Impossible; House of Anubis (B1)

[48] House of Stars

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The 5 Sibuna's all waited with bated breath to be caught by Victor, his footsteps growing closer and closer. The Rat in front of them seemed to know they were in trouble – or so Camilla was going to argue – and happily rant out from their little hiding spot as if to take the blame for Ambers outburst.

"It's only a rat," Victor said a few moments later, all the Sibuna's not letting out a breath of relief until they all heard his footsteps retreat to the other side of the room and the chanting starting back up again.

It was this that prompted Nina's whisper for them to head back to bed before they got caught again and Fabian was the one to lead the way back to the kitchen – Camilla going last just in case Victor came snooping again.

"That was so close!" Fabian muttered as he helped the girls out of the fake oven.

"You know if you really want to stay young," Amber commented, "You don't drink snake poison! That's what plastic surgery is for!"

"So..." Alfie groaned as he got to his feet, "are we still looking for this treasure or what? Or do the teachers have it? Or this Rufus Zeno dude?"

"Shhh!" Nina hushed Alfie as Camilla climbed out the oven. "right now let's just get out of here and get to bed."

Camilla saw Nina go to pull out her necklace but waved her to stop, "I've got it." She muttered, crouching by the oven and holding her ring out to it watching it glow and the oven lock shut. As everyone rushed from the room Camilla couldn't help but pause and look around, it felt like someone was listening in but she couldn't see anyone.

"Cam, come on!" Fabian hissed at her, pulling her with him back to his room – it look weird if she appeared from the girl's dorms having gone to bed in the boys. If she had stayed a little longer, she might have seen Jerome emerge from his hiding place.

It was no surprise that a mandatory Sibuna meeting was called during lunch the next day. Thankfully Camilla and Alfie managed to sneak out pretty easily without Jerome noticing too much as he was too busy watching Mara and Mick to notice his friends as they both decided to go to the toilet together and then run out the front door. The meeting was held in the clearing by the broken oak tree, where Nina, Camilla, Amber and Fabian had all burnt something important to them as membership to Sibuna. Now they sat in the circle, the girls using their blazers as a way to keep mud off their skirts, Fabian had put his blazer in the middle and Nina had put the puzzle pieces they had already found out for them all to see.

"Okay," Nina started, "After seeing what we saw last night I think our first priority should be the search for the cup." Both twins nodded at this, that had to be their priority, "We need to find it before they do."

"yeah!" Patricia agreed, "Imagine what Victor might do with the secret of eternal life? World domination." Camilla hid her frown, everyone seemed to assume the worse when it came to Victor and she couldn't help but think he wouldn't be that bad. There must be some reason he was so determined to find the secret? Maybe he was scared of death, or he felt he owed his father. Victor was more complex than the black and white baddie her friends always made him out to be.

Where Camilla frowned at Patricia's statement Alfie couldn't help but laugh as he sat between the girls, "no, world domination to Victor is six billion people in bed by 10 O'clock."

This caused chuckles from everyone but Nina who let out an exasperated sigh as once again the Sibuna's decided to go on a tangent that meant not taking the situation seriously. "okay... these objects...puzzle pieces, whatever!" she started in a serious tone, "they're the key somehow, but until we've got them all we won't know exactly what that is."