A Dragon's Crimson Cry
By: Tippi
Ch 92 Elf Napped
Al was so late. There was a short power outage so his alarm/radio flashed 12:00, not going off and the maid lost track of time flirting on the phone.
'She shouldn't have been on the phone while working' Al thought fuming at it.
Al knew he wasn't going to make the starting bell. Maybe if he hurried he'd only miss ten minutes of his first period class.
Al decided to let Jake and the others know and flipped open his cell phone. He scrolled down his contact list as he about to pass through a barrier between the magical world and the human world when he felt someone grab him.
The fire elf in him was telling him to fight back and the water elf was telling him to water bend. But someone had a firm grip on his arms pulling them behind his back and tied his wrists together. There's only so many water bending one can do with legs alone when you have no water at your feet.
Al struggled to free his wrists but was having no success. Then one arm wrapped around his upper body and another pressed a cloth over his mouth and nose. Al could smell the chemicals it was soaked in and tried to hold his breath but one can only hold their breath for so long. Al's lungs burned with the need for air and he gave into the need sucking in oxygen while at the same time taking in the chemicals.
Al started to feel the effects of the chemicals. He felt light headed, his body went limp, and his vision started to blur as he was forced in a chemical induced sleep.
When Al came to he was a little disorientated and blinked his eyes a few times then shook his head. The first thing he realized was he couldn't move his arms. He felt rough rope around his wrists. He felt tightness around his chest and looked down to see more rope wrapped around his chest keeping his back against the chair he realized he was sitting in. Then he looks around and he was in what appeared to be a room in an abandon where house.
Once taking in every detail he knew the situation he was in, yep, he'd been kidnapped. Any normal teenager would have been nervous or maybe even freaking out but Al wasn't new to being kidnapped.
Just feet away was a goblin sitting in a chair next to a table reading a newspaper.
The goblin had light blue skin, dark brown hair, was wearing a long tan brown coat, jeans, boots, and red shirt.
"Hey, if it's not too much trouble want to put the paper down and tell what this is all about" Al said getting the goblin's attention.
Noticing Al was awake he put the paper down on the table and came up to stand in front of Al.
"Well you've been kidnapped of course" the goblin said.
"No duh, I know that I mean why…You after money, stopping a hostile take over, or you working someone in a clan dispute?" Al asked.
"Shouldn't you be a bit more scared" the goblin asked.
"Uh I'm the kid of two powerful parents I've been kidnapped before" Al admitted.
"O well this was unexpected" the goblin also admitted.
"So what is it you want" Al asked again.
"That's for us to know and your father to find out" the goblin said.
As soon as that was said the door to the left of Al opened and a man carrying a cell phone entered, and followed two goblins much like the first.
He had neatly combed black hair, blue eyes, dressed in black shoes, tan slacks, button up white shirt, and a blue cloak that match his eyes; a dead give away that he was a wizard. Wizards have their own style of cloaks that every wizard worldwide wore.
"You're dad wants to hear you" the wizard said. "Say hi to your daddy" the wizard said putting the phone up to Al's pointed ears.
Al heard his dad on the other end more panicked then Al, which considering Al wasn't panicked at all wasn't saying much.
"Hi dad," Al said a little too happily. "In order I'm fine, some abandon where house, and he has…" Al didn't get to finish as the phone was quickly taken away.
"Okay you heard him he's fine and he'll stay that way if I get my money so get it ready you have 5 hours" the wizard said ending the call.
"O so it's a ransom kidnapping" Al said to man.
"What was that" the wizard said refereeing to what Al did on the phone.
"I've been kidnapped before, any seasoned kidnapped person knows it's a good idea from the moment your kidnapper gives you the phone to yell out details of your location and kidnapper if you can" Al explained. Since Al's been kidnapped twice before he knew the routine. "So we've got 5 hours to kill, can I have something to eat I was running late so I didn't have breakfast? What time is it? I'm guessing it's almost lunch time" Al finished.
The wizard just walked out in silence leaving Al with the three goblins.
"I'm not kidding I'm really hungry" Al yelled as he left.
Al sure knew how to stay cool in a bad situation.
It was lunch time at Fillmore middle school the group, minus Al, were sitting down to eat lunch.
"So where do you think Al is" Trixie asked.
"Maybe he's sick" Spud suggested.
"Or he's gone whack and skipped school to see if his parents notice" Jake suggested knowing Al's compulsion to causes trouble as means to get what he wants most, his parents attention.
Jake hadn't had more then 5 bites of his lunch when his cell went off. Jake got his phone out and put it up to his ear to hear his grandfather's voice yell from the other end.
"Jake!" LS said on the other end of the phone. "Dragon emergency meet me outside" LS said ending the call.
"Guys I gotta' go dragon business" Jake said running off.
"Come on lets go" Trixie said grabbing Spud by the back of his shirt.
"But my pudding" Spud whined reaching out for the cup as Trixie dragged him off.
Jake got outside the school to be met by LS and Fu.
"What's the emergency" Jake asked not all to concerned since him and gramps had totally different ideas as of what an emergency was.
"Mr. Atlanticus called, his son has been kidnapped and are holding him for ransom and we only have 4 hours to find him" LS said.
"Or pay" Fu said.
"Okay just one question who's Mr. Atlanticus" Jake asked.
"Al's father" Fu said. "You've known him for two years and you don't know his last name?"
"It never came up and I don't think to ever ask" Jake admitted.
"Al's been kidnapped" Trixie exclaimed behind Jake.
"You know you guys don't always need to come with me when I've got dragon business to do" Jake said.
"Yo between spending the second half of school watching old videos because the teachers are too lazy to actually teach or go on a potentially dangerous mission I chose the second" Trixie explained.
"Dude don't forget listening to Rotwood go on about how no one believes him and giving us false info on the magical world" Spud added.
"Okay fine" Jake admitted.
"Back to the matter at hand" LS said getting the kids back to subject.
"Yeah, so where are we going to start the kidnappers could be keeping Al anywhere" Jake said.
"Well he model of cell has GPS chip in it if I hack into the cell register system I can activate it then use GPS program and it will tell us exactly where he is so long as his cell phone is with him" Spud said as he got out his laptop and started typing.
"Perfect" Fu said.
"Found it" Spud announced.
"Well lets go" LS said as got ready to following Spud's directions.
"The only problem with this is it's too easy something has got to go wrong" Jake said knowing nothing was that easy.
"Hm it says it right behind that wall" Spud said as they came to a brick wall at the end of an ally.
"That's not a wall it's an entrance he must still be in the magical community" Jake explained.
"Well it makes sense seeing as the kidnappers are probably magical" Fu said.
Jake, LS, and Fu walk right up to the brick wall and walked through it like they were ghosts.
"Coming" Jake said to Trixie and Spud sticking he head back through the wall.
"This is so cool" Spud said as he and Trixie followed Jake.
Once on the other side they were still in an ally just one in the magical community and behind them instead of brick wall was what looked like a tinted glowing blue window.
"It should be right here" Spud said looking around.
"His phone is but Al is not" LS said picking up the cell from the ground.
"It's never that easy" Jake said.
A/N In case any one is wondering about the whole wizard cloak thing I think all wizards would have the same style cloak but they would come in different colors, material, and some might a designs on them but other wise are generic world wide.