Ultimate Note: The Calling

The Story Of A City Of Sinners

Wang Pangzi

It was beginning to really getting on his nerves the way the young Wu Xie never failed to get into troubles. That was one of the reason his father forbid him from tomb raiding for so long despite the kid wishes to join his uncle in the underground adventures. Now, he had manage to trigger a trap that had pretty much swallow both him and Zhan Qiling, which thankfully was awesome enough to go down along with him.

"Damn it! What now?" Pangzi cursed as he try to find a way to open the door that Wu Xie had accidently open.

"Don't bother looking for the trigger. Only Wu Xie can pull off that stunt without even trying." Xiazi said to Pangzi from behind him.

"We need to find him. If something happen to him..."

"He is down with the best of us, so he will be fine. Zhang Qiling had never failed to fulfil his job no matter the danger, you already know that." Xiazi reassured him.

"There is always a first time for everything. Xiazi, what make you so sure he is not in danger down there? You know Wu Xie is family to me, so what kind of secrets are Zhang Qiling and you hiding from us?" This time, it was Xiao Hua who asked.

"Master Hua, I assure you that even if we keep some secrets, the same way you keep yours, we don't mean any harm to Wu Xie and specially Zhang Qiling. He is capable enough to keep Wu Xie safe, us however, may not be so lucky. For now we are stuck here by the fog and the lightings. Don't get impatient, good things will come to those who wait." Xiazi said as he sat down on the floor, patting a spot at his side for Xiao Hua to sit by him.

"Do you trust him enough to believe his words?" Pangzi asked to Xiao Hua, who looked at the man with dark glasses and sighed.

"I do. Let's wait for the storm to dispel, then we can head out and search for them if they had not return by then." Xiao Hua admitted honestly, sitting by Xiazi while ignoring the smile that showed in Glasses handsome face.

"See? Just rest until then, they may show up soon enough." Xiazi whisper, quite content with hearing his Master Hua said he trusted him. He was definitely getting somewhere now, it was just matter of time to fully win his heart.

"Just hurry up, Yaba Zhang... I can't afford to lose Xiao Hua's trust now." Xiazi said to himself internally, wondering why the Qilin wanted Wu Xie. That there was a lighting storm in the outer ring was an indication that the heavenly beast wanted Wu Xie for something they could not interfere... yet.

Wu Xie

As the Qilin had clear the way for them, Wu Xie was determined to keep up to the remaining door that the Qilin had chosen for them to enter. Perhaps there was a reason behind it and as Zhang Qiling could not answer much of what he wanted to know, maybe he could still find some answer out of that place if he was lucky enough.

"Wu Xie, I will go first." Xiaoge said to him, as he pass him, giving him no room to protest, even when he was not going to object to his guidance, been so green to tomb raiding. Before, he had acted on impulse trying to get away from that phantom of a thunder Qilin, but it was kind of embarrassing now, how he acted so foolishly, almost putting the both of them in unnecessary danger if the Qilin itself had not save him from his own stupidity.

Thus to distract himself from his fall from grace, he took a better look at the place they had fall in, noticing for the first time that the stone floor was cover with a blackened sand that was once cover with blood, lots of it. The walls also had some carvings on it, but it was made in a language he didn't recognize from those he had study so far.