The Stone

That morning...

Norton woke up disoriented and drenched in what he could only hope was sweat. It took him a minute to gather up his thoughts and take an assessment of the situation. It wasn't until he began to roll out of bed that he felt that this might not just be a dream. He was sore, a soreness that felt as if he did every workout possible in one day. Oh man, this isn't good." When he finally pulled his legs out to stand the focused turned to his boxers. Even though his body was screaming at him his penis was the loudest. His eyes darted back and forth searching for an explaination for this, something more feasable than a harpy **** him on a wooden boat in the middle of the ocean. "You know what, I probably ate something that didn't agree with me, I am just going to get up, drink some water, and go to work. His legs wobbled as he finally stood up and he headed into the bathroom. The shower was amazing, it seemed to both wash away the dried sweat that coated him but revitalize his muscles. When he finally finished and walked into the living area lillan was sitting on the couch finishing up another movie. Norton grabbed a cup of orange juice and sat next to her. "Have you been awake this whole time?" He asked, "No, I went to bed right after you did." She smiles, "Are you feeling any better?" Her sweet smile nearly **** him to burst into a rant explaining everything that has happened, but luckily he caught himself, politely nodded and began to head into the hallway. As he opened the door Lillan spoke again, "I will be down in a minute I just want to finish this movie."

Norton makes it downstairs and looks around, the main room was still as eerie as the first day. Each time he walked in it seemed to be a different part of it that stood out. "Alright," he takes a deep breath, "lets see what the boss has for me today." He opens up the laptop to see the usual message. Pick this up, usual chores, but then another secondary message caught his attemtion.

Norton,

I am heading out to visit a friend, I will need you to close the museum for a few days and clean out the room for exhibit 3 because I have some items I would like to place in there. Please place Arachnidia in the upstairs storage room, and be careful not to be caught in her net ;-) I will see the two of you when I get back and remember have fun. "All I have to do is move a couple of things and that giant creepy spiderwoman thing?" Norton sighed "Awesome." He headed into the room, it was a scene of the spider and the fly, only if the fly was a naked man and the spider was a gigantic spiderwoman that never understood the concept of bras. The work was hard but he was making progress and the good thing was as soon as he got into a rhythm he completely forgotten about the dream. That is until he moved a large box in the corner, his stomach dropped to his feet. Behind the box, in a little wooden case sat a green stone. On this stone were the words, "The stone of Ambrose Jacoby and the Jacoby Pirates." Norton wanted to run, but he became compelled to open the case and grab the stone. As soon as he touched it he felt a quick jolt and then nothing. The bright stone soon seemed to look a lot more dull and Norton felt like something definately happened.

He knew this was no longer a series of coincidences, he had to find out what all of this meant, and something felt like he could not leave until he did.