The Phantom Oracle (Vampire Innocent Book 5) by Matthew S. Cox

Author:Matthew S. Cox [Cox, Matthew S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949174908
Publisher: Division Zero Press
Published: 2018-11-27T22:00:00+00:00

15

Pissing off the Universe

Saturday afternoon goes by in a blur of shrieking tweens.

Sierra invited Nicole over, Sophia invited Megan from her dance class and her school friend Priya. Sam had Jordan and Daryl over. To be fair, most of the shrieking came from the girls in the living room. The boys aren’t much for squealing in delight or screaming when startled at whatever movie or video game is on. No, most of their loud noises came from ‘battle cries’ in the yard involving Nerf weaponry.

It was a clear day, so I wound up stuck in my room for a while after waking up, dividing my time between the rest of my homework and laundry. Since both parents had kid patrol, Mom carried the baskets to the basement and I did the actual washing and drying for her. Amazing the amount of clothing we go through in a week.

A little after six, the stupid fiery ball in the sky decided to chill out enough that I could go upstairs. At that point, I took over ‘mom’ duties, and the ’rents slipped out to deal with a couple errands and shopping.

Coralie didn’t make an appearance, so I figured she might be off doing all the ghostly things she’d been unable to while trapped at the school. The area has changed quite a bit since she arrived from London. Evidently, the mystics brought her to the States due to her warning them about World War II. The building they formerly occupied didn’t survive the war. They arrived about seven months prior to the rockets falling on London and spent awhile in Boston before something made them split into smaller groups. The main one relocated here, bringing her with them. Others went to Richmond, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The people who use the hall under the college haven’t spoken much about the other ‘lodges’ in a long time, so she thinks there may have been bad blood.

Whoa. I guess even people who use magic have drama.

She did tell me a little bit about that, too. They’re not like ‘wizards.’ I’m thinking these people throw fireballs or something, but it’s way more subtle than that. According to her, they do rituals in the meeting hall and those rituals cause things to happen elsewhere. She called it ‘manipulating fate.’ I’m not sure if that’s more or less frightening than the idea someone might come after me with fire flying from their hands, but, hey, at least Coralie is an oracle. If someone’s going to mess with me, she’ll warn me, right?

Eventually, the kids go home, we have dinner, and Dad throws on Bloodsport. Of course, we can’t watch that movie without him telling us—again—about how he and his friends used to pick on this guy’s movies. Like, in almost every one of them, he’ll get into a fight and the other guy will like totally kick his ass. Then, out of nowhere, he gets this second wind and totally owns the other guy. Sierra and Sophia both find the one guy making his pectoral muscles bounce hilarious.

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