Thanks so much for the reviews and support you guys ot nothing else to say so here we go with chapter sixteen


Chapter 16: Tomb Team Time

It was morning Zodie was in an open plain in the forest doing some training. He came out there early in the morning to get a fresh start. After his mission he decided he wanted to get stronger, he wanted to be sure he wouldn't get knocked around easily by Dafoe or any other foe he came across. He began his training regime by moving large rocks up and down hills with his bare hands, he used his phoenix screech to destroy falling rocks; nearly screaming his lungs out, he then practiced with his dagger slicing up trees with great speed.

"Dark Phoenix knuckle" He shouted as he began punching through rows of rocks. Each bigger than the last and harder. The slayer kept this up till he made a small crack in a massive boulder.

"Oww" Zodie said as he shrieked in pain "Guess I've reached my limit for today, I should probably head back to the guild" he told himself while panting. He sprouted his wings then flew back in the direction of the guild.


At Cait Shelter

Things at the guild were normal as ever each member doing their own thing chatting amongst themselves and what not, Wendy was currently practicing her healing magic on one of the members who had burned himself while cooking. After she was done he was good as new.

"Thank you Wendy" the member said

"My pleasure" Wendy said back with a smile the man walked off.

"It seems that you're getting better and better each day child" Carla complimented.

"Yeah I have to make sure my healing abilities are top notch when they're needed, like if Zodie gets hurt I can heal him completely". The young dragon slayer said.

"Speaking of Zodie where is he I haven't seen him all morning" Carla said

"Maybe he's still sleeping" Wendy said

Suddenly Carla looked up to see the said friend. "Oh there he is" Carla said, causing Wendy to look up to see Wendy flying towards the landing.

"Hey girls what's up"? Zodie said "Where were you"? Carla asked "I was out doing some early training".

Wendy looked down and noticed a bruise on Zodie's hands "Zodie your hand what happened to it"? Wendy asked

"Oh this was a result from my training got carried away when I was punching a bunch of rocks"

"Didn't that hurt thoguh"? Asked Wendy

"Yeah but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" Zodie said

"Here let me heal your hands" Wendy said as she grabbed Zodies hands and began to heal them, Zodie felt a blush of how soft Wendy's hands were. The warmth of Wendy's magic healing spell brought him comfort

"There you go they're all better now". Wendy said.

"Wow you're getting better with that healing Wendy thanks" the phoenix slayer said.

"Thank You that means a lot" Wendy smiled.

Suddenly Zodie's stomach began to growl loudly causing him to grab onto it.

"Wow guess all that training worked up an appetite in me lets go get some grub" Zodie said walking toward the canteen.

"All that healings made me hungry to let's go with him Carla" as she began to follow after Zodie with Carla along with them.


Canteen

Like always Zodie was inhaling a large fish along with some rice whilst Carla watched in disturbance and with Wendy not as much; she has gotten used to her friends eating habits so she wasn't as in much shock like she used to be.

"I dont think i'll ever get over the way you eat Zodie" Carla said Zodie stopped eating a bit then replied.

"Carla, you say that like I'm the only guy who eats like this, there are others out there who probably eat worse than I do," the phoenix slayer said as he went back to eating.

Carla just shakes her head, sighing and making Wendy giggle. Keanu arrived at the canteen once he spotted the trio. He made his way over to them with a job request and a map in his hands he approached and greeted them.

"What a do caribou's" Keanu greeted

"Keanu hey what's up" they greeted back.

"I got good news, the master thought that since you guys did so well on your first job he figured you were ready for another" Keanu said.

The kids looked on with surprise in their eyes

"Really that's great" Wendy spoke "What's the mission"? Asked Zodie with excitement.

"The request from Indy Smith he's a part of an archeological society I guess he's looking for someone to scout out some old ruins' ' Keanu explaiend.

"I see but since they're archaeologists this Indy fellow can't do this on his own"? Carla asked

"Well the flyer say's wizards are needed so there must be a reason" Keanu replied.

"Yeah and besides we got nothing to do it seems fun and i really want to check out these ruins" Zodie added.

"Yeah Zodie's right Carla I don't mind helping out somebody in need so im in" Wendy said.

"Great, here's a map to find the place and it's not too far from here you can make it there by flying," Keanu told them. As he handed them the supplies they were going to need.


In the air

The trio were flying side by side in the air on they're way to meet the client Zodie had an exciting expression on his face whilst down at the map. Unfortunately he wasn't looking where he was going and almost flew into a bird until Wendy alerted him.

"Zodie watch out" She warned.

Zodie looked up and flew out the way at the last minute almost hitting the oncoming bird.

"Wow" that was close" he said.

"Zodie you need to watch while your flying" Carla told him

"Sorry I'm just really excited for this job. I want to hurry up and get there fast" he replied.

"Keeping your eye on the map constantly won't get us there quicker" Carla told him.

"Besides Keanu said the location isn't too far so we'll be there soon" Wendy spoke up.

Zodie then looked down and spotted a large hut and used his Phoenix eye to look down closer. He looked back at the map and it matched the hut.

"Hey guys I see down there it has to be it" Zodie told them.

"Follow me" he said as he then flew down with Carla holding a Wendy flying down after him.

Upon reaching the ground and viewing the large hutt they walk up to the door and Zodie begins knocking.

"Hello we're from Cait Shelter were for the job on the flyer" Zodie said.

Suddenly the door opened and out came a middle aged man wearing a brown outback hat with a white buttoned shirt and brown pants and black boots, along with a whip on his side. He looked down at the guest and grinned at them.

"Oh hello there I'm Indy Smith head of the archeologist society" he greeted.

"We're for the job that was posted" Zodie said

"We're from the cait shelter" Wendy spoke up.

"Good come on in Indy said inviting the kids and the cat inside"


In the archaeologist hut

Indy and the trio sat across from each other in an open room a woman make in with violet hair and archaeological clothing carrying a tray of tea for the four and sat on the table.

"Thank you Mabel Indy thanked" as she smiled and walked out of the room.

Everyone took a sip of the tea "mmm delicious" Wendy complimented along with Carla who enjoyed it as well.

"Yeah Mabel is a great tea maker, any way let's get down to business" he said as he set the cup down.

"Right we were told that you requested someone to scout out some ruins"? Zodie asked.

"That's correct you see I've had a few of my guys head down there but couldn't get inside or even find the entrance, I have reason to believe that only those who possess magic can get in, which is why we sent in the request to a wizard guild" Indy explained.

"I see," Zodie asked.

Indy reached into his bag and handed them a map of the location and handed it to Zodie.

"There you go follow the directions and you'll get there" he told them

"Right we'll keep a log of what we find and bring it back so you guys will know what to expect" Zodie said.

"Thank you so much good luck you three and be careful" Indy told them

They nodded in understanding and left the room.


To the location

"Looks like this is the place". Zodie

Wendy looked around the area a bit, eyeing the area and it's landscape.

"Where's the entrance exactly? This map doesn't make much sense to me?" Wendy asked as she was looking at the map in different ways.

Zodie sprouted his wings and flew up at a higher elevation to look for a possible entrance.

"Hmm places like these have patterns that are a little distinguishable, we should keep our eyes open on anything unordinary" Zodie spoke as he then descended back towards the ground, Wendy nodded in agreement and they began looking around.

They began taking mental notes of the area keeping their eyes open for out of place things. Carla then noticed a strange mark on the side, it was a different shape from all the other's.

"You two over there look" Carla said as she pointed in the direction.

Zodie and Wendy looked in the direction and ran over to the spot "Wow good eye Carla" Wendy complimented.

"This looks like the way" Zodie said. He then presses the tile causing the wall to lower revealing the entrance. The trio stood in amazement.

"Wow," Zodie said. "I feel magic from the inside can you feel it too"?

"Indeed Indy wasn't kidding, this place is magic" Carla replied.

"Lets go" Zodie said, leading the way with Wendy holding Carla in her arms following after him.

Unbeknownst to the trio they were being followed by a group three of the men had light brown skin and had fuzzy hair with large ears and each of them resembled a monkey. They all wore white and red bomber jackets with shades. Each of them were being led by their leader who also resembled a monkey except he was a massive man with slim arms and legs, his hair was long and spiky and seemed to have a guild stamp on his nose. He also wore a poncho with striped pants and shoes.

"Perfect brats led us right to the entrance" one of them spoke.

"We've been circling this damn temple for days and haven't found anything until now, we better get what we came for or our business partners will have our heads. Another spoke.

"Enough" spoke the massive one "We go in get what we came for and get out do whatever you have to do even if it means poundin those runts in the dirt, Naked Mummy will succeed" he said.

They then began to walk down into the entrance


Inside the ruins

The ruins were dark and real quiet darkness wasn't a problem for Zodie who was able to see just fine but since Wendy couldn't see Zodie remembered the special lacrima he had with him. He took it out his pocket and it began to emit a bright enough light to see perfectly in the ruins.

"There that's much better you guys can see now" Zodie said

"Thanks Zodie" Wemdy replied they began looking around which displayed walls with ancient drawings. It appeared to be drawings of an ancient civilization who long ago lived in harmony.

"Wow check it out petroglyphs" Zodie pointed out

Wendy came over to the wall shining the lacrima against the wall

"Wow it looks like the walls tell a story from long ago" Wendy mentions.

"You May be the right child looking at these drawings. It looks as if this was drawn around four-hundred years ago" Carla added in.

"If I'm looking at this right it looks like these people lived happily peacefully but their land was ravaged by constant war".

"Yeah and then one of them decided to create some sort of power to put a stop to it" added Wendy.

The three continued to inspect the drawings on the wall until Zodie's hand happened to touch a tile on the wall revealing a room.

"Wow let's check it out" Zodie said leading the way into the room.

As the trio walked inside the room they saw more petroglyphs with new drawings on them one glyph that caught their attention was in the shape of a creature, it had eight legs and it was really dark. Wendy let out a nervous gulp at the sight of the large drawing.

"What is that"? Wendy asked nervously

"Looks like the people summoned some sort of spider creature to destroy their enemies and end the war" Carla answered.

"Glad I wasn't there I hate spiders, it looks like the size of a city" Zodie replied

As they were looking, Wendy had accidentally stepped on a tile causing Zodie and Carla to jump a little as another door opened up revealing a second room in a hallway.

"Another room shall we what's in door number two" Zodie said

With that the trio made their way down the hall toward the next room.

"You know Indy said that this place was rigged with traps but we haven't ran into any so far" Zodie said

"Guess we were just lucky which is a big relief I wasn't really in the mood to avoid traps," Wendy replied.

"But still anything can happen so don't let your guards down children" Carla told them.

Finally reaching the room the inside was brightly lit with a lacrima on the ceiling of the room; they observed a bundle of ancient text, in the center of the room was a podium with a scroll. The three approached the podium with Zodie unrolling it inside were written text that looked almost too impossible to read.

"Huh okay these are some crazy words I can't read any of it" Zodie said

"Maybe Indy or somebody at the archaeology society might be able to decipher it" Wendy suggested.

"Good Idea" spoke Zodie he then rolled the scroll back up and placed it inside of a container and slipped it inside his bag.

"Actually no need we'll take care of it for you" a voice spoke from behind them

The trio turned around and saw a group of men who reefs led that of monkeys

"Who the heck are you guys"? Zodie asked

"Oh why were actually part of the archaeology society, they sent us for backup to help you kids"

Carla was looking at them with suspicion in her eyes as if she didn't believe a word they were saying. One of the strangers walked over reaching his hand out to get the scroll.

"You can trust me friend so just hand over the scroll alright".

"Wait just a second if you're part of the society then what's with the guild marks on your faces" Carla pointed out.

The group paused for a bit and looked at each other.

"Uhh ohh these are tattoos" he spoke

"No those are guild marks and guild marks are completely different from tattoos, and if another guild was sent here we would have known about it" Carla said.

Now the group looked worried it was clear that fooling them backfired.

"Who are you guys"? Zodie asked

Suddenly their massive leader walked in holding a club over his shoulder

"Were Naked Mummy and you have something that we want, the names Gato now give us that scroll". Gato said

The rest of naked mummy brought out their magic guns and aimed them at the trio. Wendy flew up in front of Wendy and Zodie spread her arms out in a protective manner.

"I will not allow you to harm these children" she spoke.

"Carla wait look it's fine I'll give them the scroll" Zodie spoke

Wendy ran and grabbed onto Zodies arm

"But Zodie you can't" she spoke.

"Don't worry I have a plan"

"You do"?

"When it goes dark grab Carla and get down alright" Zodie spoke.

Wendy nodded in understanding

The Phoenix slayer held out the map and began walking over to the naked mummy guild.

"Yeah that's right kid hand it over

Right as Zodie was about to hand him the scroll he threw his dagger like a boo,errant up at the sealing lacrima breaking it and causing the room to go dark.

"What the" one of the guards said freaking out accidentally swinging his gun and hitting another in the face.

Wendy did what Zodie said and grabbed Carla and got to the ground.

"What happened, what happ"… one of the naked mummy members went as he was knocked unconscious.

Zodie was maneuvering around in the dark taking down the mummy guild one by one,since he could see in the dark and they couldn't he had the advantage.

"Where are you runt" Gató yelled

Zodie snuck behind him and delivered a swift kick to Gatós groin making drop his club on his foot and then falling over to the ground. The boy then took out the lacrima he brought with him and shined it in the room.

"Wendy Carla are you okay talk to me" he said

Wendy soon came into sight holding Carla "yeah we're okay" she said.

"Good let's get out of here" he said as the three ran out of the room and for the exit.


Outside

The trio reached the outside of the temple catching their breathes from running

"Glad to be out of there" Carla said

"Who were they"? Wendy asked

"They said they're names were Naked Mummy and it looked like they were a part of a guild" Zodie said.

"Yes not just any guild they're part of a dark guild they're not legal so they are branded as criminal organizations" Carla explained.

"Let's go before they catch up then" Zodie said

Before they could run Gató busted through the entrance "you two aren't going anywhere now give me that scroll" he said.

"Wendy catch" Zodie said as he threw the scroll to his friend as she caught it

"Take it and run. I'll deal with this guy" he told her.

"But I can…"

"Don't argue, just go" he said firmly.

Carla then grabbed onto Wendy and flew her out of the area.

"It's just you and me monkey, let's go" Zodie said, taking a fighting position.

Gató then charged toward the boy and swung his club at him but Zodie dodged out of the way and went in for an attack.

"Dark Phoenix knuckle" he yelled, punching the side of Gató's face making him step back a bit.

Gató then tried to hit the boy again but Zodie jumped up and delivered a kick to Gató's face but didn't stop there, he then swiftly began punching and kicking Gató all over his body til he fell to the ground.

"Alright I did it that was easy" he said after Turning his back and smiling in joy.

His celebration was cut short when he felt something grab his head and lift him up.

"Not bad runt that actually hurt" a now conscious Gató said.

Zodie delivered a kick to Gatós mouth till he threw the slammed boy on the ground and threw him into a tree.

"Ow" he said in pain he looked up and saw Gató approaching ready to to swing down his club.

"Any last words" he spoke.

"Sky dragon roar" a voice yelled out

Gató looked over to his right and was blasted by a force of strong wind blowing him back into a tree. Zodie looked over to the source and saw Wendy and Carla coming towards him.

"Zodie are you okay"?

"I thought you guys ran" Zodie asked back

"Don't you remember what you said years ago we look out for each other, we're a team" she told her friend firmly.

Zodie smiles and gets back to his feet and the two share a hug.

"Your right we are a team" he said

The moment was then interrupted when Gató got to his feet and ran towards the trio

"Let's take this guy down then welcome to your first fight Wendy" Zodie said

"R...right I'll support you,'' she said.

"Vernier," Wendy said as a sky blue magic circle appeared in front of her and a light blue aura surrounded Zodies body.

"Wow what the"?

"It's okay this is one of my spells it lets me increase your speed" Wendy explained

"Right," Zodie said.

He then sprouted his wings then flew toward a charging Gató who tried to grab Zodie but due to Wendy's spell he was twice as fast so he easily avoided his grasp. Zodie then surrounded his fist with darkness and let loose a barrage of punches onto Gató. After a few more punches the light disappeared from Zodie and he was back to moving at normal speed.

Gató was about to counter with a club but Wendy acted quickly.

"Armor" she chanted as another aura surrounded Zodie who then broke his club with his dagger.

"No my club" Gato yelled

Zodie then took the opportunity to grab Gató by his shirt and tossed him into the air.

"Wendy let's finish this" he said

"Right" Wendy replied.

"Dark Phoenix…"

"Sky dragon…" they both started.

"SCREEEEEECH" "ROAAAR" they said in unison

As a blast of darkness and wind hit Gató sending him flying.

"We did it, huh we did it" Zodie said in excitement.

He then lifted Wendy up and swung her around then they hugged each other.

"Wendy that was incredible I had no idea you could do that, what was that" ? He asked.

"They're enchantments. They let me focus my magic onto anything so I focused my power onto you," she said".

"That's amazing," he said.

"What's amazing is your power, you are strong" she said.

"All that training paid off he said".

"I'm proud of you both but how about we get out of here and head back so we can get our reward" Carla said.

"You're right, let's head back to the hut" Wendy said.

The trio then flew off back into the direction of hut.


Archeology Hut

Indy was currently analyzing some other scripts he hasn't had time to look through. Mabel, his assistant, brought him a cup of her signiture tea.

"Sir was letting two kids and a cat go out there a good idea"? she asked

"Oh I know they'll be fine Mabel, you worry too much".

"How can you be so sure"

"Because i'm a people person," he replied.

He then looked out the window and saw the trio.

"And would you look at that there they are" Indy said.

He then ran outside to greet them.

"Alright you two made, what happened over there"?

Zodie stepped up

"It went pretty good there weren't any traps but it was pretty dark though".

Zodie then explained the structure of the ruins and the text written inside them, He even told Indy about the encounter they had with naked mummy and how they defeated them in battle. Zodie then handed Indy the scroll who's eyes were filled with delight.

"Excellent well done I can't thank you enough" Indy said to the trio.

"Mabel get these kids their reward money he told his assistant".

Mabel came outside and gave the trio their money.

"Here is your payment you two you've earned it" he said

While the three were depositing their shares Indy ran back inside the hutt with excitement.

"Oh I have so much to analyze" Indy said

He then ran to his desk and wiped it clean of the scripts he was looking thorugh.

"Mable put on some of your special coffee. I'm pulling an all nighter". He said excitedly


Back at Cait Shelter

The trio were inside of Roubal's tent telling him about their job, what they learned and saw, as well as their fight with naked mummy. Roubal was very proud of them.

"These people we learned about went through alot but they were finally able to rid evil from their lives" Zodie said.

"It would make for a good story to pass onto generations" Wendy replied.

"Well done kids you have done our guild proud" he said happily.

"Thank you master" they said in unison.

"Well it's been long and i'm starving. Let's go hit the canteen," Zodie said.

"Right, you coming Carla"?

"I'm a tad bit peckish so yes" she told the dragon slayer

The trio head out the tent leaving Roubal to himself.

The master walks over to a mirror and stares at his reflection.

"Good you kids now know the story I hope now once you learn the truth the realization won't be so critical.


Elsewhere

Gato had woken up right after he was blown away he was tangled in a tree and tried to get himself out.

"I can't believe it I got beaten by two runts"

He finally got free then fell on his face in the dirt.

"When I see those brats again i'm gonna" He was then interrupted by the beeping of his lacrima. He took it out and saw who it was on the other side. The person was a man with long silver hair and dark skin with black lines on his face.

"Oh it's you" Gato said

"Did you get what was asked of you"? the voice asked

"Well no I lost it to a bunch of kids and"

"What YOUR A DARK GUILD AND YOU GOT YOUR ASS HANDED TO YOU BY TWO MEASLY BRATS" the voice shouted angrily.

"We… we… well wait I know that they took it to an archaeology hut maybe it's there" Gato said.

The man pondered for a moment.

"Very well finding this hut won't be too hard so I guess this will work out in our favor" he said

"You want us to find it"? Gato asked.

"No you and your guild are on standby wouldn't want you losing to an ant, i'll send one of my own over to handle it, in the meantime make yourself useful and train so you won't embarrass yourself again".

The man then hangs up.

"What an ass if he wanted the damn paper why didn't he get it himself" Gato said as he walked off.


Boom and done alright Wendy and Zodie have completed their second job and wonder what they'll get into next time. Big shout out to Bungster thanks for the review. I hope I see more of your comments. Also you all may know all the stuff going on in our world. I'm saddened about myself. I hope all of you are staying safe out there till next time.