A/N: Annnnd I'm back! I hope this chapter isn't too confusing! Enjoy!
The room was all stone, it seemed to be the size of half a football field. Seth studied the area, wondering where the trap was supposed to be.
"Shouldn't there be like, a big monster in this room?" Luca said, surveying the walls.
"We might not have activated it yet. Stay on guard." Tanu warned. Slowly, the group inched into the room. Seth held his hand on the hilt of his sword, ready to pull it out any second. Kendra walked up beside him, sparing him a glance. She tilted her head at him and he could tell she was asking if he was okay. Seth nodded at her before moving on.
They had gotten to the middle of the room when a large gust of wind came out of nowhere. Tears stung Seth's eyes as she tried to stay standing against the strength of the wind. It was like Seth was caught up in the middle of a hurricane. After a few moments, it stopped as suddenly as it came. Seth looked around him quickly, suddenly sure that there was a monster in the room with them. Seeing nothing, Seth relaxed slightly.
"Everyone okay?" Trask asked, eyes sweeping the room. There was an assortment of affirmations from the group as they continued to sweep the room.
"I think Kendra is broken." Elin's voice came. Quickly, Seth turned and tried to locate his sister. Kendra's back was towards him where she stood unmoving.
"K?" He called, referring to the childhood nickname. He was never able to say Kendra when he was younger, instead it would sound like 'Kenfa" so he just started calling her 'K' and it stuck through the years.
Slowly Kendra lifted her arm and pointed. Seth craned his neck around her to see...his breath stopped short. There was no way. But even after blinking hard he could still see her.
"Lena." Kendra breathed. The apparition of Lena smiled sourly. A look that was unfamiliar on her kind face.
"Forget about me already Kendra? I thought you knew better. To fall in love with someone who will outgrow you. I thought you learned from my story." Lena said. "I thought that would be the least you can do, considering I died because of you."
"Kendra don't listen to her." Warren warned. But 'Lena' wasn't finished.
"You are a murderer. You threw the rock, you knew I would die, but you handed the responsibility over to me." Lena said, walking closer and closer to Kendra, who was frozen where she was standing.
"Move." Bracken said behind him swiftly coming up, he pulled one of Kendra's knives out of the holster on her thigh and sliced it through the apparition of Lena. His eyes roamed over Kendra, assessing her quickly. With the fake Lena gone, Kendra relaxed a bit, turning to face the group.
"What was that? How did you know to do that?" She questioned.
"It's called the Curse of the Dead. It's a mind game, the curse was made to play with your emotions. The only way to get rid of them is to kill them. I know what it is because I was alive when it was fashioned. I suggest we should all prepare ourselves."
"For what?" Luca asked. Suddenly a shrill scream filled the air, Seth whipped around and saw a young girl with silver hair and big blue eyes.
"You were supposed to protect me, Prince Bracken! They took my horn, they carved me up! Where were you?" The young girl cried. All eyes went to Bracken.
"For this." Bracken said harshly, nostrils flaring as he took a deep breath and drew his first horn, turning into a sword. Without further words, he swung the sword through the young girl, effectively evaporating her.
After Bracken got rid of the little girl, Kendra sprung back to life almost. The sight of Lena threw her off, but the things she said wounded her deeply. Even if she knew it was fake, she will never unhear Lena's voice saying those things.
"Trask! Behind you!" Luca called out, Trask ducked and Luca swung the dagger he had brought along, slicing it through an older looking man who resembled Trask quite a bit.
"Thanks. Don't have to tell me who it is, I know." Trask mumbled. As he was speaking a middle aged woman with wild curly hair appeared next to Vanessa.
"Oh great." Vanessa whispered, ignoring the apparition, who was screaming in spanish at her, to pull out her sword and dismissing the woman.
It continued like this for a while, Seth's eyes hardening when he saw Coulter, Kendra wincing as Neil accused Warren of purposely leading him wrong, countless people she knew and didn't know.
"When is this going to end?" Shouted Luca, slamming his dagger into a figure who was calling him a 'disappointment'.
"I don't know." Bracken replied. "I don't know how to beat this as a trap! Only as a curse."
Kendra looked around, watching how as soon as Tanu got rid of one apparition, another popped up right next to Elin. She narrowed her eyes, and watched even closer as Elin dismissed her ghost like apparition, and what she saw confirmed her suspicions.
"Stop!" She cried, as Bracken drew back his sword to 'kill' a tall man. "Don't kill them! It's not a curse. The apparitions, they are all the same thing."
The tall man glared at her. "You will never live up to your fathers reign, boy." He said to Bracken, obviously trying to get his attention off Kendra's words.
"I don't need to." Bracken muttered. The tall man disappeared, and reappeared right in front of Kendra. Only this time he wasn't the tall man, he was someone entirely different.
"Oh, hell no." Warren breathed. Kendra supposed he had a right to be angry, the apparition was taking figure of the person who trapped him in a knapsack after all.
"Nice job." 'Gavin' sneered. His voice making Kendra's blood run cold. "You must be the real smart one of the group."
"You must be real stupid to think I'm going to break because you put on that face." Kendra said.
"Oh? But aren't you? Don't tell me you don't want to just punch me right now."
"If she won't I will." Warren growled, looking the angriest Kendra has ever seen.
"No you won't. Because we aren't going to fight you." Kendra said.
"Excuse me, what?" Elin scoffed. "Of course we fight him! That's how we get past traps! We fight."
"No, that's how we usually get past traps like this." Bracken said, realizing what Kendra was on about. "This is a mind game, the guy can taunt us all he wants but if we don't fight back...he can't do anything."
"Not true. I thought you were smart fairy prince." 'Gavin' said.
"Sounds like something I would say if it were the truth." Kendra said, glaring up at him.
"Now, why would I lie." The apparition said. Kendra laughed.
"If you want me to believe you, you shouldn't assume the form of the biggest liar I've ever had the misfortune to know."
"Don't you want one revenge punch in? I killed Dougan!" 'Gavin' prompted.
"No, you didn't. Navarog did. You aren't him." Kendra said evenly. 'Gavin' rounded on Warren.
"I trapped you in that awful knapsack. I bet you really learned how to play Scrabble huh?"
"It was Yahtzee actually, and like my cousin just said, it wasn't you." Warren said.
"Oh come on, someone should want to punch me right? How bout you Vanessa, I got to walk free while you were trapped into that Quiet Box." It was sad how fast the apparition was losing it's grip, they could all tell that it was quickly losing it's power.
"I wish you would be quiet." Vanessa dead panned. They all sat there, watching as the apparition tried and tried to get them angry, to get them violent, but with every passing second, he was fading.
Wind picked up again, rushing around the room. Kendra stared into the apparitions eyes as it disintegrated, leaving nothing but silence in it's wake.
The quiet stretched on for a few more moments, as everyone waited for anything to happen.
"Was that really it?" Luca said. "That didn't seem that dangerous!"
"He would of kept us fighting until we killed each other, or collapsed from exhaustion." Bracken said, turning towards Kendra. "I don't know how you caught that, but I think we all owe you one."
"You owe me nothing, trust me." Kendra said, mind flashing to her vision of stabbing Bracken in the neck.
The group started making their way out of the room, finding another long pathway leading them further into the cave. Kendra fell into step next to Warren, but Bracken came up beside them as well.
"Is me not owing you anything have to do with your vision where you kill me?" Bracken questioned almost teasingly.
"You're still worried about that vision? Because unless the three of us will go all hunger games on each other within the next hour, I don't think you should be worried." Warren laughed.
"It's not funny." Kendra mumbled.
"Oh come one Kendra, you would never kill me. We've been over this, there is more to what meets the eye here." Bracken said.
"Yeah, yeah. Just you wait, I'm gonna kill you and then Warren will kill me and Seth will become on of those people that light fires for fun." Kendra said.
"Hey, I think we have arrived at our next fun death defying trap." Warren pointed out, ignoring Kendra's dramatics, as they walked up to a set of heavy metal doors.
The rest of the group gathered before them, Vanessa nudging Bracken harshly to stand between him and Warren. Of course, she ignored his glare.
"We ready?" Tanu asked, receiving nods from the group. Warren gave Kendra a look that screamed 'here we go again'. Trask and Tanu pulled the doors apart, and all of a sudden they were all swallowed by bright white lights.
When the light faded, Kendra was no longer with the group. She was alone in a room full of mirrors. From the ceiling to the floor, everything was mirrors. She turned to see that Warren was with her, thankfully. At least she wasn't alone.
But Warren seemed to be confused. His eyes were darting between her and something else. Kendra looked behind her and was hit with the sense of deja vu when she saw an exact replica of herself.
"Warren, why are there two of me?" The fake Kendra asked, all too convincingly confused. Kendra turned around, realizing what this was. There were two Kendra's, Warren doesn't know which one is her. One of them would have to be killed in order to proceed into the vault.
Kendra's fell on that stupid sword yet again. Sometimes it sucks to be right.
A/N: Oooooh is Warren going to figure out the truth? Where are the others? Why am I asking rhetorical questions to no one? Find out next update xoxo