*Rita's P.O.V.*

"Don't look! It's a Cockatrice!"

".... Rita, it's only a peacock."

"Huh?"

Noticing the colorful feathers on the birds tail, I blushed and mumbled, "Oops." Cassandra and I had been walking through out the zoo for several minutes now, trying to find any mythical creatures in distress.

We found nothing.

As we exited the bird section, Cassandra asked me, "Rita? How close... were you...." "To Jenkins or Dulaque?" ".... Both."I shrug and buried my hands into my jacket pockets, choosing  my words carefully, "I... became close to both of them. Jenkins is like a father to me. Dulaque.... part of me says he was nothing more than a boss. But.... the other me.... The other me wishes Dulaque and I were friends, kinda like Jenkins and I, but...."

"Your sister, Raura?" Cassandra verified. I nodded grimly, "...Raura.... Thinks Dulaque could be a father figure, I guess. But I refuse to let her control my life. She hasn't taken that nicely. Once.... long ago... she took over. Killed a lot of people with bombs and magic. The only one who could stop her was Dulaque."

I shivered slightly and quietly stated, "I still have nightmares of all the blood; all the violence.... all the betrayals...." Cassandra wrapped a arm over my shoulder, causing me to tense up, as she said, "Its over now. She's out of your head; she can never hurt you again...." I pulled away, sadly whispering, "She's already down enough damage to cause me nightmares for the rest of my immortal life." We observed some wolves as I added, "She doesn't need to be in my head to hurt me..."

Stone and Timothy walked over to us at that moment. Stone informed us, as we faced each other, "Ezekiel and Luke found a underground network of tunnels... and a bunch of dead wolves. Cassandra nodded as she added, "I noticed that some parts of the ground are lower than others. They're barely noticeable, unless your a wiz at math, like me." Cassandra smiled once she was down speaking. Timothy asked, as I zoned out, "But who would kill wolves in a Zoo?"

"Werewolves?" Cassandra asked.

"Possibly. What do you think... Rita?"

I shook my head and told them, "My apologies; I was in my Mind Palace. This has happened before; in China, Japan, Great Britain, all over the world!...." "I was actually in Japan when the wolves died!" Timothy commented, saying, "I know for sure that 7 out of the 10 wolves were Werewolves..." Jacob Stone asked, "So what do you think? Werewolves in the Zoo?"

We nodded.

"Great.... so what now?" I asked, just as our awkward silence was interrupted by screaming! Spinning towards the commotion, we raced through the fleeing crowd. Turning the corner, we came upon..... "O. My. Pikachu!" Luke gasped, crawling out of the dust cloud in front of us. I shoved him behind me as we observed the damage.

"What happened?" Eve asked, as she and Flynn ran up to us. I pointed towards the hole as I replied, "Apparently the cave in which Ezekiel and Luke were in collapsed...." "But where is Ezekiel?" Asked Flynn, as we spun around to look in every direction. EZEKIEL IS MISSING?!?!?!? Snap, where has that Librarian gone off too?!? Let's hope he's not trap in that collapsed cave....

***Ezekiel's P.O.V.***

"Owwwwwwwwwwww......" I groaned, sitting up from the bench.... Wait. A bench? I was underground when the cave collapsed! So how....?

"Thank God you're alright!" A 16 year old girl said, who sat in the tree above me, "For a moment, I thought you might have been dead!" Looking up into the tree, I observed the young teen carefully.

The girl had chin length, light brown hair with bangs covering her forehead, with 2 hairbands, (one pink, one purple), sat on the top of her freckled cheek head. She wore a long sleeve rainbow shirt underneath a yellow, flower printed t-shirt, with a green vest over the shirt. She had flowers on her denim skirt, with orange pants reaching her knees. Rainbow socks pocked out of her red shoes, with bracelets on her wrists. 

I sat up and stared at the girl, asking, "Who..? What...?" "O my goodness, I am so sorry! Where are my manners?" The girl leaped from the tree limb, landing on her feet and held out a hand, introducing herself, "I'm Terra. Terra Libby Banks, mythologist in training! I was in the underground tunnel when I saw you pinned under a lot of rubble. I moved the rubble out of the way, pulled you out and placed you here!"

I managed to sit up as I stuttered, "But... the rubble... it had to have been extremely heavy!..." "150 pounds, to be exact." I groaned and stood up, as Terra told me, "It's lucky that you don't have any broken bones!..." Her name suddenly struck me like a bulldozer!

"You're her!"

"Her who?"

"You're Terra Libby Banks!"

"Yes.... that is my name...."

"Oi! Your the other Librarian that the Library letters mentioned about!"

"Librarian... Library.... are you sure none of the debris hit in the head or something?..." Terra looked utterly lost at me, tilting her head to the side. I groaned, "No! No!" I looked around, saying, "I have to introduce you to my co-workers!" "So your not alone..." Terra mumbled. I nodded and turned away, saying, "We just need to find them...."

BAM!!!!!!

I fell to the ground as Terra took off! "TERRA!!!!" I yelled, attempting to get up. But a few jump rope ropes tied around my arms! How is that possible?!?

***Rita's P.O.V.***

"There's Ezekiel, over there!" Looking to where Luke was pointing, I barely managed to dodge a girl racing by me! Ezekiel hopped over to us, jump rope tied around his arms and legs, yelling, "It's her! It's Terra Libby Banks! Don't just stand there, stop her!!!" Jacob simply grabbed Terra by the back of her shirt as she ran by him, causing her to scream, "YOU WILL NOT TAKE WHAT BELONGS TO ME!!!"

"Wow wow wow, calm down, Miss Terra!" I told her, as Luke and Eve struggled to untie Ezekiel, "We are not here to hurt you! To be honest, we didn't know that you were here. We're not taking anything from you, so please, calm down." Terra quit struggling, gasping as she asked, "You're.... not here.... to hurt me?...."

Flynn motioned to Jacob to let her go, who complied. Terra stared at Flynn Carson as he asked, "Terra, my name is Flynn Carson. I can assure you we have no intentions on hurting  you...." Terra sighed, saying, "Thank God! I thought you were with the people who are trying to kill me!"

Wait, what......?