Good to see you have returned now let's see who knocked out our friends last time
When Red X regained conscience he looked around and realized he couldn't see he also realized he was sitting up. He tried to stand up but he realized he couldn't,
"What the?"
He felt rope wrapped around his hands, which were apparently tied to some thing else. He sat there just thinking: who did this? Why? Was this the organization Gweto had warned them about? Suddenly he heard something, which was coming from right behind his back.
"Uh no...no…don't…don't…help, help…X help me." Moaned a sleepy famine voice
"Ilmatar?" X asked
"She still must out cold; she also must be having a nightmare, but she's calling for me for help? Why?" Pondered X in his mind
"Uh...hu. What? Where am I?" Asked Ilmatar still in a sleepy voice
"Welcome back sleeping beauty." X said sarcastically
"What? X where are we?"
"I'd like to know the same thing, but I assume we're still in the cave in which we blacked out."
"Why can't I move my hands?" Asked Ilmatar in a scared voice
"Because apparently your hands are tied with rope, to a pole, which is stuck in the ground and my hands are also tied to it."
"Why?" Asked Ilmatar
"Don't know, probably so are captors won't have to worry about us escaping."
"But-"
"Shh! I hear someone coming!" X snapped
Suddenly the cavern lit up and X and Ilmatar looked up. They saw grinning men with either rifles or AK-47s surrounded them.
"Well it seems our friends are awake." Said a male voice
Ilmatar and X looked over "Professor?" (The professor from Italy)
"Good to see you remember me." Chuckled the professor
"What are you doing down here?" Asked X surprised
"Simple I'm looking for the great evil." The professor said
"So you stole the journal and the scrolls?" Asked Ilmatar
"Yep." Said the professor
"How did you do it you left no clues?" Asked Ilmatar
"I had help from my friends." Said the professor motioning to the men with the guns
"Hey you're the man who shot me." X said
"Sure am." The man said with a grin as he put his bolt-action rifle over his shoulder.
"Wait. You got help from the Sarsaparilla gang?" Asked Ilmatar in an exasperated voice
"I had to, they lent me their technology and it helped me to steal the Journal (He held up Napoleon's Journal) and the scrolls (He held up 2 scrolls in his other hand) without leaving any clues."
"So now that you have us here care to fill in the blanks of the story?" Asked X
"Well since you're probably going to die I probably should tell you." (Oh boy how many times have they done that)?
"Okay let's start. As you know the scroll which depict a great evil, was written in Rome and as you also know it wiped out an entire civilization. Now what do you think that means?" Asked the professor
"I think it means that the Romans built this evil and used it to wipe out one of their ancient rivals." Said Ilmatar
"Wrong." the professor said
"Wrong what do you mean wrong?" Asked Ilmatar angrily
"I mean how do you think the most powerful and advanced nation in the world at it's time, with the most powerful, disciplined, and well equipped army was beaten by a bunch of rag-tad rebel barbarian? The answer? They weren't!" The professor said in a pepped up angry voice.
"What do you mean?" Asked Ilmatar a plainly as Raven
"I mean that Rome didn't create the evil. The Barbarians did, and they used it to destroy Rome." The professor said screaming in Ilmatar's face
Both X and Ilmatar just sat there for a minute taking in this unbelievable info.
"So uh why did you need Napoleon's Journal?" Asked X
"Because when Napoleon began his conquest of Italy in 1796 he found this place and made a map of it in his journal so that is why I needed it." Said the professor simply.
"Can you explain the bodies with the swastika on it?" Asked Ilmatar
"Simple in 1944 Hitler was desperate for a way to stop the allies. They were kicking his butt everywhere he turned. Soviets were advancing from the east, Americans coming up through Sicily and Italy in the east and British and American forces were pushing from the west. He had heard the stories about the monster that destroyed Rome. So he sent some SS guards to Italy to find it, but by the time they got there the war was over for Hitler and an allied bombing raid trapped them down here until they died."
"Creepy." Was all X could say
"Now you answer me a question. What were the tribes that destroyed Rome?" Asked the Professor
"There were many different tribes." Said Ilmatar "There were the Visigoths, Vandals, Huns, Celts, Anglo-Saxtons, Franks and a dozen different tribes."
"Very smart, but did you know that those tribes may have used the evil beast but they didn't create it."
"Then who did?" Asked X
"The Magyars did and they originated in the area that would one day become-"
"Northern Finland." Ilmatar said finishing the professors' sentences.
"So it's just a coincidence." Said X
"No coincidence, Red X you see according to the scrolls in order to awaken the creature you need the blood of a true Magyar hero." The professor said smiling "Larry! Get what we need." He said with a sneer
"With pleasure boss." He said talking out a switchblade
Ilmatar looked on with horror as the man came over to her. She tried to squirm to avoid the man came over to her, but the man pushed her head against the pole she was tied to, and she stopped.
"Been waiting to do this along time brat." The man said
She winced then she started to cry lightly as the man cut an incision in her arm and placed a small bowl bellow it to collect the blood, which was also the soaking the arm of her shirt.
"You see Ilmatar we were never trying to kill you we were trying to capture you." Said one of the men with guns.
After the man got the blood he gave it to the professor. The professor then put it inside the great bowl then he stepped in the bowl. He took out one of the scrolls.
"I have waited so long for this moment." He started to read the scroll "
"OKAY SEMA WHOMA THE AWEGHYINA FIGENA HOLOA."
"OKAY SEMA WHOMA THE AWEGHYINA FIGENA HOLOA."
"OKAY SEMA WHOMA THE AWEGHYINA FIGENA HOLOA."
"OKAY SEMA WHOMA THE AWEGHYINA FIGENA HOLOA."
Suddenly the ground began to shake violently and some of the dirt from the ceiling began to fall off.
"Dear God!" Declared X in a whisper
Hangover! R&R