Chapter 2:First signs
Night. The most beautiful time of all. She strolls through the forest taking in the smell of the trees and the sounds of the crickets chirping. Then she saw the moon and stared. The most spectacular part of the night. The way it shines in the night would the sun envyous. She eventually lowers her eyes to the creek a few feet away. She feels a little thirsty, so she bends down and takes a palmful of water into her mouth. She looks into the water expecting to see her face, but instead sees the face of a wolf!
Lara shot up screaming from the shock of what started out as a pleasant dream. She breathed heavily as she felt her face and sighed with relief as it was normal. She laughed at herself for believing what was obviously a dream. She got out of bed, and walked over to her closet. She decided to go with her usual brown crop up and khaki shorts. She suddenly remembered the injury she sustained last night and felt her back to see how bad it was, but there was no scar. She figured she must have just imagined it and quickly stopped worrying about it. When she got out of the closet, she could very plainly smell eggs, bacon, and waffles from downstairs. She wondered how she could seeing as how the kitchen was all the way downstairs, but she quickly forgot about it and headed down to the dining room. When she got there, Zip and Alister were already starting breakfast.
" Well look who's up, did you have a nice nap?" Zip said as he sipped on his coffee.
" Why yes I did, and I see you started breakfast without me." Lara quipped as she took her normal place at the table.
" Well if we waited for you we'd have starved by the time you got down." Remarked Alister.
" Very funny, have you started examining the artifact I found last night yet?" Lara asked while she anticipated the breakfast that Winston was preparing.
" No not yet, but from what I can tell it must've been very important to whoever built that temple, because it was very well protected." Alister replied as Winston came in from the kitchen. All of the sudden, Lara became extremely hungry when she saw the bacon and eggs and immediately began to dig in. Her friends had never seen her eat so viciously before and began to get a little disturbed by it.
" Whoa, whoa Lara slow down. I've never seen you so hungry before, have you been eating enough lately?" Zip inquired. Lara finally realized what she was doing and slowed down a bit.
" Sorry about that, it's just that I haven't eaten since last night." She then slowed down to her normal pace of eating. " Anyway, what have I got on the agenda today Winston?"
" Well you do have the gala at the museum tonight." Winston replied knowing that she wouldn't be happy about it. Lara and hated these corporate parties, and because they're always filled with rich idiots with no knowledge of anything that doesn't have to do with money. Although, the curator of the museum is a good friend of hers, so it would be rude for her to turn down the invitation, and she had a new dress she wanted to try on.
" Alright then, call Mr. Dumonds and tell him I will be attending. Also, tell him that I will be donating a new piece to the museum." Winston bowed in compliance in proceeded to the telephone. Lara then began to smell something very strong in the air and noticed it was coming from Alister. " Alister, I don't know what kind of aftershave you're using, but you're coming over rather strongly."
" I did and use that much, in fact I ran out today so I could and use the usual amount I do." Alister replied.
" Yeah Lara, I'm sitting right next to him and I can't smell anything." Zip added.
" Oh, must have been my imagination. Anyway, Zip, keep going through our sources to try to find out who built that temple and Alister, keep studying the artifact, perhaps it will provide some answers." Lara said as she got up and made her way to the gym, but not before grabbing a few more pieces of bacon.
Well that's chapter 2, please review. Sorry I didn't mean that to rhyme.