Ok, guys, Imma have to knock down the great fourth wall of Mexico for this one. Sorry trump. So, I made a slight error in my calculations. Soooo, this whole conversation happened 12 days ago, around when Sharlan died. Suppose they’ve been wandering for like 11 days and this whole thing went down so now they are expecting the prophecy to be fulfilled. Consider this as your flashback since there will be no flashbacks in the rewrite.
“So wait, how do we know when the prophecy will come true?”
“Well, according to what Sharlan and Bel told us about Strings, we should be able to calculate the power of the string by the amount of words. Where in this case, power would equate to the amount of time seen into the future.”
“So then we need a reference point right?”
“Yeah, Natalia, use your String again with like 2 words. Let’s see if we can figure it out.”
“I’ll get my stopwatch.”
Natalia used 2 words of her String and they figured out something was going to fall soon. They started the stopwatch and as soon as the stock market crashed in 2008, they were able to determine the exact amount of time into the future that the prophecy foretells.
They determined that her prophecy starts at 1 second
“Wait, that means that just one word of your String will only let you see one second into the future?”
“Yeah, but I guess that would be pointless, since my first word is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” after she said that, she saw one second into the future, or wait, into the past i guess.
“Yeah, I guess that takes a bit more than 1 second to say, Yeah, that’s kind of pointless.
“Since Natalia used 22 words, and Sharlan said that the system is base 2, that means that the prophecy she gave last chapter is going to occur in 2^20 seconds or about 12 days from now?”
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Ok, now jump to the present.
George, Lloyd, Joylene, Styx, and Natalia are the only people remaining and night is coming soon. Probably like T-15 seconds or so.
George Flo-..um I mean, Lloyd, and Jolene were trying to decipher the prophecy before the time is up.
“Guys, the prophecy is going to be fulfilled tonight.”
“We still don’t know its exact meaning.”
“I wonder what it could possibly be?”
Suddenly Lloyd had an idea cross across his face, but not his brain yet because he’s kind of stupid.
“‘Gray man’, hmmm. I wonder what that could mean in the context of fighting a gorgon.”
“Oh wait, I got it!” said one of the other two.
“One of us is going to be petrified!”
“OHHH!”
“I get it now!”
“Ohhhh!”
“I feel so stupid.”
“Wait guys, this is a bad thing. That means that one of us is going to die.”
“Oh yeah! You’re right! This is bad. But I guess since this is a prophecy, we can’t do anything about this can we?”
“Oh darn. With my luck, it’s prolly gonna be me.” context
“Nah, I’m prolly gonna die, That black cat just walked in front of me.”
“Bro, that’s styx, the dog.”
“Oh, then I think I’m good. Bien.”
“Oh no! That means that either me or Jolene is going to die! No!”
“Guess, I’ll just put my all into this last fight then. Boo-hoo”
Anyway, they got ready to enter the cave since they were going to fight the gorgon.
Hissing sound effect from behind. George swung his barbell and missed. “Ahh!” screamed Lloyd after getting bitten. “Marco!” “Polo!” they kept yelling to try and not bump into each other while swinging their weapons around madly.
This clearly wasn’t getting them anywhere as the gorgon was slowly dealing damage to them. They were all fighting with their full efforts, trying to survive and somehow kill the vampire-gorgon.
George realized that this wasn’t going to get them anywhere
“Yo! Jolene” That was the cue to communicate in Dog so that the gorgon isn’t aware of their actions. “Over here!” He ran over and grabbed Styx and yelled “BARK BARK BARK BARK” tonelessly, meaning roughly “Change of plans. Leave this to me!” They all ran outside while George was still left inside holding Styx. “Oh crap, I meant for her to grab Styx! But now he’s stuck here with me.” Then a genius thought crossed his mind which connected all the dots. The guy in the prophecy was holding something black? Well that could be Styx cuz he’s black!
George assumed a calm posture which threw the gorgon off. He started petting Styx while slowly turning around to try and face wherever the gorgon might be and started speaking. “I realize now that I can’t beat you. You have proved to be a worthy opponent and this will be my resting place it seems.”
“Any last words?" asked the Gorgon
"I’m sorry Styx”
At that the gorgon was about to jump at him and perform the final blow. But Styx turned to stone as soon as his eyes met the gorgon’s which was the cue for George to make his final effort as he knows knew which direction the gorgon was coming from. He swung the barbell and smashed the Vampire-Gorgon to pieces.