Search For Avery's Treasure - Sam Drake x OC

Chapter 16-The tower

"Is this it?" I ask as I stand beside Sam as we both stare at the tower. I have a weird feeling about this, I'm not sure why but it doesn't feel good. "Sure is," Sam replies and nudges my shoulder and walks towards the entrance.

I jump as my phone suddenly goes off, I reach into my pocket and pulled out the cracked mobile. I stare at it in a little confusion as I see the same person as when we were in the car which caused my phone to crack, messaging me again.

I sign as I debate with myself whether or not to read it. I huff and unlock the phone and quickly read the message over.

I'll be seeing you again soon Ivory, I promise you that---Unknown

I rub my hand over my face, praying that it isn't true. I shake my head and put my phone back into its original place before looking back at Sam to see him trying to open the door, I chuckle at him.

"Sam, I don't think it's going to open." I laugh as Sam gives me a look. I walk towards him and gesture him with my head to follow me. "There must be another way in," I start to say before I look up to see a window open and smashed.

"And... I think I may have found the way in," I point towards the window as Sam just stares at it before he replies, "Now we just need a way up,"

I watch as Sam moves towards the wall, turning back towards me and cupping his hands. I knew exactly what he is doing. I nod before walking up to him placing my foot into his hand before he lifts me up. I groan as I grab onto the ledge of the window and start pulling myself up.

I gasp as a piece of glass slices the palm of my hand, that definitely hurt. I hiss as blood starts flowing out of the wound. "Are you alright?" I hear Sam call with a worried tone. I show him my hand before telling him I'm fine.

I reach into my back pocket and pulled out a piece of cloth that I grabbed before coming. I knew something like this was going to happen so I brought this just in case. With a huge struggle, I managed to tie the cloth around my hand.

I shake my hand and carefully jumped off the ledge, landing on a wooden platform. I look around with a surprised look, I can't believe this is still standing. Even though I can tell that some part of the different platforms has fallen off and now laying at the bottom.

I squint my eyes as I try and see what is up at the top and I could see a slight outline of a bell but that is really. "Umm... Ivory..." I hear Sam shout which brought me out of my deep thought. I quickly apologise and jump off the platform, thankfully it wasn't too high up.

I look at the door and frowned once I see a beam laying in front of it, now knowing that's why we weren't able to get in. I place my two hands on the beam and started pushing with all my might trying my hardest to move the beam.

The pain in my hand was just shooting, causing me to almost cry out in pain as I finally moved it enough for Sam to open the door. "Quick, open the door," I call and as Sam threw open the door and quickly assisted me with moving the beam back down so it leaning against the door.

"Well, who's going up to search?" Sam asks and I knew he wanted me to do it. I laugh and shake my head as he raises an eyebrow. "I can't," I tell him as I show him my injured hand.

Sam chuckles as shakes his head. "Don't use that excuse for everything," Sam tells me as he starts moving his way up to the platform that I had jumped off. "No promises," I call up to him as one of the wooden planks follow from the platform and falls to the ground with a loud bang.

I cringe, as the sound echoes through the tower. Think maybe I should have been the one to go up the tower as I know something bads bound to happen.

At least half hour has gone by as I sit quietly at the bottom waiting for Sam to announce anything, so far nothing. "There's nothing! This isn't the tower!" I hear Sam called down to me. I sign in disbelief just before I hear Sam talking. I knew he was talking to either Nate or Sully.

"Are you serious? Okay, we're on our way,"

"What did they say?" I ask as I see Sam look over the edge from the top platform. "They're at the tower!" Sam shouts down, even though he didn't need to as it echoed anyway. A smile spreads across my face as I get up off the floor, wiping down my trousers. "Well hurry up and get down here!"

"Alright, alright. I'm coming," I laugh at his comment as he starts climbing his way down. I watch as Sam jumps and climbs down from the top before finally he jumps down. "Come on, we better get-" Sam was quickly cut off by his phone going off.

"They sent me a picture," Sam tells me showing me the image. I shrug my shoulders not knowing what it is about, "Ring him," I order him as he puts his hands up in a fake surrender. I playfully slap his arm before he calls Sully and puts it on speaker so I could hear.

"Hey. You still in the tower?" I hear Nate ask over the phone.

"Yeah, just climbed back down. What's with the picture you just sent?" Sam asks Nate as he gestures me to walk out of the tower. "I'll fill you two in later. For now, just tell me who's who."

"Well, the dolphins are Richard Want. The trident is Joesph Farrell, and the two hands with the pearl is William Mayes," Sam tells Nate before his younger brother tells him to stay where there is good reception before hanging up.

"I guess they are doing some sort of puzzle," I suddenly announce as he nods his head agreeing with me as we both head back in and sitting on the bottom part of the broken stairway. As more phone calls about the pirates are sent through now I know we're getting progress done.

I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in over 2 months, I've had really bad writer's block and I'm coming to the end of my college year but I will definitely try and update more often.