Chapter 2
Jake's family sat in front of the TV and watched a movie. A ventilator stood on the table and everbody hold a bag of ice in his hands. After Jake's call, they decided not to wait, and go to bed. It was late now and all were tired.
"And... what happend in Pennsylvania?" Jonathan asked.
"The old situation...: someone threats a magical-creature to expose him!" Lao Shi said bored. "That happens almost every week somewhere on this planet! We have plans for it! It's a easy job!"
After a few minutes, the old man leaved with Fu Dog the house and walked home. Haley followed her mother upstairs to go to bed. Jonathan was alone in the living room now and watched the news.
"...heavy thunderstorms above the middle-east... ...the president said... ...in local affairs... " the anchorman told fast. Jonathan didn't listen exactly what he told. "...Ladies and Gentleman... we got a special-report: a couple of flashes hit the reactor-building of a nuclear-power plant 50 miles west of New York. A huge fire is..."
"O my god!" Jonathan said and turned the volume higher.
"...but for now the local authorities says that there is no danger!" the ancorman told.
"Yeah... that's good!" Jonathan said before the phone start to rang. "Hello!"
Jonathan just heared two people screaming before the phone fall out of his hands. Under shock, he took it again and tried to calm down the people who called.
"Hello... please, calm down! Who is there?"
".... this... this... is Alma Buttersleeves... the mother of Frederick! I'm calling because... our son... he is kidnapped...!" Mrs. Buttersleeves cried.
"What!?"
"Where is... Jake... the kidnapper... let a... a... massage... I read: the amdrag will pay... for all!" Frederick's shocked mom said and start to cry again.
"O no... calm down! Call Frederick's friends... than they will find him... and I will call Jake and he will find out who wrote that massage...okay.... calm down."
"Okay... I try it... his friends are here! Warn your son!" she said before she hang off. Jonathan was shocked.
"What happend?" Susan asked when she walked down the stairs.
"It's Jake's werewolf friend from Bosnia!" Jonathan just said before he start to call Jake.
Somewhere, far away from Jake, from New York and from other important places... two people stood in a little room in front of a big wooden control-panel.
"Is that really necessary?" a young boy asked.
"You asked me for help? And I told you that I can give you! So do what I told, you know I can't move! And remember, the nail on that panel have to arrive 100% before you press on the red button." a older person said.
The younger one did what the other said. The big panel made a loud noise. And steam came out of a fountain. After a loud beep signalled 100%, the younger one pressed the big red button in the middle of the panel.
Immidiatelly after that, a big and bright white shining sphere start to grown above the mashine. It was like a second, little sun when it start to fly up in the dark night.
"What was that?" the younger one asked shocked. But the other one didn't answered... he disappeared. "Hello...?"
Just a few seconds later a big bright explosion, high in the sky made the night to day. All over the contry, the people could see the white dust shining in the sky before all over the East-Coast the lights switched of...
Jake, who began to talk with his father just a few seconds ago was confused when the light in the basement switched off.
"...hello... dad do you hear me...?"
"...Jake.... JAKE!!!... answer!" Jonathan shouted and hang off. In the darkness he couldn't see anything. "Susan... where are you?"
"I'm here! What happend... the whole city is out of electricity!" she yelled from the window.
When Jonathan found her and looked outside he was shocked. The whole city and maybe all cars where out of energy. On the street he saw people running panicly and than far away... a explosion.
"Ahhh... what was that?"
"I don't know but whatever it was... it was just the beginning." Jonathan said before an second explosion happend just a few houses away.
The window burst and both fall down to the ground. Haley cried in her room. The house shaked and they could hear people shouting. A minute later maybe, it was over and both stand up to look outside again. A few houses away was a big fire.
"Susan, take and Haley and go to the car... I look there!" Jonathan said and was outside before his wife could stop him.
Jonathan was shocked. On the street was something laying, what looked like a helicopter. When he walked slowly closer to the crash-side, he could saw that it destroyed 3 houses and maybe 10 where in fire.
"Where is the fire-brigade?" someone shouted.
The other people where in panic. Jonathan ran back to his house and locked the door. Than he took a flashlight from the table and ran threw the house, to the backside, where the car stood.
"JONATHAN... What happend?" his wife shouted when they entered the car.
"There a helicopter crashed... we should go... here will be a chaos if the fire-brigade don't arrive in... dammed turn on you stupid car..." Jonathan cursed when the car didn't turn on.
Haley looked outside and saw that other neigbours, also had problems with thier cars...
A light bulb turned on and Jake could see something again. One of Jacob's brothers conected the bulb with a car battery.
"What was that?" one of Jacob's sisters asked and pet her brothers head.
"I don't know... but that's not important now,... follow my instructions!" Jake said and everybody listen. "Take the most important things and leave the town..."
"Leave the town?" Jacob's father annoyed. "And where we should go?"
Jake had no clue: "Just out of the town! And we will observe the people who Jacob told... and when we delete the memory of thatone... you can come back!"
Jake explained very long what he and his friends will doing, during Trixie and Spud looked for the phone.
"Hello... hellooo..." Trixie said into the phone. But nothing worked, no phones, no light and when the family wanted to drive away... thier cars didn't started.
"What's going on here?" everybody asked Jake.
"Why you ask just me?" Jake said. He was cluelessly. The whole town had no energy. A werewolf who layed his future into Jake's arms is in danger and they had no chance to communicate.
Something terrible had to be happend...!
Jake and the others walked back into the basement. Without cars or any communications, they where alone.
"What happend?" one of Jacob's siblings asked.
"I told you... I do not know!" Jake said annoyed. "But what I know is that all... and I mean really all stuff which is running by electricity is out of order!"
"Do you mean... all cars, radios, phones... everything?" Jacob's father asked. "But how is that possible?" when he looked on his werewolf-son and remembered the magical-world he took the question back.
Miles away, in the burning power-plant, the fire-brigade couldn't do thier work. Without enery, the pumps didn't worked and the fire in the reactor-building became bigger and bigger.
"Chief... all is out... nothing is working!" one of the fire-fighters said to the fire-chief.
"What? But we have to extinguish. If the fire arrives the reactor, it will be give a disaster, bigger than Tshernobyl, 1986!" he shouted back.
"I know, but it's not just here... all over this place all cars and other stuff don't work..."
In New York was a huge chaos! People ran threw the dark streets, cars didn't worked and thousands of people where captured in the subways. Jonathan, Susan and Haley walked threw the dark streets of Chinatown on the way to the electronic-shop. Everywhere marauders stole things out of buildings. Cars stood in fire and people cried.
"Daddy, what happend?" Haley said under shock. "Where is the police? Or the fire-brigade?"
"Who knows!? And who knows why the cars also don't work." Jonathan answered before they arrived the back-side of the electronic-shop.
Susan had a key. So they entered the back-room and locked the door. Here, they where safe. When Lao Shi and FuDog saw them, they where relieved.
"O my gosh... I'm so happy that you are here!" Lao Shi said. "This is not a typical power-failure!"
"What do you mean, dad?" Susan asked.
Before Lao Shi answered, they all sat down on the couch. They could hear that someone tried to destroy the big front window. But with magical-help this building was safe.
"Do you remember that big white explosion in the sky? Short time before the blackout?" the old man asked. "Several decades ago, the magical-world made a emergency-plan! If a human finds out the truth, and want to publish it... the magical-world distubs the humans energy. That means: no TV, no radio, no traffic! Just for a few hours. Until the moment they catch the right guy and delete his memory. But this plan was forbidden because the damage whould be to high!"
"That all is because a magical affair?" Jonathan asked.
"Yes! A mashine was constructed in the late 50s! But it was forbidden to use it because the intensity was too high!" the old man explained and took a map. In the candle-light he start to demonstrate. "Well, this mashine is standing here at the border of the states of New York and Pennsylvania. If it armed 100% the whole East-coast, from Maine to North Carolina is out of electicity, communications and in this area, also no cars, trains or planes working."
"O no... the helicopter... you mean that every airplane in this area is going to fall from the sky? Or it already crashed?"
"Yes. At that's not all... also all backup generators in hospitals or other important buildings don't work. And no cars. That means no police, no fire-brigade, no ambulances... nothing. At this moment, maybe thousands of people are already dead. And much more injured, and there is no chance to help them..."
"And the magical-world?" Haley asked.
...
Jake looked on the old radio, Jacob's father had in the basement and tried to contact someone but there was no chance.
"Hey, when you look outside, you can see a fire on the mountain!" one of Jacob's sisters said from the window.
"Fire?"
Jake turned to Jacob and looked into the worried wolf eyes.
"And?" Jake heared his mind. "What if this is a part of the blackmailers plan?"
"No... that is to much for a human. I'm not sure, but something happend... I think you should go... I will look for this guy..."
A few minutes later, Jake, Trixie and Spud were alone in the house. Jacob and his family decide to walk to the magical-community 3 miles away. Just away from there. Jake stood in the dark garden and looked around. He could really see fire on a mountain a few miles away. And he couldn't hear any traffic or other things.
"Jake... I think it works..." Spud, who hold a little radio in his hands, said.
Jake could hear weak signals in the radio and tried to switch the sender when he heared something. He walked threw the garden and finally found a sender... he start to tell what he could understand: ".... massive blackout on the whole East-Coast,... no contact with local authorities,... plane crashes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey,... traffic jams in Ohio and Kentucky... fire in power plants all across the state New York..."
"What? What's going on? Massive blackout... fire... plane crashes?" Trixie said. "Oh my gosh... my mom was on the way to Honolulu and she was in the air for a half hour maybe when the blackout came. What if she is in one of the crashed planes?"
"Don't worry I'm sure she is okay!" Jake said and looked into the sky. When he saw a shooting star he wished that all becomes good.
End of Chapter 2
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