.:The Apocalyptic Chronicles:. Chapter 19

Chapter Nineteen: Secrets will be revealed

Markus, Nadderine and I stood up, ready to look for Charles and his group. As we walked out, we saw another room that had the same carvings and paintings as before. Another sacrificial chamber?

We walked closer and peeked inside. No spikes.


So we went in and saw some dead bodies lying around with tools scattered everywhere. There was a large inscription on the ceiling.


"Only a worthy sacrifice will unlock the true power of the ancient golden scarab"


Ancient golden scarab? The room looked like a cave with Egyptian paintings on the walls. Pharaohs, servants, Scarabs, Jackals and many more.


There was one interesting painting that caught my attention. It was a painting of a pharaoh sacrifing thousands of his servants and getting nothing while the painting next to it showed a pharaoh sacrificing a jackal and in the end he was given an artifact in the shape of a scarab.


I wonder what the scarab has anything to do with any of this..


"Zhenhowsky! Look.." Nadderine pointed to one painting, it looked fresh.


It showed a person being sacrificed and the person receiving the same artifact as the one I saw earlier. What shocked me was the person being sacrificed..looked like Charles!


Holy crap! It all makes sense! Someone wants to sacrifice Charles to gain this powerful artifact!


"Guys! Charles and the others are in trouble! He's gonna be sacrificed while Jacovich and Leslie are gonna be disposed of!"


"I suggest we look for them as fast as we can before its too late!" Markus said.

We ran out of the room and encountered some zombies. We dispatched them easily and ran as fast as we could, searching every room for the 3 of them. No luck at all! None of the rooms we searched had Charles, Jacovich, nor Leslie.


Shit! Now what?!


"We haven't searched at the end of the hallway." Nadderine said while pointing towards the end door.


We ran to it and pushed the door aside.



Charles!

We saw him in the middle of the room. His legs and hands were chained to the ground.


"Charles! We're here!" I shouted.

He opened his eyes and saw us as we ran towards him.


Suddenly. BANG! A gunshot..

"Noone's going anywhere.."



To be continued..