CHAPTER 19:

2008, somewhere in the underworld.

"Alright", the leader whispered back. "Is everything ready for our journey?" His assistant nodded and the leader turned to the other men. "You know our task. Follow me and we will fulfil it." The men stood up and walked out of the room behind the leader. Gredam was the last person to stood up and he followed them, wondering how they were gonna get to the past.

This time they didn't walk long on the corridor. Instead they took like a zillion sideways and Gredam knew that if he had to find his own way back he was screwed. Luckily the leader seemed to know the place very well and Gredam made sure he didn't loose him out of sight. After what seemed ages but only was half an hour they stopped in front of a iron door.

Gredam saw the assistant taking some kind of card out of his pocket and he pushed it into one of those high-tech devices. They waited as the door slowly opened. When it was finally open they walked into the room and Gredam heard the door closing behind him immediately. There was no way back and they stood in front of another door.

'Great', Gredam thought. 'I ended up at Fort Knox.' He waited again for the door to slowly open, this time after the leader typed in a code on a little computer at the wall. Finally they got to what seemed to be their destination. At least Gredam didn't see another door in front of him.

He saw the witches sign on the wall and was surprised. 'Do demons not have their own way of time travelling? Do they need a witches spell to help them?' They gathered in front of the sign and they all got a little vial in their hands. "We have to throw this all at once, wait for my sign", the assistant said. He mumbled a spell Gredam couldn't even hear flashes of and raised his arm.

"Now", he shouted and they all threw the little vials through the triquetra. The moment they hit the wall the wall began to change. It turned red and a giant hole appeared. The wall looked like boiling lava and the red colours mixed with yellow now. "Is it safe to go through that thing?", Gredam whispered behind his hand to his neighbour. "Of course it is", his neighbour whispered back. "It's just like we practised it."

Everyone walked to the wall and one by one they walked in it. When it was Gredam's turn he hesitated, but he got pushed in by the person behind him. His hand touched the portal and Gredam felt the rest of his body sucked into it. The last person to walk through was the leader. When he was gone the portal closed as if it knew the leader was the last one to go through.

Gredam was practically thrown out of the portal at the other side and had to grab one of the other men to prevent himself from falling down. They waited for the others to come out and finally saw the leader. After him the portal closed and they quickly moved forward. This time they didn't need to go through two computer guarded doors. But only one normal one. When they got out of the room they stood still and Gredam saw the leader doing something to his watch.

The leader looked up and said. "They are probably at the house they left in our time. So we are going to start there. Remember: you may kill everyone except for the little girl. She's too important to the master to just brutally kill. At least for now, when he's done with her it doesn't matter anymore."

He pressed a button on his watch and they were sucked up by at red light. Only seconds later they appeared in the room. It wasn't empty like Gredam saw it in the future. On the contrary. You could see people were living in there. Furniture stood in the living room, a smell of fresh baked cookies filled the house and a newspaper lay on the table. Dated February 4th, 1991.

Gredam saw the newspaper with the date. 'Wow, it worked', he thought. He heard voices coming from a nearby room and when he looked around he saw the other men were already away, probably walking to the noises. Gredam followed them and was surprised by the seize of the house, he had not expected that. Giant closets stood against the walls. Every single one filled with books.

'Pretty impressive', he thought. 'This looks like some kind of ancient library. Maybe I would have liked it if I like reading.' He read some of the titles from the shelves: How to find your way in Atlantis, The Illuminati uncovered, and The Philosopher's Stone isn't really a Stone and was confused. 'What is that all about?'

He suddenly stopped as he saw the other men in front of him. Well they were invisible to everyone except the other men. Gredam got an elbow in his side and someone whispered to him he had to activate his invisibility to. He was pushing some buttons of his watch and nothing happened. His neighbour got annoyed and roughly grabbed his arm, pushing the right buttons for Gredam to become invisible. "Moron", the man whispered.

Now it was safe for Gredam to get closer to see what was going one. He saw Dronan sitting behind a work desk and Gwen opposite of him. 'I knew it', he thought 'The old fool tricked her.' He heard Dronan say: "Okay, lets talk about you payment" and Gredam was surprised 'She did this for money? Not for him? Maybe there is hope for her. At least if I can get her out of here alive.'