In fear she opened the back door and jumped in, when the motor was started and Spud stepped on the throttle. The wheels squeaked and smoked when they start to rotate and the taxi raced away. Trixie screamed when she was pressed into the seats and the door smashed close. People had to jump away to avoid the taxi, that was steered by a teenager. As fast as possible, Spud drove between the people and other cars to reach the freeway. Spud even scratched another car when he turned right to enter the freeway...
"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!" Trixie screamed in panic.
"I don't know... DON'T LOOK BACK!" Spud screamed on her when he drove on the freeway.
For someone who never drove a car, he drove not bad. Fortunately he watched his parents when they drove for years. So he knew the most important. He had no clue where he was... He only knew that he was driving without a licence, in a stolen taxi... on a freeway with 60 miles per hour... Behind them the airport... with a big black cloud of smoke that increased into the grey sky... and with the leftovers of a impaled vampire in one of it's terminals.
Trixie realised that she was full of blood. When the vampire was impaled... both teenagers where sprinkled with it. With a tissue, she cleaned her face and start to cry. Everyone who helped them in the last days was killed... and she was pretty sure... thier families were in danger.
"We... we have to tell our parents the truth!" Spud said, like he knew what she was thinking. "We have to leave the city!"
"But... where we can go?" Trixie asked. Than she realised that she lost the purse with thier evidence. "Ohhh... ********... that's so..."
Her cursing was overtoned by other cars that honked angrily because Spud's dangerous way of driving. Spud drove a bit slower and opened the glove compartment.
"Let's see what we have here... a map, 30 Dollars, tissues... hey that's interesting..." he said and pulled everything out... "Scissors... Trixie, cut my hairs!"
"Please, what?"
"We are on the run, now! We have to change our appearance!" Spud said.
"Okay... but I have to apologize for that before..." she said and slowly start to cut off Spud's hairs.
Spud steered the taxi off of the freeway and arrived in Trixie's neighbourhood. There he drove the taxi into an small alleyway and stopped there... not far away from Trixie's house.
"What now?" Trixie asked.
"I don't know..." Spud, who looked like a punk now, said and left the taxi.
Together they walked threw the alleyway. They could already see Trixie's house. But than both hid behind a carbage-container... a van arrived.
The white delivery-van stopped right next to a loading ramp. Carefully the both teenagers peeked and where relieved... it was just a normal delivery-van that had goods for a drug-store. A big steel door was opened and a man came out...
"Aww... finally you're comming. I'm waiting for you for hours now!" the man said mad.
"I'm sorry... Do you have any clue what chaos is in the city..." the driver said and both men entered the stock.
When both men left, the both teenagers continued thier walk to Trixie's house. There was a back-door that was locked. So they carefully walked around the house to the front-door. When they reached the street, both where surprised. There where no pedestrians, and surprisingly less traffic... the only people they could see stood around the window of a electronic-shop and watched TV.
"Maybe they are watching the news about the crash... or the man that molt at the airport..." Trixie said and looked on a parked Ford in front of her house. "Isn't that your father's car?"
"Yes... that's good. They are here!" Spud said and togehter they entered the house and walked upstairs.
"What, we tell them?" Trixie asked.
"What? The truth! It's time for the truth!" Spud said.
"They aren't able to manage the truth! Believe me!" Trixie said when she opened the door to her apartment and both carefully entered it.
The Carters and the Spudinskis where in the living-room. The TV was running and they where talking. Carefully both sneaked threw the corridor and entered the living-room. In that moment the adults saw thier dirty, pale and injured children everyone start to scream.
"QUIET!" both screamed. But thier parents jumped off the couch. And ran towards them.
They wanted to know, why they where full of blood? Why Spud lost so many hairs? Why both looked like they got a shock?"
„QUIET! WE ARE NOT INJURED!" Trixie screamed on her parents.
"Trixie, what happend?" her father asked.
"Are, you okay?" Spud's mother asked him and looked on her son. When she saw the big bruise on his chest she start to scream again. "OH MY GOD! WHO DID THAT TO YOU!"
"QUIET!" both screamed again in unite and thier parents finally stopped talking and screaming and took a step back.
"We tell you the truth!" Spud said. "But guys believe me... you won't be able to manage, or to understand it... you will be confused and shocked... and it will change your lives! Sit down!"
Slowly and carefully thier parents walked back to the couch and sat down. Trixie took the remote controler of the TV and switched it to MUTE. Than Spud took of his bloody jacket and exposed the bruise on his chest. Trixie closed all curtains, switched off all lights and locked all doors before. Than both lovered thier heads and start to tell...
"Around one and a half year ago, I accidentaly broke your crystal-vase, mom! We needed money to replace it!" Trixie began.
"Our mythology-teacher, that crazy German professor you met once or twice, had a reward of 500 Dollar for evidence that prove that magical-creatures exist. And Jake... wanted to get this reward for us." Spud told.
"Jake... was a dragon. He was able to transform into a maybe 14 feet long, fire breathing dragon. He was the protector of the magical-creatures that live secretly in the humans-world."
"Something went wrong... and so we found him senseless in dragon-form in an alleyway not far from here. We took him to our teacher, got the money and went to his house to talk with him. There we saw photos of him how he transformed. So we found out about the magical-world. We went back to our teacher, safed him and from that day we helped him with his 'job'."
"Dragons, werewolfs, vampires, wizards, unicorns,... and all that stuff exists and we are two of the less humans who now that."
"Since the night before he and the other people died, I have dreams and visions of dead people... With the help of a wizard, we found out that I have a very rare magical-ability to see the things like they have to be and so we found out that the plane-crash and many other things should never happen. The death passengers contact me and want that I make them alive again."
"We already know that the engine of the plane was cut off in flight and that the crash was an assasin. We got help from a vampire... Jake stood under the control of a concil of dragons that dislikes humans like us."
"In the night after the crash they took us to thier island on the other side of the planet and made a show-trial on us. They gave us ten days before they will delete our memory on all magical... So we thaught that they have to do something with that what happend to us in the last two days."
"Today morning, we met the wizard and the vampire at the airport again. We decide to go to the magical-press today afternoon."
"But before I arrived at the airport, someone tried to push me on the rails in the subway to kill me. That's why I have this injuries. Than the wizard pulled out a magical-parasite of my head, someone used to see my dreams. He said that he will keep an eye on it. But than he died... because the plane he was steering explode on the runway! And than the vampire was impaled by an assasin who shot on us. When we ran out, we saw that a taxi-driver that helped us two times was killed, too."
"A murder kills everyone who helps us! And now we lost the evidence that proves that Jake was killed and that can prevent that we lose our memory. In panic we even stole the taxi of our killed helper to leave the airport."
"The concil, a killer, or a killer who is working for the concil are hunting us. We have to leave the city. Or the state."
"You are all in danger and we would never forgive us if something happens to you."
"And that means that we get now the most important things and leave before the concil catches us!" Trixie finished and both lift thier heads again.
Thier parents stared with wide opened eyes on them. Only Spud's mom had a horrified impression on her face.
"I don't believe you... any word." Spud's father said.
Trixie's parents looked on them without so say anything. But than Spud's mom broke out in tears and screamed in shock and fear.
"NO, NO, NO, NO... That can't be true..." she vailed. Tears ran down her face and she breathed fast.
"Mom..." Spud began and pulled out the letter from the shop. "...Mom... I know that it's inate! Jake's grandfather knew it since June 1999. Is there something you know?"
His mom's face went pale again. She breathed fast and cried much more. "I thaught that it were just nightmares. Imaginations! I wanted to forget it! But sometimes I remembered... but I never believed..."
"What?" Spud asked slowly and looked on his mother. Everyone looked on her. She took a tissue and dried her face...
"I... I was 12! I lived with my parents and your uncles in a apartment in Hoboken. There was a couple living in the apartment next to ours. Friendly people. One day... I met them alone in the corridor... they came to me and told me that I'm a very,... special girl... that there is something... I will found out someday..." she began to stammer and stopped talking for a few seconds before she continued. "Several weeks later... I woke up... because I heard two loud bangs from thier apartment. A minute later we realised that a fire broke out there. The fire-brigade had to safe us... because the corridor was already in fire. The couple died. But when we returned to our apartment two days later. I had this... dreams. I had this...hallucinations... how they walked threw the corridor, or how they visit us... I had nightmares, they screamed on me to do something."
"They where magical!" Spud realised. His mother began to vail.
"My nightmares became worse. One night my father said that he saw how I was pulled threw my room by something. Like... a invincible something that tried to abuse me. We moved out! My parents believed in ghosts... I had injuries... But than, at the first night in our new apartment... there was a man in my room. He told me that the... that the... wizards... where killed by evil hunters... and that he is sorry that they choose me to help them, but there was no way to help them. I tried to scream but something hold me in my bed... I was unable to move. Than he filled some... ugly liquid into my mouth... he said 'enjoy the rest of your life'... and became a cloud of white smoke."
When she finished she fell into the arms of her husband who hugged her.
"It stopped... from that day I never remembered any dream I had... When you told me that you never remember your dreams... I thaught... but that all this was really... magic..."
"Shhh... calm down!" her husband said and hugged her again.
"That means... your story above, magical-creatures is... true?" Mrs. Carter asked in shock.
"This is vampire blood... We are the only who know that! I think it's the best when we leave now." Trixie said.
"I think your 'concil' or what ever, already knows. And all others who see this channel, too..." Colonel Carter said and pointed on the still working TV.
In shock Trixie turned the sound on again and they listened to the comment.
"...that the pictures of a survivelance-camera, shows how the 'vampire' is impaled like in the legends explained. The person... explode... douzens of witnesses and the pictures of the survivelance-cameras prove that a vampire was just killed in Terminal 1 of JFK-airport. A panic broke out after someone shoot with a handgun on two teenagers... who accomplained the creature..."
In shock Trixie and Spud could see themself in TV. A photo... taken by a camera in the terminal... before and after the vampire was killed. And how they ran away.
"...the pictures are so cruel that we only show less of the video. The airport was closed. The police sees no connection to the crash of a Oceanic Airlines Boeing 757 just minutes before..." the anchorman explained.
In fear... Trixie switched off the sound again. She looked on Spud first and than on thier parents...
"We need to go..."
End of Chapter 10
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