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Chapter 14 - An Artifact?

Diana did as she was asked soon the bridge appeared once again but this time a 5th tile appeared with a wolf symbol it's eyes glowed red, soon everyone's tattoos began to glow a specific color, John's was yellow, Westen's was blue, Jessica's was purple and Diana's was green. Each wolf looked at one another and began to cross, as they crossed Lloyd's tattoo glower red as the wolf tile popped up from it's placement he then placed his hand on it and a bright red light exploded from the center of the dial as the others looked back until Lloyd walked out with something different about him,

"Bro is everything ok? Lloyd…hey it's me Westen your brother can you hear me?"

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"What in the world is going on…wait a minute.." Westen stopped mid thought as he began to look around noticing different writings on the wall all in Wolfish, he then booked it towards the other side of the bridge with the other following another dial was before them, but it looked broken. Westen looked around for the missing pieces before finding one up against the wall another near the bridge and the last one was in the corner. He quickly grabbed one of the pieces, John grabbed one up against the wall, and Jessica grabbing the one that was in the corner. They placed the pieces in the dial correcting the error of it being broken, a bright silver light exploded from the center of this dial, Westen turned around to see Lloyd still standing but as soon as the silver light exploded, he turned to the red light and grabbed it, throwing it towards everyone else, Westen unable to react was saved by John tackling him,

"That was close Moon, you should really be careful your brother is out here throwing lasers at us." John exclaimed as Westen turned to his brother speaking in disbelief

"First landing on a barrier of sound and using it as a footstool to launch himself forward to throwing lasers, the Altima is truly a legendary wolf…but I'm still confused on why?"

"Hey boys looks like the colors are mixing together now the pillar is silver and red. If you have any theories it'd be great to hear them now!" Jess shouted as Westen turned to notice she was right as the light began to fade away a piece of the wall fell revealing a new path the others headed towards this new doorway while Westen turned around noticing that Lloyd had stopped and stood there,

"Lloyd…bro are you ok?" Westen questioned as he cautiously approached Lloyd until he began to speak

"So this generation wishes to challenge me! Well then you will know the pain in which follows for breaking the seal of Jericho. Know this, whoever tries to take the artifact or use it's power they will feel the wrath of the Altima, there is a reason why it has been sealed away for some many years, beware of the other side of the wolves." Lloyd spoke as Westen looked confused at the words his brother spoke

The rest of the group had ventured forward and came across a pedestal with what look like a glowing cube as the three walked up they were stopped by something unknown, voices began to whisper and it felt like the room was spinning,

"The crystal hold power."

"It can make your dreams come true."

"Grab the crystal."

"Don't grab the crystal."

"It's dangerous to use."

The voices continued as John noticed that they sounded like they were fighting one another as if there were sides to choose. Soon Westen arrived carrying Lloyd who's eyes were still glowing,

"Is he alright?" John questioned as Westen got distracted by the voices "Hello…earth to Westen!"

"O-oh sorry yeah he's fine just for some reason he was going to fall, course I'm still confused because the Altima shouldn't show any signs of exhaustion it's impossible according to the legends. Anyway what did you guys find and what's with the voices?" Westen asked as he explained what had happened at least to him and Lloyd

"Well the voices seem to be at war there's some saying don't touch it, others saying that we should if what you're saying then the Altima Jericho didn't want anyone getting ahold of this so we should probably seal it back up right…if we knew how to anyway."

"D-don't…you…need…to…leave…they are…. coming." Lloyd whispered as he was staggering to get up

The group looked confused by Lloyd's words trying to understand why he would ask them to leave. Westen began to look around at the writing around the room but could only understand every other word,

"Beware the power…it was sealed…by the great…. Jericho he knew….it couldn't be…used it corrupts….keep the crystal…away from the Lunar hands." Jessica read aloud as Westen turned to the door looking as no other wolf had entered yet which confused him,

"Guys something isn't right don't grab the crystal let's go if what Jessica just told us is true this wasn't apart of the tournament it was a trap that the leaders set up, someone wants that crystal!" Westen shouted as the group began to leave before being blown back, Westen's grip loosened as he fell to ground watching Lloyd stagger again but get on his feet and look up to see the Alphas.