The Tomb Raider and her Accomplice
Lara and Kurtis stood on the barren,rocky incline, the sun was splitting the rocks and Lara was hot and irritated. Kurtis told her about a secret Lux Veritatis tomb underneath the incline but they had been searching for two hours now and there was no sign of anything. Kurtis too was beginning to lose hope and he picked up a stone to chuck across landscape, Lara sat on one of the rocks and took a drink of water and cool herself down when she noticed what she thought was a crack in the rock, upon looking further she discovered that it went the full way around the rock and there was a sort of keyhole next to it. "Kurtis, I've found it" she yelled and he came rushing over. "What do we do about the keyhole Kurtis?" she asked. Kurtis just smirked "Look at the hole", upon examining it further she realized it looked like the symbol on Kurtis' ring, "Don't tell me the ring is the key" she said rolling her eyes, "Precisely" was his smug response. The door slid open and Kurtis produced a flashlight to see through the dark, the cave went on about a hundred metres before they stepped into a burial chamber. "Why are we here Kurtis?" Lara asked, she hadn't been privy to this plan, Kurtis just said that the tomb was where they had to go, "This tomb contains a map of all the Nephilim strongholds in Turkey" was his exciting response "If my hunch is right then I know which one will be the place where our old friend Karel is hiding". Lara agreed with this plan no matter how unorthodox it was if it got her closer to Karel she'd go along with it.
Kurtis navigated them into a small anti-chamber at the back of the room, inside on the wall was a large map of the area on the wall. Lara was breath-taken at the detail put into the map despite the fact it was probably drawn up during medieval times. There were several black circles dotted throughout the map, one of the circles however was glowing white. Kurtis looked at the map coolly and muttered "Guess my hunch was right", he turned to Lara and explained to her that the circles represented Nephilim strongholds and that "This glowing one means that Nephilim occupy it, looks lie we've found him". Lara narrowed her eyes and said "When do we kill him", "Easy Lara" was his response "We're lucky,he doesn't know we're here, and the Periapt Shards are destroyed we don't have anything to kill him with". Lara turned to him with shock "We've come all this way for nothing so?" she uttered with shock "Whoa simmer down there is a way" Kurtis replied "There is another weapon that the Nephilim have an Achilles heel to-The Crystal Bow.", "I've never heard of it" Lara said skeptically, Kurtis just chuckled and said "Of course not it was a secret the Lux Veritatis guarded alongside the Periapt Shards, to be used as a back-up in case the shards ended up in Nephilim hands, but I always thought it was a legend". Lara was pleased with this, she finally had a way to do what she had failed to do in Prague.
"Where is this weapon Kurtis?" she asked, Kurtis just looked away and admitted "I don't know, its location was only known to two knights and that was in the 14th Century-but this is the second reason we're here, as one of the tombs outside is the final resting place of one of these knights". This seemed too convenient to Lara but right now she didn't care about it and only wanted to make progress, she joined Kurtis in opening the heavy lid to reveal the centuries old skeleton of the knight. The knight was buried with his sword and shield and something faded protruded from underneath his shield. Kurtis gingerly removed the faded parchment from underneath the shield and was puzzled by the archaic language on it. "You don't happen to read ancient do you?" he joked to Lara, but was surprised when she was able to translate the parchment. "The Bow's resting place lies in the entry to the Black Sea, the bay of the straits." "What is that supposed to mean?" Kurtis scratched his head in confusion, "I think it might refer to Suvla Bay in the Dardanelles" Lara responded. Kurtis scratched his head again and said "That's some distance from here". Lara noticed a small symbol in the corner of the parchment, so faded it was very easy to miss, she didn't recognize it as a Lux Veritatis symbol and when she showed it to Kurtis he didn't either. "Can we trust this?" she asked, Kurtis just brushed the hair out of his eyes and said "What choice do we have". They set off from the tomb with the parchment and a location of Karel, the end was close.