Hey there, thanks to everyone that added my story to their favourites, hugs to you all. this isnt my best chapter okay, i was out of ideas but i promise i will do better next time, just bare with me !

by the way i dont own any characters that featured in the tomb raider games

They stepped into a room with three cages, kurtis landed on a tile, a pressure pad of some sort. Two of the cages were empty but the third held a man. Both of them were confused and shared quizzical looks. The man was wearing a robe, hiding in the shadows. He stepped calmly out into the arena, it was almost the size of the arena kurtis fought Boaz in but here there were carvings and meganisms covering the walls. The man threw the robe to the floor then stood with no emotion toward Lara and kurtis. Suddenly his body started changing, he yelled in agony but after a few moments he was in the shape of a wolf, exactly the same as a normal wolf but it was bigger, much bigger.

"This is going to be fun" kurtis said smiling at the creature

"Guys you might want to hurry, there are quite a few trucks full of mercenaries outside and I don't think they're friendly" Alistair commented over the headset.

Lara, kurtis and the werewolf were circling each other when Lara replied "great. . .tell me when they're getting too close"

"Will do" zip said while typing like mad on the other side.

The wolf suddenly jumped for Lara, she dodged it with ease when kurtis fire a few bullets into its leg. It got up and circled once more "ain't a silver bullet suppose to kill it" kurtis asked at Lara while she examined the wall and keeping an eye on the wolf at the same time "now really isn't the time to rest" he told quickly.

"They're supposed to be killed by silver, pure silver and I'm not resting more like examining" the wolf gave a howl, it was loud and excruciating. . .both Lara and kurtis fell to their knees and clutched their ears. . .the wolf didn't attack immediately, instead it caught its breath and then charged at kurtis. His gun was out of reach so it quickly turned into a hands-on fight, not that he did bad. Unfortunately the wolf wasn't doing too bad either. Kurtis had quite a few claw marks running along his arm. Lara knew he could take care of himself and turned back to the wall. After she read the French in English in her head she knew what to do. She rushed toward the two golden wheels, it was some type of meganism and it covered almost the whole wall. She took a switch blade from her belt and scratched away at the gold. She could see the silver now. "Camouflage" she said quietly at herself when kurtis yelled to her.

"watch out!", Lara turned but it was too late the wolf was already on her, to no surprise it was bleeding badly and a big cut was visible over his left eye, no doubt the work of kurtis and his chirugai. Her head was almost completely against the wheel, she could feel some the cold steel with her scalp. She gathered all her strength and threw the beast off her and into the wheel. It crushed the wolf almost instantly, next a series of silver spikes pushed through its body. It was a gruesome picture but she had no other choice. Kurtis helped her to her feet and they continued on. A single staircase led up to a wooden door. "That's odd" Lara commented and started to once again cautiously proceed up. Lara and kurtis walked into a small room with a narrow hole in the corner and a switch to her left. Lara walked closer and threw a flare down into the hole, it was too deep to jump into, they were sure to break something, if not everything. Kurtis walked over to the switch, then looked at Lara.

"Shall I?" he asked trying to mimic a British accent.

"Be my guest" Lara said raising her hand in approval.

After the switch was pulled, they could see water rising in the hole until it reached the top. The flare that was previously thrown in was drifting above, so Lara kneeled down and picked it up, disposing of it. "Where are they zip?" Lara asked over the headset

"You should've seen them already"

"Maybe they took another path" Alistair added

"Yeah maybe but something isn't right, two of the cages were empty and now an army of mercenaries just disappear I don't like this at all" Lara said looking more at kurtis than she was talking to the others.

"I agree we should get moving so we could get to it before them" kurtis agreed reassuringly with Lara

"How did they know where it was?" Lara's finger tips brushed against her guns, kurtis noticed it and he did the same.

"Maybe a trap got the better of them" Alistair said anxiously

"I doubt that" with that kurtis and Lara were both pointing a gun at each other

"You think I led them here?" kurtis replied

"It's a possibility how else would they know?"

"They could've followed us" kurtis angrily said, why was she always doubting his trust

Lara knew he was right "did you tell them?" Lara asked as calm as she could manage

"I don't know I already told you that I don't remember the whole damn experience"

Lara was the first to lower her weapon, kurtis remained the same though with his gun pointed at Lara's head "go ahead pull the trigger I know you want to" Lara yelled

"you don't know anything, you don't know what you're doing, you don't know who Karel is and what he can do, you don't know its going to be fine, you don't know that were gonne be alive, you don't know what's waiting in the next room and you certainly know nothing about me and what I want to do, you trusted me in Prague, you trusted me ever since why are you still doubting me!" he screamed

"you're right but you don't know anything about me either so stop trying to pretend as if you do, you might know more than me but you can't remember, and you don't trust me either do you?"

"Yes I do, I would lay my life in your hands and trust that you know what to do, its you who don't trust"

"Do you blame me" Lara yelled with warm salty tears building up in her eyes but she swallowed them and regained control

"Lara. . ." kurtis dropped his weapon and stepped closer to Lara, "you can trust me" those were the only words she needed to hear. She knew it from the beginning but she needed to hear it, and not from anyone but from him. Zip and Alistair were both too shocked to say anything but it was better that way. Kurtis wanted to embrace Lara, just to reassure her it was okay but the next moment a explosion blew the wall to their right into pieces, dust was everywhere and both Lara and kurtis were thrown into the opposite wall with an extreme force. They were still conscious but it took a lot of strength just to regain their posture and stay upright. Lara and kurtis was immediately pressed back down on their knees and their weapons taken, all but one, kurtis's chirugai lay covered by rubble. They also removed the earpieces. They fought against the mercenaries holding them down. Kurtis broke free once but the other mercenary took it out on Lara, leaving a red handprint on her left cheek so he calmed down and surrendered, soon after being pushed down again. They both remained still and looked up at Gunderson, Karel on the other hand was nowhere to be seen.

"The master will be very pleased indeed" he said aloud

"I thought Eckhardt was you master?" Lara said trying to buy her and kurtis some time

"You thought wrong, there was no future with Eckhardt but Joachim has not failed yet. You can come with us willingly or forcibly" his face showing no emotion

"What do you want with us" Lara asked again, kurtis let her do the talking

"Not us miss croft only you"

"Go to hell" Lara yelled

"Let's not make this any harder than it already is"

"Yes let's not, either you let us go or we kick your ass into oblivion and you can tell the devil I said hi"

"So be it" he waved his hand to the mercenary holding down kurtis, he then took the butt of his rifle and knocked kurtis unconscious. Lara fought against the mercenary holding her down but instead another one came over and helped her to her feet then forcefully led her the way that Gunderson went. Gunderson awaited her in the hallway where there was no longer a wall between the hall and the previous room.

"You'll lead us to the grail now" he demanded

"What makes you think I'm going to do it"

"the only way out is that way" he pointed in the opposite direction of which he was standing "ill leave mister Trent alone for now but if you or he try anything out of the ordinary I will blow up the exit" Lara knew she and kurtis could get out of this, exit or no exit but she needed to give him time to regain consciousness.

"Try to keep up" Lara said with utter hatred, walking past Gunderson and the mercenaries toward the darkness. He ordered some of the mercenaries to follow but stayed close to Lara at all times. Lara stopped in her tracks when she saw scrape marks on the floor. One of the mercenaries stepped forward onto a pressure plate. "You moron" Lara yelled in frustration as the walls started closing in on them. Every one of them started running toward the door, about three or four mercenaries were crushed but there were still too much of them left for Lara to do anything. When they were in the middle of the next hall Lara crouched near the floor, obviously noticing the difference in the color of the floor. "Follow in my exact steps" Lara added when she began stepping on the tiles closest to the color of the tiles in the previous halls.

Kurtis's eyes suddenly shot open, he was in a dimly lit room. He remembered the argument between Lara and himself and suddenly everything became crystal clear. He had been unconscious for about twenty minutes now, where was Lara? Was she okay?. He jumped to his feet, then called the chirugai to him from under the rubble, then started looking for Lara. If she wasn't in there then she was with Gunderson no doubt, if he wanted to save her he was going to have to beat them to the grail. Gunderson wasn't someone who liked to get wet, but then again he would do anything to get what he wanted or rather what his so called master wanted. Kurtis wasn't much of a swimmer himself but his best option was the watery hole since there was no trace of Gunderson going that way. Who knows maybe he'll find the grail first, But that wasn't the most important thing for him, all he wanted was for Lara to be safe. He wouldn't let Gunderson touch her and if he did kurtis would make sure he suffered, he would want to be in hell after kurtis was through with him. Since the moment he first saw Lara in Paris he felt intrigued by her and now that they were working together again he cared for her, more than he did for himself, he would protect her no matter what, even if she didn't want protection. He put all thoughts away and focused intensely on the task ahead. He took a deep breath and dived head first into the hole, once in he had barely enough space to move in. With all his strength he used the uneven, rocky surface to pull himself forward. His lungs were burning as he swam without air, he needed to breath, quickly. In another room not too far ahead he broke through the water's surface. He was standing on a half circle with stairs ascending up. He shook his head a few times, 'if this is a trap I'm Gonne shoot myself'. He followed the stairs up, he entered a another hall and at the end it looked like a doorway and if he wasn't imagining things it was made of gold but then he heard it, the growl of something he'd rather not see again. He turned and looked into the eyes of yet another werewolf but this time he didn't have enough space to even think of fighting, but this hall was a whole lot narrower than the others. There wasn't even a meganism to kill it with. But this wolf looked different, a little smaller, as white as snow and eyes more blue than his own. The narrowed eyes of the wolf filled with hatred turned to those of remembrance. The creature tuned to its human form; or rather she turned to her human form. She had blonde hair that hung below her waist. She had pale skin but she was quite beautiful. She was also wearing a red elegant dress with a knife tied in a fitted bag, it hung on her waist. A tear slipped over her cheek as she stepped closer to kurtis, he lifted his gun to her and she halted for a second.

dont judge the werewolves okay, its possible i mean lara's faced giant spider/humans, dragons, statues, thralls, menitaurs, gods and freaking dinosaurs so werewolves are possible hehe just stating the obvious hehe (smile damnit :-) )