guys i'm extremely sorry for the very very very short chapter i just needed a little cliffhanger hehe. . .ENJOY!

"There's no need to worry" she said as she watched intently at his face

"Who are you?" it was almost as if she was staring through him rather than at him

"montsegur" she said, her voice not asking but not telling either

"What?" he asked astonished, he was sure she wasn't going to attack him so he lowered his weapon to his side

In a quick and sudden movement she embraced him in a hug, he didn't know what to so do he just stood there until she pulled away "I'm not who you think I am" he said

"I know, he's dead but he was part of your family, I can see it in your eyes, everything about you, you look a lot alike. . .I will not hurt you, what is your name?" she calmly replied

"Kurtis, you?"

"Silencia I loved montsegur. . .you're here for the dagger aren't you?" kurtis was going crazy inside, what was she talking about?

"Actually I'm looking for the grail. . What dagger?"

"the dagger, the dagger of light, I know nothing of its purpose but I know he would have done all in his power to keep it safe, and so must you and I will take you to the grail's location as well"

Kurtis took the dagger she held out to him, it looked almost like the periapt shards but it was different, the markings were from the ancients older than the ancients who created the periapt shard but something else, he couldn't explain it but it was different, he could feel it "thanks" was all he could manage to say. Silencia started walking off to the room ahead and kurtis, cautiously followed after her.

"Shit" was all Lara could mutter, she was out of breath. She had already led Gunderson and his men through the previous hall and into another room with a meganism and of course a werewolf. Why are these things trying so hard to protect the place, it held more than the grail she was sure of it. Lara and the others have been trying for the past fifteen minutes to kill the damn thing, this one was stronger than the previous one and a hell of a lot bigger. Lara had tried numerous times to throw it into the meganism but nothing was working. She had almost lost her hand but pulled away just in time. Few of the mercenaries have died, the gunfire kept the creature at a distance but it still didn't kill it. In a corner something caught her eye for the first time. It was a skeleton, but that wasn't what caught her eye it was the sword laying beside him that did. Not only did Gunderson notice what she was looking at, the wolf did to. Lara looked once at the wolf and then to the sword 'it's now or never' she thought and started running toward the sword, the wolf following not far behind. She was going to be dinner if she didn't take it fast, she slid on her side on the floor until she had the sword in her hand then quickly while sliding turned herself and swung at the creatures neck, as expected its head fell next to her when she crashed into the wall. She looked at the sword in her hand and immediately recognized the symbol. She threw the sword aside and joined Gunderson at the door at the end of the chamber.

"What if another one comes along, get the sword" he ordered

"I'll improvise don't worry"

They, meaning Lara, Gunderson and his gang of mercenaries stepped into a hall, a very narrow wall. Lara saw an opening to the left but the door at the end of the hall, made of gold was what caught her attention. When she entered the large chamber she saw a newly made mark on one of the pillars also surrounding the room, the room was circular. She knew kurtis was already here, on the pillar he wrote KT and she knew he was looking out for her. She noticed the altar in the middle of the room with a cup atop, a golden cup with rubies covering the surface. It sparkled as sunlight shone on it from the cracks in the ceiling. Gunderson demanded for one of the mercenaries to go get it, he was resistant at first but doing things like this usually came with the territory. Lara knew the cup was a fake but she wasn't going to tell him that. The mercenary slowly approached the cup, then slowly, almost in slow motion reached forward. Four beams of light shot out to the pillar, cutting through the mercenary from all sides. Lara put her arm in front of her eyes to shield her from the terrible light originating from the beams. The mercenary was vaporized. Lara was expecting a trap, but what happened just shocked her. Gunderson walked strictly over to her watching her with hatred filling his eyes.

"I'm losing my patience miss croft, where to next?"

"Mind letting me find out" she said walking past him and to the altar. Lara looked up and saw a small silver pendant, almost in the shape of a diamond at the top of the ceiling, then she crouched near the altar reading the inscription "let the light show the way" she translated aloud then smiled. Lara walked back toward Gunderson, stopping a mere three feet from him.

"You want the grail, ill need a gun preferably a rifle" Lara said still looking at him with hatred

"You're outnumbered, don't try anything funny" Lara wasn't going to try anything, well not yet.

"I heard it the first time" she took the rifle that one of the mercenaries handed her and proceeded back to the altar. She took a deep breath, then let the tip of the rifle touch the cup. She immediately fell to the floor with her hands on her head, letting the beams shoot on the cup instead of her. From the points where the beams made contact with the cup, they shot up into the pendant and then toward four other pendants on the tops of the pillars, from there to the bottom of the pillars and with the help of another pendant the beams shot back to the altar. The inscription she read earlier burst into white and another door revealed itself at the other wall. The beams got more intense and the cup burst into a million pieces, with the cup being gone, the door slowly descended and Lara, Gunderson and most of the mercenaries ran to make it through before time ran out.

Silencia walked straight past the cup toward the wall on the other side, she changed shape once more to her wolf form and gave a shrieking howl, also making kurtis cover his ears. When she was in human form again a door rose up from the floor and Silencia entered awaiting kurtis to follow.

"Hold on there's something I got to do quickly" kurtis walked over to the pillar, unclipped the chirugai and wrote his initials on the pillar. Letting Lara know he was there. Silencia waved to him with her hand as he followed, he eventually stood in the next room with her when she fell to her knees.

"What's wrong?" kurtis asked helping her from the floor

"Its gathadrian, he's dead" kurtis immediately remembered the two empty cages but just continued through the hall in awe. Along the hall were glowing white intricate patterns. A small walk and he was standing in a room with an empty altar, it was an exact replica of the previous room but this one was bigger with a lot more pillars, a perfect place to have an ambush.

"where's the grail?" he asked as soon as he realized it was taken

"I told you id take you to the location. A long time ago, the cages we were kept in didn't open and men came. . .we couldn't do anything to stop them and they, they took the grail. Montsegur promised that he would find it and bring it back but he never did, it was the last time I ever saw him." He could see the pain in her eyes

"I have a friend coming this way, she's being held against her will-"

"you want to ambush them and get back your friend" she finished his sentence

kurtis was about to say something when she fell to the floor once again, she screamed in agony and laid on her side, holding her head. She muttered something about a cup being destroyed between the screams, kurtis realized what she meant but she fell unconscious. He heard Gunderson's voice from the hall they had came from, in a desperate attempt to hide he pulled Silencia behind a heap of ruble and ran behind a pillar, holding his chirugai ready to attack. From his hiding place he saw Lara being pushed forward by Gunderson and his men, 'I'm right here Lara' kurtis whispered to her telepathically. She nodded in confirmation 'give me a minute before you do anything' he trusted that she knew what she was doing. Lara slowly made her way to a mercenary while Gunderson slammed his fists into the altar and swearing on about the grail not being there. She watched as he neared her but also took slow steps back toward another mercenary.

"This is not acceptable" he yelled and backhanded her through the face.

"You're a sore loser, perhaps it got moved" he backhanded her again and she stumbled a few steps back. She swiftly turned, punching the mercenary in the face and kicking him backwards while grabbing the rifle from his hands. The rest started firing at her but she quickly dodged behind a pillar 'now!' she yelled in her head to kurtis and as expected the chirugai, along with its familiar orange glow flew through the air, cutting at any mercenary standing. Lara also got out from behind the pillar and started shooting at the mercenaries, each and everyone fell dead to the ground, all but one. Lara walked over to Gunderson but was thrown backwards by something with lightning speed. Lara regained her footing and pointed at the creature, the same creature that helped her in Prague "you!" she screamed in frustration.