Chapter 14

Title: The secret room

Written by Shaun Witt

The truck with Ryu's group in it came into the vally. It rode past the school and towards Ryu's house where it stopped. No sooner did Ryu hop out of the truck did Mai run up to him hugging him and checking him for wounds. This was fallowed by her scolding him for getting hurt in the first place.

"Mai calm down. I'm fine." Ryu told her.

"Can't I worry when your away?" Mai asked.

"Of cource you can. But you need to learn not to worry so much." Ryu replied.

"I'll try." Mai promised him.

"Ryu don't forget, you said you pay the Head Priestess at the school a visit." Kagome told him.

"I know Kagome." Ryu replied.

"What is she talking about?" Mai asked.

"I just need to go have a talk with her about something that is all. I'll be back soon." Ryu replied.

Ryu walked off towards the school to speak to the head priestess. He found the Priestess in her office. He sat down and told her everything that had happen to him, starting from the dreams he had to purifying the dark generals jewel..

"So your powers have finally awaken. " She said and after she stood up she added, "Fallow me. There is something you might want to see."

Ryu fallowed her and asked, "Where are we going?"

"You'll see soon enough." She replied.

They walked down into the basement area where the storage rooms were ate. The head priestess walked over to the wall at the end of the hallway and opened a secret passage. The passage led down to a door.

"What is this place and why have I not been told about it before now?" Ryu asked.

"I'll explain now. Your mother long ago made herself a room in which she would often use. Inside are books and scroll which she would write down things she had learened over the years she spent as a priestess." She said.

Ryu saw there was something else the priestess wanted to tell him and he was unsure if he would like what she had to tell him. But he asked, "Why did you bring me here?"

"Before your mother passed away she told her successore that she had a secret which had to be kept till the time was right. That she had to pass down this knowledge from head priestess to head priestess." She looked at him and asked, "Are you sure you wish to know this secret?"

"I do." Ryu replied.

"Your mother had a very special gift. That gift was the power of visions. She forsaw your powers awakening and wanted to make sure you had the tools and knowledge at hand to use your gifts. Inside this room is a trunk sealed by one of her spells and only you can break it and get what's inside it." She told him then added, "I'll leave you be. If you need anything else I will be in my office."

She turned around and left, leaving Ryu by himself. Ryu opened the door and walked in. on the far side of the room he saw the chest and upon reaching for it the spell which had been protecting it broke.

Ryu opened the chest and found some books, a cloak made from using the furs of white fire rats and below that was an object wrapped in cloth. As he unwrapped it he found a bow and it look just like the one he had made for his own mother. He placed the bow down onto a very old desk.

Ryu spent the next several hours reading the scrolls and looking at all of the other items in the storage room. He eventually fell asleep at the desk with his hands on one of the books his mother placed in the trunk ment for him.

To be continued...