Authors Note: sorry for the delay. I meant to update but I kept forgetting. This takes place instead of season3 of House of Anubis. Also I apologize in advance for any mistakes relating to season 2. I never saw the end of it because the channel I watched it on stopped showing it. Anyways on with the story.
Disclaimer: If I were Cassandra Clare, J.K. Rowling or the owner of HoA I would NOT be writing a fanfiction
Chapter 4
Nina looked out the window as it drove into the school grounds. The sight of the school sent chills down her spine. Part of her hoped to have a normal year but the rest of her was wondering what the mystery would be this year. The taxi pulled up outside the school and she got out.
"Thanks. Here your money" she said to the driver getting out. She walked up to the door and it opened without her having to touch it.
"Still creepy" she murmured as she went in.
"Nina!" Amber yelled in delight coming down the stairs and enveloping her in a hug.
"Hi Amber" She wheezed as Amber let go of her. The hall flooded with people as everyone came out to say hello. One person in particular drew her attention.
"Hi Fabien" she said. Since they got back together at the end of last year things had been better between them. He had even come to America to see her during the summer
"Hey Nina, how are you?" he asked sweetly but before they could talk any further Trudy came bustling into the hall.
"Nina sweetie how was your flight?" she asked.
"Good thanks" she replied moving her suitcase from the stairway
"How many times do I have to tell you that the hallway is not a gathering area? shoo, shoo!" Victor yelled from the landing. They all laughed and went into the dining room where Trudy had laid out cookies and brownies on the coffee table.
"So how was your summer?" Fabien asked her as they sat down
"Good. It was nice to have a break from life threatening situations and be normal" she replied
"Ye I know how you feel" he chimed. Just then the door opened and Eddie came in.
"Eddie!" Patricia yelled
"Yacker!" he replied.
"I think I'm going to bring up my case" Nina said to Fabien. She got up and went out to the hall where her case was. When she reached her room she put her case on her bed and started unpacking. Suddenly she noticed something. She turned around to double check. She was right. There were three beds in their room. She walked out to the hall and noticed that the spare room beside the bathroom was open and there were two beds in it. There were new people coming.
Later that night at 12am Nina and Amber climbed out of bed and made their way up to the attic for the sibuna meeting that they had arranged at dinner. They walked into the attic and went to join Fabien and Eddie in the centre while they waited for everyone to arrive. A few moments later Patricia, Joy and Alfie arrived and they could start.
"Welcome back to creepy towers everyone" Nina began. Everyone seemed to agree with that name. Going on past years it seemed to suit. "Hopefully this year will be normal and we won't have any life threatening problems to deal with and so with that dig in" she concluded gesturing to the feast of sweets and chocolate that they had gathered and placed in the middle of the blanket. However the moment they went to reach for something a flash of light filled the room, blinding them all for a few seconds. When their sight returned Nina's locket was glowing and so was an indent in the shape of her locket in the wall. She got up and went over to the wall and placed the locket in it. It opened to reveal a passage. She looked back at the others before following it.
The passage itself was dark and dimly lit by early twentieth century light bulbs. The passage soon gave way to a stairs which extended downwards. They walked down the stairs in single file without speaking. When it fell away they were in a corridor. "Well so much for a normal year" Eddie joked but he shut up upon receiving death-glares from everyone else. They started off down the corridor carefully, thinking of the many traps in the tunnels underneath the house. They came to a wall. Engraved in it were the shape of Nina's locket and beside it were two lines of hieroglyphics. "Any idea's what it means?" Nina asked hopefully. Everyone shook their heads as if to say no.
"Maybe we should translate it before we go in there Nina" Fabien suggested.
"Ye you're probably right. Let's go. It's getting late and there's 9 new people coming tomorrow. We want to look normal and not like people who crawl around tunnels all night" Nina agreed while Fabien took photos of the hieroglyphics. As soon as he had the photo's they all left and Nina' sealed the passage.
Back in Nina and Amber's room as they got back into bed the house began to speak to Nina again. "Translate the message and guard the cup" it said.
"What? Why?" she asked
"Nins? You ok?" Amber asked
"The house spoke to me. It said to translate the message and guard the cup. I'm going to check on it" she told amber, getting out of bed. She walked down the hall and opened the door but before she could step out she heard Victor's voice from his office and noticed the boy's all ducking in front of the office. They looked around when she opened the door and shot her a look that said help! She opened the door and walked over to the office door while they retreated out of sight. "Come in" he said looking at Corbiere.
"Victor we have a problem" she began "The bed for one of the new people has a wobbly leg".
"First of all miss martin why are you out of bed at this hour? And second of all how would you know if it was wobbly?" Victor asked. Nina panicked.
"Well I got up to use the bathroom and when I got back to the room I heard it rocking" she lied
"As much as I believe your story I won't take a look at it tonight. Tonight I have other matters to attend to so shoo!" he demanded "And miss Martin? I want to see my face in those toilet bowls tomorrow" he added on her way out, handing her a toothbrush. She sighed and left. She noticed that the boys were gone and sighed.
The next morning at breakfast the boys told them what Victor had been saying to Corbiere. "He was saying that they needed to find the 'king's gift'" they informed.
"Great so we have another mystery to solve what's new" Patricia mumbled.
