The screen came back on to show the sun rising above the hills. The small group was walking along, looking around through some of the trees and grass as they went along. Jesse spotted the blonde walking and staring at the ground a bit behind her, so she backed up so that they were walking at around the same pace. "Hey, Lukas... sorry about last night," she apologized, rubbing her head awkwardly.

"You really don't have to," Lukas said, still staring at the screen blankly from the shock he'd just received. "You didn't do anything wrong."

Lukas shook his head a wry smile coming over his face. "You don't have to be... I'm, um, more embarrassed than anything, to be honest."

Jesse nodded in return, before speeding up to where Olivia was. A few moments later, they came to what looked like a big wall that was covered with vines. Jesse scrambled up the thing with ease, ignoring the vines that covered the rock surface. The screen switched so that it showed her head as she climbed to the top, and her jaw dropped in surprise. "Wow!" she exclaimed.

"What? What is it?" Lukas's head popped up next, his own eyes widening as he saw what Jesse was looking at. Olivia bleeped into sight in a spray of sparks, staggered, and nearly fell right back off the top of the wall again.

Axel clambered up behind them, grumbling under his breath, but his eyes widened and the scowl fell right off his face a few seconds later. "Wow," he agreed breathlessly.

The screen switched to give them a good look at what they'd been looking at. A huge building that looked as though it was mostly in ruins, vines crawling over most of the surfaces, except for a huge stained glass emblem that hung over the entrance. It still had it's own ethereal beauty to it, though.

"Wow," Ellegaard hummed, rubbing the back of her head, "it's really gone downhill, huh?"

Onscreen, Jesse squinted for a moment, before her eyes widened, and she started rifling through her pocket as Axel mused, "I wonder what this place is..."

"It's the Order of the Stone's temple! Look!" And Jesse held up the amulet, the screen switching so they were looking at the amulet from Jesse's point of view, the design that made up the amulet perfectly matching the emblem over the entrance.

Lukas let out a low whistle, and Olivia said, sounding rather impressed, "Well, would you look at that."

"Do you think they're in there?"

Magnus arched his eyebrow. "If we were in there, would that place be such a mess?"

Mevia nodded once. "That's true... that place looks like it hasn't been touched in years. Why'd you send them there if the other members of the Order weren't going to be there?" She directed this question at Gabriel.

"The amulet works as a sort of... tracking system," Gabriel began to explain, but onscreen-Jesse cut him off and he quickly shut up so he wouldn't miss anything.

"It's pretty run-down, Axel. So I don't think so. Still," and she hopped down the hill that made up the other end of the 'wall', walking towards the building. "There has to be SOMETHING there that's useful somehow. C'mon!"

And the rest of them followed her into the entrance. The archway, which had been bright and cheerful, gave way to a darker, much creepier atmosphere. Cobwebs strung themselves everywhere in the hallway.

"If you see anything, call it out. We don't have too much time," Jesse instructed her friends, all of them nodding affirmatively at this.

Axel looked over at the wall as the dark tunnel opened into one that was much brighter. "Isn't it weird how dispensers are made to look like faces?"

The screen switched to show them a good view of the wall, which was lined with several of the spooky little faces of the inactivated dispensers. "What do you dispense, little guy?"

"Uh-oh," and Gabriel winced. "I forgot about that..."

Olivia winced a bit. "I... get the feeling we don't want to find out."

A hiss behind them, making the whole group stop and look over their shoulders. "What was that?" Jesse asked warily.

Another hiss, and Reuben, who had already started shaking, let out an alarmed squeal and galloped away down the hallway. "Reuben!" Jesse yelped, racing after her pig. The rest of them followed, before two loud thunks sounded. Jesse stopped, before looking back.

The screen switched to show that two pressure plates had been pressed down.

"Ah, crap. That's... bad," Jesse stated.

A gate slammed down over the entrance where they'd come from, preventing them from going back. The dispensers started making heating up sounds, indicating they were about to fire whatever they dispensed at them. "Aw, c'mon dispenser faces!" Axel complained to the dispensers, "I thought we were friends!"

"Run!" Olivia shouted.

She bleeped out of sight and reappeared in a spot down the hallway, where the arrows didn't fire.

"Aww, you're lucky," Jesse complained, making the dark-skinned girl grin at her.

Onscreen-Jesse leaped out of the way of an arrow and found herself at a perpendicular angle to the floor. There was the hiss of an arrow rushing through the air, and she bolted forward, scrambling across the wall, dodging the arrows with surprising accuracy. Reuben had galloped after Olivia, so he was fine.

Landing back into the empty space next to Olivia, the girl whirled around. The screen switched to show Axel dodging the arrows safely before landing in the empty space, nearly knocking Jesse over. Lukas was doing pretty well, too- he was near the ground, so he only had to dodge an occasional arrow that shot out on the floor.

"Oh no," Olivia groaned, as the screen zoomed out to reveal even more arrows firing endlessly. It seemed to be miles long.

Jesse turned back to the entrance, crossing her arms thoughtfully. "Hm. Well, we could build something to try to trigger one of the pressure plates again," she hummed, thoughtfully.

Lukas bit his lip thoughtfully, ears twitching a bit. "Hmmm... or, we could have Olivia teleport onto one of them," he suggested.

"That's not a bad idea," Ellegaard hummed thoughtfully.

Jesse considered the hallway, before shaking her head. "I don't think that's a good idea- see, the arrows also go through the area where she'd have to stand to trigger it, so Olivia could get hurt," she pointed out.

Lukas blinked, before stepping behind where Jesse was standing and putting his head right next to hers, squinting. The next minute, he nodded and leaned away again. "Oh. You're right. I didn't see that before. Wrong angle, I guess."

"Good thing you didn't just try it," Olivia said with a relieved sigh, "I'd really rather not become a pincushion anytime soon."

This made several members of the audience snort.

Jesse bit her lip. "Hmm... okay, everyone, empty your pockets. We've got to have something that we could use," she instructed.

Lukas pulled out a small bundle of sticks. "I've got some sticks from building the shelter last night," he offered.

Olivia reached through her own pockets. "Hmm, all I've got is some flint and... a piece of string," she held up her own contribution.

Axel sighed and pulled out a handful of feathers, some of them drifting onto the floor. "All I've got are some feathers from when that chicken machine broke back at Endercon," he said simply.

Jesse reached through her own pockets. "Hm, I've got the book... the amulet... and my sword. Oh! And I could definitely make some string," and she created it quickly as her contribution.

Axel stared at the rather pathetic contributions on the floor. "Okay, sticks, flint, string, and feathers... we gotta be able to make SOMETHING with that," he said, finally.

Jesse stared at the items, her eyes narrowing- when suddenly her expression cleared, as if an idea had occurred to her. "A bow and arrow wouldn't work- the arrow might get knocked off course. But..." She took Olivia's piece of flint and slapped her palm, which was still trailing string from her contribution earlier, right onto the flint. When she released the flint, it dangled from her hand like some sort of bizarre yoyo.

"Ooh! Nice improvisation," Otto said.

Jesse turned around, aiming her palm, before firing. The flint flew through the air, hit the floor, rolled a bit, bounced, and then landed right on top of the pressure plate, switching it off. The hail of arrows that had been trapping the whole group in that one section disappeared, switching back off. Jesse flicked her wrist, making the string retract, the flint slapping neatly into her palm. It took her a second to detach the flint and return it to Olivia, before she scraped her hand off on the nearest wall.

"All right," Olivia said with a grin, taking her flint back.

"The Bureau of Amalgamology's luck is changing," Axel agreed with a grin.

Jesse nodded with a smile of her own, and they continued through the hallway. The screen switched to the library that they'd seen in the prologue. Well, it was covered in cobwebs, but it was the exact same one.

"Isn't this room like Ivor's creepy basement?" Axel wondered.

"Oh yeah. I thought I recognized it. You modeled your villain lair after our old enchanting room? I'm touched!"

Ivor didn't respond, glaring at the screen.

Jesse hummed onscreen, looking around. "Yeah, kinda is. Must be their enchanting room or something like that."

"Looks like it," Lukas agreed, before the group split up to look around without another word.

Jesse shoved open a chest, coughing a bit as a rather large dust cloud rose from it. Waving it away from her face, she reached into the chest and withdrew a red cloak, with three buttons that fastened it shut.

"Oh, hey, that's Ivor's old cloak," Soren said, pointing. "He always liked using it whenever it was snowing or raining."

"Oh, yeah. So that's what happened to it," Ellegaard hummed.

Jesse looked over at Lukas, who seemed to be the nearest person. "Lukas, you think the Order will mind if I borrow this to hide... uh... this situation here?" And she gestured at her four extra arms with one hand, the other five holding onto the cloak.

"It's an old cloak, I haven't used it in a while. I don't think I mind at all," Ivor said after a moment. Everyone glanced at one another. It was one of the first times the man had said something even resembling nice.

Lukas shrugged in response. "Probably not. And if they do, you can apologize and return it, after all."

"True." And Jesse swung it over her shoulders, fastening up the buttons as it fluttered back into place.

Lukas looked over at her from his shelf perusing and nodded a bit, letting out a slight whistle. "Huh. You look good in red."

Real-Jesse threw her hands into the air, nearly smacking Jace in the face by accident. "Everyone says that!" She paused afterwards, before giving him a smile. "But... thank you for the compliment."

Jesse looked down at herself onscreen. "Oh. Thanks, I guess."

He gave her a smile and a thumbs up, before returning to the shelf. Jesse looked around, before seeing a book hovering over an obsidian block in a niche int he wall. She trotted over and gave it a good look. It had a red cover, but gold edges and a few diamonds embedded in it.

"Hmm," she hummed thoughtfully.

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