:::::CHAPTER FOUR::::: EPISODE FOUR::::::

I wake up and everything is blurry for a second. I am on my bed and I see Trudy sitting over me. "I think she is starting to come around." I feel a cold towel on my head. I sit up but I feel Trudy's hand on my shoulder, "You probably shouldn't do that deary, you took quite the fall. What happened?" She asked. Oh I wish I can tell everything, but that wouldn't work, and it got her fired last time, even though that can't happen again.

But I can't put her in any kind of danger and besides what would it be like, having a grown up in the mix. Dexter, Erin and Cassie probably already know since they worked with Victor.

"There, there sweety, here. Drink this it will make you feel better soon." She stands up and walks over to Amber. "Amber, can you watch her?" She asks. Amber nods. Right when she walks out the door. Dexter closes it. "Okay, your alibi checks out." He sounds like a detective or an interrogator. "Eddie wants you to wear it. He also votes that you be the leader of the next generation of Sibuna." He mumble seeming jealous but the one thing I won't do is give the position to kids who may have seen one big danger, but I am more responsible with the power and the locket represents the leader and I am willing to give my life to save my members of Sibuna, and if I do die, I wasn't Amber to be the leader, unless she gives it to someone she believes is more worthy.

"Thank you and I accept. You did the right thing." I say honoring the way he acted, except we act with caution and he kind of… didn't. "What do you mean?" I mean you were suspicious, you didn't act with cautioned, but you made sure that we were telling the truth and that is what a true member does. They are honest with one another." I say. "But next time, if you don't trust the person with something, take the object- before you leave the room so I don't have time to hide it." I say like a teacher, or caretaker.

"So, Nina what happened?" She asked. I told her about all of the people, Frobisher's death and what she said. It is something only I, or maybe even Fabian may be the only ones to know. But I think it may most likely be me.

I realize it is ten o'clock and I wobble with my throbbing head to Victor's old office that seems so empty without Corbier or any of the other stuffed animals. But he left a shelf of old books. I guess he is helping me, I guess he knew I would go on another journey. I walk behind his desk and I open the top right drawer and I see and envelope.

Nina is written on it. I open it up and there is a letter inside.

Nina,

Don't you dare forget about this, though I know you and your friends never would listen.

Good Luck!

Victor Rodenmaar II

Then at the bottom under his name is a pin. Of course he wants that part of his day to continue. It was probably his favorite thing to do besides fixing Corbier.

I pull it out of the tape and I go down the stairs and I stand where he would stand and I hold up the pin. "Now, you have five minutes precisely, then I want to hear a pin-drop." Then I drop the pin and hear the chime whistle through the air for a moment.

Trudy comes out from the kitchen, "Trying to be funny are ya?" She says and laughs her way out the door for the night. I see Amber at the top of the stairs giggling. "Why do I still hear noise?" I say and I chase her up the stairs to the rooms. I walk to Cassie and Erin's room. "Night you two. Don't stay up late. Sibuna." I say and cover my right hand and they repeat.

I go to sleep that night about the painting in the panel and the one in the locket, just images of them going back and forth for what felt like hours. Then eventually, it went to a new dream. How Eddie lost his powers, grabbing the pyramid statue and all of that power dying within him. Next it showed Rufus and Senkhara, but then showing Senkhara going into Rufus' body. I wake up drenched in sweat, with tears running down my face. I cried for the entire senior year about Fabian and Sibuna. But now the tears have changed, they look… golden almost.

It must be some type of message from Senkhara. A warning. I hold a tear on my finger and I shake Amber awake, and I turn on her lamp, which is the only thing she set up besides her furniture and sheets and look back at the tear, it wasn't golden. I guess it was the nightmare. But an image appeared in my mind, I may have not seen the golden tear to frighten me, but to warn me, because this image is of a Senkhara possessed Rufus crying tears of gold.

I shake Amber awake and I see her jolt up, looking around with her sleeping mask on her face. She whisks it off and I realize that I am panting. "Nina, what's wrong?" She asks. I shake my head and swallow, "I don't know." I reply. We fly to Cassie and Erin's room, then we all fly down the stairs and I feel the locket hit my stomach. I used to be so used to it, but now it almost feels foreign.

We throw open Dexter's door and I look over to the electronic clock with green numbers saying 2:48 am. Wow. Now I feel seriously guilty for waking everyone up. Dexter falls out of his bed startled. "Wha-What is going on?" Dexter asks getting out from the blankets on the floor.

"I had a dream!" I say stupidly. "So?" Dexter asks. Everyone is looking at me tired and stupidly. I guess I should mention what my dream was about. "About Senkhara." I mumble. "WHAT?!" I hear Amber yell. "You mean the ghost lady who made me old, made Fabian forget, turned Alfie into a baby and made Patricia not communicate?" Amber asks knowing that it is her.

I nod. "Did she touch you? Did she mark you? Did she do anything to you at all?" She says examining my arms and feet. "No." I reply. "But something worse happened. I saw her with Rufus. Then I saw her go into Rufus and cry tears of gold." I continue. "Wait, Rufus? Sarah's brother Rufus?" She asks again knowing the answer. I nod once again.

I can see Amber is frightened, and everyone else is confused. We sit down and me and Amber take two hours to explain everything. It was 4:30am by the time we were done and explained everything, from Patricia's nightmares to the kidnappings, they all looked frightened. Erin was holding on to Dexter, Cassie was hanging on to Erin and Dexter was clinging to a pillow.

We decide to go to bed and discuss more in the morning. I need some sleep, I can't welcome the new kids with a sleepy look on my face.

That night I slept pretty well, I woke up at nine and I only had a few minutes to get ready. Amber, had to rush on her make up which she was angry about. But she managed to look beautiful as ever. I put on boots that go to the middle of my shins and I tucked jeans inside, my brown leather jacket that I had gotten from a thrift shop in America and I put on a white shirt like yesterday except this one is just plain.

I stand in the entryway as I hear someone come through the doorway, a male who looks my age. "Hello. My name is Renee. But you can just call me Ren or R, which ever you are more comfortable with." He says. I become frightened. Renee, that was Rufus' aliases when he would meet people, so nobody found out how old he was.

"Hello." I reply. With a scared look. "Ma'am are you okay?" He says. I snap out of it, I will just not think of him as "Renee" or "R" because R was another aliases of Rufus. "Hello Ren. Welcome to Anubis House." I say and I hold out my hand. Which he takes. I feel my hand tighten and I see Rufus, holding a baby. I hear his voice, which sounds like an echo. "My beautiful son. You will serve me one day." Then he hands the baby to the mother and he vanishes.

I open my eyes and I had another severe headache. I was looking up and Ren. He was by my side. Renee, his name, that isn't a coincidence. Is he is Rufus' son? But I can't just blurt out the question. I mean, what if he doesn't know.

"Ma'am, are you alright?" He asks in his English accent. I hear scuffling from behind me coming from the dining room. It was Trudy. "Nina, that is the second one since yesterday, I think we should take you to a doctor." Trudy says pushing my head up to lay on her lap.

She has always been like a mother to me. I mean I never really got to know mine. I shake my head. "No, I'm okay, when I have these nothing happens. I am fine." I say. I look up at her upside sown face. "Fine." She says. "But you must have someone with you at all times! You hear me." She says in her voice that she thinks may be threatening but it sounds more funny than anything. I nod.

I hear Amber's heels come down the stairs. I hear her slide up next to me. "Nina! Nina! What did you see? Did you see Sarah? Senkhara? Rufus? What? Did she mark you? Are you cursed again? Are you going to die?" She says hyperventilating. "I put my hand on hers. "I'm fine. But to say. It is about Rufus." I say. Then I let go of her.

I see a look of curiosity in Ren and Trudy's faces. "Where do I know that name? Rufus?" Trudy says. "Who is he?" She asks me. I don't know what to say, so I don't say anything at all. "Yea, me too. The name sounds vaguely familiar." I hear Ren say.

He can't be Rufus' son. I squeak and I stop breathing. My pulse is rising. I am scared.

I stand up and I meet face to face with Ren. "I am so sorry about that." I say. "No it is fine, I am just glad you are alright. So what is your name?" He asks to move the conversation along. "My name is Nina. I am the new caretaker of Anubis House." I say with my hands behind my back. "Caretaker, how old are you nineteen?" He asks. "No, I am eighteen. I turned eighteen in July." I say. Realizing how young I really was. I would sometimes tell people I am nineteen, I would even tell myself that sometimes to make myself seem older.

"I am nineteen. I am studying Ancient History and my step-father is really good friends with Mr. Sweet, so he said I can watch the class, because I want to be a teacher so I am taking some time off from college." He says. I didn't really pay attention much. Except to the word Step-Father.

"How long has your step-father known Mr. Sweet?" I ask. "He said exactly twenty-eight years." Ren replies. Twenty-eight years. That is twenty-five years before four years ago when I put the cup together. The cup is able to be put together ever twenty-five years. His step-father may have been a part of the society as well. "How did they meet?" I ask hoping to get answers. "Umm… You know, he would never tell me." He says and laughed it off.

"Anyway, Mr. Sweet assigned me this house. He wouldn't take no for an answer. "Of course he wouldn't." Snipping away the paper that Ren had in his hand. It read that he will live in this house and receive the same respect and that he does not have a curfew.

"No. The curfew is ten-o'clock, and especially anyone friends with Mr. Sweet, will follow that rule." I say into his face. I shove the paper back into his hand and I whip myself around and I motion him to follow me. "Let me show you to your room." I go to the last bedroom where Alfie and Jerome used to sleep. Dexter now lives in Fabian and Eddie's old room. If we ever have to sneak out, we can't let Ren know about it.

"This is where you will be sleeping, your roommate will come shortly." I say and I rush out of the room. Within the next half-hour, all of the new students have come. I circle them around me to welcome them. I stand next to Amber and I can tell she is nervous.

"Welcome everyone to Anubis House." I say. I see someone's arm shoot up. "Yes… uh…" I say not knowing there name. "Billy. Um… I heard this house is extremely haunted, is that true?" The boy asks. I am quiet for a moment. How do I respond. I don't want to lie to them, but they can't know the truth.

"Yes. Sarah Frobisher-Smythe visits us sometimes to give advice to Nina." I push my elbow into my stomach and I hear her yelp. "No, there aren't any ghost here, except for the attic. Which is filled with ghosts and zombie's apparently. I barely made it out of there alive before." I say to make a joke. Everyone laughed. Including Billy. But I will have to keep and eye on him.

I walk them to the dining area. This is where we have meals at seven o'clock every morning. Then lunch at twelve-thirty, then dinner at six-thirty at night or eighteen-thirty for some of you." I say. "Who are those people?" Billy asks pointing to the painting. "Oh, that? Those people are the original owners of Anubis House. They are the ones that named it. Robert and Louisa Frobisher-Smythe. They died, very tragically." Repeating what Victor said to me on that first day not knowing what to say.

"So who is Sarah Frosbisher-Smythe than?" Billy asks. Amber just couldn't keep her mouth shut could she. "Umm… their daughter, she disappeared as a child, believed to have run away from the man taking care of her." Well I wouldn't blame her. "So how do you guys know about her?" Billy asks. He is more like Jerome than Jerome is.

"Robert was married before apparently, it is newly discovered evidence. His great-granddaughter is the granddaughter of his son, the half brother of Sarah, so all the information just came together." I say, saying the truth but knowing if I didn't and I lied, it would be a bad one and he would get more suspicious.