~ The fact that you cannot kiss your elbow is enough to make you realize that some things seem so close, yet they are beyond your reach. ~
~ Unknown ~
Chapter Twelve
"So who's going first?"
The three of them all looked at each other, none of them wanting to go first. Who knows what was down there!
After about a minute of staring at one another, Nina declared quietly "I'll go first. But you better follow me." Fabian and Amber nodded, waiting for her to go.
Nina took a deep breath, and began to crawl through the small door. Amber followed behind her, and Fabian followed Amber.
When Nina got to the end, she let out a sigh of relief. It wasn't anything scary or dangerous, it was just a cellar! But it wasn't empty, it was very cluttered.
This room isn't a secret, only the passageway is…
Nina stood back up, and the others did the same, once they reached it. They all looked around, quickly noticing a table, full of different colored chemicals. Amber ran over to it, and gazed at them.
"These are probably poisonous," Amber stated, pursing her lips. "Maybe Victor is trying to kill everybody here." Nina and Fabian exchanged glances, smiling slightly, and went over to her. Fabian picked one of them up, he wasn't afraid, and smelled it briefly.
"Smells like cleaning liquid." Fabian said, putting it back down. He knew what poison smelled like, and that defiantly wasn't it. It smelled like the window cleaner he used at his apartment, almost exactly. Though if someone was to drink it, there was a chance of it being fatal.
"Why would somebody keep cleaning liquid in a beaker, along with all these other chemicals?" Nina questioned. Why would someone ever need to do that? Were they trying to mix something, but they didn't know exactly what to mix?
Fabian shrugged, and continued to observe the area. He found another table, which had some sort of tipping scales on it.
"Hey guys, check this out." He whispered, looking at the scales. The two girls went over, confused on what he was pointing out.
"What are those?" Amber asked curiously, touching one of them. When the scale plate lowered, she noticed that her name was on it. "My name's on here…"
"What?" Fabian asked, trying to see what Amber was talking about. Why would her name be on the scale? That made absolutely no sense!
Fabian noticed her name was on a chip, and that on the other side, Victor's name showed. He glanced over at the other balances, and noticed they had chips in them as well, on both sides.
"Amber, are these student names?" Fabian questioned, pointing to the names. Amber nodded quickly.
"Yeah, those are all the students who live here… Alfie, Jerome, Mick, Mara, Patricia, and me! But I don't know who Delaney is, she doesn't go here, whoever she is."
"Delaney's my friend… And who are the people on the other lift than?" Nina wondered. She only knew Victor out of all of them. Fabian didn't know either, neither of them went to the school.
"Those are teachers!" Amber exclaimed, recognizing all of them.
"Teachers? Okay, this is really weird…" Fabian replied, confusion all over his face.
Why in the world were there chips on a scale, with students and teachers names on them? Is Delaney involved with whatever this is?
"Okay, I want to know what's going on… Why did you two come here?" Amber suddenly questioning, turning to face the two. She crossed her arms, just like she had done earlier.
"Um… Can we tell her?" Nina whispered, glancing at Fabian. He nodded, telling her wouldn't put anything in jeopardy, at least he didn't think so.
So, the two told her everything. Everything about how Delaney disappeared, and how they found out about all this 'Chosen One' stuff, and the locket. They also told her how they found the library, and followed Victor to the boarding house.
"If you guys want to find your friend, I recommend coming here more often… This house has a lot of secrets. Or at least, that's what Victor said." Amber responding, causing the trio to all laugh slightly.
"We'll definitely be doing that. Well, let's go back up." Fabian said, beginning to edge his way towards the small tunnel. Amber and Nina followed him, and they were all soon back into the kitchen.
"Okay, so we know where to go… What is this house called?" Nina asked Amber, who smiled brightly.
"Oh, Anubis house!" Amber confirmed.
Fabian and Nina shared another smile, this was obviously the place to be.
So I guess the new normal length of my chapters have become around 700 words… That's nice. I didn't want that though, I wanted them to be 1000… Oh well. Short but sweet, yeah?
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Also, you guys know of my roleplay group, right? I'm NinaMartin4RP? Well, we have some openings up, so if you are interested, go to my Twitter, and click the link near her bio. I believe we have KT open, as well as Jerome, Eddie, and Fabian. So go look!
~JessIsTheBest~