It is nice to be a spoke in
the wheel, one that helps to
turn,not one that hinders-
Gertrude Bell, the Queen of the Desert
Tibet- Deep within the Himalayas
Two figures appeared through the snowy horizon making a deep pathway. They had both been searching since early morning in what was the harshest winter ever seen within the first year.
The figures covered there faces with goggles and prototypes of a new breathing device made for deep sea expiration.
One of them had wear a bright orange coat while the other wear a black coat and gloves. Even with the best high tech equipment money could buy, it still felt useless to look for her, the others give up hope of ever finding her alive and well.
Then one spotted something through the snowy haze...
A fire
Coming upon it the two figures raced to it and saw another sight, that of a grave
The orange coated figure shake in sight of it,
there were breathing hard as the hand wiped the snow off of the cross.
They feared what they would see beneath it
Hemsley, my Beloved
"Thank GOD,its not her" the figure to shout with joy but then the other one point to the other, seeing three other gravesites. Clearly the one they had come to find had done a lot of grim work within the past few weeks. As they both neared the last gravesite, the fire still glowed within there sight.
Both of them realized it was within a huge cave.
They past cooking pots meant to be joyful wedding gifts were broken or unclean from use,
Various dresses were ripped or torn. They were covered in layers of dirt.
A hand radio nearby but it now seemed smashed beyond repair,
Photos were laying on the floor as the orange figure picked up one of them as the black figure lit up a flare
And both noticed tracks of high heels seeming running deeper into the dark cavern
The cavern was vast and as the two of them want further into it, they were feeling...warmer?
The black figure could see hints of what looked like machinery ancient and unused through out the darkness
The other one noticed the peaks of buildings in ruins and disrepair, how did she ever survive in such a weird unknown place like this?...
Where ever the hell this place was, it was the last place for which both of them were excepting to find her.
Twice in the last year people kept telling them that she was dead,
the search parties hired would come up empty,
Then as luck would have it, the wreckage of the plane had just been found the day before.
That was the one glimmer of hope for see her alive and healthy. Still would she ever be the same person they both know?
Suddenly the dark cavern was giving way into a bright shining center
This was the bizarre area of all
The figures were both looking up at a huge gigantic statue that dwarfed the entire "city" as it were...
It was the figure of a medieval fully armored knight whose right hand was holding a sword. This sword looked strange with unknown letters written across the top. At the center of it was a huge red gem stone, which from just its size would take thousand men to pry open.
Seemingly the bright light was coming from the gem.
And it was pointing downward toward a lonely stone seemingly at the very heart of this strange city
They both near it though...
"GET AWAY FROM THERE!" cried out an angry female voice when
Suddenly out of the darkness come forth a figure in a torn ragged business suit, her hand holding a rusty pickaxe. Her face bleeding and scars braking throughout as it showed hatred and anger. With grinning teeth as her hand swing the axe launching at the invaders again
As the one of the figures shouted out...
"Lara... STOP PLEASE...IT'S US!"
TOMB RAIDER:THE CRUSADER OF AVALON
PRESENT DAY: THE TERME RIVER, TURKEY
A young rather beautiful looking Asian woman had get out of the cab and with a huge shopping bag in hand, begin walking toward the huge dig site near a crowded beach area. The woman with her darkened sunglasses watched as a hundreds of diggers worked there way around gigantic ruins that shined in the dull midday sunlight.
Clearly she just hoped this person would found would be worth it, then she eyed a tall handsome man with wild spiked hair talking quite loudly to his phone
"Yes i know the workers haven't been payed in a week...
No there is still no sign of the treasure that the Amazons were supposed be hiding here, why ask?...
What the hell do you mean Croft hasn't enough money in her account?...
ATLAS!?, damn it man why don't you tell me soon?...
THAT'S NOT A BLOODY EXCUSE...hello...hello?"
Suddenly the young woman tapped him on the shoulder pretty nearly scaring him to death "Am sorry but here to speak with Doctor Lara Croft?"
The man begin laughing abit as he put his phone as he answered "She hates just it when refer to her as "Doctor"
"And who are you then?" The woman questioned in quite a annoyed tone for him
"Am Winston Smith, basically am supposed to be her Archaeology assistant but so far i think she makes out as her butler..."
The woman laughed again as the workers suddenly shouted in Turkish, as a figure emerged from one of the deeper holes made in the ground.
She wore a rather looking green tank top and blue shorts,her figure made the Asian woman red with envoy. If it wasn't for the huge amount of dirt covering her face, she would be mistaken for a high profile supermodel. Every curve of muscles were filled with sweat that she couldn't stop noticing.
Clearly this was the right woman
And she was holding a large looking wooden box which numerous painted figures among them at the very center, that of a tall topless woman riding a lion. She raising right arm which was fitted with a strange looking war gauntlet. Yet the strangest part of it was the fact that it was warping her arm in thorny looking spikes.
That detail she noticed get Croft smiling widely
"Madame, could this box have the fabled Gauntlet of Hippolyta? " Questioned one of the more excited workers as Lara bend down to the ground to open the box...
Everyone looked inside to see...just wrecked bits of pottery shreds.
"Bloody hell, all this work for nothing!" Lara cried out the most disappointed as she turned to see both Winston and the Asian girl
"Winston, what did i say about inviting any of your girlfriends to the digs!"
Surprised by her remark Winston turned and laughed nervously "Girlfriend!?...me ahahaha...no actually this is...this is...um who are you again?"
The Asian woman giggled abit before answering them both
"How rude of me, my name is Samantha Nishimursa"
Winston had the look of shock on his face as all of them want into Lara's tent at the edge of river
"Nishimursa as the famous video game company?"
Sam don't looked surprised as she talked "Yes the very same since my father owns the company and upon seeing that your're in need of some funds. I could actually set you up with some people that know in Japan to help you out for life..."
Lara just smirked at this Samantha "Let me guess, i have to do something for you...right?"
Now holding over the big shopping bag to Lara, that was enough an reply for her...
As both she and Winston uncovered it to see a gigantic medieval designed shield. Beautiful and yet strange drawings were all over it, covered in bronze lettering along with the rough shape of a island with what look like a sleeping figure in the very center.
Lara could make out some of the lettering "Its Celtic, possibly mid 12th century...WINSTON! look here, this word..."
She shouted in surprise as Winston run his hand to hers as both of them said
"...AVALON!"
"Where did you discover this?"
Sam seemed oddity nervous at first before answering the rather excited Lara "Rather by accident, it was laying there at some abandoned U-Bahn station near downtown Berlin.."
"Show me" she said as Sam quickly told her she had it in the cab and they waited for her...
"Winston, call my uncle tell him to pay the workers now and then head back to England..."
"Lara, his excepting you to stay in Istanbul, the funds with him..."
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE BLOODY FUNDS!, this is about correcting a mistake i made ages ago!" She angrily shouted at him
"At what cost? you can't keep blaming yourself for what happened!
And i can't make up anymore excuses to that bastard Atlas and he's the one whose still holding accountable to happen to his dear sister..."
She slammed her fist down on the desk in a fit of rage as she speak up again "...You forget Amenda as well, this is woman may be lead to the key to get to what i believe to be the Underworld"
"Or your're death Lara, since when has any of your other leads ever pan out back to the myth of King Arthur and his court?"
"None of us had then,and besides going back to Glastonbury was wasted of time as you once told me...if i remembered correctly" She sharply said to him as he closed his eyes in embarrassment.
"Well okay Lara...what the hell do i tell Uncle Atlas then?"
She just smiled widely "I'll think of something"
BERLIN...few days later
"Your're supposed to be here to make a deal with my father?" Sam sounded quite surprised as she and Lara walked toward what was left of the station
"Not far from the truth though, given that you failed to mention that your're father's main office building is right across from here" Lara sounded almost disappointed as she eyed Sam. There had always been false leads when it come to seeking out the location to the mythical Isle of Avalon. Lara had just been sick of it and half of the time wanting to just give up the search for it.
Yet Sam seemed to somehow sense that as she smiled at Lara and in a filthy tone "Believe me , am not leading you on any wild goose chase"
As she pointed toward the spot where the shield once lay. Lara saw a huge outline where it rested next to the huge steps that downward into the pitch darkness. Even if it was the middle of broad daylight, she did a pair of flashlights with them. They finally stopped at huge wooden boards that blocked the main station.
"Any idea why this station was closed suddenly?" Lara questioned to Sam
"Mostly rumors but the main one was stories of various construction workers were found dead,covered in bloody strange symbols.
And there were sounds of "monsters" in the furthest end of the station. It get so bad that government just closed it up, paying off the rest of them to keep quit"
"Yet one of them somehow found a shield and put it out for all of Germany to see?"
Sam don't seemed to have an answer to that as she watched Croft kick in one of the boards.
Both of them entered into the U-Bahn station.
It seemed perfectly normal from every other tube area that Lara had traveled on. There where a few odd things such as the graffiti being faces that looked in terror or anger. More like a warning to anyone stupid enough to just wander into here. "What the hell would make them do this?"
"LARA!" Sam suddenly shouted as her flashlight shined on a train that had seemingly crashed right into one of the back walls. But that wasn't catching her eye as she saw it reveled a huge stone faced mouth...
"Well that's something you don't see everyday in the subway!" Lara cheerfully said to the rather serious look that Sam was giving her "...What?"
Making there way through the ruined cars and into the mouth
Sam held on to Lara's hand as they stepped over broken glass and bend chairs. "So i can't help but overhear about your're uncle.."
Lara groin in annoyance "My uncle isn't really my biggest fan.."
"Why does he hate you?"
She stopped in the middle of the train eyeing her sadly "My uncle believes that i killed my mother..."
"Doctor Amelia Croft...i read the newspaper about what happened, she was once the famous British Archaeologist and..."
"And THAT'S why am so hated!" Lara said bitterly just she walked away from her.
Lara with the help of the flashlight pried the subway door opened, stepping out into a more brighter chamber then the station they just left.
She noticed that Sam don't seem too surprised by any this...almost like she was excepting it. The room was bigger then anything within the city and yet the lights they had barely phased into the endless darkness. Maybe she was going crazy now from the combination of jet lag and the feelings that come with the ever mysterious Sam. Who remained her of her old self.
The big bad "mean girl" of a number of finishing schools,
the spoiled rich brat heiress whose life was set up with all the trappings of marriage.
The girl who found her mother's work in history basically boring and never wanted to be like that woman,
"Atlas's favorite" who win tennis match after tennis match...
THAT girl dead in Tibet, what come afterwards was someone else. The "mean girl" wouldn't last a second chasing after...
The lost city of Atlantis and its mad Queen Natla...
The Dragon Dagger within the Great Wall of China...
The relics of the Lost City beneath Antarctica...
The Amulet of Horus...
And yet that part of her was still in the back of her mind. She don't want to relive Tibet ever again, but without question here she was in the middle of Berlin chasing after clues to a Celtic myth with a beautiful Japanese video game company heiress...
Yeah that doesn't sound a least bit crazy!
Stepping from the subway car unto the stone floor...
The touches around them burst to life lighting up the room as Lara suddenly realized it was much bigger then she at first thought.
Somehow this place was much bigger then the city of Berlin. Yet the ravages of time had taken there total on it since walkways had fallen apart, gigantic gears were seen that still do the same job they always did but now filled with the sounds of rusting metal. Waterways run past mills that were no longer working.
Weirdly enough it don't smell bad at all in here, there was scent of flowers and warm mist filling the air
"Who build this place?" Lara questioned as Sam looked behind her and keeled
She turned to see that subway car was at the very feet of a gigantic statue of a young 20 something man wearing some kind of skull cap. He had the detail of a small goatee, with wild hair, his right hand holding a huge wooden staff made of oak. His left hand held a strange Frisbee type object with sharp spikes pointing outward.
"...Merlin, the greatest and most humble of us!" Sam simply answered to Lara's now even more confused look
She seemed to be ignore it though "Come, we must get to the key before they do..."
"KEY!...what the fuck is there a key involved?" Lara sounded really confused by now
Now more serious sounding then before they come in here, Sam closed her eyes in what look like shame...
"I HAVE MY ORDERS!, you don't understand yet what would happen if we fail..."
"I have no BLOODY IDEA what is going on...but you lead me here to this "key" then and we're done!..."
"Lara...
Okay then...after this you and your're "assistant" can go back to that little dirt heap in Turkey..."
"GREAT!"
"...Without ANY of my dad's money ever covering the support of that greedy bastard uncle of yours!" Sam smiled widely at Lara at that.
Lara covered her face in her hands in shame "...Your're very ruthless at this, aren't you?" she said quite bitterly
"I was taught by the best"
Lara don't know how far she and Sam walked before coming to a stop at one big door in the center of the walkway.
Clearly this place WAS the true reason behind the German Government shutting the station down. The "monster sounds" was that of the rather sinister looking machines that Lara pasted by. She didn't what even know who or what marked the workers to death if Sam was be believed.
For all she know the one worker put up the shield as a warning not knowing if that would do the trick.
Yet clearly she was keeping her mind pretty much focused on Sam...
WHAT THE HELL HAD SHE GOTTEN HERSELF INTO!?
Who was "us?"...
What "mission?" ...
Why did "Merlin!?" look like some goth rock star with a goofy looking fresbee?...
None of her research into NISIMURSA GAMES ever brought up the fact that the heiress to the company was like...this!?
Sure Lara loved playing video games,more or less but there last few games hadn't been as good. She preferred the first of there best selling series RUTHLESS FANTASY QUEST for which surprisingly Sam designed most of the levels for it.
She hated the reboot game though with the passion of a thousand burning suns...
Sure after that there more questionable things she as a gamer don't enjoy. Gaming in general don't beat Archaeology or writing these travel books but she did still have time to like most of the Nisimursa brand.
Then she vaguely remembered that only few years back Samantha was part of a research vessel of a total asshole "archaeologist" rival of her mother's and herself...
Whitman who with funds from the video game company, hopped on board the ENDURANCE with 19 crew members...
And then disappeared off the face of the earth with Samantha being the only survivor, found a week later drafting on a piece of wood in the middle of Tokyo harbor. Never once explaining how she don't look a least bit different from the rather horrible idea of being the only one left alive.
For that they at least something in common...the trips from hell
Sam was now the one eyeing two pressure pads as Lara walked closer to the door.
It wasn't Germanic at all in design nor did it seemed like the visitors before them had much luck ether...
Given that it was at the very end of the waterway and Lara could see that it ended in a huge shining floor of spikes, one misstep would sent the various "brave" people to there death.
Being curious stepped on the pressure pad and the door opened abit...
"Merlin wasn't a fool to some people like us to figure this out..." Lara said to Sam as she pointed to the other pressure pad.
Quickly getting off of it made the door closed faster. "This pad isn't doing anything Lara" Sam shouted
Suddenly Croft realized she needed a substantiate for the poor fool standing on it. Looking around she found a small border piece near the pad, clearly this could easily done as she left it up by her fingers.
Grinning her teeth and weight was really something back breaking, she throw the piece on Sam's pad.
Clearly it was working but the other pad was another thing to figure out, she the area endlessly for something to get onto it...
But it was Sam who pointed toward the head of the serpent statue, Lara silently get what Sam wanted to do...
As Lara reached inside her brown backpack and pulled a grappling hook, a small gift from Doctor Amanda Evert
"When on my mark pull it down with me..." She calmly said to her as the hook leached onto the head
"1...
2...
3..."
Together both of them broke the head of the serpent. As now the pressure pads opened the doorway into the inner most chamber...
"Well now that wasn't so bad" Lara triumphantly said to Sam's even more disappointed look
This was the most strangest area that had Lara ever seen...
Nothing but skeletons clad in thick armor lined the walls, there heads bowing before them.
They all had the same uniform crest design of a red dragon spewing out fire from its mouth.
The room itself was very clean for some reason as if the age of time had stop for it. She noticed that Sam was bowing her head and uttering a strange chant to her ears...
She was speaking in something that sound like Old Welsh, it just don't make sense to her as who these knights were.
But that was nothing compared to the center of the tomb as Sam suddenly fall to her knees...
Lara could hear Sam crying and almost yelling in full Welsh before the dead figure in the center of the room...
Not still knowing or understanding what to do, she bowed before it as well.
Lara noticed it was the most elegant looking skeleton yet, with bright red armor covering the body, the face or what was left of it seemed to be at peace. The cape of the figure was showing the same design from the shield...
With the adage of two towns at the center and to right of the sleeping figure.
Now she wanted to know why caused this knight's death as she lifted the cape off of him...
Through what was lift of the ribcage shined out a golden blade with blackened Celt writing on it.
Quickly turning the figure over, she found that only the blade was sticking out.
Being that Sam's insane shouts echoed through the room, she whispered quickly to the knight
"Sorry old boy but i think you may this "key" if that was your only purpose!"
Lara then reached inside the red armor, founding that top blade quite easily within her left hand and with a simple pull ripped it out...
Looking at it with closer detail, Lara found herself looking at the top half of a very well made unnatural sword...
The gold never seemed to dull with age and there had been little cutoff marks into every other side to it. The letters glowed in the weird light of the room
There was the question of happened to the bottom half of this sword or why she seem to get the feeling of truly knowing as WHAT she was holding...
"Excailbur...ahaha the sword of kings"
Just then the skeleton's hand fall off, opening to reveal a glowing green jewel...
She was just going to pick that up too when she hear clapping noises coming from the walkway...
Sam had stopped her chanting and had the look of disappointment and anger but that was nothing compared to the new group of figures who entered...
"BRAVO Lara...and you too for allowing my men finally into the sacred caverns of Merlin"
Spoke out a newer rather dark figure surrounded by huge armored men with guns and gas-masks covering there faces.
She noticed the figure was female with pale looking skin and red hair that was in the form of a boy's cut. Oddly enough this female had a eerily similar figure to her's in every possible way right to there curves and breasts. She wore a black tank top and green shorts. Showing off that the fact that the figure seemed even slightly in height to Lara or Sam.
The female's nails were sharpen like claws and even in dimness of the gas masks were two bright yellow eyes
The voice though sounded deeper and much darker in tone, it was weirdly scary to hear
"Let's get to the point now...SAMANTHA, we're here to take Merlin's Key!.."
Sam nodded her head in anger at the figure "My mission is to get the key back at all cost.
Can't you understand what will happen if it falls into the wrong hands!.."
The female figure laughed lightly toward Sam's protests "WE'RE THE RIGHT HANDS!, my master just wants to make this world a better place"
Now it was Sam's turn to laugh "AHAHA, i have seen what kind of work your're FUCKING master has done, it sickens me...So ether leave or kill me!"
Now she neared Sam and with her claws touched the young woman's face but then ended up punching Lara right in the stomach
"Killing you wouldn't solve anything but...killing her would make you talk more easier!"
Lara just smirked even if this woman picked quite a punch "Just try that again and you lose the hand.."
Suddenly the figure changed her mind, snapping at one of the nearby men
As the soldier balled up his fist, she stepped on both of the solder's toes that were holding her. With the Excailbur blade she stabbed both of them and then simply punched the female in the face.
Kicking them out
Even as she grabbed Sam who was chanting again!...
Only to found the walkway was covered with these...solders "Sam! , i think if we...THE HELL!?"
Noticing that Sam's eyes had turned blood red, she let go of Lara's hand and made a weird gesture toward the skeleton knights inside the room...
COME...BACK...TO LIFE...MY CHILDREN!
With that the skeletons suddenly burst forth living and breathing...
They launched themselves at the gas masked solders, not even bothering with Lara or Sam
"Your're quite...scary do you know that?" Lara felt quite honest in what she said as Sam basically answered "Its an easy enough trick from the Lady of the Lake..."
Even if alot of the solders were fighting off the skeletons, some of them still had time fire off rounds at her...
With her twin guns in hands, she take out least a few of them. But still had to figure out how to get out of here...
Then one waterway caught her eye as she noticed a ancient tank above it that reach all across the ceiling...
"Can you swim?" She questioned toward Sam
"Yes...if it calls for it...why ask?"
Quickly Lara aimed her guns at the tank smashing it open "BELIEVE ME, IT CALLS FOR IT"
Next thing they knew was a wild rush of water overtaking the both of them
As one side of the cavern was smashed open and for several intense seconds, Lara felt like she was the wildest water slide ever known
Nothing but there screams were heard through the endless chambers until...
Coming up toward air in the middle of a street corner in busy Northwestern Berlin
It was quite something as police cars pulled up to see two women covered in raw smelling sewage
Sam begin to laugh hard at Lara
"I think we should have taken a different train...and you look horrible!AHAHAHAHAHAHAH"
Several hours later and finally within the comfort of the warm hotel room
Lara was on her phone talking none stop to Winston
"It was incredible...giant statues of medieval knights...
Numerous chambers filled with skeletons...
Yes well the only thing keeping you from going to it is...water damage...
And the Berlin police have no idea it exist!..." She eyed Sam in her bathrobe and wasn't listing to the overexcited assistant
"Listen just try to found Allister, he's the main except on Arthurian Lore in Germany and call me back on that...thank you Winston"
Suddenly she grabbed a hold of Sam's arms in anger
"OKAY WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT BACK THERE!?" Lara shouted out
She was calm, nearing Lara's face "Your're not ready..."
"READY?...stop talking in riddles and make sense as what going on here!"
Sam just shake her head "I CAN'T!, i swore an oath to being me the key and now you have..."
"And...what your're going back to Nishimursa Games and acted like nothing weird ever happened?"
"...NO LARA, the game company is not where am headed and you sure as hell better not follow.."
"I haven't ANY clue!, you think these solders will allow us to leave Berlin ALIVE?"
Sam suddenly laughed bitterly toward Lara "I swore to return and it pains me to have leave someone like my father again...
But you are something else, insanity different to anything i ever encountered before including these damn giants.."
Before she react to whatever the hell Sam was talking about...
She fling opened her robe and kissed Lara hard on the lips
Sam don't care about the towel that she was wearing and throwing it toward the other side of the room. It felt natural to even have the kiss go deeper then before.
Her hands wandered unto Lara's breasts as there mouths bite each other.
She couldn't stop moaning from what was happening as there kiss stopped...
There nude bodies fully against the wall of the hotel room
Sam giggled as she whispered in Lara's ear "Your're mother is pretty good at this too"
Suddenly Lara backed away from Sam in complete and utter surprise "What did you say about my mother!?.."
Then she felt the sensation of something hitting her neck and pulling it out she found it was a green dart, as she found Sam had get hit with the same thing. Now completely blacking out she found the pale white figure coming toward her
" Sweet dreams...princess"
TIBET
Lara was screaming angrily at the new figures with her pick axe as both dodged it. Then one of them grabbed ahold of her and punched her
Awakening several hours later, she was back within her safe camp site at the mouth of the city
Lara had finally out who they were...
The one closest to her was a tall woman with a yellow crew cut, big blue eyes and red lips "Amanda?.."
The other was a woman that Lara had truly missed for all the time she was within these mountains.
She was the tallest to Amanda, she was similar in looks to Lara including the nose. But she wear an medical eyepatch over left eye while the right eye was pure green. Her hair was mixed of brown with black highlights.
Her hands were rougher from being up in this weather for far too long.
Lara couldn't stop smiling at her "MOTHER!"
"Its okay darling, your're safe, you can come home with me and Doctor Evert.."
"Ohhhhhh mother, you don't know what its like here.." she was shaking with fear and wasn't understanding what was going on.
"Ever since the plane want down...THEY wouldn't allow me to leave"
"That's nonsense dear, all we saw where the bodies from the crash side..."
"...Am not talking about them!"
They both heard Doctor Evert scream in horror at the end of the cave...
Running quickly Amelia nearly screamed as well seeing the large white beings crowding around Amanda.
There teeth were sharpen fangs and there claws were ripping through the thick coat. Then without saying a word, Lara grabbed from the floor one of the flares and lit up the central room.
Such action caused the ghastly creatures to run in sheer terror at the light
Lara motioned her mother to go toward Amanda, shaking a bit in fear
Amelia on the other hand noticed movements out of the corner of her eye of the creatures.
But trying to grab Amanda was getting harder as kept back away from her "Amanda...please, don't be stupid"
Suddenly Doctor Evert's hand pushed down into the central stone
A huge booming sound echoed through the the city enough to kick Lara off her feet
With that the huge horde of the fanged white creatures made there way toward the now helpless women...
Then Lara noticed the eyes of the knight statue open...the creatures stopped dead in there movement
As she suddenly hear the statue..."talk"
"FOUL THINGS OF THE NIGHT...
BE GONE FROM SIGHT...YOUR'RE MASTER WILL NEVER RISE AGAIN...
HIS CRIMES HORRIBLE BEYOND MEASURE BUT THE CHAMPION WILL AWAKEN SOON..."
Seemingly the creatures run back into the darkness of the strange city as the statue eyed the two women before it...
"AVALON NEEDS YOU!"
Lara suddenly saw the giant red gem shine even more brightly on both her mother and Doctor Evert.
Before Lara could be move there was a blindly flash of light
Lara awake to see her mother and Amanda AGAIN!
Running toward the stone, she saw that it was broken and reaching inside a dull looking bit of coal
The floor of the room was covered in the blacken ash skeletons of the white creatures. Only the statue and the giant gem remain the same
"BRING THEM BACK...
AM BEGGING YOU...
PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!"
Lara cried out, her face red from tears. But the mysterious statue was silent once again
Croft don't wanted any of this to happen as it she realized in her moment of personal pain...
She had to get to Avalon and one or another rescue her mother and best friend from whatever fate lay there
NEXT THRILLING CHAPTER: THE BLADES OF THE NIGHTMARE CASTLE