A/N: Hey guys, so it was brought to my attention that my chapters had a lot of typos that I didn't notice. I decided to go through them and fix this. In this chapter is a cleaner, slightly edited version of those first 5 chapters. If you've already read them, search for the "Here you go" on your page and that will be the latest update in the story. If you haven't read this whole chapter and enjoy.
Also, I have facts in here about auras and the fact that one of the most common non-English languages spoken in Australia is Greek. If I have any inaccuracies, please tell me. I only know what the internet tells me(as far as Australia and auras and some other things go).
" Well look at that. We're all back in the annex." Ezekiel said.
" Looks that way. My book said that we had to meet back here for an important mission that would take all of the Librarians... Can the Library really do that? I thought this was just a miniature version of the clippings book." Jacob asked.
" The Library can do anything it wants," Flynn told him, " So from what I understand, we have to find one of the Librarians Romeo."
"And what is that supposed to mean? It's either me or Cassandra... because I don't think I have anything that would qualify as a 'past Romeo'" Eve thought out loud.
"Well," Cassandra started, "it doesn't have to be. In the story of Romeo and Juliet, they are star-crossed lovers, right? And in the play, they fall in love quickly but Juliet is locked away and told to have an arranged marri-"
"We all know the story of Romeo and Juliet." Eve sounded slightly exasperated.
"My point is it could really be any of us." As they were all debating about who it could be, no one paid attention to the fact that Ezekiel was making his way over to the globe.
"What are you doing?" Jacob questioned when he finally noticed Ezekiel messing with the globe, "...You think it's you?"
"You guys are thinking about it all wrong. It doesn't mean the original Shakespeare version, it means the poem by E. L. Banks." Ezekiel told them, his face slightly pale.
" OF COURSE!" Flynn shouted, " It's a-a different look on the story of Romeo and Juliet... Instead of being locked away and set to marry someone, Juliet is sent away and completely cut off from her family. Then years later she got caught up with some refugees and they went to assassinate a high-ranking figure who turned out to be her Romeo. After she killed him, she fled back to isolation and died of starvation. The difference is rather than days, they fell in love over the time span of years. It's a really interesting read."
"Soooooooooo?" Eve sighed questioningly.
"So it looks like we're going to Australia." Ezekiel's voice dripped in what Cassandra could almost identify as false happiness. Then he turned around, " Oh, and no questions."
"Wh-"
"Welcome to Aussieland!" he threw open the doors and they walked into an alley.
"Wait s-"
"No. Nope. We are going to do whatever this is, then we're going to leave. No questions." Ezekiel snapped, not turning around.
"I was just going to ask who the girl is." Jacob held his hands up jokingly.
"You'll see soon enough." Ezekiel led them to a small apartment building and up the stairs to a second story apartment. When he knocked, a boy that looked almost exactly like him a few years younger opened the door and flung himself at Ezekiel. He clung to Ezekiel as if letting go would surely lead to something disastrous. Then he finally stepped back and seemed to realize that the others were there, looking bewildered.
" I miss you too... Everyone this is my brother. So we're uh... where's Kai?" The boy scrunched up his face as if thinking hard. Then he pointed and hoarsely whispered,
" First room." Eve took note of the fact that Ezekiel seemed oddly surprised but then recovered almost immediately. He took them to the room and opened the slightly ajar door, to reveal a shirtless boy with multiple tattoos and tan skin sitting at a laptop. When they walked in, he turned around and stared at them for a few second said,
"I must be dreaming. There is no way this is..." he let out a loud sigh, " I know I'm not dreaming. You had to.. What.." As he ranted, he got up and put a shirt on, then gave him a similar greeting to Ezekiel's brother. Except this one was different... almost intimate? As he hugged him, his muscular arms wrapped tightly around the smaller man's neck and told him, "I missed you Zekey."
"Κι εγώ , χελώνα. Κι εγώ το ίδιο." Ezekiel murmured before Kai pulled away, " Πόσο καιρό έχει Hayden ζουν εδώ?"
" Ακριβώς επειδή οι γονείς σας πέθαναν," Kai replied
" Μίλησε." As everyone looked back and forth between the fast talking boys, no one could miss the fact that Kai's eye's became large, like a deer in headlights, for a split second.
" Όχι! Ο ίδιος δεν έχει χρησιμοποιηθεί ακόμα και στη νοηματική γλώσσα από τότε που έφυγες . Ο ίδιος γράφει ακριβώς έξω ... μερικές φορές." Kai exclaimed.
" Hey, uh as nice as this reunion is... aren't we supposed to be meeting some old girlfriend of his or something?" Jacob spoke up. Cassandra giggled,
"Uh Jacob," she whispered.
"What?" he asked, legitimately confused. The two boys turned around to look at the others, finally remembering their presence.
"This is my old boyfriend Kai."
"You're uh.. You're.. oh." Jacob stumbled over his words, Ezekiel sighed quietly and mumbled, "Ah fuck."
"Yeah. I'm gay... Anyway," he turned back to Kai," theory number 52A2 was correct. We are the Librarians and we need your help."
" Huh. Multiple?"
" Multiple."
"Theory 52A2?" Flynn asked, intrigued.
"Theory 52A is that there are artifacts that the general public believes to be false hidden in the depths of the Metropolitan Library, protected by a team of geniuses and a protector of sorts. That must be you, of course." Kai explained, pointing at Eve.
"How could you possibly know that?" Eve snapped.
"Your body stance indicates obvious training in martial arts and the fact that this entire time, your right hand has been in a tense position near your side suggests you have a gun." He explained, sitting back down.
"No. The theory. Tell me how you developed the theory." Eve pressed.
"Obviously, all of those items couldn't be fake. And the structure of a team would work the best as a strategy."
"How did you know it was the Metropolitan?" Jacob asked, but before he could answer Ezekiel stepped in,
"That's why we are here. Kai has a connection... to the other worlds. He saw it in a vision."
"Nothing impressive. Just the name of the library."
"So you're psychic?" Eve asked, obviously not believing the story.
"If only it were that simple. I have visions, I see auras, I can speak to spirits and so on... It can't be the weirdest thing you've heard."
"No. Not at all," Eve sighed, "But you said only the name came you."
"Yeah. The rest we just theorized."
"You just guessed. You just guessed something even two… three geniuses couldn't?" When Eve asked this, Kai just laughed and looked at Ezekiel. Then he looked back at them and frowned slightly,
"You're joking right?"
"What?"
"I thought you had to have a genius level IQ to be a Librarian."
"What? Are you saying that Ezekiel is a genius or something?" Jacob joked, but Kai made no response, "Wait… seriously?"
"It's not that high. Just 135."
"That's still far beyond average," Eve told him.
"I know."
"Soooooo Kai, you're a seer... I wonder where this mission will take us. We've done so much that a seer could've been used for."
"Allowing blindness to danger and, deafness to a warning are not what, dancing on the edge is not what guarantees death. Death may be foretold by a looking glass, as well as deferred by the Gaurd, but it is those who stare down the barrel of a gun and feel the earth crumbling beneath them on a cliff, who are truly immortal." Ezekiel said.
"What?" Eve asked, tiredly.
"'Though even the immortal are not completely invincible. All must face the one thing that no being is capable of denying.'" He continued, "'Fear.''
"'The cause of wretched anguish.'" Kai finished.
"That's-" Jacob began.
"That's the prophecy of Xethitis," Flynn yelled, "He was a great warrior, suspected to have the highest IQ in... well... all of history."
"The same warrior that E. L. Banks based his Juliet on," Ezekiel added.
"Yeah... And it's the same prophecy that I've been hearing, every night, at midnight since I turned 10." Kai commented, dejectedly. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, Ezekiel spoke up,
"So I guess we uh... so I guess we go back to the annex? Or...?" He rubbed the back of his neck, showing his discomfort.
"Sounds about right. The log book may have more, now that we finished the first part of our mission." Flynn said. They all walked out of the room to leave and saw Ezekiel's brother sitting on the couch of the living room, staring at the wall.
" Remember how Kai and I came up with those theories?" Hayden nodded, "Well the one about the library and team of geniuses is true. I'm one of them... and we need Kai's help." Ezekiel paused like he didn't know what to say, but the look on Hayden's face showed he knew the question that his older brother was silently asking. He nodded but then signed,
Why?
Hay, Ezekiel signed back and sighed.
Please. Why?
You know why... You'll be okay?
You'll return?
I'll try.
Same.
Hayden got up and hugged Ezekiel again before he and the others walked out of the apartment and entered the annex.
" Wow. Impressive." Kai commented, sounding slightly disinterested," So what exactly is going on?"
" We don't know exactly. The library can work in mysterious ways." Flynn told him.
" All we know so far is the book said that we needed the help of one of the Librarians' 'past Romeo'" Eve added and Kai chuckled and turned to Ezekiel,
" So you're my Juliet?"
" It's based on E. L. Banks' version." the smaller man informed him.
" Ah." Kai's smile faltered for a second, whether to his ex's slightly bitter tone or the information he was given, Cassandra couldn't tell.
" How long has it been since you've seen each other?... You know, if it's really like the poem." She asked, trying to figure out the situation as much as she could without pressing too much.
" Since we were 16," Ezekiel's answer, answered nothing, considering no one knows exactly how old he is, but it was a start.
Here you go
" I'm still a bit confused," Cassandra told Kai in a near whisper, regardless of the fact that they were the only ones in the kitchen.
"A woman of your intelligence doubt it." the male replied.
"It's just... the prophecy." She tried.
"That it's based on the E. L. Banks version," he paused, "You'll have to ask him to help you understand that part of the prophecy... but only if it's completely necessary. Hmm?" The way he deliberately chose his words, careful to make sure she understood that she should only ask an explanation of Ezekiel if it were necessary, made her uneasy. The version of the story that the prophecy was based on wasn't the simple story of infatuation, like the original. It was a story of love, suffering and death. Something bad was bound to happen, and they needed to understand why. She knew that, and Kai knew that, but the protective undertone in his voice showed that he wasn't happy about it. When they returned to the main part of the annex, Flynn reported that nothing else had appeared in the logbook and decided on going to the Library.
" So this the Library. What else do yo- oh! And this is?" Kai caught Excalibur by the hilt, surprising Flynn especially.
"That is Excalibur, the 'guard dog' of the library," Flynn told him.
"I take it that I wasn't supposed to be able to catch him?" Flynn nodded, "What exactly are we doing here? Do you even know-" Kai abruptly stopped talking and his eyes became unfocused? He swayed backwards a bit but didn't completely fall over until Ezekiel grabbed a chair and pushed him into it.
"Is he-" Eve started.
"A vision. One that should have a lot of information too, considering he's fully unaware." Ezekiel explained.
"So they're not all like this?" Jacob asked.
"No... Some are in dreams, and some are quick enough to happen during conversations without you knowing. But these, these are the clearest."
"But how does he ex-" Eve tried and was cut off again, this time by Kai,
"Epilepsy. They diagnosed me with epilepsy."
"Makes sense... Anything of use?" Jacob asked, creeping forward a bit to hear him.
"I'm not quite sure. There was this man, his aura was black with a cloudy mix of dark blue, green and red. He's angry and unforgiving, and his energy was strong. I think that the library is in danger, but there is also something or someone that I could not see that has a strong sense of love and protection for the library, so I think it's safe. Us, on the other hand, may not be as lucky."
"What do you mean?" Flynn pressed.
"I don't know. My vision was very... odd, but I did sense death."
