Rendezvous: A Lost Chapter of Sam Drake

Chapter 11: Grave Digging

We touched down in Scotland on the side of a mountain. There were light patches of snow across the fields of grass that had turned to the color of coffee on a Sunday morning. Sam and Nathan talked about Rafe and our previous experiences with him, but Sam dismissed him as "just a rich boy playing with daddy's money", so he didn't seem concerned. We could see the cathedral peaking over the hillside. It was gloomy, but even through the sea of grey skies, it was beautiful. I drew out the cathedral in my notebook the best I could. It was something I wanted to remember. I added a small map on the bottom noting where the graveyard was as opposed to the cathedral. We climbed on some of the mountain edges and made our way to a tree that Nathan found to get to a lower level. He went first hooking his rope to the base of the tree as he swung down. Sam went next and then I followed shortly after. We went to the lower level and saw that someone else had already set up camp. There were tons of excavation equipment and big boxes full of other tools. in big letters, "SHORELINE" was printed on one of the boxes. "I thought they were just by the cathedral?" Sam asked looking at Nathan. Just then four shoreliners began to shoot us. We ducked down behind their boxes and took care of them. "What a nice welcome." I said standing back up. "We gotta get to that graveyard. They're expanding their search. We need to beat them to it." Nate said moving on towards the graveyard, once again. We continued to run into shoreline time and again as we made our way to the graveyard. We shot our way through each time. A few mercenaries were walking by "Rich boy is starting to have a fit. Heard they keep hitting dead ends." The other one replies "Yeah, boss lady wants results and she wanted them yesterday." The third one pipes in "I heard they uncovered some stuff, but I don't know the details" The three separated and the three of us started tackling them left and right trying to go unnoticed. we made our way through this pack of shoreliners and onto the next closer to the cathedral. "Do you think Nate and his crew will make an appearance?" One of the mercenaries said to the others. "Nadine seems to think so. I'd honestly love to see them try. Heard the girl that's with them is pretty hot." I blushed hearing them talk. "Yeah, her and boss lady used to be partners. Heard the girl took all of Nadine's findings and gave it to Nate. Nadine was pissed. I'm sure if the girl had the balls to show up, Nadine would beat the shit out of her." The other mercenary laughed "No way, mate. My money is on the Drake girl." Sam tackled that guy and Nate got the other one. I was able to get the final guy and we kept moving. 

We finally made it to the graveyard. Sam and Nate were looking at various sigils and markings on the graves. "Alright, Sky. Do your thing." Sam said smiling at me. I took my notebook out and scanned over the graves and their markings. Nate was looking at one. "No, that's not it. The skull is right, but the dates aren't. Keep looking" I told him as I moved my war to the back. I found one that was looking good so far. I wiped the snow off and it showed the right dates. "Guys, come here." I wiped the snow and the name on the grave was Benjamin Bridgeman, an alias of Henry Avery. Nate smiled. "Nice! This has to be it." Sam joined us "Yeah, but the skull. It's kinda odd and it's not facing the right way" Nate looked at it and turned the head of the skull to face the right like Avery's sigil. A pair of stairs started moving down to a lower floor behind Avery's headstone. It had been covered in snow, but it led down to a lower floor below the grave. "Holy shit.." Sam said walking around to watch the stairs fall into place. We all walked down. Nate first then me and then Sam. It led into this room with Jesus, Saint Dismas and Gestas. "Woah, the gang's all here, huh?" I smiled and noticed there was some sort of puzzle to be solved as usual. I solved the puzzles like this with Nate and he did most of the climbing. Nate walked around to the other side. "Hey smokey, I need your lighter over here" Nate said from the other side. Sam walked over "You know, that hurts my feelings" Sam said taking his lighter out. "Not as much as it hurts your lungs" Nate said back to him. Sam lit the spot Nate pointed to "Thank you, Father Duffy" he said rolling his eyes. I laughed and joined them on the other side. The flame spread across the entire back side of the crosses. The flame created a light the shinned on a door on the back wall. The puzzle resembled a constellation. I went back on the other side. There were wheels on the front sides with small peepholes to see where the light was pointing. I aimed them in the direction they were meant to be in, and the door opened. Sam walked in first. "Open sesame" he said walking in. "Wrong treasure" I said back to him. He rolled his eyes at me "Shush..." he said glaring at me. He shook his head with a smile and put his arm around my shoulder. It opened into this blue glass window that had two crosses circled. there was a cave in the middle of the two that was also circled. "Looks like this is our next spot." I said looking at the glass. "Which means we have to head back towards the cathedral." Nate said with a sigh. "And back towards Rafe, great." Sam said with the same tone as Nate. "Ah, cheer up boys, we've made it this far, huh" They smiled at me, and we got out of the crypt and back to the graveyard. Shoreline had surrounded the area. Looks like we were shooting our way out of this one too. 

We made our way through the shoreliners and towards a cave to keep us out of sight of our other "friends" nearby. Nate swung in first and slid down the rocks. "Ohhh SHIT!" He jumped, but the cave couldn't sustain his weight. "NATHAN!!!! ARE YOU OK?" I shouted through the cave. He was hanging on to a lower level. "Gotta say, you've got a real knack for breathing things. Especially cliffs." Sam said making his way down. Nate was trying to get to a rickety ladder that hung just above him. "Tell me about it..." he said jumping up to the ladder. the ladder breaks under his weight "FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!" He grabbed onto the lower level in just the knick of time. "Like I was saying.." Sam said trying to find a way around He found a bridge and tried to cross, but that collapsed under Sam "OH SHIT!!!" He jumped to the other side. "Must run in the family, huh?" I said shaking my head at Sam. "Maybeeee." Sam said laughing on the other side. Sam made his way out of the small cave, and I followed Nate's lead to the other side. Sam pulled both of us up and we got to the top. We made our way around to a bunch of mercenaries blowing stuff up on the other side of the cliff. We shot our way through, once again and found our way into another cave. Nate found a door with a trap handle Avery uses alot in his puzzles. If you get the puzzle wrong and pull it, your hand could be cut off. "Hey guys.. I think this is a handle." Nate said putting his arm in slowly. "Well, pull it" Sam said. "Yknow, I like this hand! Maybe I'm not so fond of losing this hand." "So... we'll getcha a nice hook! Give it a pull, little brother." Nate sighed "Nice hook... alright, here we go..." 

(A/N: THANK YOU FOR READING THROUGH THIS INCREDIBLY LONG CHAPTER!! I love the smaller scenes of Uncharted so I wanted to include them. I appreciate you reading! I hope you're enjoying this cause I love writing this! Leave a comment of your favorite lines from the story so far! See ya soon!!!!! Much love, LoveGirl<3)