A Dragon's Crimson Cry
By: Tippi
Ch 10 Message in a Book
Outside the hospital
Ellen and Lee were pushing them selves through the mob of reporters outside whipping questions out at the detectives.
"No comment, no comment" Lee repeated as he took Ellen's hand and pulled her along with him through the reporter rapids.
Finally they got to the doors and thanks to the officers guarding the doors from the reporters they were able to get a breath of fresh air once through the doors.
As Lee and Ellen were catching their breath Lee noticed LS standing at the elevator door with a cup of tea in one hand and a newspaper in the other.
Lee walked over to once again talk with him.
"Loa Shi" Lee called to the old man as he and Ellen made their way to him.
LS turned his eyes away from the paper to see one of the two detectives from last night. He wasn't really in the mode to talk to them.
"I'm glad we found you, we'd like to talk to you a bit more" Lee said.
"I think there's nothing more I can tell you to help with the case" LS said hoping for them to leave him alone as the elevator doors opened.
"Yes but it's about what you told me about the drawing last night" Lee said following LS onto the elevator along with Ellen.
"And what else can I say about it" LS said.
"I did a little research and found no story with the character in it" Lee explained.
"And where did you look" LS asked.
"The internet, in fact it said it was a cult" Lee answered.
"Well legends have to come from some where" LS said.
"I don't think it's a ledged as you say" Lee said.
"Because you didn't find it on this new technology" LS started. "Few stories are recorded they are passed down through the generations by story telling not always books and scrolls. Although if you look at Jake's collection of books I had made for him from the old stories you may find a few have that villain in them."
The elevator came to a stop and the doors opened. LS exited the elevator and started too walked back towards Jake's room.
"I'll do just that" Lee said "But before I go you know what animal these hairs may belong too" Lee added holding up a few hairs in a small plastic bag.
LS stopped to look at the hairs then felt a small tingle of something taking his strength. He knew instantly it was sphinx hair. On instinct LS recoiled from the hairs. "Where did you find these hairs" LS asked keeping fair distance from the items of the bag.
"At the crime scene" Lee answered.
"The hair could be from anything" LS responded decide not to stay any longer.
"I'm going to check out the books" Lee said still skeptical about how much LS said he really knew.
"While you do that I'm going to see the boy, I'd like to know how he's doing" Ellen said.
Lee really did care how the boy was doing but he had a feeling his questions had been unwelcome by his grandfather and he wasn't quite welcomed at the moment.
Lee was looking through the books he had taken from the Long residence. They were left in the room Jake was in last night. They were all children's books with colorful pictures and each page at most holing 4 sentences.
Lee flipped through the pages not reading them just looking at the pictures. He had been through 3 books already but he had not found what he was looking for. He put one book down and reached for another. He had taken 6 of the books all were done by the same author, Lao Shi. The pictures were done by some one called Mai Ching.
The grandfather had taken the time to put the old stories that were passed down, as he said from generation to generation, in writing.
For some reason or another whether it be his grandson wouldn't pay attention to the stories with out pictures or Jake wouldn't remember the stories he made them into books.
Lee noticed a lot had dragons in them some way or another. He also noticed that in them the dragons turned to human. Lee picked up another book and began to look through it then he saw what he was looking for. On a page was a picture of a figure much like the drawing Jake had provided. Lee read the words on the page it was on.
'But a member of the hunts clan sot to stop him. Like all members of the hunts clan he found it his duty to rid the world of all magical creatures and slay all dragons. He wasn't about to let the dragon help the fallen elf warriors' it read. Lee read on and went to the next books.
Two out of the six books had the person he was looking for in them. The old man was telling the truth Lee thought leaving the books behind and going to Jake's room.
Jake's POV
Jake was lying in his own bed in his own room. He was asleep and could hear bangs and screams from behind his bedroom door but he didn't wake up. Blood began to seep into his room from under the door. Then Jake heard heavy footsteps behind him. The man wearing the skull was behind him raising his weapon ready to strike Jake. He wasn't waking up he was still in bed, all Jake could do was scream.
A/N This may get confusing later on if it isn't already so any questions just ask. Review