HoRRoRs Of ThE NiGhT

GRIMM'S FORTUNE

        As they finally got the tablet in their possession, they decided to go back to the ship to tell the good news. The crew members were awaiting their arrival, then they saw five people coming towards the ship. A few of the crew members went to check if they were allies, when they saw who they were, the five persons were aided to their rooms to rest and regain their strength for the remaining journey.
       After three days of rest, Iris ordered the crew members to set a course to the location of the box. The beasts were angry at the their feeble attempt to chase them away from the tablet, they had no other plans so they told Derek to ask Iris where they were going to and what they were going to do there. Derek met her and asked her, she told him that they were heading to Florence at Italy to find the "BOITE DE DESTINEE" which meant the Box of Destiny. She told him that the tablet was only one piece and there were two other pieces left which were the Box of Destiny and the "CLEF DE MYSTERES" which meant the Key of Mysteries.
        The next day, they headed for Florence, Italy to get the Box. They decided to go by flight instead of sea. So, Iris called the agency and requested for an aircraft to pick her and her team at Iceland. At first the flight was a smooth, calm and peaceful one but after two days there was a heavy storm which hindered the flight and made them stop. The storm lasted for a day and a half then they continued their journey the next day.
          They got to Italy and took a tour bus to Florence. When the got there, their tour guide told them that Florence was a very violent and hostile place and and to live there meant that you have to keep a low profile. They got down from the bus and went to a motel called Dr Francize Maison.
        During their time in the town, they kept a low profile and stayed under cover still trying to find the box. Two days after they came, there was an exhibition in the museum, telling the history of their people and their cultures and tourists were allowed to come for free. The historians went for it because they were expecting to find the box there. When they got there, they pretended to be interested by everything until they finally found the box. The guide told them that the box was a trading gift they got from the Egyptians and through their research it had two other pieces which were connected to it. They saw that the box was not heavily guarded like other artifacts. So, Lucius the lieutenant of the team said that it was going to be a simple break out operation.
            During the time of the operation, some members stayed behind and they included all the beasts. Isabella and Derek went to the authorities to report the operation to them. Immediately, the officers took off to stop the breaking and entering. As the cops were getting close, the historians were already on their way out. As soon as the historians sighted the cops coming they hastily drove at full speed. So the chase began, the cops were hot on the tails of the historians, following them at every corner and multiplying by each siren. Soon enough, there was a road block with cop cars lined up at the front, the historians had no choice but to surrender. They were arrested and imprisoned at the implemented prisonery.
          After a few days, there was a plan made by Lucius to escape the prison with the box but it was going to be very hard because someone would have to miss lockdown time, get the keys, free the others, get to the containment room and steal back the box. Iris chose the most skilled person at that field and that was Leonard Dartwood to try by all means to complete the task. By 8pm, all the prison cell gates were locked and all the prisoners were in their cells except Leonard. He easily knocked out the guards, took the keys, freed the others and got the box, without any trouble they left the prison and went straight to their motel to get the others to leave Italy.
           After the left Italy, they went straight ahead to the continent Africa. As they were in the jet, Iris wanted to find out what the connection the box and the tablet had. She carried both the tablet and the box to an enclosed part of the jet to examine them. She examined the tablet, and tried every way she knew to find the connection but she couldn't. She then decided to examine the box alone, she later finds a dusty spot on the box and cleaned it off. She saw an inscription on it which she read to herself, and it read:
"BEHOLD YOUR DESTINY IN GRAND TO HE WHO YIELDS THE BOX"
       Immediately she finished reading it, she was shown a vision where her obstacles in saving the city were told to her and the one person close to her who was driving this was Derek. After seeing this, she decided to start avoiding Derek and all means NEVER tell Derek her plans about their missions.
           The next day, Derek wanted to ask Iris about some information on the trip to Africa. As he went to meet her, but she lied to him that she was too busy and she could not give him any attention. Because the trip to Africa was long through weather conditions, Derek was given no attention to for five days. After sometime, he got fed up with her giving him no attention and wanted to confront her. He went ahead to ask her why she had been ignoring him. When he met her, she didn't want to answer him, so he dragged her to a quiet part of the aircraft and asked her. She didn't want to tell him the truth so she lied and broke up with him then walked out on him. Derek was deeply shocked, heartbroken and angry that he just went to his friends.
        When he got there, his friends saw the look on his face and asked what happened. Rather than telling them, he just sat down and started plotting to steal the box, key and tablet then kill Iris.
        After some hours of being in the air, they finally got to Africa and were now heading for Addis Ababa at Ethiopia.
        When they got to Addis Ababa, Iris told them that she wants to find the key as fast as possible and there should be no wasting of time. Two days had passed since they had been searching for the key. Nathan, a historian, wanted to buy an artifact or something to take home as a souvenir. As he got to the dealer's shop, his partner, Naomi spotted a key with a code lock on it and took a wild guess if that was the key of mysteries so she told Nathan to also buy the key. After buying, they went back to where everyone was and showed them the key. At first, everyone told them that they wasted their money, because the key could not just be in a market and the one they bought was useless and they should throw it away. As they were talking, iris had a short vision from the box about the key, at that moment she told everyone that it was the right key and it was time to go back to Bethany to end their curse.
        Derek, who had been plotting his scheme found out that they had gotten the key decided that it was time to steal the box, tablet and key then run away.
       On their way back, Iris had been having a feeling that she should put a lot of security systems on the items but she ignored it because she thought that on one would be able to find where she his them. But unfortunately, that same night, Derek snuck into the secret room where Iris kept the items and took them. He brought them back to his room to figure out how they worked, he tried every way possible but he couldn't....
               TO BE CONTINUED

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