Chapter 10

The Werewolf Predicament 2

The sun is about to set as footsteps echo in the forest outside the Memory Arena.

A voice asks, "Where are we going, Jeremiah?"

Jeremiah, looking at his watch, answers Linda, "You'll know in a minute."

They exit the canopy and find themselves in an abandoned playground. In the center of the playground was Tech Girl working on some strange machine in the middle of a makeshift lab. Linda is creeped out by the eerily similar backdrop and Jeremiah mumbles, "You have terrible taste in location, Tech Girl."

Tech Girl heard him, looked in their direction, and waves them over there. Linda awkwardly waves back and says, "Umm…I think we should head over there."

Jeremiah responds, "Yeah, we should. She is expecting us after all."

They walk over to Tech Girl who greets them, "Glad to see you're both here." Then, she looks at Jeremiah arms crossed and asks, "And what did you mean when you said I had terrible taste in location?"

"Did you even read the file?" asks Jeremiah.

She pulls it up on a computer and skims it and sees the part detailing the original location the nightmare took place in.

"Oh, I see your point. Still, this place was nearby and rather convenient for our purposes. And umm…" she staggered off embarrassed and Linda chimes in, "Can someone explain to me what I'm doing here?"

Tech Girl looks at Jeremiah once more sternly, "Did you not explain anything to her on the way here?"

"No," mutters Jeremiah.

Linda looks down and says, "I just assumed the worst."

"Jeremiah, go over there now," Tech Girl orders pointing to a merry-go-round a few feet away from them.

"Yes, ma'am," responds Jeremiah quickly shaking a bit from fear.

He runs over there at regular speed and just sits on the merry-go-round clearly a little too big for it. Tech Girl faces Linda once Jeremiah takes a seat and warns, "I guarantee you won't like what I have to say. Despite that, it is imperative that you know what we're doing here. Are you ready?"

Linda takes a deep breath and answers, "No, but I don't think I ever will be."

Tech Girl smiles and proceeds to explain everything to Linda about their plan, their reasoning why, their other ideas, and how they know what she is. Linda becomes increasingly anxious during the whole explanation holding her arm to keep it from shaking. Tech Girl finishes, "Any questions?"

Linda stutters, "Umm…what kind of problems can my werewolf form cause?"

Tech Girl says, "Mostly loss of spacesuit and endangerment to anyone aboard the ship."

Linda says with a blank expression, "I see."

Tech Girl walks closer to Linda and plucks a hair from her and asks, "Any further questions?"

"No, not really," answers Linda.

She turns around and heads back to her makeshift lab and says, "The sun's almost set. You better get into position."

Tech Girl calls Jeremiah back over as she places the hair in a microscope. Jeremiah walks over and Tech Girl presses a button on the machine which causes the three steel pillars to open and spread out on the ground. Linda walks into the center of the machine as the sun sets and the full moon rises. Tech Girl puts the hair under a microscope as the moonlight began to shine. Linda starts shaking. Fur grows on her expanding body. Tech Girl calmly presses a button without looking up from the microscope and the machine fires up and the three steel pillars rise back up from the ground. Electricity surges through them as they produce a spherical forcefield around Linda. The hair under the microscope begins to change. The sphere rises above the ground as Linda's jaw size increases completing her transformation.

Tech Girl takes some notes looking back at Linda who is looking around anxiously. She looks at her huge hands as she howls. Tech Girl puts on a huge mechanical glove and walks over to the forcefield. She sticks her hand through it and plucks another hair from Linda who screams in pain. Tech Girl calmly takes her hand out of the forcefield as Linda begins attacking it. Her eyes land on Jeremiah and her attacks' ferocity increase.

Jeremiah goes into a fighting stance as Linda attacks the field. Her claws penetrate it, but it regenerates the moment after. She keeps trying to tear the field to shreds but with no luck. Linda eventually tires out and plops down in the field. Tech Girl is completely engrossed in her work. Nothing could possibly disturb her.

Jeremiah says, "I can't believe it held."

"Are you doubting my work?" asks Tech Girl annoyed.

"No. It's just…you think something would go wrong resulting in a climatic final battle," explains Jeremiah haphazardly.

Tech Girl stops for a brief moment, puts down her notebook, and takes a deep breath. She walks up to Jeremiah and places her hand on his shoulder.

"Not everything needs to end in a battle. Sometimes everything does go according to plan. Usually the details are different but remember, cherish the moments of peace for as often as they come," inspires Tech Girl.

She takes her hand off Jeremiah's shoulders and goes back to work. Jeremiah stares at Linda reflecting on Tech Girl's words.

Somewhere in the Sinnoh region,

"Sir, the ship is loaded for tomorrow's delivery."

"Very good."

The old man grabs his briefcase and leaves.

Hello everyone, Pokemiah here! I hope you enjoyed Linda's Requiem which I've been working on ever since my first semester at SIU, which I'm getting ready to enter my third one there. This book originally started out as a rewrite of Space Adventure, but over time thanks to the consequences of Operation: Spy & Seek 2.0, it evolved into its own book and I'm really proud of how it turned out. Originally, in the rough draft the story starting dragging its feet around Chapter 5 as I somehow wrote two chapters that were really unnecessary to the overall story of this specific book, which were the Date chapter and the Light Realm chapter. However, I at least wanted to keep the Light Realm chapter because I felt it could set up a potential plot thread for the next book in the series, which would be Space Adventure 2.0. However, they were on the chopping block for a while, but because of that combined with "I just like the chapters" instead I added two more Linda chapters because I felt the problem was that it lost the bouncing the rest of the book and doing the final check on it, I believe it was the right decision in the long run as the story feels much better paced with the two new chapters in between the other two.

Anyway, before I rewrite Space Adventure, I'm planning on going back and editing the entirety of the Agency series and updating the 2.0 Versions further to new 2.5 Versions, especially with my newfound knowledge of Microsoft Word's functions thanks to editing for my newly published book, which brings me to the main reason for this afterword. I recently published a book for sale on Amazon called Jeremiah Ellison's Poems & Short Stories Collection which is a collection of various poems and short stories I've written over the years. Some of them you may have read on my FictionPress and Wattpad accounts. However, there are two exclusive stories in the book called The Golden Radiance and The Superheroes Mission 4: Thieves in the Cystalline Cavern. The Golden Radiance is a short story about a chosen one who destroys the world instead of saving it. The Superheroes Mission 4: Thieves in the Crystalline Cavern is the next story in The Superheroes where a younger version of Jeremiah goes to a small oasis town in order to investigate a string of recent robberies along with a mysterious meteorite that has recently landed nearby there. If you like my content and want to support me as a writer, I highly recommend buying it. It's currently available on Amazon for both Kindle and Paperback and the link to my Amazon Author page is in my profile. Feel free to message me for any questions. And with that, I bid you adieu.