Tomb
1915 Words
A Glimpse
A world so huge
A world so wide
Indeed is worth
A waiting while
To the thoughts of
The far and near
We wait to round-off
A seeker's prayer
In a lay man
Lies a glimpse
Of simplicity
That upholds
The thoughts
Of the heart
Within a glimpse
Of the earth
There is a need
For survival
For hope
For love
All will wait
To see the weight
Of the glimpse
Of the moon
All will wait
To see the weight
Of the glimpse
Of the stars.
Poem by angela ivy croft
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It's so dark in here, suddenly the fire lamps light up themselves. I smell mummy if you ask me. This dark fire theme just says welcome to the great Egypt, home of the mummy and gold. How I don't like it here.
We're walking and I see a human skeleton on the wall with a spear in its skull. I'm not surprised. Olive ignores all this with stiff ignorance, I'm still not surprised.
I'm telling you guys, this is just insane.
Soon after a rat invasion starts with just one rat, then five rats, then soon after we see an unbeatable army of rats coming for us.
Oh my Olive has regained his sight! How stupid!
We run back to our very beginning and we shut the lock. I take the stone out immediately.
Hollow noises fill the tomb I think. Wow this is happening and I don't have my phone here for this.
Olive takes the stone and puts it in the second, it opens up. This time he's extra careful. He looks up and down twice before making a move.
As a light caster making light is our thing, but I guess I'll just let the boss do his job. Countless times I've had illusions about tombs never did I expect myself to end up in one alive.
The lamps come up by themselves again. Olive shakes a little.
The lighting goes a long way inside as we see from our distance. Let's move.
We walk straight through until I step on a block beneath and surprise. This path is for booby traps, of course it is. It's a tomb!
We can't run backwards cause a giant blade is swinging over and over again, guess what? It's coming closer to us.
The funny aspect is our frontal view has got something special, arrows. The speed at which the arrows fly around sounds more life threatening than a blade.
I bend down and crawl with my belly to escape a shot, Olive sees me and just laughs as he tries to use his powers to make it seize.
"Olive if you wake up any mummies I'll snap your neck!". I wish I could, I just wish. He sees my point of view but does it anyway.
The blade stops, the arrows too. We both get up and look around for a while.
Oh no! It doesn't. With a faster speed the blades come for us, the arrows are more.
"Thank you for making the tomb gods angry boss, now we'll die before we reach the end. How smart! ".
Both of us crawl faster till we reach a hole we never knew had a spot there. We fall deeply.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
We're screaming for our lives and then boom! We land on a pile of ultimately rotten dead bodies. Thank God they're not awake.
Some skulls roll down the floor with us, how nice. We reach the floor tremendously well, perfect landing in all accord.
I wish!
Olive coughs out due to the dust storm around us, it goes down with ease. I can't believe it we're lost.
"Olive where are we? ". Olive is so pissed by my question "I don't know Jake, I don't! " he breathes a breath of disbelief and anger.
"I was so close to it" Olive whispers to himself.
"So close ".
A sudden darkness hits the area and I move away from the bodies immediately," what is it ?". Olive really lived more than half of his life in the underworld so I don't think he knows exactly what a zombie or mummy looks like .
That's a shame. Poor kid.
"Run Olive, run".
Take a pause readers.
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Hey guys it's Jake here, so just imagine if we took the third door.
Point is always weigh out your options before making a move. You'll never know.
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Back to the running.
"Oh my God they're waking up!!! ". I yell cause right now I'm part of a zombie apocalypse and I mean if these guys are the zombies then where the hell is the mummy. Probably the third door.
We see a flight of stairs leading upwards to the upward direction and we follow it. Olive uses his powers to give them a strike.
Like bowling pins they all scatter to pieces, I really didn't give a f**k about the killing. All I had in mind was to run out of the tomb. For all I care, Olive loves his orb.
Olive covers the doors behind us making me turn to him. He takes the wood on the floor using it to block the door.
Bang! Bang! They try to burst the only barrier between us and them open.
Olive runs for the ladder at the middle, I follow him behind. The fear from the both of us tells of our struggles with no pride beside.
"We've got to make it to the top or they'll kill us". I felt like even the rats were turning to humans for the attack. I don't believe the number I saw back there.
We crawl to the top, of course we've lost track of the shining book we saw. Did he really think it was going to be easy, no!
"Do you know where you're going or is this some kinda joke? ", I ask Olive. I also realized I'm alive and no one died in my hands.
I'm free from this spell, do I leave Olive alone?
After a while knowing our almighty confusion I spot a room with stairs leading to the top. "Olive I think I just found something right now, let's go this way" he looks to my side "why? " is he asking me that now.
"Because it leads us to higher ground genius!". I feel like I'm screaming at the top of my lungs when the whole place is actually silent.
We're just breathing and breathing. He utters some words "okay let's go there", finally some freaking form of trust in here.
We move through the stairs, I notice the stairs resemble a pattern. Not just any pattern but a pattern in a room.
It's a palace of maybe it used to be a palace, the dead people are the guards or servants while the shining book must be the orb.
"I think it's here" Olive says this, definitely he's feeling it deeply.
Finally the moment we've all been waiting for, the shining book at the top of the table.
Olive moves to pick it up, guess what.
It's just a golden plate with inscriptions on where to find the orb.
"Ahahahahahaha , I can't believe this, this is epic Olive. The great Sparta and others are playing with your mind boy", honestly I'm done with this whole orb thing, I really am.
Olive's frustration has gotten to the brim and if anyone leaves another note again, I know he'll crack up.
"If I see another tip for this orb again I'll blow this whole tomb or palace of whatever up. Trust me", his tone is so daring, I can feel his rage from a distance.
"Jake let's move to the upper chambers, it's there", I'm just like who the hell built this freaking tomb of palace place up, it's too high.
Can we be real here, this is too much for a whole day.
We move like snails to the last point at height in the tomb. Indeed we see a book.
Olive's getting fueled up for a major blast attack, finally the zombies make it through. The anger in Olive doubles.
His eyes are now black, his veins are black again. Oh no! It's gonna blow.
He sends them all off the floor down to the sand leaving them as bones stuck in mud.
I love this!
He's back to normal, I can see it.
I touch the book but it stays the same. It's a duplicate of the golden book back at the library.
Then why the fake map Sparta.
Olive's eyes breath anger and fire. We teleport back to the library.
It's time for war.
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I see Grey with April and that old man from Raven. What a trio, beautiful match. It's a three against two here.
I notice I'm all fueled up for this epic battle. Olive sends a black rope to strangle Grey. I step in front of the old man Bob.
April gives us space, she's definitely scared and I'm not in for another f**k session.
Not now or ever.
I produce a strong wind hard enough to swing him but instead I let him swallow it in whole. Guess what?
He's now a complete vapour.
Time for April.
Just the exact perfect timing limit, the rest of the parliament shows up. I'm now up against ten young casters with powers I've never seen.
We're are completely surrounded by a caster foundation for blood. What can we do?
Let's have a blast now shall we?
"Hold tight Jake, I'm gonna make it rain" Olive sounds so desperate.
Whoosh!
A quick hurricane of magnitude hits the library, the books fly in disorder hitting some of the casters down.
The strongest always survive so we're down to two. A male and a female.
I see the orb exactly at the middle of the library directly in front of us. They see it too.
It's about to get hotter.
They're running for it, we're running for it as well. The race starts.
"Don't let them get to it before us Jake!! " uhm b***h I know.
Woah! One of them is a vampire caster, I'm sure he sent them after me at that motel. He's mine.
Just like a hero always Olive saves the day, now they're dead. Thanks mister!
That's in my head.
April is no where to be found but I see Grey with the orb.
"Give me the orb Grey " Olive demands. Grey makes a portal and states briefly, "you'll never get it from my warm hands Olive, don't you know?
You'll die just like your father and forefathers before you, you belong to the dark.
It's in you, it always will. "
His blood filled mouth out pours such nonsense.
Olive boils hotter than ever, I feel it. It gets to me.
I see a spark in my hand making me get power from the library, it's getting stronger by the second.
I turn my hands towards Grey as he tries to escape again, my power shuts him down.
I compel him to give me the orb, who knew I could control the mind and body. That's a gift I don't want to lose.
The orb lands on the floor close to my feet, Olive is impressed by my act.
I'm about to pick the orb up.
Boom!
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