Hey, guys! Sorry it has taken me so long to update. I got grounded because I didn't wash the dishes. Yeah, my parents are really strict.

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Recap is in italics.

Nina's POV

The kiss lasted about 10 seconds. It would have lasted longer if it weren't for...

"Guys!" Mick yelled, carrying Joy in his arms. "Joy's fainted!"

"What?" Fabian (almost) yelled.

"Yeah, she just collapsed!" Mick screeched.

"Okay, new plan. Mick, you take Joy to Trudy. Fabian and I will go save Mara." I told them.

"But I want to be there when you guys find Mara!" Mick whined.

"Mick, we'll tell Mara you were going to come but got stuck at school, alright?" Fabian reasoned.

"Fine. I'll see you guys later. And...be careful. We don't need two more people being kidnapped." Mick said as he ran back to the house. Fabian and I grabbed our bikes and peddled up to Castle Street. Neither of us knew how to get there, but Fabian had GPS on his phone, so he figured it out. I saw an old prison like thing at the end of the road. We peddled up to it and proped our bikes up against the stone outer wall. I was hoping that Rufus was gone and it was just Mara here, if she was here at all.

"Come on." Fabian said, taking my hand and pulling me along with him. We came around to the back and saw an old wooden door carved into the stone. Fabian pulled on the handle, but the door wouldn't budge. He let go of my hand and pulled harder, but it still wouldn't budge.

"It's stuck! Now what are we gonna do?" I yelled. Suddenly, my locket started to glow. I held it up to the door and it swung open.

"Woah." Fabian said. He had already started walking through the long hallway. I stepped inside. There were hieroglyphics all along the wall.

"Woah." I repeated. This was so cool. "Why do you think they are here?" I asked him.

"I don't know." he replyed. He had on his "thinking frown", so I knew he was thinking about it. "Maybe it has something to do with the riddle." he said.

"Maybe." I told him. I touched the wall and instantly had a vision. It was of Mara, on the other side of the wall. She was silently crying. Rufus wasn't anywhere. As soon as the vision ended, I removed my hand from the wall. "Fabian!" I exclaimed. "Mara is on the other side of this wall."

"How do you know?" he asked me.

"I may have had a vision." I told him.

"Oh, okay then. How do we get through the wall?" he asked.

"I don't know. Maybe there's a door somewhere down this hallway." I said. We started walking down the hallway. There wasn't much light, and it kept getting darker the farther we went. At one point, I could barely see anything.

"Maybe we should turn back," Fabian said, fear in his voice. "And come back with a torch."

"No! We're to far to go back now! I don't know if Mara can take another beating." I told him. He continued to follow me, even though he didn't want to go any further. "You can go back if you want to." I told him.

"No!" he said almost instantly. "I don't want to go back without you." He seemed to have realized what he said, because he changed his sentence. "I mean, I'm fine. I don't need to go back." I was about to tell him that he could go back again, but I ran into something.

"Ow!" I screeched as a fell backwards. Fabian caught me.

"Are you okay?" he asked as he helped me steady myself.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I turned back to the door and felt around for a door knob. There wasn't one. Instead, I felt a carving. My locket started to glow, so I put it into the carving and the door opened. Inside I saw Mara. "Mara!" I yelled and ran to her. She looked up at me and smiled

"Nina!" she exclaimed. I quickly untied her and helped her stand up.

"Are you okay?" I asked her.

"Yeah, I'm alright." she said.

"Come on, let's get out of here. I walked towards the door and she followed closely behind. Fabian held the door open for us. We came back to the entrance and stepped through it. As soon as all three of us were outside, we heard a car pull up. I peered around the corner, where our bikes were, and saw Rufus heading towards us.

"Rufus!" I silently yelled. We ran to the other side of the building to hide. We heard a clinging sound, which we asumed was Rufus messing with our bikes. We heard the door open (how on Earth Rufus opened it was a mystery to me) and close. I walked back to where our bikes were. They were completely recked.

"I guess we're going on foot." I said. We walked back to Anubis house, which took a good hour and a half. But it was worth it because we found Mara and she was safe again. For now.

And done! What did you think? This is one of the longer chapters. Again, sorry it took me so long. Review please!