Farkas and Eleanea were finally up and they were back on their path in the ruin. Krissy felt a bit irritated that Eleanea was still following them but she ignored her and just kept her eyes on the map. Krissy figured out where they were from where Eleanea took them.
As they walked Vilkas looked up examining the tall ceiling. "I wonder how deep underground we are." Vilkas mumbled to himself looking around at their surroundings. "There are so many trails on this map I just hope we are on the right one.." Krissy said quietly furrowing down her eyebrows at the map.
Eleanea couldn't help but glance over Krissy's shoulder to examine the map a bit. "I think we are." Eleanea said glancing away with a small grin. "And how would you know that?" Krissy turned her head to Eleanea sneering at her a bit. "Because that map really isn't that hard to read." She shrugged smirking at Krissy.
Krissy stopped for a moment glaring at Eleanea a little. "Well than since you know than please help yourself to show us." Krissy held the map out to her. "No, I don't need too." Eleanea pushed the map away from her smirking at Krissy's aggravation. Krissy just sighed and continued to walk glancing at the map. Vilkas and Farkas exchanged quick looks and than looked back ahead following behind them.
It seemed like hours had passed since they continued on their journey, they fought through several Falmer and dwarven machines already it made it seem even longer. They walked through several small rooms and long hallways that seemed to spiral down deeper underground. "So how much treasure is there?" Eleanea finally asked rasing her eyebrows at Krissy.
Krissy shrugged keeping her eyes forward. "I don't know." She replied. Eleanea furrowed her eyebrows down. "Than why make this journey?" She asked crossing her arms. "For my own reason." Krissy replied again keeping her answers short and quick. Eleanea kept her eyes on her for a moment and than looked away sighing a bit. "Fine don't tell me." She mumbled.
They walked deeper down in the ruin keeping their footsteps as silent as they could to not alert a lot of Falmer. Eleanea shot two quick arrows out killing a couple of Falmer that seemed to be guarding a door, Eleanea smirked a bit at how easy that was. They all walked out from behind the wall and over to the bodies searching them.
Krissy furrowed down her eyebrows in confusion pulling out a sphere that had blue glowing designs on it. "Could this be a key of some kind?" She asked raising it up to the others. "Maybe.." Eleanea said scratching the side of her face examining it. "I've seen things like this before but they could be used for anything." Krissy said rubbing the back of her neck. "Could be important keep it." Farkas said walking over to the side of her.
Krissy nodded in agreement standing up and placing the sphere in her pack. Vilkas pushed the door opened revealing what looked like a lifting device that had a lever in the middle of the floor. Krissy grabbed her map looking down at it tracing her finger on it. "I think this goes down." She said glancing up from the map. "Well than let's go down." Eleanea said pushing past them walking into the lift.
They all followed behind, Krissy grabbed the lever pulling it back and the lift slowly began to go down. It became dark with in the small lift as it went down, it was hard to see anything in it. Vilkas lifted his hand up trying to find Krissy's, he found an arm and couldn't help but run his hand up it smiling a bit, his smile disappeared when he realized how big the arm felt. "Hey, whose touching me?" Farkas spoke out yanking his arm away, Vilkas quietly cleared his throat backing away from him a little.
Eleanea chuckled under her breath realizing what just happened. A few more minutes have passed and the lift finally came to a stop with a newly closed door in front of them. Krissy opened the door wincing at the sudden light, they all walked through the door looking around at the new area.
It was a large room that was decorated with Dwarven Centurion's that seemed to be deactivated. Krissy blinked examining the designs on the wall and the columns that stood in the corners of the room that reached all the way to the tall ceiling. There was a large table in the middle of the room with piles of ruined books stacked on top of it along with some scrap metal. "I don't understand these rooms." Eleanea said scratching her head examining their surroundings.
They walked up several stairs that led to a giant double door that towered over them, it took Farkas and Vilkas both to get the door to push open. Krissy glanced down at her map and than looked up walking through the door. The room was a lot smaller than the one before it, a dwarven mechanism laid in the middle of the floor with a tall statue standing in the middle of it.
Krissy examined the room furrowing down her eyebrows seeing that there were no doors in it. "Dead end?" Vilkas said walking around in the room looking around. Krissy walked up to the statue examining it. The statue was falling apart, pieces of it laid on the ground around it, Krissy couldn't make out what it was suppose to be.
She shifted her eyes down seeing that there was some kind of opening on it. It was a large looking key hole that looked like something round fit into it, Krissy quickly dug in her pack pulling out the small glowing sphere. Krissy slowly placed the sphere in the key hole, once it came close to the hole it was like something just sucked it right into it.
Krissy jumped a bit from it, she watched closely as the sphere began to spin in its place and the statue begin to glow. The room suddenly began to shake causing them all to fall over a bit. "What's happening?!" Farkas shouted over the loud noised they began to here.
Krissy looked around a bit panicked. 'Did I trigger a trap?!' She thought to herself watching crumbled pieces fall from the walls. But instead of a deadly trap the room just suddenly stopped making them fall even more on the ground, Krissy sat up looking around and at everybody. She opened her mouth to speak but was cut off by a loud squealing noise that sounded like it was coming from an old machine.
She stood up slowly seeing the wall across the room from her begin to crack and crumble. The wall fell to pieces revealing a large door opening, pushing whatever pieces laid in its way away from it. "Looks like you found the way." Eleanea said getting up brushing the dirt off herself. Krissy blinked in a bit of amazement at what just happened, she slowly walked towards the new opening.
Vilkas and Farkas both walked close behind her examining the wall pieces on the ground. Krissy's eyes widened as she walked through seeing the room before her. It was a large room that had stairs circling it and a large balcony above it with a golden chair sitting on the top of it. "By the gods.." Vilkas whispered examining the giant room. Krissy shifted her eyes forward seeing the large amounts of treasure lay in the front of the room.
She froze at the site, her eyes quickly moved to a giant silver shield that had a familiar symbol on it. "There!" She shouted in excitement running towards the shield with Vilkas and Farkas right behind her. She couldn't believe it, she had looked for so long for any kind of clue to her past and here it was, right at her grasp.
The shield that supposably belonged to her family, she was getting close enough to where she could start to make out the designs. Just by looking at the crest on it she could feel a spark of memory coming back to her, a memory of being a little girl and looking up at the shield before it was taken away.
Her heart began to pound against her chest. 'Just a few more steps and..' Her thought was cut off by the sound of a snapping noise, she quickly stopped looking down seeing that she had broken a trip wire. "Shit." Was all she had to say and than more wires began to break all around them. A giant rope net flew up from the ground throwing dirt and dust everywhere, it scooped them up off the ground and flung to the ceiling with giant spikes coming from the walls aiming right at them.
Krissy quickly moved before one could pierce her but she heard Farkas yell out in pain. "Farkas?!" She called out trying to move where she could see him but it was hard since Vilkas was basically sitting on her in the net. "I'm fine, only got me in the back a little bit." Farkas said with a pained voice. Vilkas tried to move to give Krissy more room but it seemed to be only making it worse. "Eleanea you okay?!" Farkas called out looking for her in the net but he couldn't seem to find her.
They heard laughter from below them. "I'm perfect!" She called out looking up at them. "I thought you would be smart enough to know not to just run in like that! Guess I was wrong." Eleanea laughed again walking around other traps and straight towards the treasure. "Eleanea get us down from here!" Krissy shouted out watching her carefully. "I could do that.." Eleanea said picking up the shield examining it and than looking around at the rest of the treasure.
Farkas furrowed down his eyebrows watching her. "Eleanea?" He called out to her in questioning. "Sure is a lot of treasure down here, I couldn't help but notice this piece caught your eye." Eleanea smirked holding up the shield to where they could see. Krissy clenched her jaw glaring down at her. "Get us down now!" She yelled trying to move. "Wow such a loud and commanding voice how can I refuse?" Eleanea rolled her eyes chuckling.
Eleanea pulled out a large folded cotton bag out of her pack, she opened it up and started putting treasure inside it. "You know, I know someone who paid me a pretty good sum to get this shield before you did." Eleanea spoke while she kept piling treasure up in the bag. "I was having such a difficult time on how to do that too, but luck would have it that you would be stupid enough to run right into an obvious trap!" Eleanea laughed throwing the bag over her shoulder and grabbing the shield with the other hand. "Not to mention all this treasure too, I say it was a win win for me!" She grinned turning around to look at them.
Krissy glared at her deeply. "You elf bitch!" She yelled at her trying to reach for her dagger on her leg. "No need for that friend! I'm just doing my job." Eleanea smirked at her anger. "Your just going to leave us here?!" Vilkas shouted trying to move around. "I'm sure you'll find some way out." Eleanea shrugged beginning to walk towards the door. "Well it's been fun! But I must take my leave now, cheers!" She called out running out of the room quickly.
Krissy felt her blood begin to boil and her anger rise. "Dammit!" She shouted throwing her head back on the net. "Son of a bitch! I knew I couldn't trust her! Dammit, dammit, dammit!" Krissy yelled beginning to kick her feet around trying to get more room so she could reach her dagger. "Hey watch it!" Farkas said moving his head up in time before she kicked it.
Vilkas sighed out in frustration trying to think of what to do. "Krissy calm down! We need to come up with a plan." Vilkas yelled at her trying to grab her attention. "I have a plan, cut that damn elf's throat!" Krissy shouted trying to move Vilkas away still trying to get her dagger. "I hate to say this but I saw this coming.." Farkas mumbled regretting to even let Eleanea near them.
Vilkas turned his head towards Farkas. "Farkas you know her better than we do, where could she be going? Who will she be going to?" He asked him furrowing down his eyebrows. "How am I suppose to know? I've only known the girl for not even a couple months." Farkas said shaking his head remembering the first time he met her.
Krissy tried shoving Vilkas out of the way. "Hey! Stop that!" He yelled at her feeling her fist go into his back. "Dammit move! I need to get my dagger so I can cut us out of here fool!" Krissy yelled at him not being able to control her anger at the moment, she had come to far for something like this to happen. After what happened with Maven and Brynjolf no way was she going to that elf get away.
Vilkas wanted to yell back at her but he knew it wasn't the time for it. "Sorry Farkas if I step or lean on you." Vilkas said reaching up and grabbing the net lifting himself up as best as he could. "Is that enough?" He asked feeling his arms begin to shake. "Yes!" Krissy said quickly grabbing her dagger from its pouch, Krissy rolled over to her side before Vilkas let himself back down.
She began to cut into the thick rope as fast as she could. "When I see that damn elf I'm gonna..." Krissy mumbled to herself in anger moving her dagger faster. A piece of rope snapped open from the dagger and Krissy began to cut on the next. Vilkas tilted his head to the side watching her, he felt his own anger begin to rise at such betrayal. 'I wonder why that shield is so important to Krissy?' He thought to himself his anger turning into curiosity and sympathy.
Another part of the rope snapped and it was enough for the rope to finally give out and break from underneath them. Their bodies hit the floor hard causing the air to get knocked out of them, Krissy gasped and groaned from the sudden impact. She felt Vilkas's hand on her back. "Are you guys okay?" He asked catching his own breath looking at them all. "I will be once I-" Krissy began to speak but stopped feeling her arm sink down.
She slowly looked down seeing that she had pushed down a pressure plate. "Shit." She said quickly lifting her arm up and once she did the hole room began to shake, the hole ruin began to shake as if a giant earth quake had been activated. Giant pieces of the ceiling began to fall. "We need to get out of here now!" Vilkas yelled jumping up grabbing Krissy and Farkas pulling them both up.
They sprinted out of the room with the ceiling collapsing right onto the doorway almost on top of them. They ran through the small room and through the large chamber making their way back to the lift. "Dammit! She's taken it!" Krissy shouted over the walls crashing down. They all stood at the very edge looking up seeing that the lift was far up by now, Vilkas looked down into the dark tunnel below them.
He watched a piece of the tunnel fall down quickly disappearing into the darkness and for a moment he thought he could hear the sound of water splashing. "We need to jump!" He shouted quickly turning towards them. "What!? Are you crazy! We don't know where the rest of that leads! It could be sudden death for all we know!" Krissy yelled looking at Vilkas like he was crazy. "Do you have a better plan!? I think there might be water at the bottom of it and if not we're likely to die anyways!" He looked over seeing the ceiling collapsing behind them. "Deep enough water!?" Krissy glared at him a little mainly from panic.
Farkas's eyes widened seeing the collapsing walls and roof getting near them. "Dammit just jump!" Farkas yelled pushing them both down the tunnel and him falling right behind them. They all screamed feeling their guts rise and their hearts pound against their chest, a thousand of thoughts swimming through their heads as they had no idea what awaited them below.