Alpha Of Darkness

Chapter 19

The jewel of knowledge is a relic that all gods put their knowledge in. The jewel gives one person the answer to their most desired questions. The jewel dims after every person it chooses, and will dim more based on the questions.

It was embedded in a family crest shield. The crest is from a royal lycan family that ruled over a kingdom in the middle ages. They have it in a museum a few towns over. We all are headed to it right now. Conan is with us and everyone is uneasy.

Conan is unpredictable and makes people uncomfortable. The drive was horrible getting to the museum. Conan feels bad that he forced himself onto the mission. It’s the first time he’s been out of his cave in years. He usually uses astral-projection to talk and go to meetings.

We pull up to the museum and get out of the car. We head into the museum and look for the jewel. Conan wanders off and I follow him.

“ Where you going. “

He puts on a sad face. “ Why are you babysitting me. “

“ I thought you were heading for the relic. “

We stop walking and he looks around. “ I-I’m sorry. I was wondering again. “ He looks down.

“ Its fine. Let’s find the relic before Michael. “

He nods and starts shuffling. I walk with him as we look at everything in the museum. We soon make our way to the the crest. It has a white wolf’s face on it with floral designs all over it. The jewel is in the wolf’s head. It’s blue jewel.

Conan looks at it closely. “ That’s not the jewel. “

“ What do you mean. “

“ It's not the jewel. The jewel would be admitting power, but this is just a normal jewel. “

“ Where’s the jewel. “

He shrugs. “ Don’t know. “ He lets out a long sigh. “ Let’s get some food, i’m kinda hungry. “

“ Conan! We need to get the jewel. “

“ Oh yea sorry. “ He bobs his head. “ Can we still get food. “

“ Yes. We can figure out where the jewel is. “

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We all are sitting in a diner eating food. We have a map on the table and we are studying it. We can’t do a location spell because it’s cloaked. Conner’s abilities are coming in slow, and his vision won’t start for a bit.

The jewel is the last thing Michael needs for the ritual. If it picks one of us to answer questions that will be good. There was a lot of information on the jewel, but we couldn’t understand most of it. It was in a different language that we couldn’t understand.

Conan couldn’t even understand the language. I look at Conan and he’s stuffing food in his mouth.

I smile slightly and chuckle quietly. “ Having fun? “

He looks at me with a piece of lettuce hanging out of his mouth. “ Yep. “

Josh looks at all the empty plates in front of Conan. “ You sure can eat holy. “

He nods. “ If I eat more human food I don’t have to feed as much. “ He looks out the window thinking.

“ I forgot you are a hybrid, a werewolf/vampire right. “

He nods. “ I don’t need to feed as often. “

Josh sighs. “ I had to feed a few times a month. The artificial blood is actually coming along well. “

Conan looks at Josh and tilts his head. “ Artificial blood? “

Josh nods. “ Yea. It took them awhile but they are getting close. It’s not complete yet but it is helping a lot, I don’t have to feed as often anymore. “

He shrugs. “ Oh, I just feed on who ever sneaks into my territory. “

“ What?! “

Conan sighs. “ It’s mostly just people trying to kill me. No one just wanders into my territory. “

Everyone looks at Conan and he frowns. “ I don’t just kill anyone coming into my territory. “

Everyone sigh and they focus on the map.

Ertha points to a place on the map. “ There’s a lot of old ruins over here, maybe someone switched out and took them here. “

Connor grabs the map to bring it closer and he gasps. His eyes go white and we all stare at him. His eyes turn back to normal and he shakes himself out of it. “ I know where the jewel is. “

He pulls the map and looks over it. He points to a spot in the map. “ Here. “

I look at where he’s pointing and freeze.

Ethu laughs. “ He has it. “

“ Shut up. “ I snap at her.

“ Are we gonna see him. “ Thoalia says kinda excited. “ I want to see him. “

“ No.. “

“ Salem...Salem “

I snap my attention to Leon. “Yea. “

“ You zoned out. “

“ Oh sorry. “

Conan slurps his drink. “ We can get there pretty fast, it’s only a few hours away. “

“ I wonder when they switched out the jewel, it must of been recent. “ Conner says looking at the map.

Conan takes a longer slurp of his drink and everyone looks at him. He stop and looks at everyone. “ What? “

They all shake their heads and focus on the map.

“ What did you see in your vision? “ I ask Conner.

“ The jewel was on a small stand on a huge pedestal. It was in a huge room underground. It kinda looked like Conan’s house but the entrance is through a cave. There was someone there though. “

“ Who? “

He shrugs. “ He’s familiar though. “ He thinks for a moment. “ Very familiar. “

“ We have to hurry and get the jewel. “ Conan says cleaning up the table.

We all clean up and pay. We head for the car and head out.