The Gem. (Season 1 Finale)

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    The four were led into a dark room that smelled of must and old metal. Suddenly a light turned on, illuminating the man from the TV. He sat for a few seconds then started to talk, "Hello folks i'm here with some very special guests." He winked at something, but the four couldn't see it. "And here they are, the winners of The Games!" He stood up and started clapping, as he did, a light shone on them, and they heard other people clapping as well. All of them but Evan shielded their eyes from the light. The man laughed and waved them to come up and sit next to him on a separate sofa. The four walked up, squinting, but the man just laughed some more. The four sat down, then it hit Chris that his mask wasn't down, he touched his face but felt that it was just his glasses. The man sat down and was about to say something, but Evan beat him to it, "Do you always sit in the dark?" He asked, the man turned his head to the same spot as before and laughed. Evan looked at the four with a look of confusion. The man looked at Evan, "You are quite funny." He said with a smile. "Anyways, do you kids know how many have tried and failed to do what you four have done?" He asked. Evan took the lead, "No, not really." The man laughed again. "Some of our best made soldiers were in those games, were they more difficult to beat?" He asked. "If i'm being honest, the only hard people to beat were the civilians you people picked up." Evan told him. The man looked at Evan with a piercing look, Evan just grinned. "We all know that they sign up." The man said with a chuckle. Evan said nothing, just sat and grinned. "I have one more question for the four of you," The man started, "What will you be doing with the gem?" He asked. Evan tilted forwards, and put his elbow on his knee, "If we wanted you to know, we wouldn't have done all this." He sat back after saying that. The man laughed, "Well thank you for coming on our show." He stood up and clapped, along with whatever people were watching them. The lights turned off, and they were once again blind. Chris felt something go over his head, then he started to move. 

    Once they took the bag off their heads, the four were in the same room as where it started. The man sat there, staring at them. "I'm guessing you remember me, Dr. White." The man said. "How could we forget." Evan said. "So you won The Games. Congratulations. I guess it's time to give you the gem, huh?" He looked around the room. Chris also took a glance around. "Sir, I have indications that there is something in the wall." At that point Chris knew what was going on. It was a trap. The man smiled at them. "This is quite the city don't you suppose." He told them, looking out the window, high in the air. "It's not that hard, just give us the gem." Evan told him. "Ah, I wish it were all that simple." The man said, no looking down at the floor. He waved his hands and the walls blew in. Five or six of the things that Chris fought were standing beside them. Chris' helmet activated, and they readied for a battle. "You have two choices now. Work for me," The man paused, "Or die." "We'll take the latter." Evan said, shooting the man with a ray of light. The man flew through  the window, and the four started to run. The room started to turn black as the beings chased after them. Evan reached the window first, and jumped out it, the rest followed behind them, with all their trust in Evan.

    Evan hit the ground and realized that the rest of them had jumped out the window too. "Oh no…" Evan mumbled under his breath as he saw the three of them flying down from the skyscraper. He gripped his staff and aimed at the others and shot them with a slow falling type spell. Chris was the first to land on the ground. Evans' spell worked as he did not die when he hit the ground. Dakota and Dean hit the ground much lighter, as they were further up. "We need a plan now that we have a solid foot on the ground." Chris said. "First off we need to get the gem." Evan told them. "Yeah, but where is it?" Dakota asked. "It may be in that building." Dean said, pointing to a large black, heavily secured building. Above the entrance, was a sign, "Here lies The Gem". "Well that was easy." Evan exclaimed, and started to walk towards the building. "What's the plan, we grab the gem and just stroll out?" Chris asked. "That's what I was thinking, do you have some else?" Evan asked. Chris nodded, and they walked inside the building. 

    As soon as they walked in, there was a glass wall. On the other side of the wall, was the gem. Inside and standing next to it, were guards, lots of them. The ground was a bklack carpet, and the guards were dressed in the grey suits as every other ranked person. "Lets go ahead and steal ourselves a gem." Evan said. He started to walk around to see if there was an entrance point, but no luck. The four were now standing opposite to the door. "Here goes nothing." Evan said with a slight grin on his face. He took his hand out and shot the glass with one of his light rays. The ray hit a guard and the fight was on. Chris ran up and jabbed a guard in the chest with his sword, when Evan yelled, "Try not to kill them!" Chris looked at Evan who shrugged then shot another guard. "This might be as good a time as any to say that I can turn into a round and non lethal sword." Mante told Chris from inside his helmet. "Yeah, might as well." Chris responded. Chris watched his sword transform into the round and non sharp version of his sword. As soon as it happened, a guard ran at him with a spear, Chris jumped out of the way and clocked him in the back of the head. The man fell down as soon as. "That's the last of them, for now." Dakota announced. "Great." Evan said, "It's much smaller than I expected." Evan said again. "That's what she said." Dakota laughed, Chris also laughed. Evan glared at them, then smashed the case and grabbed the gem. It fit in the palm of his hand. Evan slid it into his robe and they ran out of the building. 

    Waiting outside was an army of the same type of guard. "Freeze!" A man from behind the wall of soldiers shouted. The four stopped. "You have two choices, come with us peacefully, or we will use force." The same man shouted. The force started to inch forwards. As soon as they were about three steps from the group, the ground started to rumble. All of a sudden a giant gush of water shot up. The guards flew through the air. "Alright, let's get going shall we?" Evan said. The four took and and started back to the camp to deliver the gem. 

    When they arrived everyone at the camp was ecstatic. The four knew they were going to be happy, but not like this. It was a party, they were offering them food, places to stay, money and many other precious materials. They eventually found the chief that they originally got the quest from. "Oh it's so good to see you again. We didn't expect you to actually come back." The man laughed. "With this gem, a century long plan is going to be put to motion!" He told them in excitement. Evan handed him the gem, and he started at it for a while, the four stood around, awkwardly. He looked up at them and his eyes seemed to be… different; he almost looked crazy. "What're you still doing here! Get out!" He screamed at them. The four quickly moved out of his way. He walked into the crowd that had formed behind them. Everyone cheered as he lifted the gem above his head. "Let's get out of here." Evan told them. "I agree, we should've never done that." Chris said in agreement. The four started to walk away when they heard the man cry, "Today is the day that he will come back!" The four kept walking, while the man yelled, something inaudible. The four were a ways away from the camp when they heard a loud roar, and a light illuminated their shadows on the ground. The four looked at each other in exasperation; Just as one campaign ended, another began. 

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