The Gathering: Race For Immortality

Chapter Eighteen: Trust is Broken, Along with my Damn Hand (Paz The Third)

Now what!?

Mercy and Requim just told us to find the clue and blow something up! I can do the 'blowing up' part, but the 'finding the clue' part was going to be hard. The previous clue that led us here, only did just that. Lead us HERE. I don't even fucking remember if the creepy cloaked figure told us anything about finding a concrete object at all.

I was inwardly flipping shit.

I glanced to my left where the arrogant bastard Jaeson was walking. His facial expression was unreadable. He was impassive to the whole damn thing, and acted as if nothing happened. The princess on the other hand, was whole different story. Just by looking at her, or even standing next to her I could feel that there were a million things going through her tiny little mind.

As we were about to reach front doors of the Kaibrough palace, Nat- I mean the princess stopped abruptly and turned to look at us, "Guys, we need to find the next clue so we can sa-"

''I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but we should just forget about them,'' Jaeson interrupted.

The princess stared at him incredulously, and I just stood there slightly surprised by his ouburst. Out of all the people in our little entourage, it seemed like I would be the one that would most likely be saying something like that.

''You seem eager to leave them behind..'' I said suspiciously.

''Well we clearly can't trust them. They lied to us about their identity, who knows what else they've been lying to us about.'' he retorted.

I scoffed, ''So? We can barely trust you! You've probably said an average of six words each time you decided to talk to us ever since we've fucking met, and we don't even know why you're after the immortality stone'' I countered.

''Guys-'' Natalia tried to interrupt.

''Don't you start getting righteous on me, Paz,'' he sneered. ''We don't even know what you are. The Elvin people had to spend a good hour trying to find out if you were human or not. How can we trust you?'' 

At this, I withdrew myself a little. Ah shit... I knew this was bound to come up at some point, I thought to myself. To be honest, I don't even know why I wanted to keep what I was a secret.

"What I am doesn't change why I'm going after the stone," I snapped back.

He rolled his eyes and scoffed, "You didn't answer my question,"

"I don't feel obliged to share things about me to a complete stranger," I answered.

 "Likewise," he said. Then silence ensued. We were just glaring at eachother, and Natalia didn't know how to react. 

Out of nowhere, the sound of footsteps started to come from the corridor. Jaeson's and Natalia's eyes widened in surprise, and then they made a way to a hiding spot. Jaeson decided to hide behind a pillar, and Natalia hid behind a statue which seemed to be about 15 damn feet tall that I guessed was the Elvin's fucking king. Then suddenly, a thought popped into my mind...

Shit! They took the good hiding spots!

I mentally slapped myself in my face. For having superhuman-like speed, I had a really delayed reaction.

"Where did those little brats head off to?" a semi-familar voice said.

Dammit! 

I frantically started to look around the palace's main entrance room to hide. Then I saw a very large, expensive, and old-looking chandelier hanging from the ceiling on the right of the King's statue. It fucking figures. I inwardly rolled my eyes at myself and started to quickly climb the statue Natalia was hiding behind. As I passed her she gave me a look that pretty much said, "what the hell are you doing." I just smirked to myself and kept on climbing. When I got onto the top of the Elvin King's head, I positioned myself to jump onto the chandelier.