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Chapter 3 - The Necklace Accident

At the top of the cliff where the trees and grasses can be seen anywhere, the director wearing the black sweater, brown designer's shoulder bag at the lap and black jeans while the suit from earlier were taken off. The car were also standby at the safer part of the cliff. She's sitting at the end of the land form while her eyes were giving a mesmerizing stare at the moon with a bit of tears at the inferior tarsus can be seen. The awestruck regret in her face is all that you can define in it thinking about what happened earlier while her hands is holding the ground and her feet were hanging in the air.

"FATHER!"

- The memory of her father as she screamed sorrowfully at the burning body inside the warehouse were running inside the director's mind. The tears starts to drop at her eyes slowly as she looks at the golden necklace with strange silver pendant design that looks like a circle at the outside, inside the circle is the obsidian diamond-shaped lining attached with two short lines at the top, at the middle of the lining, there can be found a green-shiny emerald with the shape of equilateral triangle.

That necklace was given to her by her father when she was young as she knows that it was passed down for generations in her family. For her it is the most important thing she can have in her life after her dad passed away and as she was looking through that pendant, there is something strange that happened to it like it has become shinier and more glistening than ever before. The eyesight that focused on pendant changed to the scenery of the city lights and beauty of the sea that made her smile as she was thinking about jumping and die from suicide without anyone knowing.

Janus was inside the white van as Jeremy was driving towards the port where their allies were waiting for them in order to get on board in a cruise ship as they will go to their country, their hometown, in Ithaca, eastern part of their world with 1707 miles from their current location. The port was 40 minutes away from them as the scheduled time was 4:00 in the morning and the current time was 2:38am. For them to reach the port, they need to pass over the mountainous areas while the coast will be found under.

As they are driving at the mountains, Jeremy starts to play the radio of the white van by clicking the "On" button and the music with an upbeat and cheerful vibe at a high volume was heard where Jeremy was seen enjoying and dancing while holding the steering wheel. Janus has moved a little bit while his eyes closed as the song distracted his sleep until Jeremy starts to ask something.

"What will we do with all this money Janus?" - He merrily asked while he's banging his head.

"You will know later." - Janus replied.

As Janus was irritated by the music that was playing, a strange feeling starts to dig inside his chest, it is a feeling he never felt before as they reach the middle of the mountain. The feeling was growing each second until he opened his eyes suddenly and shout loudly to Jeremy.

"STOP THE CAR!" - He loudly screamed.

The car was stopped as soon as he screamed and Janus turned around his head, his iris starts to get widen as he looks at his left side of the car. He saw a woman standing at the end of the cliff with dark shiny hair, thin body but sexy wearing a black sweater and jeans, the instincts of Janus starts to activate as he know that something dangerous will happen and immediately opened the door of the van as he run towards the lady that suddenly walks forward and fell from the cliff suddenly after as Janus runs toward the cliff.

As Janus reached the end of the cliff, he looked under finding where the woman is as the necklace was hooked from the end-twig, it stops the woman from falling but the necklace and the thin wood is not durable enough to handle the director's weight and as soon as Janus realizes it, he immediately come down carefully to reach the hands of the lady.

The woman was struggling to break the twig, coughing from the hanging due to necklace pressuring her neck. While holding the twig and trying to break it with all her might but instead, the necklace was broken to make director fall down but Janus suddenly grabbed the lady's wrist tightly as the other hand was holding at the land form, Jeremy was found at the top and immediately reached the arms of Janus as they both pulling themselves up using all of their strength. The necklace has now falling but luckily hooked at another tiny tree.

All of them now were safe as they finally reached the surface, lying down and breathing heavily due to exhaustion of the moment, the director gets up but craziness was found in her face and her actions as she is reaching something under the cliff trying to go down again but Janus stopped her while saying.

"Are you crazy?! Something must have cracked your head!" - Janus said while locking her body with his hands and pulls her to stop her from getting accident again.

"The necklace! The necklace was down there! Let me go!" -As the director smashing the arms of Janus to let her go but still not enough to make Janus let her.

"What about the necklace? You can buy another one again, why risk your life to get it?!"

-Janus angrily asked.

"Daddy! Daddy!"

The director tearfully screamed while her left hand is reaching the air at the direction where the necklace is, it is hanging at the small wooden tree standing horizontally and it is far away under the land form.

Janus realizes something as he is looking towards the lady thinking that it was something really important for her as he convinced her that he will get it for her. He asked Jeremy to get the remaining ropes they used earlier as Jeremy was exhausted standing up to get it inside the vehicle. As Jeremy brought the ropes, Janus immediately got them as he walks in a hurry at the nearest tree and he starts to tie the ropes tightly around the trunk and tied it also to his stomach.

As Janus walking at the end of the cliff, he asked Jeremy to call their allies to come over at the place they're currently at. Janus starts to carefully jump under the cliff while the director was tearfully watching, he jumped under little by little until while the ropes were supporting him as he holding it and doing it like a professional mountain climber.

He finally reached the tree where the golden necklace with strange pendant and grabs it. Jeremy now got his cellphone from his suit's pocket, he typed their ally's number and rings right after but as it rings, the thumb of another character has touched the screen of the cellphone answering the call from "Idiotic sidekick" contact name.

The image of the person answering the call was a short guy with a height of 149 centimeters, a red spiky hair wearing ocean-colored polo long sleeve, tight jeans, black-tied formal shoes and an eye-patch. Nose was aquiline and a smear type of lips, his name was Angelus, another friend of Janus and Jeremy. As the call was answered, he put the cellphone in his ears as the caller saying.

"Order from the leader, come at the place that I will send you, please do so as soon as possible Angelus." - Commanded by the caller.

"Aye Aye Idiot."

-Replied by Angelus with a teasingly tone

"Stop acting like dumb, midget, it is an order and Janus is doing something here."

- Jeremy annoyingly said to Angelus.

Janus has now grabbed the necklace with an obsidian and emerald pendant and as soon as it touches the hands of Janus, he was staring at it thinking like he saw it somewhere before already, the image of the pendant was weirdly familiar to him even though it was the first time he saw it. The Emerald inside the obsidian lining starts to shimmer brightly that causes the director and Janus to dazzle by the chartreuse light.

"Brik"

- The sound of the ropes at the upper part starts to get thin like it is now fragile to get cut.

The glittering flash has ended slowly, because of that, Jeremy ran towards the cliff to look after Janus but he amazingly sighted his friend as it's like the very first time he saw him reacting like this. Something has come in Janus's mind that was noticeable from his reaction that normally was emotionless, it is the first time that his eyes has opened wide while looking at the necklaces he's holding and tears under his eyes starts to fall down, but the reason in himself why he cried was still unknown to him.

Janus wiped his eyes with his left hand that holds the necklace, he raised his hands to show it to the lady, the director just nod her head showing that she agrees and she wants to have it. Janus smiled and starts to pull himself up with the rope he's using. The rope got thinner as Janus pulled it.

He was like walking and jumping as he was going up the cliff. Janus was getting near the surface until the face of Director and Jeremy got shocked by what they saw, their lips got opened slowly and their eyes were shockingly widened as the director let her hands go to the direction where Janus is as an indication that she wants to help him.

It was because the ropes got cut and Janus has grabbed the necklace tightly as he accidentally falling down to the bottom of the mountain with the 4,438 meters in height from his current place.