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Chapter II: Sanctum

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The students yawned as they quickly wash up and had their breakfast, the excitement boosted their confidence as they get their gear ready, they gathered around their Professor, he explaines the plan for the day, he divided the students into two groups, one group to set up the research and medical tents, the other group get to go with Prof Keller to find the opening and and explore the catacombs and June is in the group to find the catacombs.

As the group gathers, their equipment, flashlights, hammers and chisels, brushed, ropes and harness for climbing, helmets and a camera. June looks up to the mountain, wondering what kind of mysteries she might find, then she puts on backpack and meet up with her group and Prof Keller.

"Ok, so what I have gathered, the climbers that found the opening around there." the Professor said, pointing the exact spot on the  mountain, he described the height of the area of the opening is about six apartment building high, some of the students starting to get nervous, realising how high they're about to climb and June nervously gulp, but focus on discovering the catacombs.

They began to head to the mountain, which is only about a few short miles, when they got to the mountain, they all looked up, amazed oh how tall the mountain is, they couldn't see the very top beyond the clouds. Everyone put on their harness, connecting each other the with the rope and Prof Keller began to climb and lead his student upwards.

June and the students are still nervous of  climbing, not because of going up very high, they trust the professor, he is a certified mountain climber since he was a student in university, they're nervous of falling, but they muster up their courage and pursue to climb.

After a few sweats of climbing, focusing on looking up, trying not to look down, so much supporting from each students and eventually, they manage to reach up the a slight flat, rocky surface. June let out a sigh of relief, managing to climb up the side of the mountain and she started to feel more confident and excited on the next step, locate the opening. 

After a few moment is stumbling around and nearly tripping over on a rocky surface, the team have finally found the opening. June can feel her heart racing, the opening is a crack, big enough to peer inside, then Prof Keller, excitedly told the student to take out their hammer and chisel, and begin to chisel the edge of the crack to make the opening bigger.

They carefully chisel off the edges bit by bit, widening the opening and after a few sweats, the best as they could, the opening is big enough. Prof Keller, peers into the opening, seeing the hidden catacombs that fill with mist of dust and earth, then he lifted himself up and said the opening wasn't big enough for him, his plan to go in, check out the tunnels and see it safe for the team to go in.

"I'll go in!" June stepping forward, "I'm small enough to go in and check it out.", Prof Keller told her it not a good idea, but June said she wanted to and somehow she managed to convince him, so he  and the students help June strap into a harness and attach a rope tightly, she puts on a helmet with a light on it to see in the dark. June is ready, she stand at the edge of the opening, facing her fellow student, gripping on the rope, June signals her classmates and then they begin the slowly realising the rope, June slowly climb down through the opening, hanging at the ceiling of the catacombs, lowing down slow and steady. 

June, with the light from her helmet, scanning the dark musky cave, then suddenly the rope slips out of the students' hand and June fell onto the ground like a too of bricks. June rubs the part of her body where it hurts and then she realised that her glasses fell off.

"June! Are you okay!" called out the Professor, "I'm alright!" She replied loudly as she scrambling on the earthy ground, trying to find her glasses, he vision is all blurry, hard to see with her glasses and then her hand felt her glasses, she quickly pick them up, blow off the dirt and put them back on, and the she notice that one of her lenses has a crack, due to her fall.

June pick herself up, wiping off the dusty earth, then she looks around with the flashlight, noting herself that it's a one way tunnel, then she began to explore, she walks carefully to one side of the tunnel, as she walking with the light guiding her, she began to have a feeling that the tunnel is strangely familiar, an odd moment of déjà vu, but she knows deep down that she has been here before. When June finally reached the end of the tunnel and there she saw, that made eyes widens and heart racing, a shrine and she remembered that this is exactly the same from one in her dream.

June walks closer to the shrine, examine the items and everything was exactly same, what they are and where they're places, then she notices an stone urn, for some reason, she is draw to it, she carefully pick up the old dusty urn, examine the engraved images and then she  place her Han on the lid of the urn and without even thinking she open it.

"Oh shit!" she said, realised what she had done, she sees the small cloud of dusty mist, she carefully put the lid back on and placed the urn back on the shrine. Just then she heard the same whisper in her dream, but this time, she can clearly hear what it's saying, 

"June." it was calling her name and then the light from the helmet began to flicker, but she wasn't paying attention to it, she is spooked by the haunting whisper calling her name. June slowly turns as the whisper calling her name again and soon as she turned around, the light went off.



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