Catching Magical Beasts Is Easy

Crynn POV

Ehm... Right in front of me, standing on a majestic pedestal is a gigantic Sphinx, dormant in a deep sleep. And around the room are countless bones and skulls, some look human and others not. "A Sphinx! Where!" Newt came up and his eyes sparkled, shouting enthusiastically. Oh oh... The Sphinx is awake and is now staring at us with those dangerous yellow cat pupils.

"Well, crap," I whispered as Newt and Aria followed my line of sight and ended up to the Sphinx. "This! This is incredible! This might just be the largest Sphinx ever recorded in magical history! We made history!" Newt's face has absolutely no fear but kept babbling in excitement as he neared the giant creature.

"We should rethink this!" I hushed towards Newt but he turned it down and continued going closer. "What should we do?" Aria mumbled beside my ear, I'm going to be getting a migraine. "Let's just follow behind and just, just be careful. Don't worry too much about him, he's an expert at dealing with magical creatures."

As Newt went directly towards the Sphinx's front side, we creeped behind him. "الزائرين؟ أجب على أحجية ، ويمكنك المرور. ما الذي يمشي على أربع أرجل في الصباح ، ورجلين عند الظهر ، وثلاث أرجل في المساء؟ (Google Translate to Arabic, Visitors? Answer my riddle and you can pass. What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?)"

The Sphinx drawled in Ancient Egyptian that I don't think anyone out of three of us understood. "Newt, can you understand Ancient Egyptian? Because I think the Sphinx just said a riddle," this is very, very bad. A few minutes into this library and we're already at the first major obstacle. "Ehm... It's a lost language, so... No?" God, that doesn't help.

"لا تستطيع الإجابة؟ ثم يموت! (Google Translate to Arabic, Can't answer? Then die!)," the Sphinx growled and jumped at us, his claws raised high to tear us apart! Newt immediately reacted and opened his briefcase in the Sphinx's jumping direction, sucking the Sphinx into the briefcase in no time.

"Hahahaha!!! I got a Sphinx! The biggest in the world! Best decision of my life!" Newt laughed out loud, very happy, very jolly. What I did not believe was how easy he took to catch the magical beast! Is catching magical beasts that easy?! "Did that Sphin just went into his briefcase?" Aria boggled, asked. "Yes it did," I don't know what to say.

"Come on, let's go, no dilly-dallying," Newt cheerfully smiled and said, that's a huge turnover from the reluctant look to this fully satisfied expression. I sighed and we entered through an entrance behind the pedestal, the Sphinx is probably guarding this entrance. And the next room is... barren, a giant rectangular chamber with another entrance.

The moment we stepped into the room, the sounds of gears started moving and the floor on the most right and left sides, right next to the wall started to open up! Bang! Bang! Bang! I manage to catch multiple, dozens of something jumping from the holes and landed right in front... crap. This is full of shit! I'm done with this shit!

Try to guess what came out? You probably guessed it wrong! It's the f*king Anubis guard statues again! F*ck them! "Err... Are these the statues you're talking about?" Newt began and Aria also looked at me with questioning eyes. "Yes they are and I'm so, so, so sick of them!" I felt my face blacken, I hate those Anubis guards.

"So... what should we do?" Aria asked as she looked around warily, the bowstring already pulled back in caution. "They're made of metal, charge them enough and the stone powering them would explode, disabling the statues. Can we get your Thunderbird in the action, Newt" I'm feeling a headache, there's dozens of statues and I'm not confident we're able to take them all down.

Except if we're able to get the help of a Thunderbird. Also, the statues this time are equipped with golden swords instead of the golden spears which is I'm sure a good thing. "Sure. Birdie! Come out!" Newt yelled into his opened briefcase and a large bird with 4 wings with two large wings, another two smaller wings towards the tail and two tails wings came out.

So grandeur, the golden and white feathers with the proud and domineering stature, so cool! The only problem is... "Why did you name a Thunderbird, birdie?" Yeah, that's just weird not that I'm judging Newt's sense of naming or whatever but... just why? "Is there any problem with the name? I think it's good enough," Newt looked at me weirdly.

"Why don't you name it Zapdos or Raiden, or something that could correlate to thunder, lightning and storms?" Aria seems to have caught my drift and Newt is still staring at me confused. "What sort of names is Zapdos and Raiden, they're terrible!" Newt tilted his head but what... "They're muggle- Nevermind, just nevermind," right, just nevermind at all what I said. (Mortal Kombat and Pokemon, anyone?)

I could feel Aria suppressing a laugh beside me, oh boy. Chirp! The huge bird chirped loudly as it continued to fly in the high roofs of this massive hall. "Birdie! Release the storms and electrocute the metal statues!" Newt confidently commanded as the bird swirled around, releasing (farting?) out dark grey clouds out its back, that's fascinating.

Rumble! Rumble! The thunder within the clouds started to ring. "It's not going to start to rain, does it?" I asked, because storms usually comes with huge amounts of water. "Don't worry, a Thunderbird in an enclosed location could only produce thunder clouds. A Thunderbird will produce rain if it's depositing thunder clouds in the sky," that explains.

The thunder started to strike each of the statues in a high concentration as the blue stones on the back of each statue's necks. As expected, the Anubis guards' souls started to come out and wail as they got dragged down to Egypt's equivalent of the underworld. And time goes on, more and more wails are heard as more and more thunders are hit.

Ahhh! The music in my ears!