The House Of Anubis

12. Rufus and Patricia

12. Rufus and Patricia

When Day Time Ends At Midday, Through Tears Of Glass, The Eye Shall See.

We have finally cracked the code. I rushed downstairs at midday. Sunset. We're about to unlock another clue? Panel?

I saw Fabian ready. He looked at chalendier. I saw the sun focusing on the chalendier. The sun was going down slowly. Slowly. And slowly.

All of a sudden all the tears started to reflect on one another. It made the most beautiful golden glow.

"Nina. Look!" The light started to move towards the wall. And sure enough. It made a golden upside down eye on the wall. My locket started to glow. I gently placed my locket on the wall where the upside down eye was at.

That little piece of wall. Opened to reveal a shelf. Just one tiny shelf. The piece of wall that opened wasn't big. It was a tiny square.

I reached my hand inside and I took out what I found. A wierd looking object. It looked like a holder? A vase? Mostly looked like a vace, but with no opening.

"Oh my god." Fabian looked surprised. "What in the world." I reached my hand in the shelf once more to find a note. A clue. I grabbed it and opened it up. I read out loud to Fabian.

"Ket is the place to find, and there in the flames you must look behind." I stared at the paper. And when I was about to reach my hand in again the shelf closed. The wall loooked good as new.

"I don't get it?" Fabian questioned.

"Get what?" Jerome passed by. "What's this?" Jerome took the piece of paper out of my hands. " Ket is the place to find, and there in the flames you must look behind."

Fabian looked at me. "It's a poem." Fabian told Jerome.

"About what?!" Jerome chuckled. "An oven?."

"What?" I asked.

"Well it says Ket." He explained. "Fire. And it also says falmes. Oven gives out flames. You can also look behind it. Well bye you nerds." Jerome gave me the piece of paper and left.

"Oven?"

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The next day when we woke up Patricia asked me a question.

"Where did you get that locket?" We were in the restroom combing our hair.

"A friend gave it to me." I replied.

"Look im sorry for this whole Joy thing." Patricia apologized. "In fact, I want you to meet my friend Rufus. He'll be interested in that locket."

"Rufus?" I asked. "Well this locket isn't for sale."

"Say no more. He just wants to see it." She replied.

"Okay." I insisted. "We can go meet your friend after school."

"Great."

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That same day afterschool I followed Patricia in the clearing woods. We walked for 30 minitues.

"Are you sure you know where we are at?" I asked.

"Positive." She said.

We stopped in small bush and we heard a truck stop. Patricia looked behind the bush and gasped.

"What the."  She gasped.

I decided to look what has happened. And to my surprise I saw The same guy that I saw talking to Victor at the estate. Rufus. But he was on the ground. Was he dead? We saw Victor get out of the truck and placed Rufus in the trunk.

"No!" Patricia whispered. Victor drove off in the van. "No!"

"That was the man I saw talking to Victor at the estate." I told her.

"What?"

"He asked about Joy. And he said that Joy was the chosen one. And about some ankh pieces."

"Joy." She said. "Why would he ask about Joy?"

"Let's go back." I said. We walked back to the house to finf Fabian all excited.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"I found out what the clue meant!" He shouted. "The oven. The one we tried opening? Well, it has an imprint of your locket on it!"

"What?" Patricia shouted.

Fabian dragged me to the kicthen. I saw Amber waiting for me.

"Nina look!" Amber shouted. "Your locket is glowing."

I knew what this meant. A new clue. I placed my locket against the imprint. The so called oven opened up and there was a little tunnel leading to God knows where.

"It wasn't an oven this whole time." I explained. "It was a secret passage!" I looked inside the tunnel. "I see stairs going down!"

"Can someone tell me what's going on?!" Patricia shouted. "What is this? Some kind of magic?!"

"Shoot." Amber said.

"Someone explain now!" Patricia demanded.

"Patricia." I said.  "I'll explain in a bit. But right now, Just try to keep up."

Patricia stayed quite and let us do what we had to do.

"Okay." I said. "I'm going in. "I crawled inside the passage. It was dark and cold. Amber, Fabian and Patricia followed. There were stairs we stood up and walked down. At the end there was a door. I opened it. And where were we at? In the celler. The door camuflouged the wall, so you couldn't tell it was a door. We all walked inside.

"A secret passage way to rhe celler!" Fabian whispered. I turned on the lights and Amber screamed.

"Oh my god!" She yelled. " What in the world is that?!"

There were several tables. On the tables there were tubes and liquid in them. Like posion? But what Amber was screaming at was a head of a bull.

"What the heck?" Fabian said. "Why would Victor have these things?"

We heard the door open. Victor was comming down the celler. We all ran back to the secret door. We didn't leave just yet. We wanted to see what Victor was up too.

He held his stuffed raven in the hand. "The time is almost coming Cobier."

Victor grabbed one of the tubes and drank it. "One day. I will have enternal life." 

We left upstairs to the kitchen. Patricia then looked worried.

"Okay. Now can I get an explanation?" Patricia huffed. After 10 minutes of explaining Patricia has finally caught up.

"Oh and one more thing." Amber said. "Sibuna."

"Sibuna?" She questioned.

"It's Anubis backwards." She answered.

"I'm in."