Chapter 1

Jake opened the fridge and take a breath. The cold air from inside felt very good. And since the air-conditioner was broken, in the house it was hoter than outside. Jake took a bag of ice-cubes, filled them into a bowl and walked back to the living-room, where his both friends sat on the couch and where relieved when they saw the ice.

In the news, the anchorman told: "...the hot wheather of the last days will become better, but unfortunatelly just in a few days. With temperatures of around..."

"That's unbelivable! First was that cold, stormy winter... and now we have temperatures like in the desert!" Trixie said annoyed.

"Keep cool, Trix!" Spud said. "I have a trick: I imagine, that I am on a cold place, Siberia for example!"

Than the anchorman told: "And also Siberia breaks all temperature records..."

"What did you said?" Jake asked his friend.

A little ashamed, Spud took the remote-controler and switched to a magical-channel. During they watched a sitcom from the magical-world, the phone start to rang. Jake walked to the phone get the call.

"Hello!... Hello... is there someone!" Jake said but nobody answered. Than he hang off. "...Not again. That was the thrid time today that someone called but didn't talked. I hate telephone-jokes!"

A few minutes later, Jake's grandfather entered the house with a bag of little cans of lemonade. After he gived everbody a can he start to explain.

"This is a special magical lemonade for hot days. Drink one can, and you are not thirsty for 2 days!"

"Wow, they should sell that in the humans world." Spud said.

Jake was happy above the little present. When he sit down, the phone rang again.

"Awww... man... not again!" he moaned and get the call. "Hey... you listen that's not funny..."

"What is not funny?" a girl asked a little afraid.

Jake became red: "O... I'm so sorry! I thaught that it was someone other. Sorry. Who is there?"

"You don't know me! I'm one of the sisters of Jacob!" the girl said. "You remember him?"

"Yes, of course!" Jake said and smiled.

Jacob is the werewolf, who worked in the hotel which was hardly damaged by an avalanche. Frederick, a friend of Jake, Trixie and Spud, remembered the magical-world just a few hours before and helped the injured Jacob. Than he was beaten by him and safed Jake, his friends and his parents. Later he helped Jake and Trixie in the parking garage, to prevent the explosion of a bomb. Than he moved with his parents to Bosnia.

"...yeah... how is Jacob, I haven't seen him since the day Frederick moved away." Jake said.

"I think you should talk with him. Since yesterday he is... how can I explain... 'afraid'!" Jacob's sister told. Than a boy start to talk: "Hello... I'm one of his brothers... don't talk anything about: you know what we mean! You should come and talk with him. Something happend. Something terrible, but he don't talk with us!"

Jake became nervous: "Okay, I know where you live! I could arrive in... a few hours!"

"Oh... than it's night! Today night is... you know! But try it, I think we can arrange it. And... you should be careful. Understand.. with your... you know... Goodbye." the boy said.

"Okay, goodbye!" Jake answered and hang off.

His grandfather, and his friends who heared everything, where confused.

"What happend?" Trixie asked.

"I do not know!" Jake said slowly. "But it sound like they are all very afraid. Gramps what whould you say?"

"Go and visit them! That is a human-family with a magical creature as son. In the magical-world they had a report in the magical-week magazine... but you should be careful and do what they said. The best is... you land outside the town and walk to thier house. When you arrive, it is night so it will be colder." Lao Shi explained and sit down. "And that is a chance for you to come out of this hot city. They live in the mountains, they have another clima!"

"Yes, you are right! Trixie, Spud... we make a trip!"

Far away, in Sarajevo, it was already night when Frederick Buttersleeves leaved with his friends the magical-community and walked threw the streets of the humans world. It was a very cold night and the city was darker than normal.

"Wow, what for a hard day1" the bosnian dragon said.

"Yes, but fortunatelly it's over!" Damir, one of the human boys, said. "And you?"

Frederick looked on his friends and take a breath: "It's night! And I am tired. I wish it's full moon. Than I whould feel better. By the way, what will your parents say when you arrive so late?"

"They aren't at home. They are visiting friends. But it's one of those days I wish I could tell, 'them' the truth." Damir told.

"Yes, I know what you mean! I can't imagine how my live will be if my parents don't know that I am a werewolf." Frederick answered before they arrived the house, Frederick lived in. "Good night!"

"Good night!" his friends answered and Frederick entered the house and walked upstairs to the third floor where he lived with his parents.

"Mom, dad... I'm back!" he said when he entered thier apartment. His parents sat on the couch and watched a movie.

"And how was your friend's 'dragon-job'?" his father asked.

"Difficult!" Frederick answered and took a plate of raw meat from the fridge.

When he ate the raw meat his parents don't react. They finally habituate that thier son is a big scary animal. A few days ago, in the full moon night, the walked with thier werewolf son threw the magical comunity and nobody looked at them. The people there are 'monsters' themself. Frederick walked to the window and looked outside. From thier house, which was standing on a hill, they had a great view above the whole city. But a few seconds later, all lights in thier house and in the whole city switched off.

"Awww... what is that?" Frederick's mom shouted.

"It's everywhere in the city!" Frederick, who was still standing on the window, said. A few moments later, the lights in the rest of Sarajevo switched on again, but thier apartment was still dark.

"Hey, what's going on here?" Frederick's father asked angrilly before they could hear that someone opened the door. "Who's there?"

A few seconds later, Mr. and Mrs. Buttersleeves could hear thier son shouting...

Jake flew, with Trixie and Spud on his back, high above the mountains. After a three hours flight they flew above the valley, where the hotel was. The hotel stand, after months of remodeling in the valley like the disaster never happend. Maybe one or two miles away they saw the little town in the other valley. It finally became colder after the sun was away and the full moon rises.

"That they meaned with, it would be difficult tonight. He can't talk in full-moon nights." Jake remembered. "But they said, they have a way to communicate with Jacob."

"What do you think what happend?" Spud asked.

"I don't know. I land outside the town and we walk the rest." Jake said and land near the borders of the town in the woods. Trixie and Spud hide thier human-supporters-uniforms and all start thier way to the town.

When they walked threw the quiet town they talked above thier theories. What happend here? Why is he so afraid? When they arrived the house of Jacob and his familly, they saw that all lights where off and it was quiet. A window in the first floor was broken and there was a little hole in the grass. Jake rang the door-bell. And after a minute maybe a man opened slowly the door.

"Who is there?" he asked carefully. "O... it's you!" he said because he recognized Jake and his friends.

Jacob's father opened the door slowly and looked outside. "Nobody followed you, right?"

"No!" all answered confused and entered the house. They followed the man into the basement and saw the whole family standing there, with a panicly werewolf hiding under the table.

The most family members cheer when they saw Jake and looked relieved. Just the big wolf under the table was quiet. After Jake said to everybody, hello he start to talk with Jacob.

"Yo... Jacob, please tell us... what happend?" Jake asked.

The werewolf walked slowly to Jake and start to growl and bark.

"Ahhh... what?" Jake asked confused.

"Oh... sorry!" one of Jacob's brothers said and gived Jake a headphone. "When we found out the truth about him, we visited the magical-world and bought that thing so that we can understand his dog-voice."

Jacob start to bark again. ("I'm not a dog!")

Jake took the headphone and could understand why Jacob annoyed. "Okay, tell me what happend."

"Okay!" Jake heared Jacob's mind. "Last night... at around 4 or 5 am, that stone, which is laying on the table there flew threw my window."

Jake looked on a big brick which was laying on the table behind Jacob. Than he remembered the broken window he saw.

"...well, and when I looked on it, I saw that there was a piece of paper around it." Jacob explained further, turned and took with his mouth a paper from one of his sisters and hold it in front of Jake.

Jake took it and was shocked when he read the massage: "I know your secret and I will tell it everybody!"

Jake looked around into the faces of the shocked family. He knowed how they had to feel. Jacob hide under the table again. He had guilty feelings.

"My life is over!" he thaught. "They will kill me, the rest of my family and the rest of the magical-world... it's my fault. If I had been more carefully..."

"No! No, no, no... It's not your fault!" Jake said and looked around. "Did anybody of you ever talk above him?"

The whole family said no. They weren't stupid. Than Jake looked on Jacob again and asked: "Did you talked with anybody above your secret, or do you have any enemys?"

Jacob walked back to Jake. "Well, I have problems with, the boy next door, my 2nd grade cousin, my math-teacher, the janitor of my school, the football-team. And that are just the people who hate me, or who like to bully me."

"Your math-teacher is bullying you? Oh my gosh, in this little towns the people need more activities... okay, I talk with some people! I will find out who did that and punish him! Okay."

"Let me punish him!?" Jacob said.

"Oh my gosh... we want to punish him, and not eat him!" Jake said and laughed.

Than he took his mobile and called his grandfather. "Gramps, that job will need a little bit more time!"

Frederick sat, in his werewolf form on a table. His legs where bind with a silver-shining rope and he felt that he couldn't transform back. He was in a big empty area. A few lights on the wall where on, so that Frederick could see that he was in a hall, as big as a stadium.

"You're awake? Good." a electronic voice said and the lights switched off.

Frederick could see a camera, comming out threw a gate and switching on.

"When you do and say what I want... you will survive, and your friend in Pennsylvania, too." the voice said.

"Who are you?" Frederick shouted.

End of Chapter 1

I hope you like the beginning. This is the planned end of the trillogy. The disaster will happen in the next chapter. Please review!