Wolf: We're back!
Leo: Yes we are, Wolf's exams are done and now she has no excuse not to help me write.
Wolf: Exactly! We own nothing but the plot and ourselves so let's shake a leg!
Sam organized the remaining people into finding food and a fireplace.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Judith cried as Sam began to throw books in the fireplace.
"What did you think we were going to burn?" Sam asked.
"You can't burn books!" She cried. The white, nerdy man agreed with her. Sam argued that they would freeze to death without it and sent everyone to find more books for them to burn as he worked on lighting the fire.
The twins peered out of the library windows at the rapidly falling snow.
"It's incredible, isn't it?" Elsa, the ginger girl who had stayed, said softly as he came up to them. "The whole world's climate changing. It just doesn't seem possible."
"Yeah well, try saying that to all the people caught out in this." Katie replied bleakly. "May the gods watch over them."
Yami was on the lower level, placing books on a cart with Brian. Brian was gleefully taking all the books on tax law to be burned. Yami chuckled inwardly at it, and continued to look for suitable books.
Suddenly a glint caught his eye. He half-turned and stared at the orb sitting in the bookshelf, disguised as just another book. He glanced over at Brian to make sure he wasn't looking and snatched the orb off the shelf, stuffing it in his pocket.
As the teens wheeled their findings back to their 'safe room' Yami whispered to the twins
"I found the first one."
"Excellent, two more to go then." Meg grinned and cracked her knuckles.
"Are we in any danger here?" Yami asked them quietly as they helped unload the books.
"Not more so than usual." Katie replied. "So long as we stay here and are not outside when the eye comes, we'll be fine."
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The next couple of days went by slowly. Meg and Katie had made a run in the middle of the night when no one was awake to a nearby hospital to stock up on blood, but that was the most interesting to happen.
They had explained that the thermoses of blood were medicine that needed to be kept unfrozen, so the backpacks were kept close to the fire. None of the survivors questioned them about this, after all, what reason did they have to?
They had no problems, not until...
"And she wouldn't wake up this morning, I..."
"She only had a fever, I don't understand." The survivors were gathered around Laura, who hadn't woken up and was very pale and sick looking.
"Maybe it's the flu." Meg suggested but knowing different.
"No, no, it's not the flu." Judith said, coming forward with a large book.
"And how do you know?"
"Books can be good for things other than burning." Judith replied. The survivors discovered that Laura had blood poisoning and needed penicillin.
"Can't I just heal her?" Yugi whispered to the twins, casting worried glances at the young woman lying on the couch.
"I don't think it's a good idea to reveal any of our abilities just yet." Katie replied. "And trust me, this turns out alright."
"I think we should go with them." Meg said to her twin. "There might be demons out there." Katie nodded in agreement, and the two of them began to strap chairs to their feet along with the boys.
"Maybe you two should stay behind." J. D. said.
"We're not some delicate little flowers." Meg replied pulling the makeshift strap tight on her foot. "We're coming and that's that." Yami stood up to go get some chairs for himself.
"I'm coming too."
~~~~~***~~~~~
Soon, the teens had found the penicillin and Yami discovered the second orb in one of the medicine cabinets. They were getting the food when they were attacked. J. D. went down with a large, wolf-like creature biting his leg. But this thing seemed to be made of shadows, and had glowing red eyes.
Meg suddenly pulled a katana out of nowhere and cut the demon wolf down and they pulled J. D. into the mess hall, closing the door.
"What were those things?" Brian asked.
"Demons." Katie said calmly her eyes narrowed.
"What are you talking about?" Sam's voice was calm, but the twin could see confusion and fear in his eyes.
"Look, you're going to have to trust us right now, it's the only way we're going to get out alive." Meg said sheathing her sword and shrinking it back down to size. Sam turned and stared out the window at the clearing sky.
"I think we're in the eye of it." He said worriedly. The teens looked alarmed.
"Ok, I'm going to go out and lure the demons away." Katie whispered. "Get out of here as soon as their gone." She then shifted into her wolf form. The boys looked at her with a mixture of fear and awe.
Meg opened the door and Katie shot out into the pack of demon wolves. She tore into the throat of the one and then tore out, the demon wolves all following her.
When they had gone the others mobilized, using the raft to put J. D. on and then lugging it outside. As they got out they could see the sky clearing considerably.
"We need to be fast." Meg said. "Everyone get in!" She ordered, and as they did she shifted into a quarter horse. She took one of the ropes attached to the raft in her mouth and began to run towards the library. As they were running they could see ice climbing down the buildings nearby and glass windows shattering as they were cooled far too quickly.
Brian yelled in surprise as a furry grey shape galloped towards them across the snow
"Shut your mouths!" Meg scolded through the piece of rope in her mouth, her speed not slowing in the slightest, "It's just Katie!"
The teens raced against the oncoming tide of cold that would freeze them where they stood.
When they got to the library they abandoned the raft. Meg turned back into human and she and Yami helped J. D. walk as the ice began to form on the walls.
"To the room quickly!" Sam shouted as he picked up his share of the supplies then taking off with the others close behind.
They got to the room seemingly in the nick of time.
"Close the doors!" Brian hastened to comply, shutting the doors as ice began to form on them too. Buddha, the dog, began barking at the ice as it formed.
"Buddha, come away from the doors!" Luther, the homeless man, cried. Katie, still as a wolf, shepherded the frantic animal away from the ice.
The survivors piled books upon the fire, their last hope against impending death.
Wolf: Cliffie!
Leo: Dun dun dun!
Wolf and Leo: Review plz!