Hello, I hope you liked the previous chapter, now back to Kyle and Kate in the treasure cave.
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I made sure that the rope is wrapped tight around me before I climb down the hole, it was easy because climbing is what I do best, as soon as I was in the hole it started to get dark there, I waited until I was on the ground to light a torch, it was huge cave with icy roof, I could hear a running stream somewhere, but I didn't have much light to see anything, I wondered around the cave for a minute to check it out and maybe I will find the treasure, but I didn't, the underground cave was empty, suddenly the stream sound become louder and caught my attention, I looked around the cave looking for the stream source and I found it, it wasn't big but it held a lot of water under a huge pressure, the second thing that caught my attention was that this stream unlike other streams was running up, that was weird, I followed where this stream will lead me and a huge rock appeared blocking the way, but the stream kept going up and above the rock, that was a bizarre sight, usually water run from above to below, I kept going, it was like a maze not a cave, a long tunnel appeared at the end of the rock, the water kept going up, I thought I should go back, but the desire to see and explore that cave or tunnels to be exact, overwhelmed the fear of the unknown, and the stream was another question, I wanted to know how this stream work and where it lead, I decided to continue exploring the cave.
The tunnel at the rock's end was small but I could go inside it, I crawled inside the tunnel and kept going ahead, the tunnel was going up so I got tired from crawling but I kept going anyway, the stream become smaller and the water pressure lowered, after a few minutes of crawling up the tunnel I saw something very weird, the tunnel turned in a strange way, it was like a pyramid's head, I was going up but suddenly the tunnel turned down, and so did the stream, the stream changed it direction very smoothly from up to down, and another thing caught my attention, there was some kind of stairs carved on the way down, it must be made by humans I thought, and the water was running under the rocky stairs, I wanted to continue and go down but I thought about Athena and Kate, wouldn't they worry about me for staying too long in the underground caves, I thought what if something happen to them, then I remembered Athena is a night fury, what could possibly happen? I continued my exploring and went down the stairs, after a moment a small light started to grow bigger, maybe they were the thieves, maybe I should go back it could cost me my life if they find out that I discovered where they put their treasures, but there were no sound no talking not even breathing, are they sleeping or something? Curiosity took over me, I swear that curiosity will got me killed someday, I went down the stairs, I stepped inside a big hall, I made sure not to make any sound, I looked around and there was nothing, nothing at all, the hall was very dusty and old, the dust on the floor was untouched, there is no way under Valhalla that someone entered this room in the last hundreds of yours, but the lighted torches make it very confusing, how did the torches got lighted if no one entered the room in the last hundred years, I could add the self lighted torches to the list of the bizarre things I saw in the cave, first the stream and then the tunnel and now the hall and the torches, what's next I thought, a medium sized door was opposite to the rocky stairs, I marched very slowly through the hall expecting something to happen, traps perhaps, but nothing happened, I stood in front of the door and examined it, it was made of stone, very strong stone, and the second thing I noticed was that the door had no keyhole I assumed that the door may be opened from inside, then I continued examining the door, above the door a writing was carved onto the wall and under the writing some kind of figuration, the writing was in another language, I recognized this kind of writing, I remembered reading about it in some old book I took from a village not far from here I visited a year ago, it was dragoness, an extinct language according to the locals, I couldn't read that writing, no one can actually, I turned to the figure it was similar to the eye from the first cave we entered in the way of carving, it was some kind of a seat, a huge seat, a throne maybe, and above the seat was something, I don't know what it was, but it release something like rays, there was something familiar with that figure, I saw it in one of my books.
It was the key to open the door, if I knew what that symbol meant or what the writings are, I may be able to open the door, and now I had to go back to Athena because all my books are with her.
I went back through the tunnel, and then the cave and then I climbed back to the surface, as soon as Kate saw me empty handed she said.
"I told you won't find any treasure in the cave, didn't I?"
"Maybe I didn't find any treasure but I found something more valuable then gold." I said as I marched to Athena.
"And what would that be?"
"I don't know, but it has something to do with dragons, and the dragon whisperers."
"What dragon whisperers?"
"You will know everything very soon my dear." I said while I searched for the book but I didn't found it so I searched in the second bag in the other side.
"Where did I put that book?" I kept searching and I found it.
"What's that?" Kate asked.
"It's a book about the ancient dragon kingdoms, long time ago people used to live with dragons and ride them, they had been called the dragon whisperers, they were many dragon whisperers around the world, even in the archipelago… but not anymore."
"What happened to them?" Kate asked.
"The legend says that a global dragon-human war ended the era of the dragon whisperers, and until now the war still going between us."
"What caused that war?"
"It's who not what caused the war, it's all written in the book, you can read it later, but now I have something to do." I was reading the book looking for the symbol on the door, and then Kate joined me.
"What you're looking for?"
"I found a chamber down there; and there were a door with writing and a symbol of a throne and above it some kind of a shining jewel, I suppose it belonged to a dragon kingdom used to be here."
She helped me searching for the symbol; we were searching until she asked me.
"You said there is no dragon whisperers anymore, aren't you a dragon whisperer? You ride dragons!"
"No I am not, the real dragon whisperers used to speak with the dragons, they had their own language, and they called it dragoness."
"Isn't that the symbol you're looking for?" Kate asked as she pointed to a symbol, and indeed it was the symbol I'm looking for.
"The first dragon kingdom on the earth, kingdom of the fire mountain and home of stoker dragons, the kingdom of fire and flames"
That was an introduction to the kingdom, I kept reading and I found some interesting things.
"That throne is the king's throne, the kingdom of fire and flames throne and that's the volcano's heart, the sun's jewel, who posses that jewel control the stoker class dragons and declared the king of the kingdom." I kept reading "when the war started the sun's jewel was destroyed in the fire mountain, and the stoker dragons were free, red deaths monstrous nightmares and other fearful dragons started killing and destroying, turning the kingdom to ashes, after they were done they fled to the north leaving the kingdom they once served on fire, when the fire goes out the fire mountain should light it again." I looked up to the near mountain, a volcano, if that was true it a signal for us to leave, then I looked back to the book and I kept reading until I found that chamber, I read out loud for the girls hear me.
"After the king was killed, the last dragon whisperers stood their last stand to save what left from the kingdom of fire and flames, the knowledge they earned and the wealth once the kingdom had." I looked up to Kate and said" wealth?! There was treasure after all!" And then I continued reading.
"All that was kept safe in a room no one knows where but the dragon whisperers." Well not the dragon whisperers only, I do know where that room is, I kept reading.
"The single eye shall show you the passage, the holly water shall lead you through the infinite fire, then your last task in front of the sun's jewel, answer the riddle and you shall receive the power and knowledge of the past."
"So it's a riddle." I said to Kate.
"Do you know the answer to the riddle?" Kate asked, Athena was behind us just looking to us with curious eyes.
"No, it's written in dragoness."
"Look somewhere in the book maybe you will find a translation or something." I search through the book for the riddle; I read a line under the thrown which says.
"FROM THE VOLCANO'S HEART, SIX FIRES WERE LIGHTED.
ONLY A TRUE DRAGON WHISPERER KNOWS THE SUN'S JEWEL SECRET.
FROM THE HOLLY WATER THE INFINITE FIRE WILL DIE.
ONLY TO BE LIGHTED AGAIN.
SIX SHALL BECOME ONE
AND THE ONE SHALL CROWN THE KING."
I read it again and again and again trying to figure out what it meant, until Kate spoke.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"I don't know, but I will find the answer." I closed the book and headed to the hole again when Kate stopped me.
"Wait, I want to come with you."
"No, stay here, it's much safer with Athena." I climbed down the hole again, and I marched back to the hall through the tunnel, when I reached the hall I open the book and read the riddle again.
"From the volcano's heart, six fires were lighted." I looked around in the room and I noticed six torches, maybe they are the infinite fire, they were made by the sun's jewel, I continued.
"Only a true dragon whisperer knows the sun's jewel secret… the sun's jewel secret?! What secret?" I wasn't a dragon whisperer so I don't know the secret, I continued.
"From the holly water the infinite fire will die." I stopped for a moment to think and then I said to no one.
"The holly water!" I turned to the stairs, to the water from the stream, the water must be the holly water, and the torches are the infinite fire, am I supposed to quench the fire?
I noticed a pipe coming out of the stairs and a fleet on the ground from the pipe to the stone door and secondary fleets coming out the main one to the torches, I opened the pipe and the waters run through the fleet to the torches to sewer down the torches, after a few moments it become dark, the fires were out, then one fire was lighted in the center of the room.
"Six shall become one! And the one shall crown the king." I didn't understand the last part, there was small fire in the center of the room, and that fire will crown the king? I looked in the book again for anything may help me but there were no mention about the fire in the center of the room or what to do with it, the six must be the torches and the one is the fire in the center but how is that fire supposed to crown me king? After minutes the fire grew bigger and the door started to shake and the jewel carved above the door start shining and turned to a deep crimson red color, I covered my eyes because I couldn't look directly to the jewel and I just stood there watching what was happening in front of me, after moment the jewel stopped shining, now I could look at it without hurting my eyes and it was so beautiful, I never seen anything like it, I reached my hand and took it from its place, as soon as I held it by my hand, it lighted and burnt the palm of my hand and it left a mark, a very strange one, a skull of a monstrous nightmare, usually it was referred to the stoker class dragons by a monstrous nightmare, maybe it's a sign that now I'm the king, the king of the fire and flames kingdom but that was no use, how I'm supposed to be a king without a kingdom and without people to rule, I didn't care about the king thing, I was there just for the treasure and that's what I'm going to do, take the treasure and go back to Kate and Athena, the door was open revealing a long path, I put the jewel in my pocket and took that path and walked until I ended in a room, a very big room, the first thing I saw was books, a lot of books, I took a book-the legend of the mighty immortal dragons- I took the book and put it in bag I brought with me, honestly I like to read as much books as I can, I took another book-how to please a terrible terror- I put it back, that book was no use for me, I don't have to deal with a terrible terror, and if I had to I'm the king right? He won't cause me any problem, I looked to other books and took some which I may need or I may read, and now where the treasure is? I walked between shelves full of books then there were tables full of tools and materials, I didn't know exactly how those tools and materials work but I was curious, I took one material from the table and examined it, it was some kind of wings, I took it I may need it some time, and then there were weapons, not much really because they already had the most deadliest weapons ever existed, in the corner of the room there were a few saddles of nightmares and other small saddle, it was the size of a night fury, I took it to look closer and indeed it was a night fury saddle, it was similar to Athena's saddle but lighter and more comfortable, I took it also and continued my search, I found another door leads to another smaller room, I entered and the first thing I saw was clothes on the floor, and two dragons Skelton in the corner, they must be stoker dragons and the saddles outside was probably theirs but the mystery was the night fury saddle, what a night fury is doing in the kingdom of the stoker dragon? A lot of questions need to be answered, a table was in the center of the room, and I got closer and held my torch, there were some maps of the kingdom, it was a huge kingdom, the biggest of the others, from the where I was to the archipelago borders or the sharp class dragons kingdom as it was written, and there were papers written in the normal language, it was a some kind of a dairy, I read some of it.
"… Many were killed in the last attack by the rebellion including the king himself, the rebellion leader who works under the command of the dragon named furious seized the suns jewel, in order to destroy it and free our dragons as they claim, he throw it in the fire mountain thinking that he could destroy it that way but the jewel has a secret no one knows it but the king and the high ranking dragon whisperers." I remembered the riddle- only a real dragon whisperer knows the sun's jewel secret- I continued reading "the sun's jewel cannot be destroyed, the fire always prevail, the fire only dies to be reborn again, the suns jewel was never destroyed…." Well, that was the sun's jewel secret; I just figured that out earlier, and other piece of paper was in the far side of the table, a ring was on the paper, it was a golden ring so I took it, the bogs first rule -never leave anything precious behind however small it was- I read the letter.
"my king, if you are reading this, it means you have earned the sun's jewel and you are officially the seventh king of the fire and flames kingdom, you must know my lord, the kingdom is destroyed and it could be rebuilt only if furious is killed and the great war is ended, but the war will never end, after furious will destroy every last kingdom and kill every last dragon whisperer and free all the dragons as he claim, he will just disappear leaving the world in chaos, but it must stay that way even if the dragons and humans still fighting because if he comes back no one will survive the outcome, and it means the extinction of both the dragons and humans, your jewel will give you powers you never imagined and allowed you to control the stocker dragons, but as you use your powers given by the jewel furious will attached to it and wake up, and the future of this earth will be sealed, don't use the jewel's power and know there is other way to befriend a dragon and it's by earning…"
"His trust!" I completed without reading the last part, that's something I learned a long time ago, I put the paper in my pocket alongside with the jewel and the ring and continued to search for the treasure, behind the table there was a big box full of golden coins, gems of every kind, even diamonds, but it was kind of small, a glorious kingdom that big must have mountains of gold not a box full of them, but that was all so I took it and filled the bag with the gold and gems, when the bag was full, it was so heavy that I had to carry it for a few feet's and stop to rest, it was a long way back to the surface, and the tunnel, Oh Thor! Why the dragon whisperers didn't built the room near the hole with easy passage, after a half hour I was in the first cave and I wrapped the rope tight around the bag and called for Athena to lift it up, I heard a sharp growl, definitely Athena was complaining about the over weighted bag but she lifted it anyway, after a long moment waiting for the rope I called for Athena.
"ATHENA, THROW ME THE ROPE!" but nothing, I heard no answer and no rope was thrown, Athena acts sometimes childish, and that what happened now prove my point, and then I heard Kate.
"KYLE, SHE'S SITING IN THE FAR SIDE OF THE ISLAND, AND SHE LOOKS SOME KIND UPSET, WHAT HAPPENED?"
"Of course she's upset!"
"WHAT?" Kate shouted again.
"NOTHING, JUST TELL HER I'M SORRYAND AH… TELL HER I WILL GIVE HER EXTRA FISH TONIGHT."
"WILL THAT WORK?"
"I hope so." She went after moment Athena flew and jumped in the hole, I just wanted her to throw me a rope and lift me, but she came all way down to take me, I don't know if that was loyalty or just happy with the extra fishes, I mounted and we flew out the cave, Kate was searching in the bag not for the treasures and gold but for the books I brought, she like reading just like I do, when I got down Athena she was holding books and she looked at me with a huge smile, oh Thor how much I liked her smile.
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Hi everyone, it took me so long to end this chapter, this is very important chapter, and you will not know the importance of this chapter until the last parts of this story, and the fact that the jewel only can be destroyed in the fire mountain, I took it from the lord of the rings- when the ring only can be destroyed in the mountain of doom- I'm a big fan of the lord of the rings, that series is my best series of all time and also the hobbit.
Till next time, hail Algeria.!