Chapter 10

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We entered a room, a big circular room with torches all across the wall. In the center of the room stood a large pedestal with steps leading to the top of it.
Atop the pillar was a piece of paper, but not just any piece of paper, a piece of paper that's gonna change everything. The feeling of achievement was in the air, this thing we had wanted for so long was finally within our grasp.
I looked to Bones and nodded. His face lit up, his eyes widened. I sat on the cold stone floor and watched him walk towards the pedestal. He climbed the stairs slowly, taking caution with each step. The sunlight peared through a large opening in the roof and shined down onto the fabled N-Word Pass. When Bones finally made it to the top, he looked to me and smiled, a tear in his eye. I chuckled and told him..

"Go on, take it". 

Bones turned around and slowly reached for the pass. I laid back and felt the cold, wet, stone on my back. I closed my eyes and waited.

Bones P.O.V. --

I grabbed the N-Word Pass and lifted it above my head, I turned to Gruff and yelled!

"GRUFF!! WE DID IT!!" 

He didn't respond, it really worried me…. wasn't this whole thing his idea?

"Gr..Gruff?" I yelled again. He moved his arms onto his stomach and, without looking at me, said…

"Did you think that the Last N-Word Pass would be free, Bones?" He had sadness in his voice… I was confused..

"What do you-" I began to ask but was interrupted by the whole temple rumbling.
The floor around me started to crack. I knew what Gruff meant now! I ran down the steps and tried to get to him, but just as I was at the last step, the entire floor around the podium broke and fell into the deep abyss below. I watched in horror as Gruff just layed there. He looked at me as the ground around him Disintegrated, and he said..

"Promise me you'll put everything back to the way it was, Milo." 

I responded with a shaky voice…

"I promise…" 

Tears blurred my vision as I watched him fall, I had never been so sad in my life. All the ground around me was gone, and the N-Word Pass began to glow… it left my hands and hovered above me. 

It flew to the very top of the temple and let out a blinding yellow light, and emitted and ear piercing sound. 

"NIGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" It said in a godlike, perfectly harmonized voice. 

The temple shook violently for a 3rd time. But this time, it knocked me down. The entire place began to crumble, I looked up and saw a huge rock falling straight towards me, I closed my eyes and prepared for death, but it didn't hit me. I opened my eyes and saw the boulder suspended in midair by a yellow light, right above my head. The rock turned to pebbles and the Pass spoke.

"Your friend made a noble sacrifice, and for this, I shall grant you one wish. You may have infinite riches, world peace, anything your heart desires. So tell me, my son, what will it be?" 

I thought for a long time… and then I got it!

"Oh and you cant wish for more wishes". The Pass interrupted.

Fuck, well ok, Gruff would want me to fix the world. But I could also bring him back to life… 

I thought about what would be better for me.... what would be better for the world...

"Mr. Pass! I know what I want!" I finally decided.

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