Caliko Goes Underground Chapter 5b

The heavy footsteps above caused dust and sand to seep through the cracks in the ceiling. Caliko coughed and used her paw to wave the dust away as shadow Morroc’s evil laugh could be heard. “Mister Ghost,” Caliko said, “If I take the shard from here...what will happen?” “The spirits here will go freeeee, including meeee.” “And including...including him?” Caliko said, gesturing at the footsteps above.

When they had reached a sufficiently safe distance from the collapsing tomb, the ghost phased Caliko, Polonius and Egeus back into their physical forms.“Whoa! Mister Ghost, what did you do?” Caliko said, patting her arm to make sure she was in one piece. “A trick I learrrrrrned over the past 600 yearrrrrrss,” the ghost said, “Only once you took the shardddd was I able to apply it to others as wellll.”

It didn’t seem real at first, but as Caliko stood up, her whole body aching, it dawned on her that she was standing before the actual shard of Thanatos’s blade. It was floating in a pillar of light and radiating a mystical noise that filled the room. As Caliko approached it, she could feel the blade’s energy affecting her. The memories of Thanatos during his battle against Morroc from over half a millennium ago flooded her mind, and she was overwhelmed by the emotions of facing off against such unimaginable evil. “It really is from Thanatos’s blade!” Caliko said to Polonius, who was on the verge of a mental breakdown at this point. “Just think, Polony, almost a thousand years of Midgard history came from this!”