Romeo or Casanova?
They climbed down the ladder that was under
the trapdoor. It made the same noise as the ladders did in the
Resident Evil games. There was enough light from the room above to
see where they were going, but it was still very dark. Kurtis jumped
off the ladder, then Lara. They continued along the dark pathway,
their feet echoing noise down it. Lara took two torches from her
backpack and put them on. She handed one to Kurtis. There was another
ladder to go down. At the bottom, the found an entrance to a huge
circular arena. It reminded them of the Mutant Boaz's arena from the
Strahov. "It reminds me of the arena from the Strahov,"
Lara spoke.
"Yeah. Where I was pleasantly stabbed through
the stomach by a giant butterfly."
"And you left your
Churagai for me to find."
"I'm glad it worked." He
said, "Plus, you managed to find me, then you were finally able
to rid the world of the Nephilmn."
She frowned, "I
still miss him."
"It never really goes away, does it?
The pain." He hugged Lara.
"No," Lara replied.
Kurtis kissed her on the head.
"So are we gonna reminisce
about something bad, or try and find an artifact?"
"Find
the artifact." Lara cheered up a bit.
The circular area was
made of sand. But had bits of modern technology scattered about.
Speakers, cameras and guns were what they first saw. They had a funny
feeling someone was watching them. They were right.
"I
eulogize you on finding this place. It's a bit obscure."
"Very
funny, Mr. Stranger. I'm guessing you found the Jeyaenn?"
"Quite."
"And like every other cult, you'll be
using it to bring chaos into the world. How are you going to do that?
By breaking it up and making each of your followers invincible?"
"I was just going to make myself invincible, but that's a
much better idea!"
"You couldn't have kept your mouth
shut, Lara?" Kurtis glanced towards her.
"Of course
not."
"So, Mr. Trent and the future Mrs. Trent, what
shall I do with you?" He asked them, "Hmm? Lock you up and
then torture you and kill you, or just get straight to it? I think
option A will be better, it'll make you worried." He cackled.
"Seize 'em my cult followers!"
Ten or so followers
appeared. There was no way they could take them on. They all had
weapons, Lara and Kurtis had none. Maybe without weapons, but with
them, they weren't even going to bother. Two of the acolytes knocked
them out.
They woke up to find themselves tied up at the
hands and being dragged. "C'mon Romeo, in you go." One of
them threw Kurtis into a chamber. Then Lara. "Hey, the
'intelligent' people got captured. So much for intelligent people
getting somewhere in life," He snorted.
Lara sighed, it was
a common mistake what the follower said, she had to correct him. "If
you want to get intelligent, Kurtis isn't a Romeo. He'd be more of a
Casanova. Romeo only had eyes for Juliette. Kurtis, has had eyes for
more than one person. So much for you being bright."
"You
still got captured," He retorted.
"Uch." She
sighed.
