Author's Note: Okay...Snake STILL hasn't reached me back with the revised Chapter 8, hopefully he's just been busy. Until I have stable contact with him again, I'll just try to be a little more careful with the grammer and spelling, so just be patient. And, I'm VERY sorry for the long wait. The wind storm had knocked out my power for several days, until recently that is. Don't think I've forgotten about you, this was supposed to go up Sunday but here it is. Also because of the windstorm, there will be NO chapter this weekend but there will be one next weekend. And for this chapter, Light and Krystal won't make an appearence but they'll be back, it is their story after all.

To dotkaite: Thank you, Epic is exactly what I'm trying to go for. This is a romance fic though, so all of these adventures are meant to bring Light and Krystal together in a way that is both natural and exciting. And don't you worry, this is NOT a smut fic. There may be awkward moments and implied sex at the most, if I decide on that, but there will NOT be anything graphic of that sort; there will be graphic violence though and some sexual humor. The rating is T, it will NOT go above that, this I can promise you.

To dogman15: Your questions will be answered in the next chapter, probably.

To Dreikner: Thank you very much for the good words and encouragement, it really is appreciated. I'm writing this for the sake of many authors who might want to try to write a fic with romance between an anthro and a human, with a bit of adventure on the side.

To Everyone Else: Enjoy your time at the museum, Light's friends surely won't.

February 26, 2014 Update: Sorry about last week you guys. It was just a bad week for me, so I couldn't really concentrate on updating. At any rate, here is the first fighting action chapter. This was a big milestone for me and I'm glad to say it is improved in its wording so it is clearer. I'll and update again tomorrow and the day after and then I'll see what to do from there.

Chapter 9

A Not so Silent Museum

Alex, Chris and Nat had to walk an hour to get from school to the museum. And to their luck, it started raining when they where only about half of the way there. Chris, unlike the rest of the merry band, watched the news for the weather report and came prepared with one of the biggest umbrellas the other two had ever seen. It seemed that Chris had made it himself, and he did. Although he didn't mind the rain one bit, he knew the rest of them would. When the rain had started up, Alex became frustrated, but he had kept up a nonchalant exterior. Nat, on the other hand, had kept muttering angrily to himself while Chris pulled out his modified umbrella.

By the time they reached the museum, the guys heard an ambulance siren. When they turned around, sure enough, there was an ambulance coming from the direction of their school. As it passed them up, Nat got to thinking. "Um, guys, none of you think Light was in there, do you?" They all looked thoughtful for a second before coming to a unanimous conclusion.

"Nah," they all voiced.

Alex walked up to the door and pulled it open for the guys to enter. Nat almost went inside but then he saw the museum hours. "Wait a minute, the museum is closed?"

"To the general public, yes," Alex stated simply. "But I managed to book an appointment with the director."

"Alright then, let's get a look at that scroll and get out of here. Any longer than an hour, and I'll probably die of boredom."

As the three walked in, they were greeted with the incredible sight of dinosaurs, or rather their bones. In the center dead dinosaurs stood the majesty of the tyrannosaurus-rex. Chris, not to mention the rest of them, stared in awe, but he got his mind together faster than the rest of them. "Alex, where did the director say they would meet us?"

Alex and Nat shook back to reality with that call, "In his office, in the back of the museum."

"Lead the way then." The three had to go from one side of the museum and all the way over to the other end. Along the way, they stopped to gaze at some of the other exhibits. After the dinosaurs, they passed by the medieval section. Alex's personal favorite. And then the ancient Egyptian section after that. After the Egyptian exhibit, the three arrived to their destination.

Alex knocked on the door and heard a voice beyond it call out, "Come in." Once inside, Nat and Alex sat in the two chairs in front of the director while Chris stood behind them being perfectly content. The director swiveled his chair around to face them properly. "Ah, boy's. Welcome to my museum. Which one of you boys is Alex?" Nat could barely hold in his laughter. The director resembled a stereotypical old and rich, fat guy with a large, throbbing pimple on his forehead. Every time the man started talking, it looked like the pimple was growing and vice versa when he stopped talking.

Alex was only mildly shocked at this and broke out of his hypnosis quickly to speak up, "That would be me, sir"

"Okay. You called yesterday because you want to view a particular article. A 'very' particular scroll, am I correct?"

Alex nodded, "Yes, that's right."

The man thought offhandedly, "I don't know. All of our scrolls are very old, and I'm not sure if I want you young men to be touching them. And that reminds me, how do you know about that scroll? It's one of our oldest documents and we don't even put it on public display."

Alex pulled Light's staff out of his back pack and showed it to the director, who instantly knew what he was seeing. "This is what brought the three of us here."

"Well I'll be! Do you three know Allistor?"

"Not really. He's the uncle of a friend of ours and we're studying this staff. He told us that if we wanted to study this thing better, then we should start by studying the scroll that came with it. So, would it be okay?"

The director weighed his choices. "Well... alright. You can look, but remember that if you rip it, you pay for it. Personally, I don't think any of you could imagine the cost to repair it. Oh! And before I forget, there is no photography allowed. If you have a camera, I'll have to ask you to give it up. Alex did bring a camera with him so he could take a picture of the document as a reference. He knew a scroll of that value wasn't allowed to be casually taken out of the museum, especially one still undergoing study. Without that camera, he wouldn't be able to get that reference himself, but he came prepared. Alex reached into his pocket and handed the camera to the director. "Thank you for your cooperation. I have to leave for the night, but we got security watching from the outside of this room, so don't get any ideas."

With that warning, he left the room and the three boys to their business after bringing them the scroll in question.

Alex had told Chris and Nat about the camera and how the museum wouldn't allow them to take the scroll with them. "Please tell me you have a backup plan?" Nat complained.

Alex smiled and nodded, "I thought something like this might happen, so I brought my laptop with me in case of something like this." Chris was rather impressed by Alex's insight into this situation.

"Nice! Looks like I'm beginning to rub off on one of you at least." Nat mumbled to himself.

"Okay, I get it. I'm stupid and the two of you are smart, but what do you plan on doing with the stupid laptop?" Alex setup his laptop while Nat was talking and plugged in a computer card.

"This museum is a Wi-Fi hotspot."

"So?"

"So, I'll be able to create a link from here to my aunt through the web. I asked her to keep her computer on and stay near it in case I decided to try to contact her." He went through some motions on his keyboard and the screen glowed to life. Alex setup a web camera and attempted a call to his. "Hello, Lindsey, are you there?" A woman propped herself in front of them and introduced herself to the two unfamiliar boys.

"Hello, I'm Lindsey Tink! Just in case Alex didn't tell you…"

Chris was polite as always, "No worries, he told us about you."

"Okay then, what was it you boys needed me for? Alex only said to stay by my computer tonight in case he called me through it."

Alex pulled out the staff and showed it to her. "Do you remember when I asked you to translate the words on this staff?" She nodded and he continued, "Well, this time I need you to translate this scroll."

His aunt scanned the scrolls general features and found she was intrigued. "Now that looks like a very old document. How did you guys managed to get a hold of something like it?"

"We didn't. We're at the museum and the director is letting us study it. We were going to take a picture of it with a camera and bring the picture with you, but he took my disposable camera. What I need you to do is take the picture for us from your end and help us translate it. Will you help us?"

"If it's so important that you had to orchestrate this whole thing, then I don't think I have much choice but to help you," she spoke with her light English accent. "First, we'll take the picture. Would you fix the camera on your end down and a little to the left, so I can get a better view of it?" Alex did as he was told and his aunt got her camera and took a good, detailed shot of the scroll. "Alright then, it's done. Let's get to work on the translation."

While Lindsey and the boy's were doing their business, something sinister was already preparing to present itself. A hooded figure from the outside cut off the wire in a power box that deactivated the security system. In an instant, all of the camera feed in the security room went black. The security guard on watch had been watching everything very closely and making sure the small group of didn't leave with the scroll in hand. Then everyone one of the screens died on him. He was panicking to get everything back on.

After a while, he was about to call assistance but an electric jolt shot through him from behind. He fell to the ground and the hooded figure behind him floated towards the roof. At the top were several window panes, each one looking down at a different exhibit. The hooded being turned to the medieval exhibit and formed a violet energy ball in the palm of its hand. In a graceful motion, it took its hand out from under the energy ball and let it float gracefully down into the exhibit. The energy ball scattered itself into several of the empty sets of knight armor. The figure went to the next window pane that oversaw the entrance of the dinosaur exhibit and did the same. The figure went back to the medieval panel and stood in watch of Light's friends.

"Well that should be it, some of the translation may not be exact because of how worn some of the lettering is, but I'm certain it's close enough. From the looks of it, this scroll seems to be part of a set of scrolls."

Nat was confused, "Wait a minute, and are you saying there could be more like this?"

"Oh, yes. Do you see the symbol at the bottom right? It's the Macedonian symbol for the number one. I believe it has to be a part of a set of scrolls. If this one survived the years, then I would hope the rest of them would have as well, you just have to look for them."

"How?"

"Well, if they did survive, then they may be in some museums around the world. I could try to do a few searches to help find them. Oh, and I'll need your address to reach you."

"Of course." Lindsey needed Alex's address because her sister and brother-in-law had moved again to another part of town and they never remember to tell her about where they move to.

"Dude! I'm getting bored here. Can we please leave already?"

"Alright! Just be a little more patient with me, gosh!" Nat's complaining interrupted Alex's and Chris' train of thought. He wasn't even looking at the piece of paper he was writing on because he was firing back at Nat and he absentmindedly wrote down the wrong address. None of them bothered to look at what was really on the piece of paper before it was thrust into the view of the web camera. His aunt wrote down what was on screen in her notepad and set it aside.

"Okay then, I'll see you soon." The imaging feed died and Alex crumpled up the paper and threw it in the trash can. He packed up the staff and his laptop and was all set to leave.

"We can now leave, Nat," he said as if to a child.

"It's about freaking time."

The three friends couldn't wait to get back home and into their comfy beds. That was only wishful thinking. Alex and Nat walked out of the director's office and weren't paying attention to any of their surroundings but Chris was. Before Alex and Nat knew what was happening, Chris had grabbed the other two boys and dashed to the ground, making a loud thud as they all went down. Incidentally, the thud covered up whatever had made a whooshing noise while flying above the boys' heads. Alex was the first one to recover from the floor dive. "Chris, what the HECK was that for?!"

"Yeah! What's the big deal?" Chris made a gesture back toward the door they all had exited. The boys followed his finger and instantly paled. On the door to the director's office, there were three arrows were their heads were supposed to have been just a few moments before. "Oh, dear God, no!" Nat put a finger to his forehead, where he could tell the arrow was aiming at. "Dudes, that arrow was aiming here," he was still pressing a finger to his head from shock. The three turned from the door to the arrows' origin. In front of the boys stood three EMPTY suits of armor. Each one had fired a crossbow arrow at each of the boys.

By the time they had noticed the three suits of armor, the crossbows they were holding were already being discarded and three cold blades were already unsheathed. The guys had finally risen back to their feet and tried to go back into the director's office. Before they could reach the knob, the folded metal gates at either side of the door had slammed and locked in place. The boys turned just in time to see the big wooden doors that lead to the dinosaur exhibit close and lock just as fast. Those doors shutting acted as a signal to the empty armors. The three empty suits drew close to them with the end of their blades pointed at the throats of the three friends. The boys backed themselves as close to the director's office and as far away from the approaching knights as possible.

Chris watched as the knights were all going for a downward slash at the three of them, so he quickly formed a small plan. "Everyone, listen up," and they did. Their lives were on the line after all. "Nat, you need to floor dive to right. Alex, you go to the left. I'll go under the middle one's legs."

Nat was slightly panicking, "AND WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO DO!"

"Just do it!"

Nat didn't feel like arguing about this. With the knights drawing ever so closer, he did feel like revealing something. "Alex, before I die, there is something you must know."

Alex was open to whatever Nat had to say, even if their doom closing on them. "What is it? And please don't tell me you're gay?" They both spoke to each other, never taking their eyes off of the knights.

"No!" Alex was a little relieved at that answer. "But I was the one who set your computer on fire and put your homework in the shredder." That got Alex's full attention and an incredulous, not to mention, furious look on his face.

"THAT WAS YOU!"

That's when Chris yelled to his bickering friends, "NOW!" The three dived to their designated areas as three long swords came crashing down on the floor. Chris, Nat and Alex, almost instinctively, shifted into their elemental fighting styles. The knights were already coming toward them a second time. "Guy's, we need to spread out across the room. There are three of them and three of us."

"No offense, Chris, but they have SWORDS! We have FISTS! They are made of METAL! And we are made of FLESH and BONE! How on Earth do you expect us to beat them for crying out loud?" Chris pointed to the sides of the room, which were littered with medieval weapons. None of them had apparently noticed the weapons all around them. "That is MUCH better!" The only problem with this plan was that the knights were right in front of those weapon areas.

Alex pretty much summed up the unvoiced plan that was in Chris' head. "To get to the weapons, we have to fight threw them."

"Well, if that's the way it has to be," he put his hand towards them and they put theirs to his as well, "let's hope Krystal's training works." They all nodded together, "Break on three, speaking together." The knights approached further, leaves only a few yards between them. The three started their countdown in unison.

"One," they went back into their elemental style positions and began to visibly sweat.

"Two," this was it, all or nothing. Their lives were at risk!

"THREE!"

The guys ran in three different directions around the room and running towards their individual knights that were blocking their way to the weapon walls.

Nat ran while using his speed and agility to dart from side to side like a lightning bolt to confuse the knight armor before him. The knight slashed sideways, but Nat ducked and round housed the knight out of his way. The knight slashed again at Nat's retreating backside, but it came too slow.

Nat reached the wall and didn't even look to see what he had grabbed because his focus was stuck on his fast coming enemy. A vertical chop almost hacked his skull in two, but Nat slid between its legs. Nat recovered and plunged whatever it was that he grabbed through the back of the armor. The knight stared at the pole arm sticking out before literally falling to pieces. Nat couldn't believe he hadn't realized how heavy the pole arm was. He concluded that the adrenaline rush must have been the reason for his sudden strength.

Alex ran towards his knight and jumped over the stab his knight was thrusting. In midair, he kicked the knight's helm and started kicking its stunned body with one aerial kick after another. His mother had made him take a few gymnastics lessens, but he never thought they would come in handy like this. Alex kicked the knight's sword out of its hand, but it recovered and grabbed his other leg with its other arm. The empty suit spun him for a second before throwing him to the floor just as Nat had drilled his opponent.

The youngest boy momentarily blacked out before trying to regain his composure. Then he noticed some weapons hanging by wire from the ceiling. There was one right above the knight. The suit of armor was well over a foot taller than him and the weapon was only three feet above the knight's helm. All he needed was a good running start and a boost to reach it. The knight was picking up its sword at this time, so Alex ran as fast as he could.

Before the sword could be lifted from the ground, Alex stepped onto its clenching hand and ran up along the knight's arm. The armor stood up as the boy jumped from its shoulder like a trampoline to the loaded cross bow hanging on the line. Alex grabbed it, spun around quickly in the air, and fired a timely shot. The giant arrow went through the eye slit of the armor and the pointed end whizzed out the back, causing it to fall to pieces as well. Alex landed on the ground hard, but laid there breathing heavily from exhaustion. He couldn't believe what he just barely managed to pull off.

Chris was much more fluent with his style of combat than the other two. All Chris did was stand there while the knight armor tried to stab and slash, but he easily dodged and countered each attack and followed up with hard fist counters to the joints. The knight's blade fell down toward his shoulder, but it was knocked out of the way with his left arm and a fist was already pounding into its stomach joint. That hit knocked the suit of armor down, giving Chris the chance to hop over its back and grab the most decorated battle axe he could find.

Before the knight could recover, Chris slammed the axe across its legs. The legless knight was trying to retreat, but Chris stepped on its back to keep it from getting away. Alex and Nat were done and watched Chris with anticipation. He looked up at his friends and surveyed their reactions before speaking, "You know, I've always wanted to say this." He turned from the rest of his tired friends, raised the axe and glowered at the struggling knight below him, "INFERNAL FLAME GASH!" Chris hacked the axed down on the suit with no actual pyrotechnics involved. The other two friends were both thinking the same thing, and they voiced their thoughts.

"Show off."

The guys set down their weapons on the ground and made a mental note to thank Krystal when they returned to Light's house. "Oh, dear God. I need to get out of here."

Alex finally managed to pull his weight off the ground, "Ditto."

"Agreed," came Chris' always confident voice.

Nat opened the door and they both stood astounded at what their weary eyes were showing them. Nat was the first to speak, "Alex, if you ever say the phrase, 'This is where history comes to life,' I will freakin' KILL you!" Alex nodded while staring at what was staring back at them, or seemed like it at any rate. A living skeleton of the tyrannosaurus-rex.

Author's Note: I have never done fight scenes before but I hoped you all enjoyed my first crack at it. Remember, there will NOT be a chapter this week. Everyone, I request the usual R&R, ideas, comments, question. I haven't decided on a chapter title for the next weekends part, so you will have to wait a little over a week.