Chapter 7: The Aura
Patricia took one step and her foot immediately hurt. She could walk and managed to follow Eddie out of the mausoleum but it was terribly painful. It was like a burning sensation travelling around her foot, mainly her ankle though as that was where the corpse had her held the tightest. How did a dead corpse with old, rotten and brittle bones manage to cause her so much pain?
"Is your foot alright?" Eddie asked, sounding rather concerned.
"No, it's actually really hurting" Patricia replied and with that Eddie placed his arm around her waist firmly for support.
"Do you want me to carry you?" he questioned.
"No, let's just keep waking, were almost there" she told him.
As Eddie and Patricia were walking back and came into view with the gates, they spotted Fabian, Alfie and KT sat around on the grass looking worried. When Fabian saw them he immediately stood up and opened the gate wider for the pair to walk through.
"Where have you two been? Fourth period starts soon" Fabian told them.
"Really? I never realised we were gone so long" Eddie replied as he helped Patricia sit down on a nearby rock.
"What happened in there? Did you find anything out?" KT questioned.
"Yeh will talk about it later. Right now you guys get to fourth period and make some excuse to why me and Patricia aren't there. I need to take her to the nurse's office" he told them.
"Patricia, what happened to you?"Fabian asked.
"A dead corpse grabbed my foot" Patricia muttered, even she found it hard to believe.
"The zombies are real" Alfie exclaimed. "I always told you guys that" he added.
"Yeh you were right Alfie. Now let's get out of here" Eddie replied as he helped Patricia up and the Sibuna gang began their way back to school.
….
The school day had not long ended and the Sibuna gang had all met up in Eddie and Fabian's room and were getting ready to discuss today's adventure. Patricia was sat on Eddie's bed with an icepack on her foot. After spending some time in the nurse's office with Eddie lying to the nurse, telling her that Patricia had fallen over in gym class, Patricia was told that she had only badly bruised her foot.
"So what happened today?" KT asked.
"Well we walked into the mausoleum and I noticed that one of the tombs had Erica's name on it. Then all of a sudden it went dark and a dead corpse rose from the tomb and started chanting these words at us" Patricia explained. "After that another dead corpse pulled me down to the ground and hurt my foot" she stressed.
"What did the dead corpse say exactly?" Fabian questioned and that was when Eddie managed to repeat everything that was said word for word.
"This is the place where she shall lay,
If you don't find the book within twenty seven days.
The book tells you what you need to know,
You don't find it then she will no longer grow.
She's not only put herself in terrible danger,
But now it's up to you to save her.
The Seekers Daughter is her name,
She's not the one who should get the blame…"
Patricia frowned slightly, confused as to how Eddie had managed to remember all of it word for word because she certainly didn't. She only remembered very distinctive parts.
"We've got to find this book in time! I can't lose my Sister." Eddie panicked.
"Yeh, that would be hard to explain to your Mother" Alfie pointed out, causing everyone to turn and look at him.
"Alfie!" Patricia glared.
"Sorry" he mumbled.
"Eddie we will find that book. We've managed to figure out and complete every other quest, we will do the same with this one" Patricia tried to reassure him.
"What book are we even looking for?" Eddie asked.
"Who else is in terrible danger and who's the one who should get the blame?" Fabian then questioned as he read the words again, that he had written down in his notebook when Eddie said them.
"The blame for what exactly?" KT asked and Eddie shrugged.
"We have practically nothing to go on" he groaned.
There was then a knock on Eddie and Fabian's bedroom door and when the door was opened by Fabian, it revealed Erica stood in the doorway.
"Trudy says dinners ready" Erica told them.
"Okay we'll be right out" Fabian replied.
Everyone was sat around the dining room table, tucking into their meal. There wasn't really a conversation going on, just small talk here and there, especially for the Sibuna gang as they were all sat thinking about what they should do next with this latest mystery.
Erica had noticed Willow staring at her when everyone had first sat down at the table and she was still yet to look away. She had a peculiar look on her face which was beginning to put Erica off of her food. Erica had always been taught that it was rude to stare at people when they are eating, so she decided to ask what was up.
"Willow, why are you staring at me?" Erica asked, feeling rather uncomfortable as her question caught everyone's attention.
"Something's not right about you. Something's changed about you since this morning" Willow replied. "Your aura is a weird colour, one I haven't seen before" she revealed.
"I think I'm done with my food" Erica announced before getting up and leaving the room, feeling slightly afraid by the use of Willows words.
"Yeh, I am too" Eddie frowned as he got up and made his way into his room.
He needed time to think.
….
It was getting close to that time where Victor would announce his nightly pin drop speech and Patricia was currently in her room getting room for bed. As she tossed the shoes that she had been wearing today on the floor, she noticed an old piece of paper fall out of her shoe. Patricia then knelt down onto the floor and picked the piece of paper up, wondering what it was when a voice startled her.
"Here's your movie back that I borrowed today" Erica called from the doorway.
"Thanks. Do you want to borrow another one?" Patricia asked, getting back up to her feet.
"Yes please. My Mom's been phoning me in the middle of the night because she obviously thinks I'm still in America. I'm going to need something to keep me awake" Erica replied. "What's that you're holding?" she then asked.
"Oh this is nothing, just a scrap piece of paper that was on the floor" Patricia lied.
"Okay, thanks for the movie" Erica smiled as she took the film she wanted from Patricia's movie collection. "Good night" she called whilst leaving the room.
"Night" Patricia muttered, not really paying attention as she began to unfold the piece of paper.
She couldn't believe her eyes when she saw what it was.
It was a riddle.
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