Fiction: Group 4
“Apart from my precious time and leaving my bar in charge of my little brother, I guess having a little
vacation once in a while wouldn’t be bad. By vacation, I mean watching over both of you “Royals, to
prevent you from running away from paying off my debt.” Lin said.
“Okay, first things first, let’s place the solar orb upon the solar stand first. I assume you have a wine cellar
here?” Princess Sophie assumed.
Lin nodded and led us down to her wine cellar. It was barely lit and cobwebs were hanging from the wall.
But a stand wasn’t in sight anywhere.
“Where is it, Crow?” Sophie asked.
Crow jumped off the arms of Princess Sophie and walked around the wine cellar for a while and located a
hidden lever which revealed a stand made of ruby and gold engravings. A ring stood on top of the stand
waiting purposely for something to hold.
“I didn’t know we had a secret room,” Lin admitted.
We walked towards the marvel slowly mesmerized by it.
Princess Sophie took out the solar orb from her bag and placed it on top of the ring. A beam of red and
crimson light emitted from the orb towards the sky.
At that exact same moment, The Lunar stand glowed black as a starless night. Varric, representative of
Gospel in China yawned as he stretched his legs.
“Finally, some entertainment. ROYAL GAURDS!” Varric bellowed.
And at his word, screens showing men in white battle armor saluting.
“Bring me the people who had the decency to try to ruin this empire. This is their coordinates. Fools, don’t
even know that their animatronic has been chipped.” Varric smiled.
“Sir, yes, Sir” they saluted.
Just as we were about to set foot out for Gospel, literally the first foot that went out of the bar, we were
bagged with sacks, knocked out and thrown indiscriminately into a car. The car began hovering off the
ground and flew.
Beams of light shone on my face. I woke up to the smell of rotting flesh.
“God, what’s that smell?’ I complained.
“You’ll get used to it. Nothing much else to this cell, other than the occasional guest such as yourself.” A
deep voice answered.
I squinted my eyes to get a good look of this place as this cell wasn’t really lit well. A skeleton waved as if to
say hello.
“Oh, just a skeleton,” I thought in relief.
Suddenly I jumped, causing my head to meet its mark on this cell’s ceiling.
“OUCH” I squealed in pain.
“Yea, they always do jump up in fear, bummer.” The skeleton figure said sadly.
“What? Who? Where? Just…how?” I tried to ask the right question but they were all just fumbled up.
“I am a person with feelings just like anyone. Name’s Calcifer and currently we’re in a prison cell
underneath the headquarters of Gospel. Honestly, I’m guessing it’s due to the heavily polluted Pearl River
Delta that made me this way. Water from that poisoned channel made me this way, probably.” Calcifer
answered.
“But I don’t want to be a skeleton.” I gasped.
“Oh, quit your yapping, Howl!” Lin’s voice shouted. “Trying to think of a way to get out of here.”
“But there’s a skeleton that wants to kill me,” I complained.
“Just calm down, and give us a hand. Calcifer isn’t as bad as he looks.” Sophie suggested.
The skeleton took of his hand and proffered me to hand it to Sophie.
“Pass it to the girl.” Clacifer asked. “The keys to the cells are just above the young girl’s cell.”
I reluctantly took his hand and just barely gave it to Princess Sophie. She was able to get the keys and
unlocked everyone out.
Now, we’ll be able to escape.
“The leader of Gospel must have the Lunar Orb.” Princess Sophie said.
Calcifer shook his head as he procured an orb of Black. It had the cool night air emitting from it.
“I have it. I tried to place it on the lunar stand but I was captured and was probably completely forgotten.”
He explained as he put his hand back in to place.
