Cursed ✔️

100. Conjuring

"She fell down the stairs," was the first reply that came to Alex's mind when the nurse asked her about Emily.

They all teleported to the hospital and Emily was admitted. There were far fewer people and staff in the hospital than there were when they last visited there. The good news was that nothing harmful happened to Emily but the bad news was that her recovery will take time but time was the only thing they were running out of.

"Don't worry about me," Emily smiled lying on her hospital bed, "It'd be a matter of time when I feel alright but don't stop because of me."

"You are important more than anything, Emily," Clyde smiled at her, and Ryan and Helena followed him.

"That was a brave thing you did back there," Emily shifted her gaze to Alex, "Helena told me how you knocked John unconscious. Thank you,"

"Don't, you'd have done the same thing for me." Alex squeezed her hands before getting up.

"Now all we need to find is," Ryan said, "what the number stands for and we'd have the final piece in our hands."

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The four of them waited outside for nearly half a minute as the doctor ran a final test on Emily and when the nurses and the doctor left the room, they went inside to see how Emily was feeling now.

"Any luck finding out about 4623?" Emily asked Clyde, Helena, and Ryan and saw Alex entering the room behind them.

"Alex, what's that?" Emily's eyes fell upon a page sticking out of Alex's pocket.

Alex followed Emily's gaze and so did Ryan, Helena, and Clyde.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, I think I may have solved the mystery which is keeping us from the third stone."

"What is it?" Delighted, Clyde asked but soon realized that she couldn't hear him, "Ugh,"

Emily giggled looking at a frustrated Clyde and then asked Alex, "What do you mean?"

"When I was searching for the kitchen to drink water, Diana's pawns came out of nowhere and started attacking me but I wasn't going down without a fight. But three against one was an unfair combination to win against and they ended up tying me against the bedpost.

But when they were doing that, I saw a page sticking out of the bedside drawer. Call it a curious human mind, but when the three of them, weren't looking, I scooted to get near the page and tried to get it from my mouth as my hands and legs were tied.

I had to be very careful not to rip the page apart or draw any attention towards me. It took a few tries but I was successful. The page fell on the floor and with me tied legs, I managed to pull it towards me. Before I even had the chance to see what it said, a girl came and duct-taped my mouth. But thank God they didn't close my mouth before."

"What was on that page that grabbed your attention in the first place, Alex?"

"As I was sitting there on the floor, I saw something written on the page - printed on the page with black ink. I tried to ignore it at first thinking maybe it could be a document that belonged to the Jacksons but when I squinted my eyes to focus on what was written on it, after what I saw it was hard to unsee it or leave the paper there.

I saw some numbers printed on it. Now it could be any random number, I know, but something in my heart was just not ready to forget about the paper.

After you untied me, I picked up the paper and was about to read it to find what my intuition was telling me all along, John came and well, you know the rest.