Chapter 10: Flames in the dark
Henry was reading through his book, trying to locate anything that could help them, but all he found was the same page he always looked at. On it was bill cipher, around him were ten symbols, but something was different about this page this time. The pine tree symbol and the shooting star were glowing blue. But the six fingered hand was glowing red, the ice symbols was glowing yellow, and the question mark began to glow green. He stared at the page for a second, and then he closed the book.
"Find anything Henry?" Wendy asked.
"Nothing useful." He replied.
"Then what are we gonna do?" Soos asked.
"I do have one idea, in theory if the wall is being held up by the power of two symbols it is possible that the power of three symbols will break it." Henry said, wondering if his idea would work.
"Ok lets give it a try, what do we have to do?" Wendy said.
"Soos, you hit it with your sword, Wendy, fire a arrow at it, both while i cast a spell at it. In theory if we do all of these things at once the wall should break."
"Alright then lets try it."
"On my count, one, two, three!"
Wendy shot an arrow at the wall, as Soos hit it with his sword and Henry's spell hit it, at first nothing happened, but then three symbols glowed brightly in the air in front of the wall, and the wall vanished. They walked through the doorway to find themselves in complete darkness. Henry's spell had gone out, and he couldn't reactivate it.
"Henry! Whats up with the lights?" Wendy said.
"There must be some kind of spell inhibitor around this area, my spell won't reactivate." Henry replied, tripping over a rock.
"Well what are we supposed to do?" Soos asked.
"Wait is that a light up ahead?" Henry said, squinting to see it better.
There was a small flame glowing in the dark ahead of them, they walked to it, and no sooner then they reached it did it move. It went farther down the tunnel until they reached another cross roads. Three flames appeared here, one red, one yellow, and one blue.
"Which one do we follow now?" Wendy asked, looking at the flames.
"Pick a color." Henry said.
"I say we go down the blue tunnel." Soos recommended.
"Why?" Wendy asked.
"Blue is the color of Dipper and Mabel's symbols, so wouldn't they have followed the blue flame?"
"I suppose it makes sense, ok lets try it." Henry said.
They followed the blue flame path for a while until they came to something they never thought they would see, they came to a room filled with runes. In the middle of the room was a small slot, for placing a sword of some kind. A strange blue light came from the roof. Instead of examining the runes on the walls, Henry decided to examine the stone slot in the middle of the room. He walked up to it and noticed a small question mark symbol right near it.
"Hey Soos, i think you should try placing your sword in this slot, it has your symbol." He said to Soos.
"Alright." Soos said, placing his sword slowly into the slot.
A small stone tunnel opened to their left, revealing a small wooden chest. They slowly walked up to it and opened it. Inside was a small compass, etched into it was a symbol of a pine tree. A note was tucked under the compass. It read For finding Pine Tree. ~Bill.
"Why would he leave this for us?" Wendy said.
"Well there is no telling why, but I think we should follow it." Henry said, pointing it and following the directions it gave, slowly into the darkness of the maze. All of them wondering, why would bill do this?