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New Threats--Part X
The dog's sharp teeth came closer and closer to Matt's neck. It all seemed to be happening in slow motion for Matt, though. It was as though time had been slowed down to almost the point of stopping completely.
When he had first been knocked over, the dog had seemed to be very heavy, but now it seemed light as a feather.
This was strange enough, but when he caught a glimpse of the other dogs, the situation became even more confusing. The dogs were moving extremely slowly and a couple were practically suspended in mid-jump. Even his friends seemed to be moving as though time had suddenly slowed down.
And in all the time it took for him to observe this, the dog's face had come only one inch closer to his neck.
He pushed the dog off of him, still a little surprised. It moved through the air once again in slow motion.
Quickly, he picked up TK and moved away from the slow-moving wall of dogs, then shook his head, trying to clear his senses.
Time snapped back to normal and the dogs were once again moving normally, as were his friends, but now the six other children had momentarily forgotten about the attacking dogs and were all staring at Matt, looks of surprise on their faces.
"What?" Matt inquired.
"What do you mean 'what?' You mean you don't even know what you did?" Joe incredulously inquired, ducking as a dog jumped at him.
Matt slowly shook his head and Joe said: "I didn't think it was humanly possible to move that fast. When you pushed the dog off of you and got TK, it took less time than it takes for me to blink."
This certainly came as a shock to Matt, as he had only moved at what he had thought was a normal speed.
But then time slowed once again and he saw a dog only inches away from knocking Izzy over, but it was moving so slowly it was easy to get over by its side and move it away before it did any damage.
A dog was directly in front of him and he jumped over it--and all the other dogs as well with very little effort. He was now outside of the circle of dogs.
Then time returned to normal again. A little over half the dogs turned to face him, then chased after him.
But luckily for him he had a heard start. Unfortunately, he could not get back to his friends and ended up being chased away from them.
The smaller number of dogs allowed the other children to escape, as they were no longer boxed in, but the dogs were in hot pursuit of them once again the instant they had moved out of the semi-circle.
"I can't run fast enough," Kari gasped as she began to fall behind the group of children and got closer and closer to the dogs.
Tai quickly scooped his younger sister into his arms before she got too far behind and continued running from the dogs. He wished he could get his wings to reappear, but he was still not strong enough to endure the transformation.
Eventually, they reached an apartment building. It was rundown, but it would have to work.
Tai was the first to get to the door and he set Kari down for her to walk through the door. He held the door as Sora, then Joe and Izzy ran inside before going in himself.
Kari was could do little more than collapse onto the floor shaking fearfully.
"They can't get us now," Sora comforted.
And indeed it looked that way. The door was made of a strong, sturdy wood and the windows were all closed.
But in the next instant the five children saw something that made their blood run cold: one of the dogs was jumping through the air straight for one of the windows.
Before any of they could move, there was a crash and the glass of the window shattered as the dog leapt through.
"Upstairs! Quick!" Izzy cried.
They ran for the stairs as more and more dogs flooded into the lobby of the apartment building and pursued them, the one that had broken the window in the lead, the foam around his mouth stained a pinkish color from cuts from jumping through the window.
As he was running up the stairs, Joe stumbled and the dog caught hold of his ankle. He cried out with a combination of fear, pain and surprise as he felt the teeth sink into his ankle.
In a move of desperation he kicked his leg, catching the dog full in the face and forcing it to let go.
He quickly raced up the stairs after the others.
Izzy ran into an open apartment closely followed by Tai and Kari, Sora and Joe. He closed the door just in time, as the leading dog had made a leap to follow them into the room.
They heard the dog hit the door with a thud. But then there was another thud. And another. And another…
"They're ramming the door!" Sora exclaimed.
Already the door was beginning to give.
"We've got to get something to bar it with!" Joe cried.
Unfortunately, there was nothing the in abandoned apartment that would be strong enough to hold the door.
Another resounded thud and with it came the sound of splintering wood…
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Mimi sat, still chained to the wall crying quietly.
It's my fault, it's all my fault, she thought. I could have stopped Creed from pushing the button. And now they're all going to…to… she could bring herself to think the horrible word.
And now Creed's going to rule the whole world and it'll be all my fault…
A strange feeling suddenly came over her, as though she had been hit with something extremely hot but at the same time extremely cold. She gasped and went limp, closing her eyes.
When she opened them, she was no longer chained, but she was in the same room and she seemed to be in the middle of a huge battle.
Eight people were fighting against…someone. But she could tell who right off the bat.
And then in a flash of light she did see who it was: Creed. But he looked different. He looked a bit older and now his entire face was covered in metal.
The eight people looked familiar, almost like she knew them. But the faces just didn't seem to click in her mind.
She caught a glimpse of Ruki, also looking older, but she also looked more powerful and more agile. She was fighting against somebody that was moving even faster than she was able to. Mimi squinted, trying to see who it was that was fighting her, but they were moving so fast they were little more than a blur.
Ruki made a swipe as whoever it was came close to them, but missed. Mimi could hardly believe there was somebody even more agile that Ruki, but apparently it was so. Whoever was fighting against her seemed to be running circles around her.
She looked away from Ruki and a person who was sitting off to the side of the battle. This person she could see. It was a young man of about 18 who had reddish hair. He seemed very familiar to Mimi, but she just couldn't quite place him.
He was picking up objects that were lying on the ground and changing them into much more threatening things. A board became a dagger and a pebble became a net… And he was laying them all aside, making quite an arsenal.
Occasionally, another nearly-recognizable person would race over, take something from the pile and return to the battle at hand.
Mazu was fighting against a man who was about 21 that had bluish hair. Again, his face seemed recognizable, but she just couldn't quite place it. Strong charges of electricity were shooting from the blue-haired man's hands and hitting Mazu, but Mazu wasn't giving up in the least.
Cin was also there, looking a bit older, but also more powerful. She was fighting against a young man that looked as though he was 17. Once again, this person looked familiar, with their blonde hair and blue eyes. Both Cin and the blonde-haired boy were fighting with telekinetic powers, Cin with bright purple beams and the boy with dazzling gold.
A woman with light brown hair that looked about 20 was also sitting on the sides, occasionally shouting warnings to the people battling of an oncoming attack before it was produced.
The remaining three people were fighting against Creed. Two of them were females. One was about 20 while the other was about 17. The younger was blasting multi-colored beams from her fingers that were twisting together and forming a huge ball of energy. The other was shooting light-blue beams onto creed that seemed to be made of ice.
The other person was a man of about 20 that had dark brown hair and…wings?!? Again, he looked strangely familiar.
The woman sitting on the side suddenly cried: "Izzy, look out!"
The red-haired young man calmly walked six feet away from where he had been sitting. Moments later, the ceiling above him caved in.
Izzy? That's Izzy? Mimi thought. Then it clicked. She knew where she'd seen these people before. They were her friends. And the lady calling out warnings was…herself.
She watched as first Mazu, then Ruki and Cin were all defeated. Then Creed was beaten, also.
But then she was back, chained against the wall. Creed sat, very much alive a few feet from her and Cin teleported into the room.
And then realization struck Mimi: Creed wanted them dead because they killed him in the future…