Vengeance: The Glitch and the Violent

7: Secrets and Languages

"Okay, who touched something?" Sky asked.

Everyone turned to me. I raised my hands in a defensive position.

"Hey, it wasn't my fault," I said.

"Well it wasn't any of us and- Hey, where'd Sub go?"

We looked around the small space. Sub was nowhere to be seen.

"Where did he disappear off to?" Bajan asked. "This isn't a big room, there's nowhere to go."

"Maybe he went back up?" I suggested.

Someone whistled. We looked around again, searching for the source of the sudden sound. The person whistled again, louder this time.

"Sub?" Sky called.

The piston clicked again, and a section of the floor underneath Sky disappeared. He yelped and fell, landing with an 'oof' noise.

"Sky!" I yelled, running to the edge of the hole.

"I'm okay!" he called back. "Sub's down here, come on!"

Bajan, Jerome and I looked at each other.

"Ladies first?" Jerome suggested.

I glared at him.

"Okay, I'll go," he said, dropping down. Bajan followed him, and I came last. I tried not to land on my feet, so I awkwardly rolled when I landed. The ground cushioned my landing somehow, even though it seemed to be made of the same hard stone.

This room was about the same size as the one we had just left, but it wasn't bare. There were old carvings on the walls, words of some strange language. There were also five banners hanging on the walls, two on the left and right walls and one on the back wall. Underneath each banner was an armour stand. As expected, armour hung on each stand, and they each glowed with a different colour. Each armour stand held a glowing weapon, the same colour as the armour that hung on it.

"What is this place?" Jerome asked in a hushed whisper.

"I don't know," Bajan answered, also in a hushed whisper.

I took a closer look at the banners. Each of the 5 banners had a different design and colour scheme. The first one was mainly greens and browns, like a forest. An axe was embroidered in the middle with golden thread. The armour stand underneath it had what looked like iron armour, but it was a camouflage design of different shades of green. It held a double bladed axe, with a sturdy handle, engraved with a word that I couldn't understand. Both the armour and the axe glowed a soft brown colour.

The second banner, the one beside the first, was golden. There seemed to be a golden sun rising from the bottom of the banner, with a light blue sky at the top. A sword and bow were embroidered in black thread. The armour stand had golden armour, but it was engraved with patterns, and had a slight yellow glow to it. A golden sword was held by the stand, its blade sharp and long. It also was engraved with a word.

On the opposite wall, the third banner hung. It seemed to have a battle going in the background, with black, red and orange colours everywhere. A sword was embroidered in silver thread in the middle, tip pointing up. The armour was diamond. It was thin but seemed to be very strong, and it glowed red. A sword hung at the side of the armour and the stand held a bow, also glowing red. Both were engraved with a word.

The fourth banner had a blue background with a white column in the middle. At the top of the column was a small black spot that could have been a human. Two daggers were embroidered in golden thread at the centre of the column, their blades crossed. The armour looked like iron, but there wasn't very much of it. It looked like it was built so that the wearer was able to move a lot more. Two daggers were being held by the stand, their blades sharpened but not polished. Each blade had a word engraved on their blades, and they glowed light green.