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With that said, she grabbed my hand and began to crawl into one of the caverns. After about four hours of crawling through the dungenous caverns we come apon an opening lit only by moonlight.As we exit the cavern Black Rose turns to me and says;
"We only have about an hour till day break. We need to find shelter and fast."
While scouting the area for shelter we come apon an old underground tomb.
"This will work nicely." Black Rose said.
As we entered the tomb, it opened up in to a large room. From the entrance, a staircase led us down about fifty feet to the floor of the tomb. Once inside we discovered a large black marble alter at the far end of the room.
"This must be where they used to prep the corpses." Said Black Rose.
"Here help me, these mumifacation tables have a top that slides off where all their tools are kept. If we pull the tools out, that would make a perfect place to settle in for the day.
I walked over to the black marble alter where Black Rose was standing and with suprising ease slid the marble top to the side, leaving a large enough opening for us to slide in to. Now that the alter has been opened, Black Rose and I lean over as if we were going to begin pulling tools from the large marble alter, but as we peer in to the alter we notice. Where there was once tools now lay piles of books, journals, scrolls, and random scribblings on large leather like pieces of material.
"What's all this?" I say.
"I don't know, this all seems very unusual." Black Rose replied.
I no more than began to reach in to the alter to examine the journals, and scrolls when intense flashes of what seemed to be memories began to riddle my mind in such a mannor that not even the lord of Chaos could describe. Visions of blood, death, and a young couple.
The man, a tall slender male about six feet tall, with long stark white hair that reached down to his waist. The woman, is a slender female built like that of a goddess, with eyes that looked as if the moon was looking back at you, and long flowing hair as stark black as the darkest night.
"Hey, you alright? You should come take a look at this!" Black Rose's voice snapped me back into reality.
"What is it?" I replied
"This mark, (Black Rose points to a symbol on one of the scrolls.) it's on every book, and every scroll in here; and this leather, it looks as if it's..." (She hesitates)
"Human skin!" I interupt, as I grasp a piece of it out of the alter.
As quickly as she hesitated Black Rose blurts out, "A cover!"
"A cover?" I replied, looking at Black Rose a little confused.
"Ya, this isn't a tomb at all. This place was made to look as if it were a tomb, to cover the fact that it is a resting place for vampyres." Black Rose continued.
"Vampyres?" I said questioning her discovery.
I began to see if I could find any evidence to back up Black Rose's discovery. To my surprise, it wasn't what I had found, it was what I couldn't find. Amongst the large room and every casket within the room, I could not find one corpse, or any sign of human death for that matter.
As I began to walk back to the alter I notice that Black Rose is holding one of the pieces of flesh. As I approach I see that apon the flesh is a painting of the young couple that had flashed within my mind.
"Let me see that!" I said, as I reached forth to grab the painting from Black Rose's hand.
"What is it?" She replied
"This painting... it is of the couple from my vision." I continued, very surprised.
"Your vision?" Black Rose said very confused.
"Ya! As I first reached in to the alter the image of this couple flashed in my mind." I replied.
"Here help me; lets go through these books and see what we can find out about this couple and what is actually going on here." I continued on.