The next morning, they started out.

Jesse noticed Lukas walking along and staring at the ground, so she backed up so that they were walking at around the same speed. "Hey Lukas... sorry about last night," she said, putting her lowest pair of arms in her pocket. One hand rubbed against the book, making her look at the ground.

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

Jesse nodded, before speeding up. After a couple of minutes, they came to what looked like a big wall. Scrambling up it with ease and ignoring the vines that covered the rock surface- seriously, how was she climbing up that surface?- she got to the top, and her mouth fell open. "Wow!"

"What? What is it?" Lukas's head popped up next, as Olivia bleeped into sight and nearly fell 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. "Wow," he agreed, breathlessly.

In front of them stood a huge building, and although it did have it's own ethereal beauty, it was admittedly quite rundown. Vines crawled over most of the surfaces, except for a huge stained glass emblem that hung over the 'entrance'.

Jesse squinted at it for a second. Where had she seen that design...

Her eyes widened, and she rifled through her pockets as Axel mused, "I wonder what this place is..."

"It's the Order of the Stone temple! Look!" And Jesse lifted up the amulet out of her pocket, and held it up to the one that made up 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?"

Jesse frowned and looked up at the building. "It's pretty run-down, Axel. So I don't think so. Still," and she shrugged and walked towards the building, "there has to be SOMETHING there that's useful somehow. C'mon!"

And they jumped down the hill that made up the other side of the 'wall', walking into the entrance. The archway, bright and cheerful, gave way to a dark, much creepier atmosphere. Cobwebs strung themselves everywhere in the tunnel, or hallway, or whatever they were walking through.

"If you see anything, call it out. We don't have too much time," Jesse told her friends, who all nodded affirmatively.

Jesse soon found herself rubbing the red leatherbound book with her fingers, rubbing the cover so many times that she was pretty sure she'd memorized the textures.

Axel looked over at the wall as the tunnel opened up to a lighter one. "Isn't it weird how dispensers are made to look like faces?"

Jesse looked over at the wall as well. The wall was lined with dispensers, and they did indeed look a little like spooky little faces. "What do you dispense, little guy?" Axel wondered.

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

A hiss behind them, making them all look over their shoulders. "What was that?"

Another hiss, and Reuben let out an alarmed squeal and galloped away.

"Reuben!" Jesse exclaimed, and she chased after her pig.

Two loud thunks, and Jesse looked down to see that two pressure plates had been pressed down. "Ah, crap. That's... bad," she stated. Really, understatement of the century, here.

The dispensers started making the 'starting up' sounds, indicating they were about to fire at them. "Aw, c'mon dispenser faces!" Axel complained to the dispensers, "I thought we were friends!"

"Run!" Olivia yelled.

Easy for her to say. She just teleported out of the way of the arrows into a spot that didn't have any firing. Jesse jumped out of the way and found herself on the wall, horizontally. She yelped and scrambled across the wall, dodging the arrows. Reuben had galloped after Olivia, and he was fine, so she focused her attention on the two boys with them as she hopped into the empty space with Olivia.

Lukas was doing pretty well- his slight stature and thin build allowed him to slip and dodge around the arrows that were firing. Axel, by sheer luck, dodged around them without getting hit. Jesse let out a loud, relieved sigh.

"Oh no," groaned Olivia.

Jesse considered the next stretch of hallway, which had even more arrows flying through the air. She turned back to the entrance, crossing her arms. "Hm. Well, we could build something to try to trigger that pressure plate again..." she mused.

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

Jesse considered the arrow-filled hallway. "Well, I don't think that's a good idea- see, the arrows also go through the area where they are, so Olivia could get hurt," she pointed out.

Lukas had to tilt his head to see it. "Ohh, you're right. I didn't see that before," he apologized.

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

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

Olivia scrabbled through her pockets. "Hmm, all I've got is some flint and... a piece of string," and she held out what she had.

Axel pulled out some feathers. "All I've got are some feathers from when that chicken machine broke back at Endercon," he said, a few of the feathers falling onto the floor.

"Hm, I've got the book... the amulet... and a sword. Oh, and I could definitely make some string," Jesse said, pulling some string out as her contribution.

"Okay, sticks, flint, string, and feathers. We gotta be able to make SOMETHING with that," Axel said, looking at their rather pathetic contributions.

Jesse stared at them, willing an idea to come to her- when one did. "A bow and arrow wouldn't work. It might get knocked off course. But..." She pulled some string out and quickly wove a small pouch, before popping the flint inside the pouch. She attached some string to it that still trailed to her palm, aimed, and then fired.

The makeshift weight flew through the air, hit the floor, rolled a bit, bounced, and landed right on top of the pressure plate, switching it off. Jesse retracted the flint- which decided to be TOO fast this time and flew into her palm so fast that she was lucky to wrap her fingers around it. It took a second to detach the string from her palm and return the flint to its rightful owner.

"All right," Olivia said with a grin.

"The Bureau of Amalgamology's luck is changing," Axel grinned.

Jesse nodded, and they continued through the hallway until they reached what looked like a library- only, it was covered in cobwebs.

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

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

"Looks like it," Lukas agreed.

They all went in and started splitting up to go look through the stuff.

Jesse shoved open a chest, coughing a little as a dust cloud rose from it, before reaching in and withdrawing a red cloak, with about three buttons. It felt pretty nice. Thick, too.

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

Lukas shrugged in return. "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. Lukas looked back to her from his shelf-perusing and whistled a little. "Huh. You look good in red."

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

Lukas gave her a smile and a thumbs up, before returning to the shelf.

Jesse spotted something, and walked towards it, before coming upon a book with a red cover, but gold edges and a few diamonds embedded in it. It looked very fancy, hovering on the obsidian block that supported it.

"Hmm," she hummed thoughtfully.

A/N: You guys are going to kill me for this, but... stopping point. :) I wanted to end the next chapter with Lukas's last words in Episode 1 (oh god I make it sound like he died or something, lol xD ) so yeah.

So, Jesse has added a cloak to her inventory! And they decided to not talk about it for a bit. They're all a nervous wreck right now. Don't worry, Jesse will read more from the book as time goes on- just not necessarily out loud.

Kaos Ruin: Oh, it did? Good! But what were you going to say? Your review got kind of cut off.

DemonCatLady: Thanks for the advice! And I may do more flashbacks of them as hybrids. Like when they're sleeping (if they sleep, lol) and they dream about their time as hybrids. Or I might just add in a side story on my profile after this story is over. I dunno, what do you think?

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