Chapter 4 : Unidentifiable Address
I don't own House of Anubis.
Gabby's Point of View
We walked out of the old folks home in silence. We grabbed another cab, and I gave him the paper with the address on it. He stared at me for a second, like I had two heads. "I've never heard of a Sirinmo Avenue before." He said, handing me back the paper.
"But, my grandmother gave me this address to visit my great grandmother." I said, Nina and I were looking at the paper. "I'm sorry," The man apologized. I stared at Nina, as to ask, why would Sarah give me the wrong address? She shrugged.
"Oh, could you take us to Anubis School then?" I asked the man, handing him a five dollar bill. He nodded, took the money, and drove us quickly to the school. Students were throwing Frisbees on the lawn, bike-riding on the sidewalks, just talking and handing out with friends.
Nina and I thanked the man and walked back to the house. We definitely had to tell Sibuna about how Nina and I were sisters and Egyptian goddesses. Apparently this is why my parents never wanted me to learn my family's true history.
"Did your parents ever tell you that you were a goddess?" Nina asked while we were walking. I shook my head. "They never told me anything about my family, except for the fact that I was related to the gods, I was never told I was one. I mean, I never knew my grandmother was alive." I explained.
"Did your parents ever tell you?" I asked her. Once I answered that question, she looked down at the ground, her eyes watery. "Um, I don't remember my parents… they, died." She said, a tear running down her cheek. "Oh, I'm sorry." I said, giving her a hug. Then, the blinding white light hit me again.
We screamed at each other again, but eventually stopped after a few moments. Students stared at us as if we were insane, but then, I noticed their faces were frozen. Everything was frozen. Nobody could see we were just transformed into our goddess selves, that was weird…
We walked back to the house, avoiding eye contact. The fact that we were mortal enemies was harder to stand when we were goddesses, it just reminded us of it too well. When we were in human form, we acted normally around each other.
Once we reached the house, a wave of black flooded my vision. I felt like I was dying, but then I awoke on the floor, staring back at the house. Nina was scrambling up from the sidewalk as well. "This is just, too awkward…" She said, holding her head. My head hurt too.
We walked back inside. Trudy was mopping the floors, Alfie, Jerome, Joy, Patricia, Mara, and Mick were in the living room. Nina walked over to them and asked where Fabian was. "Upstairs," Jerome answered. Nina walked upstairs to find him.
Amber walked into the room from the kitchen. She was apparently on dish duty, and had spilled water all over her shirt from the dishes. "Amber, you're supposed to wet the dishes, not yourself." Patricia joked.
Amber gave her an annoyed glare and went upstairs to change. I sat down in the chair next to the couch and flipped through TV channels. Nina and Fabian came downstairs, hand in hand. The two were madly in love, but I wish they didn't act so "mushy" in front of us.
"Having fun you two lovebirds?" Jerome asked, making kissy faces. Alfie joined in. Patricia, Joy, Mick, and Mara started to laugh. Fabian and Nina went into the other room. Trudy soon called us for supper, which means dinner here in England, it was chicken cutlets.
I sat next to Amber during supper. Midway through supper, Victor barged in through the doors. "I shall wish for you to be in bed by nine o'clock tonight." He announced. "Why?" Joy asked, taking another sip of her glass of water.
"Because I told you to do so," He said, walking back out. Patricia rolled her eyes and started whispering to Joy. "They are probably having another "meeting" in the cellar to try and find the elixir of life." Amber whispered.
"Yeah," Alfie, Jerome, Patricia, Joy, Mara, and Mick agreed. "Elixir of life?" I asked, confused. "It's some kind of drink that makes you live longer and look younger. Victor and his society have been lately looking for the recipe for it, or else they will begin to age normally again." Jerome explained. Wow, there was a lot I've missed.
Then, something popped up in my memory. He's watching the house, isn't he? Him and his society. The words Sarah had spoken to me ricocheted in my head like a bouncy ball. That is what she was talking about!
Nina and Fabian eventually joined us during supper. Jerome told them about how Victor had come in and made an announcement, and they agreed with us. "Tonight, Nina, Patricia, Joy, Amber, Gabby, and I will all go down to the cellar. The rest of you guys will have to stay on lookout for Victor and Trudy." Fabian made a plan.
"Funny how all of the girls are going down there…" Jerome said with a grin. "He's not a girl!" Nina said defensively. "What about me then? I'm not going into the cellar…" Mara protested. "I was kidding, geez, can't you people take a joke?" Jerome said, putting his plate in the sink. Alfie followed him.
Supper wrapped up five minutes later. It was my turn for table cleaning duty, I finished my chores and then went to my room and studied for the French test. Joy came back into our room at 8:50. "Captain Curfew sent me back, I was just trying to hang out with Patricia!" She complained, getting changed into her pajamas.
"Captain Curfew?" I asked, continuing to look over the chapter. "Victor, he's stricter than my own parents!" She said. I looked at the time. Victor would probably yell at me too if I wasn't ready for sleep by 9.
I got up off of my bed and into the bathroom to brush my teeth. I got changed into my pajamas and looked over my French for a little while longer. "It is nine o'clock, you have five minutes, and then I want to hear a pin drop!" He yelled from downstairs.
Joy shut out the lights and climbed into her bed. "Ten," She whispered. That was the time we had agreed to go down to the cellar at. I stayed up, staring at the ceiling, constantly checking my iPod docking station's time. 10:00 PM it read.
I got out of bed, and so did Joy. We crept downstairs into the kitchen. "Gabby, use your locket to open the passageway." Nina said, rubbing her eyes. I kneeled down on the floor and pressed my locket to the eye of Horus symbol on the oven door. It swung open.
We all crawled inside, and then the others led me to a wall where we would hide behind. We looked to the side of the wall, and saw the teachers and a few others, wearing fisherman like robes, chanting unrecognizable phrases.
"We must find the elixir recipe, it is our only hope at life for some of us." Victor said, taking off his hood. The rest of the teachers took off their hoods and revealed their faces. "It's such ashame about the accident." Mr. Sweet, who the students told me to call Sweetie, said.
"What accident?" Mr. Winkler, also known as Jason, asked. "My father, died in an experiment down here in the cellar, before he was able to tell me the recipe for the elixir of life." He explained, his tone saddened.
"So, how will we find the recipe?" Mrs. Andrew's asked. Victor looked down at the ground. "My father, he had given me an old journal of my great, great, great grandfather, Captain Christopher Rodenmaar. He had told me that it held the first clue to the finding of his legacy, but we haven't discovered which part he meant. It was just talking about life at sea." Victor said.
The teachers went on about discussing this, and then eventually ended the ceremony. We all snuck back upstairs and headed into Nina's room for a Sibuna meeting. "Well, now we know our next mystery. We need to find the recipe for the elixir of life." Fabian said.
"And give it to the teachers?" Mara added. "Possibly, if we were able to make enough." Alfie said. Amber was staring at herself in the mirror, brushing her hair. She was trying numerous different hairstyles.
"Another thing we have to talk about, is this address. Sarah gave this to Gabby, it's her great grandmother's address, but we asked a cab driver to take us there, and he said it didn't exist." Nina explained about what happened earlier. Luckily, she left out the part that we were ancient Egyptian goddesses.
Everybody took a look at the address on the piece of paper. Fabian observed it for a moment. "Isn't it odd how there is a zero starting out the address, usually an address is written out like 220 instead of 0220?" He said.
"Guys, how does my hair look?" Amber interrupted, still looking in the mirror. Patricia walked over to her and messed up her hair. Amber pouted. "Wait, Patricia, hold the address up to that mirror again." Nina said.
Patricia held the address up to the mirror. It now read 7770 Omniris Ave! "That's it, it's mirror writing!" Fabian said.
Ooh, well, this chapter is leaving off here. Next, Nina and Gabby will be visiting Relda's house. Thanks for reading! Please continue to read an review!