Chapter 10

Jake hit something when he and the others arrived at the other side. He land on a parked car. When he looked around he was relieved. They where in Newark now and could now stop that cloud.

"Wait! Jake what do you think? Brad or the cloud?" Spud asked. "Both are very dangerous!"

Jake knowed what he mean. Brad was very dangerous and could destroy something. But the cloud was also dangerous and could destroy the whole East-Coast.

In the studio, the wheatherman explained the situation.

"...the cloud, which contaminated big parts of Orange, Sussex, Sulivan and Pike County comes with it's dangerous rain, closer and closer to New York City and Jersey. If you live in this area, don't leave your house, close all windows and doors..."

Jonathan still hide behind the wall. He could see that he was in thier former kitchen and saw a knife on the ground. Carefully he took the knife, ready for fight. When he looked up he saw that Brad was now searching the other side of the street. Should he risk it and run away? Or will Brad see him? And what does he want from him?

Far away, he could hear sirens from police and fire-brigade. And he saw lights in undamaged buildings far away. That meaned that the main part of the disaster was over. But what will happen now with him?

Than he could feel it! Something hit his stomach and he smashed to ground. The knife slipped above the ground and was now laying 2 metres away. Jonathan gazed up and saw Brad. White flashes came out of his fingers and Brad had a evil smile in his face.

"What do you want from me?" Jonathan asked shoked during Brad lift him up into the air.

"From you... I want nothing! But from your son, I want justice for my father!" Brad said evil and around Jonathan's neck appeared a rope.

Brad wanted to kill Jonathan on the same way, like his father died. Jonathan thaught: this is the end! He couldn't breath, he couldn't shout for help, and than he could feel how he became senceless slowly. But just a second later a huge fire appeared and burned the rope above Jonathans head. It tore and Jonathan fall 3 meters down on the hard ground. It was painfull, but he could breath again. Over him he could see that Haley and Lao Shi arrived...

Brad was confused when he saw the two dragons next to him.

"Stay away from my daddy!" Haley shouted and breathed fire against Brad who blocked it with a forcefield. Than he smashed the two dragons against a other house and attacked them...

Miles away, Jake could see the whitel shine above Manhattan. He was shocked. And he was sure, that was Brad. He took Trixie and Spud and raced up into the sky.

"Hide somewhere!" He shouted to the two werewolfs and two humans on the parking lot where they land and start to fly as fast as possible to the orgin of the white shine.

Jake flew above the river and the burning Downtown before he could see that the shine came from his neigbourhood. When they came closer they saw that it was Jake's house. Trixie looked for something in her pockets and Spud hold his eyes because the light was too bright.

"BRAD! STOP!" Jake shouted as loud as possible.

All over the people start to hide in thier houses. After they saw the statements from the magical-gouverments they where afraid from the fallout. People who got into contact with the radioactive rain where banned out from houses and buildings. Magical Creatures who walked threw the humans-world did everything to help, but it was useless.

Frederick, Jacob and his parents where standing in this big empty city. They where lost. And they just could wait for the deadly rain. Jacob's father coughed. A little bit later his mother. Jacob, who was a wolf again, looked worried on his parents. They stood in the rain... they where sick. Frederick, who also was a wolf again, looked around. It had to be 4 or 5 am now. It will need a hour or more before they transform back. And Brad's friends also disappeared. They had to run away after they land here.

When Frederick saw Jacob's sick parents he knowed that they need help. He walked closer to Jacob and tried to say something, but he couldn't. The both werewolfs couldn't communicate. Than Frederick lift his paw and scratched the adress of the electronic shop into a parked car.

"Do... you want that we go there?" Jacob's mother asked.

Frederick agreed and scrached the words: 'I have to help J' into the car-door before he ran away. Frederick knowed what he can do! He remembered the place where Brad opened the can of Pandora. When Frederick jumped into the Hudson-River and swim to New York he could still see Jake flying above the Downtown before he start to sink to look on the white shine. During Frederick swimmed he imagined what will happen now...

Jake came closer and closer to Brad who fight with Haley and Lao Shi. His father was laying betweed the debris of thier house and didn't moved. Angrilly, Jake smashed Brad from back with his tail against a street-latern. For a short moment it seemed like he is uncouncious. But than he stood up and start to attack Jake and his sister again. Trixie jumped down from Jake's back to look for the injured Jonathan. Spud found a little mirrow in his pocket and could send one of the flashes back to Brad who shouted angrilly.

"Brad, I din't kill your father..." Jake shouted during Brad attacked him further, "...it was a suicide!"

"Don't tell me that fairytale!" Brad shouted and hit Jake's head.

Jake and Spud fall down to the ground and fall into the big hole, Brad made to look into the basement. Spud stand up to help Jake, but Jake was sleeping! Some police-cars appeared in the street. Brad saw that they came because the bright flashes here. When some police-officers came out of the cars and threatened him with thier guns, he just laughed.

"Do you really think that you can stop me!" he said and with a wink all police-officers where smashed to the ground.

Lao Shi and Haley who saw everything where shocked. Lao Shi couldn't believe it. The powers of Pandorra, in the hands of a crazy human. But that was it. The old man knowed, Brad has this powers, but he is still a human. With all his human-weaknesses. But what could they do now. Than he remembered something what he heared above the can: If the can is opened and the person who got the powers from it is a human, the can is also able to suck the powers back. All they need was a little wound in Brad's body where the powers can come threw.

Than, he could see him. Frederick, with the open Can of Pandorra in his mouth, was running along the street coming closer and closer to them. Brad didn't saw Frederick, he just attacked the defenceless police-man. Jake woke up slowly and saw that his grandfather wanted to tell him something. Jake couldn't hear him, it sound and looked like, scratch him, or injur him... but who?

Than he came out of the big hole and looked how Brad tortured the former colleauges of his father. Jake was so shocked that he jump out and pushed Brad down to ground. Maybe in affect, Jake scratched with his claws above Brad's back and a few seconds later the scratches start to shine white. Jake was shocked, did he something wrong or something what he hadn't had to do. But than he saw the bright white fog comming out from the scratches and slowly moving to the open Can of Pandora, which layed just a few steps away.

Frederick who stood above the can was grawling satisfied. Jake was also happy and pet above Frederick's back.

"Hey, good job!" Jake said to Frederick who slowly transformed back after the first sunlight appeared.

Jake also transformed back. It was morning now. The morning after. The police-men next to them start to applaude. 'Long life the American-Dragon' the jelled. Jake was surprised that they knowed him, but he was happy. It was over... they thaught. But than the warning siren switched on.

"Oh no, the cloud!" Frederick said. "How much time passed!"

"Too much!" Jake said and ran to Trixie and Spud.

Trixie came out of the ruin and looked worried. "Jake your father needs a real doctor he is harldy injured." she said.

Jake turned to the group of police-men and shouted: "CALL AN AMBULANCE, THERE IS AN INJURED MAN IN THE HOUSE!" maybe a second later three or four ambulance-cars arrived on thier place.

Jake ran back to Brad. After the last part of Pandora's powers got back in the little box it closed itself. Jake took it and give it Frederick.

"Keep and eye on it and on Brad! We have to stop that cloud." Jake said, transformed and flew to Trixie and Spud to collect them and fly away.

The surprised paramedics lift thier hands and pointed on the dragon who flew away with two teenagers. But than they remembered what they saw in the TV after they switched on themselfs. All start to shout: go, go, go...

Frederick looked down to Brad who was laying with wide open eyes on the street. He didn't moved, or breathed. Frederick was shocked when he saw that this boy was dead. He gone closer to the dead boy and closed his eyes. After all that years of terror Brad made against him, nevertheless he felt something like sorrow...

Jake flew as fast as possible. He was just a few metres above the roofs and arrived the Hudson when Trixie found a pair of sunglasses in one of thier bags.

"Jake, I think I found something!" she said and hold the glasses in front of her eyes. "Oh... my gosh... look at that!"

Trixie hold the sunglasses in front of Jake's eyes and Jake could see the cloud's in other colours, the normal ones had a light blue colour. But the radioactive one was yellow-green and Jake could see with the sunglasses, the radioactivity droping with the rain to ground.

"What do you think how much time we have?" Spud asked.

"Not very much!" Jake said. "Trixie, take your mobile and call my grandfather and ask him for the place where that mashine is."

Trixie took the mobile and did what Jake said. Spud read the piece of paper from Brad's friends and than looked on the cloud. "I don't want to know how many people will become sick!" he said.

Jake flew further. One little town after the other appeared under them and disappeared behind them. The sun start to rise higher and higher. On the display of the cell-phone, Trixie could see that it was almost 6 am now. Just 8 hours passed since the beginn of the blackout. All over they saw working fire-fighters, ambulances and long queues in front of bunkers and hospitals.

And than they flew directly in it: into the rain. Jake knowed that magical-creatures like him where resistant against the radioactivity. But Trixie and Spud? They weared thier uniforms but are they really safe? Jake just stared on the ground. The gouverment will have to evacuvate the whole area. But maybe they can prevent now that they have to evacuvate the whole coast! The mashine was on the border between the states New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania... just a few miles and they arrive it. But they had to hurry... or they will have millions of more victims!

End of Chapter 10

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