The Haunted; The Journey

Secrets

Sorry, about the wait. School's mean, and with basketball now, it's crazier than it was before... But my friend @The_Black_Belt_Ballet has been helping me, so if you have a chance, you should read her Percy Jackson fanfics, she's AWESOME! Now for the chapter...

Eve's P.O.V

I walked along with Dylan, in silence after our conversation. Based on my estimations we had been walking about three hours, two after we had talked. After that I had silently been staring at the ground, trying not to think about my family. Stupid man from the statues. I'd swore, I'd find him and kill him one day for everything he'd done. He took everything, I only had myself now and it had been that way sense I was seven. I still remember it clearly...

-----Flashback-----

I woke up in the middle of the night. I got up and checked the time, it was midnight. I was about to go back to bed but I thought I heard a scream. It had to be my imagination, I was probably still half-asleep. But never the less, I went to my window, to look and see. What I saw will forever be burned into my memory. The village was chaos, people running around screaming. Blood ran red in the streets. And in the middle of it all stood the man responsible for it all. I could recognize him, from the statues, and I watched frozen in horror as he smiled throwing the first fireball at one of my friend's house. I could hear the screams become louder. And there was nothing, I or anyone, could do but watch as he took away everything I'd ever known.

-----End of Flashback-----

My momentary flashback ended when Dylan stopped me and shushed me. I stopped and listened. Then I heard voices, up ahead but toward the right in the trees. I listened somemore, that was definitely the thief's companion, the hybrid. I motioned to Dylan signaling to him who it was and silently started to creep forward, to the thief's camp.
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Skylar's P.O.V.

"Wait, you know magic?" I asked the Hybrid surprised. "I do. But I've never met anyone human who could do it." The Hybrid Mage said sounding just as surprised as I was. "Wait," his friend said lowering his sword. "Your a Mage?" "Yes," I said deciding that these people had to be friendly. "My name is Skylar, I'm an explorer and spell caster. And your?" "Drake." The hybrid 'Drake' said. "Um... Let's just say I'm a Mage and explorer." Then I looked to his friend. "Grayson." He said, his sword put back in his sheath now. "Former mercenary and traveler." I nodded, he looked familiar, but I'm not sure where from. He was probably just part of the empire.

"Um...." I said debating whether or not to ask them but it wouldn't hurt, would it? "Do you by any chance know about..." I hesitated, no sure to say it or not. "...Herobrine?" Both Drake's and Grayson's expression saddened, Drake's more than Grayson's. Maybe it was because of his eye. Drake was the first to speak, "Yeah...what about him?" "Well, it's just your..." I motioned at his eye. "Oh." Drake said. "Um, it's a long story." "I wouldn't mind." I said, usually I'd take the hint but I was very curious about this. "Um... Could I just get my stuff first?" Drake nodded and I skipped over to the trees to get my stuff.
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Drake's P.O.V.

I watched her disappear into the woods. As soon as she was gone, my head started hurting. Stupid headaches. The pain suddenly got worse and I groaned, Grayson noticed and started to dig into his backpack for something, most likely water, or a health potion. Then in flash it was over, but the pain still lingered. I felt a hand on my shoulder, I looked up and saw Grayson there offering me a water bottle. I took it gratefully and drank it all in one bid gulp.

"Thanks." I said when I swallowed all of the water. Grayson just nodded. About thirty seconds later Skylar came back from the trees with her she had, a backpack, and an enchanted sword. I sat down on a tree stump in the clearing. "I'm ready!" Skylar said, setting her backpack on the ground and sitting down on the ground. "Ok." I said. "Ugh, where should I start?" "The very beginning?" Grayson suggested. I sighed. "Well here we go, it all started in this creepy mansion, that Armen and I bought.

(Explains about the creepy events, till the part of the SACRED DIAMON-)

"So then Armen told me not to say it, and-" "It?" Skylar questioned. "Oh, um..." I looked over to Grayson not sure whether or not to say it. "Do you want me to write it down?" Grayson said, starting to dig in his backpack. I nodded, "Um, can you read?" I asked Skylar. "What language?" She asked. "English." Skylar tilted her head confused. "Oh, sorry the common tough." "Oh, yeah." "Here." Grayson said handing me a book, open to a page that read 'The Sacred Diamonds' in neat handwriting. "Here." I said handing it over to Skylar.

I waited to see what she said. For awhile she didn't saying anything. Then she got up and went over to her backpack. She dug around it for a second then pulled out something, then she turned around to reveal that she was holding one of the three, one of the three sacred diamonds.
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Dylan's P.O.V.

I followed Eve as we crept toward the thief's camp. "Eve," I hissed at her, " get in a tree and when I give the signal, jump out and attack from above." "Wait," Eve whispered back at me as I started to head to the clearing. "What's the signal?" "You'll know when you hear it." I whispered back. Then I headed for the clearing. I saw that there was a high tree by the clearing. I took out to small daggers, and started to climb the tree. When I reached about ten feet above the ground, I looked around for a branch that would support my weight.

I saw one just above me in the direction of the egg thief's camp. I climbed up higher and then swung myself onto the branch, it held. I let out a silent sigh, of relief and peered through the branches to get a good look at the camp. I saw Eve perched in a big oak just across from me also watching the thief's camp. She saw me and nodded, so I knew she saw me. She pointed to the hybrid and a girl down there, then she made a motion like she was going to fight, and pointed to herself. I nodded, if I was correct she meant that she would fight those two, I then pointed to Grayson, made the same motion to fight, and then pointed at myself to make sure. Eve nodded.

I looked down at the people there, the hybrid and thief looked surprised over a, a diamond? Oh, well it was probably nothing important. I let out a high clear whistle, loud enough that the people could hear it. Eve got up to move, but I shook my head. Not yet... The hybrid, thief, and human, looked around confused, trying to find where it came from. I looked at the trees searching for their 'answer'. I spotted a robin in the trees, perfect.

I took a pine cone from the tree and threw it at the bird. The bird, started flew out of the tree. Seeing this the hybrid and human relaxed. The thief stayed alert but wasn't as tense as before. Perfect, I let out the high whistle again. The hybrid, thief, and human, dismissing it as a bird call turned their backs and continued to talk. Eve got up again, this time I nodded. It was time to attack.

A/N
Well then... That's that. Hope you guys like it. I left you with a beautiful cliffhanger *evil laugh*. I was going to end it when you found out Skylar had one of the three but I wanted to give you two cliff hangers. Did anyone notice that I did every P.O.V. but one person's? First two people get a cookie and first three get a shout out! And don't worry this person's P.O.V. will be first next time cause I'm trying to make it evenly distributed. And without A/N's it was 1,271 words and took 3-4 hours to write. That's all for now!

Bye!

-Eve_enderfire