The Hunt for Aquatenite

Chapter - 19 Liza

I wasn't a fan of Rislerk. I liked his sassiness but how much he knew about the giants gave me the creeps. A spy was mentioned in the message. I suspected he was the one. I didn't even have a reason to trust him.

Except he saved your lives. A part of me said. Ugh! Why couldn't anything be clear?

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"What if humans saw the giants?" I asked about the millionth time and they kept ignoring me.

"What are we going to do now?" Lucy said. She was quite worried about how we were going to reach the doors. "It's not that we have a personal ship or we can find a cruise ship around here."

"Okay, enough!" I cried over our conversation. "I am asking a fair question and you all keep ignoring me. If you all know about it then tell me."

"Seriously, you need to calm down." Olivia finally answered. "Human eyes aren't capable of seeing magical elements of the universe. They might feel something odd but they can't see them."

If it was that simple she could've told sooner!

"Well," Rislerk said, coming back to Lucy's question. "I could help you reach the doors." He offered. 

"Aha!" I stood up and pointed at him. "How do you know we are searching for the doors?"

Rislerk shook his head. In disappointment? "I don't know how you were surviving without me. You need to boost your brains. Havens don't come to Earth to go to Disneyland. You must have come for some work. What is going on? Oh, yeah, the doors have opened."

That boy had a point. And I'm talking about the reason he gave for my question, not about our brains being slow.

"So, how will you help us?" Olivia asked.

"Just give me a hertillision pearl. I'll teleport us to Antarctica. I know the words of hertillision on Earth." He said the last part feeling very proud of himself. It made me even more suspicious. Even Olivia didn't know that.

But Lucy caught one other part he had said. "What do you mean 'us'? You are also going?"

"Yeah," He said in an obvious way. "What'd ya think? A little help is always welcome, right?"

"We don't need your help. D'you think we'll let a spy in on our mission?" I burst out. How could he talk to my sister like that!?

I waited for someone to support me. I raised my eyebrow when no one did. Disappointed and embarrassed. That's how I felt.

Rislerk cracked up. I glared at him and judging from how he looked away I was looking pretty deadly.

Lucy kept a hand on my shoulder. "Liza, we need him right now. He's our only chance." 

"I'm with her," Oliver said, stepping up beside her. "We'll see the consequences later. All in favor?"

"Aye!" Everyone yelled including me. What option did I have?

"Aye," Rislerk said too and I eyed him. Obviously, he was in favor. How could someone be so annoying?

"Now, you all should be off to sleep," Rislerk announced. "It would be best if you get some rest."

"We know. You don't have to tell us everything." Oliver said. I felt like he was as annoyed by him as I was.

Rislerk took us around the island. At last, we reached a hollow. Like a cave. Inside were stalactites hanging down but as we walked a little into the cave, they disappeared. It was suddenly warm inside. Lights decorated the sides. 

"You did all this?" I asked, amazed by everything. I hid my astonished face as soon as I realized it. I didn't want to give him a false idea that I was amazed by him.

Rislerk responded with an answer which made me even more irritated. "No. The ice hung all those lights. Of course, I did this." I gave him one last disgusting look before getting to work.

Well, our bags were somewhere in the ocean, swimming. We did some arrangements and slept.