Relic Hunter: Spear of Destiny

Chapter 15 The First Spear

"Were not going down there are we? Tell me we are not going down there." Finn said shining his light down the hole. He couldn't see the bottom.

He watched as Gemma stepped through the opening onto the ladder. "I guess we're going down there," he muttered. "I bet there are rats down there. " he said as he followed Gemma through the opening. "Are there rats down here? I hope there are no rats in here."

Gemma reached the bottom and watched Finn step off the ladder. "Why are being such a girl?"

Finn drew himself up straight. "Just because I don't like rats doesn't mean I'm a girl."

Gemma rolled her eyes and turned around.

"I just don't like rats. It's not a big deal. It's not like I'm afraid of spiders like the big hairy ones crawling on your back and down your leg."

Gemma screamed and jumped around Her arms. "Get them off me . Get it off me!" She squealed and stomped her feet.

Finn laughed. "Is this you not being a girl?"

"Get them off me," She squealed again.

Finn laughed harder. "There is nothing there, Gemma. I made it up."

Gemma stopped. "No spiders?" She shivered.

Finn shook his head, trying hard not to laugh. "No spiders."

She punched him in the arm, hard.

"Ouch. What was that for."

"For being such a jerk. Come on."

They shone their lights around the hole where they were standing. It was just big enough for the two of them with a connecting tunnel behind them. It was shaped like an L, straight down and straight back. Gemma shone her light down the tunnel but the darkness swallowed it up not more than a few feet in front of them.

The tunnel was small with just enough room to stand in, barely. It was obvious that someone had dug this out themselves. "I wonder how far back this goes," Gemma said.

"I wonder how safe it is," Finn said.

"It can't go back too far, can it?" Gemma asked.

"I don't know. It could lead to another opening somewhere across the yard."

"Did Hitler bury it down here? I wonder why he went to so much trouble?"

Gemma said. "Oh,"yelled and stumbled and fell over something.

"Gemma! Where are you?"

"Down her," she said.

Finn shone his light on the ground and found Gemma rubbing her ankle. "I stepped on something and twisted my ankle."

Finn shone his light to the side and gasped. Gemma quickly stood up. They were staring the remains of what was once a Nazi soldier. The skeleton, still dressed, was leaning against the wall. The clothes were rotting and brittle, part of his shirt had already deteriorated but you could still see the SS on his shirt. One arms was draped over a small rectangle, tin box.

"I wonder if he knew he wouldn't get out of here." Gemma asked. She bent down and raised his skeletal arm and grabbed the box when a series of pops started sounding at the end of the tunnel.

They watched as small explosive devices went off one after another heading in their direction. "Gemma, Come on. We need to get out of here." He reached for her just as part of the dirt wall stared closing in on them. "Hurry!"