There were two knocks on the door. She rolled sideways on the bed stretching her body as she got down
"I'm coming" she said, heading for the door of the room,
It was close to midnight and yet her secretary has come to bother her.
Could they be in danger she thought, she quickly shrugged off the baffling scenes of them not making it back away from her mind.
She unlocked the door's bolt pulling it, standing at the other end was Bree, her personal secretary
Bree had worked as an intern in her company as a secretary since she was a little above fifteen years. She's been working with her for three years since then. Bree was the only one she could trust with this responsibility.
"What is it Bree?" she said, yawning. "Mrs Carla,there's something urgent you need to attend to""Are they safe?","yes ma'am, " Bree clarified,nodding her head.
"I'll be with you in a second," she said, shutting the door. The incident of a goblin appearing in the phantom middle school spread around the whole city like wild fire. Relevant well enough to reach the wealthiest woman in the state,
Carla Brynes, Moreover because her daughter, Pauline Byrnes was a student at the middle school.
For all Carla knew a girl named Zaya was the cause of it, and such a situation would have warranted extreme investigation, but after much persuasion from her daughter Pauline.
Carla had used her influence to shut the whole operation down. Yet still, she carried out her personal investigations.
Her hands reached for a robe, searching for an outfit that was comfortable yet official, she nodded her head as she selected one.
Carla arrived at the surveillance room in her mansion,wide sets of screens hanging on the wall.
Her personal secretary standing at the front of the surveillance system, the screen in the middle paused, showing the scene of five girls in a cave, all including Zaya Lexington.
The paused screen reflected the excitement the group of girls had as they found the most beautiful part of a dark cave.
"Looks like they've found some silly pirate treasures" Carla said as she smirked,"I do not see the importance.
"how does this relate to the goblin?" Carla asked Bree, Bree then responded as she rewound the video showing the exact location and moment where the girls were.
Carla walked closer towards where the screen was, staring intently at the drawings on the wall they matched that of the ones on the files they manage to get from the governmental organizations.
"How old are these cave drawings Bree?"
"Roughly two thousand years old ma'am," "What does all this mean?"
"In my own concept this is a warning,"
Carla looked back at Bree totally confused,
"A warning?" She asked, yes Bree then continued.
"it's just a speculation on my part but all those drawings are located in the entrance of that mountain,"
"If they go any deeper they will be in danger," she said.
Carla was lost in thought this was deeper than she had imagined. "Send a safety crew to their location now,"
"My daughter must make it alive, and prepare an interview board to aid the new secret organization;
"We'll begin recruiting for them first thing in the morning."
Zaya was staring straight at the painting, seeming like she was stuck to it. What does this mean Zaya? Asked Ashara.
Zaya was about to respond when she abruptly shifted her gaze to where the hot lake was. "Leave now everyone!" Something dangerous is coming!" she yelled.
Before the others could react, there was an earthquake, the ground below shook mercilessly.
They all stumbled, hitting the ground hard, icicles began to drop from the cave ceiling. Amidst the chaos, Zaya yelled "No!" her voice matching the ravaging sound of the earthquake.
She transformed to her fox form, tearing apart her suit like it was made of delicate rubber, she yelled louder.
"Leave now, forget about us!" Before the others could grasp what was going on, she launched towards Zoey.
The ground below Zoey opened, revealing a hole which begun swallowing her. "Zoey, Argh!" yelled Zaya, as she aimed towards the hole, trying all her best to get the slightest grip of her hand, but she failed.
She followed, diving into the dark hole to get her friend. She began leaping from one side of the hole to another, trying all her best to catch the falling Zoey, like her whole life depended on it.
Yet Zoey was still a hair's breath away from her position, Zaya's skin began to itch, as steam clouded the hole.
This could have only meant one thing, she thought, she could feel Zoey was losing her consciousness; the sunken look on her face showed she had blacked out from fear.
The last thing Zaya wanted in this world was one of her friends to die, she gritted her teeth, her fangs puncturing her lips, blood gushing from it. She went for a mighty leap, growling loudly in what felt like sound waves erupting from her mouth.
Grabbing Zoey on the way, the force of the growl was so intense, the hole cracked, the thick rocks that were foundations of the cave around her broke into shackles.
Revealing the source of the steam, Lava, it filled the whole area like a massively great river.
She began dodging the falling rocks, using some as stepping stones, trying all she could to get away from the fiery lake. It was horrifying, her eyes scrambled, looking for a large boulder in the midst of the lava to land on.
She sighted one, but it was a bit far away, she moved swiftly through the rocks, holding the unconscious Zoey in her hands tightly.
She hit the boulder in the lava's midst, dodging the incoming rocks from above without a millisecond of hesitation, muscles pounded in her leg, she launched upwards, sending the mighty boulder into inevitable shackles, leaping to the other ones in her reach.
A dangerous thought crossed her mind: what if the others didn't make it back? She thought if they didn't, they should be half way down towards the boiling volcano.
Veins bulged at the side of the purple foxes head as she kept leaping, searching for her friends.
Distracted, she miscalculated a bit, a stray gigantic rock aimed for her position, tensed, she faced her back towards the rock, clashing with it.
It broke, sending immense pains all through her fox body. She could see her fox form giving out, but she wasn't going to give up. Not yet, she thought to herself, not until Zoey was safe, even with the pain in her body, she twirled around frantically, spinning faster than fan blades, hands stretched forward with Zoey in her arms.
She threw Zoey upwards as she fell back towards the volcano, coughing a mouthful of blood. Zoey was not safe yet, Zaya was sent off from her weak trance as she sniffed out some shrieks far away beyond the lava, she felt strange primordial energy erupting from these beings, as it snapped her back to life, they were coming for her.
She looked upwards to Zoey, she was faraway indeed, over half a mile upwards, Zaya knew she wouldn't last long over there, she was not protected at all, and her warm coat only made the heat worse in the lava.
She could see two rocks aiming directly at Zoey's position; the slightest hit from those two rocks would definitely lead to her death. Now she was angry, there was a searing pain in her back, that stray rock had really sent her flying, Zaya hardly ever felt the need to use her power to the utmost level, but right now, she was standing face to face with death.
The possible death of someone she knew, she realized how a matter of life and death can push one past her limit. In that moment, she felt something inside of her awakening.
She growled, her voice resounding through the volcanic area, far louder than a carnival's speaker, tougher than the cry of a thousand ocean waves, her mouth tearing apart from the force it took out.
She balanced herself on air as she took one last leap on a rock, sending it straight to the lava, as though it had been attacked by lightning. It hit the boiling larva like a meteor, creating powerful tidal waves around the whole volcano, a huge part of where the large rock hit became void of the slightest trace of lava.
As Zaya tore through the air, all the falling rocks dispersed from the area she scraped through, as though they were hit by an invisible bomb, because of the immense momentum she carried.
She headed for Zoey, catching Zoey on the way, quickly transformed to her natural self, so as not to kill the defenseless Zoey.
She could see the upper cave above, she tensed her muscles, ready for collision, transforming back, hitting the cave's ceiling, directly stumbling away from that position, so as not to fall back into the hole.
Zaya felt total pain writhe all through her body, she knew it was not over yet, but her fighting power was drained, her fox form left, refusing to return, she was absolutely weak, she hit the ground along with Zoey, whom she held.