Claiming the Treasure

You carefully start down the crumbling remnants of the stairs that lead from the balcony down to the floor of the chamber. At one point the edge of a step crumbles beneath your foot, sending stones clattering down to the floor below.

Two of the guardians walk in, looking around but not leaving the path of light leading into the room. You and Soo-yin hug the wall and stay very quiet. Seeing nothing moving in the darkness and not hearing anything else the pair head back out to join their companions.

You make it to the bottom, stepping more gingerly and moving very slowly. Sticking to the shadowy walls you and Soo-yin get as close as you dare to the raised dais. Nine steps lead to the top, each step about a foot high. You could see the idol, just waiting for you to come and get it on it's five foot high pillar atop of the raised platform. The problem was that the entire raised area was well lit, both by the light above and the light coming in from the entrance. The guards would surely see you if you went to get it. You could try to grab it and escape back out the way you came but you didn't have any confidence of getting safely back up those crumbling stairs in a hurry. There didn't seem to be any other exits.

You turn to your friend, you saw her pale face in the reflected light. Her black calculating eyes were shooting around the room, taking in details.

"Give me your knife." She says.

"But..." You knew that she knew what she was doing. You hand it over.

She melts into the shadows. "You get the idol." She whispers.

"Soo-yin!" You whipser after her, but she is gone. "Shit!" So much for planning.

You move forward as quietly as possible, though you were totally visible. Once at the top of the stairs you stop to look at the golden dildo. It was quite plain really. Upon the pillar it rested on a square plate. This was surely a trap, but you had to be quick. You freeze for a moment.

Just then you hear the guards yell out. They had spotted you! They run forward in two lines of three with spears at the ready. You take cover behind the pillar, dropping your lantern you pull your pistol with its one bullet. As they stop to get ready to throw the cat like grace of Soo-yin's shadowy form appears out of the darkness behind the last pair of them. Knife in each hand she stabs them inward, catching the two rear most warriors in the neck just under the jaw. As their lifeless forms fall to the ground she has already spun back into the darkness once more, she moves with almost unnatural grace. She was in her element.

The remaining warriors hear their comrades fall and turn to look, shocked by what they see. In the confusion a knife flies from the darkness and another one falls dead. The three remaining turn together to face where the knife had come from with a unified front.

Three on one, you had to even the odds. You look at the gun, you were pretty sure it wasn't going to work. Looking around for some sort of weapon your eyes fall on the idol. It was solid and it would be heavy. Trap or no, this was it. You grab the dick around its shaft, it was even heavier than you expected. Compensating for the extra weight you hurl it with all of our strength at the nearest warrior. You hear its base make contact with the man's skull with a sickening crunch.

Meanwhile from the darkness the whooshing whishing sounds of the leather bullwhip begins to whistle in the darkness, this has the remaining warriors confused at what they were facing. When their friend goes down from being struck with the idol the brown leather cord of the whip wraps around one of the men's necks and he gets pulled into the shadows. The sound of a body hitting the floor soon follows.

Soo-yin steps out into the path of light and squares up with the last warrior. As she does so you hear a grinding sound from the pillar you were standing beside, there was a trap and you had just triggered it. The whole temple soon begins trembling with a slowly growing tremor. You rush down the stairs to grab the idol from where it landed.

The warrior grips his spear. The assassin grips her whip in one hand and knife in the other. The warrior flexes his muscles and grits his teeth, readying himself for battle. Tremors or no he would kill the woman who killed his friends, if it was the last thing he ever did. Soo-yin tilts her head, her expressionless dark eyes measuring him. She flicks her wrist and with masterful skill and precision the tip of the whip licks up under the man's hanging loin cloth.

SNAP!

His eyes widen. He drops his spear and falls to his knees holding his severely wounded groin. A high pitched pathetic moan escapes his lips before a chunk of ceiling from the now rumbling mountain cavern crushes him.

You have the idol and you are making for the exit. "RUN!" You yell.

Side by side the pair of you shoot out of the entrance as the temple collapses behind you in a thunderous cacophony of falling and cracking stone.