The Rise Of Quetzalcoatl - Chapter 147

After a few hours of complaining and Nuala fainting from the heat multiple times, we finally arrived at a pyramid… which was so much bigger than I initially thought.

Each separate stone block that had been baked in the heat was about three times the height of me.

“Holy… shit,” I muttered as I trailed my eyes all the way up to the peak.

“Alright, so how do we get in?” Mia asks.

“Don’t worry… It’s a secret chant passed down through Celestine’s mother’s side,” Clio says before jogging up to the massive block and placing her hand on it.

She felt each indent and engraving in the block as if they were a key to the puzzle.

“Wait…” I muttered before Clio began to chant in a low voice none of us were able to hear.

“Open sesame!” She shouted, and we all deadpanned as the block in front of us slowly slid down into the ground.

Clio had a stupid look on her face as she gestured for us to enter.

“Please, don’t hesitate and enjoy the ride,”

“Why are you acting like that again. I thought I finally ditched that annoying Clio,” Celestine grimaces before entering the dark alleyway beyond the stone block.

I could see Clio cough up a bit of blood as a trail of tears ran down her cheek.

“Sorry,” She muttered before following us in, and once all of us were in the dark alleyway, the block closed behind us.

“Somebody light the torches. They have been extinguished after so many years,” Celestine says, so Mia just snaps her fingers.

A trail of torches suddenly appeared in front of us, each one lit by a pink flame that gave off such a beautiful and almost seductive aura.

“What a weird flame,” Astra muttered as she poked the flame, but it didn’t harm her at all.

We continued our stroll down the dimly lit hallway and noticed it was made from the same stone as outside.

Plus, I could see patterns engraved into the wall.

“Girls, I have a hunch,” I say, scaring Nuala, who was almost entranced by the seemingly endless hallway in front of us.

Even when we lit hundreds of torches with pink flames, nobody could see the end.

“What? Also, don’t talk too loud. You’re gonna scare me,” Nuala says as she catches her breath and holds herself up with the help of Ethel’s shoulders.

“Haven’t any of you been thinking about how the vampire said there was one monster in Egypt? So, where could it be of all places? Maybe the most known and mysterious place in all of Egypt?!”

Everybody was silent, but Clio looked at me with a calm and understanding expression.

What a weirdo…

“The monster resides in the middle of this pyramid. The vampire never said when they were dispatched, so I’m pretty sure it’s here… If it’s not, well, I don’t know then,” She shrugged before touching the stone wall and muttering something under her breath, once again.

The wall opened up beside her, and a long set of stairs seemingly went endlessly down.

And thus, our five-hour-long travel through the winding tunnels of the pyramid commenced… and none of us were happy about it.

Eventually, we took a pit stop as everybody was completely exhausted despite us not even doing much,

“Oh my god… This is so boring… Clio, how much longer?” I asked the tan girl who sat beside me while petting Celestines head.

Isn’t Celestine older? Geez…

“Not that much longer. We probably have… About four more hours of winding and turning, but if we go off what the legend says, the place we are about to arrive at is worth the wait,” Clio says with a smile.

I also noticed Celestine looked a bit excited as she looked at her phone.

“What is this legend exactly?” I ask as she keeps talking about this legend that her family has passed down but never tells us anything.

She also kept ignoring me… and she just did it again, so I kept pressing.

“Come on, tell me. At least tell me the reason why you can’t talk about it,”

I continued to bug her throughout our entire break, and eventually, she gave in.

“AH! FINE!” She shouts, pushing me off her chest.

Everybody was intrigued, so their ears perked up and glanced at Clio, who was a bit frightened by all our gazes.

“*sigh*… You know Egyptian mythology, right?”

“Yep,” We all say in unison.

“Ugh… So, Anubis is basically one of the gods of Egyptian mythology, and he is also the one responsible for creating the idea of coffins. But, it’s not like the legend I heard is accurate to the mythology,”

“Mhm… Please continue,” Electra says with sparkling eyes.

We all looked like kids listening to their mother reading them a bedtime story… and Clio didn’t look too happy about it.

Mostly because she was embarrassed, but besides that, she continued her story.

“So, we’ll arrive in an enclosed paradise filled with waterfalls and a massive pond surrounded by trees. At the bottom of this pond is a coffin that we can dig up, and inside should be Anubis, waiting for somebody to release him,”

“Wait, so we have to kill a god?” I ask, and Clio began to sweat, diverting her gaze from me.

“Oh my fucking god,” Mia mutters, holding her while everybody looks a bit pale.

“You brought us all the way here to send us to our deaths… great… just great,” I muttered.

“I-I mean, we also came here for the monster, right?” Clio tried to save our excitement, but it was far gone.

“And that monster is a god….” Ethel says.

Ugh… But it’s not like we can go back now.

Plus, we have the necklaces in case something bad happens…

“I guess we can go,” I sigh, and everybody looked at me with an angered expression.

“May you please explain why?” Mia asks, a vein practically about to burst out of her forehead.

“We have the necklace plus we’ve come too far… So just suck it up,”

“B-but it’s a god,” Nuala mutters.

Well, it might not be a god, to be honest.