That night, Nina had yet another nightmare:

She was standing back in Anubis house, the lighting off-balanced and creepy. Her fellow Sibuna members were standing around different areas of the house. Amber, Alfie, and Fabian were downstairs, near the kitchen door. Patricia and Jerome were upstairs right by the railing. And Alfie was midway on the staircase. Nina kept glancing around at them, noticing their frightened expressions. She lifted up her hands, noticing they and her arms were glowing blue from the inside. She looked around again, now seeing all her friends fading away into fragments.

She began to wonder where Eddie was. The scenery changed back to one of the previous nightmares she'd been having when she and Eddie were outside her apartment complex and something was approaching from behind.

They slowly turned around to the loud noise coming from behind them. A portion of the building was crumbling and falling down, right towards Eddie and Nina. Before it crashed down on them, Nina heard a whisper say:

"Everything you ever loved will perish because of you."

With that, the building came right on top of her.

Nina woke up with a start, gasping for air as she glanced around herself in the darkness of her bedroom. She tried to calm down her breathing, but it was unsuccessful. She knew it was just a dream, but her dreams always felt so real when they were like this. And it was hard to tell if that'd really happen in the future or not.

She reiterated the voice in her head.

"Everything you ever loved will perish because of you."

She didn't want anything to perish because of her, especially what she loved. She wondered if Eddie had the same dream.

As she was thinking, another voice whispered, "It's all your fault."

"No," Nina whispered back.

"If only you never went through the portal. None of this would've ever happened."

"No," Nina cried out louder.

"Your blood wouldn't have been put into the elixir, William wouldn't have been shot, your friends wouldn't be in danger."

"Stop it!" Nina finally yelled, gripping her hair. "Shut up! Shut up!"

"Nina!"

"No," Nina cried, tears now streaming from her eyes.

"Nina!"

Nina finally realized that voice wasn't in her head. She looked up and saw that Amber had come into her room and was now sitting before her on her bed. Amber pulled Nina into a tight hug.

"It's ok, Neens," Amber reassured softly.

"No it's not," Nina responded, hugging Amber back.

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Everyone met back at Eddie's place the next morning, and it was eventually discovered Eddie and Nina had the same dream the previous nigh and also heard the same voice in their heads.

"Please tell me you guys don't love me," Alfie pleaded. "Because I really don't want to perish."

"Alfie," several of the Sibuna members stressed.

"Sorry."

"The voice said you wouldn't be in danger if it weren't for us," Nina told them. "We don't want any of you to be in danger."

"Danger doesn't stop us," Joy admitted. "It's what keeps us going. And we know you mean the best for us, but we're also the ones who decided to help."

"So," Patricia continued, "we are going to find that final piece to the tablet, you two are going to construct it, and this mystery will be over. We won't be in danger, you won't be in danger, and everything will be fine."

"We've done this enough times to know that Sibuna always prevails, right?" Fabian assured as he stood up to grab the last riddle.

Everyone else stood up and said Sibuna.

Fabian read the riddle:

"You've been her before,
Paragon and Osirion,
Dreams hold the truth,
And you hold the dreams,
Step through and you shall see,
Gaining the last piece will be easy,
We hope you've had fun."

"Not really a riddle, but ok," Alfie commented.

"Wait. There's more," Fabian revealed. He read the writing, which was at the bottom away from the rest of the text:

"You know what needs to be done."

The portal opened up, but before anyone stepped through, Eddie said, "That riddle spoke directly to Nina and I."

"Again, not really a 'riddle'," Alfie corrected.

"And it knew it'd be our last piece to find," Nina added, ignoring Alfie.

"And it knew you'd have dreams about finding it," Jerome added.

"Maybe, just Eddie and I should go through," Nina suggested. "I have a feeling it should just be us."

Everyone agreed. Nina and Eddie gave a glance towards eachother before stepping through and landing in an all too familiar place.

They had the dream more than once of them being in that room with an emerald floor and Thoth's statue a few yards away. The last piece sat in the statues hand, glowing. If it went how the dream went, Nina would go over to it and just take it out the hand. The next scene of the dream was in Anubis house, but that part of the dream wouldn't happen in real life. They wouldn't be in Anubis house yet.

Nina slowly approached the statue, Eddie trailing close behind. Before taking the piece, she studied the statue long and hard, and since they'd seen Thoth before, she knew the statue captured his being well.

She finally grabbed the piece and removed it from Thoth's hand. A portal almost immediately opened up from the piece. They both stepped through.

When they landed back in Eddie's place, Alfie stated, "Well that took no time at all."

"We have all seven pieces," Amber muttered silently before repeating aloud, "We have all seven pieces."

The group rejoiced. The other six pieces were lying out on Eddie's table. Nina put the seventh one down as well, and clapping went on throughout the group.

"When should we piece them together?" Eddie asked. "Today? We still have time."

"Why don't we just have a little celebration?" Nina replied. "Just a time for Sibuna to relax."

Everyone agreed, and they decided just to relax and go out to a restaurant for a miniature celebration. Before piecing the tablet together, it was the they just didn't worry.

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Another chapter for you all! Hope you enjoyed this!

Do you think everything is to blame on Nina and Eddie?

Stay tuned for the next chapter my Aristocrats!