Dash glanced at the dark room, he gulped as looked at the portrait, he felt a chill down his spine when he looked at the smiling faces of the family.
"These people are creeping me out" he said as he neared Albert, it was better to stick with Albert rather than Eira, who would tease him and scare him.
"The family is lovely," Eira said as she stood up and looked at the family. She took out a napkin and cleaned the portrait.
Now, the image was clear and she read out the name of the family,
"Dutchwille Family"
"Dutchwille?" Albert stood up from the ground as he was on his knees looking at the designs of the table. He walked towards Eira and glanced at the name written on the bottom of the portrait.
"Hmm" Eira nodded.
"I think I have heard about them" Albert said as he rubbed his chin thinking about the name, where has he heard that name?
"Forget it, I don't remember," he said as he looked at the picture.
"The name sounds rich, they must be rich" Dash said as he too joined them.
"I think so too, they must be very rich," Albert agreed.
"Whatever, let's start the game" Eira smiled evilly as she turned towards them.
Both the boys nodded.
They called the team leader of the other team and put the phone on speaker.
"Team leader Ethan it's team leader Eira" Eira greeted.
"Hmm, team Leader Eira, we have hidden the talking tom cat on the third floor of the building and you and your team are supposed to find him in 10 minutes. You don't get any hints or clues, thank you and all the best to you and your team" Ethan said in robotic voice.
"Alright, team leader Ethan, we will meet at the hall after we find the talking tom cat" Eira hung up.
"On the third floor team" she commanded as she opened the door of the room and climbed up the stairs to the third floor.
The third floor was beyond damage, the walls had big dents on them, the ceilings were broken and the doors were cracked and a lot of dust and debris fell on the floor. There was a broken piano, a lot of boxes and furniture which had a lot of dust and insects. The wallpapers were ruined and a lot of things were sprawled on the floor.
There were a lot of footprints on the floor.
"We can look at the footprints to get the treasure" Eira said as she looked at the lot of traces left by the other team of Ethan.
"Yeah" Dash agreed and started to look around.
"The piano is amazing" Albert gasped as he looked at the broken piano.
He traced the designs on the piano, the keys were enacted but the leg of the piano was broken, which can be repaired.
"You love antiques?" Eira asked as she neared the piano and pressed a key on the piano, a muffled sound of the piano was heard.
Eira cringed at the sound. She pressed another key and it buzzed.
"Yes, I do. But I sell most of them" Albert replied.
"Sell, as in the auction?" Dash asked, interested in the topic.
"Yes, my mom holds a lot of auctions," he replied.
"Cool," Dash said.
"Come on guys, we don't have enough time to chit chat, let's begin the treasure hunt," Eira said, clapping her hands.
Dash and Albert nodes and they begin to look for the talking tom.
"What if the talking tom is on and if we say something it will repeat what we said?" Eira imagined and asked.
"Your brother ain't stupid to do that" Albert pointed.
"Yes, why can't he be stupid?" Eira grumbled.
They started to pick the wooden things which were placed at the centre of the room.
"I will look in the closet, Dash, you look in the heap of the Wooden things while Albert, you look with Dash" Eira ordered as she stood up from the ground and walked to the old closet.
The vintage closet was made up of sheesham wood, it had two doors and two drawers. She opened the wardrobe to find a lot of insects coming out of it. She moved out of the way and glared at the flies.
She removed the flies which sat on her body.
"Argh, I hate this" she grumbled as she swept the flies away from her arms.
"Let me look in the cupboards then" Albert offered as he stood up from the floor and neared Eira.
"No, it's alright, I can do this, just do your work" Eira replied as she waved her hand to reject his offer.
Her eyes stared at the closet.
The closet was empty, there was no single thing in there. She opened the drawers which were at the bottom of the closet. She crouched down and looked into them to find a lot of documents.
"Look at these papers" she called Albert.
Albert walked towards her, he looked at the documents, which were written in some weird language.
"This is written in German," Albert said, glancing at the papers.
"German? Do you know the language?" Eira asked as she was very interested in the papers.
"No, but I have seen many books in my mother;s library that were German," he replied.
"Oh, I see, let me take pictures of these, I will ask my dad's secretary to translate them, he knows every language," she said, taking out her mobile from her pocket.
"No, what will you tell when he asks you where you got these papers?" Albert narrowed his eyes on her.
"Oops, I forgot" she smiled sheepishly as she hit her forehead with the back of her hand.
"You can learn the language and translate it for me" she smiled as she looked at him with puppy dog eyes.
Albert chuckled as he glanced at her.
"Alright, I will learn it for you" he smiled as he rubbed her head with his hand.