Author's Note
Hey guys! Me again! So I hope you're enjoying the story you all don't hate me for this late update. I have SAT testing coming up so don't expect another update for a bit ... Love you my readers! I need another name for you guys ...
Lucas's POV
"Research? Tell me Angel why am I not surprised." I stated.
"Oooohhhh look someone getting sassy on their cr-"
"Shut up, Logan" I cut him off.
"Well, I'll say it again . . . " Angelina said slowly, eyes darting back and forth from between us. "This whole wrecked office is a set-up to set us on the wrong track. Who or what obviously wanted us to buy the wreckage but clearly no criminal would leave so much "real" evidence for people to find. For all we know they could or bribed someone to do this so the finger prints aren't actually theirs."
"What have you been reading in your room lately?" Nicoletta questioned.
"That's none of your business, Nikki. I read what I want to." Angelina snapped back.
"I knew Jenna shouldn't have gotten you those FBI Mariposa Addition series!"
"Ah, smart as always . . . " I didn't notice myself zoning off until Aureliana whacked me on my head.
"That's something I will never understand." she shook her head.
"What? Intelligence - oh, you meant that . . ." I realized. You see Aureliana was never the one to flirt or have crushes. She thought it was pure rubbish. [Which it is!- Aure] So she intends on staying a maiden her whole life.
"Lucas, you seem off today. Are you okay?"
"Umm . . . " That was the best thing I could come up with but Angelina didn't let it go.
"Ok Logan did you give Lucas laughy gas or something!? You know that stuff from the mortal world that makes you go all wacky and causes the person to think they don't have thumbs."
"Woah, not everything that's wrong with Lucas is my fault! I don't even know what half the things mortals have up there are! You expect me to use something that I have no knowledge about?"
"Yes! 'Cause that head of yours can't think! Albert Einstein said 'two thing are infinite: the universe and human stupidity.' If human stupidity is infinite then I don't even want to think about what Logan's stupidity is."
Logan put on a fake hurt face. "Well that's not a nice thing to say about a friend! Wait, who's this Alfred Instain?"
Angelina just shook her head in frustration, letting out a long sigh.
"Logan your taking this awfully hard on yourself you know. I thought you would be used to our constant complaining about you. But it's okay, just learn from your abundant amount of mistakes." Nicoletta's voice dripped with fake sympathy as if she was talking to a two year old.
"Not you too! Why Nikki, why!?" As you can see Logan handles the ladies much better than I do. [I know right! - Logan, Shut up already! - Me, NEVER! DUN DUN DUNNN!!! - Logan] I should stick to never hinting a single complement to Logan.
"Oh my tacky thorn bushes! What did I say about staying focused! We have a serious matter at hands!" Aureliana scolded the guys.
"You got that right, Aure!" The girls shared a three way high five. And headed back into the office to find more clues. Logan and I had no choice so we followed them inside.
"Ok, first put everything back in order to their right places and then search threw rubble. On your mark, get set go!" ordered Nicoletta. We raced around the office flipping couches, shifting furniture, organizing shelves. We raced around the room like zipping dragonflies, suddenly filled with a strange burst of energy. Soon enough, everything was placed approximately where it originally was. In the middle of the room was a foul smelling pile of rubble, containing who knows what.
Nicoletta dusted off her wings by fluttering them back and forth, raising a few inches off the ground while she was at it. "So who wants to go in there first?" She asked. everyone shook their heads or backed off. That is everyone but Angelina.
"Guys . . . Sh- she's sh- sh- she's," Angelina kept on stuttering. "H- h- how h- how?"
"Angel, what's wrong?" I asked because she was starting to worry me. A LOT. She never loses her calm composure, right she looked like she was on a mental breakdown. But her only reaction to my words was a shaky finger pointed in Nicoletta's direction. Everyone glanced at her wondering what was the source of this insecure Angelina. Nikki was hovering few inches above the ground. The only thing unlike her was her frightened expression. When you have wings you fly, simple as that, and she was hovering = flying. We didn't see what was wrong at first but the problem slowly dawned on us. She was FLYING! Now now now, I know said that flying was normal but if you recall the whole entire KABOOM of a situation we're in, you would find yourself as either psyched or frightened as we are. Well actually I don't know. You mortals think differently with all your gadgets and whatnot. Well of you think back, you would realize we couldn't fly. Poison= no flying, but apparently ... NEWS FLASH! Nikki can FLY! Maybe we could fly too! Or something was incredibly wrong and we were going to face our downfall like ... NOW!
"Hey Nikki, how about you try flying around the room and see what happens." Aureliana suggested.
"Uh . . . sure." Nicoletta replied after recovering from the initial shock of realizing how such a simple action could put everyone (or Angelina) into a frenzy during certain circumstances. She slowly flew around the room in a circle around the ruble pile.
"Try flying toward the corner of the room by the couch." Logan offered. Nikki did as he said, only to find it harder to fly and soon the beats of her wings faltered and were very uneven like when a mortal computer starts glitching.... I think. I'm not a mortal, so I can't be sure. She finally made it to the corner and collapsed onto the ground with a thud.
"I'm so sorry!" Logan exclaimed as he flew after her only to collapse on top of her. Aureliana covered her eyes.
"Nice going Logan!" I laughed only to get another head whack from Aureliana's palm. Meanwhile, Angelina was testing out her wings. She shifted them back and forth, the new feeling so strange after walking for a whole day. Slowly but surely, her wings warmed up, no longer stiff, and lifted her up into the air, feet no longer touching the ground. A smile spread across her face as she flew in circles faster and faster, then she slowed down and flew towards the corner. You could tell it was getting harder and harder to keep herself up in the air and her energy was being drained too. Though she landed with a soft thud before her wings were forced to give up and let her crumble into a heap in the ground. She walked back to us slowly, energy seemed to return to her as she approached the pile of junk.
I suddenly realized how full I felt just being near the junk pile as weird as that sounds. During our walk here it's was as if I didn't get a wink of sleep, but now I have enough energy to last me three days straight as if I slept for three days straight before today. "Hey," I said. "I think something powerful is under that rubble. It's radiating off loads of energy: energy that should belong to the Septer of Life if you know what I mean."
"Oh Lucas! I was just about to say that!" Angelina squealed as she crushed me into a hug. "Well, someone's full of this wonderful energy aren't you?" I managed to choke out. After I said that she seemed to realize that she was kind of hurting me, which she would never do am I not right? [ Lucas! Stop embarrassing me!- Angel ] Oops!
"Sorry, I just got excited there for a second." She mumbled an apology. But me, being awkward person I am, just stood there staring off into wonderland with a large grin on my face. For that I received a third whack on my head. I bet you can guess who gave it to me. *glares and Aure's direction* [ You deserved it you love struck mariposa!- Aure ]
"I don't know about you Mariposas but I think I'm digging it to the junk pile first if it means finding a power source." Nicoletta cut it, after detangling herself from Logan, who had a sheepish looking expression but quickly flashed me a lop-sided goofy smile. Then getting up himself he trailed behind Nikki like a lost puppy who just found his mommy. Nikki mean while was having some fun growing herself a pair of leaf gloves to put on while she explored the ruble. Man, is it good to use magic again.
Nikki cautiously removed piece by piece of ruble separating them into two piles: clues and junk. After a while the rest of the girls joined in too with there own leaf gloves. I grew myself branch tongs and started in the pile myself only to gets weird looks from Aure.
"Why are you using tongs?" she asked.
"Because I want to ..." I replied.
"Lucas just use your hands .... like Logan." She glanced over at Logan who was just snatching things from the pile and flinging the stuff he thought was useless behind him. If you looked over his shoulder you could see a frantic Nicoletta trying to catch her "clues" before they hit the ground.
"Logan! Stop throwing the stuff!" Nikki whined. "Be some help, would you?"
"Sorry, did you say something?" Logan glanced over his shoulder to see a panting Nicoletta, her usually smooth chocolate brown hair sticking out in different directions, with a glare set deep into those hazel eyes. Logan put on one of really a embarrassed face like when you just realized you created those oversized thorn bushes and you got your friends stuck in them. [OMG I remember when you did that- Angel] "Oh." was his only reaction. Nikki just gave him another death glare and started to sort again, shoulders rigid.
Looking back at the pile there was a huge hole from where Logan was digging in. Through it you could make out a faint golden glow seeping through nooks and crannies in the junk. I walked over and started to pick my way through the rest of the ruble, the glow was becoming brighter as I dig deeper. I removed one last piece blocking the light source and the room erupted with golden light. Nothing like the dank atmosphere that Bloom Cavern has morphed into. After everyone recovered from their initial shock and adjusted to the sudden brightness, we looked around the room with wide eyes. Everything seemed to have mended itself, polished desk and cabinets, fresh new couches. even we felt refreshed and new. We let our eyes settle back on the pile of junk we've collected, it was no longer there. Most of the ruble returned to their rightful places on the walls or ceiling, patching up the holes, while the rest of the junk lay in a neat, organized, fixed pile or Scolls, bottles, and boxes. Above the stack of former junk floated a golden bottle made from transparent golden leaves. in the bottle was an ancient looking scroll suspended in glittering particles. Everyone started at it in awe, mesmerized by the power it emitted. The first one to snap out of the temporary trance was Logan.
"So that's what mortals called BURIED TREASURE! It's was a treasure that was buried!"
The rest of us just rolled our eyes. "Oh Logan..." We said in unison.
Author's note
I have decided to call you guys my wait for it ..... PURPLE PANDAS! So stay tuned my purple pandas and have a good day!