Chapter 7
"You mean aliens are real?" Norman asked Julian. He could not help but stare at the white haired young man. The young man in his twenties no doubt the same age as Mitch, but there was a great difference between the two of them. Mitch was not much of a thinker, known to be scared easily at anything. Julian was the opposite. He was always thinking. His blue eyes kept jumping all around as he looked for possible threats. No doubt years of fighting had caused him to keep on his toes. It was also strange that even the two were the same age, Julian was from a different time. Having fought and died in the First World War, Julian was a reminder that not everyone was the same.
Julian shock his head as he dropped into the kingsized bed next to Courtney. Courtney was quick to lean on his shoulders and Julian looked uncomfortable with her so close to him. Shuffling away from he sat a bit closer to Alvin. The former bully of Blithe Hallow did not seem to care that Julian was closer to him, but Courtney was pouting at the Werewolf.
"They are real! But that is not the reason why I am here!" Julain spoke up. He ingored Courtney's pouting as he focused on explaining what was happening. "We heard of the events that had happened here with the witches curse! UNIT was quick to give the events of that night to be covered with a cover story of a great storm that had struck the town to prevent any panics with other countries in case other more ancient curses activated!" Julian explained. "The heads at UNIT became concerned with what has been happening in town I was sent here as we have been getting reports that something big is going to happen soon in the town!" he spoke again.
Courtney sighed and rolled her eyes. "Just great another adventure!" she grumbled to herself as Mitch and Alvin looked bored as they listened to Julian in explaining what was happening. She leaned in closer to Julian and took in a deep breathe as she smelt his aftershave that he had used when he had come out of the shower before they had made their way to the Judges House Inn that Julian had been staying in over the night. "An adventure with you Julian would be even better than just an adventure with these dorks!" she said trying to lean her head on his shoulder but the Werewolf stood up suddenly and left her falling onto the bed. With a humph she sat back up on the bed. She crossed her arms across her chest and purched her lips.
Julian stood his full height. Running a hand through his white hair as he regained his calmness. "The reason why I have sought you out Norman is that Anubid had been traking you for a good few hours before finally making a show of itself. I was going to wait and see if I could gather any more information but I had to make my move when the Anubid attacked the two of you!" Julian said as he looked from Norman to Neil. He could have sworn that Neil was due to explode with excitement with what was happening. He was going to have to speak to either Nightshade or Kate about what to do about the group of children. They were heroes in their own right, but they were not soldiers like him, Edward and Nightshade. They needed to worry about their exams, not when the next alien invasion was going to be. That was their problem. It was theirs and the Avengers. Not a group of children that had gotten lucky in stopping a curse and a horde of zombies.
"What happened to that Anubid that had attacked us?" Norman asked him as he looked at Neil. His first true friend was smiling like a child in a candy store with everything thatbwas going on. The zombies and ghosts had been one thing but now they had a Werewolf who happened to be a ghost that they could all see was something else for them. Neil, was living a dream. Neil loved to read comics with superheroes and here he was in the same room with a newest member of the Avengers. Him, however liked to read historical books to help him understand the ghosts that he meets when he goes about. He had learned about the Howling Commandos during the Second World War.
Julian clicked his fingers as he remembered about the Anubid he had been chasing a couple of hours ago. "I completely forgot about that! Things slip my mind easy these days! Good thing I didn't have to do the paperwork!" he said with a smile. "That falls to Nightshade!" he finished.
"So what did happen? Did you bite its neck? Tear it from limb from limb?" Alvin asked leaping off the bed that he was sitting on. His arms whipped all over the place as he pretended to fight an Anubid. He tried up on his own feet and fell to the ground. The goth grunted as he landed on his back and he was quick to get back on his feet. He whipped around to face Courtney and wincked at her. He did not respond as she groaned and rolled her eyes.
Julian snorted back a laugh. "No, I did not do such a thing! No I already knew who the Anubid was and they had already given me some information about what is happening here!" Julain began to explain before he whipped his head towards Norman. "I have been made aware that something big is going to happen this Halloween. Something that might cause a war to spark up once again. A war that was won and lost many moons ago. The Anubid who is really Hazel the manager of the Inn here told me that she had been placed in the town as a spy for someone that the Avengers are having problems with at the moment! Hazel told me that there was word going about that someone called Oggie Boogie has placed a bounty on your head!" Julian spoke calmly still looking at Norman.
Norman took a step back with Neil and Mitch staring at him. "What have I done that has caused this Oggie Boogie to put a bounty on me?" he asked the ghost that everyone could see.
Julian ran his hand through his snow white hair as he shock his head. "I am not sure why they have focused their attention on you, Norman! But I know who is helping this Oggie Boogie! Seth!" he finished folding his arms across his chest.
"Seth? Whose Seth?" Norman asked looking up at Julian.
"Seth is a god from Ancient Egypt! He was defeated once before and was locked in the form of spirit for a good three thousand years before he got a new vessel during the Second World War! Since the Second World War he has been doing nothing but causing problems! If Seth is involved in this it could only get worse. But that is impossible he's locked up in the Black Archives under the Tower of London!" Julian replied to Norman's question. He scratched the back of his neck as he thought over what he had learned from his small interrogation that he had conducted on Hazel. What she had told him when she finally spoke was not adding add up with the facts that he knew. Why would Oggie Boogie and Seth focus their attention on a 11 year old hero of Blithe Hallow. He did not have any powers and he was a skinny scrawny boy with no signs that in later life he was going to have any muscles at all.
"Maybe he got out?" Norman asked Julian. He did not jump back when Julian's head snapped towards him and a growl escaped from from his throat.
The Werewolf and the Medium stared at each other for a brief second. Norman afraid that at any moment the wolf would make an appearance, but Julian was quick to keep the beast at bay. "That is not possible, Norman. The Tower of London is one of the best prisons in the whole world. It has caverns that go deep under the city which has the latest technology keeping the city above safe!" he replied, "The amount of times me and Edward have gotten lost in the tunnels!" he muttered to himself.
"Um, Mr Werewolf!" Mitch muttered gaining Julian and Norman's attention. He shrank back when they both looked at him.
"My name is Julian! There is no need for you to call me Mr Werewolf!" Julian spoke to Mitch who relaxed a little at not getting his head bitten off by the Werewolf. Julian could not help but roll his eyes as he caught a glimpse of Courtney batting her eyelashes at him like he was the boy every school girl wanted to date. "I'm really beginning to wish I had gone with Edward!" he whispered under his breathe.
"Um, Julian your phone is ringing!" Mitch muttered pointing at the table where his phone was sitting. Everyone looked over the room to see the latest Samsung mobile vibrating on the tables surface. The phone moved along the tables surface as everyone stared at it before Julian made his way over to the table.
Julian picked up the phone to see the picture of a smiling Osgood staring back at him. Grunting he knew that this was not going to go well for him. Osgood and Kate always tried to not call him when he was on a mission. They only called when something bad happened like an agent had lost their live during their mission or if something had happened to either Nightshade or Edward. Feeling dread beginning to build up he answered the call.
"Osgood?" he asked. He could feel the eyes of Norman and his friends staring at him. Sighing he vanished just like any other ghost. He could still hear what was happening in the living realm but in the Shadow Zone as it was dubbed by him and Edward when the zombie had gotten stuck in the plain of space for Ghosts. While in the Shadow Zone he could still use the phone and keep in touch with Osgood who no doubt had something important to tell him.
"Julian we have a massive problem on our hands here! We have already informed Edward and he is still chasing Leatherback in Japan now! And we cannot get in touch with Nightshade who is no doubt on one of her space adventures and wont be back in some time!" Osgood replied. She was finding it hard to breathe until someone in the background shouted for her to take her inhaler. A second later she was taking a deep breate with the inhaler.
"What is is Osgood? I can't pull back! I've only started to look about this place and I things are getting series!" he spoke up. He looked over his shoulders to see Courtney searching all over the room for him. He could not pull out of the mission. There was something big going on and he needed to find out why Oggie Boogie had placed a bounty on Norman Babcock.
"We don't want you to pull back, Julian! We have already informed the Werewolf by Night and Blade as to what is happening!" she spoke again. She always had the bad habit of taking to long to explain something that could only take a few seconds to explain. It was only the scientists who done this, take forever to explain anything and to be honest Julian hated it. There had been a few times that he growled at scientist to make them talk faster so that he could slare his brain from being metled away with all their geeky words.
"Osgood for the love of the Moon King just tell me what has happened!" he growled pinching the bridge of his nose. A habbit that he had picked up from both Kate and Nightshade.
Osgood fell silent for a few moments on the other end. In those moments was the worst for Julian. He hated it when someone stopped talking when they were given him information. After years of being an interrogator during war times he needed every peice of information as quickly as possible and detailed. There had been a few times that the ghost had to bring the Werewolf out and get more answers out of Nightshade's prisoners before they can come up with a plan of action based on the intelligence that they had gathered. "Sorry, Julian. I am just worried about what has happened here! Seth has escaped from the Black Archives!" Osgood screamed down the phone.
Julian juggled the phone in his hands as he got the fright of his life. He should have known that Osgood had strong lungs to scream at the top of her lungs. It was something every human was good at. Heck, he had once beed a massive whimp before he found out his entire family had been Werewolves and he had meet Nightshade and Edward. He did not miss the time before he died and became a ghost. It was just full of action, something he would not get if he followed by a part of the Royal Family. "Osgood calm down!" he managed to say to her between the gasps of deep breathes she was taking on the other side.
"Look Osgood I am sure that Seth will keep down low until his whole jail break becomes less important to the higher ups in UNIT find something else to worry about!" he spoke again. He looked over his shoulder to see Norman looking straight at him. That was impossible. No human could see him, not unless they where psychic. But that could not be possible.
A loud bang tore through the air and Julian whipped his head around. The sky had turned a dangerous shade of black and purple. Green lightning sparked across the sky followed by a loud bang of thunder. "Osgood I have to go!" he said as he ended the call. He looked back out the window when he returned to stand beside Norman, "This is going to be a long night!" he sighed.
