Misguided [Uncharted 2 Among Thieves: Nathan Drake x OC] [Book 2]

The Dig

Emma's pov
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"Follow the hose, just like in Montreal huh?" Nate says to Sully and I, Sull replies, "You're never gonna forget that are ya?" I smiled a little remembering that incident, and we climbed through some vegetation and hid behind a log.

"You ready?" I ask Nate who says, "Hey, wait a sec..." he uses his binoculars and then he hands them to me.

I see Lazarević say, "Three months, and you have found nothing." Flynn says in his defense, "Well, now wait a minute, we been--" a soldier interrupts saying, "Commander," pulling down the binoculars I say, "That must be Lazarević."

Pulling them back up to my eyes, the soldier says, "This man was caught stealing artifacts from site number five." Lazarević takes the small object saying, "You would betray me for this?" He throws it in the water as his other soldier says, "No, no Zora, I can explain---"

Lazarević interrupts saying, "No, no need." He takes out a knife and stabs the man in the area where his heart was. As his body drops in the water, he yells,"I am surrounded by traitors and fools!" He walks off back towards Flynn.

"What do you say we really ruin this guy's day?" Sully says, and I pluck the remote from him and say, "Allow me to do the honors then." Nate says, "Do it." I press the button and a large explosion from the charges goes off.

"Search the perimeter, go!" Lazarević yells as his two men and Chloe run off and he follows. "It's all yours kids." Sully says to Nate and I. As Nate and I leave Sully calls out, "I'll cover you two from here."

Sully says through the line, "Some fool left a sniper rifle up here. Be careful, looks like they left some sentries behind." Nate and I manage to knock out a few of the lookouts, and we make it to the tent unscathed.

"Man, this Lazarević guy isn't screwing around, Sully. You should see all this stuff." Nate says and I start going through the papers, "All these files, they're all about every expedition to find Shambhala. All the way back to the 1600s." I say and Sully asks, "What about Marco Polo's journals?"

Shifting some papers around, I pick up a few saying, "They're here too." Sully warns us, "Just hurry up you two, we don't have a lot of time." Picking up a piece of paper, I say, "Yeah, yeah I know Sully."

"The worthy pilgrim is granted a golden passport, to conquer obstacles on his journey to Shambhala." I turn to Nate saying, "The golden passport....I remember reading something about this one time when I was researching something else."

"It probably wasn't important...let's see..." I look at a page and pick it up, reading aloud, "It was with great sorrow that I left my fellow travelers to their fate. A fate decreed by the dreadful cargo we bore from Shambhala."

Nate turns to me saying, "I don't think the Cintamani stone is here." Sully who overheard says in both our ears, "Wait, what do you mean?" Taking the page Nate was holding, I say, "Listen to this, "I would have sooner endured the wrath of Kubla Khan himself, then remove the Cintamani stone from that sacred shrine." Marco Polo never had the stone."

Sully asks, "Then what was that dreaded cargo he was talking about?" Putting my hand to my forehead I say, "We don't know, but....wait, he's not looking for the stone, he's looking for Shambhala." Facing Nate, I say, "He's trying to pick up Marco Polo's trail back to Shambhala. The stone must still be there."

Turning away, I say, "Chloe, can you talk?" She says, "Hang on, yeah I'm here." Taking a breath I ask, "Throughout all this digging they've done, have they found any bodies, and remains at all?"

Chloe says, "Now that you mention it, no. Why?" Nate chuckles saying, "Over 600 people were shipwrecked here. If there's no bodies, don't you find that a little odd?" Following up Nate I ask, "Where would you go if a tsunami hit?"