Chapter 12 The Altar
The gang and Samara had been walking for fifteen minutes before they reached an area that seemed not too many people are around. They had been looking to see what reason they would be taken here when they saw a large iron door with a lock.
"Is that suppose to be a vault?" Yusuke asked looking at it.
"I guess you could call it that," Samara replied.
"Does that mean it isn't?" Kuwabara asked for Yusuke.
"Yes it isn't a vault. It's really the armory were we keep most of the weapons."
"Wait I thought we were going to an altar," Botan said sounding a little sad.
"Well the door that leads to the altar is in the armory."
"Who's idea was it to stick an altar down near the armory," Yusuke said about to yell.
"We really don't know," Samara said with sweat dropping down her face.
"What do you mean you don't know this is your guy's castle right?"
"Yes, but this castle I think was made before the dragon tribe came along."
"Really? How do you know?" Kurama said getting more curious with the altar and castle.
"Well there are some castle designs missing so someone who was here when the castle was built must have taken them."
They soon know reached the door this time. Samara quickly went to a front pocket, and took out a bunch of keys kept together by a key loop thing. (I can't say key chain. The time period isn't the same.) Then she picked out one of the keys, and stuck it in the key hole of the door. She quickly unlocked the door went in, turned around, and waited for the others to get in. Then when we were in she locked the door behind them, and got in front of the group to lead them down the stairs.
"Watch your step, because these stairs are getting really old, and slippery," Samara said making sure the others heard the warning.
"So why is this altar so important Samara," Kurama said speaking up.
"Well I don't think it's real important it's just the altar has a few things that we haven't been able to figure out what they were made for."
"So there are something's down here that you guys haven't known about till now?" Asked Hiei.
"I guess it's like that yes," Samara said when they reached a room with a lot of weapons in it.
'Must be the armory Samara told us about,' Kurama thought while looking around, 'But where is the door way to the altar. There's nothing here, but swords, arrows, and other weapons.'
Samara started walking towards a group of swords while the others were looking around.
"Here it is," Samara said happily.
"What is there? All I see is covered swords," Hiei said not looking impressed.
Samara looked back at him with a cocky glare, and moved closer to the swords. Then when she was right next to them she pushed them aside to show a large hole in the wall with a passage of stairs going down whish looked like forever.
"Okay why is that the entrance to this altar," Yusuke said starting to think this was a joke.
"Just get in," Samara said sliding in leaving them behind if they wanted to stay.
"Well I don't want to stay in here," Botan said fallowing Samara's lead.
"And what do you guys think?" Said Yusuke towards the other three.
"It wouldn't kill us to go in, and look," Kurama said going towards the opening with Hiei heading towards it as well.
"And you," Yusuke said looking at the baka. (Idiot in Japanese if you don't know.)
"I'm not staying here. This place is making my sixth sense on the edge," Kuwabara answered.
"Then in the opening we go."
With that the two went towards the opening with Yusuke in front where the others had gone in, and were soon in the shadowy passage way heading down the stairs.
Halfway down the stairs.
The gang had been walking for what seemed forever with still no idea on where the heck the altar was. They soon wondered if this was some trick sense they were in the creepiest place they have been so far in the castle.
"Samara how far does this stair case go?" Yusuke asked getting irritated.
"I really don't know. I never really wanted to see how far this goes down," Samara answered really not wanting to know.
"Then do you know at least how much longer we have to walk?" Yusuke said hearing that.
"In a few minutes most likely."
"Good," Kuwabara said between the two, "This place in even creepier than the armory."
"I would have to agree with that," Said Botan with a shiver going down her spine.
Then after a few more minutes of silence the group finally heard something that they wanted to hear.
"We're here," Samara said starting to look around the ground.
"Where is here I don't see an altar," Yusuke said screaming having everyone think it was a lie.
"Give me a second to find," Samara said then paused adding, "Found it."
"The exit to your prank?" Said Kuwabara.
"No, but brace your selves," Samara said as a warning.
"From what are the walls going to cave in on us, or."
Before Yusuke could finish Samara pulled on what looked like a rope, and then the stair case, the wall, the floor, and the ceiling just disappeared. The gang was so startled at what happened they screamed from the fact that they were falling into complete darkness.
Then all of a sudden they all land on something solid. The floor and man the gang has never been happier to land on one from what just happened. As soon as everyone is sure that they aren't going to start falling again soon they just start to stare at Samara.
"What the heck were you trying to do? Kill us," Yusuke said with shock in his voice.
"No, because if I meant to kill you I wouldn't have warned you to brace your selves now would I," Samara said a little smugly.
"Okay well now that we found more to the path where do we go now," Kurama asked looking away from Samara to look at where they were.
"Wait here a second," Samara said getting up, and taking a look around as well.
Then all of a sudden a voice came from out of no where saying, "Who is there?"
"Samara what the heck was that," Botan said starting to get a little freaked out.
"Shhhh," Samara answering waiting a little longer.
"You can go to the altar," The voice said to them.
Then a swirling bright light came from in front of the group starting to get bigger. Everyone soon covered their eyes from the light waiting for it to pass. When it did everyone looked to see what had changed after the light passed, and soon found them selves looking at one of the most beautiful altar they had seen
"Man Samara this altar is the strangest I've been to," Botan said looking up in amazement at some of the details in the structure design.
"I would have to agree I've never run across anything like this when I was still a thief," Kurama said then realizing that Samara didn't know about his past at all, and that they would be brought back up because of that. Strangely Samara just smiled, and didn't even think about him saying that he was a thief.
'Are they really this comfortable with demons being around,' Hiei thought not believing that Samara just shook that off like it was nothing.
"Kurama do you think Samara can really just not think about you being a thief?" Yusuke asked looking at him.
"I heard that," Samara said towards them, "The reason I don't have a problem with him being a thief is that both Thatz and Kitchel were thieves as well."
"They were?" Kuwabara said stunned to hear that.
"Yes that's what I just said isn't it?"
"Hi Samara what are you doing down here?" A voice said from behind the group.
The group quickly turned around to see to girls looking back at them. One was a person they already met, Cesia. The other was a new face that seemed to be not too disturbed by the feeling of demon aura. The lady had long greenish hair, and her eyes were also green. Her hair was up in a very nice fashion, and was wearing nice clothing.
"I'm just showing the guests around. May I ask why you came down here lady Raseleane?"
"Lady Raseleane?" Everyone in the group wondered who this was that out ranked Samara.
"Oh yeah I forgot to tell you this is Lady Raseleane. She's the dragon queen."
"The dragon queen?" The gang said getting a little nervous standing in front of the queen of the castle.
"So you've introduced me to them. Can I know why they are?" Raseleane asked with a smile.
"Okay this is Kurama, Botan, Kuwabara, Hiei, and Yusuke," Samara said wanting to see if the dragon queen would tell her why they were down here.
"Nice to meet you, anyways the reason we're down here is we wanted to go for a picnic, and instead of going to the grounds we came down here," She said smiling still.
Soon the gang started to look around to see why they would down here when Kurama noticed a large coffin like thing on the top of the stairs. He started to go to it to see what was in it.
"Samara," Kurama was going to ask first adding, "What is in that coffin."
"Oh that there's really nothing in that thing, but if you want to take a closer look then go a head."
"Thanks."
Kurama started to walk closer to it with Hiei wondering what was in it as well. They were also wondering what was it that Samara did to cause them to fall earlier.
"Samara what was it that you did to cause the stairs and stuff to disappear like that before? Is it one of your powers?" Yusuke asked wanting an answer.
"Well to tell you the truth I pulled a rope of deception which is an item that can cause illusions that may hide things like building, or something like this altar, so no it is not one of my powers."
"So what you're telling me is that the stair case we came down here on was never really there."
"Yeah weird isn't it?"
Kurama and Hiei were still heading towards the coffin when they heard what Samara said to cause them to fall. They couldn't believe that they had been fooled by a stupid piece of rope. When they were done thinking about that they realized that there was an obstacle in front of them between the coffin. A large pond was dividing the two parts of land from each other.
"Well this wont be too hard to get around," Hiei said suddenly vanishing then reappearing on the other side.
"I wouldn't argue with that," Kurama replied doing the same thing as Hiei.
Then Yusuke and Kuwabara were wanting just as much as Kurama and Hiei to see what the coffin was for. So they then started to walk towards the thing doing the same thing the other two did, but knew that the thieves would be there when the got there.
"Hey Kurama what's in it?" Yusuke said as he was only three feet away.
"Well it's what Samara said there's nothing in here," Kurama replied.
"Really?" Kuwabara said finally sticking his head to where he could see in it.
"Well she didn't mention that there was at one point something in here, but it seems that something must have wanted it because the case and the chains are broken," Hiei looking at the shattered pieces along the floor.
"Wonder if she knows what was in it," Yusuke said starting to walk towards where they were before.
"We'll just have to ask when we get down there," Kurama said with a sigh at the thought of asking someone so many questions.
5 minutes later when they're back with the four that stayed down there.
The four girls had been talking about the grounds when the guys finally came back from going to the altar. Botan wasn't really interested in the coffin and what it was holding so she didn't ask them what was in it.
"Samara, do you know why the lid and chains on that coffin are broken?" Yusuke asked.
"No why?" Samara replied easily.
"Well you live here; wouldn't you be the person to know what happens down here?" Kuwabara said thinking that Samara wasn't saying something.
"Well there is a reason that I wouldn't know what happens down here, and why the lid and chains are broken," Samara said getting nervous.
"Well then what is it," Botan said looking towards her.
"There was a period of time that this altar was ceiled off I think even before the dragon tribe came here so when the original owners had it they felt the need for this not to be known about, because other then just ceiling it off they also must have either stole the materials that had the information about this altar or completely changed them so no one would this that something was strange between the description in the books and the what they could see for them selves in the castle."
"So you guys really didn't know about this the entire time you lived here," Kuwabara said.
"No we didn't."
"It was nice being down here, and meeting all of you, but I think if we don't go up stairs now that Alfeegi will go crazy thinking we got lost somewhere," The dragon queen said.
"I wouldn't be too surprised if he is already acting like that Samara said with a grin.
They then walked towards the area they first entered the altar at. Little did they know about the things in the altar.
End Chapter
The ending of this chapter sucked I know, but I was running out of ideas because I am not sure on how they get out of the altar place. So if you know tell me, and I'll fix it. Also there will be times where I will put Japanese words in my stories only because I don't want to say one language at a time. Anyways if there is anything else you would like to say about this just put is in the review thing, and I'll look at it k? Bye.