Lil Disaster

Part 1 - Found

In the middle of Veracruz, Mexico a team of researchers found an old Olmec temple buried deep in the earth. They were excited as it could have answers to why the civilization disappeared.

Inside the temple, a 35-year-old adventurer named Amilia Day was traversing the halls. She was able to avoid traps and other hazards thanks to her years of experience. She was also a thrill-seeker who loved danger to the point that her team worried about her. As she continued searching the ruins, she recorded audio notes with her compact tablet device.

Amilia (to tablet): This temple is something else. I still haven't found evidence of what happened to the Olmec empire like the others wanted but I did find writing on the walls telling me something shady was going on here. Seems a cult of some kind were secretly working on something big and destructive. Not sure if they succeeded but I should soon find out. The markings are leading me to where they were working on whatever this thing is.

Amilia continued until she entered a large room with glowing runes on the walls. The floor was littered with skeletons dressed in robes.

Amilia (to tablet): I believe I've found the main chamber. A lot of skeletons that I'm guessing were the cultists. My guess is that their project did not go so well. I mean the writing said it was something destructive so...

She then stopped talking when she saw something in the middle of the chamber she could not believe. It appeared to be a young boy shackled by his wrists to the ground having him kneel.

Amilia (to tablet): This is unexpected. It appears to be a little boy held in the room with shackles on his wrists. He appears around four years old, has pale blue skin, no hair with a headband, and is wearing only a torn loincloth or skirt. He had markings on his skin similar to the ones on the walls. I'm not sure if he's real but...

Amilia went up to him and then stepped on markings on the floor around the boy which made them start to disappear. She jumped back as the rest of the markings in the room stopped lighting up. Then she heard moaning and groaning from the boy.

Amilia: Whoa! What is this?

Then the boy woke up. He looked up to her with glowing white eyes. Amilia didn't know what to do here.

Amilia: Umm...Morning?

The boy then spoke in a different and odd language. He sounded confused. Amilia then looked through her tablet's auto-translator to see if it could translate whatever language he was speaking. The tablet stated the language sounded like a combination of other known languages. Possibly it was the one they were based on. She had the tablet do it's best it could to translate the boy.

(Words in between < and > means it's in the boy's native language.)

Amilia: <Hello, boy. I am Amilia. Who are you and why are you here?>

Boy: <I...I don't remember. It's all fuzzy. What are you?>

Amilia: <Just an adventurer.>

Boy: <Where are the others?>

Amilia: <You mean the cultists?>

The boy then saw the skeletons on the floor and recognized the clothes.

Boy: <Oh no! Did I do that?>

Amilia: <I don't know. What makes you think...?>

The boy then went into the fiddle position looking like he was going into a panic. Suddenly his markings and eyes glowed orange and the room started shaking like it was an earthquake. Amilia was surprised by this.