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Chapter 19: A Little Secret
They followed Loro to the library, where they found Andres and Ryan by a vault door. “Hey, you found them.” Said Andres. “Yes, what’s that?” Asked Nico, noticing the door. “We don’t know, we were hoping that you could help us find out.” Replied Ryan. “That is the restricted part of the library, nobody, except the leaders, are allowed inside.” Said Loro. “More reason to find out, don’t you think?” said Andres. “I’ll open it,” Nico said. This wasn’t like any kind of lock he had unlocked before.
He reached into his dark magic, put it in the mechanism, and… “What?” Exclaimed Nico, His magic had been pushed out by some kind of force. “Try again, I’ll help you.” Said Loro. Nico tried again, using his magic to open the lock. He felt the weird force trying to push his magic out, but this time, Nico had reinforcements. He felt Loro’s magic pushing at the force with him. The force was getting overwhelmed.
Click! The vault door opened. Inside, there was a massive library, bookshelves going as far as the eye could see. “How is it so big? It looked way smaller from the outside.” Asked Percy, confused. “So they did an enlarging spell, interesting.” Said Loro. “What’s an enlarging spell?” Asked Nico. “There are different types of enlarging spells, this one, creates another dimension which you can only access through that door. In this universe, it appears to be only bookshelves. I wonder if there are other restricted things here.” Explained Loro.
That’s when they heard the voices. It was an old frail voice saying, “It is done, master, he has been taken care of.” Then there was a creepy voice, was it the one they heard at the Secret One’s palace? Good, I shall take care of the other ones. “Yes, goodbye master,” Said the frail voice, “All hail the Secret One!” The group heard footsteps coming towards them. “Hide, now!” Hissed Loro. The group ducked behind a bookshelf as the footsteps passed. “I can’t believe this.” Said Loro. “Who was he?” Andres asked. “The Hidden One’s leader. I can’t believe he is corrupt.” Said Loro sadly. Nico couldn’t believe it either. Maybe that’s why the judge framed the Silent Ones and Loro, Nico thought, But then, the whole system is corrupt.
The Hidden One’s leader hadn’t gone to the exit, he had gone right to a bookshelf opposite to them. They saw a bright, glowing, golden sphere zooming to him. “What’s that?” Annabeth asked. “That’s a zephyr, a messenger ball that goes to the specific person that it is sent to.” Explained Loro. The zephyr started making noises, then becoming actual words. Loro has escaped! We can’t find him! It said. “No! I have failed the Secret One.” Said the Hidden One’s leader, rushing towards the exit.“We have to get out of here.” Said Loro.
“This way,” Said Loro, “We can’t get caught now.” They had managed to sneak out of the main building (Which was huge) and were now on the road towards the Silent Ones’ outpost. “I hope I can stay with you guys until I have a home,” Loro said. “You can make our outpost your home, you could join us.” Said Hudson. “I don’t know…” Said Loro. “If you want to defeat the Secret One, we are your best shot,” Ryan told him. “Yeah! We would welcome you with open arms.” Said Andres. “I guess... I mean, I do want to defeat the Secret One and you are my best shot at it.” Reasoned Loro. “So… Is that a yes?” Asked Ryan. Loro smiled, “You just got yourself a new Silent Ones member.”
When they got to the small outpost, Hudson, Ryan, and Andres started preparing the official joining ceremony for Loro. “Hey,” Andres called from where he was sitting. “Hi,” Nico responded. “I’ve been thinking…” Said Andres, “I’ve talked about this to Ryan and Hudson about this.” “About what?” Nico asked, suddenly interested. “Well, I don’t know how to say this, but… Do you want to become part of the Silent Ones?” Asked Andres.
“Sure, I mean, I basically already am in the Silent Ones.” Responded Nico. Andres laughed, “On the part of the missions, but we are asking you to become an agent full time. That would mean disappearing as your father did.” Oh. Nico thought, That would probably mean never seeing my mom again. It was a hard decision. “I’ll get back to you,” Nico said absentmindedly, walking towards his room. He sat there, thinking for quite some time.
Chapter 20: The Amulet
“This is the last chance to back out,” Said Andres, “Do you all wish to proceed?” “Yes.” Said Loro, Nico, Percy, and Annabeth at once. “Then I officially declare you, Loro, Annabeth, Nico, and Percy, the new members of the Silent Ones brothership.” Declared Andres. Nico felt happy and a bit worried at the same time. He was sure his mother would have wanted him to do this.
Nico managed a weak smile when Andres looked at him. “Dismissed. We have some work to do in shaping this place up to living conditions.” Andres announced. Ryan and Hudson were busy on a mission so they wouldn’t be back until later.
He decided that he would sneak around. “How can I get to the lowest floor?” Nico asked Andres innocently. “Well, you can take the elevator,” Andres told him thoughtfully. “Why do you want to go there anyway?” Andres asked. “No reason. I just wanna take a look.” Nico answered running towards the elevator.
Nico found the elevator and pushed the button to get to the lowest floor. Ding! He got to the lowest floor. “I regret doing this,” Nico commented, walking off the elevator. It was so dark in here. He couldn’t even see a light switch. Crunch. Nico looked down terrified.
It was just a note. He picked it up to read. “Light the beacon, summon it.” Nico read out loud. “Creeeeee.” Something echoed from the far end of the room. “Ahhhhh!” Nico screamed running for the elevator. The elevator doors slammed shut behind him. “Oof,” Nico said sitting down, relieved. “Nev- never doing th- that again,” Nico said to himself.
Ding. The elevator doors opened and Nico ran out. “What?” Nico looked around. All the lights were out. He ran to the curtains and found that it was already night. Nico whirled around and ran to his room in the outpost. Nico ran like lightning up the stairs. Before entering his room he felt something behind him.
He whirled around to find nothing there. Nico, exhausted, just closed the door and went in. The next morning everyone was in the hall when Nico finally got dressed and got downstairs. Surprisingly Ryan and Hudson had returned. “Good, you’re here. Ryan, tell us again.” Andres said, turning to look at Ryan.
“We found this with a note,” Ryan said, passing the thing to Nico. “Woah. What is it?” Nico said, turning it around in his hands. “An amulet,” Ryan said, taking it back, “We found a note as well that said this.” This is the amulet of the wolf. Use it wisely. Nico read. “Who’s the wolf?” Asked Percy. “The wolf was the greatest fighter that ever lived. The gae rún was his sword.” Explained Loro, pointing to the gae rún strapped in Percy’s belt. “Ok… Then what’s that amulet?” Nico asked.
“People thought that his ‘powers’ came from a secret amulet of some sort. I think that this is it.” Loro said. “Why do you sound so sure?” Asked Andres. “Because I know it is true,” Responded Loro, “When I was with the Secret One, I didn’t have any magic. The Secret One got this amulet and gave me my magic. He then explained that there were five amulets. Each one gives you different kinds of magic: Dark, light, prediction, mind tricks, and battle.” He said, eyeing the amulet.
“So... You think that this is the amulet of battle?” Asked Ryan. “Yes,” Loro responded simply, “The Secret One also said that he wanted to search for the amulets. He said that if one got hold of all of them at once, that person would be the most powerful being in existence.” “Wow,” Commented Annabeth, “But isn’t he already the most powerful being?” “Yes, but just by a little,” Replied Loro, “With the amulets, he will be a billion times stronger.” “So we have to stop him, even if it’s fake.” Concluded Nico. “Yes.” Said Hudson. “But we will have a really good fighter ourselves,” Loro said, eyeing the amulet and then looking at Percy. “Why are you looking at me?” Asked Percy innocently. Loro smiled at him, “Percy, get ready to be the next wolf.”
Book 3
The Amulet Of Doom
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