Liam, Michael, Eve, and the pets squeezed through the crowds of people to exit the city, but luckily Eve's lab was near the edge of the city. The weather was now very hot, as hot as a desert city in the middle of summer.
"How far until the cave?" Eve asked.
"It's kind of far." Michael answered.
Liam looked back at the city. Planes crashed into the tallest buildings of the city, and the air was getting very smoky in the city. "I'm glad we got out of there." Liam said. "Away from the smoke and fumes."
"Eve?" Michael started.
"What is it?" Eve replied.
"Why is the sun expanding right now?" Michael asked curiously. "I've heard this wasn't supposed to happen for five billion years. Why's it happening now?"
"I think someone awakened an evil spirit!" Eve answered.
"Spirits are mean." said Liam. "They're evil, creepy, and if you anger them they possess you and try to use your body to take over the world!"
"Yeah." Michael started. "Six years ago an evil spirit possessed my friend."
"What happened?" Eve wondered.
"He messed with this stone orb... got knocked down and possessed... he doesn't like to talk about it."
"No surprise there." said Liam.
"We had to electrocute him to get rid of the spirit!"
"Wait..." Eve started, sounding very confused. "Are you saying an evil spirit possessed someone and the possessed person is causing this disaster?" she asked Liam.
"Why are we even talking about this, anyways?" Michael questioned. "The cave's right in front of us."
The cave was beautiful. It was already lit up, and it was huge. There was a waterfall at the end of the room, and it flowed into a small pool on its floor.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Eve asked. "I've got obsidian. We'll patch up the entrance with obsidian! I'll place a couple rows of obsidian glass at the top of the wall!"
The group immediately got to work. Michael started placing obsidian at the entrance, while Eve jumped and placed blocks under her to get to the top of the wall, and starting mining the top two rows and placed obsidian glass, while Liam was looking at the waterfall suspiciously.
"What's wrong, Liam?" Michael asked him.
"Well..." Liam started. "Haven't you noticed in games and on TV that there's always treasure behind a waterfall?"
"That's fiction." Michael answered, continuing to block the entrance. "Just because there's treasure on games doesn't mean there's treasure in real life."
Liam wanted to prove that fact. He got up and waded in the small pool, which was very refreshing after being outside in 50-degree heat, and swam behind the waterfall.
"You're checking behind the waterfall!?" Michael asked, thinking Liam was being very stupid. "I told you it was fiction." Michael placed the last block of obsidian to block the entrance and Eve finished making the top two rows of the wall obsidian glass. She just did the one side, because it was the only side facing outside.
"Oh my goodness!" Liam hollered. Michael ran as quickly as he could past the waterfall and Eve started mining the tower under her to get down.
Eve, Michael, and the pets swam behind the waterfall to see what the commotion was. Eve and Michael couldn't believe their eyes. They saw a familiar path of sandstone in front of them.
It was Minelantis!