Title: The Lost World Fourth Season Series
Disclaimer: Can I ask you something? What would you do if I told that they are not mine? Would you say: "NO!!?" And you would be surprised. Or would you just say: Yeah I know? Because I'm so sick of repeating myself, I said I don't own them, I'm not making money with this and that they belong to someone else.
Summary: The explorers enter Malacan to find the clue that would lead them to the next temple.
Author's Note: Thank you for the reviews.
Zeusfluff, I don't find your review bitter at all, and I'm sorry if that bothers you. I'm happy that you liked my story so far. Oh and by the way: if one you learn Spanish that would be an easier way for us to communicate since Spanish is not so very different from Portuguese.
Pamiekae, thanks for reading and review, like I said I do appreciate your reviews because they are always constructive. I'll try to pay more attention to those small details. I totally agree with you on the part: "I wish the new season would finally get started", but I also read that the show will be aired soon, I don't know, but that would be a wish come true. Oh, and one more thing in case you haven't seen yet, I change the little details on my last chapter, I totally agreed with you: sweetie isn't a Roxton's word, and yes I do remember Roxton saying Neddy-boy in Brother in Arms, (I also like that episode because of the "That's it my love." from Marguerite) As for the "My Love" part, are referring to the Survivors episode? Because I went to see that episode again (I tape it) and there's no such words coming from Roxton's mouth.
TheChosenOne3, I'm glad you approved Challenger frustration. I realized that Challenger's character needed that, because I'm well aware of his constant pursuit of knowledge and science, it wouldn't make that much sense, if he simply accepted all that he was experiencing at the time. Actually it was you who gave me the idea to explore that thing with Gaalad, and it's funny seeing you so frustrated with that character.
A. Windsor, let me tell that you're not the only one who doesn't like Gaalad, but nobody is perfect, and Gaalad by the way you all say things isn't perfect at all.thanks for your review, again I thank for reading and appreciating my work.
Dreama, since you're a great friend, I dedicated the second's temple name to you. (I hope the others don't mind, but it's just that I know Dreama personally, and she's one of my best friends.)
Angel LeeAnn, yeah it's little bit weird that thing about them getting hurt, but then again I'm the one who loves when they're bickering and fighting with one another so. Thanks for reading my work I enjoy that a lot.
Malacan
The view was somehow disturbing.
There were frozen bodies all over the place. Some on the floor, some were still up, and even others that have been surprised, because they had cups in their hands and lips.
"Look at their faces. I mean the look in their eyes.." Veronica sounded horrified, "They all seem so.surprised."
"Yes, I wonder what truly happened.." Roxton wondered
"Well, whatever it is don't touch anything, remember what Marguerite said: they are..un-dead." Challenger said reluctantly.
Marguerite smiled a little. Challenger haven't change, he was still a man of science, and she wouldn't be surprised if in a few weeks he would come up with some sort of logical explanation to all of those unexplainable events.
"Where to now?" asked Finn avoiding the bodies
"That way!" said Veronica
"How do you know, Vee?"
"It is as if my mother's pendant is guiding me, I just know it."
"Yes, I read on a prophesy that the Protector is the one who leads Morrighan." Marguerite confessed
"Really? You had access to that sort of things?" inquired Roxton
"Why Lord Roxton, right now you made me remember my days as Parsifal, having access to everything and everyone."
"Well you know me; I always liked to make people remember old times."
"Are you implying that I'm old?" she asked trying to look outraged.
"No of course not my Lady, I above all people believe that women till forties are young." He said teasing
She snapped his shoulder.
"And I believe that there is a certain Lord Roxton that is really going regret himself very soon for talking too much." She teased back, "Now back to real thing, yes I do read all of those kinds of things, I really didn't have much to do back in Avalon, and so I had to entertain myself over something."
"Well then let's just keep going.lead the way Vee."
....................................
Veronica lead them trough the Temple. There were several more bodies spread out. Some of them looked terrified, other shocked, and others just surprised and horrified at the same time.
They followed Veronica close behind.
Finn was getting really apprehensive about that spooky place, oh she knew a lot creepy places in the future, but never had she seen one such of that, bodies with really scary faces, shadows that seemed to come to life in her mind and those quiet screams for help coming from the lifeless people.
"Oh, I don't like this place." Marguerite moaned
"For once, I totally agree with you." Finn agreed
They stopped.
"It's here." Veronica said
She pointed to a door.
"That's the room from my dream."
"The one you couldn't pass over?" asked Challenger
"No it's not that one yet, this one is that empty room that lead to another one." She explained
"Then lets go." Commanded Roxton
"No wait!" Marguerite shouted
"What?!" asked Ned
The others also looked puzzled by Marguerite words.
She pointed at an inscription on the door.
"All who shall enter here will die a very cold death." She quoted
"That's what's it's written?" inquired Roxton
Marguerite nodded.
"It speaks of some sort of mystical creature called the Avanara." she said reading the inscription
"We can't afford ourselves to stop now, we have to go on." Said Veronica
"Yeah, we'll be careful." Roxton said squeezing Marguerite's hand.
They entered the room and saw a man's body laying on the floor right in front of the door they just passed on.
"Good Grief, look at his face!" Challenger exclaimed
The man's face was disfigured with several wounds, but still in his eyes there was shock.
"He's an Avatar." Veronica realized
"Look! A journal, maybe we can find out what happened here." Said Roxton
He took the journal that was lying on the floor an opened.
"I can't understand a word." He gave it to Marguerite, "Would my Lady be kind enough to translate?"
She chuckled. They loved to play their little games of teasing and flirting, although sometimes he or she would really hurt each other, they couldn't stop it.
"Okay." She took the journal from Roxton's hand:
November 1st, 1920 It was all too sudden for us to realize what truly happened. We were attacked last night.by Kartwar and Ickan's men; they wanted to know the location of the key, they said that Morrighan was already on the plateau, a thing that I'm grateful for. I sworn on my brother's grave, that I wouldn't let that happen. They tortured me and I lead them to where they wanted to go, but neither I nor them knew our mistake, I was only thinking that Avanara would punish them, so I didn't mind. It wasn't until later when I saw them, trying catching spells of control in the creature.that I knew what was coming..that creature cannot be controlled, not by them, not by anyone, but we Avatars always knew how to deal with it. The creature was relished and killed everything and everyone, I'm the only one left alive, and I'm dying..
"And.?" asked Ned, who had been drinking Marguerite's words.
"There isn't anything else, it ends here." She said
"Let me see it." Ned took the journal from Marguerite's hands and everything went black.
....................................
He was in the middle of a room; a man was standing in an altar praying when he heard the noise of the door open up behind him, and looked.
Ned also looked.
"I thought I told you to never interrupt my prayers."
"My Lord, Shadowik and Chaoslon's armies are coming." An Avatar said
"What?!"
"From everywhere, they're thousands."
"Send a message to Avalon! Tell them what's happening. And I want an answer!" he commanded. When the Avatar left, the man spoke to himself," We're going to die out here."
The room whirled and Malone found himself in the same room, but now everything was destroyed, what was once a beautiful altar was now not more than a few broken rocks, full of dust and the floor once so clean was now filled with blood and the marks of a brutal fight.
There were men all over the place; he was surprised that he recognized a few of them from the frozen bodies he had seen awhile ago.
The men dragged the Avatar priest out of the room.
"This must be what happened here." the journalist thought
Ned followed the men to the room where he and his companions were a short while ago.
The Avatar pointed towards a door and the enemy's men started to open it.
A loud roar came from inside and the priest ran away.
The image fade and Ned, saw himself standing inside the same room where minutes before he saw the men opening the door.
Now the room was quite close to the scenery that he had known from the real world, except that the Avatar was still alive and writing in his journal, but Ned could see the exhaustion on his face.
The man murmured to himself:
"I'm going to die, but at least they don't know the location, the men that escaped will never support the cold from the outside." He sounded feverish.
Suddenly both Ned and the man heard a noise from behind; the man's eyes were opened wide in shock and surprise. When Malone started to look back, another wave of dizziness came over him.
....................................
"Ned!" Veronica called
He opened his eyes and smiled a little to Veronica.
"His pulse is getting stronger, I believe he's okay." He heard Challenger's voice.
"What happen?" he managed to ask
"What happen? We're the ones who should be asking you that. The moment you touch the journal you went out like a light." Marguerite explained
Ned started to get up and growled:
"Oh my head"
"It's alright Malone, certain waves of dizziness are normal in this kind of situation." Said Roxton
"I'm okay.."he looked up to the questioning look on the others' eyes. "I think I just saw what happened here."
"But I thought these visions of yours were already under control." Veronica said worried
"Yes, but this one was different, it was very powerful..it kind of surprised me.."
"I believe that's a normal thing, after all, is not everyday that a mere mortal, in sort of speak, hears and sees things that happened by touching personal objects of people."
"Well what did you saw?" asked a curious Finn
.......................................
"Then the warning was correct there is a creature." Marguerite said
"Yes, but I believe that those men relished that thing, and now it's out there." Malone explained
"But how come we didn't saw it in our way?" asked Finn
"That has a certain logic, maybe the creature is asleep in some sort of hibernation or maybe we didn't cross his way, after all it is a pretty big temple." Said Challenger
....................................
Marguerite entered the room, followed by the others.
It was not a very big area, in the center there was an altar, and in the corners they could see torches but there were not lighted.
Marguerite walked to the altar and took of her pendant from her neck. "The Cradle of Life." she murmured as she touched the pendant
"What?" Finn asked
"It's the pendant's name." she explained
"Oh.Cradle..something..right?" Finn asked
"Cradle of Life"
"Why does it call that?" Veronica asked
"Because with it, Morrighan can control life itself if she wanted to, and she's the only who can control it" the heiress explained once again
"Cool!" exclaimed Finn
Marguerite carefully putted the pendant onto an indentation of its symbol.
Immediately the torches lighten up, but it was a different light, instead of yellow flames the explorers could see blue ones. In the altar an image begun to take form and Ned realized it was the Avatar priest from his vision.
The Avatar came near Morrighan and spoke to her.
"My Lady, I'm glad you're finally here, but I'm also aware that that means that difficult times are ahead of us."
"Who are you?" Veronica asked
"I'm Roland, I once was a priest here, but we were attacked and I died; now I'm just a spirit that forced himself to live on, so that the location of the key wouldn't be lost...you're very much like your mother.." He answered
"Thank you." She said a little uncomfortable
"So you know the location of the key?" Roxton inquired
"Yes I..John?" he asked eyes wide open, "By the Gods, the last time I saw you, you were just a little baby..." he saw the questioning look on Roxton's face and said, "I'm Jacob's brother, your uncle."
"Excuse me.sir?" Challenger asked not knowing how to treat him, "But how do we get to the key?"
"I can only tell you part of the path, not the path itself, you must past all tasks to get there, it is almost as training for what will come."
He reached Roxton's hand and the spirit's and Roxton's eyes lighten up.
After a few seconds everything went back to normal.
"I gave you the location of the Temple, once you're out of here, my nephew will tell you where to go. Now you must leave this place, it's not safe, the Avanara is out there, it is a luck that you haven't found it yet, let's hope that such luck will endure."
And with that he disappeared.
....................................
"Be careful not to touch anything." Malone warned
They were getting back on their way trough the Temple with once again Veronica on lead.
"We know that Neddy-boy." Roxton answered, half teasing, half serious.
By then Veronica stopped making Marguerite go against her.
"Veronica you should be more cautious, I could have fallen and touched a body by." she trailed off when she saw where Veronica's eyes were.
A creature more like a giant snake with a scorpion tale was sound asleep in front of them.
"Look at that!" Challenger almost shouted, "Isn't it amazing? I mean, look at his tale and his claws, they're huge, and look at the skin, its pure ice."
"No doubt about that, we found the Avanara..Can't this day get any better?" Marguerite complained
"Is there another way Vee?"
"No Finn, we'll have to cross it, without waking it." Veronica answered
"No problem lets go." Roxton said
"For you it's easy, you're a hunter, you're used not to make noise, but not everyone is like you."
"Marguerite, complaining isn't any better."
Suddenly the creature's eyes fully opened.
"Don't look at the eyes." Ned shouted
The explorers quickly closed their eyes.
"Not that you cared to mention, but may I ask.Why?" Marguerite shouted as well.
"It freezes people trough eye contact." He said
"How do you know that?" Veronica inquired
"I just had a vision."
"Great, great, great, great!!!" Marguerite muttered sarcastically under her breath.
They heard the Avanara's roar.
They turned their backs to the creature and opened their eyes.
"How do we cross that now?" Finn asked pointed to the Avanara behind them.
"It moves slowly but." Challenger realized, "Wait a second.Malone said that the creature was in that room that where Roland spirit appeared right?" They nodded, "So.How could Morrighan enter there without being frozen?"
"I just had an idea!" Marguerite said turning her head to face the creature.
The explorers also turned to see Marguerite blue-gray eyes go brighter and a red light appearing in the Avanara's eyes.
The creature roared in agony.
"Let's go!" Marguerite shouted
"What did you do?" Roxton asked
"Explain later! Now move! The bodies react to the warm heat, and I just use that."
They ran as fast as they could, in their way they could see the frozen bodies coming to live.
When they got to the doors at the entrance they closed them soundly behind them and finally managed to breathe.
....................................
They set camp outside the Temple, not to near though, careful not to hear the sounds of agony coming from there.
"So Marguerite what did you did to the Avanara?" Veronica asked
"I burned up his eyes."
They all looked to her with puzzled expressions.
"..Roxton? So where to next?" she asked changing the subject
"Hm?...Oh.To the Alesig Temple, it's in the Oasis." He answered
....................................
"Roxton, are you alright?" Marguerite asked when the others retired to their sleep.
Roxton looked into Marguerite's eyes and looked down again.
"It's okay, I understand if you don't wanna talk about it." she said
"No wait. I.I want to talk.I need to talk."
She smiled; she had never seen him like this. Who could have imagined? The great white hunter afraid of a little talk.
"I." he begun, "I can't take it, I mean, I spent half of my life living a lie, I killed the one true rightful owner of the title of a lord.and I thought it was brother and after all it was just my cousin, maybe that's why who I thought it was my father was so disgraceful, I murdered his only son."
"Roxton, would you just stop? It was an accident! You know it was, that bullet was for an ape you have no fault that it entered William's chest as well." Marguerite kissed him on his cheek. "You have to move on.I know that this sounds I little weird coming from me but.forget the past and live the present."
He smiled broadly.
"My present, and hopefully my future, is right in front of my eyes." He kissed her fully on the lips and hugged her. "Thank you.for listen."
They stayed like that for a while until Marguerite broke apart.
"We should get some rest. Tomorrow will have another bloody day walk ahead of us."
To be continued
Author's Note: Thanks for reading and...Review!!!
Disclaimer: Can I ask you something? What would you do if I told that they are not mine? Would you say: "NO!!?" And you would be surprised. Or would you just say: Yeah I know? Because I'm so sick of repeating myself, I said I don't own them, I'm not making money with this and that they belong to someone else.
Summary: The explorers enter Malacan to find the clue that would lead them to the next temple.
Author's Note: Thank you for the reviews.
Zeusfluff, I don't find your review bitter at all, and I'm sorry if that bothers you. I'm happy that you liked my story so far. Oh and by the way: if one you learn Spanish that would be an easier way for us to communicate since Spanish is not so very different from Portuguese.
Pamiekae, thanks for reading and review, like I said I do appreciate your reviews because they are always constructive. I'll try to pay more attention to those small details. I totally agree with you on the part: "I wish the new season would finally get started", but I also read that the show will be aired soon, I don't know, but that would be a wish come true. Oh, and one more thing in case you haven't seen yet, I change the little details on my last chapter, I totally agreed with you: sweetie isn't a Roxton's word, and yes I do remember Roxton saying Neddy-boy in Brother in Arms, (I also like that episode because of the "That's it my love." from Marguerite) As for the "My Love" part, are referring to the Survivors episode? Because I went to see that episode again (I tape it) and there's no such words coming from Roxton's mouth.
TheChosenOne3, I'm glad you approved Challenger frustration. I realized that Challenger's character needed that, because I'm well aware of his constant pursuit of knowledge and science, it wouldn't make that much sense, if he simply accepted all that he was experiencing at the time. Actually it was you who gave me the idea to explore that thing with Gaalad, and it's funny seeing you so frustrated with that character.
A. Windsor, let me tell that you're not the only one who doesn't like Gaalad, but nobody is perfect, and Gaalad by the way you all say things isn't perfect at all.thanks for your review, again I thank for reading and appreciating my work.
Dreama, since you're a great friend, I dedicated the second's temple name to you. (I hope the others don't mind, but it's just that I know Dreama personally, and she's one of my best friends.)
Angel LeeAnn, yeah it's little bit weird that thing about them getting hurt, but then again I'm the one who loves when they're bickering and fighting with one another so. Thanks for reading my work I enjoy that a lot.
Malacan
The view was somehow disturbing.
There were frozen bodies all over the place. Some on the floor, some were still up, and even others that have been surprised, because they had cups in their hands and lips.
"Look at their faces. I mean the look in their eyes.." Veronica sounded horrified, "They all seem so.surprised."
"Yes, I wonder what truly happened.." Roxton wondered
"Well, whatever it is don't touch anything, remember what Marguerite said: they are..un-dead." Challenger said reluctantly.
Marguerite smiled a little. Challenger haven't change, he was still a man of science, and she wouldn't be surprised if in a few weeks he would come up with some sort of logical explanation to all of those unexplainable events.
"Where to now?" asked Finn avoiding the bodies
"That way!" said Veronica
"How do you know, Vee?"
"It is as if my mother's pendant is guiding me, I just know it."
"Yes, I read on a prophesy that the Protector is the one who leads Morrighan." Marguerite confessed
"Really? You had access to that sort of things?" inquired Roxton
"Why Lord Roxton, right now you made me remember my days as Parsifal, having access to everything and everyone."
"Well you know me; I always liked to make people remember old times."
"Are you implying that I'm old?" she asked trying to look outraged.
"No of course not my Lady, I above all people believe that women till forties are young." He said teasing
She snapped his shoulder.
"And I believe that there is a certain Lord Roxton that is really going regret himself very soon for talking too much." She teased back, "Now back to real thing, yes I do read all of those kinds of things, I really didn't have much to do back in Avalon, and so I had to entertain myself over something."
"Well then let's just keep going.lead the way Vee."
....................................
Veronica lead them trough the Temple. There were several more bodies spread out. Some of them looked terrified, other shocked, and others just surprised and horrified at the same time.
They followed Veronica close behind.
Finn was getting really apprehensive about that spooky place, oh she knew a lot creepy places in the future, but never had she seen one such of that, bodies with really scary faces, shadows that seemed to come to life in her mind and those quiet screams for help coming from the lifeless people.
"Oh, I don't like this place." Marguerite moaned
"For once, I totally agree with you." Finn agreed
They stopped.
"It's here." Veronica said
She pointed to a door.
"That's the room from my dream."
"The one you couldn't pass over?" asked Challenger
"No it's not that one yet, this one is that empty room that lead to another one." She explained
"Then lets go." Commanded Roxton
"No wait!" Marguerite shouted
"What?!" asked Ned
The others also looked puzzled by Marguerite words.
She pointed at an inscription on the door.
"All who shall enter here will die a very cold death." She quoted
"That's what's it's written?" inquired Roxton
Marguerite nodded.
"It speaks of some sort of mystical creature called the Avanara." she said reading the inscription
"We can't afford ourselves to stop now, we have to go on." Said Veronica
"Yeah, we'll be careful." Roxton said squeezing Marguerite's hand.
They entered the room and saw a man's body laying on the floor right in front of the door they just passed on.
"Good Grief, look at his face!" Challenger exclaimed
The man's face was disfigured with several wounds, but still in his eyes there was shock.
"He's an Avatar." Veronica realized
"Look! A journal, maybe we can find out what happened here." Said Roxton
He took the journal that was lying on the floor an opened.
"I can't understand a word." He gave it to Marguerite, "Would my Lady be kind enough to translate?"
She chuckled. They loved to play their little games of teasing and flirting, although sometimes he or she would really hurt each other, they couldn't stop it.
"Okay." She took the journal from Roxton's hand:
November 1st, 1920 It was all too sudden for us to realize what truly happened. We were attacked last night.by Kartwar and Ickan's men; they wanted to know the location of the key, they said that Morrighan was already on the plateau, a thing that I'm grateful for. I sworn on my brother's grave, that I wouldn't let that happen. They tortured me and I lead them to where they wanted to go, but neither I nor them knew our mistake, I was only thinking that Avanara would punish them, so I didn't mind. It wasn't until later when I saw them, trying catching spells of control in the creature.that I knew what was coming..that creature cannot be controlled, not by them, not by anyone, but we Avatars always knew how to deal with it. The creature was relished and killed everything and everyone, I'm the only one left alive, and I'm dying..
"And.?" asked Ned, who had been drinking Marguerite's words.
"There isn't anything else, it ends here." She said
"Let me see it." Ned took the journal from Marguerite's hands and everything went black.
....................................
He was in the middle of a room; a man was standing in an altar praying when he heard the noise of the door open up behind him, and looked.
Ned also looked.
"I thought I told you to never interrupt my prayers."
"My Lord, Shadowik and Chaoslon's armies are coming." An Avatar said
"What?!"
"From everywhere, they're thousands."
"Send a message to Avalon! Tell them what's happening. And I want an answer!" he commanded. When the Avatar left, the man spoke to himself," We're going to die out here."
The room whirled and Malone found himself in the same room, but now everything was destroyed, what was once a beautiful altar was now not more than a few broken rocks, full of dust and the floor once so clean was now filled with blood and the marks of a brutal fight.
There were men all over the place; he was surprised that he recognized a few of them from the frozen bodies he had seen awhile ago.
The men dragged the Avatar priest out of the room.
"This must be what happened here." the journalist thought
Ned followed the men to the room where he and his companions were a short while ago.
The Avatar pointed towards a door and the enemy's men started to open it.
A loud roar came from inside and the priest ran away.
The image fade and Ned, saw himself standing inside the same room where minutes before he saw the men opening the door.
Now the room was quite close to the scenery that he had known from the real world, except that the Avatar was still alive and writing in his journal, but Ned could see the exhaustion on his face.
The man murmured to himself:
"I'm going to die, but at least they don't know the location, the men that escaped will never support the cold from the outside." He sounded feverish.
Suddenly both Ned and the man heard a noise from behind; the man's eyes were opened wide in shock and surprise. When Malone started to look back, another wave of dizziness came over him.
....................................
"Ned!" Veronica called
He opened his eyes and smiled a little to Veronica.
"His pulse is getting stronger, I believe he's okay." He heard Challenger's voice.
"What happen?" he managed to ask
"What happen? We're the ones who should be asking you that. The moment you touch the journal you went out like a light." Marguerite explained
Ned started to get up and growled:
"Oh my head"
"It's alright Malone, certain waves of dizziness are normal in this kind of situation." Said Roxton
"I'm okay.."he looked up to the questioning look on the others' eyes. "I think I just saw what happened here."
"But I thought these visions of yours were already under control." Veronica said worried
"Yes, but this one was different, it was very powerful..it kind of surprised me.."
"I believe that's a normal thing, after all, is not everyday that a mere mortal, in sort of speak, hears and sees things that happened by touching personal objects of people."
"Well what did you saw?" asked a curious Finn
.......................................
"Then the warning was correct there is a creature." Marguerite said
"Yes, but I believe that those men relished that thing, and now it's out there." Malone explained
"But how come we didn't saw it in our way?" asked Finn
"That has a certain logic, maybe the creature is asleep in some sort of hibernation or maybe we didn't cross his way, after all it is a pretty big temple." Said Challenger
....................................
Marguerite entered the room, followed by the others.
It was not a very big area, in the center there was an altar, and in the corners they could see torches but there were not lighted.
Marguerite walked to the altar and took of her pendant from her neck. "The Cradle of Life." she murmured as she touched the pendant
"What?" Finn asked
"It's the pendant's name." she explained
"Oh.Cradle..something..right?" Finn asked
"Cradle of Life"
"Why does it call that?" Veronica asked
"Because with it, Morrighan can control life itself if she wanted to, and she's the only who can control it" the heiress explained once again
"Cool!" exclaimed Finn
Marguerite carefully putted the pendant onto an indentation of its symbol.
Immediately the torches lighten up, but it was a different light, instead of yellow flames the explorers could see blue ones. In the altar an image begun to take form and Ned realized it was the Avatar priest from his vision.
The Avatar came near Morrighan and spoke to her.
"My Lady, I'm glad you're finally here, but I'm also aware that that means that difficult times are ahead of us."
"Who are you?" Veronica asked
"I'm Roland, I once was a priest here, but we were attacked and I died; now I'm just a spirit that forced himself to live on, so that the location of the key wouldn't be lost...you're very much like your mother.." He answered
"Thank you." She said a little uncomfortable
"So you know the location of the key?" Roxton inquired
"Yes I..John?" he asked eyes wide open, "By the Gods, the last time I saw you, you were just a little baby..." he saw the questioning look on Roxton's face and said, "I'm Jacob's brother, your uncle."
"Excuse me.sir?" Challenger asked not knowing how to treat him, "But how do we get to the key?"
"I can only tell you part of the path, not the path itself, you must past all tasks to get there, it is almost as training for what will come."
He reached Roxton's hand and the spirit's and Roxton's eyes lighten up.
After a few seconds everything went back to normal.
"I gave you the location of the Temple, once you're out of here, my nephew will tell you where to go. Now you must leave this place, it's not safe, the Avanara is out there, it is a luck that you haven't found it yet, let's hope that such luck will endure."
And with that he disappeared.
....................................
"Be careful not to touch anything." Malone warned
They were getting back on their way trough the Temple with once again Veronica on lead.
"We know that Neddy-boy." Roxton answered, half teasing, half serious.
By then Veronica stopped making Marguerite go against her.
"Veronica you should be more cautious, I could have fallen and touched a body by." she trailed off when she saw where Veronica's eyes were.
A creature more like a giant snake with a scorpion tale was sound asleep in front of them.
"Look at that!" Challenger almost shouted, "Isn't it amazing? I mean, look at his tale and his claws, they're huge, and look at the skin, its pure ice."
"No doubt about that, we found the Avanara..Can't this day get any better?" Marguerite complained
"Is there another way Vee?"
"No Finn, we'll have to cross it, without waking it." Veronica answered
"No problem lets go." Roxton said
"For you it's easy, you're a hunter, you're used not to make noise, but not everyone is like you."
"Marguerite, complaining isn't any better."
Suddenly the creature's eyes fully opened.
"Don't look at the eyes." Ned shouted
The explorers quickly closed their eyes.
"Not that you cared to mention, but may I ask.Why?" Marguerite shouted as well.
"It freezes people trough eye contact." He said
"How do you know that?" Veronica inquired
"I just had a vision."
"Great, great, great, great!!!" Marguerite muttered sarcastically under her breath.
They heard the Avanara's roar.
They turned their backs to the creature and opened their eyes.
"How do we cross that now?" Finn asked pointed to the Avanara behind them.
"It moves slowly but." Challenger realized, "Wait a second.Malone said that the creature was in that room that where Roland spirit appeared right?" They nodded, "So.How could Morrighan enter there without being frozen?"
"I just had an idea!" Marguerite said turning her head to face the creature.
The explorers also turned to see Marguerite blue-gray eyes go brighter and a red light appearing in the Avanara's eyes.
The creature roared in agony.
"Let's go!" Marguerite shouted
"What did you do?" Roxton asked
"Explain later! Now move! The bodies react to the warm heat, and I just use that."
They ran as fast as they could, in their way they could see the frozen bodies coming to live.
When they got to the doors at the entrance they closed them soundly behind them and finally managed to breathe.
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They set camp outside the Temple, not to near though, careful not to hear the sounds of agony coming from there.
"So Marguerite what did you did to the Avanara?" Veronica asked
"I burned up his eyes."
They all looked to her with puzzled expressions.
"..Roxton? So where to next?" she asked changing the subject
"Hm?...Oh.To the Alesig Temple, it's in the Oasis." He answered
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"Roxton, are you alright?" Marguerite asked when the others retired to their sleep.
Roxton looked into Marguerite's eyes and looked down again.
"It's okay, I understand if you don't wanna talk about it." she said
"No wait. I.I want to talk.I need to talk."
She smiled; she had never seen him like this. Who could have imagined? The great white hunter afraid of a little talk.
"I." he begun, "I can't take it, I mean, I spent half of my life living a lie, I killed the one true rightful owner of the title of a lord.and I thought it was brother and after all it was just my cousin, maybe that's why who I thought it was my father was so disgraceful, I murdered his only son."
"Roxton, would you just stop? It was an accident! You know it was, that bullet was for an ape you have no fault that it entered William's chest as well." Marguerite kissed him on his cheek. "You have to move on.I know that this sounds I little weird coming from me but.forget the past and live the present."
He smiled broadly.
"My present, and hopefully my future, is right in front of my eyes." He kissed her fully on the lips and hugged her. "Thank you.for listen."
They stayed like that for a while until Marguerite broke apart.
"We should get some rest. Tomorrow will have another bloody day walk ahead of us."
To be continued
Author's Note: Thanks for reading and...Review!!!