Chapter 2: Fire!

"Volke?" Serak asked. "Who's Volke?"

"I don't know, but with a magic lock this guy must have had something very very important in here." Rune was puzzled, but even more so, he was curouis. "I wonder what's in there?"

Serak picked the box up and stood. "Lets put this somewhere safe. If your godparents came in here and found us in here they might take Volke's box." With that said he walked out of the wall and back into Rune's bedroom. He set the box under Rune's bed.

"That won't be a good place," Rune lectured Serak, "look, there isn't a single thing down there, if somebody looked under my bed they would immediately find it."

"Then where do you suppose we put it then? Your room is empty!" Serak asked in a very snotty tone. Although, it was true. The room had a bed in the northeast corner, a night stand next to it, and a desk at the southern wall. The room was vrtuely empty.

Rune thought for a moment. After about 2 sirc he came up with a plan. "I know! We can go outside and bury it somewhere. Then when we come back we can unbury it and try and figure it out.

Serak nodded. It was a fairly good idea. So the pair walked outside and looked for a place that they could find easily.

"How about over by that tree." Serak pointed in which direction he was talking about.

"No, we're in the middle of Jever Forest! The biggest forest in the land of Zanray! Finding a certain tree is almost impossible. How about that stump over there, we can take a piece of charcoal and write something on it."

Serak nodded for the second time. So the pair got right to digging. They dug until nightfall. They stood up, proud of their work.

"I guess we should bury it. That was the whole point of digging it." Rune said. The hole that they had dug was very complicated. The pair dug all the way under the stump that they had chosen. They burnt all the roots away using basic fire magic.

Rune placed Volke's box carefully inside the hole and started to shove dirt inside. Serak bent down to help. Then, out of no where a thought came to Serak.

"Hey Rune?"

"Yes Serak?"

"I have an idea on how to find out who this Volke person is."

Rune stopped. "How? For all we know is that he had something special."

Serak stopped also. "We found his box in that ancient library. Maybe there's a book in there that has him in it."

Rune began to shove dirt into the hole. "Good idea, but there are a whole lot of books, how do we know which one will help?"

The hole was starting to fill up now, and Rune started to pat the earth to make it contract. He continued with this untill the earth was hard, then he shoved more dirt in. Then he repeated the process untill there was a flat piece of land infront of them both. Rune grabbed some moss and used it to cover it up so no one would get suspicious.

"We should go inside and try to fix your wall," Serak suggested, "that way no one will find out.

"Serak, about my question?"

"Well … We read them of course!"

Rune sighed, "That will take ages, you know how slow I read!"

Serak looked up at Rune, "we have all the time in the world to read them! Maybe we should let a few other people know about it first. Then they can help us!"

"And who would that be? You're my only friend!"

Serak shook his head. They both started to move toward the cottage. "Yeah, I guess you're right, but I have many friends. One of them is Tessa." He said Tessa with a different tone. The kind when you're making fun of somebody.

"Serak! What did I tell you about talking like that?" Rune was seriously getting annoyed. He opened the back door and coughed at the moldy smell. For the second time that day the pair walked through the house. They knew the path so good they could have a blindfold on and be running backwards and still get to their destination.

Once the pair walked into the room they started to share their ideas on how they could get the wall fixed and make it accesible. Finally they decided on one. First they were going to make the entrance wider to form a proper entrance. Then they were going to put a bookcase from inside over the entrance, covering up the entrance.

"Alright lets get started, I have this rock and you can use… your knife!" Rune said eagerly.

"I don't have enough expirience to use a knife, but you were born with the talent, you use the knife, I'll use the rock." Serak complained.

It was time for Rune to nod, so he did. The pair started to work. Neither of them noticed that they were alone in the cottage and that it was very late.

Half way through making the entrance Rune noticed something. He stopped and hesitated.

"Rune! I could use a little help here!"

Rune continued to think. "Serak, do you notice anything … … wrong?"

"That there's a whole in your wall … yeah!"

"No, something more important. Like something was missing."

"Part of your wall …yeah!"

"Serak! Something IMPORTANT! No, not my wall!"

Serak stopped too. He thought for anything missing.

"Wait! I know!" Rune exclaimed in a worried voice.

"What?"

"My godparents aren't home!" Rune said in the same tone as before. Unfortuneatly it was true. None of them noticed that Rune's godparents were supposed to be home, but they weren't.

"So? I thought you didn't like them." Serak said in a layed back tone as he went back to opening the entrance.

"Serak, that means something is terribly wrong! They always are home by now! The latest they've ever been is about one cur after when they usually come home!" Rune was getting frightened. As he says: 'one cur' he means in english… one hour.

Rune ran over to his window, and to his horror, he saw a very thick line of orangish-red glow about 25 lacrose (yards) away from the cottage.

"Serak, stop! Go in and grab as many books as you can!"

"Why, what do you see?"

"Jever Forest is engulfed in flames!"