The night passed like a breeze, and as the morning sun rose, the boys also rose one by one from their slumber. The boys finally had the chance and time to analyze the tapestry they bought at the shop.

  "So what do you guys wanna do?" asked Kian, still half awake and folding his sheets.

  "I don't know, man," said Jash while checking the drawer to see if anyone had stolen the ruby he got from Kian.

  "Can you all be silent?" said Marc, already at his desk, working on the investigations and sipping a cup of coffee; his eyes were filled with bags, and he started to look like a zombie.

  "Marc?" said Kian while looking at Marc in his chair, working away.

  "I would deduce that Marc seemed to have woken up earlier than us and has been working for at least 4 hours straight," said Hope, glancing at Marc as he rearranged his books.

  The others watched Marc in utter astonishment at how fast he was moving as he worked, until he finally stopped and started to hunch over in his chair.

  "Dude, you alright?" asked Isaiah, approaching Marc and holding out his arm, going to grab him by the shoulders.

  As Isaiah grabbed one of Marc's shoulders, he stood up and went over to the bookshelf to get the bulletin board projector. As he set it up, he wore a grin from ear to ear; even with his eyes tired, there was still a light of excitement behind them.

  The shine of the bulletin board finally came back, and there were three new images on the screen, one being the tapestry and the other two being symbols. The first of the two seemed to be a Aztec like symbol with an and the second was Norse in design.

  "So what are these exactly?" asked Marv, scratching his head, trying to figure out what these symbols could mean.

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  The others, on the other hand, seemed to be still focused on Marc's movements.

  "At this point, I think he's just running on spite and coffee," said Jash with a sarcastic tone, yet his eyes said otherwise.

  "As you guys see, I put three new points on the board. And this is the culmination of my hours of straight research!" said Marc smilling from ear to ear, still somehow functioning.

  "So basically I found out that this tapestry that we found is an image of a type of sacrifice for either control over something or power," said Marc, still looking like he's half dead.

  The others look at the board, thinking that it was obvious to be a sacrifice, but what it was for was a surprise.

  "That's not the only part. Looking at the tapestry better, it has symbols for nearly all major ancient civilizations. From the ancient kingdom of Babylon to even the Ottoman Empire," said Marc, holding the tapestry with one hand and pointing at the symbols.

  "Hold on for a second, that could mean that this isn't something one specific group or civilization does, but something that is so ancient that it was done when we were just discovering Magic, Technology, and transformation." Said Hope, slowly, with his eyes widening in realization, what this could imply for history.

  After that, they heard a faint knock at the door and a strong voice saying, "Hello! Is anyone in there!" Hearing this, Kian decided to open the door.

  When he opened it, he saw five men each holding a pamphlet. After a few minutes, one of the men said, "Um, hello, are any of you interested in joining the school's photography club?" holding out one of the pamphlets.

  "Oh, I am." said Isaiah rushing to the door.

  "Finally someone wants to join, ok, so just take this, fill it out with your info, and we'll give it to the front desk so you can officially join the club," said one of the boys, reaching into a portal and pulling out a piece of paper

  After that, the five boys left to go to other rooms to ask the same question.

  "Huh, never thought of you as the photographer type, Isaiah?" said Marv Jokingly.

  "I mean, it kinda was an impulse join," said Isaiah embarrassingly.

  "Wait, this can be good for the investigation." Said Hope with his mouth turning from a neutral expression to a grin.

  "What why?" said Jash, confused why this could be good.

  "Well, it says here in the pamphlet that you have access to more areas than regular students, so that means Isaiah can get to places we can't if we need to," said Hope

  After hearing this, the others started to understand what Hope meant, and as things went back to how they were. Marc started to speak once more.