Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 397

Chapter 397: 397-Our Treasure Has Gone Crazy
Helanie:

I entered the cave, and right off the bat, I knew we were at the right location. There was something shining in the middle of the cave. I reached it slowly and noticed the beautiful compass sitting there, its shine coming from the glass.

“I found the compass,” I announced, looking around the cave at my team members. There were only a handful of us inside, but the others had to stay outside to keep an eye on our teammates and make sure no one else came for us.

“Give it to Jenny,” Hans ran toward me, staring at the item with wide eyes full of amusement.

“It’s pretty,” I muttered, and he steadily nodded in agreement, completely zoned out as he admired the antique Whisper Compass.

The arrows on the compass started spinning wildly, and for a brief moment, I was scared I had messed it up.

“Let’s go,” Hans elbowed me, snapping me back to reality. When I came to my senses and looked around, I frowned in confusion.

“Where is Jenny?” I asked, bewildered.

Hans followed my gaze and then looked around too, realizing she was gone.

He turned back to me before rushing outside. I followed him, only to find the area completely silent.

That’s when my anklet started to beep.

“I can’t hold it for too long. It has to be Jenny,” I muttered in frustration. “Jenny!” I yelled.

I knew that the moment I put it down, someone from the other teams would pop up and steal it. If they hid it somewhere else, it would take us hours to find it again.

“No! We won’t let that happen. You stay here with the compass, I’ll go find Jenny,” Hans said before dashing off to look for her.

I sat down on the ground, staring up at the walls of the cave when I suddenly felt the compass heating up in my palm.

“Shit, this has to be part of the test,” I realized. I wasn’t supposed to hold onto it for too long. In the test, the treasure is supposed to carry the gift.

I set it down in front of me and looked away, worrying where Jenny might have gone. However, something pulled my attention back to the compass—I felt like it was moving.

And it was.

The needle spun around wildly before slowly coming to a stop. Both points were aimed directly at me. I frowned, resisting the urge to pick it up as curiosity started to build inside me.

“Don’t worry, your treasure will be here soon,” I said to the compass, laughing at myself like an idiot. I was extremely happy that we had done it. But I wasn’t sure how far the other teams had come by now.

For all I knew, they already had their items and were heading back to the finish line.

“Helanie, you need to come outside for this,” one of the girls yelled as she entered the cave. I didn’t like the sound of her shaky voice—it meant something had gone wrong.

I got up, held the compass, and followed her outside, only to find Jenny sitting in the middle of the crowd with her eyes closed and her hands covering her face.

“I don’t want to look at the scary world,” she was chanting nonstop, making Hans anxious as he paced around her.

“Jenny, look at me,” he knelt down, trying to calm her.

“No, no, no!” she screamed, kicking him and thrashing around.

“Pigeon eyes,” I suddenly remembered, and my heart skipped a beat.

“Hans!” I ran up to him, wanting to tell him quietly so the others wouldn’t freak out—they already looked terrified.

“What?” he turned to me, his face pale with worry as he tried to understand me.

“She has pigeon eyes,” I whispered. I didn’t expect him to know what that meant, but the way his eyes widened told me he did.

“Okay, no need to panic,” he said, clearly panicking. “We’ll have to drag her with us—” He stopped mid-sentence when Jenny suddenly got up and bolted.

“Jenny!” I ran after her, grabbing her just as she was about to step on a mine.

“Let me go! You’re a monster—you all are!” she screamed in terror, struggling like a frightened bird. She elbowed me, landing hard hits on my jaw and chest.

“Jenny!” Hans arrived just in time to grab her, but she was uncontrollable.

And then the worst happened.

The moment Hans pulled her away from the mines, someone jumped out from the bushes and attacked him.

Hans hit the ground, and so did Jenny. He quickly got back up, stopping Sydney’s teammate from attacking Jenny, but they had already landed some hard punches on her.

I jumped in, kicking the attacker from behind before pinning them down and hitting them until I was sure they couldn’t fight back.

“Okay, here’s the thing—” Hans said, rubbing his wounds to stop the bleeding.

“One of us has to carry her, and that has to be you. I’ll be right beside you, stopping attackers. She’ll only keep running away from the finish line, making it harder for us to get there in time. So, you have to make sure you take her to the finish line—” He paused briefly, his face tightening with concern. “But how do we make her carry the compass?”

That was our biggest problem. She kept throwing anything that touched her hands. I was growing worried for her. Once she gains her senses, she will be devastated if we didn’t finish the line before others.

“Can we tape it to her hands?” one of the girls suggested. Hans quickly grabbed duct tape from his bag and tried taping it to Jenny’s hand.

But the moment the tape touched her skin, she screamed like she was on fire.

Her agonizing cries made it impossible for me to even think about carrying her. She would cry and fight the whole way to the finish line. Her panic would kill me.

There was only one option left.

“We’ll have to knock her out,” I said reluctantly.