Chapter 7
Jake looked on the chest in his hands and thinked about it. All this just for a little bit gold. For money? Thousands of people where dead now... and the person who is liable for that all wants just a little bit gold.
"Jake... I have a strange feeling about this!" Trixie said. "There have to be more!"
"Yes, and he or she, however can't trigger us with this photo! I mean look at this line above Frederick's body. There you can see that someone copyed him into the photo!" Spud said and presented Jake the evidences he found.
And really, Jake could see a thin blue line above Frederick, which showed that he stood in front of a blue wall or something. And the blood in his mouth was also not real. It was painted.
"What if he or she want's something other?" Spud said.
"And what?" Jake asked confused and looked on the picture of Frederick again. "Oh... my.. gosh...! Awwww... maaannnn!" Jake shouted, because he knowed now who was responsible...
In Washington, the magical-creatures where interviewed again:
"...so, you say that you are not dangerous! And what's with the boy from Chisinau, Moldova who was attacked by one of you?" the anchorman asked.
"We are so sorry about that! Please, don't be angry on us..."
"And what do you say about the meltdown near Albany?"
"Well, If we could arrive our dragon, he could fly to the mashine who triggered this disaster... and send a second signal to the sky..." one of them explained.
"WHAT?" the anchorman shouted. "Do you want that it will happen again?"
"NO, no, no, no... of course not! But that could be a chance to stop the radioactive cloud. If the wind changes, the cloud will contaminate New York City, Long Island and other high populated areas. This areas would be so high contaminted that no human can live there. It would be worse than the Tschernobyl disaster from 1986! Maybe 20 million people would have to leave thier homes. Because the reactor was bigger here, it had more radioactive material inside. The mashine could, if the right key is used, send a signal to the sky which neutralize the cloud and prevent something more terrible..."
"You have to listen to us!" Jacob's mother yelled to the people in this small town. Her husband and the both werewolfs still had to threat them so that they don't run away. "Please calm down! I want to explain you what's going on here!" she said and the around 300 people got quiet. "Thank you. Around 6 or 7 miles away, a nuclear power-plant explode..."
During Jacob's mother told the people what happend, Frederick looked around. He couldn't believe it. No lights, no energy, nothing! He felt like in a armageddon scene. He looked on the faces of the scared people and felt bad. The people where afraid of him...
On Draco's Island, more and more dragons arrived for the emergency meeting. The concil had also no clue that thier world was exposed. When the dragons arrived also many news-teams from the magical-world TV-Channels arrived. And also a group of ten reporters and cameramen's from all over the humans-world.
The main-hall of the palace was overfilled. Dragon's where in thier dragon-forms and human-supporters weared thier uniforms, so that nobody could recocnize them. The news teams from the magical-world prepared for thier work and explained the very astonished humans where they are. The teams from 5 different humans-world contries made some pictures of the palace before they also prepared for they work and sat down on thier reserved places for the press.
A minute later maybe the concil arrived and sat down at the long table. It was hot. Outside it was bright day and the atmosphere in the hall was very strained. Than it became quiet because the concilours start to talk.
"Dragon's of the world," concilour Kulde start to talk. "...at 9pm American-East-Coast-time, the whole power supply of the East-Coast of the United States fall out. Many explosions, fires and crashes happend. And now 5 hours after: we think that for the moment... 150 thousand humans are dead, more than one million injured and maybe more homeless. The blackout also affected all planes, cars backup-generators and other important things, which explains the high number of dead people. We have no contact, with the goverment of the Republic of New York in Manhattan or with the American-Dragon!"
A reporter from Magic-Russia lift his hand and stood up. "Concilour... what do you want to do, to help the people in this area?" he asked.
"For the first time we want to evacuvate all magical-creatures from the humans-world in the affected area... something like this never happend earlier." concilour Omnia said.
"And what is with the humans?" a human reporter from Germany asked.
The concilour looked at the group of humans in the last row and recognized the logos of the five biggest channels of the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, France and Italy. They where shocked.
"What are that humans-world channels doing here?" Kukulkan shouted.
"Do you don't know it? We know your world since hours and our world wants to know what you want to do to help the people in the disaster-area!" the reporter said and everybody looked on the concil.
The whole concil was shocked. They where live in the humans-world television. And they had to talk to the humans. What should they say? They had no clue: They had to get in contact with the humans. The dragons in the hall, especially the young, got angry faces! They had friends and thier live in the humans-world. If thier contrys would be in danger they would wish, that the concil helps also the humans in thier contrys. Concilour Kulde looked into the camera, take a breath and start to talk...
Jake wished that there was a running TV anywhere... so that he could find out what really happend. But for the moment they didn't know what time it was, or how much people died or when this nightmare will end. Jake walked above the roof of the building and looked around. Everywhere was fire in high buildings, crashed cars on the streets and everywhere paniclly people, marauders and a congested police.
"Spud, if it's after midnight... we have the 11th September right?" Jake asked his friend.
"Yes, dejavu!" Spud answered and they all remembered. Jake was afraid. What if his family was dead? Or in danger? He was never so afraid since the 11th September 2001.
His father worked for a other company at that time. He worked in one of the towers of the World Trade Center when the first plane crashed into the other tower. Jonathan was so shocked that he leaved his office immediatelly. Jake and his familly waited the whole day... but he didn't came home. But finally he arrived at the late evening, after he walked threw the whole city, full with ash, grit and a few scratches. But alive.
When Jake looked on the burning city, the memory of this day came back. And now he was in the same situation: a terrible disaster happend, and he didn't know how his family was. His home was destroyed. And they could be anywhere.
"Jake, I'm sure they are in the magical-world! And they are safe and healthy!" Trixie said.
"Thank you!" Jake said and transformed. Ready to fly to the meeting point. "Let's catch 'Pandarus'!"
"Jakey, are you really sure? We could all see how Pandarus fall into that valley. He had almost no powers at that time, he couldn't survive that!" Trixie said. "Jake that's..."
"Trix..." Jake interrupt her. "...don't say, that it is impossible. We thaught the same in January, remember. And than almost 200 humans died. It can just be Pandarus. I mean he kidnapped Frederick! How much people you know like to threat Frederick?" Jake asked.
"I would say, Pandarus and Brad!" Spud said. "But Pandarus, is dead (maybe) and Brad's memory is deleted since that what happend in your grandfathers shop. He can't know that Frederick is a werewolf since that day!"
Jake remembered. Brad burglarized into his grandfathers shop and threatened them with a gun. After he provoke Frederick, who was a werewolf for just a hour or more and had not very good control above himself, he transformed and attacked Brad who got hardly injured. But they delete his memory and didn't heared something from him after that day. In school they just heared above that that his father was prisioned and that Brad and his mother moved away. It was the last time Jake or his friends or Frederick saw Brad.
"But what will Brad have from this all? But we had to get his father out of the prison, so I think Brad is definetelly involted!" Jake said. "But where he could get all this informations above Frederick's living place or the funds to kidnap him in Europe or trigger this chaos... Jake was confused. He land on a smaller building closer to Ground Zero and tryed to open the chest.
"Jake, what do you doing?" Trixie asked when Jake breathed fire against the look to melt it.
"If Pandarus have to do something with that I can imagine what he wants!" Jake said and still tryed to open the chest but nothing worked. When he smashed with his dragon-tail against the chest it also didn't help. Jake had now just a hard pain in his tail. "Owch! That stupid chest!" Jake cursed.
"Jake, we could look inside. That's just gold and jewells. If Pandarus want's the can of Pandorra he had used another way." Trixie said and Jake calmed down.
"Yes, you're right! Sorry!" Jake said and all three continued thier way to the meeting point.
Still at Munic Airport, Frederick's parents called with his friends in Sarajevo. They had contact with the magical-world but not with Jake. And the message that Frederick is missing was airing worldwide in the magical-news. At the same time, the both worried people watched the news above the global happenings. Worldwide, the whole air-traffic was stopped. Nuclear power plants where switched off to prevent further explosions. And all over the planet magical-creatures walked threw the humans-world and scared people unintentionally.
"Honey, I have the strange feeling that something more terrible will happen." Mrs. Buttersleeves said and looked outside on the airfield.
In Germany it was morning now. The airport was overfilled with people because all planes had to land. The people where afraid that something like in the United States could happen here too. And they where stranded here.
During they talked above thier next steps they heared a announcement: Passengers Mr. and Mrs. Buttersleeves booked for Los Angeles, please come to the information desk in Terminal 1.
The Buttersleeves where surprised. "What... did they finally found a seat for us!" they said at the same time and walked threw the Terminal. When they arrived the information desk a woman who seemed to know them winked.
"Mr. and Mrs. Buttersleeves?" she asked and both agreed. "Good... follow me, but unobtrusively." she said and winked so that both cold see that they can trust her. They followed her to a quiet place where she knocked on a hide door. Than they entered a hide area for the magical-world. The woman, who was a witch, start to expain them: "Mr. and Mrs. Buttersleeves, I have a good and a bad message for you. The bad message is that someone tryed to expose your son as a monster!"
"What!" both shouted and looked on a TV in the background.
The woman pressed play and a recording of a german news-programme appeared. "This is around a half hour old! I translate for you: A few minutes ago, the police in Dallas, Texas catched a boy from New York,... who wanted to publish... a forged photo of a werewolf... on the faked photo the werewolf called Frederick Buttersleeves, attack children on a playground... for now the 16-years-old boy don't want to tell... who was his instructor... or why he wanted to destroy the image of this creatures..." the woman translated and stoped the tape.
"O my gosh! My son is exposed!" Mrs. Buttersleeves said and became senseless. Her husband was shocked.
"Honey, honey... wake up!"
The witch snaped with her fingers in front of her face and Mrs. Buttersleeves woke up again. "What happend?"
"But I also have some good news! The boy was somewhere in the state New York and that means your son have to be somewhere in this area. And we could send you with a magical-plane to Atlanta, but this plane will start in Hannover. And you have to arrive there yourself. We can't bring you there." she said.
"Yes, really! Does the dragon know where he is?" they asked.
"No, I think no! I don't hear very much about that what's going on in the magical-world now! But I'm sure he will find out. You should go now! That what you saw in the TV was airing a half hour ago. In a few minutes the police will find you here and think that you are also werewolfs and arrest you. And remember, Hannover Airport, magical-world. You will find it in...
Jake had a strange feeling when he land on Ground Zero. The construction side was empty. Nobody was there, instead of them. Far away, they could hear a building collapsing. And than it was totally quiet. So quiet that they thaught, they were alone in the city. Jake hold the chest in his hands and thinked about it. Just gold and jewels. But he still had this feeling...
Just a few electronical things and a few cars in the city worked in this moment. But maybe a few seconds later all lights in the city switched on again. The area was bright lighted and now they could see that they where not alone.
All over the Blackout-Zone the lights and other electricity run again. Cars and trucks worked again and the people start to cheer.
In the light of a floodlight, Jake could see 3 dark persons... all with covered faces and one of them in a wheelchair.
Jake had the feeling that Pandarus was the one in the wheelchair and that Brad was one of the both others, but who was the third? Jake and his friends walked closer to the three people but the one in the wheelchair lift his hand and signaled stop. Than he pointed with his finger to the ground and winked.
Jake knowed that that should mean, place the chest on this place and walk back a few metres and stay there...
Jake looked on the person in the wheelchair and got a strange mind: This is not Pandarus?
End of Chapter 7
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