Spectrobes Legends

Chapter 2

Hidden Cavern

Somehow I wound up with Keith, Lily, and Mr. Anderson (biology teacher/sub in nurse at times). Our group had to be the smallest in the entire field trip. We all grabbed flashlights, canteens, flares, and chose different paths up the mountain. It was clear that the camp owners had hidden something for us to find, so I really wanted to find it as fast as I could.

"Which one should we take, Keith?" I asked.

"Why are you asking me?" He replied.

"Well, it's just, I want to find whatever we're looking for first, that's all."

He shrugged. "I have no idea what my uncle's doing."

I don't exactly know why or how, but Mr. Anderson noticed that no one seemed to be taking a path that made its way through the forest, told us about it, Lily got excited, Keith said that he'd go with the majority, and I was only one versus two, so we wound up taking the road less traveled. -_-…

(Thirty minutes later…)

"Can…we…take a break?" I breathed. Did I forget to mention that I was all brains, and virtually no bron? We had been climbing up the roughest path on the entire dang hill, and everything underneath of my neck ached…

"Oh come on, pull through; I'm sure we're going to find what we're looking for!" Mr. Anderson encouraged.

"Yeah! Go for it, go!" Lily said doing a little cheer move.

"Have you ever walked a long distance in your life?" Keith asked.

"Not very often and even more rarely out of my own will," I told him.

We walked and walked. Mr. Anderson handed me a long stick that I could use to keep myself up; apparently it was a really common things for hikers to use in order to save energy and get better footing.

"Why didn't you think of this sooner?" I gasped.

"You look more athletic than you are," he told me.

I didn't need to be athletic like my sisters were. They had it all; brains, beauty, and bron. My parents always told me that in terms of brain, I was the most naturally talented. So in the end, I decided to focus on my mind more than my body so that I could surpass them in some way. The result was an honor-roll student with a spotless behavioral record and was already getting scouted out by colleges across the country.

But sometimes I didn't want to be the perfect smart kid. Sometimes I wanted to be the athletic kid with decent grades that had a lot of friends. Sometimes I wanted to be that stupid, yet brave and strong kid that I had read about in so many books that goes on an adventure beyond imagination. Sometimes I just wanted to be a her—"OOOOH!"

(…)

"Mari? Mari?" Someone called out. I can't believe it, but I haven't mentioned that my name is Mari (MAR-E, not "Marie," MAR-E) Jones.

"Yeah?" I groaned. "What happened?"

"You fell into a pit. Hold on; we're going to get help and get you out of there!" Mr. Anderson assured me.

"Are you hurt?" Keith asked.

I moved all of my still aching body parts. "No; I think I'm OK. I actually think I landed in something soft!" I was on top a pile of old vines and leaves. Before me was a long stone walkway that curved out of view suddenly.

"Guys! There's some kind of, like, secret passageway down here!" I yelled.

"WHAT??!!" Keith bellowed.

"There's some kind of secret cavern here!"

I heard both concerned and excited chattering from above. After about five minutes, and a few more assurances that I was uninjured, Lily dropped her video camera with night vision mode down.

"Take a ton of pictures while we go get the others!" She squealed.

And forward I went!

The corridor was extremely well-made. Aside from the thin layers of moss, it was perfect. I cannot imagine how much work it must have taken to create such a passageway without machinery…maybe it was made with machinery? No; I am not implying that aliens were involved. I'm implying that they made this as something to spice up the camping experience. But something told me other—"OOF!"

AGAIN? SERIOUSLY??!!

Alright, intermission! Angel's Wings! What's your problem?

It's the joke gimmick that I'm doing for this story. Whenever you make a serious statement that might also be foreshowadowing, you will always get interrupted somehow. I've never been really good at comedy, so I wanted to try and put something like that in.

OH! Yeah! Real funny!

Oh relax; once I get to the Krawl invasion that'll hardly ever happen anymore.

Um; I think you just gave away some spoilers.

This is a Spectrobes fanfiction that isn't a comedy parody; I think people know that's coming sooner or later.

Okay, just make it later. I don't want to have any blunders with the Spectrobes.

No promises :3

What?

END INTERMISION!

I tripped over some huge rock-thing. It was actually…more like a statue. I picked it up; it was surprisingly light. The statue was of some koala, thing; only it didn't have paws, had weird markings, it looked like it would walk on all fours, and it's ears were way too big.

"Aww…you're kinda—whoa!"

I looked up and saw the reason why the end of the passageway suddenly curved out of view. There was a huge spiral staircase thing winding up the passageway, leading to some unknown source of light.

Alright…cute koala statue can wait.

I tucked it under my arm and kept on walking. Along the edge of the spiral pathway, there were marking that reminded me of Egyptian hieroglyphs. There were images of horrifying blob monsters that looked like they came right out of Men in Black, but there were also images of humans fighting alongside cooler monsters that looked more like they came out of an awesome video game, or something (wink, wink; nudge, nudge).

As I went higher and higher, I noticed that there were many cracks in the ground. At first there was nothing out of the ordinary about them besides that they were clearly etched into floor on purpose, but later on, it seemed that pulses of light ran through them. One too many s'mors I guess…

And at the top…I saw something unbelievable…

There was an altar shaped like a hexagon, with a pedestal shaped like a hexagon, and placed on the hexagon was a silver hexagonal object (two of the sides were only longer than the others). On the roof was the source of the room's light. Along the creases in the object were ovular glowing areas that pulsated with light in unison to the lights coming from the floors.

Before I knew it, the koala statue seemed to get…warmer…weird.

On a sheer impulse I picked up the hexagonal thing. It looked like there were wrist straps on it, so I put it on. It was actually kinda cute if you asked me. Then the statue really got warm. I went over to the door, put it down there, and started taking pictures. Weather this was a joke thought up by the camp owners, or real, this would be a big hit on my facebook.

After I was done I leaned on the big door thing with the door that the arm that I put the 'gauntlet' as I had deemed it, on. There was no way that I was going to get it open after a—"AAAUGH!" I fell in.