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Makai Gaiden: The Unbroken Seal
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12-01-2019, 08:59 PM
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You had to give Olivia credit for one thing, she was very good at making sure other people felt safer than they usually would. Right now she was sitting next to Shae as she sat there dumbfounded at hearing what was going on. When today started her biggest worry was proving her innocence and wondering if those voies from the other side of the door would carry out their threat or not. Now she found out a forbidden vault was practically under their feet, one of the guards had stolen from it, and at least three people were dead. And one who could be if the healers couldn't do anything to save her. Shae never thought that she'd ever prefer that she rather try and prove her own innocense than anything else. But right now that was exactly what she was thinking. Turning to the older woman Shae went, “Do you think...?”
“I'm sure she'll be fine,” Olivia was saying of the guard. Right now Shae wasn't sure which one of them she was trying to convince. Still she nodded in agreement. That guard just had to be okay. Both of them looked up as the door opened. Jules walked in and didn't really look at her, but Olivia's had her complete and undivided attention. Standing to face her Olivia was quiet for a bit before going, “Emily?”
“The healers thinks that she'll make it,” Olivia relaxed so much that Shae thought she was going to drop back into that chair. Then Jules continued, “But it's going to be close. That blow got one of her lungs but missed her heart and didn't sever her spinal cord. But her lung have them worried. If she makes it through the night they think she should make it. I've been carrying some reverter with me since I became engaged to Carter, they were able to use that with a Madou flame, they think we did it in time, but like I said they'll know for sure in the morning.”
“She's strong, she'll pull through,” Olivia said while nodding to herself. Then she walked over and put a hand on Jules' shoulder, “Thank you for trying if nothing else. What about Jonathon? Has there been any word on him?”
Jules shook her head, “As far as we know he's still stuck in the tunnels. I had the guards put barriers on most of the doors to limit his options.”
“But he can get past seals and barriers,” Olivia cut in.
“From outside the seal,” Jules said. “ But he's on the other side now, and the barrier's on the outside part of the door. With any luck he shouldn't get through the door to get to it with out revealing himself first. The doors still have guards on them but I increased the presence by the two we left open as well.” Jules looked at her and explained a little more, “The one that blew and the one that we encountered him at. Just two ways in and two ways out.”
“I don't like this,” Olivia told her. “It's too much of a risk considering what he can do.”
“It's the best we have for the moment,” Jules said. Pulling that disk out again she activated the markings again and studied them for a few moments. Shae did as well, still not exactly sure what she was seeing but was aware that Jules knew what she was looking at. “One bit of luck is going our way, none of the objects I tagged have been moved, not even the one he left behind.”
“And Emily's life was your biggest concern at the time,” Olivia said as Jules placed the disk back into her pocket. “Most guardians might say otherwise but you made the right call there.”
“I'm going back to the archivists,” Jules announced. “See if they discovered anything about the tunnels that we can use to our advantage. Still holding up Shae?”, she asked her.
“Yes,” and that sounded a little shaky, and it was her voice. Jules reached out and squeezed her shoulder. Shae reached up and grabbed her hand. She tried to sound a little less shaky by going, “I mean, yes.”
“Don't worry this'll be over before you know it,” She told her. With one last squeeze on her shoulder Jules gave her a smile before leaving the building.
“Do you really think it'll be over as soon as she think?”, she asked Olivia after they were alone.
“Shae,' she said, “I've known that particular woman since she was about this high,” she held he here hand, palm pointed at the floor, below her waste to indicate her point. “And I've seen her do things others people thought she couldn't. Let's just say I wasn't too surprised when I heard she started hunting Horrors. If she thinks she can catch Jonathon before the day is over I wouldn't bet against her.”
“She didn't learn to hunt them here?” Okay she said her mentor was the first one to see her strength in combat, but there were courses here for the slightly older, more advanced groups that dealt with tracking down Horrors. It only made sense that her current position would have started here, at least as Shae thought so anyway.
“Not originally,” Olivia told her. “I've seen a few Priest in my time show a prowess in the combat arts at various stages of their life. Very few have been able to translate that into actively hunting Horrors. Remember Shae for the longest time Makai Priests just supported the Knights. We used to do it in the past but stopped when the Horrors became too strong, but things have a tendency to go in circles as they say, it's a fairly recent development but it does look like that Makai Priests are slowly joining the hunt again. To be honest with you I'm not exactly sure how I feel about that.” Olivia guided her to her office, “But that's a thought for another time. But we can occupy our time in better ways.”
“In what ways?”, Shae asked. Maybe it was Jules' influence or being around her had awaken something that had laid dormant for a long time, but Shae surprised herself by saying, “But I want to help catch him.”
“I'm sure you do,” in any other adult that might have sounded a bit condescending, but Olivia said it like she truly understood her need. Maybe in this case she actually did. “But the safety of the students here must be my primary concern. Come, maybe I can help you with that scroll about string magic, we need something to occupy our time in the meantime.” She was looking at her when she opened the door. So she didn't see the new opening in her wall until she looked toward the bookcase in the room.
That opening was door sized, and it looked like some sort of tunnel on the other side. By the time both of them tore their eyes off it and toward each other it was too late. Shae say something move and wrap an arm around Olivia's neck before her mind could understand what was happening. When the blade of a spear went to her throat Shae found her voice and instinctively went for her brush, “Let her go.”
“Watch it kid,” The thief told her as he put the spear closer to her throat, pressing into it, “there's been enough death today.” Shae froze at those words. “That's a good girl. Now I'm taking Olivia with me through that opening right over there. Don't do anything stupid. Drop the cane, drop it!” Olivia did so but Shae saw her drop something from her other hand as well. “Good. I'll let you go once I'm out of here. Now move. Olivia didn't resist as the thief made them go through that opening.
Shae grabbed Olivia's cane and quickly shoved it in the opening before it could close fully. Waiting a bit she knelt down and grabbed the other things Olivia dropped. It was a piece of wood with some sort of wooden spinner at one end. Shae knew exactly what this was since her parents had used something similar in the past. More importantly she knew how to use it. Thinking about Jules she said, “Come back to Olivia's office,” and blew on it to make the piece spin. A softly glowing green orb appeared and flew out of the room. Jules should be here soon enough. She looked back at the ajar opening, but would it be soon enough? “I am out of my mind,” she muttered as she went to that opening and was able to get it to open again. “Yeah, I'm out of my mind,” and she walked through. The door started to close again but she made sure the cane blocked it, and making sure Jules would know where she went. Taking a few deep breath, her nerves still felt the same though, she turned and tried to locate the thief and Olivia.
***
While she wasn't much of a visitor of the archives when she was studying here, Jules did accompany Vincent on a couple of occasions before both of them and Reks left here for the larger world outside the woods, Despite everything currently going on Jules looked around a smiled to herself thinking of those times. When Reks was younger he'd act like you were throwing him to the lions if you even hinted that this was your destination. When he grew older he'd help out more with less theatrics, particularly if it was something he was interested in, but Jules was usually the one Vincent went to for assistance when he did his research. And right now she had never seen the place so cluttered, with scrolls and papers all over the place. She had a vague memory of the person in charge at the time being a stickler for things being neat and tidy. The state of this particular room would have given her fits.
Pleasant thoughts for later, Jules reminded herself as she made her way to the main desk. The current keeper of this archive looked frazzled as various other people rushed from one room to another behind her. Occasionally dropping something off by the poor woman at the desk before going back for more. “I'm telling you I've had better days,” she told Jules without any prompting from her. She probably needed to say that to some body, Jules just happen to be the lucky person.
“I'm sure,” Jules said as she stopped at the desk. Realizing she knew what was going on, which would explain the organized chaos going in the building, Jules cut to the chase. “Have you found anything yet?”
“Maybe,” she said as she started going through all the scrolls and books by her, eventually pushing a stack aside and put a n old scroll that was hidden behind it in front of her. She unrolled it and showed the contents to Jules. “I found this in my office, after Olivia mentioned something about a underground cavern beneath the training grounds. Something about it sounded familiar for some reason. Then I remembered why. One of the original archivist had a record of it inside a private safe in what's now my office.”
“I know you're trying,” Jules said, trying to keep calm. The guys who robbed the forbidden vault and ended up killing three people was still on the loose. It wouldn't be fair to this woman to unload all the frustration that had been building up in her on this woman, she was just doing her job after all. Still this find was confusing and not helping the frustration levels at the moment. “But how does that help us exactly?”
“Admittedly, the notes about the cavern, not much,” she said as she shuffled through more papers before Showing Jules another one, and it looked just as old as the scroll about that cavern “Now this, everybody forgot about.” Jules stared at what she was seeing now.
“A map of the tunnels?”, she asked. Granted this would be extremely helpful in trying to corner Jonathon. But that was going to depend on how well the guards here knew them. Because Jonathon more than likely knew them fairly well.
“One of the original maps,” she clarified. Retrieve another newer looking map she said, “This is a current map of the system.” She laid them side by side and let Jules study both of them. It took a moment but Jules saw what she wanted her to see. As Jules pointed at it as the woman nodded in approval. “As you can see we lost some tunnels over the years.”
“How is that even possible?” Jules asked as she traced the out line of some of these older tunnels. If some of these were still open then they could catch the thief by surprise. This could be the best luck they had all day.
“That goes back to that report I found about that cavern,” she said. “One of the former head of the training ground had then sealed off, since these lead to it directly to that's under that vault that was supposed to be these.” Jules glanced up at her and said nothing. She did not envy Olivia one bit with the amount of damage control she was going to have to do when this was over. “He was afraid somebody could use that and get into there.”
“So he sealed this way off and completely ignored the one we found earlier,” Jules said with a little disbelief.
“I'm assuming he thought this was the greater threat. But what's done is done, he's long gone and can't defend himself now.”
“Right,” Jules said, she was going to have to get it together. Maybe not wish Carter was her to help her clear her mind with a quick sparing sessions, not that they had the time at the moment, she was on her own now and had to do that on her own like before her and Carter became partners, “you're right. Back to the matter at hand . Are any of the entrances to these older tunnels still open?” The archivist started to say something but then looked past her. Jules turned her head and saw a glowing orb by her head. “Now what?”
Reaching out to touch the orb she was a bit surprised to hear Shae's voice come out of it. “Come back to Olivia's office,” was the message. Seriously, now what?
Jules started to leave when the archivist grabbed her arm. Jules looked at her hand then up to her wondering what was going on. She looked worried which was making Jules even more so.”One of those entrances is in Olivia's office,” she said.
If Jonathon some how got into those forgotten tunnels. Jules freed herself and ran out of there and straight toward Olivia's office. She spotted Marcus coming out of the healer's building and grabbed him, saying, “Come with me,” and kept running. He didn't waste time asking why he just followed her. Bursting through the door she tried not to worry when she didn't see Shae or Olivia in sight. Once Marcus caught up she held a finger to her lips then motioned for him to follow her. Quietly they made their way to the door to Olivia's office. Steeling herself for anything that might be on the other side and slowly opened the door enough to get a look inside before opening it all the way. She walked in seeing nothing but a empty room. Then she spotted Olivia's cane sticking out of the opening of the wall. “Damn it,” she muttered, he was in the old tunnels.
Marcus came over and stared at the sight of the cane in the wall before going, “What happened?”
“Later,” Jules told him. “Go back to the archive and ask if we can barrow that map she showed me. Then get as many people as you can get. Pull them off the other openings if you have too. But get as many as you can and bring them back here. Jonathon might have Olivia.” Marcus eyes widened and rushed out of these. Jules went back to that opening and nudged the cane slightly. That was all it took for the door to open back up. She poked her head inside and looked around, quickly spotting the mechanism that controlled it. Flipping a old switch she waited, satisfied that it wasn't going to close anytime soon, otherwise they were going to have to blow a hole in this wall to get to the tunnels because she didn't have the time to search for the corresponding levers in the office. And while Olivia would, hopefully, understand why they did she didn't want to be on the receiving end of that look she'd give them.
She looked back in the office before looking at the tunnels and stared into the darkness. “Shae if you did what I think you did you better be glad you're not my kid. Because I would so...” Jules walked back iinto the office and waited. Getting more and more sure by the second Shae did exactly what she feared she did.
***
“It was supposed to be easy,” Jonathon said as he kept his grip on Olivia. And the plan was supposed to make things easy, but then that woman got involved and things stopped going according to the plan and right now he was improvising as he went. He almost panic when he realized what that initial path he took lead to this woman's office of all places. Then he heard her and that woman's voices come from the other room and knew he had to think fast. So he go in position by the door and waited, luckily Olivia was paying more attention to the brat and was close enough to grab and use as his current hostage. Equaly as fortunate that woman had left right before then or it could have been much worse. “Just grab a few things and get rich. My seller already had several buyers lined up. Nobody was supposed to get hurt.”
“Those items were locked up for a reason,” Olivia said, barely daring to move her head with his spear still at her throat. “People tended to get hurt, or killed, with their use. You knew this Jonathon,” he almost laughed at the disapproval in her voice. “Why would you put innocent people in danger just for a profit?”
“Why should I care about some idiots looking for something unique and exotic that have too much money to throw around. If they died who'd care?”
“Somebody would have cared,” she said with more defiance than a person in her place should. “And they wouldn't have been the only ones who would have died is those items get activated. More innocents than you think would be killed not to mention any Makai Priest or Knight sent to investigate or deal with the situation. They wouldn't have any idea how to handle some the of items you took.”
“I'd be long gone by then,” he snapped at her. “It wouldn't be any concern of mine or my seller at that point.”
“Where would you go?”, she asked suddenly.
He put the spear closer to her throat. Pressing it against the skin, “Shut up.”
She didn't take the warning, “Where would you go? Even if you killed me the others still know you're the one responsible for this. The Senate would make sure everyone in the Order would be looking for you. There's no where you could go that you wouldn't constantly be looking over your shoulder for a Makai Priest or Knight, wondering if they recognized you. And that's if you're partner in this folly didn't turn on you first after they were tracked down for selling them to begin with.”
“I know what you're doing,” he growled at her. She was trying to rattle him, make him doubt himself. But it wasn't going to work. There were places he could go that they would never think to look. And they would be looking for a rouge Makai Priest. And he had no intention of looking like one after this was over. A couple of quick purchases after the first couple of sales and he would look like any other regular human on the street. “And my seller the gran dkid of a former guardian for this vault. She wouldn't put her family name at risk to sell me out. Which is exactly what would happen if she did.” Two can play at this game. He told her the truth, the granddaughter of a former vault guardian did come up to him about the vault. And together they came up with the plan to steal from it. In fact she made sure there were certain things he didn't touch. But everything else was fair game in the end. So yes, he'd let Olivia live, let her tell them about his partner. It would divide any pursuet's attention long enough for him to get away while they tried to figure out who she was. At the lest divide the potential search part to give himself some better odds at getting away. Besides he didn't know what her plans were after things were sold and she didn't know his. Neither could point out what happened to the other, it was a detail that was easily agreed to after he insisted on it.
That admission stunned Olivia enough that it quieted her for the moment, probably trying to figure out if he was telling the truth or not. Jonathon was almost grateful for it as he lit another old torch on the wall to light the way. When this one caught fire he heard something scamper to his right. Keeping his hold on Olivia he pointed his Madou Brush in that direction and fired off a blast. There was a quick cry of surprised. He was being followed. Keeping his brush pointed in that direction he called out to his stalker, “Come out! Come out or the old woman dies right now!”
Making sure Olivia stayed between him and whomever this was Jonathon kept his brush at the ready. He almost let Olivia go who it ended up being surprised him so. He almost started laughing as Olivia spoke the kid's name, “Shae.”
Still trying not to laugh, mainly because he didn't know how the kid would react he said, “You're either braver or dumber than anyone ever gave you credit for. Particularly that idiot Walter.” To Olivia he commented, just because he wanted to and was the one in power at the moment, “It was pretty easy to get him riled up enough to get those kids. Not that I thought he'd go that far I mean. But really, just between the three of us, why are you so soft on him? I seen you tear into others for things no where near as bad as anything he'd ever done.”
Jonathon felt her stiffen ast his words. It almost seemed like she was straining a bit as she said, “I have my reasons.”
“Didn't really care that much any way,” he said. He had to be careful not to enjoy himself too much. That lead to over confidence and that'll lead to him making a mistake and getting caught. And he didn't get as far as he did by getting over confident. “Grab that torch and get in front of me,” he told the kid. “But don't do anything funny or Olivia pays the price.”
She did what she was told. Jonathon saw her hand go near the brush hanging from her belt, He pressed the spear into Olivia's neck a little more to get her to make a noise and remind the brat who was in charge here. The message was received as that same hand went away from her brush and grabbed the torch, taking it from the wall. “Now lead the way. Remember, nothing funny.”
She stared at him, trying to look intimidating. He did react here as he raised an eyebrow in amusement, it was almost adorable. Olivia was the one to telll her, “It's all right Shae, just do as he says and everything will be okay.” The kid still stared daggers at him but she eventually started walking further down the path.
“Jules will find you,” the kid said in a defiant way.
“I'm guessing that meant you left the door open for her when she returns to the office,” Jonathon said as he smirked behind her back. “Well let her track me down, thanks to you I have two hostages now.” The kid wisely said nothing as they walked the path, good let her stew in her own juices for a while. She'll smarten up sooner that way. They followed the path until they came to a fork. One way looked like it went up, the other looked like it went down. He asked Olivia, “Which way?”
“I never knew these section of tunnels existed,” she told him. “So I have no idea.”
Jonathon looked at the back of her head. Slowly he said, “You know what, I believe you. You made sure the guards knew those passages in their sleep in case of an emergency. You wouldn't have kept us in the dark about these.” He studied both ways trying to decide which way to go. They go down the wrong one and he gives that woman time to to shorten the distance between them if they had to double back. So which one was the right one? Then he remembered Olivia telling Emily how she discovered the tunnel he used to get those items out of the chamber. “Stand in front of this one,” he told the kid.
Reluctantly she did so. He made her stand there studying the torch in her hand. Most importantly the flame it was emitting. After several moments he told her, “Now stand in front of the other one.” She did so and his eyes never left the flame. It started to flicker in the direction they came from, there was wind. Where there was wind there was more than likely an opening. “That way,” he told them and made sure the kid went in that direction. Okay here was the new plan. Tie up the kid and the old woman if that opening was where he hoped it was close to, grab the stuff in go. If anybody got in his way then maybe he'd use that item he took off that breast plate looking thing he nabbed from the vault. It had to do something and he could afford to lose one piece to damage in the long run. Hell a few extra nicks could add to the story and the price.
***
It didn't take long for Marcus to return with that party she requested. He came back to Olivia's office with the other vault guards not on duty and a few of the border guards and Makai Priests who's primary job was to just teach. Jules took it as a testament to the job Olivia had done as the leader of this training ground. Then a few Knights from that side of the training ground arrived as well. The only thing that irritated her was the answer he got about the map from the archivist. “She said give her a few more moments.”
“We don't have a few more moments,” she muttered to herself. Well she wasn't going to let this group just stand around, most of them were just chomping at the bit to do something. “Marcus, Hector grab a couple of the others and see if you can determine where they went. We need to narrow down the possibilities as soon as possible.” Nobody argued as two of the other, one of the Priest and a Knight stepped forward and joined the two of them and ventured into the tunnel. After a few minutes the archivist entered the room. “What was so important that we had to wait?”, Jules asked, trying and not succeeding in keeping the frustration out of her voice. “Jonathon has Olivia and I'm pretty sure Shae followed them in.”
“My staff and myself was busy making these,” she said. Not even looking insulted by her tone, which technically made Jules feel worse about how she'd spoken to her, handed out several pages of paper to Jules and the others. She looked at them with impressed eyes, they were maps of the tunnel systems with the recently rediscovered ones added. But not enough for the whole group, which was completely understandable given the time frame. It was amazing that had gotten as many as they did. “I had them start working on these the moment we found the paperwork detailing these lost passages. Naturally I had us rush them once I heard Olivia was taken.”
“Amazing,” Jules said softly. “I'm..”
“Just get Olivia back and we'll call it even,” she told her.
“Right,” She studied the map, more importantly where the exits were again. They had to cut him off as soon as possible. Pointing at a couple of people, making sure at least a couple of them had a copy she waved them forward and put her map on the table for all to see. “You guys grab some more people, how many Knights are involved in this?”
One of them stepped forward saying, “We have more waiting outside.”
Jules nodded, “Good.” She waved that Knight forward as well. Trying not to think at how annoyed Reks would be right now that the Knights got involved, but maybe slightly impressed they were taking orders from her, she made sure he got a good look at the map as well. “We have a map and he doesn't. For the first time since this started we have an advantage. I want you five and some of those Knights to find these points right here,” she pointed at the exits for these tunnels, “And go inside, I think we don't have to worry that they'll be bobby trapped like the others. We're going to try and trap him between your group and the one in here. Just remember Olivia is his prisoner right now. Do not engage him unless you see the other group or you have no other choice. He's going to feel like a trapped animal so that's going to make him more dangerous especially if he figured out how to use any of the things he stole. And if any of you see one of the students down there have somebody grab her and drag her ass back here immediately. Is all that clear?”
They all answered in the affirmative. And as roughly half the group left as Marcus and Hector came back. Marcus went up to her reporting, “We found a branching path a bit further down. We didn't go down either one but one did look like part of it had some sort of light further down.”
“Show me,” Jules said dragging him toward the new map. After pointing out where there were on the map Marcus' finger went to the branch,
“It looked like it was more down here,” he looked at Hector who nodded in agreement.Jules used a finger to follow that particular path. Marcus looked at her as she studied it, “Can he get out that way?”
“He better not,” Hector mumbled. “The bastard has to pay for what he's done/” More than a few people nodded in agreement with him. If she was being honest she wanted him to pay as well. But there was something more important at stake then some revenge.
“Not if that group I just sent out out is fast enough,” she told him as she kept her eyes on the map. “But we might have caught a break. This path leads to that cavern that's under the training ground. There is a way to the outside from there but,” she looked to see if the archivist was still there, and she was, “Did the original map say where it was?”
“Yes it did,” she answered. “But there was some writing saying that it wasn't in plain site. If nothing happened between the time that map was made and now, he'd have to search for it.”
“I'm not counting on us being that lucky,” Jules said. “Try and figure out where that is and tell some guards to hold that spot until further notice.” Saying she'd get right on it she left as the group of Knights and Priest parted for her. “Come on, let's find this bastard and get Olivia back,” she told the group. Hopefully that group that just left will have more of a straight shot than Jonathon would have to get to any of those exits.
The rest followed her as she entered the the tunnel. She could feel that some of them wanted to move faster than what they were. Again if she was being honest so did she. But if there was any chance he was still in the tunnels she didn't want to give him any sort of advanced warning. They kept going following the path he lit up, more than a few keeping an eye out for any sign of trap that was laid down. Granted that would have been difficult while keeping a hold on Olivia but considering he'd done it more than once it was better to be safe than sorry,
Jules even made them hold up every time they approached a turn or a corner so she could peak around it. He didn't know these tunnel as well as the other ones so there was every chance he could have hit a dead end and turned back. Jules had to think like she was on a Horror hunt, trying to consider any possibility that might change things, usually not in her or Carter's favor. Then they reached a fork in the path. One looked like it headed up and the other down, and neither one was lighted. Remembering Shae was down here as well she tried not to think the worst, She looked down at the ground, it was solid rock and no set of prints in sight. “I don't suppose any of you knows how to illuminate footprints?”, she asked not expecting an answer.
The one she got made her look at Hector as he said, “A torch is missing.” He pointed at a empty holder on the wall as the group stared at him. “He might have taken it.”
“That's a pretty safe bet,” Jules said. Looking at the group she asked, “Did any one think to bring a map?” She was kicking herself wondering exactly when she dropped the one she had, That decision was adding time they didn't exactly have.
“I have one,” a Priest handed over the one in her hand.
“Thank you,” Jules said as she tried to get a better look at it, Marcus turned the tip of his spear into a torch, like Emily had done earlier in the day. “And thank you,” she said as the two of them studied the map. She looked back at fork in the path, “Looks like both of them leads to that cavern,” Pointing at the one that leads up she said, “That one leads to a upper level of the cavern.”
Marcus looked at her, “What are you thinking?:
Looking at him she said, “I'm thinking that if we're lucky we can catch him in between three groups instead of two.” In this case it was a risk they were going to have to take. Jonathon had one, possibly two, hostages to get away from him. The more they can divide his attention the better the chances at least one of them could get away. And that was if he didn't have any vault items on him. “Marcus, take half of the group and take the path that goes down. I'll take the rest and take the other one. Remember don't take him on unless you see one of the other groups,” Granted neither Marcus or Hector was there when she originally said that, but they knew now. And it was best to remind the others of that as well. The group pretty much divided itself with some getting behind Marcus and some behind her. “Everybody be careful and keep an eye out for Olivia and Shae. Get going,” Both sets went down their respective tunnel. Jules was silently hoping her biggest fear was wrong and Jonathon didn't have any of the items he took on him.
***
As soon as they hit the cavern Shae came to a complete stop, stunned by what she was seeing. When no one walked into her she could only assume Olivia and the thief did the same. It was massive in scope, that much was obvious even with what little light the torch was giving them.. Actually Shae was wondering how the ground above them hadn't come crashing down yet. Wait. was the training ground over there heads? This was underneath them and nobody knew? Then again she didn't know a forbidden vault was here until today so she guessed it was possible. Behind her the thief whistled at what they were seeing. “Now this is something.”
“You can always let us go and rot down here by yourself,” Shae told him. Wait did that just come out of her mouth?
The thief snorted a bit, “I think I liked you better when you were under Walter's thumb. And everybody thought he was a horrible influence, he has nothing on that Priest you brought in Olivia. Now how do we get out of here?”
“As far as I know the way we just came,” Olivia told him. Shae risked a look back. Olivia was staring right at her and she could read her face perfectly, don't do anything stupid. But the thief was occupied by looking at their surroundings this was the perfect chance. He'd notice if she grabbed her brush, But her string was still in her pocket, she thought those notes she found mentioned something about a binding loop, or she thought it did, Jules' friend did have really bad hand writing. But if she was right and could remember how it was illustrated and figure out how to do it while holding this torch then maybe she could trip the thief up by doing it around his feet. Slowly she went for the pocket she kept the string in.
“Hands away from the pocket,” the thief ordered. She was so close. “Show it to me and there better be nothing in it.” Shae did what she was told. Satisfied that it was empty the Thief said, “You see what I mean. I still have you like this and she thought about trying some sort of crap. Tell me that isn't her influence.”
Shae wasn't sure if it was Jules' influence or not. But she was getting tired of him talking about her like that, like she wasn't even here, Walter did that to her all the time, and she wasn't going to take it form somebody else. And not from the person who tried to put the blame on her for his thefts. “She didn't influence me,” Shae told him.
“Jules just helped her find her voice,” Olivia spoke up. As the thief snorted again Shae looked back at her. Olivia looked so proud of her. She almost tried for the string again but the thief quickly put his eyes on her again.
“Do you know how to make a light orb?” he asked her out of the blue. “Do you? It's too dark and too big in here for that torch to illuminate fully.” Shae looked around again, this cave could be bigger? “I'm more than willing to let you walk off a edge to keep me from doing it. So make some orbs already.”
“Shae,” Olivia spoke up, grabbing her attention. “Did you watch me when I made the one before Walter left you in that room?” Shae thought back to when they put her in that room. Granted she wanted to forget everything about being in there, but she remembered Olivia doing something before making the orb but it was so dark then too. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Olivia move her hands in a certain way. She was showing her how to do it. She did it one more time before saying to the thief. “She's going to need to use her brush to perform it.”
“Just for this,” he said. “Go ahead hand Olivia the torch and make some orbs, enough that we can see where we're going. But I know how to do it too, so I'll know if you're trying anything funny. If you do,” he trailed off and Olivia gasped a little as he pressed the head of that spear tighter to her neck. Shae quickly handed her the torch and took her brush from her belt. Doing the movement eactly as Olivia just showed her, and in plain view of the thief ust so he could see she wasn't trying anything. Finishing them she pointed the brush at the ceiling. Despite the situation Shae got a little excited when one formed, illuminating the immediate area. With a better look she could see now the thief was right, this place was bigger than she originally thought. And is she kept walking straight ahead there was an edge that she could have fell from a few yards ahead of them.
“Not bad,” the thief said as he got a better look around. Spotting what looked like walkway extending from the slab they were on he gestured his head in it's direction. “Now go over there and do it again.”
She headed that way then looked up as more orbs suddenly appeared in the air around them. They all looked around as more and more just appeared in the air. As her eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness she saw two things, one this place was even bigger than she thought after she lit her orb. And all the Makai Priests that were coming in their direction. So did the thief as he got a tighter grip on Olivia and turned around to try and keep all of them in sight. One, dressed like one of the vault guards stepped forward and said, “Give it up Jonathon there's no way out of here.”
“I didn't get here by giving up at the first sign of difficulty Marcus,” he said as he pushed Olivia forward. Shae moved quickly to grab her before she fell to the ground. The thief took that moment to run past the two of them and toward another pathway that lead to another slab.. but he ran into a barrier that one of the Priests quickly put up. “You didn't tell anybody did you Olivia?” he said as both groups started to close in on their location. He put his brush to the hilt of his spear, it suddenly started glowing a bright red and he plunged it into the barrier, above his head. Olivia gasped again as he drugged the spear down making a hole in the barrier. Shae wasn't sure what was going on, but that had to how he broke into the vault.
The other Priest outside of the two other vault guards were stunned by what they were seeing. Olivia spoke to her as he stepped through the opening, “Shae can you get that spear away from him with the string?”
Did she know what she was planning earlier? “I'll try,” she told her. Olivia stood on her own to give Shae plenty of room to try this. Please let her be able to do this. Grabbing the string from her pocket, she pictured the illustrations from the notes she found and tried to do them. Now picturing the spear in her mind she got the string around the thumb and pinkie of each hand then twisted it into a smaller loop. She saw a bit of energy go around the spear by the hilt in the shape of that loop. Unfortunately the thief saw it too making him pause a bit. Knowing this was her best chance she tightened the loop in her hand making the energy loop tighten as well and pulled, ripping it out of the thief's hand as the opening started to close.
The spear flew a bit before landing a few feet from the two of them. “Quickly Shae,” Olivia said, “Hand me that spear.” She ran over and got it off the ground as the Priest who put up the barrier quickly took it down to let everyone chase the thief. Handing it to her Olivia started leaning on the spear since she didn't have her cane.
Shae looked around as the thief was being chased by everybody who showed up. Occasionally firing off a blast from his brush at his pursers or physically attacking them if they got to close. All right maybe Jules was influencing her a little as she said, “I'm sorry Olivia,” right before she joined the chase after the thief. By putting that thing in her room he made her life hell, She was not going to just stand back and let somebody else catch him or give him the chance to get away, not if she could help it. She heard Olivia yell no at her, she'll deal with the consequences later, right now all she wanted was to see that bastard pay.
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