Whaheee…most of this I had written and was okay with it so yeah it came quick

Thanks to Matt for catching two wrong names in the last chapter

But now I am at the end of all I have written so…not sure what will happen next, but I do have a lot of Zion written so those chapters will come out quick! I hope I'm making up for being so slow before!

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      My door opened slowly, it was Edrahil.  "You should get up now…" he said softly, "how's the leg?"  I rolled over slowly; it barely hurt just a dull pain.

      "Much better thanks," I said softly as I slowly slid the covers off my self and slid out of bed.  "I'll be out in a second," I said as I grabbed my boots.

      "Okay," he said as he shut the door.  I buckled my boots slowly looking at my leg; the pain was almost completely gone if I looked at the perfectly normal leg.  My mind was almost convinced it hadn't happened.

      I closed the door quietly as I walked unto the main deck.  Loki looked up from his welding; he nodded to me and then pulled his eye shield back down.  I walked into the dinning hall just as Apollos was leaving; I bowed my head with respect as he passed by.  Edrahil, Jade and Switch were sitting there.  Edrahil and Jade got up, Edrahil gave me a smile, Jade mumbled a quiet 'good morning'.

      "Here," said Flame as they left, "have some breakfast."  She gestured to a bowl.  I sat in front of it, across from Flame.  "Jalax sent word, today you see her, if your leg is ready."  Notice not if I was ready, I certainty didn't feel ready.

      "The Oracle?" I said quietly dragging my bowl towards me.  Flame nodded. I decided that it didn't matter if I was ready, they knew better anyways.  I didn't talk much and neither did Flame as I ate.  I left her sitting there in deep thought.

      Destiny looked up from the screen as I passed.  "Ah," she said looking at me as I passed, "seeing the Oracle today?"

      "Yes, how did you know?"  I asked.

      "You can always tell be the way they look, scared, worried excited."  Her eyes flicked back to the screen.  An awkward silence followed as my eyes passed over the main deck.

      "I'll be in my room if anyone wants me…" I said softly, I left, Destiny nodded as she watched the ever changing Matrix.

      I lay on the bed back against the wall, staring at the wall in front of me.  I would see the Oracle and find out why I was here.  I had been waiting for this moment, dreading it, but at the same time wishing it would come, that this nagging feeling of uselessness would pass.

      Saving the world is much different then you would probably expect.  Sure in the movies it's all glorious and everyone is so nice and clean, everything works out.  When the truth is, here you don't get showers or anything, it's not very exciting either, I mean it's just another routine.  Except the added stress that you could die pretty easily.

      Cheery ain't it?

     Jade eventually opened my door, "Apollos wants to see you."  She said, only pausing to look into my eyes before leaving.

I got up slowly, leaving through the open door and shutting it slowly behind me.  I turned Destiny was typing away on the keyboard, Loki was beside her double checking everything.  Apollos was waiting not far from my door.

"Let us not waste time," he said as he turned and I followed.  Flame, Edrahil, Nephilim, Mouse and Jade were all at their chairs.  I pulled down my screen logged in and Apollos plugged me in.  I was in, Edrahil next to me.  Apollos appeared, first in code, beside me.

"Nephilim, Flame, we shouldn't be more then an hour, Mouse," he jerked his head up at the sound of his name.

"Yesir," he said awaiting his command.

"Keep an eye on them," said Apollos with a small grin.

"Don't worry I'll make sure they don't lollygag," he shoot Nephilim a smile.  "See ya…" he said to me as I turned to leave.

"I'll see you in an hour," I said as I turned disappointed he was being left.  Jade and Edrahil followed Apollos and me.

Only small glimpses of light could make it through the New York skyline as I walked to the car, a black sedan.

      "I remember coming here with my sister once," I said softly as I watched buildings go by.  I turned to Jade, "but she never was my sister, was she?"

      "Not physically, but nothing here is physical.  If you were adopted and loved your adopted family wouldn't you care for them like a family? Wouldn't you call then your family?" said Jade looking across the seat to me.  "You see? The machines cannot take everything away."

      I didn't say anything for the rest of the trip.  Edrahil took me into the apartment, Jade and Apollos hung around outside.  The elevator ride seemed to take hours.

      "She will only tell you what you are ready to hear," said Edrahil, seeing me freaked out of my mind.

      "I don't feel ready to be told anything," I said eyes, glancing to the pall metal elevator door.

      "The Oracle knows what you are ready to hear and what you aren't," stated Edrahil as the elevator slowed and the door opened.  He left first; we walked down the long white hallway, past dozens of black doors.

     The door was black like the rest, I took a deep breath grabbed the handle and turned.

      "The Oracle has been waiting for you…" said the young woman who opened the door, "you can follow me.  Edrahil help yourself," she said, she turned robe trailing behind her.  He nodded as he placed his sunglasses on the table.  I followed the woman into a living room, "you can wait here she will see you in a moment."  I took of my sunglasses and placed them on a deck table.

      There were a few kids, all not paying any attention to me.  One was reading a book, 'The Laws of Gravity and Physics'.  I smiled, smart kid.  One was sitting in a corner watching blocks spin from their mind spinning.  One gave me, the leather wearing, sunglass wearing creep, a fleeting glance, I gave her a smile.  She gave a quick one back before continuing levitating a feather.

      "She will see you now…" said the woman behind me.  I gave one last look at the room before following the woman into a short hallway.

      The beads rang like drops of water falling, as I walked into the room, pushing them aside carefully.  The Oracle was not what I expected…an old woman baking cookies?  Well it keeps a low profile doesn't it?

      "Ah, Araval have a seat," I sat slowly.  The Oracle smiled as she set the timer for something in the oven, it smelt awfully good.  "Don't worry they wont take long to cook," she commented turned back towards me with a smile.  "Now," she said as she took a seat and took out a cigarette."  She turned it over in her hand, like she had done it over a million times.  "You want to know why you have been freed.  You are no hacker, you can't write programs.  Your brother could but you don't have enough skill to be like Mouse."  She took out a lighter, "ah Mouse, now that's complicated."

      "What about him…?" I said leaning forward slightly.

      "Oh, nothing but watch it, such a weakness for humans."  Now I had MORE questions.  So first off don't ask an oracle questions.  She lit the cigarette, "yes well, there are a few reasons for you being freed."  She sighed as she leaned back putting the cigarette into her mouth.  She let out a long breath, smoke rising slowly to the ceiling.  I waited patiently, attentively.  "Well, you are quiet an amazing girl, your different.  No you are not the One," she said as my heart quickened, anything but the one…anything but the one.  "Anything?" she said as I gripped the arm of my chair.  "You will bring about change, great change."  She put the cigarette into her mouth again, letting another slow breath come out.  "'Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness forced upon them.'"

      "Shakespeare…" I muttered under my breath.  The Oracle nodded as she shoved the butt of the cigarette into the tray.

      "I know you won't want to hear this, in fact all it seems I give is 'bad news'.  Though this may seem bad to you know it really is good news."  Okay, question mark.  "You're gunna have a kid…"

      "JESUS CHRIST! HOLY MARKEL!"  I screamed before jumping out of my seat, "I CAN'T STAND KIDS! And…ah ah…how the hell will I UGH!"  If the Oracle found this amusing she didn't show it.  "Tell me your JOKING; I'm too young for a kid! I'm…I'm not ready!" I quieted my voice, "are you nuts?"

      "I'm not joking, and I'm pretty sure I'm sane.  If you weren't ready I wouldn't have told you.  I'm cutting the crap here, let me finish."  I sighed and slowly took my seat again.  "You will have a kid, that kid will be the One."

      "The what…?  Oh God…" overload.

      "Look you have time, you're right you are too young now.  But when you know what you need to know, and you will know when you know you cannot waste time."  That's a lot of 'knows', I thought.

      "Know what?" opps, don't ask questions!

      "Oh, you'll know when you are ready," said the Oracle with a somewhat smug smile on her face.  The timer dinged, "but for now please take a cookie."  She stood up and opened the oven door and brought out a tray.

      "You know I will refuse don't you?" I said softly trying to control my mind.

      "Yes and I also know that you will take one after I insist."

      "Then why do I bother refusing?"

      "Because you choose to, if the choice means nothing to you then what are you fighting for?  Freedom is the right to choose, if you don't choose why do you fight?"  I decided to rewind and go back to where I was going to refuse.

      "No thank you."

      "No, please, I insist," she said as she held one out on a napkin.

      "Thank you," I said as I took the cookie.  She pulled back her hands while her face turned into an expression of pity.

      "I wish I could tell you more, but you aren't ready.  Remember this; this is not for the others to hear.  You will know when they are ready.  I'm sorry kid, I wish I could help you," I took a bite of the cookie.  "I'll know when you are ready; you'll see me again soon."

      "Soon is relative," I said as I turned to leave.  "Good bye Oracle."

      "Till we meet again," said the Oracle pausing only for a minute in the doorway as I left before returning to taking the cookies of the tray.

      I left the jingling beads, down the hall to the living room.  I picked up my sunglasses as Edrahil walked in.  I suppose I looked a little upset, but he tried to not look like he could tell.  I'm sure he was just itching to ask what she had told me.  Any bit of good news is like gold to these people, they live without hope.

      "I have to see her for a minute," he told me.

      He walked back through where I had come.  Kids ah! They were everywhere.  Best get to like them more.

      He came back quickly.

      "You're staying with us, the Oracle wishes it," he told me as he walked out, me following.

      We walked down the hallway.

      "I don't think I was ready…" I whispered.  "Who says an Oracle can tell when you are ready and when you are not?"

      "An Oracle is just that, an Oracle, not a dictator of your life," said Edrahil; he pushed the level one button on the elevator.  Then tell me who is, I thought, so I can put them into order.

      I just stared out the window on the way back, they didn't talk to me.  I suppose they get used to this, having others see the Oracle and not be particularly happy afterward.