By J. TNANGA

“Hahaha, this world sure have changed, and in only three years at that” laughed sarcastically, an old man.

The old man was very old, with a small patch of freckles on his face. This old man was dressed in a green t-shirt and blue jeans, which was covered up with a large black coat and sweaters, gloves, which made him look really weird in his body, as if he didn’t seem to be the type of person that generally wore such clothing.

“What do you think we should do, Gal-bricks?” asked the old man to the person behind him.

Before, it appeared that the old man was by himself, but upon closer inspection, it appears there were several individuals behind the old man, as if following the old man’s leadership. All those individuals were wearing long sleeve dark shirt which has its own hoody,and coats which they all wore. The hoody was covering their head, making only part of their face visible.

One of the several individuals move closer and walked right next to the old man, removed the hood, looked in front, observing the same area on the surface that the old man was looking at while he made the sarcastic statement from before. Upon closer inspection, the individual that is next to the old man was actually the shortest one out of all the individuals present, the individual was very short and gives the appearance of a young child.

“First of all, you keep on pronouncing my name wrong, which I suspect is being done on purpose, just to bother me, and secondly, we need to move faster. The werewolves, will be coming” said the young child with a serious tone.

The young child looked to be 7 years of age, with long black hair held in a ponytail, yet the child’s face didn’t give any signs of the gender of the child. The child’s face was beautiful, cute, in an adorable way.

“Yeah, yeah, I know, but how are we going to get in” said the old man with voice that suggest he was used to this child saying such things to him.

“We will get what we came to get, and then leave as fast as we can” said the child in a somewhat mysterious way as to not give away anything. “It will be fun watching you fight if you don’t run away and hide like last time, Oden”

The old man named Oden, completely ignored the statement, knowing it was some kind of trap that would further humiliate him if he challenged the statement, and decided to make it comeback at a later time.

Suddenly all the individuals as if this was their signal, all removed the hoods, and their appearances have been revealed. One of the several individual was a red eye girl with a bright smile, she had freckles and she was beautiful. She looked to be seventeen years old, she was beautiful young lady.

“You sure just love talking this way, isn’t that right Gall-Bree?” asked the beautiful red-eyed lady.

“….not really, Jasmine” replied the child.

“Why are you always acting like a man, you are just a child, act more like a girl sometimes, sugar pie” said one of the individuals next Jasmine.

This particular individual had dark brownish hair that looks really beautiful in the sunlight, her face looked gentle just like her personality seemed.

“Stop saying such strange things, Farla, you are not cute at all” replied the child.

“Oh, really, now sweetheart” replied Farla with a teasing tone. “And what are you going to do about it, Gall-Bree?”

“Nothing, just never mind” replied the child with a look of no longer caring about this non-sense conversation.

The wind then blows and blows the hair of the child up, therefore revealing that the child has a very girlish face with beautiful long eye-lashes, a pale skin similar to how one would expect to see in a girl’s face. The girl then proceeds removing her purple scarf around her neck. Then with a loud voice, states:

“Let the mission begin”

Then all of the individuals that were on the cliff started running at full speed. The little girl had to be carried by another individual. The little girl was being carried by a muscular man, with big muscles and had a scar in his face that kind of show the half-line of his face, as if something was trying to cut his face in half, and a beard.

“Ho,ho,hohoho, I got you little girl!!” Said the muscular man, as he grabbed the little girl and starts running with the others.

“I am not even going to bother responding to your statement, Juviar” said the little girl in a very serious deadly tone. “Now, I am going to relax and close my eyes for a second, wake me up when we arrived at the main door, and don’t ever laugh or say things like that, especially with your deep voice, Juviar”.

“Okey-dockey!!!” yelled Juviar in a happy voice as if he’s the happiest and goofiest man in the world.

One hour later:

“We have arrived, your Majesty” stated Oden in purpose knowing he hit a nerve. “Have the Journey been excellent?”

“I will kill you!!!” yelled Gall-Bree with rage and something deadly in his eyes. “I detect SARCASM, Oden, the guy who ran when faced in a life or death situation, leaving us behind to save ourselves”

“I knew you would bring it up” laughed Oden. “You are just so childish”

“Are you trying to die, Oden” replied Gall-Bree so swiftly and quickly, that it took a moment for everyone to have comprehend what she said, and by then the cold gaze piercing Oden had intensified.

Everyone, even Juviar that still had Gall-Bree on top of his back (shoulder), was frozen, as if they were afraid of saying anything or even moving to stop those two. It was more like everyone in this group would never challenge Gall-Bree’s authority and would never mess with Gall-Bree directly like that. Everyone, even though it wasn’t in their conscious thought, were terrified of Gall-Bree. And their frozen reaction prove so.

“Sorry, I am really sorry, I didn’t mean to, it just that what you said about running away was still bothering me and I couldn’t let it go, so, I wanted to hit your nerves a bit. I will not do that again” replied Oden, as if his life was in danger, with cold sweat falling from his forehead.

“If you do that again, I can’t guarantee your safety” said Gall-Bree as if it was more of an afterthought than a response to what Oden said.

Everyone then finally manages to catch their breath, and starts breathing properly again, especially Oden. Oden, in his conscious mind, made a note to never called Gall-Bree a princess or prince, or majesty or anything related to royalty again for as long as he lived. The group, after finally regaining their footing starts walking towards the dark building.

The dark building, just like they observed when they were in the cliff, was similar to a factory, with black smoke rising to the air. The factory had small traces of blood on its wall, proving that people died there, but since it was the year of ice, any traces of other evidence was well frozen. In front of the factory was a main door with a numeric ten-digit keypad. It would take forever to get in, if someone didn’t know how to get it open, which this group included someone that was a specialist in computer programming, Gall-Bree.

Gall-Bree, took the lead and approaches the keypad, and while taking some tools from her large pockets, starts examining what sort of keypad it was. She discovered it was just a typical keypad, not one of the latest technology, which means, it won’t take her that long to hack in. Taking her tools and connecting it to the keypad screen, she starts her expertise. In less than five minutes, they were in. The main doors open, and everyone waits further instructions from Gall-Bree before moving.

“Last time that we went to a factory, we met many werewolves’ forces, and instead of finishing the missions like we had calculated, we met a small miscalculation. One of our members decided to run away instead of taking what we came here to take. I hope this will not happen again” stated Gall-Bree as she gives Oden a look.

“Yes, sir” replied everyone.

Everyone starts moving in pre-calculated divisions. Gall-Bree and Juviar in one group. Farla and Jasmine in another. And last but not least, Oden by himself. Gall-Bree and Juviar went to examined what the Werewolves’ forces are up to, and examined what they are building and to steal some tech. Jasmine and Farla went to the food supply, to carry as many food packages they can, which is why, both ladies carried with them a small bag, which once opens reveal a large amount of space that can take large quantities of space. It was truly a remarkable device, capable of fitting in your pockets, but once enlarge, become large enough to take large things. Oden went to steal documents containing the amount of floors contained in this factory, information about other factories, their exact location, and Oden was also charge with lookout.

“Man, I am getting to old for this. I am already 45 years old. I can’t believe I used to be a businessman before all this” thought Oden. “I had quite the luxurious life too”

As everyone continues to search the lobby floor of the factory, without making much noise as to get attention from the possible werewolves lurking around, the werewolves were in the 3rd floor and were building something.

Jasmine found another huge door, which she and Farla went in. They found themselves in a huge room filled with guns bulletproof vests and many other weapons.

“Guess we should contact Gall-Bree” states Farla.

“No, not yet. Let’s have a moment to ourselves first” replied Jasmine. “I just don’t want to see his face yet”

“You mean Gall-Bree? I thought Gall-Bree was a girl!!” replied Farla. “I was even messing around with her”

“After the way Gall-Bree acted, I am not so sure” said Jasmine in a low scared voice. “We don’t know whether Gall-Bree is a girl or a boy, and no one have had the gut to ask Gall-Bree”

“That is true, I was wondering why Oden always treat Gall-Bree like a guy” stated Farla, as if she didn’t realize that Jasmine was scared. “But it really doesn’t matter that much whether Gall-Bree is a girl or a guy, nothing is going to change much, Gall-Bree is the one that saved all of us, and brought us hope that we can actually survive and out of all of us, Gall-Bree is the best!!”

“Yeah, you are right, Gall-Bree is definitely a good person” said Jasmine with a slight blush.

“Gall-Bree wouldn’t do anything to hurt us”

“That’s right, afterall Gall-Bree defeated three werewolves that were going to kill us, all without having fought them directly. Gall-Bree really is the best and smartest” said Farla with great admiration. “But don’t tell her, I said that”

“I won’t” laughed Jasmine.

Then the two girls gave each other a hug, and with Jasmine feeling better, they contacted Gall-Bree on their radio-transmitter that was in their ears.

“What, you found the weapon room, okay, I’ll go there right now, I’ll find you two on the gps trackers. Thanks” replied Gall-Bree. “Ok, let’s go, Juviar, follow this map projection”

Gall-Bree then straightened her left arm straight, and pressed a button in her watch that look exactly like a typical digital watch, and suddenly a small projector screen is reveal, similar to a hologram, and a keyboard is also revealed. Gall-Bree then type something in the digital holographic keyboard, and a gps tracker is shown. And two green dots are shown next to each other, and then a holographic arrow is materialized and the gps tracker screen disappears. All of this happened in less than ten seconds.

“Follow the holographic arrow, Juviar”

A door opens, and Oden look inside, but found nothing. There were no signs of any desk, and it was too dark to notice anything. “I don’t want to go inside” thought Oden. “But if I don’t, and Gall-Bree finds out, it’ll get annoying”. With those thoughts in mind, Oden step inside the large room, that was too dark to see, and while moving, Oden realizes something is strange. “there is definitely something here” though Oden. Oden then searches through the small bag he had with him inside his large black coat. “Yes” thought Oden. Then he turns on the flashlight, and searching around the room, easily find what he was looking for. The room that Oden find himself in used to be a laboratory. The evidence is all around the room, the marks left by all those medical containers, there are still many blood bags found in the floor, and some medicine bottles that are on the found, which Oden foot touch one of those, which is why he knew there was something there, and decided to use his flashlight.

While looking around the room with his flashlight, Oden then find on the wall, in big red writing that looks like it was writing in blood. "Ghosts are here and cannot be killed by any means". The moment Oden saw that, he started to panic and losing his common sense ran.