**This isn't a spoiler alert, I just wanted to let anyone who hasn't seen the 2nd movie know and those who have, yes the oracle does explain vampires and stuff like that. But I didn't understand most of that speech, so I'm giving you my explanation.***
Chapter
6
Her Messages
Oz walked into the small kitchen with the beaded curtain clicking behind him. She had her back to him as she put a baking sheet in the oven.
"Hello, Oz." She greeted without turning. "Why don't you take a seat?" She said as she set a small timer. She stood and turned, she smiled see that he was sitting. "You're probably wondering why I asked you in."
He nodded his head.
"You're still the same quiet guy I first met."
"Not really."
"Well, not as much, but…"
"But?"
"Well, I wonder if you're ready for the responsibility that lies ahead. You remember what I told you when you first came in here?"
He nodded his head. "I have to live with the wolf both inside and out, they will lead me down the path of freeing all changelings for the magic inside shall set us free.
She smiled, "to the letter. When you realize the responsibility you will be tested as to whether or not you can use the past to open the future. Allies will come from unusual places. Let the wolf out, then you will see the truth."
"The past?"
"Your past and the past?" She replied as she stepped toward him. He stood. She smiled and hugged him; he returned the hug. As she pulled away she touched his hair. "Take care of them, they maybe free, but they are still very lost."
He nodded.
"Could you sent the vampire in first?"
"Sure, it's good to see you again."
"You, too."
After Oz left them, Faith and Frost looked around at the children. A boy and a girl were sitting in front of a 70's style TV. The screen showed an underwater scene. The girl pressed her hand into the screen as though it were water. Two girls were sitting on a couch playing with a metal ball that changed shapes in their hands. Faith left Frost's side and knelt next to the girls. Frost looked over to the last group where three boys were floating wooden blocks back and forth to each other. That's when he heard a small voice from below him.
"Sunlight isn't your only triumph."
Frost looked down at the small, pale, bald boy sitting at his feet. Frost crouched down next to him. The boy held a spoon that bent in his small hand at will. "Bullets will still kill, but can you learn to bend like the spoon?" The boy asked as he handed the large spoon to Frost.
Frost stared at the boy. "What's the catch?"
"There is no spoon."
"There is no spoon?" He asked in disbelief, but watched as the handle dent in his hand. Frost watched his reflection in the spoon turn and twist.
"Frost!"
Frost watched the spoon snap back to its original position showing his startled reaction. He looked up at Oz standing in the doorway.
"She will see you now."
Frost stood, but realizing he still had the spoon he bent down and handed it back. He followed Oz's directions to the kitchen. He pushed the beaded curtain aside and walked in. She was sitting at a small, round, wooden table.
"I've met mystics and witches before, but not an oracle." He told her.
"Sit," she said bluntly. He sat. "I can see through your charade. You only left for power, but if you continue down that path your soul mate will kill you."
"Huh? Soul mate?" He scoffed.
"You are going to be tested, kill or be killed, can you learn to just run away? Because if you don't it will hurt both of you. There is power to be had out there, but you have to work for it, work hard. Blood may have meant life in there, but when you're free it is not your salvation."
Frost was surprised by her harshness. "So what, that's the almighty guidance I came here for?" H stood as he spoke trying to be able to look down on her.
She watched his fangs lengthen. "You can't hurt me, I'm part of all this. I think you enjoyed being a slave and now that you're free you're lost. A lost little boy playing with daddy's gun, just remember the gun is loaded."
Frost knew she was right, but he didn't want to believe it. "I'm Deacon Frost." He whispered to himself.
She stood and put a hand on his right shoulder. "No, you're not, that's who they told you to be."
He growled in frustration.
She smiled seeing that he may finally understand. "On your way out tell Faith to come in."
Frost walked back into the living room, he stepped over to Faith, and leaned down towards her. "Your up."
She looked at him and nodded her head. She stood and walked to the kitchen. Frost was about to go find Oz when he felt a tug at his pant leg. He looked down to see the boy with the spoons. "You need this more than I do." Frost took the spoon and sat down next to the boy.
When they first walked into the room of children. Faith watched Oz leave, when she saw the two girls on the couch. One had long blonde hair while the other had long brown hair. Curious Faith walked over to them and knelt in front of them. They looked down at her and smiled. The blonde handed her the ball.
"Place it in your left palm and it will tell you who you are."
Faith put the silver ball in her hand as they said; it was about the size of a tennis ball. The ball started to melt; it morphed into a metal stake. "The slayer." Faith whispered.
"Now place it in your right palm and it will tell you who you are meant to be." The brunette said.
Faith did, and the stake elongated into a sword. "Champion?"
"Warrior." They said simultaneously. The sword began to glow. "For the light."
"But…this isn't real."
"No, but the message is." The brunette spoke.
"Faith!"
Faith looked up to see Frost. She handed the ball back to the blonde, who grabbed her hand. "She forgave you."
Faith blinked as she pulled her hand away. She stood and walked into the kitchen. She ducked under the beads and looked around. A woman sat at a table.
"My kids are pretty smart."
"You're the oracle?"
"You're the slayer."
"A…"
"The." She interrupted Faith. "You are the first free slayer, so you are."
Faith looked at the chair.
"Go ahead sit." Faith did. "Changelings are interesting creatures by the law of man they shouldn't exist, but they did. By the law of the machines they are an error in programming and not exist, but they have. Vampires, slayers, demons, werewolves, none of the supernatural should exist, but have. Why? I do not know, but they do and always have. You're the slayer, in the matrix you fought evil, but it's in the real world where you need to discover what you're the slayer of. You need to ban together other like you, and your past will help. You are not the one, but you are just as powerful and you will be able to sense him just as you can sense other changelings. You know that as in the matrix if you use your power it will bring you rewards. But you will be tested first, tests of character, skill, and strength."
Faith took it all in. "Will I be asked to lead?"
"If you choose to."
"Is that all?" Faith asked cautiously.
"Almost, your slayer skills are part of you, the true you. Use them to your advantage."
Faith stood. "Thank you."
"No, thank you, I was never sure I'd actually get to meet you."
Faith smiled and left the room, she found Frost standing next to Oz bending a spoon.
"Whatever she told you, is for you alone." Oz said as he turned. He led them out. When the elevator came the door opened to reveal two men; a large, bald, black man and a lanky, younger, white man. The younger man looked apprehensive. The older man smiled at Oz.
"Oz."
"Morpheus." Oz said nodding his head respectfully. As the two walked past, Faith felt a buzz from the younger man, but she wasn't sure what it meant. Once inside the descending elevator Faith spoke.
"Who was that?"
"Morpheus, captain of the Nebecanezer."
"Who was that with him?"
"I don't know, why?"
"A feeling, I don't know."
Roin and Twitch were parked out front. The three got into the car as Roin started the engine.
Kale watched the monitors with Eyecon watching over her shoulders. Suddenly the code changed.
"What's going on?" Eyecon asked alarmed.
"I don't know, I don't think it's us. See this grid?" She pointed to the screen in front of her.
Eyecon nodded. "Call El, get her out of there just in case."
El sat on a milk crate reading a comic book when her cell phone rang.
"Hello?"
"El, get out, trouble!" Kale yelled, "I'll call back when I have an exit."
El slapped the cell closed, grabbed the duffel bag next to her, and ran out of the store heading north. She hoped she would run into the others.
Kale hung up with El and dialed again. "Roin head south Hudson and 5th is your exit!"
"Trouble?"
"Not sure, just go." Kale hung up and dialed El. "El, Hudson and 5th."
El rounded the corner of 5th to see a semi crash. "No dice, accident."
Kale typed furiously. "Parking garage, 5th and Spruce."
El hung up and continued running.
Kale dialed once more and relayed the new message.