The Tales Of The Troublesome Three

Meet the Geralds.

Tom slid his open book over to the two. "In short, eureka!" The open book has a folded slip of paper in between it. Tom picks it up and opens it for the rest of the party to see.

Alaya snatches it and examines it carefully. The paper is brown with age and had it's witing is in calligraphy. In bold caligraphy it reads: 'portal to the land of the forgotten'

"Where the hell do you get this information?" Alaya says dumbfounded. "My grandpa was a necromancer wizard. He'd come here often when he was alive and well. He placed it in here without anyone knowing - except me - just in case."

"And you didn't tell us you had info in this book and wasted our time reading 17 pages of this thick ass book?" Hugo says, frustrated. "Yep." Tom responds going back to his first book. "Your an ass." Hugo says.

Tom laughed. "I know."

The peice of paper is an instructional writing on how to open up the portal to the land of forgotten. The universe is an open feild with nothing but hard, purple floors. In it lives hundreds of hundreds of ghosts, ready to be extinct. To be gone from the plane of exsistence.

"A ghost that will soon ceast to exsist.." Alaya mumbled under her breath. "Tom your a genius!" Alaya says giddily. "Oh, i know." Tom says without even looking up from his book.

"More like smartass." Hugo mumbled. "I'm not deaf, you idiot." Tom says. "Oh, i know." Hugo says mocking Tom.

"This is great!" Alaya says, still gawking at the scroll. "But.. none of us are necromancers." Alaya sighs. "My dad's a necromancer. He lives here too."

Alaya and Hugo's jaw dropped. "And how convenient is that!" Hugo threw his hands in the air. Tom shrugged and walked up to Anne. Alaya and Hugo followed behind.

"Thank you Anne!" Tom says as he leaves the library. "Visit anytime!" She smiles a wave.

They leave the library and mansion and go back to the fountain. "Do you remember where he lived, though?" Alaya asks Tom. "Nope." He responds. "But the locals sure do."

Tom goes to bystander to bystander asking if they could speak english. None of which do. After a few minutes of trial and error, Tom slouches on the fountain in defeat.

"Alright, that's it." Alaya marches over to a woman and speaks to her. Both of them having a small conversation in french. "Tom!" Alaya shouts over to tom. "What's your dad's name?"

"Thomas Gerald!" Tom shouted back. Alaya went back to the conversation. The woman pointed to east and said a few other things in french. Alaya thanked her and went back to the party.

"She said to go straight then take a u tern to enter a block. The block number is 26." Alaya transfered the information.

Everyone nodded and followed wherever Alaya was going. "Thomas, huh?" Alaya commented. "Your dad has the same name as you?" Tom furrowed his brows. "Tom is short for smething else."

"Then?" Hugo asks. Tom took a deep breath and cringed as he said, "Tommy." The team goes silent.

"HA HA HA!" Hugo laughs histerrically making everyone look at him weirdly. Alaya stiffled a laugh.

"Oh shut up, Arkson." Tom says crossing his arms. "Speaking of names," Tom looks over at Alaya. "What's your full name, Al?"

"Alaya clementine." Alaya says, walking past both of them. "Clementine? The orange clementine?" Hugo says catching up behind her.

"Yep."

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After walking for a few minutes in silence, they reach house number 26. The house is large. Not as large as a mansion but larger than any other houses in the block.