Emmet looked up; he didn't know how he had appeared here, but he wasn't sure whether he should leave or if he should go further.
In front of him, there were a set of large, golden gates; they were held together, locked, by a golden chain wrapped around the poles of the gate. They were surrounded, on either side of the gates, were large parts of mountains; it looked as though the gates had been put there after someone had cut through an entire mountain.
Just to hide whatever was behind the gates.
"What…?" asked Emmet softly under his breath, holding his forearm to shield his eyes from the shining light that was reflecting off of the gate; though when he looked around, he couldn't see any sort of light source that could be reflected off of the gate.
He felt almost…drawn to the golden gates; as though they were…calling to him without even speaking or hearing a word even utter under breath.
Without seeming to notice, Emmet began to walk closer to the gates; as though he was possessed to do so. And the closer he got to them, the brighter the light became. But still, Emmet continued closer to the gates.
The closer he got, the more the landscape around him started to vanish into darkness, Emmet becoming drawn to the light as though he had become a fly; hypnotised by the light of a bug trap.
Emmet lifted his other hand up slowly, his mind unable to control his movements now; he felt a need to touch the gates.
But before he did, he was suddenly pushed back by a sudden force that he couldn't see beforehand and was flung into darkness. Since he had broken his gaze on the re-enforced golden gate, Emmet noticed that he was falling in the darkness; he started to flail about, shouting in panic as he began to fall faster.
As he shouted and screamed in panic, he heard the distant voice of Wyldstyle.
'Emmet! Emmet, wake up!'
"Emmet! Emmet, wake up!" whispered Wyldstyle loudly, shaking Emmet's shoulders slightly in an attempt to wake the Master Builder up.
He had been muttering and whimpering in his sleep for the past ten minutes, and Wyldstyle had been up for the past five minutes he had been muttering under his breath. With a sudden yelp, Emmet's head jerked up and he looked around wildly.
Wyldstyle, seeing the distressed look on her boyfriend's face when he woke up, quickly pulled him into a tight hug, rubbing his back soothingly as she muttered kind words into his ear.
"Hey, hey…it's OK…it's OK…"
After a few long minutes, Emmet finally calmed down a little as she gently hugged Wyldstyle back. "This is getting tiring…" he muttered shakily, hugging Wyldstyle tightly for a second before he slowly began to pull away for a second; though the two of them still held one another in their arms.
"You can't help it," said Wyldstyle softly, pulling back to look at her distressed boyfriend; gently lifting his head up with her hand softly, smiling gently at Emmet.
It had been nearly five months since the last great, important events had happened to LEGOkind.
It had been five calm months since…him.
The monster that had tried to destroy everything and everyone in all the worlds; he had even, though indirectly, killed Emmet temporarily. And even when Emmet was alive and well again, he possessed Emmet and made him do things that Wyldstyle knew her boyfriend wouldn't do; not ever.
But, that was behind them now; it was behind all of them.
"Well, I guess that we'd better get up and get ready for today," muttered Emmet, hiding the bangs that had formed under his eyes from the lack of sleep he had been getting recently because of the night terrors.
Getting out from his and Wyldstyle's bed, Emmet yawned softly and stretched his arms; he had finally managed to get out of the routine that he had been following for most of his life prior to the events that happened recently. That, and Wyldstyle had been there to try and persuade him to get out of the rhythm of his pattern.
Wyldstyle watched him walk into the bathroom to get ready for the day, and smiled sadly at him; she was honestly surprised that Emmet had come out of the events that went through him so...so much the same. If she had been the one that had been through what Emmet had been, she was sure that she would have been mentally scared.
She just hope Emmet was alright completely; and not hiding anything from her.
Meanwhile, in one of the other LEGO Universes that none of the Master Builders had had any contact with or visited for a long time, underground, there was the ominous drilling sound vibrating through the rocks surrounding the source.
Smaller rocks, resting on larger ones in an empty cavern underground, started to vibrate on the rocks as the sound and source of the noise grew closer. Suddenly, one of the smoothed down walls of the cavern started to crack, and the head of a large drill came drilling into the wall. More rocks began to crack and fall to the ground, as more and more of the massive drill came through the wall.
The sound of mechanics working slowly came to a stuttering halt as the controller of the massive drill on wheels brought the machine to a stop. The light green, weathered slightly by constantly being exposed to dirt and rocks leaving dents in the painted metal plates; one of the protective metal sheets, though it was weathered greatly, the logo of the company could be seen.
As well as the fainted words, in block capitals, 'POWER MINERS'.
"Rex, I think we've found that power source that's been drawing those Rock Monsters more frequently," said Brains, a yellow-skinned figure with a thin grey moustache. He had a strange eyepiece attached to the side of his head by the silver, heat-resistant helmet he was wearing. He pushed the silver eye-protecting visor up to get a closer look at the energy reader he was carrying.
He turned to another figure, wearing similar silver armour that was designed to be heat resistant, approaching him.
This figure, once he had removed a similar eye protecting visor, had a thick grey stubble on his chin, and over his cheeks. A thick black single eyebrow topped both his eyes.
"Hmm; I'll have a look," said Duke, grabbing a black backpack from the cockpit of the machine they had been traveling on; it had what appeared to be a large water blaster attached to the backpack. Though many would think it was an industrial-sized water gun; but these guys needed it in their line of work.
Jumping over the railing on the machine perch that the two of the figures were standing on, Duke landed on the hardened volcanic rock ground. Quickly looking around all over him, Duke lowered the visor again to protect him should anything happen and slowly moved closer towards the source of the massive energy reading.
They had been getting a strange spike in the energy readings they got recently; while most of the energy they had been getting came from the Rock Monsters and Laval Monsters. Though they had only seen something like this when they had made contact with the Crystal King; Duke just prayed that they weren't about to run into another one….
Reaching the spot where they had been getting the massive reading from, Duke spoke into his communicator, "I'm going to see what it is…" Quickly grabbing the re-enforced pickaxe that he had packed onto his backpack, and grabbed onto it with both hands.
With a hard downwards strike, Duke managed to get a crack on the hard rock he was trying to get into to find the source. After another few strikes, the rock broke open and an intensely bright, tinted white light came from the rock.
"Duke! Duke, you alright?!" asked Brains, the light so bright that he had to cover his eyes from becoming blind.
Despite the eye-protective visor he was wearing, Duke was temporarily blinded by the sudden brightness; causing him to stumble back a little and fall over his own feet.
Shielding his eyes with both his visor and his forearm, Duke tried to see passed his arm at the source of the light. "What the…?" he muttered under his breath, squinting his eyes slightly as he got to his feet again.
Cautiously approaching the source of the intense bright light, Duke slowly knelt down and reached inside the source of the light; feeling around the interior of the opened rock for something.
Finally, he latched onto something.
Quickly withdrawing his hand, Duke looked at what he had managed to grab.
He was surprised to find that it was a grey crystal; it was the same that they had come across with the Rock Monsters, but the colour was odd. Normally they would be brightly coloured; but this one seemed rather…dull, colour wise. But for what it lacked in colour, it made up for in brightness; Duke had to hold it at arm's length to avoid going blind.
"This the source, Brains?" asked Duke over the comms, turning around to the mining machine and held the dull coloured crystal over his head; though he didn't doubt that Brains couldn't see from where he was.
"Yep," said Brains over the comms, adding, "Bring it back here; I'll analyse it further, see what it's made of."
Duke began walking back towards the large mining machine, making sure to not look directly at the crystal for he still feared that he would go blind if he were to do so.
Though unknown to both of them, another energy source was present; but it was made of such energy that it couldn't be read by the device that the Power Miners were carrying.
'The Trinity…' growled a dark voice from the shadows; though it was low enough that it didn't catch the attention of the Power Miners. A pair of blood red eyes opened up suddenly, before they narrowed slightly at the bright light coming from the grey crystal.
Going unnoticed, the eyes vanished from this world…
And to the next…