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Ch. 9
Before Tsumasuke could get up from beside his brother… Shun grabbed his arm. "Wait… a s-second," he stuttered weakly. "The… book."
"Book?" Tsumasuke asked as he saw his twin point towards the desk in the room. Ama went over to it, grabbed the book that was on the desk, and returned to the bed with it. Shun twisted his right wrist a bit making the wind form a number.
Chapter 15
"Hmm, okay," Ama said as he turned to the chapter Shun had the wind tell him. He read it to himself and gasped in shock.
"Hm? What is it, Ama?" Ken asked looking over at the castle knight.
"This book… I was wondering where it went," Ama stuttered a bit as sweat ran down his brow. "The plant with the cure for this disease can't be moved from the cave. It'll die once it's picked and won't have the healing properties anymore."
"Okay so that just means we are all going," Ace told him, looking over at Shun who fell asleep in the huge ventus bed.
"Hear that, bro?" Tsumasuke thought.
"Yeah," Shun thought back.
"Okay, we have to get going before you know what," Alice said in a scared tone.
"Yeah she's right," Fabia nodded.
"Alright, I'll carry him and you lead the way Ama," Tsumasuke told the castle knight.
"Understood, my prince," Ama bowed his head a bit and got up. Before Tsumasuke actually picked him up, Barron and Ace splinted Shun's arm and placed it in a makeshift sling.
Once outside, Sky Wind shrieked at them for some reason. She entered Shun's mind to talk to him in his current state. It wasn't long before Sky Wind bent over in front of Tsumasuke to let him on with his twin.
"It's okay, Tsumasuke," Shun thought to him when he didn't feel his twin moving onto the bird. "Sky Wind just needs to get to know you better and I had a little talk with her. For now… she's not going to put up a fight."
"Okay," Tsumasuke thought back as he climbed on the bird. Sky Wind was big enough to carry only two people and small enough to fly through the forest close to the ground.
She flew close to Ken as they headed off into the forest. Tsumasuke kept his guard up just to be on the safe side if those other guys from the past decide to show up unexpectedly.
They walked through miles of jungle with huge rivers running towards a waterfall that they were following. It took them a few days to get to the waterfall… it would've only took them a few hours, but Shun was suddenly coughing up blood and his wounds bled through the bandage each time he did that.
Ken, Tsumasuke and the others were worried about him. They wanted to get that plant as soon as possible. The sound of roaring water over an edge was hard to miss.
Ama looked over the waterfall at the pond it made at the bottom. "Tsk, this isn't good," he said in a groan.
"What's u- what the hell is that thing?" Ren asked looking in the water at something below it swimming around. It was huge and long… it looked like it filled the entire pond.
"The serpent that guards the plant and the entrance to the cave," Ama told him.
"Ama, check the book again. Chapter 19," Tsumasuke hollered over to the castle knight from the bird.
"Okay, my prince," Ama took the book back out and read chapter 19 to himself again. "I see. An Aquos Bakugan user can talk with the serpent and convince him to let us passed."
The group looked at Marucho in that instant. No one was going to force him to go down there to talk with the serpent… it had to be his choice to go down there.
Marucho looked back at Shun still asleep in Tsumasuke's arms on the ventus phoenix, with blood running down his chin. Shun started groaning a bit and he felt a cold chill running up his spine like a finger going up it. He latched onto Tsumasuke with his good arm. Tsumasuke cradled him gently as he petted his head.
"Alright, I'll go talk to that serpent," Marucho declared as he brawled Ratizen to get down there a bit faster. He stood on Ratizen's shoulder as he jumped down the water below.
The serpent arose from the deep to meet Ratizen and Marucho. It looked like a different version of the Lock Ness Monster. Its scales were aquamarine with ventus green eyes.
Marucho started talking with it. He told it things that he knew would allow them passage into the cave. The serpent looked up at the top of the waterfall. It reached its head all the way up to see the other kids.
"Get on and I'll take you inside the cave," it said. "Sorry Sky Wind… you'll have to wait out here. I'll be back out once I drop them off."
"Understood," Sky Wind said plainly.
"Wait a minute. Sky Wind can talk?" Keith asked confused.
"Yes, of course I can," Sky Wind told him. "I just couldn't for a few days because we weren't here in the kingdom."
"Oh, I get it," Mira said as she got on the serpent. The others also got on the serpent's head. Ken held onto his two boys as the serpent went back into the pond below. Marucho got on as Ratizen went back into ball form and sat on his shoulder.
"Hold your breaths, people," the serpent told them as he dove under the water once he heard everyone take a deep breath. Dan was the first to spot the cave entrance. It was enormous to say the least.
The serpent surfaced in the cave as the kids got onto the solid stone walkway. Shun coughed up more blood all of a sudden and this time it didn't seem like he was going to stop this time.
"Shun!" Tsumasuke shouted in worry for his younger twin. "Guys we have to hurry!" The brawlers nodded as they ran deep into the cave.
Everywhere they looked it shined with an aqua green-red glow. It didn't take them long to arrive at a…
"Dead end?!" Ren shouted stopping in an instant at a blocked pathway of crystalized stone. "What do we do now? It's not like we can break through this thing."
"This disease is taking less time to take effect than it originally did," Ama said shocked that his prince was still coughing up large amounts of blood. It stained his clothes and caused his breathing to become heavy once he finally stopped.
"Shun, hey talk to me brother," Tsumasuke thought in worry, keeping his twin supported on the ground.
"This… bits… a lot," Shun thought heaving in his mind. "I don't know if I can hold out any longer… Tsumasuke… *huff, huff*"
Tsumasuke groaned softly in worry as he stared down at his twin. He felt that fever of his rising even higher than last time. "Well, we can't just do nothing," he told the brawlers. He extended his third arm to the crystalized wall in front of them. He tapped it as a flash of light blinded everyone as a big, booming voice spoke. "You must prove yourselves worthy to pass through. Each of you will undertake a trail of wits and strength from within!"
The light engulfed everyone, making them pass out, unconscious on the floor once the light vanished.
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