All stories begin with "Once upon a time..."
Charlotte Luchessi's a girl unlike any have seen. With a fast-thinking mind and many skills and talents up her sleeve, nothing could take her down!
But something does; an event that had left her scarred...
The group managed to make it into the mines through a running spree, forced by Charlie, and made it to the spot where Jack remembered them being together last time.
"This was where he left his pickaxe...we didn't go farther because it would've been out of camp bounds. At first, I thought he wouldn't go inside since he left it there, but he's nowhere here...Charlie, are you sure he's in here?"
"My third eye doesn't lie! He's in here somewhere, I can feel it! Even if it took me a while to get it under my control..." she muttered the last part to herself.
"Well, guess we've no choice but to move on..." Jack shrugged.
"H-Hold on!" Ace stops him and looks at Charlie with a tinge of fear in his eyes. "C-Charlie...weren't we here before??? W-We got attacked by a monster when we were on the search for a magic stone!"
"Hey, guys." Leona whistled for the group as he stopped by a nearby hole in the wall, just big enough for a boulder to squeeze through. "I found something."
"A magic stone??" Ruggie guessed.
"Not even close. Look in here. I found something pretty unusual." the lion gestured. Everyone peeked from the edges to peer down the hole.
"Wh-What the-? A cauldron?!" Sebek's jaw dropped. "Why would something like that be in here?!"
True to his word, in the hole was a familiar black cauldron and from it peeped a voice. "Sebek? That you??" From the rim, Deuce popped up and climbed out when his eyes landed on the group. His eyes lightened up. "I knew it! And you brought the others. C-Charlie! Sol! Grim! You're here as well?! WHY?!"
"We were gonna ask you the same thing!" Charlie butted in before Jack could speak. "We were on a search mission for you!!"
"And you still look fit and well!! Why didn't you come back?!" Grim followed, mad.
"You were napping in that godforsaken cauldron this whole time?? Jeez, man..." Ace sighed, but Deuce shushed them frantically.
"SHHHHH!! Don't make a sound!!" Confusion swept all their faces but Sebek wasn't pleased.
"WE CAME TO RESCUE YOU! BE GRATEFUL, YOU INSOLENT-!"
"Sebek, you too!!" Deuce shushed him. "Keep shouting like that, You're gonna attract-!" but the sounds of shuffling were made out and Deuce paled. "Crap!! It found us!!"
"What? What found us?" Sol whispered, even if she had a feeling what it may be as much as Charlie did. The Seer though was breathing frantically at the terrifying thought of-
"Something's coming!!" Ruggie whisper-shouted.
"The stone....is mine...." Charlie's face grew terrified, flashbacks of the night here way before flooded her mind.
"What the hell...?!"
Grim shrieked as an all too familiar figure slumped from the shadows and into the light.
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