Everything got creepy by the second, I hate being in here and now the fact that the others have found their way here making this worse. "Anything noteworthy by the dormitories?" I hear from the floor above and it sounded like a female voice.
"Not unless you count some cleverly worded headstones," I hear another voice say, obviously incaging in a conversation with this woman who I have a suspicion is Nadine.
"Have you finished digging by the chapter-house?"
"We have ma'am. The northwest sites are wide open as well,"
"And what about the southern perimeter?" The female questions, the unknown man answers declaring that they haven't check out whatever they were on about. Suddenly another voice comes into the scene, sounding incredibly familiar.
"Nadine," The man says, also telling me that my suspicion is right, Nadine is there looking for Avery's treasure which didn't surprise me and the familiar voice is Rafe, it has to be... there is no doubt in my mind.
I could tell Nadine completely ignored Rafe because of her and the first man was still speaking before she finally questions Rafe about manuscripts. "Can we have a minute?" He says before Nadine tells the man, "Keep me updated," before I hear a door close, showing that Nadine and Rafe are on their own, giving us a good chance to figuring out anything they know.
"Did you hear? They found a whole annexed area under the Cathedral," Nadine tells him and I could tell just by her voice she had a smile on her face but I bet Rafe knows that we were the ones that figured that it was there.
"I did," Rafe says with no emotion, no happiness in his voice, "Have you seen it?"
"No. Why?" She questions in confusion, "Because there wasn't much left... after they'd finished 'finding' it," I'm pretty surprised that Rafe had no suspicion that we were here. Well, their men are destroying the Cathedral and the grounds around it.
"My men have been a bit liberal with the dynamite-" Nadine starts to say, only for her to be cut off by Rafe, "They're like a hundred well-armed bulls in a china shop,"
"...but they've made more progress in two days than we've made in months," Nadine explains, "Progress?" Rafe scoffs and says something to hear I couldn't make out. I couldn't hear anything for a second making me very curious about what those two are chatting about.
"I'll let them know to give you a heads up before they do anything drastic," I suddenly hear Nadine explain before Rafe's voice comes back into the scene, "Or you can tell them to sit tight until I analyse the few clues that haven't been blown up,"
"No, we can't sit around waiting any longer,"
"All due respect, I think I have a bit more experience with this sort of thing than you do," Rafe replies as I listen as close as I can but thankfully Nadine's voice picks up as she tells him "We tried things your way,"
"Bullshit," Rafe quickly snaps back, "You've been wanting to level this place ever since we got here,"
"No. I wanted to steal that cross long before it ever even made it to the auction," Nadine angrily replies, not believing that Rafe had said such a thing, "The same auction where I couldn't get my men around to deal with any surprises,"
"The auction was the cleanest way to get the cross," Rafe argues back only to be cut off by Nadine and she snaps back, showing that her temper has risen more, each time Rafe states something, "But instead of going with my gut, I listened to you,"
'This is why you shouldn't partner with Rafe' I thought to myself, carry on listening to the two argue with each other. "And now we have competition,"
"Well, I didn't think he'd show up,"
"Or maybe you wanted to draw him out," Nadine says a bit more quietly this time as Rafe scoffs, "Why- Why the hell would I do that?"
"Because you think you need him," Nadine states which caused a silent moment between the two before Nadine pops back in saying, "And maybe you do. Point is, I'm done trying to do things the clean way,"
"If the treasure is here, we'll find it. And if not, well... maybe it's time to move on, huh?" I could just see that Rafe is just glaring at her right now. I couldn't hear any more voices after that only a door open and close showing that one of them has walked away from the other.
"Let's get moving before they blow that treasure to bits," Nate quietly says as we stay close to the wall as possible. "Or start making out," Nate and I chuckle at his comment, of course, Sam would have said that.
We're about to get going only for Sam to stop us. "You think she was right, though?" Sam asks and I give him a confused look as Nate questions it. "About Rafe wanting to draw you out,"
"As long as he doesn't get the upper hand, who cares?" Nate says to Sam as I nudge Nate gently so he wouldn't fall off, "Come on, let's get going before they actually figure everything out," I tell them both as I nudge Nate again, making him jump up and grab one of the bricks as he works his way down the wall.
I quickly follow behind him as Sam questions about what area the two were talking about, "I say it's another room or something," I say as I turn on my light so I could see where I was going as Nate finished what I was saying, "We're the only ones here,"
"I just hope they haven't found this place," I state as I watch Nate jump and use his hook to swing across to the other side, "You really need to stop worry," Sam tries to reassure me as I pull out my grappling hook but that didn't work.
"I wish I could," I whisper as I swing to rope giving me some help as I let go and allowed the hook to hook on the rope, I jump and grab onto the rope and landed next to Nate, due to the hight I had gone, I hook thankfully unhooked itself.
I place the hook back into its original place as I walk away to a dead end, I look up the wall and huff. We can't jump up it's far too high and there is no place the grappling hook can hook onto which caused me to sign, now what are we going to do?
I'm suddenly pulled out of the way and a loud thud echoed through the cave, "Thanks, Sam," I say as I turn to Nate, when did he even leave. I didn't even notice he had disappeared... that's just awful but Nate disappearing was a good thing since Nate had pushed a crate down so we can now get up the wall.
It took me seconds to get to the top, only for me to lose balance a bit and almost caused me to fall back off the edge due to everything suddenly started to shake but thankfully I wasn't that bad and I only lost balance since it was really sudden and didn't expect it.
"Well, we're definitely getting closer to the Cathedral," Nate states as Sam and I follow after him as the cave carries on shaking from the explosion, Nadine's men are setting off and right now I'm getting more nervous since we're having to use our grappling hooks again to get us to the other side due to the bridge no longer being there.
I sign in defeat as we find another switch which is inside the wall, why did they have to have these, I cringe every time some puts their hand in it and I'm most definitely not doing it, never. "I'll never get used to this," Nate grumbles as he pulls his hand out of the switch as the stone door opens.
Small stones crumble down as the door move and once that stopped and the door completely open we all walk in and I gasp in shock, the room is just huge and it just amazing and laying in the middle of the room is another cross.
"At least this one has some jewels on it, right?" Sam makes a grab for the cross and Nate and I quickly stop him, telling him to stop just in case it's another test and due to which looks like a weighing scales which has the cross on one and some coins on the other and I was correct, it is another test but I wonder what this one is about.
"It's- It's gotta be the coins,"
"Yeah, it has to be," I agree but still had the nervous feeling spreading through my stomach and Sam questioning if we're sure wasn't helping one bit, it's definitely making me think more but it can't be the cross.
I look up to the ceiling as another loud noise could be heard above the surface. "'Pretty sure' will have to do," Sam reaches to grab a coin and Nate quickly tells him to only take one. Greed, if he takes more, it will be classed as greed.
I could hear Sam whispering to himself as he grabs a single coin which caused the scales to actually balance, the room torches suddenly lights up as we all move away and look around as noises through the walls could be heard moving.
I watch as the torches light up one by one, going up the wall as something on the ceiling lights up really bright, reflexing something to the ground onto the top of us but I didn't know what it is. It looked like some kind land you'd see on the globe.
"Whoa," Nate gasp as a smile comes to his face as he stretches out his hands and laughs, "You recognise this shape?"
"Madagascar," I whisper as I look at the floor.
"Look," Nate orders, pointing to the floor which isn't covered with light, "The star right here,"
"It's King's Bay," Sam announces and Nate agrees as "He's screwing with us," I hear Sam say and I quickly question what he's talking about. "Avery. He's screwing with us. This was supposed to be it. So where's the goddamn treasure?" Sam snaps, showing us his frustration.
"I mean, King's Bay? Great. But what's next? North Pole? Outer Space?"
"Wouldn't that be an adventure," I confirm which caused Sam to turn and glare at me, I quickly hold my hands up in a surrender and shrug my shoulders. "What? It's true," Sam shakes his head and turns away to look back at Nate.
"'For those who prove worthy... Paradise awaits. He- He was recruiting," Nate figures out and I just stare in shock as Sam questions what Nate is even talking about. "Avery... was recruiting," Nate repeats.
"Recruiting for what?" Sam asks before we blow down to the floor from a huge explosion, and three figures come running out as we all lay on the floor. "You gentlemen and lady, are very, very noisy," The familiar woman says as Nate, Sam and I get up off the floor and surrender.
"Guns on the floor. Slowly," Nadine demands and I slowly pull my gun out and chucked it to the floor. "I still owe you for last time," Nadine turns to Nate, Nate just throws his gun to the floor before finally answering.
"Throwing me out a window didn't do it for you?"
Nadine ignores his comment and turns her back to use and grabs her walkie-talkie and starts speaking into it, trying to contact Rafe. "I'm at the graveyard," I hear him say through the walkie-talkie. "They were here,"
"Yeah, I'm looking at them right now," Nadine confirmed as Rafe asks where she is at. I stood quietly next to Nate and look down to where the brothers are looking too before looking away just in time as Nadine walks back to us.
"King's Bay,"
"Yeah, but uh... where is King's Bay?" Sam questions her as he looks at us. "You'll need that cross over their to figure it out. But... there're only three people that can tell you how to use it,"
"Let me guess..." Nadine starts to say as she shrugs and looks between the three of us, "You three,"
"That's right," I confirm, slightly slower my arms due to them starting to ache but I make sure they are still in sight as Nate starts talking. "Well, you wanna leave it to Rafe, you're gonna be waiting a long time,"
"Sorry. I'm not here to negotiate," She apologises with a hand laying on her waist before turning to one of her men and ordered one to grab the cross. "It's not a crucifix," Nate tells her as a confused look spreads on her face.
"Well... technically a crucifix refers to a cross that... You know what... never mind,"
A look quickly crosses her face and she quickly turns and shouts at the man to not touch it but he already picked it up, the three off us were lucky since we were off the side and we watched the man fall through the floor as Nadine runs as the floor crumbles underneath her, jumping and grabbing onto the edge.
"Go!" I shout and take off running as the man starts firing at us, well this escalated fast.