Our Reality ( After The Haunted FF~EDITING)

Chapter 6: Once Again Pt. 2 ( Mia's P.O.V )

I woke up with the sun shining in my face, a feeling I never really liked. I sat up, and looked around. I saw that the fire I had made overnight had burnt out. I packed up my things and left the area. 'Maybe I should explore more of Mortem' I thought, heading my way back to the city. 'I need food anyway, maybe I'll find some berries or things I could use.' I thought.

I made my way back the city and found a small lake nearby. The water had looked like it was safe to drink so I cupped my hands together, filled them with water and took a small sip. 'Seems fine.' I thought. I took out the glass bottle and rinsed it a bit before putting water inside and popping it shut and putting it in my backpack. I then continued to wander around the city. A couple a berries here and there, a healing potion, and some arrows. The place was pretty ransacked. There wasn't much here, but it would suffice for now. 'Maybe I'll check the mountain out again', I thought starting to make my towards it. I hadn't even bothered to look inside the chests there were yesterday.

When I was about halfway there I thought I heard faint voices. I looked up. It scared the living hell out of me, but I was relieved to see them.
"GUYS?!" I yelled out to them. It was Grayson and Drake.
"MIA!!!." They both yelled.
Grayson turned to Drake and said something to him. I continued climbing. They both then looked at me.
"Mia! Stay where you are! I'm going to teleport you up here!" Drake yelled to me.
I remained where I was as he chanted a spell, and I was up at the mountain.
"GUYS!!!" I yelled as I hugged them both at the same time, with them hugging me back.
All three of us broke out of the hug after a few long moments.
"Where have you two been?!?!" I asked. Grayson answered first.
"I was teleported to the Red Keep." He answered.
I then looked at Drake for his answer. "I was at the Black Forest. Where were you?" He asked.
"I was at Mortem. I tried looking for you guys, but neither of you were there." I answered.
"Mortem? You should have stayed here, this is my house." Drake said. I paused.
"...What? I thought this was someone's else's!" At that moment, I felt like the biggest idiot in the world.
"But didn't you see the circle talisman in one of the buildings?" He asked me.
"...I should have known..." I mumbled loud enough for them to hear me.
I face-palmed myself. There was an awkward silence for a couple of moments.
"Whatever, now that we're together we need to stop Him." Grayson said, breaking the silence.
"Yeah, but, where do we start? We have literally no leads. And we can't just go back to the Magical Library." Drake said.
"Maybe, but, perhaps we should try to get the part of Him that's inside of you, out." I chimed in.
"Maybe we should discuss this later. We still barely have supplies, we left our backpacks at the library, He's still out there, and we still have to find out how to hatch Grayson's Dragon egg." Drake said.

"I guess you're right. We should discuss this tonight then." Grayson added. At that moment Drake's eyes widen.
"Wh-"
Drake then quickly walked back to his bedroom and pressed a button on a wall. Then almost outside of the building, there was a door that lead down to somewhere. He started climbing down the ladders. Grayson and I looked at eachother and we then followed him down. We managed to keep up with him as he lead us to another secret area.
Grayson and I entered right after him. "Drake, what's wr-"

I stopped in mid sentence and looked at what he was staring at. There in the middle of the room was once a wooden ledge, with few pieces of wood that had survived, that seemed like would give away at any minute. And inside, there was a case made from titanium that looked like was ripped open, and the circle talismans around it looked scratched and there were the pieces of the wood that feel off, and ash all around that certain area.
"Oh Notch..." I heard Grayson whisper.
"It had to have been Him. No other Mage would have been able to find it...and there were the three diamonds at the library when we fought Him..." Drake said, with both a mixture of anger, annoyance, and sadness in his voice.