"… the responsibility to protect the garden of Sabbat's Heath"
"What the hell?" Rosalie replied.
"Okay, so we didn't really get given the responsibility but we have to! We have to! We have to!" Alice started jumping up and down repeating that we had to.
"Okay, okay, we will, so where is it and how did you find out?" Jasper said fairly quickly.
"OH!!!! That's a point, I don't actually know where it is but I've read descriptions of it. Edward, we are going hiking tomorrow to find it!" He just nodded his head at her "Okay, and well it started when I left this morning so that Bella and Edward could talk without me and I came across this statue and after a few minutes of looking at it I realised who the people reminded me of. They looked just like Pieter, James, Joe, Rosalie, Tanya and well me, so after some snooping I found the name plaque where it said that it was in memory of Peter Mallon, James Reid, Joseph Felder, Rosemary Call, Natasha Stone and Alicia Peko." I heard a little squeal from Rosalie when she heard her name "I was shocked that it was all so similar to our names so decided to research on why they were so important to the school and apparently they died defending it. After more snooping I found that the bodies of the three boys had never been found so they erected the statue I found in their memory. They did actually find the girls so they were buried in the graveyard at the church five minutes away. From their gravestones, I found my first clue, on Rose's grave there was a riddle as well as the loving daughter stuff." Alice stopped there and we all looked at her confused.
"And?" Rosalie asked
"Sorry, I was just trying to remember it properly, okay, it was Fourth with the flowers, second of the roses, read what you need and return when the thought imposes. Can any of you guess what it meant?" Everyone just shook their heads and Alice smiled widely. "Well I managed to get it eventually, fourth with the flowers meant the building wall with the honeysuckle climbing up it, then the second of the roses was the room inside the building along that wall that I needed to look in. It turned out that they named the rooms in groups of three with different flowers and so I went to the second room of the rose group. Well…. Let's just say I got in the room and then I looked behind the bookshelves because of read what you need and in a small hole there was this!" She pulled out a book that was similar to the one that Edward had but there was a line of pink down the leather spine and on the front I could vaguely make out the words 'Rose's journal' in what was probably pencil. Alice opened to book and I could see lines of very elaborate cursive.
"Having found the book of course I had to read it, even though it's a diary and I don't really like reading other people's personal things. It was as I was reading it that I realised that it sounded awfully similar to the events of Edward's book. At this point I ran back to Bella and Edward and stole his book and sat trying to work out what I was supposed to do now. As I was flicking through it a delicately folded sheet of paper fell out; so being curious I read it and it explained things a little."
As she was speaking she flicked through the book and then pulled out what was presumably the sheet that she had been talking about. She unfolded it and passed it around. "You can read it for yourselves" Everyone passed it around and we all read it, it got to me and I read,
Dear Stranger,
I suppose your finding of this letter means that you solved the riddle on my gravestone. Well, in that case I ought to tell you that it only gets worse from here, like with me, three of my best friends betrayed me and tonight I walk chin up to my death but if you can achieve this then none of my efforts will have been in vain. Now the risings happen every fifty years, so I imagine the next one will also be on the 12th of November.
That's in three weeks! I read on with the note and as I reached the end there was a comment I imagined would be the next step of Alice's explanation.
So, since it is apparent that you can solve riddles, I'll give you a new one to make sure your logic is sound and that you can really handle the task at hand,
For the next step to saving what was once here
Turn once to the forest where the ground lies clear
And walk past the dark, show no fear
Sabbat's heath is near
In the water an answer to be found
And more questions for one to sound
The second I finished reading the paper was take straight out of my hand by Alice.
"Okay, so now we need to solve the riddle!" She almost shouted as she stashed the paper in the back of the little book.
"Ummm, guys, you do know that I can't read when I'm on the phone right?" Emmett stated loudly
"Oh right, sorry Emmie, I'll give you my paper tomorrow if we get to see you"
"Oh you'll see me alright; I've come up with a plan!" His voice was very excited and I was a little worried. Edward raised an eyebrow.
"Really? Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!" It was at this that we heard a scuffling sound coming from Emmett's end of the phone
"Come on! Get off the damn phone!" A strange voice came through fairly loudly, the person must have been shouting.
"Just give me a second… okay guys, I've got to go. You know, I think I possibly have the most annoying flatmate ever"
"Hey! I resent that!" We heard through the line before it went dead.
"Okay! Let's solve this!"
Okay, so maybe i'm not exactly great at the whole riddle thing, i think i might get one of my friends to write the next one
I'm so sorry that it took so long to update but i got ill again *curses stupid weak immune system* and could barely get out of bed, I feel so rubbishy at the moment that i haven't even updated my other stories in so long and that makes me feel bad too
Anyhoo, shout at me to update and i'll probably update faster and let me know if you can solve my awful riddle that effectively gives the answer away.
Xxx