Chapter 4
Lao Shi walked with the others above the magical-bazar and was shocked. Everywhere stood people from both worlds. Injured humans who where found by magical creatures and who need urgent help. Magical creatures from human-hospitals who layed in thier beds and oversleept everything. All over the place, cars stopped to load people. Jonathan met one of his colleagues who had a big wound on his head.
"Oh my gosh... you are also one of this things!?" he said.
"No... just my son, my dauther, my father in law and around a half billion other people on earth!" Jonathan said and walk away.
"Stop talking with the people here, dauthers husband!" Lao Shi said angrilly. "I'm also very confused above everything here. We have to find out it after our meeting!"
"Meeting? What for a meeting?" Susan asked.
"Our meeting with the president!" her father answered.
"President Obama?"
"No, not the president of the humans-world United States! I mean the president of the magical-republic of New York! Did I never explained you that?" the old man asked before they entered a big red building near the bazar.
"No!" Jonathan said and looked on a big map of the United States on the wall.
"Well, this is America in the humans-world! 50 states in one contry. And this..." the old man said and used a switch. "...is America in the magical-world. 3 independent contrys... New York, Tennessee and California!" he explained and presented the 3 big contrys. "The republic of New York is going from Maine in the north to Florida in the south and from the atlantic coast to Illinois. The area at the Gulf of Mexico to Kentucky and of course Tennessee are part of the magical-republic of Tennessee. And the rest is California."
"Hey... when I look on this map... that means the blackout in the humans-world is affecting more than the half of the republic of New York." Haley realized. "Maybe that is the reason, why so much humans are here... it's out of control. And the magical-world will get to much damage if they don't help them."
"Yes, that could be a reason. But lets talk first with him." Lao Shi said.
They walked threw the building and passed a row of security checks before they arrived in front of a big door. The both ogre-security-guards opened the both wings and they entered a big office with large windows and a great view above Magic-New York. Behind the desk a big man (who looked like a human) sat and speaked into a phone.
"...no, no, no... just react when the reactor start to burn, keep in the background and help the fire-brigade, in secret... bye... Sorry, the burning power-plant... please take a seat... Where is Jake Long?" he asked.
"We don't know!" Lao Shi said before the phone rang again.
The president pressed a button and talked with his secretary that she should block all calls for the next minutes.
"And?"
"We had the last contact with him... maybe 2 hours ago. He was for a dragon-emergency in Meadowood, Pennsylvania." Lao Shi told. "We have no contact with him and he maybe don't know what's going on. And by the way... was that your idea to take all this humans?"
"Originally, I said them... take just the humans who are important eye-witnesses. Than I said okay to hardly injured ones... and than... everything is out of control." the man said and switched on a TV on the wall. "That is a news-channel from California!"
The Longs saw shocked the pictures of the captured ogre who wanted to help the woman from the hospital. After the reporter who asked him: Are you an alien? the pictures showed the burning city of Columbus. Than they switched to some plane-crash-scenes all over the contry. And also many pictures of magical-creatures who wanted to leave the humans world.
"O... my... god! Do you mean... the magical-world is exposed, Mr. President?" Jonathan asked.
"Unfortunatelly, I have to say, YES!"
Jake finally arrived the city. He and his friends where shocked when they saw everywhere fire and chaos. Trixie just looked on her injured mother in Jake's arms. She stared with wide opened eyes on the big red dragon who hold her in it's arms.
"Wh... What's th..?"
"That is... I explain you later!" Trixie just said and hold her hand.
Jake could see the river and the bridges. So he could navigate a little bit better. A few minutes later he found his neigbourhood and was shocked: the street he lived in was totally destroyed or in fire.
"My house!" he said shocked after he saw the burning leftovers of his home.
"Don't worry, Jake. I'm sure your familly is okay." Spud said.
Jake knowed that he just said that to calm down him. But now he had other important things to do... so he decided to bring Trixies injured mother to an doctor.
"Jake, I think we should bring her to my home. There I have hide some medical-potions, a little present. And when we helped her, we can delete her memory." Trixie said and pointed on her house, which was in a area without fire and less chaos.
"Yes, that whould be the best way." Jake said and start to sink.
"D... del... Delete mmmy mem...!" Trixie's mom stammered.
"Don't worry, that's painless!" Trixie said when they land at the parking lot behind Trixie's house.
Slowly and carefully, they walked threw the building upstairs. Jake was still in his dragon-form, so that he could carry Mrs. Carter better and if one of the other residents saw him... he couldn't imagine. When Trixie opened the door to her home and they walked inside, they where surprised by her father.
"Dad?!" Trixie said shocked, when she saw him staning with a candle in the living-room.
"T... What's is that?" he shouted.
Trixie ran to her father and hold his mouth. Jake leaved the room with Spud and the injured Mrs. Carter during Trixie hold her father.
"Dad, stop screaming! I explain you. But please, calm down..."
The president of the Magical-Republic of New York still sat on his desk and took one call after the other. The whole magical-world was in a exceptional situation. And in the humans-world the people where going to find out everything.
"Mr. President..." Jonathan start to ask "...why did you never met Jake earlier? I mean, he protect the people who vote for you."
"Yes, I know... the dragons-concil decide everything themself! Sometimes, I wish I could also decide above the dragons! I mean... who is so stupid and give to a just 13 years old boy the..." the president told but the phone rang again. "Yes!... Oh... yes, I wait... Mr. Shi, the family of the werewolf from Meadowood arrived in the magical-comunity, they said that they think that Jake is still in thier hometown. But they don't know very much!"
"That means we still have no chance to contact Jake!" Lao Shi said angrilly.
"And there is more... After you told me about the family, I called the magical-police in Los Angeles to warn the oldest brother of the wereworf... yes... I still there, and what's with the boy in LA?... Oh my gosh... yes, does the family know it? Okay? Thank you!" the president said and hang off. "The family is exposed! The roommates of the oldest brother tryed to kill him with a silver knife because they thaugt that he is also a werewolf. Than they ran out and told it the news."
"And what is with the boy?" Susan asked.
"He is in a hospital in the magical world, in very bad condition! They say he have just little chance to survive but they try everything!"
"O my gosh!" Haley said and looked into the TV which showed the chaos in the humans-world. "And what is with our secret?"
In the building of a TV-channel in Washington D.C. a group of electricans successfully repaired a backup-generator. When the lights and all equiptment worked again the people calmed down.
"Okay, lets find some informations about that what's going on!" one of the employees said when he looked out threw a window and saw the damaged dark city.
When one of the reporters saw the pictures of the disaster and from the magical-creatures in a TV, he was shocked. He was a wizard and the fact that his world was going to be exposed was terrible. He ran to the employee-kitchen and finally found his brother who also worked for this channel.
"Did you see the news? Our world is going to be exposed!" he whispered.
"What? Oh no... what happend?" the brother asked. "Hey, where is my wand?"
"Are you looking for that?" a man said and the both wizards where scared.
Thier colleagues stood with thier wands behind them and maybe heared everything. But before someone could say anything, a group of magical-creatures appeared in a flash. The humans in the building start to scream when they saw the creatures.
"Hello... we're comming in peace!" a troll said. "We need your channel to show the world that we are not dangerous..."
Trixie had to bind her father on a chair. Her mother layed injured on the kitchen-table when she droped a few potions into her open mouth. Maybe five minutes later she was healty again and also wanted to run away. But Trixie had to bind her on an other chair, too. After she tryed to explain what's going on, her parents stopped screamming.
"Okay, when you promise to calm down, I let you go!" Trixie said.
"You are the assistant of a fire-breathing monster?" her father asked. "...okay I understand that we spend not so much time with you but..."
"That's have nothing to do with you!" Trixie answered immediately. "I work for the magical-world because it's a good thing. But please, that's a secret! A very big secret! Normally, I have to delete your memories... but we have no clue what's going on here. The half contry is out of electricity... Dad you where here... please tell me what you saw or heared..."
"I... I was sitting in the taxi. I wanted to surprise you here. Short time before I arrived here. All lights switched off. And the taxi also gone broken. There was nothing, no lights, cars or any other things. Than I saw some explosions far away and I ran home. And because here wasn't someone, I decided to wait here. And than you arrived with... Jake, if this is his right name!" Colonel Carter told and Trixie looked on her mother.
"What do you looking on me? I almost died! If you haven't arrive... Thank you. And thanks your world." she said. "And now... let us free!"
"Okay... Okay... you don't have to shout!" Trixie said. "Mom, dad, I have to go now... and you too. You can't stay here!" Trixie said to her parents during she opened thier shackles.
"What... why?"
"Why?... the half city is in fire! We don't know what happend or than it will happen again! We bring you to the magical-world, there you are safe..."
"Where?"
"Awww... follow me!" Trixie said and pulled her parents out of the house.
"Trixie... are you sure that this is a good idea?" Jake asked worried. "The concil will kill me if they find out that more and more humans find out..."
"This is a special situation! The concil can me...." she shouted back. "Mom, dad... when you are there, say that the American-Dragon and his friends send you... and tell them what happend here and with you. They will protect you!"
"Wait, wait, wait... and what's with you young lady?" her father asked a little angry. "Do you really think that we let you go with that... that... 'thing'."
"Hey!" Jake said.
"Dad, I make this job for almost 3 years. You can trust me!" Trixie said and opened one of the gates to the magical-world she knowed. "Bye bye!" she said and pushed her screaming parents threw the gate, into the magical-world.
"Was that really neccesary?" Spud asked.
"Hey, what whould you do?" Trixie said and leaved with the others the scene.
They need more than one hour to arrive Chinatown. In the darkness of the city, marauders and other evil people terrorized the inoncent population of Manhattan. Fire, crashes and loud noise from people filled the air. When they arrived the shop they where wondered that nobody destroyed the windows but in front of the door was a little package laying. After they entered the shop and kindled a few candles, Jake opened the package and read the letter:
"Hello American-Dragon and friends, I hope you enjoy the chaos because it just the beginning. And it will become more terrible if you don't do what I want. Your friend for example, look on the picture..." Jake took one of the pictures from the open box and was shocked.
He recognized Frederick, in his werewolf-form. Standing on a playground and scaring children. His mouth and his head where full of blood.
"...it's great what you can do with a computer and the right cameras today! No! But I promise you that that picture and a lot of other pictures will appear in the news all over the world. Or you do what I want..."
Jake and his friends where shocked. What if the guy who wrote this massage, also threw the stone into Jacob's house. Will he really expose the magical-world?
"... Ohhh! Did I scared you? ,point point point, That will really happen! Go to Rykers Island and get Brad Morton Sr. and bring him to the south of the big reservoi in the central park. Than you fly to the East River between the Manhattan Bridge and the Willamsburg Bridge and pull the big box which is laying on the bottom of the river and bring it to Ground Zero where we will wait for you! Signed by 'a old enemy'!"
"A old enemy? Who?" Spud asked. "I mean... Brad's dad... if it was Brad, how he can know something about a box at the bottom of the river?"
"Yes, that's true! But I'm sure that Brad or his father have to do something with all that!" Jake said and looked on the map. "Rykers Island. The biggest prison in this area! Brad's dad! Who is that?" Jake said to himself and try to find a answer.
Frederick could feel that a door opened. He turned and saw a caped person standing there, just a few metres away. He couldn't see the face or couldn't smell something. The silver in the rope was his weakness.
"Shhh... I'm here to let you free!" the person said with changed voice.
"Please, what!" Frederick asked wondered during the person start to release his shackles.
"Shhh... I can't tell you more. Maybe he followed me. You have to go and tell your friend that it is to late. I saw the news... your world is exposed!"
"What?"
"I'm so sorry. And now go!" the person said and Frederick ran away.
He had no clue who that person was. But without the silver around his legs he felt much better. A few minutes later he stood in a wood. Behind him was nothing, so he had to walk threw a magical-gate or something else. It was dark, and it was full-moon. He knowed that it was today full-moon in America, so he had to be somewhere in the United States. But how he arrived here? And who did it?
End of chapter 4
I hope it is interresting! Please excuse my bad English! I do my best.
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