::::::CHAPTER THREE::::::
"Doesn't Eddie have it?" Amber asks.
"Not anymore." I reply.
"Then who does?"
"I don't know."
"Then what do we do?"
"Find out who has it."
We decide that we will wait for the three teens to come back and see if they know anything. Time goes by in long seconds. Finally it is six-thirty and time for dinner. Amber and I go downstairs still in my jeans, combat boots, an olive green jacket with a flower in the right corner of the right side of my jacket, and a white floral lace thick strap tang top underneath.
Amber is wearing a pink silk buttoned down blouse, a thick white skirt with a thick black belt, and ankle high, high heeled boots with the tops folded over. She has always been extremely pretty… and rich. But she doesn't let money get to her head, too much.
We sit down at the table and I hear three whispering teens coming back from the boys hallway. When they come into the room, they become quiet. Amber and I are sitting next to each other. I am sitting at the front of the table where I always sat and Amber is sitting on my right and the three teens sit on the left of me with one chair between us. The boy is sitting closest to me, then a blonde haired girl is sitting there next to him. Then the black haired girl is sitting next to her.
"So, what are your names?" I ask them so I can stop being confused. "I'm Erin Blakewood. This is Cassie Tate." Pointing to the blonde girl next to her. "And that is Dexter." Pointing to the boy who's stomach is rumbling.
"Hello. I am Nina Martin, and this is Amber Millington. We are previous students who left the school. I left junior year and she left senior year. We have been living in America." I say. Thinking about all the good times we have had. She left the fashion school and lived at my house and attended classes online.
I did the same by studying Egyptian Mythology, none of the colleges near me had that major and I wanted to stay with my Grams and Amber. But I didn't go for very long because I got the deed to the house.
I look down to Dexter's neck and I see the eye of horus hanging down from his neck to his stomach. I nudge Amber and I look at his neck. She sees it. "That's your locket locket!" She screams. I smash my foot on hers. I hear her squeal in pain. "Your locket? No Ed-." I cut her off. "Eddie Miller gave it to you, after I gave it to him when I left." I say as calmly as I can with a little bit of sass.
"Eddie was the Osirian." Erin says. "Yea, the Osirian is meant to protect the chosen one, which is her." Amber says pointing to me. "Eddie never mentioned the chosen one." Cassie says. "Well, he isn't the Osirian anymore and you can't use that locket." I say a little bit annoyed, realizing that they are the next generation of Sibuna members.
"What do you mean?" Erin asks. I look around and see that Trudy has left the room. "Follow me." I whisper. I decide to take them to the attic and show them the compartment of the cup of ankh. I trust them. If Eddie trusts them by letting them into Sibuna, and I am assuming Fabian does too, then so do I.
I lead them up the stairs and into the office. I open the box of keys that I feel weird not having to sneak into, and lead them up the stairs to the attic. I thought the attic would look different, like Victor would of taken some of his stuff, or Sarah's stuff from the childhood they shared.
I feel bad for Victor, having to live with that guilt of being a part of the group of people that ruined her life and made her go into hiding just to impress and make your dead father proud. Well I guess it worked since his father apologized, strangely right after he insulted his son. I have to say they look strangely alike, I mean we even messed which one was which in an eighty year old photo.
I walk through the small path with no stuff toward the panel and turn across from it and look over at Dexter. He slowly but surely takes off the locket and slowly layers it down in my left palm. I wrap my fingers around it and pull it close to my chest and whisper, "Sarah." I see that they all heard me but I act like I don't notice.
I hold the top part of the locket and let the bottom part stand over my hand and I place it on the wall where the secret spot for my locket to go and the sound of stone moving and I see a small block move and I see a glowing cup appear. The Cup of Ankh.
"So that's where you hid it from Victor, BRILLIANT!" I hear Amber say enthusiastically. "Wait, why would you need to hide… whatever that is from Victor?" They ask, they seem like they know him, but they don't know that he was evil, how could they not know, I mean, the ring wouldn't of changed him that much, it may have just made him want his life back, which finding this thing would have been perfect.
"Are you kidding me?" I hear Amber cry. "He kidnapped Joy, a student from last year, he is part of an evil society that tried to use that to get Eternal Life, and they knew in the process it would kill one of us, and he hypnotized us to be chess pieces for a deadly game of ancient Egyptian chess! Shall I continue." She says. I can't think of anything else off of the top of my head, but I think of him as a mad but damaged and a person desperate person for approval.
"The only good thing he did for us, was he destroyed an evil Osirian that kidnapped Patricia, Jerome, Eddie and held us all captive. He also sabotaged so many others, including Fabian's godfather!" Amber screams. I have never seen her this angry. "But the only thing he had to do to stop Rufus from bugging him ever again was for him to say, "Put on the mask and go!" Amber shouts.
I have never seen her this angry before, and so full of hatred, I guess she doesn't see him like I do, yes he is cold, mysterious and strictly annoying and he always needs to win (but never does against us).
"He mixed Joy and Nina up! He thought Joy was the chosen one, but NO, it is Nina!" Amber yells, then covers her mouth shocked that she just betrayed all of the rules of Sibuna to outsiders, rules she created. I stand beside her and I see a tear come down the side of her face, none of the things that happened to her ever made her cry except when we found out that Victor was some sort of alchemist that tested on animals.
I pull Amber into my arms and I feel her body shaking. "We went though so much, and Victor just made it harder. He killed innocent animals, he was messing with scales of life and death. He had kidnapped Joy again, plus Alfie, and Patricia and Jerome to do a ritual and they brought back a cursed man." Amber says whimpering into my shoulder.
"He did all of that? When we met him, yea he was rude at first, but then he helped save our lives, and Mara's." I hear Erin say. I am shocked. "What?" I ask.
"Yea. There was this huge battle about the Touchstone of Ra. The Osirian part of Eddie sacrificed it's life to save the world from Ra's Wrath. Victor was there trying to protect us most of the time, yea in the beginning when this girl Sophie stole it from the museum." Erin continues. "Yea, she turned out to be this Alchemist's daughter from the twenties or something." Dexter adds on. "Fabian didn't mention this on the plane." I say. Amber nods in agreement. "Wait, you saw Fabian?" Cassie asks in excitement. "Yea." I say quietly. "And Mara too." I mumble in a moment of jealousy.
But it fades instantly realizing that I may not be meant for someone. I mean, Sarah never fell in love, I mean I think she would of fallen in love with Victor if he didn't become so cruel to her. She lived every day in horror of Victor's father and Victor. I guess it must of hurt Victor more than her for his father to crack-no, BREAK him like that. I feel a punch to the chest for being angry with Victor.
The older I have gotten, the more guilty and pure-hearted I have become with this Chosen One thing. I went to Egypt last year and saw these two people, a very old man and a younger women who seemed to be his daughter, but it was hard to tell if they shared any similarities. He looked up at me and said, "You have continued my daughter's journey. The older you get, the wiser you become. You will continue the journey as the Chosen One with a pure heart." The old man had said, then the red haired girl took him away and whispered "Good Luck." Then they walked away.
Then it all clicked, I just thought he may be some Egyptian psychic or something, I thought his face looked familiar, I met Robert Frobisher-Smythe, I had a weird feeling of having to go to Egypt that week.
"Oh my gosh." I whisper. "I met Robert Frobisher-Smythe." I say. I repeat it for Amber and the rest of them. I met him. He was alive.
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We go back down the stairs after I shut the compartment, frightened of Senkhara, even though she is in the under world-with Rufus.
We sit down in my room and Amber's and we sit on my bed. Amber and I haven't even begun to unpack our things. "You know, Erin and I were going to be in this room, but Trudy told us how much it meant to you guys, and the attic apparently. Which isn't a secret, Trudy knew it too. And the cellar. She told us how you guys got her fired." Cassie said.
I feel she is like Amber, says something not meaning to either sound rude, rule-breaking or brilliant. "Nina, what do you mean you met him, you mean in a vision, in a dream… I don't understand. But he has been dead at least a good ninety years." Amber says smartly.
"I met him when I took that trip to Egypt, so I can maybe get a vision or something, missing being able to be the chosen one, when I couldn't do anything about it. When I was in Egypt, there was this women with reddish hair, I think it was the 'real' Ms. Denby that Fabian mentioned on the plane. She was with an old man, who looked like Robert Frobisher-Smythe. He said 'You have continued my daughter's journey. The older you get, the wiser you become. You will continue the journey as the Chosen One with a pure heart.' Then the women said 'Good Luck.' As if he wasn't crazy." I say taking a large heavy breath, not caring if I get hiccups.
"Well it wouldn't be a surprise. I mean, you are like the reincarnation of his daughter and-." I don't give her time to continue. "No, I am the reincarnation of Amneris, daughter of Osiris and Isis, and I am guessing the brother of the son of Osiris, or the Osirian, or something, because it is kind of logical, the Osirian is meant to protect the chosen one like a brother protects a sister and they both can't be descendent of Amneris." I stop, not really knowing what to say after that.
"Well, Sarah wanted you to get your locket back, now what?" Amber asks. "Wait, Eddie gave that to me to protect. Why should I give it to you?" Dexter asks. "Because she is the only one that can use it and the original Sibuna member. Also she has the most pure heart because when she put on the Mask of Anubis, she wasn't sent to the underworld, and only the pure of heart can do that, that is how Rufus died. That is how Senkhara almost became a goddess." Amber says fiercely at Dexter.
He nods his head in defeat. I think. But as they walk out the door, he turns around. "I am going to call Eddie and Fabian and make sure everything you are saying is true!" Then he slams the door behind him.
"Awkward." Amber says in her long syllable tone. "So anyway, now what?" Amber asks. "Maybe I can get a vision off of the locket since it is the next clue." I hold my hands tight around the locket and I freeze feeling a sudden pain in my body. I am sitting up straight, but nobody is in the room. But then in the blink of an eye, Sarah is standing there.
"Sarah I have something to tell you. I met your father, he is still alive, in Egypt." She nods her head in response. She knew. Then I see an old figure, older than Sarah fade in from the air. Frobisher. He is dead. "Oh, I guess you guys have reunited." I say. They hold hands, then Sarah's young mother appears, then two more figures appear, an African American women who looks like she is in her fourties, and another African American who is very old, maybe even older than Sarah, but younger than Frobisher appear.
"Who-Who are all of you?" I ask. "This is the extension of the immediate family. A divorce doesn't mean your not family." Frobisher says. I giggle. "Sarah, I need your help. What do I do next? I have the locket, now what." I ask holding out the locket in my palms. "The next step is the next step in your very first journey." She says in her kind voice. Then everything fades away.