Gaea's Locket Ch. 1

~Greece~
“Keep searching in this area.” the lead archeologist said as his workers nodded. He went off to search in different areas as he soon heard, “Keito! How's it going over here?” He sighed, “No luck, Daiki. What about in your area?”
“Sorry... we couldn't find anything.” he responded. “But that's kinda expected. It's a little locket this area is huge.” Daiki said. Keito sighed, “Good point.” He then told everyone, “Alright, we're gonna take a lunch break.” The workers sighed in relief and stopped working.

“Thank God you two.” they heard as they sat down for lunch. One of the workers took a seat with them. “You've got to lighten up! You're both working us too hard!” Keito laughed, “You know how we work, Hikaru. We take our jobs really seriously. And at least we pay the workers a good amount.”
“Which is why I stick around... no matter how much you work me, that pay is worth it.” he smiled. He chuckled, “Yea, but come on. I'm your best friend. Don't overwork me!”
“You wanted the job! So work hard if you want the pay!” Daiki told him as they all laughed.
“So... anything new on this locket?” Hikaru questioned. “What's so great about it anyways?”
“Thats the mystery of it.” Keito said really excited. “A locket... so rare and unknown. A hidden content within it. Aren't you just dying to know more about it?!”
“Not really... I'm not that interested in artifacts and greek myths.” he replied as Daiki then said, “But you're into mystery. Wouldn't you be curious to know what is inside it? This locket has been what most archeologist have been dreaming of finding! They want to find out the mystery of the locket! What the locket holds within it.”
“I guess that does sounds really fun.” Hikaru stated. Soon they finished and Daiki stood up, “We should all get back to work in haof an hour... I'm gonna explore around a bit in the meantime.”
“Alright. I'll keep an eye on the workers.” Keito stated as Hikaru said, “I'll go with you, Daiki.”

“So where are we going?” Hikaru said looking around.
“I dunno. I just wanna take a look around.” Daiki answered as he walked in random direction.
“We aren't on our site anymore... maybe we should head back...” he said as Daiki told him, “Come on~! It doesn't hurt to look around. We'll be back in time to start working again—Whoa!” He fell over as Hikaru said, “Hey, careful...”
“Ow...” Daiki groaned. “What did I trip on?”
“This...” Hikaru kneeled next to a weird pointy rock. “Weird... have you ever seen a rock like this?” Daiki sat up and looked at it and shook his head. He and Hikaru began dusting the dirt off it as Daiki took notice of something.
“Hey, check that out.” he pointed. There was some things engraved on the rock. But he couldn't read it. He told Hikaru, “You got your digging tools with you?” Hikaru nodded as they began slwoly pulling the rock out. But what surprised them was that the rock wasn't a rock. It was some kind of stone box. It has the most unique and beautiful engravings on it.
“What is it?” Hikaru questioned.
“Not too sure.” Daiki said observing it. “I've never seen anything like this.” He tried to open it, but it wouldn't budge.
“It's stuck. It won't open.” he sighed. He looked at the engravings as he saw both images and words. Earth and in the sky 12 people.
“The Gods...” Daiki said observing it. He read the words, “Beware the powers of Gaea's locket... Gaea's locket!” He cheered happily as he said, “Hikaru! Do you have a pocket knife on you?! I've gotta pick the lock on this box!”
“Here.” he handed it to him. Daiki slowly and carefully put the knife between the top and bottom aparts of the box and as he moved the knife up, the box popped open. They two peeked into the box as they went wide eyed.
“Get Keito now! We've found the locket!!!” Daiki cheered excitedly as Hikaru ran off to find Keito.