Chapter 23: Like the Movies ( Armen's P.O.V )

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We soon began traveling and going to the places that we had in mind first, just in case. I kept a close eye on everyone as I was flying just behind them. It had been hours since we had last left our temporary camp and packed up our things, and we were making our way to Mia's suggestion, of a desert temple that she and her archeological group never had the chance to explore. Luckily, she had maps that led to it, so Grayson and Mia led the way discussing things about the maps and sometimes getting off topic, but only for a small period of time. Drake and Luke were walking next to eachother behind them, saying small things to eachother from time to time.

I kept an extra close eye Drake, since I was worried about his health the most. I was still saving my energy and recovering my mana so I could turn into my human form. I had enough to turn into my human form, but I didn't feel like it.

"We should almost be there, just a little longer." Mia announced.
"How many minutes longer?" Luke inquired.
"Maybe about five? Ten minutes? Around that." She replied. Luke nodded and continued to walk along, as we walked down a hill and entered the dessert biome.
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We soon were all overlooking a large temple made from sandstone and clay. At the stone entrance, there was a lever.
"I wanna pull it." Luke and I declared.
"Don't you dare." Grayson and Mia warned. Luke and I groaned.
"But I want to pull the lever..." We both grumbled.

"Let's check around the area. If we find another way to get inside, we go that way. If we don't, we pull the lever, but we find another way to open it without standing to close." Mia informed, as she started to look around. The second she left, me and Luke scrambled to pull the lever, with Drake and Grayson trying to get us away from it. I finally made my way towards it, but just when I was able to pull it, Drake caught me in his hands, but tripped, along with pulling the lever. At that second, Mia came around.
"What's tak...ing YOU GUYS SO LONG?" She asked running over to us. Almost as if on time, the floor underneath us, opened, and we all fell down, as the floor closed again. All of us screamed, even me.

'Ohhhhhhh wait...' I then flew up, and started to fall down slower. A couple of moments later, Grayson, Mia, Luke, and Drake all hit smack on a body of water. I flew out.
"That...sucked." Drake stated, as he climbed out of the water. The others did aswell.
"Okay." Mia began. All of us turned to face her. She was out of the water, but crossing her arms and twitching.
"Who. Pulled. It?" She demanded.
( A/N OOOOOOHHHHHHH NOOOOOO SEMPAI DRAKE RUN!!! )
Luke and Grayson pointed at Drake, since at the moment I didn't have any fingers. She turned to him.
"Why?!"
"It wasn't my fault! Armen and Luke wanted to! Me and Grayson tried to stop them! Armen almost pressed it but I stopped him and...I kinda tripped." Drake said, sulking.
"So then you two." Mia continued, addressing Luke and I.
Luke and me looked at eachother, and back Mia. We then helplessly scattered away to find an exit out. Mia and Grayson sighed and shook their heads in disappointment, and Drake facepalmed.

"Whatever...lets just find a way out of here. Since this is a temple, and they pretty much trapped us here, they probably don't want us to get out. Armen, can you try to fly up and see if there's a way out?" She ordered.
I flew up from where we fell and checked every inch. The entire floor was sealed shut, but there was a small space where one could put their fingers. I turned into my human form, and tried to push it, but I simply didn't have the strength too. I put my hands together, then pulled them apart and chanted,

"Energiområdet!" and a sphere of green energy appeared. I threw it at the wall, but it stayed firm. I turned into a light spirit again and flew back down. I shook my head.
"I can't. I tried using magic, but it didn't work." I informed disappointingly.
"Let's just try to find a way out of this room." Mia suggested, touching the walls surrounding us.

"You think there may be traps here? Like the movies?" I started up.
"Movi...es?" Mia asked curiously.
"Nevermind. But, when you were exploring temples and things like this, were there any kinds of traps?" I asked.
"In some of them." She responded.
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We soon found our way out of the room when all of us managed to push away a bit of one of the walls and fit through.
"What did you usually find when you explored temples?" Drake inquired.
"Usually artifacts. Gems. Sometimes even nothing, but we had mostly found a lot of things like that." Mia responded. At that moment, I heard something open behind me, as we walked along a long tunnel. I stopped and looked back.
"WHAT THE F-"
"RUN!" Grayson interrupted me and we all took off running. Behind us, was a large boulder coming at us. And fast.
"This is just like the movies." Luke stated playfully, as he ran aswell.
"WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE MOVIES?!?!" Mia asked, clearly itching about wanting to know what movies were.
"They're u-uhh...um...films!"
"Oh okay. WHAT ARE FILMS?!"
"That's...I don't know!"
"You don't know?!"
"I do! But I don't know how to say what they mean!"
"Then say that!" Luke and Mia bickered.
"Guys! Dead end! Dead end!" Drake and Grayson jinxed. I looked at our surroundings and there were no other ways going in different directions.

"Can't one of you teleport us out of here?!" Grayson suggested.
"I'm out of mana!" Drake reasoned.
"And I feel like something's important down here!"
"Then can't you at least stop it?!"
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh." I remarked.
"Really?!" Everyone except me all said.
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I was able to stop the boulder and we continued onward before we found another room.
Inside, were a couple of chests.
"Ooo! Chests!" I exclaimed, flying my way towards them.
"I wouldn't open those chests..." Mia warned. But it was already too late, and I had opened one. The second I did, the ground underneath opened, lava appearing, and the chest exploded. Luckily, I was flying. Either way, I wouldn't be harmed.
"You see why?" Mia continued, as she looked around.
"Well...I see that now." I saw Luke walk over to a stone crate. A coffin probably. He opened it, and sharp needles that emerged from the tomb cut his fingers. He groaned in pain.

"Well ow!" He exclaimed in pain, looking through his backpack and taking off his gloves so he could wrap bandages around them.
"There doesn't really...seem to be anything here. Should we just move on?" Drake suggested.
"Yeah. I agree."

We walked out, and moved around cautiously. The place was surprisingly well lit, its candles glimmering on fancy holders as we walked by. The place was made of sandstone, some with carved designs of sorts. As we all turned the corner, we all gasped at what we saw.

There was a tall narrow creature that didn't have any flesh or tissue and it was covered in what once was white silk robe, as it was now torn to a great extent, and ash covered some of it. It's entire body was made of bones, and had glowing orange eyes, much like the color of Luke's orange one. You couldn't see its arms, nor legs, as it was covered by the once silk clothing. It was a skeleton creature, except it's rib cage was ripped open, and the bones that closed it were sticking out neatly, which was weird. It had a glowing red orb in the center of the rib. Nevertheless it looked frail, and not very threatening, but it was still very creepy, and it told other wise, as it flew towards us. It didn't leave much off the ground, but that made it faster. It had small needles in its hands, and they were glowing red and golden. It even started burning away slowly at its hands, so much in fact, that the metal itself starting to soften and drip liquid.

"Quick question." Drake began.
"Did you encounter things like that?!?!" He continued. Mia shrugged.
"Ehhh. NOW LETS GO!" She yelled, and we all ran away, as it followed right behind us.

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