The three Librarians found themselves stumbling out of the door of a portable toilet, and after removing the toilet roll from Stone's shoe and, somehow, Cassandra's hair, they set off in direction of the newly uncovered temple.

"It should be just over there" Cassandra said, pointing to the left of them whilst simultaneously watching the shifting maps she could see in front of her.

"She's right, ya know" Ezekiel stated plainly, pulling up Google Maps on his phone, just before it was snatched by Stone and shoved into his jeans pocket.

"Hey! We ain't gonna need google, yow know cassie's better than the internet" He smiled, his voice calming as he said her name. Ezekiel was still unsure as to whether they had the relationship of siblings or a couple, but either way it bugged him - he worried they'd get together and leave him to deal with these sorts of missions alone, he hoped they wouldn't. As much as he hated to admit it, he liked their company, even that of the cowboy.

They walked over to the site of the dig, expecting a large group of workers and a large group of questions to boot. However, as they reached the temple, there wasn't a soul in sight.

"That ain't right" Stone queried "A dig like this, brand new discovery and all, there should be a load of people here".

"Hey, don't sweat it mate" Ezekiel replied, tapping Stone on the back as he did so "Makes it way easier to break in!" He gave stone his usual goofy smile, before turning and heading into the temple.

"Jake's right you know" Cassandra called after him "There should at least be someone here".

Stone started to walk off in search of someone, just in case, but was stopped by Cassandra grabbing his hand and pulling him towards the temple.

"Come on! Ezekiel's bound to set off a trap if we don't help him" She said cheerfully, dragging him away from some stunning pillars and into the tunnels of the temple, not noticing the shadowy figures ready to follow them in. The room was like most of the temples they'd seen: Old, made of darkened moss covered stone, with drips of what they all hoped was water coming down from unseen places and pooling on the floor. The only light came from a few gaps where the rock had crumbled away over time, letting in the strong heat of the sun. She went to continue on, before being stopped by Ezekiel.

"Look at the walls" He whispered to the other two. "There's a load of weird symbols on them".

"Why are we whispering?" was the reply he got, before shrugging his shoulders.

"It seemed like a good idea" he replied, this time in his usual tone.

"There not just symbols" Cassandra paused, wondering if Stone would step in and explain, he didn't. "It's a set of sigils, there all air related?" She looked over at Stone, who nodded in reply. "Reference to a trap maybe?". Ezekiel stepped forward before they could stop him.

xxxxx

"Let's find out then" He stepped out onto the floor, before hearing a whoosh as the symbols began to glow a deep, crimson red. "Oops". Stone dragged him back as a warm whirlwind of leaves and blossoms swirled in front of them, taking the shape of a vicious wolf.

"Seems kind of, spring-y, rather than scary" Cassandra stated, taking another step back as Stone replied.

"It's still a wolf!" He turned slightly, and paused as he spotted something lightly carved into the wall, half hidden behind a layer of moss. He swept it out of the way, revealing the full message:

Προσοχή στο βήμα των βρεφών,
για το λύκο που φέρνει θα σταματήσει μόνο με την παλίρροια του αίματος.

"Prosochí sto víma ton vrefón, gia to lýko pou férnei tha stamatísei móno me tin palírroia tou aímatos." He paused, scurrying within his mind to translate the message. "It's Greek! Mines a little rusty but I think it means beware the infants step, for the wolf it brings will stop only with, the tide of blood"

"What does that even mean!" Cassandra screamed as the beast took a step forward.

"Well Ezekiel is the youngest, so I guess he's gonna be the infant" Stone replied.

"So that thing won't stop until it kills us!" Ezekiel shouted.

"No! It just needs blood, I think" Stone replied "But we ain't got a knife to get it for him"

Cassandra paused momentarily, before being knocked to the ground by the force of the wind the wolf was made of.

"I think I've got an idea, she screamed as the beast pressed an oversized poor to her chest "Is there anything rusty around?" she asked.

"Yeah, there's a chunk of something over here" He picked up a hunk of rusting metal "What now?!" He shouted, unable to get through to cassandra with the force of the whirlwind.

"Chuck it at the wolf!" She just managed to get the words out "Right in the mouth!" Stone didn't hesitate, he threw the metal as hard as he could, and as soon as it reached the beasts mouth there was a flash of read light, and Cassandra was left on the stone floor, covered in blossoms and rust.

Stone began to help her up as Ezekiel asked, confused "What just happened?!"

"Iron Oxide" Cassandra replied "Its in our blood, what makes it taste like metal. I figured it would be a good blood substitute".

"You genius!" Stone helped her to her feet and embraced her tightly. After checking her over, they moved on through the temple. The rest of the rooms were oddly similar to those in the Temple of Zarathustra, each from seemingly corresponding to a different season and element, with an odd age-based riddle hidden somewhere on the wall. They finally made it through all the traps, too engrossed in the danger and fun of it all to notice anyone following, and finally reached what appeared to be final room. They entered.

xxxxx

"It's just a wall" Ezekiel pointed at the end of the room the were in. it was indeed a wall, full of odd symbols and images on stone pieces, 16 pieces as cassandra soon informed them.

"It's not just a wall" cassandra replied "The dimensions are off, like in that tunnel in Oklahoma, there's a secret room somewhere" She turned to Stone, who looked like he had just figured out something. "What is it, you look oddly happy considering we've nearly been crushed, burned and shot with arrows whilst here".

"The four humours" Stone replied.

"I don't see anything funny, mate" Ezekiel remarked, although Cassandra appeared to understand entirely.

"Hippocrates" Stone explained "he came up with the original theory of the four humours! I mean Galen edited it but it was still used by physicians for centuries" Cassandra decided to add to his explanation.

"It was a medical treatment system, entirely wrong but it fitted with what he saw. He said the body was made up of four things, and if they were out of balance then you'd get ill. They were all associated with body parts. Body parts, bones, nerves, force ratios. Seven ounces of pressure per square inch to remove an ear, seven times seven is 49, seven times 49 is 343, 7 x 343 is…" She trailed off as her now magically enhanced gift took over, she still struggled to control it, but Stone managed to work her back to reality.

"You ok cassie?" he asked, receiving a smile and a nod in reply as Cassandra wiped some blood from her nose. He carried on explaining, hand still on cassandra's waist as he steadied her.

"He connected it with other things too. Emotion, seasons, astrology, age, it would explain all of the weird riddles" Ezekiel stopped him there, looking up at the stone pieces on the wall, touching some.

"Hey, these top ones don't move, different body parts. That ones a brain, then a liver, spleen and something else weird"

"Gall bladder" Cassandra informed him, so that's the order "Phlegm, blood, black bile, yellow bile". This got a puzzled look from ezekiel, so she quickly explained that these were the four things hippocrates thought made up the body.

"Right" Stone and Ezekiel replied in unison.

"So we just have to match up all the pictures then, easy" Ezekiel placed his hand over an image of an old man, and pushed it towards the image of the brain, there was a click from behind the wall.

"See, easy!" He gave his usual goofy smile as he and stone began to move symbols of fire, and images of spring to their correct places, continuing until all of the seasons, ages and elements were placed under the correct body parts. The Symbols all began to glow, red , blue, yellow and black. Four vials then appeared in holes in the wall, each full of foul smelling liquids of the corresponding colours.

"What are these?" Ezekiel queried as he and Cassandra picked up two vials each. "They stink!".

"Look, that weren't there before" Stone stated, pointing at four, snake shaped pipes of the wall, all leading to one, mouth shaped bowl at the bottom, the whole thing a statue depicting the face of a gorgon.

"That must be where these go" Cassandra said, walking over and pouring the read liquid into the mouth of a read eyed snake, then the other into the next snake, this one with black eyes. Ezekiel did the same for the yellow and blue vials, and when all were combined, the wall seemed to phase out of existence, revealing a stone pedestal, upon which stood a wooden staff, with an intricately carved golden, ruby eyed serpent entwined around it.

Xxxxx

"It's beautiful" Ezekiel had the face of a child in a sweet shop "Lets go grab it mates!" He ran forward, only to be grabbed and dragged back by Stone.

"You mad!" He angrily shock ezekiel "I'm thinking there's bound to be another trap dude!" the two began to argue, Ezekiel shouting that all the danger was behind them, Stone loudly disagreeing. By the time they'd stopped screaming at each other, cassandra had already retrieved the staff, narrowly avoided a swinging blade, or two, and got back to the squabbling Librarians.

"Come on boys, we need to get this back to the library!" Cassandra showed them the staff, both seemed shocked, Stone seemed impressed at the same time.

"I don't think your be doing that today, 'land pirates'" the voice came from behind them. Cassandra barely had the time to recognise the voice and begin to turn when she felt someone from behind her rip the staff from her hands, and then it all went dark.

xxxxx

Cassandra awoke and slowly lent forward, only to find the rod was gone and Stone and Ezekiel were doing the same thing. Once they had all checked their heads for further injury and got up, she was the first to talk.

"Sterling Lamb, We'd better call Jenkins".