"Finally, an empty house." Charles sighed.
"Charles, I'm going grocery shopping." Trudy smiled, and left.
Charles was walking around the dining table, when he saw a sheet of paper sticking out from in between the surface of the table and the legs.
"Oh, little children. What a sad, sad, mistake." Charles chuckled. He snatched the paper from the wood and read it.
Tears of Gold you shall weep,
A Grail for Egyptian emperors.
The trophy of the man who wasn't loved,
The water from the Nile River,
The blessing of the Chosen One.
"Yes..." Charles smirked, "Yes!"
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The kids were sitting in bleachers outside the field. "So, Riley and I were thinking," Leslie turned to Sibuna, "when we do get all the ingredients, what do we plan to do with them? It's not like we're going to drink it ourselves."
"We're going to hide it so it doesn't end up in the wrong hands." Sarah answered.
"But, why can't we just leave it alone?" She added. "Because, we can't let Charles or Rebecca get their hands on it. Who knows what they'll do if they gain eternal life." Robert replied.
"But, what's so bad about getting eternal life? I bet if one of us had the chance, we would take it too." Jax pointed out.
"He has a point." August chimed in. "I-it's wrong! No one is meant to live forever. You live, you die. It's the circle of life." Sarah ended the conversation, and turned away from the group.
Rhys went to sit beside her. "Are you okay?" He asked.
"I don't know what they don't understand." She combed her wavy hair back with her hands. "Maybe they don't want to be apart of Sibuna." Rhys shrugged.
"Why? You don't either?" Sarah furrowed her eyebrows. "N-n-no! No! I'll never give up on the mystery. On you." Rhys declared. Sarah looked at him.
"Team!" The coach yells. "Yes, coach!"
"Are you ready?!"
"Yes, coach!"
"Then let's play ball!"
~~~~~
"Oh, no. I'm too late." MacKenzie huffs. "Too late for what?" Arielle asked, jumping down from the bleachers.
"You know...how the rumors...", MacKenzie bent over to take a breath, "...how people have been saying the rival team is going to cheat? Well, it's true. Someone's going to tackle Duncan and steal the ball."
"But that's cheating!" Arielle yelled.
"Because I didn't know that already!" MacKenzie sarcastically yelled.
"Hey, what's going on?" All the Anubis kids jumped down from the bleachers.
"Athena's is going to cheat." MacKenzie explained. "The rival school?" Rhys asked.
(Just in case you're confused, Athena Boarding School is the full name of the rival school.)
MacKenzie nodded.
They looked over to the field.
"Can't we warn Duncan somehow?" August wondered.
"Charades!" Leslie suggested. "This is not the time for party games, Leslie!" Rhys groaned, not getting her point.
"No," Leslie giggled, "we can warn him with charades."
"Leslie's right!" Arielle agreed. "Duncan!" They all called out. They got his attention, and he waved. He went back to the game.
"Ugh. He'll never be able to pay attention to us without losing his focus on the game, and we'll be the ones who lost it for him." Sarah stated.
"There's nothing we can do about it." Arielle shook her head, and departed from the group, as did Sibuna.
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"Rhys and I were thinking," Sarah started, "the only ingredient we don't have yet is the tears of gold. And since Riley saw Charles do it before-"
"You think that you and Rhys can go back to the house and get them." Robert finished.
Jax, Leslie, Robert, August and Riley glanced at each other.
"No." They said. "What?" Rhys and Sarah gasped.
"There's a reason we became Sibuna. To find out the truth-together. No way are we going to let you do this on your own." Robert explained.
"Okay." Sarah smiled.
*****
That's the end of this chapter! Sorry it took me a couple of days to update but, I was planning on updating yesterday, but I just got finished taking the ELA portion of the End of Grade Test for this school year, and I was really tired, so I just didn't.
What will Sibuna do when they find out the riddle is gone?
Sibuna.