MERCEDES, jj maybank

70.

COUSIN RICKY

The cross made a loud clanking noise and they all tried to get cover. "Pope are you okay?" Kiara asks.

"Hey, you good?" JJ goes to his side.

Pope nods, "Yeah, I'm gonna. Just give me, like, one second to catch my breath." He huffs, on the ground.

"You did it, Pope," John B looks at the cross poking through the floor.

JJ walks up to it and brushes his hand across it, "Pope, she's...she's beautiful."

"I've never seen anything like it," Sarah goes to inspect it too.

"Man, the details insane," JJ traces his finger along the groves.

Beside him, Trinity points to a keyhole, "Hey look," She looks to John B who was soon on the right of her.

John B nods, "There's why Limbrey wanted the key so badly,"

"How much do you think she's worth?" JJ asks. "Like if we melted her old bones down, dude, I'm talking like high billions—"

"This belongs in a museum - no, this belongs in a museum," John B cuts him off.

"What?" JJ's mouth falls open, "So no one sees her?"

"In a museum where everyone sees it!"

"Are you kidding?"

Trinity's lips form a flat line as she stood between them both, turning her head back and forth as they shouted at each other.

"Hey!" Pope snaps at the two bickering friends, "It's my ancestors' cross!"

"Right, okay, alright, alright, well..."

"And this is bigger than money, and the worlds gonna know the truth," Pope continues,

"Yes, and if we don't get this shit outta here before Limbrey gets here, nobody's gonna know. So saddle up." John B adds, looking at JJ.

All six of them find a piece of the cross that they were gonna try and lift. JJ grabbed the middle and Kiara and Sarah were holding onto the part that dug through the ground, John B was gonna pull from the end and Pope and Trin just fit themselves in there.

John B counted them in on three to all start lifting. They all put their back into it and all grunted as they tried to lift this thing.

After finally getting it up in the air, they now had to get it out of the church, "Okay! Who's not lifting right now!" JJ groaned, "Sarah, are you seriously—"

"I'm lifting!" She snapped at him.

"Move forward, people," Kiara says to them.

"It doesn't feel like it," JJ continues to scold Sarah for apparently not lifting.

"I am!" She shouts.

Pope grunts and frantically shakes his head, "Okay, guys, I can't, no, I can't." Pope's arms start to give in and the cross on his side starts to sink down.

"No! No! No! No!" Kiara moans.

"No! Pope! Hang on there! No,"