Z braced for a fight, the dagger Sarah had given her in between her fingertips. The werewolf launched itself towards her. Z had only a split second to move. She looked the creature up and down, calculating where to aim the dagger at lightning speed in her head.
Slash.
She opened her eyes. She had lodged her dagger in the creature's arm, blood dripping from the blade. Z smiled at the beast.
"Zeus sends his love!" She exclaimed, slicing downwards through its arm, ripping the flesh and muscle, blood flowing from the wound and onto the floor.
She pulled the dagger from its arm and the beast roared, using its uninjured arm to slice through the air and leaving a large scratch across Z's face over her right eye.
Z staggered back down the hall, she puts her hand to the wound, pulling it off again a few moments later. It was covered in blood. She looked back up and the beast was gone.
She walked up to the window, looking out at everyone below who had been waiting for someone or something to emerge from the darkness behind the window. They all cheered as Z held the dagger with the beast's blood into the air, the blood glistening in the light.
Z mounted the ledge, pin dropping onto the street about a metre from the crowd, landing on the footpath. People surrounded her, cheering and screaming.
After about ten minutes of talking and explaining what had happened, people began piling off into cars and calling cabs. People were too afraid to walk.
Z turned around to find X, Sarah and Dima standing behind her. She jumps.
"Could you three not sneak up behind me, yeah? I just fought a 100-pound werewolf, I'm kinda terrified of everything right now..." Z says, breathing between each word.
Sarah steps forward and hugs Z around the waist.
"I knew you could do it. I always knew you'd come back. One day." Sarah mumbled. Z put her fingers around Sarah's chin, moving her head upwards to face her own.
"You know me. You know about me. You know what my brother and I do. And if you know all of this. Then you know that we are always here to help." Z insisted, looking into Sarah's square eyes.
"No matter the trouble, no matter how insignificant or how important, no matter how dangerous. We are here to help. Always." Z went on. Sarah's eyes lit up, and she stepped back. A smile shining across her face.
Z, X, Sarah and Dima hop in Dima's car, an old car that looks like they had passed it down from either his mother or his father, and they drove away from the campus.
"What was all that? The warning code and the evacuation plan?" X piped up, they had not spoken a word since they left the campus a half-hour ago.
"That's a complicated question... I need to dodge and weave through facts to not tell you anything you shouldn't know yet..." Sarah responded, looking back at them from the passenger seat.
X looked at Z but Z had her eyes focused on a small bit of chewing gum stuck to the back of Dima's seat. She reached out to touch it with her index finger but X had slapped her hand away, shaking his head. Z crossed her arms and pouted like a child, X turning back to Sarah.
"What do you mean 'anything you shouldn't know yet'?" X asked, an inquisitive look spreading across his face.
"We're from your future. We know things, have done things for your FUTURE selves. If we tell you anything, any tiny detail... All of t-" Sarah said, cut off by X, running his hands through the air.
"'All of Time will collapse in on itself' yes, I am aware..." X cut in. Sarah looked back at X with a straight face and rolled her eyes, looking back at Z.
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Tales of the Oracli - (almost) COMPLETE EDITION
Science FictionI was writing this book for many years and have since decided to turn the series and all my plans for it into a comic series. As such, I have decided to publish all the work I had done on this story for the world to see. I hope everyone enjoys!
