Chapter 9
Jake opened his eyes and saw that he was under a free sky. It was bright day and it was very hot. He looked around and saw that his friends, Jacob and his parents and Brad's friends where also here. They all stood in a big empty desert.
"What happend? Where are we?" Brad's friend, who let Frederick free, asked shocked.
"I don't know!" Jake said and looked around.
There was nothing what could tell them where they are. Just sand and rocks. Jake took his cell-phone, but there was no signal. Frederick and Jacob transformed back, because there was no moon and stood with all others there.
"Oh my gosh, my biggest nightmare became true!" Frederick said.
Than Jake remembered what happend: Brad got the powers of the can of Pandorra. That was terrible, he had no clue what Brad will do with it. But one thing he knowed now was that the magical-world was exposed. But how? Than he looked on Brad's friends who sat on the sandy ground and gaze on Frederick.
"I can't believe it! You are a..." one of them said but Frederick hold his mouth.
"If you tell me dog, you will regret it!" Frederick said angrilly and than hold his hand above the little bloody wound on his stomach.
"You..." Jake start to say and pointed on the both boys. "Why did you do that? Why did you helped him?"
"We had no clue that he will freak out! I swear it! Brad said that you where liable for his bad situation, and that Frederick attacked him in January..." they told and Frederick agreed. "He told us that you where dangerous and we got afraid."
"And because that you trust him?" Jacob's mother said.
"Yes, but than we read that magical-newspapers and magazines he found in the house of that Pandarus. And so we found out that you are not dangerous and that you are help others..."
"And because that you let me free?" Frederick said.
"Yes... when I saw what happend after we used that mashine... O my gosh we killed them all..." the boy cried and fall on his knees. "And than that meltdown!"
"Meltdown?" Jake asked shocked. "What meltdown?"
"In a nuclear-power plant near the city! We saw the news! The wind changed short time before you arrive on Ground Zero. The radioactive-cloud will arrive the city in maybe an hour!"
Jake was shocked. His grandfather told him what happend in Tshernobyl more than 20 years ago. The same happend now near his home. His neigbourhood, all people he knowed and thousands of others will be contaminated. Than he looked on Jacob's parents who where wet from the fallout. And they told him that they where closer to the reactor.
"We have to go back!" Jake said.
"We think there is a way to stop the cloud!" the other boy said and present a piece of paper from his pocket. "We read the manual of that mashine... take this! That will help you to stop the cloud!"
Jake took the paper and read it. "How to suck clouds... that could work!"
Lao Shi ran threw the building back to the office of the president of Magic-New York. He told the president that the electricity came back, but that the cloud was now on the way to the city.
"Than I have no other clue!" the president said.
"What do you mean?" Lao Shi asked.
"The magical-world is exposed since hours right! That means I can talk now to the humans world. The most don't know what happend." he said and presed a button so that a camera appeared. "When I press this button, all TV's, radios and computers in the humans-world, which are in the area of the Magical Republic of New York, will switch on and than I will talk to the humans."
"Are you sure that we should do that?" Lao Shi asked.
"Yes, it's time! In Tennessee and California, the presidents will do the same in a few minutes. The humans shold know what's going on and what they can do to save thier live. And what we will do! Before they think that we did that all ourself. And now please leave my office I have to be alone when I do this."
Lao Shi leaved the office and sat down on a bench in the corridor. For years he said to himself that the most important thing is that the magical-world will keep a secret. It was a big secret. But now everything was out of control. It was the best way to tell the humans the full truth. He looked on the door to the presidents office and could imagine what he said to the humans to calm down them. Than he looked outside to the magnus-bazaar. The place was still full with injured humans and magical-creatures. What will happend next?
A few minutes later, Susan arrived him. She cried and shouted.
"Daughter, what happend?" Lao Shi asked shocked.
"... I... It's J..Jake... a eye-witness said he saw him and his friends on Ground Zero. There they where attacked by a blonde wizard and they and a group of other people disappeared... they think ... he is dead..!" Susan told and collapsed.
Lao Shi was shocked. Jake and dead. That couldn't be possible. But than he could also feel his own sadness. He felt guilty. But he had the strong wish, that Jake was alive and that he will find a way out of this disaster. Lao Shi closed his eyes and start to meditate. He hoped, that Jake will feel him and will find out where he is. There he stood with his crying dauther in his arms for minutes. And than he could feel him...
During Jake talked with the others about thier plans he stopped talking. He felt something. Like someone observe him from far.
"Jake what's with you?" Trixie asked.
"I don't know but I think gramps tries to contact me!" Jake said.
The others were confused. "Why do you think that?" Frederick asked.
"I have the strange feeling that he tries to tell me something, to arrive me." Jake said.
The still meditating Lao Shi could see Jake now, standing in the desert with all the others.
"Susan, he is alive! I can see him!" the old man said to his dauther who calmed down. Than he looked on a big map of the world on the wall and knowed: Jake was in the Sahara...
In the humans-world the fallout hit more and more people who hadn't any clue above the disaster. Although the warning sirens in more and more towns and citys start to jell, nobody knowed what happend. They had just one chance: That someone switch of the mashine, which triggered this disaster, so that the radioactive cloud can't contaminate more places and make them uninhabitable.
Jonathan Long walked threw the streets of his 'humans-world' neigbourhood on the way to his house, to get some important things. But when he arrived he just found a big smoky heap of debris.
"Oh no! Our home!" he said when he looked on the leftovers of the house where he lived with his family for more than 15 years. All houses in this part of the neigbourhood where destroyed or hardly damaged. During Jonathan searched the debris for something what survived he saw a bright white flash on the sky. Something happend. Than he looked around and saw a blonde boy standing in the middle of the street after a few seconds he shoot two another big flashes out of his hands. A car explode, people ran away.
Jonathan was shocked. He knowed that boy. It was Brad. "Mr. Long!" Brad shouted. "You come with me!"
Jonathan hide behind a wall and became quiet, how was that possible. That boy has magical-powers. From where? And from who? Carefully he took his mobile from his pocket and called his father-in-law.
"Dauther's husband, not now!" the old man said annoyed.
"But it's important. That classmate of Jake is here. That one with the prisoned father. The blonde, evil one. And he has magical-powers..."
"WHAT?" Lao Shi shouted threw the phone.
"Shhh... Not so loud he is one the hunt for me!" Jonathan said quiet and looked up carefully. Brad was in front of thier former house now.
"Okay, dauther's husband, stay where you are. I and Haley are on the way."
"Well, but be careful. That boy is evil!" Jonathan said and carefully gazed on Brad who made a hole into the street to look into the basement...
Jake and the others finally saw a dragon flying high above them. Jake could see that he or she came closer to them and finally land on one of the big rocks near them. Brad's friends where astonished above that what they saw. Jake ran to the other dragon and was relieved. The dragon transformed back and Jake recocnized him. He met him earlier on Draco's Island. It was the dragon of Somalia.
"American-Dragon!" he said with a strange accent. "Your grandfather called and told that he found you by meditation here in the desert. Are you thirsty?" the other dragon asked and hold two bottles with water in his hands.
The others where relieved: water! All where thirsty and need urgent water.
"Where are we excactly?" Spud asked.
"You are here... 150 miles west of Moghadishu, Somalia!"
"SOMALIA!" all shouted. "Brad send us to the other end of the world, but we have to go back. In maybe a hour or less, the city I was born and grown will be contaminated." Jake told and fall on his knees. "Please help us! We have to go back! As fast as possible."
"Calm down! The magical-portal is a mile from here, but it's a portal to New Jersey."
"Jersey! That whould be okay." Trixie said and all agreed.
So Jake took his friends, Jacob as werewolf his parents, and Frederick Brad's friends and they all followed the Somalian-Dragon to the portal, which will send them back home. And they had to hurry, Brad was still free...
Frederick's parents finally arrived the plane which stood on the magical-areas of Hannover Airport. They ran upstairs into the plane and where shocked when they ran into the arms of two German soldiers.
"Awww... Oh no please. This plane have to start!" Mrs. Buttersleeves cried.
"You have to be the Buttersleeves right?" one of the soldiers said and Frederick's parents where confused.
"Calm down Mr. and Mrs. Buttersleeves," the ogre captain said when he came out of the cockpit. "The german Bundeswehr is helping us and some other armys, although they are afraid of us. 40 soldiers, from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Poland and other contries, who have less fear from us, fly with us. The humans-world is very cooperative!" he told before he walked back into the cockpit.
The Buttersleeves walked threw the cabin of the plane which was filled with soldiers from all over Europe. The empty seats where filled with boxes full of magical-medicine, and other important stuff. They sat down and the plane start it's journey to America. When the plane rise up into the sky, both think about that what happend. What will happen now!
Jake and the others followed the Somalian-Dragon threw the desert. Brad's friends told them everything they knowed. And all they knowed above the exposure of the magical-world.
"I can't believe it! I dreamed so often about it! And now it happens!" Jake said.
"May you think later about it!" Jacob's father said. "Our hometown is under the cloud. Our other children are in the blackout-zone and our oldest son is in the hospital with a knife-wound... first stop this crazy boy and his cloud and than think about that that your world is exposed. We are also shocked above that but that's not the right time!"
"Yes, your right! Sorry, Mr... however your family-name was..." Jake said before they arrived a circle of rocks around a much larger one.
"Here is it! Just jump on the middle rock. Good luck!" the other dragon said and fly away. "I will call your grandfather."
"And now?" Spud asked.
"Let's test it!" Frederick said, get Brad's both friends and threw them trew the air to the rock. Both shouting boys disappeared in the big rock.
Jake was astonished. "Frederick! You become more and more self-confident! I like that!" Jake said and Frederick became a little bit red.
"Okay, let's go!" Jake said.
Each one hold the hand of someone other and together, all seven jumped back into thier contry...
End of chapter 9
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