Help from the OtherSide

29. The Damned River

"This is our cue to follow her I think." I suggested to Team. We got out and traversed away from the route we had taken to get to the temple. The woman scurried fast for her age and we were practically jogging behind her.

"Do anyone of you have Glowy with you?" Amelia whispered. They all turned to look at me. I showed my empty hands and worry appeared on them.

" It was near the Pegasi right? I don't think anybody around would steal from the horses." I tried to pacify them. As much as I missed Glowy right now, we had an important task at hand.
The old woman took us to a run down house with cracked walls and dried old timber roof situated in the middle of nowhere.

She stepped on her porch and the doors flew open hitting the wall inside with a loud bang.

We stopped outside the house, it seemed no one was keen on entering it.

"Wharr' ye lot waitin fer?" She called out.

"Who's gonna do the honors?" Grant did a hand sweeping motion towards the door. Before I could retreat to the back of group, someone shoved me in.

They were careful enough to push me by my shoulders and not my back, I'll give them that.
 My legs stumbled over the rickety wooden steps and I tripped into her house.

Something's don't change huh.

I crashed into an earthen pot and regained my balance before I destroyed the shed. The broken pots gained her attention. She looked at me through the hood of her cloak and muttered, 

"Shuda thrown the rock wen oi had thee chance."

"And who do I owe my thanks to?" I scowled at the rest of them approaching the door.

Everyone averted their gaze but Liam discreetly jabbed his thumb at Hex. He caught on to the action and smacked Liam's hands away from him.

"Let's get down to business, what do you want us to do?" Yumiko initiated the topic. Wordlessly the woman dug through some cabinets before pulling out an antique looking case to which she murmured something. The case unlocked and she delicately lifted something out of her gnarly fingers, enclosing it stiffly in her palms.

When she opened her palms, the object hovered in the air. It was a small turquoise ball the size of a pearl.

"And what is that now?" Amelia sighed.
"Yer key."

That piqued everyone's interest.
"Hand it over." Liam opened his palms to her.

"I will, if ye do wot I say. Thairs a rivah down thais path, bring mi the creatush teef. One will do." She declared. "Ye can use thais." She placed a small, sharp obsidian dagger on the shelf beside her.

"Is it just me or does she have a strong accent? It's hard to understand her." Dora frowned.
"Yeah."
"True."
"She's probably Australian." Liam said.

"You're telling us to bring the creature's teeth that lives in the river down the path." I translated.

"Aye."

"And that creature has glowing yellow eyes. . ?" A pit formed in my stomach.

"Aye."

"Long claw like fingers?"

"Aye."

I shot a look at Yumiko and she had horror imprinted on her face. Others seemed to have caught up on my description of this infamous creature.

"Oh my God. The one that drowned you earlier today?" Amelia gasped.
I slowly nodded, my brain working  hard on how to not  be the person assigned to this task.