Chapter 12
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Kyle ran back to the others and looked for the right key. On the bunch where more than 50 different keys. First he tried to open Trixies bonds. After he tried the 10th key the fetter at her right hand opened. When Trixie was free, she took the bunch and unleash the others. Meanwhile, Kyle found tree little green-shining bottles. When he opened one he could hear words.
After everybody was free, all look at Trixie and Spud. They are the dragon's friends, they should rescue them. Spud and Trixie look at each other and shake thier heads. Kyle showed them the bottles he found. Trixie listenend to the words inside and realize that what that have to be.
"That are your voices!" she said happily, she didn't know how they get out of here but at least she could give everybody his voice back. "I think you have to drink that!"
Kyle and the Spudinski's did it but something got wrong. After everybody could talk again everbody realized that they got the wrong voice.
"What did you with me?" Kyle asked angrily with Mrs. Spudinski's voice.
"Ooops! That was wrong!" Spud and Trixie said.
"Wrong? Your thing with that dragon-job is wrong! If we survive that you are under house arrest!" Mr. Spudinski said with Kyle's voice.
"Can we discuss that later?" Spud asked and look around.
How can they get out of here? It became hoter and hoter and the next earthquake could destroy the cave totally. Than they heared that something like a gate opened. Pandarus come back.
"Oh no..." Spud whispered. "Go back and lay down again. Maybe he will don't see it."
Everybody ran back to his table layed down and closed his eyes...
Pandarus steped out of the garbage-container and was shocked above the destruction in the cave. Than he walked to the place the door was, snaped with his fingers and the door appeared again.
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Jake and Frederic arrived the border of the captial. At the street near of them was a car standing, with running engine and leaved. Nobody was there, so they decided to borrow it too. The place was totally abadoned. The most people still wait at the beaches or hide in cellars.
When both entered the car, they realized that there was no key. But the engine worked.
"Pandarus! Leastways one thing he was good for." Frederic said.
"What do you mean?" Jake asked.
"He gave us this car... understand!"
"OH.... yes." Jake said during Frederic drove back and than around the tree to drive into the hardly damaged capital-town. A few people walk tired between the debris and look for a safe place. With a map, Jake found on the back-seat, they finally found the street the bar had to be.
"Here! I think?" Jake said and both leaved the car. Instead of the explotions from the mountain it was totally quiet.
"Jake there! A bar-sign. It have to be those bar." Frederic said and pointed at a nearly intact building at the other side of the square.
"Well, let's go!" Jake said and both walked under the umbrella to the bar. "Frederic, we have to be quiet. Pandarus isn't stupid. He has cameras, sensors and something other stuff. We have to go quite and carefully."
"I hope you understand 'carefully' other as in the tunnel with the valve." Frederic said sarcastically.
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Pandarus come back threw the door, when Spud opened an eye to observe him. Pandarus hold a little wooden box with the word 'emergency' on the top. He took a little brown bottle and walk back to the container it start to increase itself.
"What?" he said and look at a undamaged screen. He saw two teenagers in the little alleyway between the bar and a hotel. "Ohhh... your dragon-friend, and my former bondsman come to rescue you... oh that's so cute and so plainly."
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"Okay, somewhere here it have to be." Jake said and realized that he stood on a button. "What's that?" he said.
A few seconds later, a garbage-container appeared in a big hole in the ground. If opened itself and both could see a little red button inside.
"You found it!" Frederic said and look inside.
"Yes, I hope Pandarus is not home!" Jake said and jump into the container followed by Frederic.
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Spud could see that Pandarus hide behind his control desk during the container began to sink. Inside the container, Frederic and Jake talk about something.
"Okay, I look for Pandarus and you try to safe the others." Jake said.
"And how?" Frederic asked with a worried voice.
"However!"
Frederic was unsure. But than the container stopped and opened. Jake steped out and transformed when someone shout: "NO, IT'S A TRAP!!!"
But it was too late. A green flash hit Jake and Frederic and both couldn't budge. Both could only see how Pandarus appeared and laughed.
"Wow! The article in the magical-week was right. Dragon's get help from humans. I have to agree that it was a good job to find out my plans. And that the volcano will errupt makes everything better."
"Better?!" Frederic said.
"Yes, I get two things of my plan. My revenge, and I destroy the possible future-side of the second magical-dump..."
"Why has everybody an obsession on dumps right now?" Jake asked himself.
"Shut up! Well and you..." Pandarus pointed at Frederic "... I'm very disappointed! You are the perfect bondsman, you are unpopular, have no friends, speak a second language... why you broke my spell? I could give you a good future..."
"I don't want a future like this!!!" Frederic said and curse something in bosnian after it.
"Your mother said the same word." Pandarus told. "When she, your father and you fled out of Sarajevo. The soldier at the other side almost killed you!"
"You know that?" Frederic said shocked.
"Oh, I know everything about you! From your family, above your life to the thing what happend when you was 11. The thing with Brad Morton!"
"Don't say his name. Awww.... I hate Brad, I wish I could..." Frederic said but was interrupted by Pandarus.
"Don't prescribe me! Well and now when you are here I can go." Pandarus said and turn away. When he walk next to the tables and stop he saw three empty bottles on the floor, the voices.
"What..." he only said before Spud and Trixie jumped on him and he fall down to the ground. The Spudinskis and Kyle followed and pressed Pandarus down to the floor. A big bang followed and everybody smashed away from Pandarus. He stood up and took his transportation bottle.
"That's going to hot." he said and a second later he disappeared.
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Pandarus stood in his suite and jump on the bed. It was to less potion in the bottle to get back to New York. He had to go to a other place.
"Awww... Villa Pandarus, Nassau, Bahamas!" he shouted.
Short time after a bright shine was viewable outside of the construction side, a big fireball from the volcano-crater hit the building and the whole area exploded in a big fireball.
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After Pandarus disappeared Jake and Frederic could move again. The Spudinski's and Kyle looked terrified at the dragon and slowly walked to him. The 3 meteres big red-dragon seemed dangerous and angrily, but he was harmless and friendly.
"I can't belive it! Rotwood was right!" Kyle said.
"And I can't belive what happend to your voice." Jake said and had to laugh.
"It's not his fault!" Spud's mom said with her husbands voice. "Can you help us or not?"
"Yes, yes... let me think about it..." Jake said and look around, he doesn't know what he should do now. Than he saw a phone under a damaged part of the control desk. He flew to the phone and call his number.
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In New York, in the Long's residence, the phone rang and Susan take it.
"YES!" she said worried.
"Mom, it's me!"
"Oh, Jake are you okay?"
"Yes, yes... Mom we found them we are in Pandarus hideout under the capital!" Jake said.
"Jake, you have to go away them. The volcano will erupt earlier." Susan said and told Jake everything about the negative-effects of the valve.
"What!" Jake said and look worried at the others.
"Jake, it's around 1am now. The volcano can be errupt every minute. And than you have to hide somewhere. The shockwave of the erruption will arrive your actuall place in just a minute."
"Shockwave?" Jake asked confused.
"Yes, Jake do you remember that movie with the James Bond actor? This mountain is more dangerous!!!" Susan said.
Jake looked at the others and think. When they stay here, the cave could colapse and kill them all. Jake could feel a vibration and realize that it began.
"Let's go out of here! In the container, go go go!!!" Jake shouted.
Everybody jumped into the container and Jake pressed the button to going up. The container slowly go up and disappeared in the celling. A few seconds after they leaved the cave, the big sphere smashed down and the whole area exploded short time after the 'prisioners' steped out of the container and run away from the building.
"And where we can go?" Mr. Spudinski asked.
"Away from here, in a cellar or something. The mountain could explode every minute!" Frederic said and look back. Spud found a cellar in a undamaged house near the east-beach. Hundreds of people run all over the square but this cellar was empty.
"Here!" he yelled to the others and everybody walk in his way.
But at that moment the mountain-top exploded. A gigantic ash and fire cloud shooted with the power of a atomic bomb directly to the capital.
"RUN!" someone shouted and the people ran away. The Spudinski's and Jake arrived the entry and walk down the stair. Kyle and Trixie arrived just a few seconds after them.
The shockwave destroyed the woods and burned everything what it touched. Houses exploded, cars flew threw the air, people shout panicly.
Jake look and could see Frederic running to the cellar. He was at the other side of the square, when the shockwave destroyed the houses behind him.
"FREDERIC!!!" Jake shouted.
But it was too late, Frederic disappeared under the debris of a collapsing hotel. The shockwave smashed against the door and closed it. Everybody could hear a terrible noise. The earth quaked. Jake closed his eyes, he could feel how the debris fall down from the celling. Maybe a minute later, it was over and quite.
"Are you okay?" Trixie asked.
"Yes, I'm okay. Where is Frederic?" Jake asked.
Everybody looked at the door. They knowed: Frederic was still outside.
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End of Chapter 12
Is Frederic okay? Did he survive? And what happend with Pandarus?
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