JINX

Prologue

Narrator

June, 1978

Drip

Drip

The wet and slimy walls of the cavern dripped with moisture as the waters from the previous rains began to find it's way down seeping through the pores of the earth until it found itself in this unbecoming cavern, the air had grown musty with the smell of limestone hanging in the air and perhaps in a few months it would become an underground lake

But for now the musty and eye watering odors didn't deter the two young and brave explorers as they trudged along the wet and mushy ground their heavy boots squishing the fragile earth was the sole sound heard as they moved on

"How much farther do you think it is Jim?, I don't think I can handle much more of this" the explored complained

"Not much farther Alfred" Jim said with twinkling eyes "don't worry this will all be worth it soon we will be famous and the our counterparts shall rue the day they cast us out"

This seemed to incite Alfred as they set out with a renewed pace working faster than ever and soon their rewards was staring them right in the face
For at the end of the cavern stood two stone doors marked with ancient runics

"By Gods I knew that it existed" Jim said in excitement "wait until the council gets a load of this, we'll be as rich as gods I'm sure"

But Alfred wasn't listening to his friend as he examined the fading words etched unto the cavern doors

"What language is this?" He asked "it doesn't look like any of what we studied at the academy"

"Bloody twit you don't know anything, move out of the way you pesky twat"

Dragging his friend out of the way as if he bore no weight at all, he bent over to examine the words written all over the door

"Well I'll be damned it is the Mordeus Entombé, the language of demons so it really just exists"

"D-d-demons, listen if what you say is true we shouldn't be here" his timid friend spouted "adventure is one thing but this is messing with demons"

"Idiot" Jim snapped rapping at his friends head "this will lead us to fame damn the consequences and we can finally prove this stupid new scientists with their new fan dangled gadgets wrong about God's existence, we are rich as soon as we open this door"

"H-how do we o-open it" Alfred stuttered

"Like this" Jim said smirking "est fic to can sai nemet cafru demonae"

The door began to shake with power as Alfred fell to his knees cradling his head and muttering prayers and slowly the door began to open up

"Get up you bloody fool" Jim spat "greatness awaits us"

Dragging a highly reluctant Alfred along they stumbled into a room that rendered them speechless

All around them were jewels and riches so much so that the puny bags that the men had brought would not make a dent in the vast fortune

"Alfred we are lucky bastards, forget the council we are going to be fucking rich"

The men highly drunk on their fortune began to wander about the cavern draining and feasting their eyes on their riches until they stumbled across the skeleton on the throne

More words of the Mordeus Entombé blazed like a fire around it never burning never ending

"W-what does it say" Alfred said clutching tightly to Jim's arm