"Sibuna meeting, 10 minutes," Patricia whispered to Sibuna, they were all standing in the hall.
"Okay," They all nodded.
"Where?" Mara asked.
"Who cares," Patricia shrugged, "We need Nina there though."
"Let's say hers and Lavender's room then, just make sure that Lavender is at breakfast," Fabian spoke.
They all nodded, before splitting off, Patricia and Mara went to go and get breakfast, and Fabian and Eddie went to their room.
****
"You two look tired" Fleur said, looking at Patricia and Mara as they walked in, as she placed a plate of croissants on the table.
"We were up studying," Mara lied.
"Really?" Fleur asked, looking at the suspiciously.
"Uh-Hu," Patricia nodded, as her and Mara sat down at the table with Lavender and Jerome.
"Okay," Fleur responded, looking unsure.
Mara and Patricia both tucked into their breakfast, eating quickly.
****
"Any work on the hieroglyphics yet?" Eddie asked, packing his school bag.
"I've practically just woken up, so... No," Fabian defended, laughing a little.
"Alright, alright," Eddie responded in surrender.
"We should get to the girls room," Fabian said, looking at his watch.
"Yeah," Eddie agreed, flinging his school bag over one shoulder.
****
"Got to go," Patricia rushed, taking a final bite out of her toast and standing up and walking out.
"Me too," Mara agreed, following Patricia,
Both Patricia and Mara then walking into there room, meeting Fabian, Eddie and Nina.
"So what's this about Patricia?" Fabian asked.
"This," Patricia smiled, pulling the locket out from her blazer.
"Well done," Mara grinned.
"Here," Patricia handed it to Nina.
"Thank you," Nina thanked, taking the locket and placing it round her neck.
"Finally we can go into the cellar," Fabian spoke, "Get some answers."
****
"Where's Patricia?" Charlie asked, walking into the dining room.
"She walked out with Mara a few minutes ago," Jerome informed him.
"Did she leave the house, or...?" Charlie asked.
"I think she went upstairs," Jerome muttered, "Why do you need her?"
"Need to ask her something," Charlie mumbled, walking out and upstairs.
****
Charlie saw the door to Patricia and Mara's room wide open and no one was in there, so he decided to try Nina and Lavender's room.
"Patricia?" Charlie banged on her door, and then entered without being told he could.
"Busy," Patricia replied bluntly.
"Why did you steal the locket?" Charlie blurted out.
"What locket?" Patricia asked nervously .
"You know exactly what locket" Charlie replied, slightly angry.
"I didn't steal it," Patricia lied.
"I saw you," Charlie told her.
"Oh so you are a stalker now," She stated.
"Just tell me why you took the locket off the sarcophagi!" Charlie growled.
Patricia looked to the rest of Sibuna for help, but they didn't say anything, just looked either annoyed or nervous.
"Welcome to Sibuna?" Eddie questioned.
"Eddie!" Everyone shouted.
"What is Sibuna?" Charlie asked, confused.
"Erm..." Eddie hesitated.
"Do not trust him," Patricia gritted her teeth, talking to Eddie, "We are not letting him in Sibuna."
"There are many way that you could have stolen the locket easily, but it was your ingenious plan to make up a fake mystery and drag him to the Crypt," Eddie whispered back.
"Eddie!" Fabian mouthed.
"Fake mystery?" Charlie questioned, hearing everything that Eddie said.
"Umm..." Patricia hesitated.
"What do you mean fake mystery?" Charlie gritted his teeth.
"Everything that Patricia told you was a lie," Mara stepped in, "She made it up to get that locket off of you."
"Mara!" Patricia mouthed, annoyed.
"Why would you want my locket?" Charlie queried.
"It isn't yours!" Patricia snapped, "Okay..." She said more calmly, "It's Nina's, Eddie was keeping it safe for her, and God knows how, but it fell into your possession."
"What so special about that locket?" Charlie asked.
Everyone in Sibuna shared a look.
"Can we trust you?" Eddie asked.
"No!" Patricia snapped, not giving Charlie a chance to answer.
"You can trust me," Charlie nodded.
"If we tell you this," Eddie started, "You must promise on your life not to tell another living soul."
"Okay," Charlie nodded.
"Fine... Tell him," Patricia said, "But I warned you!"
"The locket open things in the house, trap door kinda things," Eddie began, "She is the chosen one,"
"The chosen one?" Charlie scoffed, "Nice lie... Again!"
"This is all true," Fabian reassured.
"Prove it," Charlie stated.
"We can't do that at the moment, because Fleur is in the kitchen, but after school we will," Fabian said, "For now... You will just have to trust us."
"And DON'T TELL ANYONE!" Patricia rose her voice.
"Okay, Okay," Charlie nodded.
****
"Joy!" Jerome ran up to Joy, who as standing by her locker.
"Hey," She smiled, closing her locker.
"Joy... I need to, um... Tell you something," Jerome spoke hesitantly.
"Why do I suddenly feel nervous?" Joy asked.
"I'm sorry," Jerome apologised.
"Sorry for what Jerome?" Joy asked.
"I kissed Mara," He blurted out, "Just before you came back from America."
Joy closed her eyes, thinking for a second, "Is this the point where I am suppose to be mad?"
"You're not?" Jerome asked.
"I don't know," Joy shook her head, unsure.
"Why aren't you slapping me right now or something?" Jerome asked, "I would slap me."
"I did break up with you when I was in America, so technically you were single at the time," Joy mumbled.
"So you aren't angry?" Jerome questioned.
"I guess if I was mad or angry then it would just lead to unwanted arguments," Joy shrugged, breathing out.
"You are great, Joy," Jerome hugged her, "And again... I'm sorry,"
"What happened with Mara and Fabian, I mean if you kissed Mara?" Joy asked, releasing from the hug.
"I think they are on a break," Jerome held back a laugh.
"I should go and speak to her," Joy said softly.
"If you want," Jerome shrugged.
****
Fabian was about to walk into the student lounge, when Patricia forcefully grabbed his wrist and threw him against the wall.
"What is your problem?" Fabian shouted.
"Shh!" Patricia hushed him, as she peered into the student lounge.
"What are you doing?" Whispered Fabian.
"Looking at Charlie, he is talking to people" Patricia told him.
"And you are...? Jealous?" Fabian asked.
"No!" Patricia snapped, "I am seeing if we can trust him,"
"Oh..." Fabian muttered, "Was that really a reason the smash me against the wall though?"
"Just be quiet!" Patricia snapped
"Look, he didn't tell anyone about the mystery that you made up, so why would he share this mystery?" Fabian asked.
"This one is more important, as it's real, so iI'm just being extra careful," Patricia told him.
Both Patricia and Fabian then leant against the wall, listening to Charlie's conversation. After
"Guess we can trust him," Fabian said, looking to Patricia, after they heard Charlie speak nothing about the mystery.
"Mayyy... Be" Patricia spoke the word slowly and exaggerating it.
****
The students sat in history, bored to death, there was only a few minutes left before the end of the lesson, the end of that school day.
"Fabian Rutter, Mara Jaffray, Patricia Williamson and Edison Miller" Mr. Hevery shouted once the bell rang, "Please remain seated."
"Why?" All 4 students asked, as the rest of the class packed up and left.
"Since you 4 failed to attend my last lesson, you all have a detention," Mr. Hevery explained.
"Damn. I forgot about that," Eddie spoke.
"But Sir..." Patricia began to argue.
"No buts, 30 minutes, then you can all leave, even though you are mean to stay extra time, Patricia, I will let you off this time."
"Fine," They huffed, remaining in their seats.
****
"Any progress?" Vincent asked, as both Nina and Lavender stood in his office.
"I have my locket back," Nina smiled, "I can know get into the cellar with my 'friends' and get a closer look at the chasm."
"What locket?" Vincent questioned.
"Sarah Frobisher Smythe gave it to me," Nina told him.
"That old woman?" Vincent asked.
"Yes," Nina nodded, "It opens things for me."
"Okay," Vincent nodded, "Lavender West, anything new?"
"I have the recipe for the Elixir," Lavender smiled, handing over a sheet of paper.
"Excellent!" Vincent exclaimed, scanning over the paper.
****
"Free to go," Mr. Hevery told Patricia, Eddie, Fabian and Mara after half an hour had passed.
"Finally," Eddie sighed, as they all stood up and walked out.
"What do we do about Charlie?" Patricia asked, as they all walked to back to the house, once out of school.
"Show him the bread oven... Then work from there," Fabian stated.
"Okay," They all agreed.
****
"So what components do we need for the recipe?" Nina asked, as her and Lavender sat on the bed in their room.
"A whole bunch of strangely named chemicals..." She scanned over the list she had found, "A few other things I can't pronounce, and tears of gold..."
"Right then..." Nina muttered.
"We need to go up to Nina. Get Charlie," Nina and Lavender heard Eddie instruct from down stairs.
"Quickly, hide it!" Nina panicked, talking to Lavender.
Lavender then quickly shoved the paper under her bed, and pulled out a random book, pretending to read that, while Nina laid in her bed.
****
"Want the truth then?" Patricia asked Charlie bluntly, walking into his room.
"Want to knock?" Jerome asked.
"I'm not talking to you!" Patricia snapped.
"I know," Jerome rolled his eyes, looking back down at his laptop.
"Well?" Patricia asked Charlie impatiently.
"Okay," Charlie nodded, standing up.
Patricia and Charlie then both walked out of the room, and then into the kitchen and waited for the others.
****
"Nina?" Fabian asked, knocking on Nina's door, Mara and Eddie behind him.
"Come in," She answered weakly.
Fabian then entered the room, while Mara and Eddie waited by the door frame, looking in.
"Are you able to come downstairs and um... You know what?" Fabian asked, trying not to reveal anything, as Lavender was in the room.
"Yeah," Nina nodded, before slowly climbing out of her bed and leaving the room.
"I don't feel we should get him involved, I barely know him," Nina told them, once she was out of the room.
"Look...", "If we don't tell him then he will probably tell Vincent or someone everything."
Nina hid the fact that she didn't mind Vincent knowing, and just nodded, making it easier.
"Thank you" Fabian smiled, "You don't have to come into the cellar"
"No, it's fine, I can manage it," Nina said, as they all began to walk to the kitchen to meet Patricia and Charlie.
"Hi," Eddie said, joining Patricia and Charlie in the kitchen with Fabian, Mara and Nina.
"Can we trust you?" Patricia confirmed, talking to Charlie.
"We can," Fabian interrupted, speaking for Charlie.
"You don't know that," Patricia replied, gritting her teeth.
"Look, we are here now, Charlie is curious enough as it is, we have to show him," Fabian defended.
"Can you stop speaking about me as if I'm not in the room," Charlie interrupted.
"Sorry," Fabian apologised, "Lets do this. Nina?"
Nina nodded, didn't say anything, just walked up to the bread oven, place her locket on it, and watch as it opened, then stepped back.
"Wow!" Charlie's jaw dropped.
"Lets go," Eddie said, taking the lead. He then crawled through the tunnel, the others followed.
"Creepy," Charlie murmured, entering the cellar.
"Why are all of Victor's experiments still laid out?" Fabian asked.
"Who cares," Eddie responded, "Where do you remember the hieroglyphic from?"
"What hieroglyphic?" Charlie interrupted.
"We will worry about that later," Fabian told him.
"While we are here, should we take a look at the chasm?" Nina suggested hopefully.
"Good idea," Fabian spoke.
"Are we really showing Charlie the tunnels?" Patricia questioned.
"Charlie?" Eddie turned round to him, "Would you like to help us?"
"What?" Patricia choked.
"I feel like we can trust him," Eddie spoke.
"I agree," Fabian added.
"Thanks," Charlie mumbled.
"Mara? Nina?" Eddie queried.
"Sure," Mara smiled.
"Okay..." Nina agreed, not caring that much about Charlie's safety, and thinking about the help he could provide.
"Aren't you going to ask me?" Patricia interrupted.
"Fine..." Eddie huffed.
"He is going to tell someone," Patricia stated.
"I don't quite know what you are going to tell me..." Charlie began, "But I won't tell a soul!"
"Fine," Patricia huffed, giving in.
"There is a set of tunnels through that shelf..." Eddie began to explain "There is a chasm there, and down it is a ring holding tears of gold which are an ingredient to the elixir of life, we need to get that to keep Nina from dying because the Osirian in me died," Eddie then breathed out, a massive breath.
"Right then..." Was a Charlie responded.
"Us guys, Sibuna, solve these mysteries and... Basically save the world," Fabian added.
"Do you want to join?" Eddie asked. Patricia rolling her eyes.
"Sure," Charlie smiled, "You promise that this is real."
"Uh-Hu," Mara nodded, "You promise you won't tell anyone."
"Promise," Charlie promised.
"Sibuna!" Eddie raised his hand to his eye.
"Sibuna," Everyone agreed, raising there hands up too, Patricia a little slower that the others.
****
Vincent sat there in his office, looking over the ingredients list that Lavender had given him. Most of them were chemicals, and others were ingredients that were harder to acquire, but still possible.
****
Sibuna walked through the tunnels, after using a mirror to pass through the light beam. Charlie was looking around, a surprised expression not removing from his face.
"Be careful," Fabian warned, as they turned round the corner that lead onto the chasm.
"How will we ever find out how deep this is?" Patricia questioned, looking down.
"There needs to be a way," Fabian stated.
"Yeah..." Patricia hesitated, "Good luck with that."
"Let's face facts," Mara began, "We are not going to get down here today, or find a way to get down. So lets find the hieroglyphic, and go to dinner."
"Okay" They all agreed, Nina not wanting to follow Mara's orders, but agreeing so she didn't seem suspicious.
****
"Hathor house is so boring," Joy huffed, falling on the sofa of Anubis House beside Jerome.
"Don't worry" Jerome smiled, "You will be back in Anubis before you know it, I heard Vincent talking about it on the phone, he said something about someone moving into the house in a few days."
"That's good," Joy smiled.
"Did you speak to Mara?" Jerome asked, changing the topic.
"No," Joy shook her head, "I didn't have time, I actually came here to find her."
"I don't know where she is, sorry," Jerome told her.
"Sure I can find her," Joy laughed, standing up.
****
Lavender looked around the house for Nina, but she wasn't sure where she was. She needed to tell her something desperately. After looking around for a bit, she pulled out her phone and texted Nina, 'Where are you?'. She then walked back to her room and sat on her bed.
****
A text came through on Nina's phone from Lavender. Nina read it, then quickly replied 'In cellar with Sibuna, finding information. What do you need?'
"Yes!" Fabian exclaimed, looking at a marking on the wall in the corner of the cellar.
"What is it?" Eddie asked, walking over, the others following.
"The final hieroglyphic on the paper..." Fabian began, "It means R.A."
"And what does R.A stand for?" Patricia asked.
"Not sure... Yet," Fabian stated.
****
[So... Charlie is now in Sibuna.
Can they trust him?
What did Lavender need to say to Nina?
Can't think of anymore questions... So... Um... Yeah... Byeee ^_^]