Chapter 4 1809

I quickly ran after the kid, bullets thudding after me. What I saw next surprised me greatly; in front of me was a large iron door. On the front of the door was an emblem of a P entwined inside a vine! The sign of the Pendemate! Quickly I sketched it in my notebook that I always kept tucked in my shirt.

The kid peered out from behind the door and whispered “Come on, hurry, get in here.”

“All right” I whispered back. As soon as I stepped inside I gasped in surprise. Lying in front of me was several open lockers that contained all sorts of armor, swords, gold and golden weapons.

I turned around and saw that Anonde had fitted himself with a light breastplate and he was holding a sword.

“Suit up, mister.” He said. I looked around and saw a golden breastplate and a shield with the emblem of the pendemate on it.

“You might want this, sir.” I heard a gruff but seasoned voice say. I looked up to see a man in leather armor standing there holding a sword out to me. The sword was gold with rubies embedded in the hilt, but the sword was not what caught my attention. It was the figure holding the sword that caught my attention.

“Romiv?” I said in question looking up at the tall white haired man, who was holding the sword out to me.

“Yes, James it is me. Anonde you have suited him up well.” He said calmly even though we could here bullets thunking harshly into the inner wall.

“You know him?” I asked now completely bewildered.

“Yes, he is my son.” He replied now with an edge in his voice.

By now I was too confused to ask any more questions, so I took the sword from Romiv and, holding the sword high declared, “ Let us destroy the enemy who seeks our death and our treasure!”

“Yes indeed let us protect what is rightfully ours.” Said Romiv now holding a bronze sword.

We quickly ran out the door into the main room in which there was a group of men looking for an entrance and a woman standing on the table and shouting at the men to hurry up. As soon as the men saw us they grabbed their guns and brought them around to bear. We charged screaming incoherently at them to surrender. They did not surrender instead they swung their heavy guns up at us . We knocked their guns aside with our swords before they shot, sending their bullets into the ceiling. They dropped their ineffective guns and grabbed their swords and we all entered close-quarters combat. I was no swordsman and was having trouble keeping ground, suddenly the man I was facing swept his sword in a wide arc slashing a large gash in my armor and knocking me aside.

Past then everything was in a strange haze. I was laying on the ground bleeding and screaming and Romiv was twirling his sword insanely fast chopping enemies with a determination I had never seen before. Anonde was a blur running and jumping like a tiger.

When I woke up again I was in the main room alone and there was blood and slashed body’s laying all over the room. I was sitting on the base of the statue of Athena. I realized that I must have fallen unconscious from blood loss; I had no idea how long I had been out. I braced my elbow against Athena’s shield that was lying on the ground below her. Then I noticed something strange, on the handle of the shield was the sign of the Pendemate. But one of the vines was crooked I went up to it and pushed on the crooked vine. The statue creaked and the lid of the book that the statue was holding. Inside was the Pendemate.

It was a treasure renowned for the people of the land, But at such costs. Now to figure out the mystery of Romiv and Anonde…