CEDRIC MANTICHORAS AND THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PHOENIX
For Heather Munro, Samantha Dean, Sean Amog, Michael Attwood, Michael Joe Kingsley, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint,Ryan Luke, Taylor Wilson, Kyle Albin,Mrs. Frankland, and Ms. Bhattacharya, who all helped Cedric on his Journey.
In loving memory of Emily Erwin and Dartz Howlstun. Though you are not here, your souls will live on forever.
Chapter 1: The Letter.
The 4th house on Bridgel Road was silent. It had been that way for over 50 years. The original family that lived there was very mysterious. They never left the house except to go to work.
The house looked like one of those houses from a horror movie, sort of like a castle, very large. The house had only 1 door, located at the front. You could get to it by following the cobbled path that was at the end of the driveway. There were many windows, but the blinds were always closed.
The house had been for sale since the day that the owners died, on May 29th, 1951. But about 54 years later, It was bought, by the Mantichoras family. The family consisted of the mother, father, and a 14-year-old boy.
"Cedric, help your father with the heavy boxes" A lady about 50 years of age said in a squeaky voice.
"Yes, mother" said a boy with red hair. He was wearing a black cloak, black pants, and, yes, you guessed it, a black shirt.
The boy got out of the car, holding a large brown box, it was filled to the top with random items, t-shirts, a gameboy, a few books, another cloak, stuff like that. He began walking up the path to the door.
"Oh, and Cedric, go upstairs and choose a room!" The lady said.
Cedric sighed.
"Yes, Mother!"
He walked into the house, glanced around the room and said:
"Holy crap, this place is huge!"
He walked over to a spiral staircase that was to the right of the door and began walking up. Once up the stairs, he was in a long hallway of doors. He began walking down the hall to a door that had the word "NOX" engraved into it. He opened the door. Inside the room there was a few chairs, a desk, a couch, a table, another spiral staircase, and a bed.
Cedric walked over to a light switch and flicked it on. The room didn't light up.
"Stupid old man didn't even have light in here!" he said.
Cedric began walking over to the bed to put his box down. He tripped over a lifted floorboard and dropped the box. The contents spilled everywhere.
"DAMN!" he said looking at a scab that began to bleed on his leg.
He began to pick up his things. After about 5 minutes, when he had almost all of it, he was near the desk. He reached under and pulled out an envelope.
"What the…"
He walked over to his bed and opened it…
Dear Mr. C. Nox,
Enclosed in this envelope directions to an ancient temple. The temple is located in the lost city of Caranol. Once inside the temple, you will have to fight many creatures, Solve many puzzles, and complete some tasks…
The doorbell rang. Cedric jumped in shock. Putting the letter in his pocket, he ran out of the room, down the stairs, to the door and opened it to see a brown haired girl holding a plate of brownies.
"My name is Lily" she said "Ummm…My mom made these, but I don't recommend eating them, she's a bad baker…"
She handed the plate to Cedric.
"Umm…Thanks…Oh…Come in!" Cedric said. "I'm Cedric by the way…Cedric Mantichoras"
Lily walked into the house staring around, looking at the hugeness of the house.
"This place is huge!" she said.
"yeah that's what I thought!" Cedric replied.
