The Librarians

Chapter 1

Ezekiel walked through the halls of the library, sulking. He wanted nothing more than for his little brother to stop getting into trouble. He walked past Jake, Cassandra, and Flynn to the backdoor.

"Jones, where are you going?" Flynn asked.

"To get my brother out of trouble. As usual." He said. "See you guys in five minutes." He walked through the backdoor and found himself outside an abandoned building. He walked inside. "Kai!" He hissed. No answer. He checked the whole building. Nothing. Nada. But he had gotten a text from Kai, saying he needed help. Unless it wasn't really Kai who sent that message, he realized. He cursed and ran toward the door only to be blocked by Lamia, Lana, and Edward.

"You're not going anywhere." He said.

Ezekiel stared at him. "So, you must need me for something if you went through all that trouble just to get me." He smirked. "You tricked me. I'd say that's below your standards but you don't have any."

Edward slammed him against the wall. Ezekiel winced and stared at Edward. "We can do this the easy way......or the hard way."

"Okay. Don't get your knickers in a twist. What do you want?"

"Where's the Spear of Destiny and the Staff of Destruction?"

Ezekiel held his gaze for a moment and then burst out laughing. "You want me to tell you where the artifacts are? So you can take over the world?" He snorted. "It's gonna have to be the hard way mate."

Edward stared at him. "Yeah. I guess so." With that he brought his fist up and punched Ezekiel in the stomach. He doubled over and Edward kneed him in the face. He fell over onto his back, blood gushing out of his nose. Edward positioned his booted foot over his wrist. "I'm going to enjoy this." He brought his foot down and Ezekiel screamed.
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"Guys it's been hours. Ezekiel hasn't come back. He said five minutes and he normally would've been back already, unless......unless something's wrong." Eve said.

"I'll get Cassandra and Jankiens." Jake said.

"Hang on Ezekiel."
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Ezekiel lay in the ground, blood surrounding him and writhing in pain. He cried silently, curling in on himself. Hour upon hour of torture. He couldn't take it anymore. But he had to hang in there for his mom, dad, sister and brother. For the world.

"You had enough yet?"

"I still won't tell you." He says weakly.

"Right." Edward kicked him in his ribcage. It was precise contact. He cried out in agony. He probably had like three broken ribs. His wrist was broken, his ancle might be broken, and the fact that he had branding marks and cuts all over his body. He groaned in pain when Edward nudged him with his foot.

"Stop right there Edward!" A yell sounded. Eve. A small smile crossed Ezekiel's face.

"What are you smiling at?!" Edward hissed and kicked him again. Ezekiel whimpered and continued to cry. Edward, Lamia, and Lana backed away and Lamia threw something on the ground. Smoke filled the air and when it discipitated they were gone. Jake, Eve, Cassandra, and Flynn ran to his side.

"Ezekiel, what did they do to you?" Eve gasped.

"T--they wanted to know where the Spear of Destiny and the Staff of Destruction were. I didn't tell them so they tortured me." They stared at him in shock. "What?"

"You said you would rat out the human race to aliens......but you endured this?" Cassie says.

"Yeah. Funny right?"

"Yeah. C'mon. Let's get out of here." Flynn said. They helped him to his feet but he had to brace his weight on Jake.

"They messed you up bad huh?" Jake asked, trying to make a joke out of it.

"Yeah." Ezekiel said. He tried to take a step forward on his own which turned out to be a bad idea. He stumbled and fell, blacking out on impact.