Well I kept to my word and wrote another uppie before I left for my holiday. Hope you are enjoying this fic and I am glad to see kurtis is popular….KTEB FOREVER!!
Anyway happy holidays!
Disclaimer: I do not sadly own Lara or Kurtis and Thankfully I do not own Karel (lol) and unfortunately I do not own tomb raider…
And I know I should do that every update but I forget :P
Oh and BTW I have never been to Gaeta but one of my fav architectural time periods is the 19th century so I just picked that, and the island next Gaeta does not exist. another thing, I ain't very religious so anything I write in this fic is research and may not be necessarily true. I don't want to offend anyone
And thank you all for the reviews -
Chapter 9
"The Adventure Begins"
At 7 o'clock Kurtis knocked on Lara's door, he had cooled off a little since the morning as he realised it was stupid to be pissed over a tiny detail such as Lara basically turning him down. He told himself its just business and that they should just be business partners other wise things would just complicated.
Lara opened the door and let him in but didn't say anything, they both walked over to the sitting area and sat opposite each other.
"So what did you find out?" Kurtis asked breaking the silence
"I went up to a church in the forest where I found out something about Karel. He is a saint and the Grandfather of Christ." Lara replied coolly then waited for his reply
"But that's not possible, he is a nephilim." Kurtis said uncertainly
"It was him, I swear." Lara said "I was just about to leave and I saw a bust sitting in the corner and as I got closer it looked terribly familiar but I couldn't place who is was. Then a priest told me it was St. Joachim, the wife of St. Anne who was the mother of the Virgin Mary."
"A nephilim is the grandfather of Jesus Christ," he smiled "So Christ was a quarter Nephilim."
"So where did you go today?" Lara asked
"I went to the museum to find out a little about this place and hopefully some clues to where the Tomb of Cyrus was."
"Well? Did you find anything?" Lara said impatiently
"Patient is a virtue," Kurtis said making Lara frown, and then he pulled out a little notebook "this is a legend in Gaeta so not many people believe in it, but nonetheless they have a small cabinet dedicated to it." Kurtis explained "In 1489 a ship brought many noble men from Turkey to Gaeta, they were men of the church and men from rich families. They stayed very private and frequently went out to sea to a nearby Island called 'Isola del piscatorial' that was only in habited by a few fishermen who refused to leave after a volcanic eruption. One day a young boy followed them out to the island and watched them perform bizarre rituals, and as a Christian he told a priest who told he would take care of it. So the boy one day follows the newcomers again but this time they were not alone, he witness a great battle between the Turkish men and a group of men with "magical powers". The Lead of the Turks fell and his followers retreated, when the boy returned home no one believed him."
"So I suppose these Magical men were Lux Veritatus?" Lara asked
"Obviously, so now we know where the tomb is," he reached into his back pocket of his trousers and pulled out a small booklet "So I rented a small boat for tomorrow morning with scuba diving gear and a man who will take us out to the island."
"Perfect, what time do we leave?"
"6 am," Kurtis said rather grimly "Anyway let's order some room service."
Lara and Kurtis drove down to the beach at 6 am on the dot down to the beach where they met Giovanni there driver who was going to take them out to Isola Del piscatorial.
When they arrived on the Island Lara felt a premonition coming on, it was to quiet; there were no birds singing no creatures walking around in the bushes and trees, the only sound that could be heard was the wind rustling the trees and the waves crashing into the shore.
Giovanni set up a small camp with a tent and a fire where he would wait for Lara and Kurtis as they explored the Island.
"Any ideas where to start?" Kurtis asked
"I think we should go look around the island first, instead of swimming around it looking for an entrance." She replied.
They left Giovanni and took their gear then headed into the wilderness with no idea where they were going or what they were looking for. Kurtis seemed a little unenthusiastic about the way Lara was going about finding the tomb but she was the Tomb raider so he followed without protest.
"Look!" Lara called to Kurtis as she pointed to a tall Rock that lay horizontally on its side pointing north. Lara walked over to it and ran her fingers over the ruff surface of it until she found what she saw, marking "It's written in Latin, it says 'The Darkness of shadows is the gate way.' any ideas?"
"Nope, but lets just follow the rock and find out." Lara rolled her eyes and led on in the direction that the rock pointed.
After a while they were no longer on the path but walking straight through the Forest and its wilderness, Lara pushed through the bushes and the tangled messes of thorn bushed that wrapped around her feet threatening to trip her.
The path grew narrower and darker until Lara couldn't see a thing
"Kurtis?"
"Yeah I'm here." he replied then Lara felt a hand rest on her arm, she took her bag off and blindly searched for her torch. She pulled it out of her bag and turned it on sending a single beam of light ahead of her onto a watery surface
"Kurtis, I think we have found the place." She said as she saw they were standing right on the edge of a considerably big lake with a small island in the middle that had a tall tree planted on it, Lara shone the light up at the sky to see why there was no light. The reason was that the trees had grown so strong that their branches extended all the way to the middle to the branches of the great tree that grew in the centre of the lake, and even in winter, their leaves were green.
Lara and Kurtis wore their wet suits over their clothes and attached all their gear then started to wade into the water.
"Let's swim over to that tree first." Kurtis said
"Good idea," Lara continued on the stopped "Kurtis take my hand as I only have one torch and we better not loose each other."
"You just want to hold hands with me." Kurtis grinned
"Just do it." Lara snapped then placed her mouthpiece in her mouth and took Kurtis's hand.
They both went under water and were briefly in complete darkness until Lara turned on her torch and they swam forward towards the middle of the Lake to look at the tree.