7. House of Saving

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"Are you guys ready?" Eddie asked the gang just as they were about to head to the gatehouse. They all noded. "Sibuna!" they said in unison. They walk out the of the house with Fabian in the front, the Alfie and Amber, then Eddie, then Patricia and Joy. Patricia runs up next to Eddie.

"You okay?" Patricia asks making sure he is able to go out.

"Yeah, I feel good," Eddie nods.

"Good," Patricia smiles widely. They walk to the gatehouse together talking the whole way.

...

"Let's go," Rufus grunts yanking Nina off her chair. Rufus pulls Nina all the way to the gatehouse.

"I think I see them," Fabian whispers to the rest of the group as they hide in the bushes on the side of the house.

"Okay, let's go," Eddie whispers and opens the hidden door on the side of the house. They snuck in and hid until Rufus and Nina got to the secret room.

"How do you plan to get in?" Nina asks as they get to the opening of the secret room.

"With this," Rufus pulls out Denby's sun key from his pocket.

"How'd he get that?" Fabian whispers hiding under the table next to Eddie. Eddie shrugs watching intently.

"When should we go in?" Eddie asks as they watch Rufus pull Nina up the stairs

Fabian waited a moment to respond. "NOW!" he says loudly so the rest of the gang could hear from their hiding spots. They all ran up the stairs.

"Rufus stop!" Eddie shouts.

"What how do you get in here?" he growls.

"We used the stairs," Amber says just coming into the room. Rufus rolled his eyes at her remark.

"Well you're too late," Rufus grunts pulling the staff of osiris off the ground. He slammed it into the ground and a massive red portal began to open. Rufus violently grabs Nina's arm to pull her into the afterlife.

"NO!" Fabian shouts pulling Nina back out of Rufus' grasp. On the other side of the room Joy sees that Rufus was about to pull Fabian in out of instinct. She runs over to Rufus and pushes him in. The portal closes with all of sibuna safe. They were all panting and out of breath.

"We did it," Eddie says quietly. "We did it!" this time Eddie shouted. They all let out a laugh of relief and go in for a group hug. Rufus was finally actually completely gone.

...

As soon as they got back to the house Nina took a shower and then put on some of Amber clothes. She tried to find her most casual outfit. "I'm so glad to have you back, Nina," Amber smiles at Nina as she searched her closet.

"Yeah, it's really good to see you again Amber," Nina lightly smiles taking the clothes from Ambers hands.

"Yeah, we really should hang out more, I mean we both live in America now." Nina nods slowly. Nina knew that Amber lived in America. She just didn't know how to contact any of them. Nina thought that everyone hated her after not coming back.

...

Nina enters the living room where Fabian and Eddie were sitting. "Talk to her," Eddie whispers lifting himself off the couch to leave Fabian alone with Nina. Nina smiles slowly walking towards Fabian.

"Thanks," she pauses. "For saving me back there."

Fabian shrugs. "You would have done the same," he smiles.

"Yeah, I guess." There was a moment of awkward silence.

"I missed you," Fabian says genuinely.

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