Relic Hunters

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Relic Hunters

Geeves walks to the door of the library and hears Savannah call out to him, "Come in!"

Opening the door and walking in holding a note in his right hand. He stops in front of Savannah and says as he is handing it out to her, "This just came for you, Savannah."

Holding out her manicured hand for the note, she replies, "Thank you, Geeves. Who delivered this?"

Reaching into his pocket, Geeves takes out a microbot dragon. As he hands it over to Savannah, he says, "I am not sure except this interesting creature was the carrier of the note."

Savannah examines it and replies, "This is exquisite."

Putting down the dragon messenger she reads the mysterious note. You have been invited to participate in the biggest relic hunt. This year I received a tip on where the Silver Hunch Back Dragon Egg is currently located. I have an idea where it is, it is up to you to confirm and bring back the object to me. You will be rewarded well for your success. Pushing the right emerald eye on the dragon will give you your clue and after the message is heard he will come directly home. Good luck.

Savannah puts down the note and looks at the dragon sitting on her desk. Reaching for the right emerald eye she pushes it in and sits back in her chair. At first nothing happened. Steam started blowing out of the dragon's nostrils, his wings spanned out and he flew upwards in the air. Seconds later his mouth moved saying, "The mountain that runs red and is steamed all over. This is where your journey begins. Go there and you will figure out what to do next." The dragon flew a little higher and then exited out the library window.

"Geeves get the airship ready I am going out on an adventure. This guy is so arrogant that he assumes everyone knows him and does not even sign the note. I am only familiar with this guy because Sebastian participated in his game last year."

Savannah's cell phone rings and she anwers, "Hello."

"Savannah, everything is ready to go."

"Thank you, Geeves. I leave now. Anyone wants to know where I am. I have left the country. I will check in later with you."

Leaving the library Savannah goes to her room and picks up her travel bag. Leaving through the hidden door in her wall she walks down the stairs leading her down to the lower level of her house. At the bottom she proceeds to her most prized possession, her airship. As she enters through the air door her driver greets her, "Savannah, so where are we headed?"

"The Fire Mountains, Iain. We are on the hunt for a relic."

"Always an adventure with you Savannah."

"Savannah, wait. Savannah!"

A helpless Geeves says, "I am sorry Madame. He insisted on speaking with you."

Walking out of the airship to see what all the commotion is all about. She looks at the new comer and says, "Sebastian. What is wrong?"

"Is it true then? Are you searching for the Silver Hunch Back Dragon Egg?"

Looking at her best friend she replies, "Yes. Is something wrong?"

"Why are you leaving without me?"

Chuckling at Sebastian, Savannah replies, "Of course I was on my way to pick you up. Come on."

With a smile on his face he enters the airship and says, "This is going to be so awesome. You find all the best jobs Savannah."

Savannah follows Sebastian and says, "Of course I do."

The journey The Fire Mountains was uneventful. Sebastian spent most of his time sleeping while Savannah worked on her new invention, the Dragon Tracker. Iain calls out to Savannah on the loud speaker, "Savannah we have arrived at the Fire Mountains. We will be landing momentarily. Does this space for landing satisfy you?"

Savannah pushes the communication button and replies, "Yes Iain. Please land here. Thank you for the safe journey." She walks over to Sebastian and pokes him in the ribs, telling him, "Sebastian, wake up. We are here. Time to get down to work. Play time is over."

Groggily he looks at Savannah, "Aye, aye captain."

Savannah walks over to her seat and picks up an interesting contraption and shows it to Sebastian. "We can finally try out my new Dragon Tracker. I was just making some finishing touches on it on our way here."

Sebastian looks at the compact hand held device. It has some switches and a blinking light. "That looks great, Savannah."

"Thanks, let's go." Savannah picks up the device and programs The Silver Hunch Back Dragon in it. After programming the name of the dragon the device has the capability of detecting if there is the type of dragon you program into the device. As they walk out of the airship a high pitch beep can be heard from the device. Excited about this Savannah says, "It works!"

Looking at the built in map it is easy to see where the dragon is she is looking for. Looking up at Sebastian, he says, "That will be the easy part. Hope you have a plan for snatching the egg."

"Nope not yet. You are allowed to have an idea too, you know," replies Savannah. Walking towards the river that runs red she turns to Sebastian and tells him, "We will follow this river until we get to the mountain. Do you have your propeller pack on and ready?"

"I do not leave home without it. Especially around you."

"Let's go." Both of the propeller packs are once again Savannah's invention. Both packs have a motor inside the packs which run on steam. All you need is water to makes these run. Savannah pours water into the container of both packs. They both put the packs on their backs and pull the starter chain. When this is pulled the water is heated up and the steam goes through the machine causing the propeller to run. Above their heads is another chain on the left and right which is used to steer the contraption. For emergencies there is a bright red button to push for emergency landings. For a normal landing push the green button and the contraption starts slowing down for a graceful landing. These contraptions are perfect for relic hunting.

Gliding through the air Sebastian turns toward Savanah and says, "I have forgotten how fun these things are. What is the red button for?"

"Remember last time you were wearing this and had a crash landing with a giant lizard? I decided to put in an emergency landing button. Haven't had time to test it yet, so use it at your own risk," chuckling at Sebastian.

"Never a dull moment around you Savannah."

Flying through the air following the river and finally getting to the mountain. Savannah looks at her device to see where they are going next. Looking up at how high the mountain goes up, she looks over at Sebastian saying, "The easy part is over. We go up."

"Every time you say the easy part is over we always get into trouble."

"Ha ha ha. That is where all the fun is," says Savannah with a big smile on her face.

Savannah leads the way to the top of Fire Mountain. Scouting the area for a place to land she notices something in the distance. Looking through her long range goggles, she exclaims, "Sebastian, you have to see this." Handing over the goggles to him, she says, "I have not seen anything quite like this before."

Sebastian takes the goggles and puts them on his face. "Wow! Savannah, the most beautiful dragon I have ever seen is over there."

"Yeah! I know it looks like he sparkles silver. This must be the dragon guarding the egg. Do you know what is so special about this egg?"

"All I know is that every relic hunter wants this thing," Sebastian takes the goggles off his face and hands them back to Savannah. "So what is the plan?"

Putting the goggles back on, Savannah scans the area again and sees a pillar type of structure. "I have found the spot, Sebastian follow me." Sebastian follows Savannah and as they get closer the pillar structure Savannah saw gets bigger. "I am going to scout the area here a little closer I will be right back."

"Are you sure it is a good idea to go alone?

"It will be fine. I will just be a minute."

Savannah takes off to see what is on top of the pillar and sees the egg sitting and an encased case of what looked like a bed of red velvet and clear glass over top. This is not your average egg. It is intricately designed with green and silver and gold. There are silver jewels all over it in what seemed to be a random order. Hearing a strange noise behind her she looked to see what it was and she just missed colliding with Sebastian and the dragon.

"Thanks, Sebastian. This is a good distraction. I can get the egg now."

Sebastian comes back past Savannah and yells, "This is no distraction. He wants to eat me. Help me!"

"Hang on Sebastian." Savannah quickly fly's to the egg and scoops it up and carries it in the palm of her hand. Flying towards Sebastian she yells, "Let's go I have it."

"Not sure if this dragon agrees with you Savannah. We need to lose him."

The dragon kept getting closer and closer to the relic hunters. They knew there was trouble when his fiery breath almost reached them. On all of Savannah's inventions is an emergency button, if pressed it will launch the airship to her current location. She pushed this button and soon after they heard the ship hurtling towards them for a rescue. As the ship caught up to them the air door opened and they both collapsed inside in a heap.

As soon as the door closed Savannah held her hand out and said, "Sebastian, look at our prize. Let's open it!"

Savannah holds the egg in both hands and tries twisting it. It pops open and the brightest light spread around them. Blinded by the light both of them fell to the floor and felt so much lighter and changed somehow. As suddenly as the light appeared it disappeared leaving the pair in an awe of wonder about what just happened to them.

Looking up, Sebastian says, "Savannah, are you ok?"

"Yes. Just feeling lighter somehow. Not really sure why there was so much hype about this egg. It is beautiful. There always seemed to be more about this thing that I felt was being left out. This is so weird."

Something was banging on the side of the airship. Savannah looked out the window and saw the dragon which brought her the message earlier in the day. She opened the air door and let the dragon in. As soon as he flew in and landed on the floor, his nostrils flared blue smoke and he said, "I have received a message you have the egg. Use caution when handing it because a great responsibility comes with it. When opened you will release the purest form of love that has not seen the face of this planet. If you cannot handle existing in this pure light then you will leave this physical plane and enter the invisible realm. Once it has been opened the power within will leave the egg a useless shell and it will be worthless."

Savannah and Sebastian looked at each other and Savannah, said, "We have released the love already. I can see why everyone wanted this thing. This physical realm can now start to heal. This is the first day in the new beginning."