Chapter One (Third Person POV)


Nina lay on the ground, not far from the chute that put her there in the first place. She moaned to herself, and slowly sat up, rubbing her eyes. What had happened? Nina had to concentrate for a bit, until she remembered how she had gotten there. Fabian had incorrectly moved her. But she really didn't believe it was Fabian's fault.

She looked around her surroundings, and realized that she was all alone. The chute had sent her down somewhere unfamiliar. It looked like a small cage to her. And she had no way to get out. How would she eat, and get water? Was she going to die in this place? Nina started crying, but she heard somebodies voice. It sounded a lot like Fabian! She screamed for him, but he didn't respond. But he kept talking.

"Okay, so if I would move you here, and then Alfie here, we should be alright. But then Patricia has no choice but to move here, and she has a chance of falling in." Fabian said, in which he was talking to Amber. They were practically spending every minute of their time to figure out the game. Fabian desperately wanted to win, so he could save Nina.

"Fabian, I'm down here! Where are you?" Nina yelled once more.

Amber swore she had heard Nina, but doubted it. How could she be hearing Nina? Nina was somewhere deep in the tunnels. She was sitting with Fabian in the living room. Maybe if they were in the tunnels themselves she would understand. But sadly, hearing the illusion made her cry again.

Nina stopped yelling, and slid down the wall. How would she survive this? She had no possible way of doing so. Without water, she would be gone in just days. The thought made her mad, and she kicked one of the boxes near her. She heard a noise as it moved, and smiled a bit. Something was in that box. She ran over to it, and tried to open one of the ends.

No luck. But she flipped the box over, and there was a latch. She quickly opened the box, to see a bunch of water bottles. Who would leave these here? Nina could have cared less about that. She had water! Was there maybe food in the other boxes?


Fabian shoved the Senet game away from him. He just couldn't get it right. What if Nina had already, you know, passed? Fabian put his head in his hands, and Amber tried to comfort him. What could she do? Fabian was totally in love with Nina, and that's why he was so upset. And they were still best friends, so that is tough. Amber was also best friends with Nina, and it was hard for her too.

If your best friend vanished, and you didn't know if he or she was alive, wouldn't you be scared too?

"Come on, Fabian. We'll get it. We just have to keep trying!" Amber said encouragingly, but Fabian found it aggravating. He couldn't do it. He isn't able to do it. And he doesn't want to put anybody in danger again. He couldn't lose anybody else.

"Amber, I am going to say this again. I. Can. Not. Do. This." Fabian replied, sternly.

"But you have to, or Nina might, you know, die." Amber remarked, saying the last part very quietly. Fabian gave another sign of disgust, and ran out of the room. Amber bit her lip, knowing it was the wrong thing to say. Alfie had done the same. Why in the world would she say that?

Mad at herself, Amber decided to walk back into her room. Nina's stuff was still lying on her bed, untouched. Amber sighed, and sat on Nina's bed. She looked at her things, and laughed at the picture of Nina and her. She remembered that day. What if she was never going to have a day like that again?

Amber tossed the thought away, and decided to take a nap. She was exhausted. But Nina never left her mind once.


It was already the second day since Nina had disappeared. As Fabian and Amber sat next to each other in class, Amber knew he wasn't thinking about Romeo and Juliet. Well, maybe he was, but instead it was Nina and him. She laughed a bit at her joke, but Fabian gave her a dirty look. Fabian was completely losing it.

First off, Fabian has completely stopped trying to play Senet. He refused to touch the board, and he tried his best not to even look at it. He looked at it a bit, but not enough. And when the rest of Sibuna tried to drag him into the tunnels, he nearly had gone mental. They weren't sure what to do for him. They couldn't tell him that Nina was okay. Because they didn't know themselves.

But what they didn't know was that Nina was indeed alright. She had opened more of the boxes, and they had contained supplies she desperately needed. One of them had food, and another had a sleeping bag. And one of them even had a sketch pad and a pencil.

Patricia was also even more quiet than usual. But she also had a secret. She had only told Nina and Joy about it so far. She didn't trust the others with her secret. Not even Eddie.

Patricia had Selective Mutism (SM), which is when a person can't speak in certain situations, or to specific people, and it also has to do with shyness and social anxiety (Credible to Wikipedia). Usually Nina helped her with it, but she wasn't here to. Joy used to help her with it before, but Joy was too caught up in chasing Fabian. So she had talked to Nina about it, and she gladly helped.

That's why she can't talk in front of Eddie. She always freaks out, and ends up being mean. But it isn't on purpose. She can't help it. And when she tries to act like a couple, Eddie says something. And then Patricia goes back to being mean.

So, as a group, they were falling apart. Without Nina, nothing worked. They don't even remember how they lived without her. They had gotten used to having her around, so when she was gone, nobody knew what to do.


The group was now sitting in the living room, discussing the game. Fabian sat there, now glaring at the board. Patricia sat there quietly, watching Amber and Alfie talk about strategies. Even little Amber was trying to help, even though she had no idea how to work Senet.

"What if I move here?" Amber said, moving a piece onto a new square. Fabian looked at it, but just shook his head.

"You would have to end up moving there." Fabian said, pointing to a "danger" space. Amber moaned, and moved back her piece. She had no idea how this game even worked. Alfie didn't either, but had a little better chance of helping.

Patricia had an idea for the game. But she did not dare speak it.


Nina sat on the ground, listening to her friends up above. Why couldn't they hear her? She looked around some more, to see where her friend's voices were coming from. She couldn't find anything. She had even moved around all the boxes. Why couldn't they hear her?

Nina grabbed her sketchpad, and decided to draw something on it. What else was there to do? She did not want to hear her friends moping about her. It made her depressed.

Jerome didn't understand what was going on with his fellow Anubis peers. Other than Mara and Eddie, everybody seemed to be acting strangely. Fabian was constantly angry at what seemed like nothing, and glaring at something that looked like checkers. Amber was crying almost every time Jerome saw her, and Patricia was also not saying anything rude for a change. Well actually, nothing at all. Alfie seemed less cheery.

"So what's going on here?" Jerome asked, as he walked into the living room. Fabian did not look up, but Amber did.

"None of your business." Amber said politely, and returned back to it. Under her breath, she murmured "traitor". Jerome could barely hear what she said, but he clearly understood. His blood boiled when he heard it. How could Amber be so inconsiderate? He was under a lot of stress, like everybody else. Jasper got him caught in something, and he had no choice. He needed to get that gem back.

What else could he have done?


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