Chapter 8: The betrayal
The Casterwell temple, Kythira
The team stepped into the temple. The walls and floor were blank, but the ceiling was decorated with a beautiful mosaic of the rising sun.
In the middle of the temple was a companionway.
They went downstairs. It was not necessary to summon a light, because a track of luminous mosaics on the wall escorted them down.
"Wow, this is really beautiful" Lock said amazed.
After 5 minutes they reached the end of the stairs. They stepped into a big, round room.
In the middle of the room was circle of 4 statues, soldiers, all facing different directions.
Carefully they came closer.
"No traps here?" Zane said.
"I don't think so, I think we're supposed to solve a puzzle or something." Sophie said.
"Yes!" Lock put his arm around Sophie.
"That's our specialty!"
Sophie giggled.
They studied the statues.
"Well, they all look exactly the same. All of them are holding a shield, but don't have a weapon." Zhalia said.
"Well that's stupid. Who made those statues? Soldiers are no soldiers if they don't have a weapon." Zane said.
"Look." Dante pointed at the piece of wall above the start of the stairs.
There hung three lances.
"I guess we have to give three of the statues a lance, and if we pick the wrong ones, the whole place is going to collapse."
"What makes you think that?" Lock asked.
Dante pointed at the ceiling.
It had two huge fractures, that formed an imminent cross.
"Yeah, that's going to hurt…" Zane said.
"Ok Soph, so one of those soldiers doesn't needs a weapon." Lock said
Sophie stared thoughtful at the statues.
"Maybe because it already has…."
"….The legendary titan of the day!" Lock added.
"That's it, and the sun occurs in the east…"
"….So the statue that doesn't needs a lance faces the east!"
The two of them looked exultant to the others.
"Sounds good to me, let's do it!" Zhalia said.
Dante, Sophie and Lock all grabbed a lance, and put in the hand of one of the statues.
First nothing happened, but then the stone shield of the soldier facing east, turned into real.
It was a beautiful silver shield, with a golden sun in the middle.
"Wow!"
Sophie grabbed it and turned it around. There was an inscription that said:
This shield is the key to find the legendary titan of the day, one of the two legendary titans of life.
The last heir of the Casterwell family must find the titan at the holy crypt of the Casterwell, and use it to defeat the evil of the Bloodspiral, and save the world.
"Sophie that's the Casterwell family task!" Lock almost screamed.
"Yes! Oh I'm so happy!"' Sophie yelled.
But then she put on a serious face again.
"It's going to be hard. I don't know how powerful the Bloodspiral is, not where this holy crypt is, and definitely not how to use this titan to save the world."
"Don't worry, we will help you." Dante said.
"That's right, we've defeated evil once, and we will defeat it again, together!" lock said.
Sophie smiled.
"Thanks, guys."
Dante's house, Venice
Zhalia was in Dante's kitchen, drinking a glass of water, when suddenly her mobile rang.
"Hello."
"Hi Zhalia, it's me Zane, can you come to the alley next to Dante's house, I need your help."
"Ok, I'll be there in a minute, what's going on…?"
But he had hung up already.
She quickly went to the alley, and saw Zane standing at the end, with the sword in his hands.
"Zane, what are you doing with the sword?"
Something was wrong. She could see it in his eyes.
"I'm sorry Zhalia."
"What are you talking about?"
To late she noticed there was someone standing behind her.
She quickly turned around, saw a purple flash, and everything became black…
A few minutes earlier, Dante's living room
Sophie, Lock and Cherit were sitting in the living room, with the shield in front of them on the table.
"Lock will you go get the sword?" Sophie asked.
"Ok I'll be right back." He answered.
He went upstairs to Dante's room, to the closet where they had hidden the sword.
But the closet already open, and the sword was gone.
"This can't be good." Lock said, and he ran downstairs.
"Guys the sword is gone!"
"What?"
Dante had just came in the living room.
"But half an hour ago it was still there, I've checked it."
They all looked at each other and ran outside.
Suddenly they saw a purple flash coming out the alley next to the house.
They ran to the alley, and were just in time to see Zane, who was holding the sword, and Wind, who was holding an unconscious Zhalia, stepping through the same kind of portal Rassinov had summoned a few days ago.
Zane looked at them with something of apology in his eyes.
"Sorry guys, you wouldn't understand." He said.
They disappeared.
"Zhalia…" Dante whispered.
"I can't believe it! How could Zane do this? Why?" Lock said with panic in his voice.
Sophie didn't knew what to say and looked at Dante, who looked like would never be able to say one word again.
"Dante.." Sophie said and she laid her hand on his shoulder.
He shacked it off.
"We got to save her, now! We must go to Russia or something!" Dante almost screamed.
"No Dante! We can't just leave without a plan. That won't help Zhalia." Sophie said.
"But…"
"Come on Dante, we go back inside, try to understand the situation, and then make a plan. They won't kill her, otherwise they would have done it already."
Dante nodded. He calmed down a bit.
It's going to be alright…. I won't let anybody hurt you Zhalia… I promise
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Hmmm this probably isn't the best chap I've ever written, that puzzle sucked but I'm just not good in making up things like that XD
Hope the end counterbalanced it a bit ^^
Next chap the team will try to save Zhalia, and reveals the Bloodspiral its evil plans…