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Series 2, Episode 11 ~ House of Tunnels
"WHO ARE YOU?" Nina screamed by the door holding onto Fabian's arm.
"Nina, you're making me look normal," Alfie joked causing the American to drop Fabian's arm.
Nina paused to look around seeing all eyes looking her way in confusion before she turned to Fabian. One of her infamous Nina lies coming out her mouth – though to give the girl credit this one almost was believable – "Who are you to break up with me and send me text messages saying you still like me?!"
Camilla had to hide behind Jerome so none of the teachers or her brother could see her face as she laughed. Fabian had an expression of bewilderment on his face which Camilla couldn't help but laugh at. He clearly had no idea what Nina was on about.
As Camilla popped her head back around, she saw the subtle looks between Nina and Fabian of the girl trying to get him to play along with her narrative. Fabian's eyes widened in realisation before retorting, "I guess I'm just a ... crazy... person!" Fabian's lie wasn't as believable, though that didn't seem to matter to the room.
"You were sending her text messages while I was doing the presentation?" Joy asked, there was a sadness to her voice which gave Camilla the impression there was something more to what Joy was saying, but she wasn't sure what. "Classy Fabian."
"I simply cannot apologise enough," Victor said to Gustav whose attention was on the pair at the door. He knew Fabian, as well as he knew Camilla. From the look, the boy was giving the American Gustav knew the feelings there was true and real. He couldn't fault the boy for fighting for his heart.
"No need Victor." He spoke up with a smile creeping onto his face reassuring Fabian he hadn't ruined the school's chances at the bid "their youthful zest confirms that I have made the right choice." Of course, the students looked to one another, Camilla and Jerome instantly sharing strange looks mainly due to the man's use of the word 'zest'. "I like the pupils here," Gustav reassured Victor and Mr Sweet who laughed along with him.
"I knew Fabiana were still super mushy, it's written all over their faces," Amber informed Jerome and Camilla as she turned to face them, before grabbing Camilla and marching over to Nina and Fabian.
"It is a cover story," Fabian explained to Amber quietly as the two approached having heard her loud declaration.
"Cover?" Amber asked, "for what?"
Fabian looked to Nina not sure what to say. "Amber," Nina started, "this is something we have to do on our own..."
Amber, however, was not happy with that response, "Come on you guys there is no I in Sibuna!"
The twins where the first to react to that statement sending the girl bewildered looks, "Eh, there is actually." Fabian informed Amber.
Amber paused for a second as she mouthed the spelling of Sibuna, realising that yes there was, in fact, an I in the spelling, "I know, but you get my point." She turned back to them, "We all know whatever you're going to do Camilla is going to tell me anyway afterword's so it will save us all the trouble if I go with you now."
Nina turned to Camilla as if to tell her to correct Amber, but Camilla couldn't do that. What the blonde said was true, she would tell her afterwards because in Camilla's mind this was Sibuna business and Amber was a Sibuna.
"Does anyone care I'm hungry!?" Came a loud shout of Alfie's causing all the Sibuna's to glance up at him, though Amber and Camilla knew at that moment that Nina and Fabian didn't have a leg to stand on. Amber was now coming with them on their mission.
The descent to the cellar was almost a descent into the normal now. The dust and cobwebs almost waved a welcome to them as the four OG Sibuna's crept down.
"Back in the dusty cellar again," Amber spoke up as Camilla closed the secret door behind her, "just like the old days, you know when we used to share!"
Camilla didn't say anything as she walked past Fabian and Nina to go see what Victor was brewing at his makeshift lab, the two lifting their sleeves to show Amber their new Marks of Anubis. "ouch, matching tattoos right before you split up!" Amber commented, causing Camilla to laugh and Amber took a glance at the marks before turning to her friend. "Wait, Camilla... don't you have..."
Camilla let out a sigh and pulled back her jumper to show the mark on her wrist, "the same mark, yep."
"It's the Mark of Anubis," Nina explained to Amber, "it means we have to find the mask of Anubis for this Egyptian Spirit."
"So far so Sibuna." Was the only thing Amber had to add to what Nina said.
"If we don't... we forfeit our lives," Nina added quietly.
"Ah well, it's not like your going to die or anything." Amber smiled.
"Amber!" Fabian hissed, "that's what forfeit our lives means."
Camilla lifted a vial and gave it a sniff before cheerfully adding, "Don't you love it when your life is put on the line... we didn't get any of that last year." Amber couldn't help but smile at Camilla's comment at least one of them was in a good mood.
Nina, however, was not in the same headspace as Camilla, "I didn't want anyone else to get involved in case they got cursed too! Like these crazy people!" She pointed between the twins.
"Excuse you," Camilla sassily replied, "I am your protector, I am meant to follow you into hell and back again."
"And she's my sister..." Fabian pointed to Camilla as if that answered everything when it came to Camilla before he turned to Nina, "and like I'd let you go through this alone."
"Plus..." Camilla chimed in.
"We could never resist a mystery," Fabian finished for her, causing both twins to nod their heads to their friends. Causing Nina to let out a scoff and cross her arms. No matter how much the twins argued with her that them getting the mark was inevitable she didn't like the fact they had it.
"When you're done being weird..." Amber raised her hand and waved it to the twins. Their twin finish each other's sentences thing had always freaked her out, "I am trying to deal with the fact my best friends are totally cursed here!"
The group all turned to Amber with apologetic looks on their faces, "I know how that feels..." Nina spoke up after a second looking towards the twins, making the Fabian look even more puppy dog apologetic whilst Camilla still agreed with her statement. "so here's the deal, we have to put in the combination and go through that door. You don't." Nina told Amber.
"We can't ask you to take the risk like that just for us," Fabian backed her up.
Amber looked to Camilla for her two cents on the matter, "Amber, you don't need me to tell you what to do, whatever you choose I'll back you up on."
Amber sent her a bright smile before looking to Nina and Fabian, "have either of you seen the colours I accessorise with, I'm the queen of risk." She informed them both, clearly telling them they were stupid to think she was letting them do this without her. With that, she raised her right hand to her eye, with Nina and Fabian following with fond smiles and Camilla grinning like the Cheshire cat as she coped them too.
"Sibuna!" the four said before they rushed over to the fake bookcase. "Can we go find this mask now, because I think they're doing cake upstairs?" Amber asked as she followed Nina and Fabian over to where Camilla was.
"Okay," Nina said as she reached up to fake snake symbols, "1890," she muttered as she put in the combination.
There was a second where nothing happened as she stood back before the click of some mechanism was heard and slowly the door slid into the wall with a creak revealing a study of some kind on the other side.
Causally and carefully the four crept into the room on the other side of the door. If Camilla thought that the cellar was dusty it was nothing compared to the level of dust and cobwebs in the room. Clearly no one had been in there for years, centuries even. With pictures lining the walls in golden frames, a large wooden desk pushed against one wall and two squashy armchairs and a couch, and books upon books, bookshelf's covered and littered with them. This reminded Camilla a little of her father's study at home, just on a smaller scale and a lot dirtier, and from the awed look on Fabian's face, he was getting similar vibes from it too.
"What is all this stuff?" Camilla asked, reaching for a book, her fingers leaving imprints on the dust settled upon it. The spine made a crunching sound as she opened the book up to reveal handwriting, it was clearly some kind of journal, closing it again Camilla put
"This is some kind of study," Fabian commented from by the desk.
"Seriously is there going to be something behind door number 1 that isn't old and crusty!" Amber muttered just as a loud thud was heard and the four Sibuna's turned to see the fake bookcase/shelves door they had used from the cellar had just shut behind them.
Fabian and Nina started to look around the door for a way out as Camilla stood next to Amber the two girls clasping hands tightly, the only show of them being slightly scared of being stuck in the room.
"This might be it..." Fabian said, pressing what looked like a light switch on the wall. As he did the same creaking noise was heard and the door rolled into the wall again, causing Camilla and Amber to let out sighs of relief – thank god they weren't stuck.
"At least we know we can get out now," Nina told them all with a smile as the door shut again. With that they split up, Amber and Camilla walking over to the comfy-looking armchairs and Nina and Fabian taking the desk.
"Cam look at this!" Amber said as she walked over to a large portrait on the wall, it was a portrait of Robert Frobisher Smyth, Camilla recognised him from the pictures in the living room. Amber lifted a hand to examine the picture further when it fell from the wall, causing a small squeal to come from her mouth as it dropped to the floor. Nina and Fabian's heads whipped around and they all gasped as they saw old amulets made from bone – something Camilla quickly tested with a slight lick of one and then a nod to Fabian - (though neither Rutter was going to inform Nina and Amber that).
"Weird place to keep jewellery." Was the only thing Amber had to comment other than a gross face at Camilla for licking one of the Amulets before she passed them to Nina and Fabian.
Fabian laid them out on the desk and looked over them, "there is a different hieroglyphic on each one," he said in confusion. "Spider, crocodile, cow..."
"I've seen these before," Nina said to them, before grabbing the map and looking at it, "see! Same as the amulets." She showed them the map where on it the same symbols were seen.
"They must mean something then," Camilla shrugged.
"But how do these Amulets, help us find the tunnels?" Nina asked the girl.
Fabian, however, had decided to do more exploring going over to where Camilla had been originally and picking up the book she had first looked at from the fingerprint marks on it. Blowing the cobwebs off the top.
"We've hit a dead end," Nina complained.
"No, we haven't, it's just we need to figure out the next step. No one said this was going to be easy," Camilla interjected.
"Wait..." Camilla turned at Fabian's mutter to see his face light up, turning on his heel to pick up another journal and another. "Have you seen these?"
"They are journals." Camilla commented, "so?"
"RFS..." Fabian mumbled, before looking up at Nina, "They're Robert Frobisher Smyth's diaries!"
"Only you would get excited over a dead man's diaries," Camilla didn't even try to stop the words as they left her mouth.
Fabian shot her an unhelpful look, "why don't we take a few each and see if they make any references to amulets or doorways?"
Nina seemed keen and took a few books from Fabian but Camilla pushed the book he held to her back towards him, "I have enough dusty old books to read through, I don't need these." Which Fabian couldn't fault her for, she did have a magic class reading to do too.
Instead, he dumped the book in Amber's hands causing the girl to hold it away from her as if it was dangerous, "great because I had nothing else planned to do for the rest of my life."
The school was abuzz with the news of the bid that afternoon, though Camilla didn't see why. Neither did Amber who was more than happy to talk to Camilla about anything and everything else. The two were discussing the latest movie news when they heard Alfie's voice from behind them, "Hey, where've you been?" he asked causing the pair to turn to look at him as he raced down the corridor after them, well more specifically Amber, who then grabbed Amber's arm and kept walking.
"I am quite busy right now," Amber told the boy as he reached them, "so..."
"Too busy to tell anyone about the whole Alba/Amfie thing?!" He demanded, causing Camilla to laugh. "too embarrassed maybe."
Amber looked to Camilla as the girl made her stop before realising she wasn't going to get out of actually dating Alfie. Camilla had witnessed her agree to it and now she was going to make the girl go through with it.
"Okay," Amber looked at Alfie, "So we go public, but I tell people in my own way in my own time. Got it?"
"Got it! Let's seal this with a kiss!" Alfie leaned forward and closed his eyes, Amber however raced off having spotted something – that something being Jasper and Camilla couldn't be bothered racing after her.
"Sorry Romeo, your just left with Mercutio here." Camilla laughed as Alfie opened one eye to just see Camilla standing in front of him.
"Which one is Mercutio?" Alfie asked, instantly.
"Did you actually read the play last year?" Camilla asked with a laugh grabbing Alfie's arm and pulling his off down the corridor.
Nina and Fabian had joined Camilla for a small study session before dinner, however, where Camilla was reading some kind of Egyptian magic book the two where both reading Robert's diaries and from the entry's Fabian kept reading out loud Camilla was glad she passed on reading them. Hieroglyphics may be hard to read but at least the information was interesting.
"Today I saw a cloud that looked like a sphinx, what a joy it is to be alive." Fabian read in a monotone voice.
"I bet your missing Gary the Goat now," Camilla laughed as Fabian shut the book and leant back against the couch nodding his head with an amused smile.
"These are so boring... I go on digs I read the official reports and even they are more interesting than this." Fabian groaned as he looked at Nina.
"If I read any more, my eyes are going to fall out." Nina mumbled as she closed her book and threw it onto the pile on the table. "even that looks more interesting Cam, and I can't even read that." She pointed to the open page of Camilla's book, causing the girl to smile at her amused.
Thankfully Miss Millington came with a welcome distraction, "I've got the lowdown on the Amulets, not the omelettes or whatever you were saying." Camilla and Nina shared an amused smile, and Camilla closed her book to indicate to Amber she was listening. "they were worn for protection, and the ones we have aren't the only ones. Camilla has one around her neck now, a much prettier one I must admit."
Camilla's hand went up to her necklace and she looked to Amber who nodded, Nina, however, was focusing on the protection element of what Amber said, "Protection against what?"
"Bad luck, danger, EVIL SPIRITS?" Amber listed loudly.
"How did you find that out, Amber?" Nina asked.
"I've always been the brains of this club, that's why you need me," the blonde dramatically said thought the unamused look between Nina and Fabian caused her to groan and say, "okay, I went to Jasper! But he's your uncle we can trust him, right?" she asked looking at the twins.
"Yeah..." Nina spoke slowly, as she recognised the looks that flashed between the twins, if Amber is getting Jasper involved, he could be a target too, "but we still need to be discreet Amber."
"Look, I think we should go take another look at those amulets, yeah?" Fabian asked quietly as he glanced at the dining area where the house was entering in for dinner. The girls around him nodded their heads and Amber held a hand out to help Camilla get to her feet so they could join their friends.
As the four got to the table Mick got to his feet and they all looked up at him, "eh, guys, so I spoke to Mr Sweet so it's official. I'm moving to Australia."
Camilla raised her eyebrows as a lot of things suddenly made sense. Mara being so upset, Jerome being giddingly happy, yep it all made sense. "Well, this explains your good mood, Jerry. No Mick to get in the way of your attempts to woo Mara" Camilla muttered to the boy next to her at the table causing him to splutter but before he could defend himself, she had looked away and was pointedly looking to Fabian and Nina to make conversation with them.
"When do you leave?" Patricia asked.
"tomorrow," Mick spoke up sadly.
"Tomorrow?!" Mara repeated in shock. "it's all decided?"
"well, I reckon some people can't wait to see go," Mick replied quietly before sitting back down again.
Mara spluttered for a bit before she raced from the room in tears.
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