Chapter 15.

When that group of young people set out in search of the lost objects indicated on the map, they would encounter many unknowns along the way, for example, ¿how would they identify the object or worse still, if it was guarded by some entity from beyond…?

Dario, who was driving the truck, began to notice that the road was like a dead end and then there was no more road, not even dirt, not wooded, nothing... which indicated that they would have to continue on foot.

Immediately Luke, who was reading the map, noticed that they would have to continue along a wooded and mossy path, so, without complaining, they began the search for the first object, which was the heart of a rattlesnake, but it was not just any rattlesnake because the image painted by the map was not that of any snake, it was like a kind of jewel in an ochre tone, which could be worn or otherwise dull, the style of hers could not be defined well because the map did not do it justice.

Reena, when they had been searching for a day and a half, began to notice that the animals were staring at them as if they were attentive to the place they were about to reach.

 Willy didn't waste any time and in a moment of carelessness he had taken all the water they had in reserve for the search, but when Oscar realized this, it was too late, because there was nothing around them that could provide them with liquids and if it weren't because they were very tired, it is likely that Willy would have passed away that day; however, sooner rather than later, Lucas who was beginning to delirious from lack of hydration, managed to visualize the entrance that the map marked, without wasting time he entered but the moment he did, a huge snake spoke to the entire group saying that he was the guardian of the Cascabel stone and that anyone who tried to take it would have to go through his hands first; and in this way, the snake turned into a human thus beginning to elicit a hand-to-hand combat with the group of young people who were trying to find the Cascabel stone, however, Oscar began to take the first thing he found which were dry tree branches to defend himself and seeing this action the rest did the same.

 The fight began, it was violent and very bloody, Cascabel who was the human snake was very skillful and had very clean movements, she had probably been trained for a long time to protect the stone, what Cascabel did not expect was that while Dario and Lucas were attacking him, Luke and Willy had run to a tree, where they hung from some vines, and swinging with them they pushed Cascabel with their legs with a strong blow and when Cascabel was on the ground Reena pierced his heart with a stake that she had managed to make with parts of an old and rotten tree that was near the entrance…

And so, Oscar took the stone and when the group looked at each other, Cascabel who no longer had a heart smiled and told them: what follows is nothing compared to this, if you want to live live with dignity and if you want to die die in an honorable way, but never be cowards and hide what your heart keeps silent.

A cloud of smoke accompanied the body and it just disappeared and that group looked at each other and caught their breath, continuing to think about what would be the next object or amulet they would have to look for...