Chapter 3: Suzaku's flute thingy!
"Shhh…" Cript hushed ember because she was complaining how long of a walk it was to get there. Ember scanned the area of any guards. There were two.
"How do we get past them?"
"Easy, like this..." Cript pulled out two of her steel stars and leaped up into the canopy. Having very precise aim, she threw them at both the guards, one star per guard. Each hit them directly in the neck.
"Bully eye!" Cript whispered to herself. They jumped down in front of the large double doors. There was a lock on it… "Now it's your turn, use your dagger to pick the lock."
"You think I don't know that!"
"Well with you, I can never be sure."
"…" Ember picked the lock with ease. Slowly she poked her head in to see if anymore guards were there. While she was doing that, Cript was cleaning the blood off of the ninja stars (yes they are called ninja stars).
"Coast is clear…" Cript followed slowly but stopped noticing that she was staring at a throne-like chair all the way across the hallway.
"Don't you dare go up and sit on the throne…it could be wired as a part of a trap" (if that made any sense)
"I never got to ask you how you have such good thieving skills already…we haven't even started yet…and maybe your right."
"Well I got bored on the way here so the only thing I could do, since I didn't bring my cd player with me, was read the book. I finished that early so I decided to read a couple of files…"
"Tell me how u got those files later…what did the book say about getting through deserted hallways?" Cript took out the book and flipped it to pg 397…Getting across long deserted hallways. Ember read the small print on the left…"ok then, do you have any truth powder?". Cript reached into a random pocket and pulled out a package of truth powder.
"Well what-do-ya-know." Cript sprinkled the tiles in front of her. It was more like dust than powder. Once it hit the ground it glowed yellow. Cript sent ember a do-exactly-what-I-do glare. Ember nodded getting the message. Cript stepped on the tiles covered in yellow powder, then scattered more up to two feet in front of her. Some spots on the floor glowed purple, Cript just leapt over them.
They finally made it across the hallway to where a big throne sat. Cript looked around.
"Where do we go now?" Ember thought about it for awhile. She looked to the right and to the left. No hallways.
"I got it! There must be an entrance behind the throne…but where?"
"Oh, you must be a genius in world geography…"Cript leaned on a lion-shaped head that was sticking out of the wall…
ZOOOOOM!
"Why do you always figure things out?" Cript shrugged and walked through the dark foyer. Ember sighed and scampered after her.
"Do you have a torch by any chance?" Cript asked unsure of where she was going.
"As a matter of fact…" Ember's hand engulfed in flames as she said that.
"That'll do." The hallway lit up instantly, revealing tons of cobwebs and scattered bones on the floor.
"There!" Ember pointed to two yellow lights at the end of corridor. Ember made her flames vanish and they rushed towards the two yellow lights. There were torches to a dimly lit room; the only thing they could see was a window that led to a thousand foot drop and the floor in front of them
"Do you hear anything?"
"Nah. I dun smell anything either." (Yes, Cript is a wolf hanyou). "I wonder…" Cript ran ahead into the darkness. Ember looked puzzled.
"JACK POT!" Cript hissed to her friend. Ember ran up to where she was standing and smiled. For there right in front of them, was Suzaku's flute thingy! It was encased in a glass box.
"Crack it open with your katana." Ember nodded. Taking out her sword, she slashed at it once, it split in half.
"That was easier than I had expected."
"Now we can take the easy way out, or the hard way out…"
"Which is which?"
"The hard way is out the window and the easy was back the way we came."
"Hmm…can we take the hard way?"
"Why not." Cript leaped up to the window and gestured Ember to follow her. Cript jumped from the window to the roof where she was able to leap into some tall trees. Quietly they ran from the castle…
"So, what do we steal next?" Cript said between pants.
"Umm…how about…all the artifacts in King Enma's vault?"
"you know that this is King Enma you're talking about right? But I'm up for the challenge. Let's go!"
"Hey! Wait!" ember said, stopping her friend.
"What?"
"I wanna try out the flute first."
"Fine, fine, fine." Cript hesitantly agreed, and the both of them darted off, back to the demon market place. Once there, Ember concealed herself in the shadows of an alleyway and removed the flute from her knapsack.
She began to play a slow, serious tune on the flute, the notes rolling together like waves in an ocean. It made Cript sleepy. The wolf hanyou stopped Ember.
"Play something with a little more bounce to it." She said. Ember smiled.
"I've got a lovely bunch of cocoanuts, de-del-ee-de, there they are-a standing in a row."
"Ember." Cript hissed, glaring at her friend for quoting from Disney Movies. Ember grinned, and went back to the flute.
She began playing a happy, bouncy song on it. All at once, the demons in the market began to dance the Macarena. Cript cracked up laughing.
Then Ember played a fast paced jumpy song. The demons began to do cheers like they were on the school cheerleading squad. Cript doubled over laughing.
"Okay," she finally said, "We've caused enough mayhem. Lets get out of here and go check up on those artifacts."
"Agreed." Ember said, nodding. She shoved the flute back into her backpack, and the two friends set out to Rekai in search of the royal artifacts of King Enma.