Chapter 6: Retrieving the Crystal

"How long we've been in this cave?" I panted,

"Thirdy-six hours, 60 kilometers below sea level" said Verra,

"Can I have my water now?"

"Sure," She summoned a bottle of fresh spring water out of her hand and I grabbed it, almost drinking it whole.

"You know, you shouldn't be drinking water," suggested Spongs,

"I realize that," I said,

"Alright, just so you know,"

"Halt" said Rox,

"What is it?" said Cmeister,

"Smell"

All I could smell was cave smell, but then it got to me, it was a sweet punch smell you get from sniffing Juicy would anyone bring that stuff down here?

"Smells sweet, I'd like to have some!" said Arc,

Cmeister walked over to him and bonked him on the head, "Coulda had a V8," Then there was a rumbling sound from behind us, what I saw was a huge boulder rolling towards us, it reminded me of Indiana had tried to slow down the boulder with his wind powers but nothing happened, same with Verra, so I decided to take the heroic credit for today. I held out my finger and tried to concentrate, nothing because I drank that water, it doused my flames.

"Damnit! Run!"

"Already ahead of you, Manticore!" and that's when I heard Blazier way in front of me along with Rox and 'd eventually sprinted to a dead end with a bottomless pit that I almost tumbled into.I saw Blazier on the other side, wondering how he got there all by was behind me and made a gesture that looked like he was pushing me, wind ripped past me as it knocked me into the gorge,sending me flying and dangling on the edge of the other pulled me back up with only one hand, I could already tell he was almost as strong as ,Arc,Fry, and Verra finally came to our side of the pit after it almost crushed them flat and fell into the pit, never heard the crash...strange.

"That was too close, if it wasen't for Manticore's doused flames, we didn't have to lose our breath!" yelled Verra,

"Hey! It's not my fault I needed something to drink!" I said,

"Guys!" Blazier parted us, "Since Fire and Water are good rivals, lets not get into that trillion year old fight again!"

"He's right," Arc suggested, me and Verra made sneers at each other, I thought Fire and Water would be good friends, then after Blazier told me that, I guess I won't be spending time as best friends with her. We took the cracked stairways that were sculpted out of mud and other minerals that made it very for the last time, I won't be falling again, I decided to fly my way up, dragging Cmeister and Spongs to the all waited for several minutes, that's how high the stairs go, for the rest to catch groaned as we all looked up, more stairs, but going around the walls of the cave, and on those walls were Egyptian writings that no one could understand, but probably mean't some curse or if we don't get outta here now, we might be crushed by a boulder larger than the one we faced.

"Dude! How we gonna get that damn crystal?! It's like... a mile up!I can't climb that much!" complained Spongs

"Cry baby!" said Verra,

"I'm not a baby!"

"You are a baby!"

"I'M NOT A BABY!"

"Not anymore," said Arc to himself,

"YOU ARE BOTH BABIES!NOW IF WE JUST GET A GRIP WE MIGHT NOT BE CALLED BABIES AND GET TO THE TOP BEFORE YOU TWO START ARGUING AGAIN!" Cmeister yelled so loud, that everyone had to cover their ears.

"Baby," Verra muttered to herself as Spongs sneered at her.

"Half a mile...*pant*... to the...*pant*... top" I just could not go any further and collapsed, but Aroxyr just pulled me right soon as we got to the top, everyone, even me, had to get watered down by Verra.A gleam of blue light came from the northwest end of the cave, but was in the way of a huge stalactite.

Blazier gasped, "Is that what I think it is?"

"Finally! I can't go any further!" complained Spongs,

"Can u keep an eye on Spongs, Arc?" said Cmeister,

"If you guys can go without getting killed," he said,

"Don't worry, we can just grab that crystal and go,"

As we left Spongs and Arc behind, I felt a slight tremor under my feet when nobody else felt it, I quicky polymorphed into Abberant and zoomed across the cave to the crystal that had a blue hue like Starlight around the cave. Cmeister and the rest gathered behind me, "Wait" said Blazier

"What? It's nothing! We can just go and take it!" I replied

"Manticore, you see, it's too easy!"

"What do you mean?"

He rolled his eyes, "Hold on, lemmi take it"

"Blazier!" yelled Cmeister

"Yes?"

"How come you know how to handle the crystal than us?"

"I was taught by an archaeologist that studies elements and magic crystals of the world," then he went on and on about that crap, then I felt that tremor again,

"Guys? You feel that?" I asked

"What?" they said,

"Tremor"

"I don't know what your talking about,Manticore, but sure as hell... we'll be fine," said Verra,

"Ok, Blazier, do ur thang,"

"Ur sick!" he yelled,

"What?!"

"Nvm," He put on runite gloves with wierd spikey grips and slowely put his hands around the crystal held in place. He grabbed it at the last minute and started to look around to see if anything was happening, after that, he yanked it out of the ground and I thought there was an earthquake.

"Get outta here!" yelled everyone

"I got a tele-tab here! Arc, Spongs! Get over here!" yelled Archeron

"On ur feet Spongs, were going home!" said Arc to Spongs,

"Finally!" Everyone put their hands on the tele-tab, hoping to know where it might lead to, "Here we go...NOW!" then we all dropped the tab, sucking us in. As soon as we landed on the porch of the WR camp, we saw Jake in a rocking chair looking at us in surprise.