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Alicia POV
Okay, so, it's been a few days since I'd found those photos, and Gerard, Mikey, Frank, and Ray have been cautious ever since. They never came out unless they knew that my father was nowhere nearby. I can't even see Mikey anymore unless I go see him, and we can't go out into dungeons anymore because we can't go by ourselves. We need killjoys.
"Mikey," I said one day while the others were on other floors, "how long do you think you need to be in this hiding?"
"Huh?" Mikey was clearly lost in his thoughts again.
"I said, how long do we have to hide? I know the rain's been watering the plants in Messhina Valley over the past few days, but we need to go get them to get the next relic fragment. We can't stay here forever."
"That's a good point... We all need to do something... I know. I'll talk to the guys later tonight and see if they feel it's okay for us to go out again."
"Cool." I smiled and checked my watch. "I should go." I kissed Mikey on the cheek and began to head out.
"Hey, that reminds me."
"What?"
"Why is okay for people to kiss killjoys on their cheeks, but not on their lips?"
"I...don't know..."
Later on that night, I was sitting in my room. I really wanted my parents to leave town sooner. I wanted to go out with all my friends again instead of having to stay in hiding. I took out my notebook and began to work on my story. I've been writing a story recently about a girl who lives in a foster home who sets off to find her parents again, who've left her on the porch of the foster home when she was born. I was right in the middle of a chapter when I'd heard my parents talking again.
"You have all your things?" My father asked, rushing my mom.
"Yes, but do we have to leave tonight?"
"I'm not responsible for who are daughter messes with, okay? I just don't want to be here when she does something she'll regret, she's old enough to make her own decisions, now get your things and let's go." My mom sighed and held back a sob. She clearly wasn't used to leaving me so soon. "Well, we're out of here." My father said, stopping by my room.
"You're leaving already?" I asked, dismayed. They're leaving that fast?
"Yep, see you." My father quickly ran out of the house while it took two minutes for my mom to leave me. When I heard the door close, I quickly pulled out my phone from my drawer and texted Christa, Lindsey, and Jamia.
My parents just left, we can go out now!
"That's awesome!" Frank said when he saw me the next day. "I was getting tired of staying in one spot all day long. I wanted to go out and see the world again."
"Well, now you can!" I said as the boys all talked amongst themselves.
Later on the next day, Mikey and I went over to the field in Messhina Valley where we began to harvest all the crops we planted.
"This should do it." Mikey said as we both placed them in front of the altar. Then, very slowly, the next relic was revealed. "Shall we move forward?"
"Let's!" I smiled as we moved into the cave. There, we found yet another altar.
A precious metal with a silver luster. Bring me 5 of them.
"Not a very good clue..." I frowned as I took down the clue in a notepad.
"I think it means silver." Mikey replied as he too stared at the clue completely dumbstruck.
"Should we talk it over later?"
"Yeah..."
MIKEY POV
"Of course you need silver!" Reshiram laughed later on that evening. We were all gathered in that weird room down at the school, y'know, the one that we opened in an earlier chapter.
"Five pieces of silver?" Christa asked.
"Yep. Simple as that!"
"Well we could've done that earlier!" I smacked my forehead.
"Don't worry, maybe Gerard and Lindsey can do it tomorrow."
"Okay," Gerard said, "I got nothing else to do."
"Me either." Lindsey smiled.
"Good." Reshiram went over to the counter top where there were vast cooking materials. She placed a piece of paper on the blank surface. "From what we know, part one is requesting five pieces of silver."
"Part one?" Frank asked.
"Yes, there are two parts to this particular puzzle. I figured that out while I was searching for more clues. Part two requires you, uh, eight to bring:
A completely useless metal. Even so, it's splendid in its own way, so
bring me 15 of them.
"A completely useless metal?" Ray repeated.
"Yep. I'm telling you this now so that you can prepare. The more prepared you are, the more relics you get aquire."
"Frank, Ray, Jamia, and I should be able to get those." Christa recommended.
"That should work. Until then, Mikey, you need to keep an eye out for anything suspicious. Alicia, you and I'll gather more information from the library tomorrow during school. Ray, Christa, Frank, Jamia, you guys should work on getting the scrap iron. As for you two," Reshiram gestured over to Lindsey and Gerard," try and gather the silver and place them on the altar. The others should have gotten all the scrap iron by that point."
LATER THE FOLLOWING DAY
ALICIA POV
After school, Reshiram (disguised) and I went through different books in the library. We searched for tons of books, mainly trying to look for books on the dungeons.
"What's this?" I pulled out a weird book from one of the shelves. Reshiram rushed over and looked at it.
"This is the Inquisitive Waltz." I looked at her, a very confused look planted on my face. "Inquisitive Waltz is a type of magic. If used in a specific place, an item should appear."
"Really?"
"Not much is known about this, it's lucky you found it. It can only be used if a killjoy is nearby, so we should show the others later on tonight."
"Can it be used in different dungeons?"
"It can only be used there, but, like I said, only specific places." I ran my hadn through my hair. Did I really just find something so cool? In school?
JAMIA POV
Christa, Ray, Frank, and I spent the rest of the day searching every nook and cranny for scrap iron. After many long hours of searching, we finally found enough pieces.
"Now what?" I asked.
"Now we need to wait at the altar for Gerard and Lindsey. They should be bringing the silver at any moment, and we should be there." Frank replied. The four of us then crossed over into Messhina Valley from Trieste Forest and climbed up until we reached the altar. Ray and Frank began to fight off the monsters and destroy the generator so that we could sit and wait without being disturbed.
LINDSEY POV
"We need one more." I said as I placed the fourth piece of silver onto a pile.
"Good." Gerard smiled at me. "I was getting bored of just sitting around and digging up metal." He went back to searching while I watched the pile. The pieces glistened in the sun as Gerard looked for the last piece.
"What took you?" I asked Gerard. He'd been gone for over an hour.
"There aren't a lot of rocks here, there might not be pieces of silver everywhere." He replied, shoving the last bit of silver into my hand. "Anyways, we should probably get out of here."
"Yeah..."
MIKEY POV
Later that evening, Alicia came running into the farmhouse. I was on the fifteenth floor, but I heard her come in. She quickly came down to greet me.
"Check out what I found." Alicia pulled a weird white book from her backpack. "Ever hear of the Inquisitive Waltz?"
"What? You found that?" I gasped as I took the book from her hands. Surely enough, it was the Inquisitive Waltz, the book that can only be understood by killjoys.
"I can't read a thing, it's in Earthscript." Gerard clarified when he, Lindsey, Ray, Frank, Christa, and Jamia came back with another relic.
"Earthscript?" Lindsey asked.
"The language of our ancestors. It's been used years and years ago, maybe even millions of years ago. This was a really great find, Alicia, but if only we knew what it said." Alicia was leaning over Gerard's shoulder and staring at the script.
"... I can read it..." Alicia muttered. All seven of us looked at the girl standing behind Gerard.
"You can?" we all shouted.
"For some reason I can." Alicia took the book from Gerard's hands. We all leaned in closer so that we could hear the translation. "Below Center..." She read.
"What?" Ray asked.
"I have no idea..." She bit her lower lip. "I wonder if..." Alicia grabbed the book and went to the elevator. I was the only one who went to go find her. She climbed her way up to the thirteenth floor.
"What happened?" I asked when I found Alicia huddled over the Inquisitive Waltz book.
"Stand back." Alicia pushed me over to the corner of the room and placed the book in the center of the room. "I hope this works..." Alicia then went on the shout something in an unknown language which I presumed was Earthscript. Out of nowhere, something shot out of the ground... A toyherb? "It worked!"
"What the heck?" I said. Alicia went over and took the toyherb and the Inquisitive Waltz.
"I knew it..."
"What?"
"Reshiram told me that the Inquisitive Waltz can only be used in a dungeon."
"Then why does it work here?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Alicia asked. "This farmhouse is basically a dungeon!"
"How?" I shouted, causing the others to come running up.
"Somewhere buried underneath this place there could be a dungeon that hasn't been opened for years. It could be treachorous if it is opened again."
"That's impossible!" Frank shouted. "This place only goes up to the twenty-seventh floor, there's no way it can have another." Alicia looked at all the faces in the room.
"... I guess maybe there isn't... But then why did the spell work?" She muttered as they all walked out of the room. Alicia turned to me. "You believe me, right?"
"Of course I do!" I said. "But... Maybe the spell can work in other places besides dungeons. Until then, try not to worry about it too much, okay?" Alicia sighed.
"Okay..." She went over to the elevator and I placed my arm around her. I hope there isn't a dungeon underneath here...
A/N Sorry for scarce updates, but no one's been reviewing and, if there are no reviews, then I'll wait awhile before putting up new chapters. Please review this time.