The treasure
1069 Words
The crowd around us started to panic and run away from the damage that Vivien made.
“CALM DOWN!!! EVERYONE, CALM DOWN!!” Ponsius yelled trying to calm down the people but with the panic and screaming of the people, nobody could hear him. The panic created a stampede and the stampede turned into chaos, the knights on the stage couldn’t control the chaos anymore for their numbers were too small so they let someone run to get some back-up. Their leader, Ponsius, retreated and went inside his royal carriage, and some of the people are going to their houses and starting to hide, and some are just running around like a headless chicken.
I asked Vivien calmly, in the midst of the chaos, “Do you know where his house is?”
“Of course, follow me. I’m not like you.” She replied while leading me through the chaos.
Since she knows where we're going, I quickly shifted our topic to what happened to me before I was sent to prison and she said in confusion, “you really don't remember what happened?”
“No, I don’t and my head hurts if I try to remember it” or in my case, my skull hurts.
Vivien speaks as if she was guilty of something and doesn’t want to tell me. “Well, the thing is...ishhh, I kinda…”
A house in the distance started to catch on fire and all of the people, including us looked in that direction but Vivien immediately grabbed my hand and ran towards it. I asked her “what’s the deal?? Why are we in a hurry?”
Vivien immediately replied “that’s his house. We need to hurry because someone might be there already”
…
We reach Lupin’s house but everything is burning and we can’t really get inside while it’s still burning. There’s also a lot of people so I can’t use my magic or else I’ll stand out and once again, get caught.
“Vivien pulled my arm as she was trying to get my attention. I looked at her and she said, “Use your combination magic, Weather Control. C’mon, hurry, or else the leads that we need may be gone”
“But isn't that what you want? No leads to be found about the abyss.”
“Yeah, but do you think the fire that started here is a natural occurrence”
I immediately realized what she said and I raised my index finger towards the sky, “~AERIAL CLOUDS~” and the blue vast sky started to be covered by the thick white clouds. As the clouds are gathering above us I cast my second magic, “~AQUA FALL~ Combination attack ~WEATHER CONTROL: ARTIFICIAL RAIN~”
The town was covered by the cloudy skies above, and the rain started falling. The downpour created by my magic settled the disarrayed people while some are still running around. A lot of the townsfolks started taking shelter and hiding from the rain and the unknown attack that Vivien made. As the mayhem started to wear down, the fire on the house started to clear up.
Luckily, the house is still standing up and the outside looks fine. We opened the slightly burnt door and went inside but all the things were in ashes. The windows were all broken, the house decors were all in cinders, and all the furniture was in embers.
*CRASH!* the sound of glass shattering when hitting the ground was heard under the floor that we were standing.
I put my index finger over her lips and shushed her. we tried to look for a hidden entrance leading downstairs but nothing remained inside, not a single thing to see here except the walls and the ashes.
I whispered to her “cover your face, I’ll remove the ashes in a minute.”
“~GUST~” The clutter of ashes were collected in the middle of the house by the mild wind and what we saw on the floor was a secret door that was under the rubble. The handle was made of a metallic alloy that was forged to look like a fox holding a ring handle on its mouth.
We slowly walked downwards to the basement, quietly and stealthy while being ready to fight any person.
As we reached the basement we were surprised to see a hallway full of metal doors. We looked inside the door, only to find the heaps of gold, the different treasures, and the unknown material that he stole.
“Umm… Greed…” Vivien called me and as I looked at her, I saw the door at the end of the hallway. It was made of thick gold but half of it was melted
“Told you it wasn't natural” she ran quietly towards the golden door and signaled me to come quickly.
I walked silently towards her and I peered inside to see who was inside. I saw two men conversing with each other. They were wearing a coat so I couldn't see their faces.
The tall man with a deep voice said“Do you have it?”
“Yeah, already have the map and his symbol,” The small man said as he went up to the tall man's back.
“A’ight, let’s get back to the Ship” their body glowed
“~SWORD RUSH~” Vivien’s swords flew towards them, and they jumped backwards to avoid the attack and with that, their escape was prevented. “Sorry boys, that map is mine.”
“~AURA OF THE KINGS~ Kneel before your king”
The tall guy dash towards me with a knife in his hand and shout “You are not MY KING” I tried to evade his attack but the small one behind his back jumped on my face. He started stabbing the eye holes in my helmet.
“~PURGATORIAL FLAMES~” A small blue flame appeared in my hand and I touched the small man on my face.
“AHHH, AGHHHH!!!!!!! IT BURNSSSS AGHHH!!”
“~DEVOURING BLAZE~ F*CK, why can’t I devour the flame ~DEVOURING BLAZE~”
“You cannot devour something that is stronger than you”
“AGHHHH!!! STOP ITTT!!!! AHHH”
“F*CK IT. We can’t beat them. STOP, stop it. I’ll give you the map just let us go”
I snapped my finger and the blue flame disappeared. “Now give me the map.”
“Here” the tall guy threw the map towards me. I gave it to Vivien and she examined it.
“Let them go, we already have it,” she said with a satisfied face.
Their body glowed and slowly disappeared into nothingness.
Vivien asked me “Are you fine? You were stabbed a couple of times.”
“Yeah don't worry about…”
“Hey Greed,” and she’s not even listening to me. *SIGH*
She called my attention and said, “Look at this artifact. It’s a glowing box.”
“A glowing box??” I asked in confusion but as I looked at it I recognized it immediately.
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