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Reven encounters a problem. He has no weapon of his own. His search takes him to Ankhol temple. There he can find a weapon that will work for him. Read. Then Review. Then Read some more(and Review some more).

Chapter 6

Reven picked up yet another one. Still no good. It was too long. He set it back down. He couldn't find a weapon that would be good for him. They had been browsing the store all morning. Erick had found a huge ax. He liked the feel of it and had bought it. Even Silvia had found a weapon she liked. She bought a thin rapier, which unfortunately she couldn't use, but Reven had promised to teach her how to use it. They had arrived in Ankhol the night before. Erick had suggested that they should go shopping for weapons. Reven agreed but for some reason he couldn't find a single weapon in the entire store that was right for him.

"Did you try this mace?" Erick asked, holding up a giant mace. "It seems nice."

"Yes, I did." Reven said gloomily. "It's too big."

Silvia had left to go to the market to get food. All Erick had gotten was fish, and Silvia wanted more variety in her food. Still, she had made an amazing fish dinner the night before. Even Shade was impressed, and said he could easily forgive her for calling him 'it'.

"I guess I should just get this one." Reven said. He held up a longsword, which he had found to be not too bad. He paid the shopkeeper and sheathed the sword. They left the shop then walked to the market, hoping to find Silvia. She wasn't there so they walked back to the ship. Ankhol was a huge busy town, even bigger than Lemuria. They had a hard time finding the ship. After asking for directions twice, the found the docks. In the ship they found Silvia in the cabin at the table, trying to freeze the glass of water. All she could do was get the glass really cold.

"Keep trying." Reven advised. "The more you practice the easier it is to access your power."

"I noticed." She said. "It has gotten a bit easier."

Shade suddenly spoke up. "She is neither a fire nor water Adept. Neither I nor Fever can link with her. She still can call upon us, which confirms her as a Adept. If I had to guess I think she's a Wind Adept."

"A Jupiter Adept." She said. "That's interesting. I always liked the wind."

"Anyways we're about to set off for the mountains to the north, then its just a short trip to the Mercury Lighthouse. Make sure you pack enough." Erick said. Then remembered. "Oh, sorry guys."

Reven and Silvia had nothing to pack. Reven had lost everything with his boat. And Silvia didn't have anything to start out with.

"We'll pick that up on our way out of town." Erick said, then continued to pack.

Once they had finished, they left the cabin. Erick used his black orb to seal the door. Now the door could only be opened with the orb. That made sure no one else could steal the ship. They headed into town to find a clothes shop. Once they had found one, they went inside to buy clothes. Silvia was carefully choosing her clothes out while Reven grabbed anything that fit. Reven bought his clothes then shoved them into his pack. He walked toward Silvia, who was still choosing her outfit.

On his way over, he almost ran into another person. The person was a small old man. "Sorry, sir, I didn't see you there."

The old man looked at him through squinting eyes. "Travelers are ye?"

"Yes, we're just passing through." Reven said.

"Lookin' tae go to Ankhol Temple?" The old man gasped out.

"No..."

"Good." The old man said, seeming satisfied. "I'd 'ate to see more younguns like yerself die so early."

Reven was beginning to get creeped out by the old man. "Uh... what?"

"So many o' ye younguns go tae that there Temple unprepared." The man said to Reven. "Nae many o' ye e'er come back."

"What Temple?" Reven asked.

"Ye ne'er 'eard o' Ankhol Temple?" The old man spat.

"No..." Reven said again.

"'Tis a cursed Temple built long ago, by me ancestors. There are terrible stories o' how humans were sacrifices tae the gods. Now the spirits o' the dead haunt thae Temple, along with a terrible monster."

Reven really wasn't thrilled about this conversation, but he was somehow interested. "Why does anyone go there then?"

"Tales say that the greatest treasure in the world rests there. A weapon so great great it was said to 'ave been forged by gods."

Very interested. "Where is this Temple?" He asked.

"Why do ye want tae know?" The old man shot back.

"So... we... don't accidentally wander in there and die." Reven offered.

"Good idea, lad." The man said. "It's tae the north a little ways off the trade route."

"Thanks," Reven said. "We'll be sure to... avoid it."

"Good lad." The old man said. Then slowly ambled away. Reven waited for him to leave the shop, then walked over to Silvia, who was still picking out clothes. She was holding two dresses. When she saw Reven, she held them up for him to see.

"Which one do you think would look better on me." She asked.

'Do I look like a fashion designer to you.' He thought, then said. "They both look... um... nice. Wait... Why do you need a dress anyways?"

"Hey, this is the first time I have ever been able to shop for myself. Give me a break." She scolded.

"Well only get what you need. We're almost out of the pirate's money." Reven said looking in his coin pouch. She took it out of his hands and walked over to the shops counter and bought her clothes, then carefully folded each one and placed it gently into her pack. She walked back over and handed him the empty coin pouch, then left the store.

"You're welcome." He said, then followed her out.

Erick was outside, waiting with Shade and Fever. When he saw them come out, he stood up.

"Finally!" He said. "I thought I was gonna have to wait all day for you. What took you so long."

"Well I was having an interesting conversation with a creepy old man. She was deciding how to waste the rest of our money."

"Well are we ready to go finally?" Erick asked. They both nodded. "Then let's leave."

They began walking north out of the city along the trade route that made its way across Anagra. The road was cut through a jungle. They walked for about an hour when Reven halted the march. "Break time," he said. "Get a drink. We have a lot more walking to do."

Silvia emptied her water pouch. It was hot and humid and they were all sweating like pigs. She sat down on a nearby log.

"I like... sailing better. Not as much... work." She said between breaths of air. Shade, who was sitting next to her, nodded.

Reven was about to tell them to get moving again when he spotted something in the jungle. He could barely make out the shape of a building between the trees.

"Hey, look at that." He said, pointing to the building.

"What is it?" Erick asked.

"From here it looks like a Temple." Shade said.

"Hey that could be the temple that the old man was talking about." Reven said.

"What temple? What old man?" Erick asked.

"I met an old man in the store. He told me of this temple. Supposedly there's a great treasure inside. Some kind of weapon. I think we should check it out. This may be a weapon I can use."

"I don't see why not." Erick said. "But why hasn't anyone else taken the weapon yet?"

"Supposedly the temple's haunted by ghosts and monsters. Those rumors keep people away."

"Haunted?" Silvia said. "By ghosts and monsters?"

"Yeah, but those are just rumors." Reven said. "To keep stupid travelers away."

"Do you want to check it out?" Erick asked, throwing Reven a doubtful look.

"Sure. What's the worst that could happen?"

"The rumors could be true, and we could all die slow gory deaths." Shade offered.

They began walking through the jungle to the temple. The closer they got the more of the temple they could see. It looked like a regular temple only there were crumbling statues of strange disfigured beasts all around the temple. When the reached the front they saw a statue which Reven assumed was the god they sacrificed to. It had three heads and looked like a giant dog. Cerberus. A temple to the guardian of the underworld.

"Okay, haunted or not, I'm scared." said Silvia.

"Stay close." Reven said, and grabbed her hand. Although he couldn't see her, Silvia turned pink.

"Thanks," She mumbled.

They stepped inside the building. It was dark inside.

"Hey Erick, how about some light?"

"Right, Flare." said Erick. They heard him fumbling around with something, then saw a burst of flame to their right, which lit up the entire room. Erick had lit up two torches, and handed one to Reven. The temple was one huge room, With an even larger statue of Cerberus in the middle and behind him was an altar.

Suddenly they heard a noise in the corner of the room. Silvia yelped and Reven and Erick both tensed. Erick readied his ax. They heard the sound of something moving closer. They could make out its silhouette from the torchlight. It was smaller, roundish and had pointy ears. It stepped out into the light. It was brown, had big beady eyes and was almost... cute. Then it spoke.

"Who dares disturbs my slumber?" Boomed its voice, echoing off of the walls around them. All three of them paled, but strangely Shade and Fever looked unimpressed.

"Well, its been a long time." Said Fever. "I never thought I'd see you again... Flint."

"Wow." The creature said. "How did you know it was me? Sorry I can't tell who you are."

"I knew it was you because you were always so obnoxious before. And apparently still are." Fever said.

"You're no fun." It said, then motioned towards Shade. "And which one's this?"

"That one's Shade. You know. The lazy one." Fever said.

"I'm not that lazy!" Shade protested.

Everyone looked at him.

"What?"

"Anyways, what are you doing here?" Fever asked.

"I was about to ask the same of you."

"I asked first."

"I just sit here and wait for travelers to come along. Then freak them out with a little psynergy. Works every time. Well... Until you showed up."

Reven jumped in. "I hate to break up this delightful conversation, but we are on a time schedule. So who is this, Fever?"

"This is Flint. A Venus Djini. And also a incurable prankster."

"Oh he's so cute!" Silvia said, then walked over to the Djini. "You're a lot less scary than I thought."

"Why thank you." said Flint. "I just love compliments from cute Venus Adepts."

"Wait..." Said Silvia. "What did you just say?"

"I said I just love compliments."

"After that."

"From cute Venus Adepts."

"How do you know I'm a Venus Adept?"

"Because I'm a Venus Djini. We can easily tell Adepts of our own Element."

"Well that makes things easy." Erick said. "Silvia you're a Venus Adept."

"Wait." Said Flint. "She didn't know?"

"We knew she was an Adept, just not which kind." Reven said.

"Well then," Flint said. " If you all don't mind I'd like to tag along with you."

"Why?" Said Erick.

"To teach this nice young lady how to use Venus Psynergy." Flint declared. "I don't see anyone else capable of doing it."

Silvia looked as happy as anyone could be. She just learned that she was a Venus Adept and now she had a teacher. Then Reven frowned.

"So then all the stories about this place are false." Reven said in dismay.

"What stories?" Flint asked.

"The stories about the great weapon that was housed here."

"Oh, you must mean what's in there." The Djini nodded towards a door leading to another room. "You need a certain Psynergy to enter though. But I can let you in if you'd like."

"Sure." Reven said at such a great offer.

The Djini waddled over to the door. "Force." He said. A ghostly fist appeared in midair in front of the door, then shot forward and slammed into the door. The doors slowly opened. "Go ahead. Its all yours."

Reven stepped inside the room. It was completely empty, except for at the far end of the room, there was the weapon. Reven had expected a great ax or mace, but he was wrong. At the far end of the room hanging on the wall, was a sword. A longsword. He stared at it. It was so beautifully crafted he feared he would defile it by touching it. Below the sword was an inscription.

Anaklusmos

Reven stared in wonder. Then slowly reached out and grasped the sword. Immediately he felt a surge of strength. The hilt fit his hand perfectly and he raised the sword. He had found his weapon. He walked back to his friends outside, holding the sword in his hand.

"What is that?" Erick asked, gawking at the sword.

Reven held up the sword. "This is Anaklusmos."

"Nice sword." Said Silvia.

They decided to leave and were about to walk out when they heard a deep growl coming from the entrance. Erick held up his light to see. There in front of them stood a living three headed dog. Not a statue like the others. All three heads stared at them and growled. Reven drew Anaklusmos. Erick grabbed his ax. Silvia readied her rapier. All the dog's heads snarled and then it lunged at them.

Finally the secret is revealed. Silvia is a female Venus Adept. Now all thats left is for them to find a Jupiter Adept. Reven got Anaklusmos. The legendary sword is now his to use, but first they must defeat a Cerberus. Want more? Keep reading.

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