Chapter 6: Revelations

(Disclaimer: I do nut own gs.

Ivan – why is the chappy title a book of the bible?

PG – cos…cos…there's revelations in this chapter.

Ivan – rite.

PG – IT'S SNOWING IN ENGLAND!! WOOT!!

Ivan – correction – was snowing.

PG – but…but…yeah. But I get a snow day anyway.

Ivan – correction – you begged your mum for a day off 'cos you would've had double science and PE.

PG – but…but…shuttup.)

"Wahhh!!" Sheba cried, landing with a hard bump on the stone floor.

Gently nursing her throbbing head, she turned just in time to see the dungeon door close with a crash behind her. Looking around at the forlorn cell, her eyes slowly got accustomed to the darkness, and she could make out the walls.

This sure as heck wasn't in the mission plan.

"Are you one of the chosen ones?" A small voice from the corner of the cell whispered.

Staring through the gloom, Sheba could make out the figure of a hunched-up person. Crawling over the earth-packed floor, Sheba squinted. The figure seemed to be a girl…

"Who are you?" Sheba asked.

"Terre," The hunched-up girl answered. "If you're not one of the chosen ones, then what are you…?"

"Ivan!!" Bethany cried angrily.

Ivan scratched his head embarrassedly, laughing.

"Sorry!" He sniggered, dodging a swipe of Bethany's blade.

The two stood in the Tolbi Palace entrance hall once again, and their secret passage ground shut behind them.

"I told you we should've taken the left fork, not right!!" Bethany sighed exasperatedly. 

Ivan's laughing wore away, and he turned serious once again.

"If you want, you can go back to the others with the book, and I'll continue looking for Sheba," He suggested.

"Nuh-uh!!" Bethany said, swiping air with her sword. "If I leave you here alone you'll end up going in circles!"

She turned round, and started trying to tug the wall open again. It stayed firmly shut, and the crack seemed to meld away into the stone. Sheathing her blade, she turned in the opposite direction to go back to the secret library again.

"Don't drop the book!!" Ivan called after her, rushing to catch up.

"I don't intend to- I'm sick of this place already, I don't want to spend time looking for a dropped book!"

"What d'you think's taking them so long?" Mia asked absent-mindedly, gently skimming the surface of the water at Tolbi wharf with her hand.

"Probably found an interesting book and are taking time to read it," Kraden suggested. "There are lots of interesting books in that library. Why, when I was living in Tolbi as Babi's best scholar, he would let me into the library, and I would spend hours at a time reading. There was one book about…"

"Why did I have to say anything?!" Mia moaned, as Kraden launched into a long speech about vegetables.

"…What are you doing here?" Terre finished.

"Got captured," Sheba said simply.

"What were you doing here in the first place?"

Sheba began the tale of the events leading up to that moment, and by the time she finished she had Terre clinging onto her every word.

"What's your story then?" Sheba inquired.

"Well…I'm 17, and I'm a Venus adept…" Terre explained. "I was born in Tolbi, have always lived here…but recently, the town got invaded before the armed forces could gather their weapons, the soldiers were cut down while struggling into their helms. The city was put under martial law; rebellions were stopped before they could flourish because of the Lord's spies. Ummm…. I think the Lord's name was Alex, or something like that…"

Sheba flinched at the sound of Alex's name.

So…this place is controlled by Alex now…

"You know him?" Terre asked suspiciously.

"Yeah," Sheba admitted. "But please, continue,"

Terre gave her a wary look before continuing her story.

"After living about a week under martial law, Lord Alex's troops raided my parent's house, and brought us to him. He told me that I was one of the chosen ones to restore the elemental clans, and that when he found the other chosen ones I would have to die. As he signalled for his guards to take me to the dungeon, I heard him mutter something about having found two…Terre of Tolbi, me, and…a Bethany of the mountain," Terre paused. "Seeing as you know Lord Alex, do you know of Bethany of the mountain?"

Sheba's jaw dropped open.

If that means whom I think it means…she thought.

She was about to answer, when there was a sudden cry from behind the cell door. Twin flashes of lightening ripped the door off its hinges, and the burnt wood clattered across the floor of the cell. The acrid smell of fire wafted into the cell, causing Sheba and Terre to cough. Sheba squinted upwards. In the doorway, silhouetted against the smoke and debris of the smouldering door, was-

"Someone need a rescue in here?" Ivan smiled.

"I told you it was the left fork, Ivan!!" Bethany laughed.

"Guys!" Sheba cried. "You came!"

"Well, duh," Ivan said. "You've still got the cloak ball." He suddenly noticed Terre in the corner. "Who's your friend?"

"There's not enough time now. We have to go before more sentries get here!!"

(PG – wow, what a good use of…3 hours?!

Ivan - *snigger* you spent 3 hours of a snow day writing this?!

PG – and occasionally clicking the 'shuffle' button on Musicmatch Jukebox.

Ivan – LOL.

PG – shuttup.

Ivan – R&R ppls- tell PG whether it's a good waste of 3 hours….)