A Beginning Of Any Great Matter-Nathan Drake x OC

Chapter 4

Not long after I had sat down the two men had figured out the puzzle which opened the large circle in the middle of the floor, I walk up to stand next to Nate and looked down to see water which if we jumped we would die straight away.

"Pretty deep" I say to Nate, I turn to look up at him to see him looking down the hole. "Yeah. looks like there's a ladder cut into the side. Wait here while I check it out" Nate replies as he walks towards the ladder.

"Be careful Nate" I say with worry, how can he do this without being worried. I watch as Nate goes down the carved ladder and climb to the side and disappears, 'must be an entrance there' I think to myself. I keep looking down to see water coming through, which started to fill the hole more but can still kill us if we jumped down.

"Aw, don't tell me you're going to swim in that!" My father shouts in disgust. "I've been in worse!" I hear Nate shout back up which is true. I sit down on the edge as I watch Nate swim to the other side and disappeared again but this time, he didn't return.

"I made it! I'm on the other side" I hear from the other side of the door, I quickly get up and jogged towards the door where my father now stands keeping our distance just in case of an explosion. "Can you get this open?" my father asks...well shouts. Nate didn't answer which made me worried then suddenly an explosion happened, blowing up the door. I see Nate walking through the now blown up door.

"Nice one!" My dad compliments as we all walk through the broken door walking down another large corridor which has some columns to hold the ceiling up. We come up to another door but this time, it would be a lot easier as next to the door there are two chains on each side. Nate walks to one while my father walks to the other, while I stand in front of the door waiting for them to pull it up. Instead of the door going up it separated in small parts revealing a large, old wooden pathway. Once they opened the door I'm the one who walks through first. I start to walk across the wooden platform.

"Ah, this looks safe" I state as I carry on walking once I get to a certain part I feel the platform wobble "Whoa. oh-uh" I say and this caused me to start running as the platform starts falling apart behind me. "Vi. Get out of there-Now" I hear my dad shout as I carried on running and now started jumping across the platforms which had broken in front of me. Even some of the stones on the wall started to fall and as I try to avoid getting killed, the platform in front of me fell so I had to jump to safety, I did jump and grabbed on the edge before I could fall and I start to pull myself up once I did that I lie on the floor taking deep breaths 'No way in hell I'm going first for things'

I quickly sat up as I notice there is a new pathway for the men, I smile in relief as I notice they are ok. Once they get across my best friend pulls me into a hug which surprises me but it didn't stop me from hugging back, I feel his breath on my ear as he whispers "Never do that again" which made me laugh and I let him go and we all walked up the steps which revealed a room with some beautifully patterned columns and a wall with some patterns but some of it was missing something must have been there a long time ago.

Me, dad and Nate all point our lights at it. "Oh. Man" I hear my father say, I watch as Nate walks up to the wall still pointing his light and states "The Temple must've been built around this"

"Around what?" My dad asks and we all walk up to it, I look at it until I realize what was there before it was taken "A statue"

"A gold statue" I hear Nate announce as he kneeled on the floor looking up to where the statue once was.

"A huge gold statue," My father says which I completely agree on, it definitely was a large statue. "And look here...these people-they're worshipping the damn thing" as my dad points the carved in image. "At least I think their people" My father finishes as we all look at the image.

"Of course" I hear Nate, I turn towards him as he realizes something " 'El Dorado' - 'The Golden Man!' Vi, Sully, It wasn't a city of gold, It was this, It was a golden idol"

"Man, can you imagine what that thing would be worth now?"

"Look over here-tracks" We all point our lights to the floor where the tracks were obviously from the golden idol. "I bet the Spanish dragged it out on cut logs. Huh...we're four hundred years late for this party"

"So the trail is cold?" I ask as my father holds a disappointed look and Nate looks to me and replied "Yeah, it looks that way"

"Sonofabitch!" My father said angrily, I look at him with disappointment I knew he needed this thing so he can pay his debts .

"Unless..."

"Unless what?" I ask Nate who was still looking at the tracks

"We follow the tracks" I can't believe we didn't think of that as the tracks do carry on, I look to Nate and agree, smiling to him. Knowing nothing could go wrong with following a few tracks. Or can it?