Animus Stories (Under Editing)

The Ruins

The stone door that was the entrance to the ruin rolled away when Cipher put the key to open the door in.

"Good luck." Cipher said. He pause for a second and whispered something into Rune's ear and handed her something. Something like a rolled up scroll.

Rune and I enter the ruin and I hear something rolling as the stone door closes behind us.

Ethier Cipher is locking us in or keeping something out. I thought.

Rune picks up something that looks like a stick. She uses her fire which felt really warm,and bright. Also I saw Rune covering her eyes as if the brightness of the flame hurt her eyes.

Strange. I thought. Rune then quickly hands me the torch. "Hey! I don't want to drop this." I say.

"Sorry." She mumbles still shielding her eyes.

I wave the torch in front of me and all I saw was a tunnel. There was not just the tunnel but these weird symbols etched into the stone walls of place. I run my claws over the etches and then I strangely hear chanting , ancient dragons speaking in a strange language. Wait is this place.....

"Rune." I say turning towards her.

She shrinks back into the dark part of the area where the torch didn't light up.

"Oh, oops." I say as I move the torch to the other hand. "I want to ask you is this place haunted or something like that?"

"Could be, but remember this place was build to house a dangerous animus object." Rune said. "Sigh. Lets get going I want to get out of here as soon as possible."

A/N

Hey guys I'm just going to stop here to give you something until I can update more later.

"You know what you're right let's go." I say.

Rune starts walking ahead of me steering clear of the light from the torch. I go to follow her, and just as I was about to catch up to her I look at the symbols one last time.

There has to be something more.

* * *

By the time I caught up with Rune, she was standing in front of an iron gate. From what I saw there was no way to open it. Not yet. I came closer to Rune and saw that she had the rolled up thing that Cipher gave her.

"Hey what is that?" I ask my voice echoing.

Rune jumped back in surprise, "The hell?! Oh, you mean this?" She asked holding up the thing that to me looked like a scroll. Then she gave a low hiss stepping away from me. "Keep the light away from me."

"Why." I ask.

"Just do it." Rune said. "Anyway, the thing that Cipher gave me is his notes on this place."

"I thought he didn't explore ruins." I say.

"For someone who's a wanted criminal you do ask a lot of questions." Rune said.

What the... How did she know?

"What, you didn't think I'd noticed, a RainWing walking into a tavern that is right next to the town where the last known sighting of a certain outlaw that so happened to be a RainWing. You're lucky that I was there before others noticed." Rune said. She was back behind me and walking forward. "I also heard that right after we left that three squads of guards from three different  tribes  all came looking for the same dragon. So are you Amethyst the animus? Are you an animus?" Rune asked. 

She kept on walking forward and I was walking backwards to the iron gate.  "So what is it are an animus or what?"

Shit, shit,shit.....  

"Uh..um.." I say. 

I feel my claws hit the cold stone. I squeeze my eyes shut then...

Crank...scree! The gate opens.

I opens my eyes and I see Rune looking at the now open area. 

"Well would you look at that." She said.

***

I feel a warm liquid running down my hand. I look at my left palm and see that there was a round cut in the middle. Great. I think. I'm bleeding.  I found a needle in the stone had blood on it. Is that what opened the gate? How did I not feel that?

I shake my talons. And I walk to the passageway. It look like a stone bridge over a chasm.   Rune was a few steps ahead of me. I catch up to her. She looks back at me.

"Is it true?"

"What?" I ask.

 "That you are an-" Rune couldn't finish her sentence  when rocks from the ceiling start to fall. They start crashing down onto the bridge or into the chasm. 

"Run!" I shout. 

We try to make it to the other side other of the stone bridge but the rock that are the size of large boulders block our path. CRASH! Another group of rocks of start falling. 

"No, we now fly." Rune says. 

She takes off and soars down under the bridge. I follow her down.  

"There." She says pointing to a small opening in the cave. We both fly as fast as we can. Well Rune was a bit faster than I was so she reached the opening first. When I finally reached it the rocks started falling a lot more frequently and then two big boulders fall blocking the opening almost missing my tail.