Requiescat in Pace

James felt overwhelmed, as he kneeled, feeling the sweat drop to the ground, ashes and dirt between his fingers, he was overwhelmed, nearly letting go of his resolution as he heard, the malefic devilish whisper carried by the wind.

'You mean to tell me me... my efforts were nought.. what did I fight for when I didn't achieve anything at all, I..I have to try once more, even if it means nothing, I truly only know until the end!'

"ARGH!" James groaned, as his body didn't listen.

'Stand up! Please stand up, im begging you listen to me'

Yet his body didn't listen...everything has its limit, its only human, James body overstepped his limit..by far.

'Fuck.. my vision is hazy..am I going unconscious-'

James fell down, closing his eyes, yet to no avail could he reopen them, his eyelids were as heavy as golden fowl, as his mind wandered deeper and deeper, he heard the beasts laughter ringing like waves hitting the shore it clashes against the walls, trembling the cave, he fell asleep...

"Do you think the kids are alright?" Asked Grisko. "Yeah I'm sure they are all good, dont worry, I don't think, the people here planned to harm us. From the beginning, if they wanted to, they would already have done it, the kids should be in the same situation as us, the only thing is, i don't know what their agenda is, obviously they are planning something, not knowing that and avarus malum in addition, it gives me a headache seriously, nonetheless we have to find them first before we can plan our next move, i know we were joking earlier, but I think James is in trouble, so first the kids, then James and then we have to find a ship *sigh* it sounds so troublesome.."

"John we do not need a ship, you know that so why?" Asked Grisko perplexed.

He looked at John like he would lookt at a monkey.

"Grisko, if we use your ship do you think we can get off this planet?"

"Hm, i don't think so, probably would get shot down" said Grisko rubbing his chin, with one squinting eye.

"What happens if they see us in a avarus malum patrol ship, flying off the planet?"

"We probably would get shot down, thinking that we desert the army"

"Right? So we can neither use them to escape, we are probably safe with a patrol space ship on earth until the blue army engages the avarus malum, then we would have to probably...?"

"Ah switch ships" like a light bulb above his head switched on, Grisko suddenly understood.

"So what do we do, if we can neither use the patrol ship or mine?" Asked Grisko, looking at John with slightly bigger eyes.

"We have to worry about that later, dont forget we have something more important to do right now, right?" John was looking at Grisko and Grisko was looking back.

Grisko felt relieved that he had such a good friend. He began to smile slightly.

"Right..., lets go find the brats, afterwards you can think of a plan to get us out of here"

"Yeah lets do- what, wait what do you mean by that? Grisko stop running! Hey! You bastard why am I always cleaning up behind you! Just wait til I catch you!" John was fuming running after Grisko!

Grisko was looking back and just laughed!

John and Grisko kept running and running, until Grisko spotted two little figures in the distance.

He stopped!

'There they ar-'

before he could finish his thought he felt a foot on his back! It was Johns dropkick!

John was huffing and puffing.

"Th-this is wh-what you get! Ba-bastard!"

"ARGH" Grisko grunted and got to kiss the earth!

Elisa and Raven stopped walking, looked back and saw the guy they robbed with a companion, the guy they robbed just got kicked and laid on the ground. They were shocked! How could they follow them until here! How persistent can you be?! As shocked as they were, they begin to run without even thinking! Raven held Elisa's hand, to be sure she didn't fall behind!

'Its my fault i shouldn't have robbed him, he even brought someone with him! I didn't know he would follow Elisa and me to god nowhere!' Raven looked very worried, until he felt a squeeze in his hand. Elisa held his hand harder, and looked at Raven, determined.

Raven stunned for a moment, began to laugh "Hahahaha right, as long as we are together, nothing can stop us!" He began to smile and they kept running.

"Look what you have done you shithead! You alarmed the children! The kids just ran away!" Grisko didn't even dusted his clothes, he immediately stood up and went Straight after the kids!

John just realized what happened, followed suit!

"Wait for me!" Called john out!

"Nobody has time to wait you cheesy whale! Just move your legs faster!" Said Grisko without looking back!

"God damn this " john tried to spurred himself so he could catch up!

Elisa and Raven ran and ran, until it got brighter and brighter. All of a sudden they stopped, they found themselves in a giant dome, with a light coming from the ceiling that shined bright as a nightstar, warming as a dawn and pleasant like spring sunshine.

They stopped, because what they perceived was a never seen mythical place.

They cautiously looked around, they surveyed the new room, what they saw astounded them, it was graves, it overshadowed the beauty of the place, maybe the people who were buried here, wanted to feel the grace of this enigmatic transcend place, one last time.

"Look Raven at the graves..., there are so many, how could there be this many in such a tiny space" said Elisa to raven.

"I don't know Liz, but we can't just stand here and and admire the place, we have to hide" as Raven said the last word, he took Elisa's hand and searched for a place to hide.

He looked left and right, he saw many tombstones, in many different sizes and form. Some were all shiney, polished in gem, be it gold, silver, opalescent or copper. Many of them had weapons on them laying, some were never rusted, then there were weapons which time was not kind to them, leaving only a remberence of what they once were. Some tombs they saw had statues, warriors in all kind as they come. Maybe protecting the last rest of their lords, or the person whom they swore to protect, even in afterlife.

They finally found a suitable place to hide, it was a Mausoleum. On the Mausoleum was a script in an old ancient tongue, which neither Elisa nor Raven could read. Raven looked at the script in front of the Mausoleum as they were standin, his golden hued eye began to glow lightly. He fell in trance as he looked at the script.

"Raven? What is happening!" Elisa said worrying.

"Dont worry... im not in pain, i don't know what is happening right now either, I just understand..yes all of it, i can't explain it, but somehow everything that is written on the plaque is making sense to me, as it speaks to me." Raven's voice was so calm it was frightening for Elisa. Raven who seemed to sense her unease, held her hand tightly and smiled, which at least comforted Elisa.

The script on the plaque transformed into light particles, which flew slowly into Raven's eye. Elisa was worried but at the same time astonished what was happening in front of her.

"Týr er einhendr áss

ok ulfs leifar

ok hofa hilmir."

Raven whispered.

"What does it mean?" Asked Elisa.

"Tyr is a one-handed god,

and leavings of the wolf

and prince of temples" Raven answered back.

After Raven said that, a new line appeared.

"ef þú vilt sigr hafa, ok nefna tysvar Tý"

Just as Raven said that line, Elisa looked at him all pouting and pinched him!

"OUCH! Why liz?!" Asked Raven surprised.

"Just so, its not fair that only you can read it hmpf!"

Ravens mouth twitched.

'Hey, hey its not my fault here either'

"So what does it mean?" Asked Elisa. "Only if you promise to not pinch me anymore" said raven with a smug face.

"Hmm i can't promise that, but what I can promise is that I will pinch you less.. i guess?" Elisa held her hand rubbing her chin and looked for a moment in a corner with her eyes, then she smiled brightly and showed Raven a peace sign.

*sigh*

"Fine, I take what I can get, man what do I just do with you"

Raven patted her hair and smiled, in return Elisa was starting to blush.

"A-anyways.. what does it mean now?" Elisa strategy 109 if you are in a discomforting situation, switch topics!

"It says, if thou longest to win, thou shall call on Tyr, twice shalt do" after Raven said that, a new line appeared, but this time it was just a curved T"

Raven's eye stopped glowing, the script still glowed, Raven blinked and rubbed his eye.

"What now?" Elisa looked at Raven.

"I think its a riddle right?" Raven looked back at her.

"Mhm, I think so too, but this T looks kinda funny"

"Yeah it looks like a..." just as Raven wanted to finish his sentence, he caught something in his peripherals.

At the corner of the Mausoleum was something very shiny, covered in vines, dirt and leaves. It picked his interest, his guts told him to go nearer, his instinct was leading him.

His intuition, it screamed. He dug out the shiny thing, he uncovered it, he polished it just enough to be recognizable.

"Its a scale.." for Raven it just clicked.

"Elisa look around if you find something!"

They both started looking, soon they found something.

"I found a shield!" Called Elisa out enthusiastic, as she was covered in dirt and mud, which made her only cuter.

"I found a sword!" Said raven as he brought it near to Elisa to see it up close.

"Hey, just say, what do we do now with these things? A scale, a sword and a shield. How do these things help us open the Mausoleum" Elisa was holding on to these items and was playing with them.

"I think the answer lies in the poem.. and the door, not to forget the plaque" Raven was thinking.

"So we know this Tyr is a one-handed god right?" Said Elisa to him.

"Yeah thats right, also he is a prince of so called temples"

"Which means? " Asked Elisa.

"I don't know " answered Raven.

**sigh**

Suddenly like a lightning bolt it came to elisa!

"AH I got it!" Called Elisa out!

"You got wha-" before he could say anything, he watched how Elisa took the shield and pressed it against the door.

The script glowed brighter and brighter.

"Tyr, Tyr..." whispered Elisa.

The door it opened, the Mausoleum opened it giant doors to Elisa and Raven.

"H-how?" Asked Raven perplexed.

"Secret" Elisa giggling and laughing as she showed Raven a brightly illuminated smile that can't be compared to the stars in the nightsky.