The Coming Darkness
by
JamesPicard_007
Chapter 12
Sabio Island
Night had long fallen on Sabio Island and Allen's patience had gone long before that. Allen was now sprawled out on the ground beside a roaring fire. The stars twinkled above in the clear night sky. Allen let out a long sigh. So far he had been unsuccessful in finding the old man's charm.
The lush greenery of the forest covered a lot of the ground making it hard to see much at all let alone a small trinket. The island was beginning to shake more frequently as the newly revived volcano became more active. It had yet to spew any magma, but Allen felt that the day it would was coming soon.
"Things just don't seem to be going right lately." Allen said to himself.
With nothing else to do Allen thought back to that night in Summers. The mysterious stranger and his words. The theft from the museum. What did it all mean and how was he connected to it. Suddenly Allen noticed that the smell of the smoke became stronger.
He checked the fire to make sure it hadn't reached something it should have, but everything was okay. Allen quickly looked to the top of the volcano, but nothing was happening there.
"Ok. Little freaky here."
Allen got up and began to search around for where the extra smoke was coming from. A few minutes later he found the source. A small bush that was sitting beside the cone of the mountain was slowly burning. Allen pushed the bush away and was suddenly bathed in heat.
Behind the bush was a tunnel that led into the mountain. Allen was about to crawl into the tunnel when he felt something in the bush. He pulled out a small bronze medal. Allen quickly wondered if this was the trinket the old man was looking for, but the heat from the tunnel recaptured his attention and he pocketed the medal as he crawled in.
The heat grew intense and nearly unbearable as Allen crawled deeper into the volcano. Soon he emerged in the same chamber that Zarus had been in only days earlier. Allen walked over to the edge of the cliff and peered at the flowing lava below.
"Just the sight I wanna see." Allen said sarcastically,
Then Allen caught sight of the shrine in the distance. Allen walked over and examined the hieroglyphs on the pedestal. He couldn't decipher any of them, but there was a few that caught Allen's eye. One was eight blue beams shooting from the ground and what looked to be encasing a demon.
The other had the same demon only this time the demon was holding a sword and fighting a man. A man dressed completely in black. Allen thought back to Summers, but quickly shook the thought away. He walked back over to the tunnel and crawled back to his fire and prepared to rest for the night…
Stonehenge
The group was delighted to see daylight after spending so much time in the darkness of the Stonehenge. They took a minute to enjoy the fresh air before heading down to Dr. Andounts lab. Once there the good doctor offered them doughnuts and coffee to enjoy. While they snacked they discussed the knowledge they had gained.
"So what do you guys think? Should we trust their word?" Jeff asked.
"It is the best lead we have yet." Poo said.
"It's pretty vague though." Ness retorted.
"Ness is right. We may have a name now, but where are we going to start looking for him?" Paula said.
"She's right. We already lost nearly a week down there. Place was really expanded on since we last visited. Anyways we don't even know if this is the right guy." Jeff said.
"We have nothing else to go on right now." Poo said.
"Precisely! We could be going after the wrong guy. And what if he doesn't even know what's going on?" Jeff replied.
"What do you mean?" Ness asked.
"Okay. By Paula's own admission even she doesn't know what's going to happen for certain am I right?" Jeff said.
"Yes." Paula admitted.
"Therefore he could work for good or he could work for evil." Jeff said
"What are you getting at?" Ness said impatiently.
"Okay, Ness. Say you're in the exact same position as this guy. You learn that some future act of yours can potentially change the balance of power in the universe. Which side would you choose to work for?" Jeff said curiously.
"I would go with good of course." Ness replied.
"Exactly! You know what's going to happen therefore you can choose what you're going to do about it. Now we know that there is a new evil trying to rise to power and Paula's vision says clearly that we will fight against this guy. However whenever this guy enters the picture the vision gets blurry right?" Jeff explained.
"Yes. The vision slows and nothing can be seen clearly. As if that part hasn't been written yet." Paula answered.
"Right. Therefore this guy, Allen, must not know what's going on." Jeff finished.
"No. There is more here than meets the eye." Poo responded.
"Why do you say that?" Ness asked.
"Even if he doesn't know of the situation now he would obviously know of it when it happens. At that point he would make a decision of what he wants to do. Clearly Paula is interpreting this correctly. There is some force at work here that is preventing the clear future. What it is I cannot say, but clearly this event is monumental. For good and evil." Poo said.
"Hmm." Jeff replied.
"We can fight over the technical details later. What we need to decide here and now is if Allen Black is the man we want to go after. This is our deciding point guys. Let's do the right thing." Ness said. Paula, Jeff and Poo nodded.
"Then it's agreed. We go after Black. Let's just hope he's the right man…"