Chapter 8: The search for the twins
Henry was having a bad enough day without losing Mabel. He had no idea how but she had run faster then both him, Wendy, and Soos. Now they had to find her, and Dipper. Otherwise they could be lost in the labyrinth forever.
"Wendy, Soos, we need to find them." He said to them.
"Knowing Mabel she is probably with Dipper." Wendy said.
"Well dudes at least their together." Soos said.
"Yes but the question is where are they?" Henry pointed out.
"Well we know they didn't go that way." Wendy said pointing down the dark passage to the right, which must mean they went through that hole over there."
"Well if that is true then we have a new problem now." Henry said, "How are we going to catch up with them?"
"Lets start by going through the hole first, and then lets see where that gets us." Wendy said, starting to go through the hole.
They entered the hole to find themselves inside of a small square room, they saw a spot where it looked like Dipper had been sitting in the corner of the room.
"Look he was sitting here!" Henry said, pointing to the lack of dust.
"That must mean they went that way." Wendy said, pointing ahead of them to the tunnel.
"Well what are we waiting for dudes come on!" Soos said, already walking down the tunnel, sword ready.
The others followed, noticing as they walked skeleton bones that had been broken apart. They came to a t in the tunnel, where they could go right or left. Not knowing what to do, Henry consulted the book. Finding very little of importance in the book, he decided to rely on his observance. He looked to the left tunnel, he saw at the entrance bones that had been broken, but also to his surprise no torches had been lit down that path, he looked down the other path, noticing a small spot where the dust had been disturbed, almost as if two people had been sitting there. He quietly motioned to the others that they went right, making a mental note which way they were going. As they walked down the tunnel, they heard bones scraping against rock ahead of them. They got their weapons ready, and sure enough a small group of skeletons were standing on one side of a large pit. Henry muttered a spell from his book, setting the nearest skeleton on fire. Wendy notched two arrows and fired, two more skeletons went down. Soos ran in charging, and swinging wildly, slashing apart the remaining skeletons. They looked across the pit and Henry wondered. How had they made that jump, it was ten feet across. Henry muttered yet another spell and he, Wendy, and Soos appeared on the other side. They began to walk forward, but a small field of energy blocked their path. The energy glowed bright blue with two symbols on it, a pine tree, and a shooting star.
"What do we do now?" Wendy asked, looking at the sheild.
"Something tells me that they are on the other side of this field of energy, we just need to figure out how to break it down." Henry said, "Give me some time to read through my book and see if i can find anything on this type of blocker.
