Alas! Another chapter is born. Sorry for the long wait. Here it is, the next chapter. Only a few more until the story is completed then, I plan on a sequel. Should be fun. Please review.
She Will Be Loved
National Treasure
Chapter Seventeen
"Right, McGregor, Viktor, you stay here," Ian starts, "And if anyone should come out with out me, well, then…use your imagination."
"Shall we?" Ian says with a slightly cheery tone.
Kyle raises an eyebrow at him before looking back down the tunnel, "So, who's going first?"
As Ian lights a torch, he looks at her.
"Well, just for asking, you are," he says with a smirk.
Riley steps up to say something but Kyle puts a hand on his arm. He looks at her with concern but she smiles at him.
"Fine," she says and hops in. She crawls a little before being able to drop to her feet in a bigger area of the tunnel.
"Alright," she calls down to the others as she looks around the darkened space.
Ben comes through followed by his father, then Ian then Shaw, next were Abigail and Riley, followed by another one of Ian's men. Kyle didn't remember his name.
"Come here," she hears Ben and looks over at him to see him pull in Abigail for a kiss.
She smiles, "I knew it," she mutters before continuing behind Patrick with Riley right behind her.
They walk for a few minutes before coming to a stop a the edge of a dark hole that had stair winding down the sides of it in a spiral. They all study it for a moment before Ben figures something out.
"What is it?" she asks looking over at Ben.
"It's a chandelier," he answers before lighting it with the torch and pushing it into the center with the help of Ian and Riley.
"Wow," Kyle sighs, looking at the sight of stairs and elevators before her.
They must be hundreds of years old. It's simply breath taking.
"Look at the elevators, "Patrick points out to his son.
"The dumbwaiter system," he adds.
"How did a bunch of guys with tools build all this?" one of Ian's men asks.
"Same way they built the pyramids," Ben answers walking towards the rickety stairs a bit.
"Yea, the aliens helped them," Riley says randomly.
Everyone looks over at him with odd looks before focusing back on the task at hand. They all look at the old stairs, wondering if they should even considering stepping on it.
"Right then," Ian says, "What are we waiting for?"
He looks right at Patrick who gives him a shocked look, "I'm not going on that thing! Years of termite rot!"
Ian slightly touches the gun he has causing Ben to say something, "Do what he says, dad."
Patrick starts down the stairs, carefully.
"Watch your steps, "he says, "We're right underneath the church. Probably why nobody ever find this place."
Suddenly, the ground starts to shake, causing the stairs to feel more uncomfortable to be on than what they already were. Kyle grabs on to Riley's arm to steady her self from falling over and into the pit of doom.
"What the hell was that?" she asks.
"Subway," Ben answers.
Just as Kyle looks over at Ben, she sees Shaw fall right threw the stairs and down into the hold.
"Shaw! Oh, God, Shaw!" Ian shouts in horror as a the friend of his falls to his death.
"Oh my God," Abigail whispers at the stairs and everything start shaking and thinking star to crack and break.
Riley jumps onto a lower level which surprises Kyle for a quick moment since he isn't one to take such a risk, but, it is either that or the black hole.
"Kyle, jump!" he calls to her.
Kyle takes a deep breath and jumps down to where he is, landing just to enough to where she won't fall back backwards. Riley catches her to keep her from falling anyways.
"That was fun. Now to get Ben, Abigail and Patrick to a safe place," she says and just as she says that, she looks up to see Ben hanging onto the edge of the stairs.
"Ben, grab my hand," Abigail tells him, holding her hand out to him.
He grabs her hand and she pulls him up and they run to a near by elevator. Kyle looks over to see Patrick, Ian and one if his men on another elevator.
"We need to get to Ben and Abigail. From the looks of it, that elevator isn't going to hold much longer, "she says to Riley and rushes to the left to some stairs.
"Aaah!" came Abigail scream.
Riley and Kyle look over to see Ben and Abigail still on the elevator but it is falling with a broken rope right by it and one rope still attached to something up top. It stops causing Abigail to fall and slide but Ben catches her hand.
"Get down!" they Patrick yells from the top.
Kyle pushes her self against the wall to evade a falling piece of wood with rusty nails in it. Next thing Kyle sees is Abigail falling and landing onto a sturdy ledge. Kyle rushes to her side, "Are you okay?"
Abigail nods and looks back up at Ben worried. He grabs the Declaration only to slip and end up handing onto the edge of the broken elevator, swinging side to side. Kyle and Abigail look up helplessly.
"Ow!" Kyle looks at the stairs to see Riley holding his arm.
She runs back up to him to see if he's okay, "What happened?"
"Piece of wood," he answers simply, holding his arm in pain.
Kyle looks back over at Ben, only to know what there is nothing she can do to help him. Then, a rope is right by Ben and Kyle looks up to see Patrick holding it. Ben grabs hold of it and swings over to Abigail.
" I'm sorry, I had to get the Declaration," he apologizes.
"Don't be. I would have done the same," she says with a small smile.
"Really?" Ben asks.
Kyle and Riley walk down to them, "I would have dropped you both, freaks," Riley says sarcastically.
They look over to see the elevator with Ian and the others decline down to them. Kyle glares at Ian.
"Get on," he says sternly.
"Ian, it's not worth it, "Ben tells him, trying to change his mind.
Ian looks at him with a leering eye, "Do you imagine that any one of your lives is more valuable to me than Shaw's?"
"We go on," he says again.
Ben looks at him but his father beats him to saying anything, "Status quo. Keep to the status quo."
Ben sighs and gets on. Abigail and Riley follow but Kyle stays put, just looking at them.
"Kyle, come on," Riley says to her, holding out her hand.
Ian looks at him and the her. He grabs Kyle's arm roughly and pulls her onto the elevator.
"Don't touch me," she hisses, yanking her arm from his hand.
He just smirks and he and his goony lower the elevator until they hit another ledge, but this one is made from dirt and rock. It is built into the side of the rock wall, reveling a small room. All of them walk on to it, looking around in disbelief. Ben looks so disappointed at the moment. They all look around the room, for a clue or something that can help them, but nothing. Ian just looks at Ben.
"So, where's the treasure?" the goony asks.
"Well?" Ian asks Ben.
Riley looks at Ben with disbelief, "This is it? We came all this way for a dead end?"
"Yes," Ben sighs looking frustrated about this whole thing.
Kyle leans against the walls and sighs.
"There's got to be something more," Riley goes on.
"There's nothing more," Ben tells him.
Riley doesn't listen, "Another clue or-" he is cut off by Ben.
"There are no more clues! That's it! It's over! End of the road. The treasure's gone. Moved. Taken somewhere else," Ben exclaims.
"You're not playing games with me, are you Ben?" Ian asks.
Does this guy ever give up? Kyle thinks with a slight irritation from that man.
"You know where it is," he continues.
"No."
Ian thinks for a moment before glancing at his goony, "Okay, go."
"Hey, wait a minute," Ben says to the two as they run off to the elevator.
Abigail, Riley, Kyle and Patrick run after Ben the other two men. Ian and his goony clime on to the elevator and look at the group.
"Don't do this," Ben says.
"You can't just leave us here," Kyle tells him.
"Yes I can," he answers simply, "Unless Ben tells me the next clue."
Kyle rolls her eyes, "Ian, there's isn't another clue, accept that."
"You shut up. I'm tired of you talking and being a twit," he glares at her only to have her glare back.
"Ian, listen, why don't you come back down here and we can talk through this together," Riley says to him in idea.
Ian takes out a gun and points it at him, "Don't speak again."
Kyle grabs Riley's hand as she stands behind him, "Okay," Riley mutters.
Ian looks over at Ben, "The clue. Where's the treasure?"