Chapter 8
Advice from Walls
Megan sighed and leaned her back against the rock wall behind her. "Great, now we're never going to get the Earth Tablet before Rylie," she said glumly.
"Don't worry, we'll find a way out of here." Exarp said with confidence.
"I wonder how the others are. I saw them get blasted into other caves as well. Maybe I can call them and see what's up," Megan said and whipped out her old sprint phone that took three minutes to turn on. She flipped it open and sighed with relief when she saw that she had three bars. "Thank God for Hollywood," she muttered to herself. "I'll call Dean first," she said and started going to her phone contacts when her phone started ringing. She didn't recognize the number but not many people called her anymore so she answered it out of curiosity.
"Hello?" Megan answered with that trained, polite voice she had been told to do ever since she was old enough to answer the phone.
"Megan? It's Chuck." Megan's eyes widened as he answered.
"Chuck?" Exarp looked at her. "The prophet?" he asked. Megan shook her head.
"Yeah, it's me. I have some things I have to tell you, things that I saw in a vision. You and Exarp are in the cave right now, right?" he asked.
"Yup," Megan answered.
"Okay, well, first, these aren't uh…how you would say "regular" caves. Someone built them to guard the Earth Tablet, so there kinda…filled with traps," Chuck said, talking fast.
"Figured as much," Megan said.
"Now you all have just sprung a trap and were thrown into separate caves in pairs of twos. Don't worry, as far as I know the others are fine. But the first thing that's going to happen in the caves is that that cave door is going to have something written on it. It will be a movie quote, song quote, or any other type of quote that will predict one of your futures. Since there are two of you in the room you won't know who the predictions supposed to go to," Chuck explained.
Megan nodded. "Okay," she said to reassure him that she was listening.
"Once you see the quote then you will have to guess where it's from. Then when you've done that a button will appear somewhere in the small cave that you're in. You'll have to find it," Chuck said.
"Can't you just tell us where the button will be?" Megan asked, not feeling like finding a button in the cave.
"No, I can't-," Chuck said but was cut off by Megan.
"Come on you're a prophet, tell me!"
"Crimson, shut up and listen-," Chuck said but stopped after he seemed to realize that he said something by mistake.
"What did you just call me?" Megan asked in surprise.
"Nothing, I just told you to listen," Chuck said but was more quiet and careful with his words.
"No, you called me Crimson," Megan said.
Chuck stuttered for a moment before saying fast, "I got to go, good luck." Then he hung up the phone.
"That was weird," Megan said as she looked at Exarp.
"What did Chuck tell you?" he asked.
"He told me what's going to happen in these caves. I gotta let the others know," she said then started to call Dean.
-B-
Dean held his head in his hand as he slowly stood up. He hated it when he got blasted against a wall. He groaned and opened his eyes to see that he was in an enclosed cave like room, trapped by all four sides.
"Great," he muttered.
"It seems as if we've fallen into a trap." Dean looked over to see Castiel standing next to him. He and Cas were the only ones in the cave.
"No shit," Dean said and crossed his arms. "Okay, now poof us out of here."
Castiel shook his head. "I can't. Once we passed through the door at the Hollywood sign we lost all our powers like at the arch at Mount Everest."
Dean growled, tempted to punch the wall in front of him. Where was everyone? Were they okay? Where was Sammy? Those questions ran through his mind but were cut short when his cell phone started ringing in his pocket. He looked at the contact number and answered it.
"Megan? What's up? Are you okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine, I just have some things to tell you," she said then started telling him everything that Chuck told her, leaving out the part where he called her Crimson. Dean nodded then hung up after Megan told him everything.
"Okay Cas, this isn't going to be fun," he said.
-B-
"Of course I get stuck with you," Gabriel said when he noticed Oro had been blasted into the cave with him.
"It's not like I enjoy it either," Oro said.
Gabriel scowled at the other Angel, not liking the situation one bit. He was trapped in a small cave with the person he hates the most on this world. "Let's just find a way out of here," he said when his cell phone started to ring. He quickly plucked it from his pocket and answered with an annoyed "Hello?"
"It's Megan. I got something to tell you," she said then explained everything that Chuck told her.
Gabriel nodded and hung up the phone. "I hope you like movies," he said and Oro just gave him a confused looked.
-B-
Sam shook his head as he looked around the small cave they were in. He looked over to see Luna on the floor, having some trouble getting up. He quickly ran over to help her up, her silver hair falling over her face.
"Thank you," she said as she composed herself.
"No problem," Sam said. "Looks like we're trapped."
Luna nodded. "We must've set off one of the traps when we pressed the button."
Sam sighed and picked up his cell phone when it started to ring. It was Megan. She told him what Chuck had told her then hung up.
"Okay, this is going to be fun," he said sarcastically.
-B-
"BALTHAZAR, WE ARE IN A CAVE!" Jinx yelled. She always yelled things when she was angry.
"I'm aware of that," Balthazar said in annoyance.
"Dammit Sam, why did you press that button? Everyone knows that you don't press the red button!" Jinx said, fists clenched.
Jinx was fuming when her cell phone started to ring. She answered with an annoyed "WHAT?" This seemed to scare Megan just a bit. She then explained to Jinx what Chuck had told her.
"I'm guessing that was help?" Balthazar asked, preparing himself for another ear drum exploding yell.
"Yup," Jinx said in an average cheery voice. "We're getting out of here."
-B-
Megan stared hard at the wall in front of her, waiting for something to show up on it. She just finished calling everyone about what Chuck said. Now all she had to do was wait.
"This is so hard!" Megan said in annoyance.
"It's only been five minutes…"Exarp said, standing next her.
"If you haven't noticed, I really hate waiting," she said and crossed her arms.
"Well, looks like you don't have to wait anymore," Exarp said as he pointed to the wall. Letters started forming on the wall and soon it was a full sentence.
Megan read it aloud. "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Megan thought for a moment, not even bothering to ask Exarp if he knew, then said, "I know! That's a quote from Batman!" The words then started to glow and with a flash they disappeared.
"I knew sitting around watching movies all day would pay off," she said with a grin. But then she thought about what Chuck said. That quote was a prediction of the future for one of them. Did that mean one of them was going to die or become evil?
-B-
Dean tapped his foot in annoyance as he stared at the wall. "This is so hard!" he yelled.
"It's only been five minutes…" Castiel said.
"Whatever," Dean huffed. But a few moments later his eyes widened when he saw words being written on the wall.
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light," Dean read aloud. "I know I've heard that before, I just can't remember where…" Dean said thinking out loud.
"It's from Harry Potter," Castiel said and Dean gave him a look.
"How did you know that?" he asked.
"Megan made me watch all of them one night when she was sick," Castiel said and Dean nodded. The words started to glow and then they disappeared in a flash of white light.
"Thank you Megan," Dean said then started scanning around for the button.
-B-
"Move your head, I'm trying to see the wall," Gabriel said as Oro stood in front of the Archangel.
"Your voice I starting to annoy me," Oro said and moved slightly.
"Shut up," Gabriel said but kept quiet when he saw words being written on the wall by an invisible force.
"I see dead people," Gabriel read aloud. He remembered what Megan had told him about the quotes being from movies and such. He automatically knew where the quote was from. "It's from the Sixth Sense," he said but then frowned. The wall really did know what it was talking about. Oro nodded when the letters disappeared in a flash.
-B-
Sam looked at the wall in front of them, words now written on it. "If you don't stand up for something then you'll fall for everything," he read. "Honestly, I have no idea what that's from."
Luna shrugged. "Me either," she said.
"I'll text Megan, maybe she'll know." He said and took out his phone and texted Megan the quote.
"Sam…can I tell you something?" Luna asked and Sam looked at her curiously.
"Uh, yeah, sure," he said.
"You're the only human I actually like," she said.
"Uh, thanks, I guess," Sam said.
"Seriously, you don't complain much and you know what you're doing. You're a value to this team," Luna said.
Sam smiled. "Thanks." Then his phone buzzed. He looked at the text from Megan: It's from Suckerpunch.
"It's from Suckerpunch," he read aloud and the words started to glow and disappear.
-B-
"Finally! The quote is here!" Jinx said when she saw the words appear on the wall. "You built a time machine…out of a Delorean?" she read aloud. "That is so easy! It's from Back to the Future."
The letters then started to glow and disappear.
"Come on, even I knew that one," Balthazar said.
-B-
"Now we just need to find that button…"Megan said and started looking around. Exarp copied here, looking for cracks in the walls where the buttons could be.
Megan kept looking but wasn't paying attention to the rocks by her. Without notice she fell over one of the stalagmites and landed on the ground with a huff.
"Megan! You found it!" Exarp said and he helped her up.
"Wha?" she asked, holding her head. She looked over and saw that the button was inside the stalagmite she tripped over. "Sweet," she said and pressed the button which made the rock wall open.
"I wonder if the button is there for all the caves. I'll send everyone a text about that," she said and did just that. I few minutes later all the doors of the caves opened and everyone came out.
"Now, let's go find that Earth Tablet," Exarp said and they all headed down a newfound path of tunnels which hopefully lead to the Earth Tablet.