"Danika?" Jake repeated.
Danika looked at him wide eyed.
"Jake you have to listen let me go." She said franticly.
"Let you go? What the hell were you doing on that roof?" He said his voice sounding more angered than he wanted.
"Now is not the time. Please come I'll explain."
"You are going to explain it to me now!" He bellowed.
"I think I saw something in that alley!" They heard a woman shout.
"Shit." Danika cursed. "Please Jake, follow me. We are worthless dead in this war."
Jake pondered about her words.
"I think I see them!" Again the woman shouted.
Jake nodded and let Danika go who entered the sewer first. Jake and Aurora followed.
Seconds later several Huntsmen and Women entered the alley. Scouting it and moving further.
Jake, Danika and Aurora were still on the stairs of the sewer as the shadows of the Huntsmembers disappeared.
"They are gone." Danika said as she dropped to the ground below. Jake and Aurora followed.
After fifteen minutes of endless turns and tunnels. Danika stopped in front of a wall. She knocked it three times.
"Knock knock." She said.
"Who's there." A male voice replied at the other end of it.
"We are."
"We are, who?" The man replied again.
"We are going to end this war."
The wall magically moved out of the way.
As the wall was gone the sewer troll Stan stood there.
A huge grin spread across his face as he saw Danika, Jake and Aurora.
"I didn't know you brought guests." He said overjoyed. "And not to mention it is the American dragon. yo bud thanks for keeping me from the sun that one time."
Jake shuddered he remembered that day like yesterday. That troll hair could be so much trouble.
"My pleasure." Jake said through gritted teeth.
"Come in. so we can shut the door."
Jake and Aurora followed Danika into the hallway the door closed and Stan regained a guarding posture.
"So you are going to explain to me now what you were doing on that roof?" Jake asked.
Danika sighed. "I tried to take out, Rodriquez. With him out of the way the president could try and calm the people down."
"Well, you messed up he is still alive." Jake snapped. "If you weren't there he would be dead now."
"Sorry, okay. I tried to tell peace bringer you were in town but I had to take Brad's word for it. he didn't see it as sufficient."
Jake snorted.
"So what is this place?" Aurora asked.
"It's our HQ, not everyone believes what Rodriquez says and peace bringer served him but found out the truth. Our numbers are small but we are organized. We prevented several big attacks on the magical community."
Jake nodded. "So who is this peace bringer?"
"You'll meet him soon." Danika replied.
They walked further, in the HQ were humans as well as magical creatures. Suddenly a man walked up to Jake and dropped on his knees before him.
"I am sorry, Please tell them I am sorry." The man sobbed. "I didn't know."
Jake was surprised by the man and looked at Danika. She pulled the man to his feet and shooed him away.
"What was that about?" Jake asked still a bit surprised.
"Don't mind Barlow. He…He is a mental wreck." She sadly said.
"How come?" Jake asked.
"He killed a dragon girl, possibly the age of six. He thought he had done the right thing. He believed the lies Rodriquez said about your kind. Rodriquez wanted to test his loyalty and showed him pictures of the girl playing with friends, going to school. He saw that you guys weren't bad, just living your own life like humans do. He broke down after that. Rodriquez locked him up. Saying that he was insane showing grief over killing a monster. We freed him last year. He is a good trainer but he will never be able to go back into the field." Danika explained.
"Andrea Willington." Jake said.
"Excuse me?"
"Andrea Willington. That was the girls name. I overheard a conversation with her parents and the dragon council. They found the girl stripped from her hide and skull. The mother and father committed suicide not long after." Jake said. "And Rodriquez calls us monsters. I never saw a dragon taking the skin from a Hunts member or it's skull."
"We aren't all bad, Jake."
"I wish I could believe that." He said calmly.
Jake walked further and his mouth fell open as he saw a person he thought never to see again.
"Rotwood?" He nearly shouted.
"Ah, yes mister Long." Rotwood replied as he walked to Jake and shook his hands. "Never thought I was going to see you again."
"What are you doing here?" Jake asked dumbfounded.
"I am teaching the people about magical creatures."
Jake was about to make a remark as Rotwood silenced him.
"Don't worry the stuff I teach now is one-hundred procent true. I realize you were the one who is right I committed major oopsies in my career as a mythologist. I now know that dragon scales do not glow in the dark."
Jake smiled. "So if this war ends and I go back to school again and you are my teacher you will give me straight A's on mythology?"
"Let's not push it mister Long." He replied annoyed.
Jake, Aurora and Danika walked further. They arrived at a door and Danika knocked it.
"Sir, we have guests."
"Send them in." a male replied.
Danika stepped aside and let Jake and Aurora walk into the room after that she walked out herself and closed it.
"Welcome Jacob." The man said as he turned.
Jake recognized the man. His dirty hair, somewhat geeky appearance and his freckles.
"I know you." Jake said as he tried to picture the man in a lab coat.
"Shaun O'Neal, I was a scientist at Area 51. One of the people who captured you."
"You're the one, that entered my cell didn't you?" Jake asked.
"Exactly, I am sorry what happened there. I was by that time misguided by the lies told by Eric." He said sadly. "But he went too far, now I am trying to shut down his business. Not an easy task seeing we only got limited numbers and limited resources."
"Nonetheless, we are hitting him where it hurts. He is losing ground Jacob. A lot of people are searching ways into the resistance. But we have to be careful there are spies everywhere. Others just go with the masses and there are people who don't want the war but they are afraid to do something."
"You're running against the biggest and most organized Huntsclan in ages. What makes you think you will succeed?" Jake scoffed.
"I don't say we will succeed, all we can do is try. He has to be stopped. Humans and Magical creatures lived together once and through my eyes they can again. Only if a lunatic gets too much power, these kind of things happen."
"You're right on that one." Aurora chuckled.
"Like I said we are small but with something like the dragon council behind us. We might stand a chance."
"Not going to happen." Jake snapped. "You do your little teasing alone. If we do it. There will be blood."
Shaun shook his head.
"I am sorry to hear that. We can't all suffer for the hatred of one man."
"It is one man, you can stand up against him."
"Jacob, the man is like Hitler. He knows how to talk to people so they believe him. he literally send thousands of humans to brainwash camps only because they protested against the war. Humans have been hit hard too. Our freedom of speech is taken away. We can say bad things about the magical community but touch the Huntsclan and two Huntsmen show up at your door for a little 'talk'."
Jake pondered.
"Jacob, please we need your help. For magical and human alike."
"I might send a few dragons." Jake slowly said. "But we won't supply you or you help in any other way."
Shaun smiled. "Good enough for me."
End of chapter
A bit of a uneventful chapter isn't it? it can't always be action right?"
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