The Curse of the Black Sand (House of Anubis FF Season 3)

House of Rufus and House of Escape

Next Morning

My eyes slowly began to open to the sound of my name. It was actually more of a garble that sounded something like 'Rosth-h'.

I sat up to find myself in a van with one other person. Make that two. Three. Four? When my eyes adjusted, I found myself staring at Nina, Alphie, Amber, and Jerome. What were they doing here? Their alive?

All four of them had gags stuffed in between their teeth, and ropes banding their hands and feet together. I leaned forward and pulled the rags from their mouths. They all gasped. "What happened?" I blurted. I got a harsh 'sh' from all four of them. They seemed rather startled, like animals looking into a pair of head-lights.

"Undo the ropes," Nina whispered. I nodded and indicated for her to turn around. I began to take out the knot of rope and soon Nina's hands and feet were both free. She had lines on her wrists and ankles, but nothing too severe.

Nina and I unknotted Alphie, Amber, and Jerome ropes. They all seemed to sigh with relief. "What happened?" I whispered this time.

"Senkhara," Amber muttered.

"She trapped us. Rufus Zeno, he's back, he locked us in this van," Nina said.

"Wait, who is 'Rufus Zeno'?" I asked.

Jerome looked at me, before explaining everything about Rufus. How he had kidnapped Jerome before and their old house mother Trudy. How he fooled Patricia, and made her believe he was a private investigator. After about twenty minutes, I was all up-to-date on the Rufus Zeno story.

"How do we  get out?" Amber asked, "The doors are locked, so we can't get out."

I thought for a moment. "I have a plan," I whispered, "Everyone listen closely."

Previous Night

Fabian wasn't looking forward to his date with Joy. He was worried about Rose, she hadn't turned up at school, where was she? All he could remember was her saying one word about Senkhara by the hedge outside, and then next thing he knew, he was in school. A piece of his memory was missing, and he believed it had something to do with Senkhara.

A heavy knock sounded on his door. Joy. "Fabes?" her voice was sickly sweet, "Ready for our date? Taxi is waiting outside!"

Fabian sighed. "One second!" he replied. He looked in the wall  mirror. He was wearing a navy blue jacket and matching trousers. Under his jacket he had a white, button-up shirt, which he never wore except for occasions as such. He wanted to be going on a date with Rose; she would've found someway to get him out of the date.

"Come on, Fabes!" Joy said as more of a complaint. Fabian opened the door, to find Joy staring brightly at him. She had her make-up done, her hair was in neat curls, and she had on a sparkly blouse, and black pants. He felt rather posh...

"Ready?" Fabian asked, holding out his arm for her to take.

"Let us go," she smiled.