Me: Ninjas. OMG.

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Normal POV

The plan was simple. Run through the crypt where the amulet was located, grab it, and escape. Easy, right? Of course, but there was also the fact of the other two crypts in the graveyard, confusing Saura and Amy, who had, quite frankly, forgotten which one the amulet was hidden in. Each had a different name as well, so that added to the difficulty of deciding where to go.

Upon arriving at the edge of the plot of land that was the graveyard, the two neopet girls looked around at the broken tombstones, craggy gates, and haggard trees. Saura cowered behind her sorceress friend, and Amy gazed calmly at her surroundings. Taking a few steps into the actual graveyard, she spotted something leaning against one of the large grave markers. It was none other than the Gelert Assassin in all his glory. Amy stared with large acara eyes, and Saura prepared for action. Or was about to when the enemy started to speak.

"What's this?", said the Gelert Assassin, "Vandals in the graveyard? What horrible mischief do they have planned? Have they no respect for the dead?"

As he finished saying this, the dirt of the graves he stood near started to crumble and shift, and stark white arm bones reached out of the ground. Then came the head, torso, and soon the whole skeleton was out of the ground. Three skeith skeletons stood near the assassin, swaying as if in a trance.

"Oh dear, I don't think they like intruders in their graveyard either. Ta-ta!" and the Gelert Assassin disappeared in a whirl of purple smoke.

Snapping out of her "love" trance, Amy pulled out her new wand which she'd bought from Sophie (you know, the one with the eyeball on the end). Smirking, she drew it back, and slung it forward repeatedly, letting out burst after burst of magic while Saura ran around, whacking and slicing with her sword. When the skeletons were reduced to piles of bone, the girls got back together, trying to figure out where to go first.

"Okay, lets think. Big place, one item. We split up.", concluded Amy, much to her friend's dismay.

"Aaaaaammmyyyyyy!" Saura whined, "You know that just playin' the game scared me, I don't wanna go alone!"

"You have to!" protested Amy, frowning, "Come on, Saura, buck up. If you know it's not the right place, you just have to run. You know you can out run most anything when you're scared."

A few minutes later, Saura was going off in one direction, Amy in another. The lupess still wasn't sure that what Amy said was a compliment or not, but she'd had a point. Get in, check it out, run. If it was the correct crypt, wait until Amy figured it out and joined her. Earlier, the two had gone back to the start of the graveyard, and decided on destinations. Saura went to the right, searching for a way to a crypt. Amy went through the first left gate, and defeated a dumb skeleton on the way. She took the path, went up a ramp, and found the entrance to a crypt. Checking out the inside of the first room, she realized it was the right one, seeing the blue button on the floor to her left. The Crypt of the Fallen. Bingo. Now to wait for Saura.

Whom had gone farther, come upon a ghost, ran from it and into a crypt. She saw a downward tunnel ahead of her, and followed it. One she got to the bottom, she could either go left or right. Turning towards the left first, she blinked at the blue, swirling wall of…well, even the authoress doesn't know that the stuff is, so we're going to assume that it's a magical force. Saura instantly knew that a wall of blue magic wasn't right, so she spun around and headed for the exit. The Crypt of Sentries definitely wasn't the one she wanted to be in. When she turned, she saw a mass of bones swirling and whipping around the skull of a skeith at the opposite end of the hall to the right, and gasped. It was one of those things!

It heard her gasp and spotted her, letting out an eerie wail and sending a bone shooting at her. Screaming, she ducked and dodged the bone, driving her legs to go as fast as she could force them when it started levitating toward her.

Finally outside, she ignored the spyder screeches and ran full fledged away from the Crypt of Sentries. While dashing at full speed, she even ran into a skeleton which had emerged from the ground, knocking its arm clean off. If the skeleton had been able to say anything understandable, it would have been saying some less-than-innocent words at the girl as she sped off. Bending down, it grabbed its arm and reattached it to its shoulder. Sending one last un-intelligible garble at her, it dug its way back under the sod.

Saura did not know where to head off to now. She didn't know if Amy had found the right crypt or not, so she just ran to where she had last seen her friend disappear. Back at the beginning of the graveyard, she sprinted to the first left gate that Amy entered, ran down the pathway, up the ramp, and into the next crypt.

To her great relief, there was the acara girl sitting atop a stone coffin, legs crossed, obviously waiting patiently. She turned her head to look at Saura and smiled innocently.

"Saura, dear, you made it." she crooned, seeing, and ignoring, the deadly look Saura was aiming at her.

"Someone thinks they're hilarious…" grumbled the yellow lupess, who proceeded to walk past her uncharacteristically grinning friend and stomp on the blue button. It gave way under her weight and sank into the floor with a loud crunching noise. The door into the crypt slid open, and the girls went through the doorway.

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Me: I have only one thing to say. I AM SO SORRY. You guys have every right to flame me for the delay of this chapter. And yes, it's short, so I'm sorry. I'm not going to go into a big explanation of why it took so long, but I just want to apologize. I will try to make sure that this doesn't happen again. I'm so sorry!

Amy: -cough- So...forsaken....

Saura:-covered in dust- Must...try to....move....