Once everyone joined us Ian said "Shall we move on."
We all continued moving. We soon reached a room with nothing in it.
"Its gone" Ben said.
"You mean this is it? We came all the way down here for nothing? Come on there has to be something else, another clue or-"
"No there aren't anymore clues! This is it! The treasure was moved, gone, end of the road, taken somewhere else" Ben shouted cutting off my brother.
"Come on Ben, are you sure this is all" Ian asked.
"Yeah" Ben replied.
"Do you think I'm that dumb, I know that you know where the treasure is and your aren't telling me" Ian said.
"Do you really think that Ben" Riley started but stopped when Ian pointed his gun at him.
"Don't speak again" Ian said.
"OK" Riley muttered.
"The lantern" Patrick said looking at the small lantern hanging in the room.
"Dad" Ben said.
"The static quot has changed. At the battle Paul Revere used the lantern to signal the French that the British were coming, the lantern is the clue" Patrick said.
"Boston" Ian asked.
"Yes" Patrick replied.
I looked at them questioningly because that was two lanterns not one.
"Thank you" Ian said before him and his goon got onto the elevator.
"Wait you have to take us with you" Patrick said.
"Why? So you can escape in Boston?"
"What if we lied?"
"Did you?"
"What if there's another clue" Ben asked.
"Then I'll know right were to find you" Ian said before making the elevator go up.
We all ran over and shouting "Wait!"
"You can't just leave us down here Ian!"
"We're trapped!"
"You need us Ian!"
"We're all gonna die" Riley said after Ian was too far away.
"Nobodies going to die and I'm sorry I yelled at you" Ben said.
"OK boys whats going on? Paul Revere needed two lanterns not one" I said.
"He needed a clue so we gave him one" Ben said.
"It was a fake? It was a fake clue? But once Ian figures that out well still be trapped down here, and he'll come back and kill us then" Riley said.
"Nobodies going to die Riley" Ben said again.
"How are we getting out then."
"Through the treasure room."
Ben then pushed something making the wall open. We walked in but there was still no treasure. Ben looked at us.
"I don't believe this" Ben said.
"Maybe somebody found it before us" Riley suggested.
"Or maybe you were right dad, and that this treasure is nonsense."
"No, I wasn't right, this room is real Ben, and that means the treasure is real; they left clues behind that only you understood."
"But I just hoped we would find the treasure."
"Then we just keep on searching for it."
"I'm in" I said.
"Not to be Johnny Rain Cloud but as far as I see it we're still trapped down here" Riley said.
"Your right, and that doesn't make any sense. Because the first thing the builders would've done was build air shafts, in case of cave ins. Could it really be that simple" Ben asked himself staring at something.
I walked over just as he opened the wall/door. We all went in there were rows of something but it was so dark I couldn't see what it was. Ben walked over to something and lit it filling the room with light. I gasped and saw that we were in a room filled with treasure. I went over to some scrolls and looked at them and gasped "The first scrolls of Alexandria, could this be possible."
I then walked over to Riley who was staring at a bluish-green statue that was covered in dust and cobwebs.
"Its a big bluish-green man, wearing a strange looking go-tie" Riley said before hugging it.
I walked away and walked to Ben who was standing by what looked like a staircase. Ben put his torch in it and it lit up. It started going down lighting up the entire room, and the room was filled with gold. We were joined by Riley and Patrick. We all cheered. I looked at Riley and saw that he had a tear coming out of his eye.
"Riley are you crying" I asked.
"Look, stairs" he said pointing to some more old stairs.
We all then climbed the stairs and crawled through a tunnel. The other side was blocked and Ben somehow found a hammer and started hitting at the wall. Once through I heard Ben ask "Hey do you have a cell phone I could borrow?"
"What" I asked.
"Its the curator" Ben said.
After we climbed out we were all covered in dust and in good need of a shower. Ben had called the FBI and we waited in the church as they showed up. Once they got here Ben and Sudousky sat at the alter talking. I had zoned out on most of their conversation when Ben said "I want the credit of the find to go to the Gates family as well as the Poole siblings."
I looked at him surprised.
"Anything else" Sudousky asked.
"I want Elizabeth Poole to get off completely clean, and want half of the award to go to Mr. Poole."
"And what about you?"
"I would really love not to go to prison."
"Someones got to go to prison Ben."
"Well if you have a helicopter I think I can help with that."
After telling them about Ian they went to Boston and arrested Ian and the rest of his goons.
Two years later
Ben and I were walking down the lawn hand and hand. We were still together, and I had offered Ben to come and move in with me in my new home. Yes I now had my own house, it was big and looked like a museum. My brother Riley stood next to us talking on his cell phone. He then said goodbye to whomever he was talking to.
"They're sending over a private jet for us to go to the opening of the exhibit" Riley said.
"That sounds fun" I said.
"Yeah, you guys get to live and enjoy your spoils while I sit on one stink in percent" Riley said as we got to his red Ferrari.
"I'm sorry for your suffering Riley" Ben said.
"Yeah well you see I still got this splinter from when we found the treasure" Riley complained.
"OK how about this, the next time we find the treasure you make the demands" Ben offered.
"Sure whatever, why do you care you got the girl."
"True" we both replied before kissing each other.
"By the way Ben I like the house" Riley said as he got into his car and we broke apart.
"Yeah you know the reason I chose this house is because-"
"It had something to do with another piece of history and yada yada, you could've had a bigger house" Riley said before driving off.
THE END