A Beginning Of Any Great Matter-Nathan Drake x OC

Chapter 21

I quickly shot the last man in the head before I head back to where my father and Nate was. "We've gotta stop 'em, Sully. They don't know what they're dealing with!"

"What are you-" My father says before being cut off by me once I reached the two, who are standing in front of each other near the statue. "We don't know how, but that statue destroyed the whole colony, and it killed the Germans too."

"Whoa - come again?" My father asks with a mixture of shock and confusion but instead of telling my father the whole story about the statue being cursed and turning people into monsters, Nate told him that we need to get to the church and fast.

We all run towards the church which isn't that far from our little battle with Gabriels men, Sully and Nate opened the two, wooden, heavy door whilst I stood in the middle of the two, gun aimed just in case any of Gabriel's men decide to jump out of nowhere and try and kill us.

Once the door open, I started firing as once again Gabriel's men are here trying to stop us from saving Elena, well properly in their heads to stop us getting the cursed statue that Gabriel wants. I quickly run behind a pillar on the left side of the church whilst Nate and my father hide behind the pillar on the right side of the church.

I put my pistol back into the gun holder around my waist before picking up the Dragon Sniper and took out the two men with the red laser right above us.

BANG!!

I slide across the hard floor, dropping the sniper, I hiss in pain from the impact, I slowly crawl towards seats and hide behind it as I try to recover from the sudden explosion, I could hardly hear anything, I can slightly hear the gun shots and Nate and my father shouting towards me but it's very quiet because of the ringing.

Once the ringing had disappeared and everything went back to normal, I quickly rise so I can see above the seat and aim my gun and started to shoot at the man with the rocket launcher but...it's a bit difficult as he keeps moving around. I try and reload my gun, I look up to see the man aiming the rocket launcher at me, I knew this is it.

I try and reload my gun faster as I keep an eye on the man but then he falls to the ground, I turn my father shooting at him. I successfully reload my gun and start killing the rest of the men in the church.

Once all the men were killed we all regroup and walk towards the table at the end of the church, as we walk past all the seat and pillars I notice that Nathan and I had been here before as I recognise the bells which had been a puzzle for us to open a secret door near the left bell.

My father, Nate and I approach the table, me and my father went onto the right side of the table whilst Nate went to the left side of the table, we all starts to push with a lot of struggle as this table is like any other table because it's obviously made out of stone and the stone table hid a secret entrance. This church seems to have a lot of secret entrances.

"Holy shit..."My father says to himself as we all look down towards the neatly made hole in the middle of the floor, from where I can see there are a lot of bones and skulls on the lower floor where the hole leads, it's properly the way where the statue is and Elena. That's properly why Gabriel's men were here in the church.

I move forward towards the hole, I look up to Nate to see him looking at me with another worried expression, I look away by jumping down the hole with Nate and my father following behind. I turn on my torch and start walking down the steps with the two men behind me.

"You wanna tell me what's going on!?" I hear my father ask as I try and look around the area but is impossible from the darkness even with our flashlights.

"Drake didn't want to get the treasure off the island, Sully. He was trying to stop it from leaving!" Nate states but this only confused my father even more.

"It's cursed or something," I say as I walk towards another stone table which has a skull and two bones on the top of it. "Oh, Violet, for God's sake..." My father says obviously doesn't believe me but it is understandable why he doesn't believe me.

"Look, I know it sounds crazy but you've got to trust me on this," I say as we walk down another set of stairs, leading us further down underground and we walked further underground as once we got down some stairs it seems like there are more nearby.

Finally reaching the last stairs, we walk through the arch in the wall which leads us to a room with these things hanging from the ceiling and also leading us to the statue. "Oh man," Nate says as we try to get closer to it but only got stopped by my father.

We watch carefully as Gabriel, Navarro walk closer to the statue pulling Elena with them. We all pull out our pistols and slowly walk towards them, aiming our guns at Gabriel as he turns around he starts to laugh.

"You three should realize by now," Gabriel says as he walks towards us, we all slowly lower our guns to our waists as three men with shotguns stood behind us. "that I plan for every contingency. Now, drop your weapons. Down there."

We all look at each other, we were properly going to resist but Gabriel decides to threaten us with Elena's life,so we throw our pistols off the edge down to where Gabriel, Navarro and Elena were.

"Good. Now, if you'll just hang tight, we'll be with you in a moment." Gabriel says as he once again approaches the statue. Thankfully Navarro stayed away with Elena because we didn't come this far just for Elena to be turned into one of these monsters.

"It's magnificent." Gabriel compliments the statue once he finally gets face to face with the large, cursed gold statue. "The craftsmanship, I've never seen anything like it before."

I'm not going to lie, the statue is magnificent and is very beautiful but it's evil and is very dangerous and Gabriel is putting everyone in danger at this moment.

"That is only the shell." I hear Navarro shout over to Gabriel with a bit of excitement, he obviously thinks it has some marvelous treasure hidden inside of it but they don't know it holds a curse the can turn them into a worse and more dangerous killing machine.

"Open it." Navarro encourages Gabriel, I watch in horror as Gabriel walks towards the side of the statue and starts opening the statue. In my head I keep repeating to myself 'don't do that'.

Gabriel opens the statue revealing, a corpse, properly to curse. "My God." I hear Nate say. Suddenly a large sweep of wind comes from the body and starts filling Gabriel's body which causes Gabriel to cough, it looks like he could smell the horrible smell coming off the corpse but...it's actually the curse.

Gabriel closes the statue door and falls against it as he carries on coughing. "Navarro" we hear Gabriel gasp before he turns and lets out a growl, sounding exactly like the other monsters. Gabriel stumbles towards Navarro and Elena but was stop by Navarro shooting him in the head.

"Bajen la red!" Navarro shouts up to the top of the cave, pulling Elena around Gabriels now dead and cursed body. A net comes down from the top of the cave, laying behind the statue.

"Navarro, that thing wiped out an entire colony," Nate announces to Navarro. "You don't know what you're doing."

"Wrong, I'm the only person on this island, who knows what the hell he's doing!"

"You don't Navarro, Nathan's right. This statue has taken out an entire colony and you've what this statue can do!" I shout down to him, hoping he would listen but he just ignored me. I watch as two men start to tip the heavy looking statue down towards the net. If they do this, they are going to kill everyone.

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Hey, guys, I think the next update is the last chapter and then I'll start writing the sequel. I thought I'd let you know it's going to be difficult to update now because I'm starting college soon and I'll need to put all my time into my course which is Art and Design, so the work is going to take time and effort but I promise I will try and update as fast as I can.