Welp, I'm back again. So, I recently finished the other story I was working on, so, hopefully chapters will come quicker. I don't really have anything else to say, so, yeah. Let's get into this. Actually, wait, I forgot that if you want to chat, my discord is: CrescentDiscord, #3199. Now, I will only accept "key board" chat, as my friend calls it. So, if you have any questions, there you go, really anything. You can even ask how my day is going, the questions don't have to be related to the story. Or maybe you'd just like to talk about stuff. IDK.

Chapter Eleven: Riddles, Choices, and Surprisingly No Major Character Death.

Calcite

Walls, metal walls, and all of us being tied to chairs. Overall, an uncomfortable experience. I sighed and looked at the speakers in each corner of the room, I could just tell someone was watching us and was about to speak. How did it come to this? Let me explain. It started right after we left the base, and told Crescelia, Mirror, Statica, Aether, Phantom, and Limestone to stay back. We had told Shell to stay back and watch over them…

"Alright, since Crescelia is letting us use her car, don't go to crazy," I told Deathbringer. Of course, Zeke, Rain, and Destin, having their own ways of transport, didn't have a spot in the car. Deathbringer was driving, Glory in the passenger, me on the right side, Snow on the left, Peril in the back on the left, and Crescent in the back on the right. Deathbringer simply grinned evilly and drove out of the parking lot. I noticed that wall Zeke was flying above the car and to the right, Rain and Destin seemed to be waiting. They didn't move until we were going fast on a not often used road. I looked to the right and saw Rain casually running alongside the car. He grinned before turning to face the road in front. Destin, however, was leading the way, with his internal tracking system or something. We eventually found our way to a hidden door at the bottom of the cliffs separating the sand and ice kingdoms. We climbed out of the car, well, those that were in it, and noticed no defenses, nothing.

I narrowed my eyes at the cliff, before realizing that there were no longer any ground underneath me. Like a cartoon, I looked down, screamed, and then fell into the abyss. Glory and Deathbringer were shocked and fell down with two "eeks!". Snow screamed her head off. Peril simply fell with her arms crossed and a scowl on her face.

"Well then," Zeke had simply said.
"Lovely!" Destin had sarcastically exclaimed.
"Wooh! Fun!" Rain had yelled.
"Huh," Crescent had remarked, a hand on his chin.

And now, back to present time, tied up in a chair. A voice came out of the speakers, it was one I didn't recognize.
"Hello! Welcome to this lovely place of ours! First challenge! Get out of the chairs by your own before it finds you! If you help another…they'll fall into a pit of spikes! Have fun!" The male voice laughed before the speakers went silent.
"Lovely," I rolled my eyes.
"Sh, the quieter we are, the better. We don't know what it is," Destin scolded, immediately extending his alternate exterior wrist blades and slicing through the ropes. Crescent nodded, agreeing with the metal dragon and sunk into the shadows, he then stood by Destin. Zeke morphed from his previous blue and black dragon form, to a shadow like creature, he also sunk into the shadows, and when he popped up next to Crescent and Destin, he then morphed back to the previous form. Rain rolled his eyes and turned into shadows, appearing behind the chair. He then tip-toed over to the others. Deathbringer and Glory had also somehow gotten out of their chairs respectively. Snow froze the rope and then snapped it. Footsteps could be faintly heard. She looked at the three corridors around the room with unease. Of course, I used floating light crystals to shoot burn the ropes. I walked over to the others, Peril had an unnerving grin on her face.
"It's gonna find us anyways, let's give a message," she grinned, reaching into her boot and pulling out…an incendiary!?

"Get behind me," Crescent ordered, when we did so, he formed a dome of light around us. He then nodded to Peril, who pulled the plug, and after a few seconds, the room went up into flames.

When Peril emerged from the smoke, there was a disgusting creature with no scales, and long, scythe like claws. It's eyes were blood red, and it's mouth was formed into a deformed shape, standing in the corridor behind her. It looked like something from a horror game. I walked out in front of the group and had a stare down with the beast. Peril casually walked behind me to watch the show. In one swift movement, I grabbed my pistol, and an aura of light formed around me instantly.
"Ability: Light boost," Rain said in awe. I fired three successful shots, each bullet coated in a purple light, leaving a faded after trail, one bullet hit where the heart should've been, another to the left of the previous shot, and one between the eyes. I then blew the smoke out of the barrel and put back in its holder. The aura died down.
"Darn girl, you can shoot," Deathbringer said, slightly nodding his head. I shrugged and turned to one of the corridors.
"What now?" Snow asked.
"We split into teams," Crescent replied.
"Why?" Peril asked, raising a brow.
"That way we can explore the whole compound, Dest-," Crescent was cut off by Destin.
"Done, trackers and small mics," Destin pulled out two handfuls of items.
"Everybody take a tracker and a mic, the mics will float around you, and it will easily pick up your voice, so don't worry about dropping it, same for the trackers," Destin finished.

"Your floating inventions will never not freak me out…invent another one!" Rain jumped up and down, hyped. Zeke sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Let's get serious people," Glory sighed.
"Glory, this is my serious face, can't you tell?" Rain remarked, pulling an angel pose. I shook my head and sighed.
"What are our groups?" I asked.

"I'll be with you and Snow," Crescent replied.

"Zeke, Glory, Peril, you're a team," Crescent informed them.
"Deathbringer, Rain, Destin, you're the third team," Crescent finished off. We all nodded and went to our separate corridors. We got stuck with the dead monster corridor…

Team Glory, Peril, and Zeke (Team Sarcasm)

Zeke led the way down the corridor, his blue flame provided enough light to see.

"So, you're Zeke?" Peril asked.
"Yep, found myself planet hopping after my first adventure," Zeke replied.
"Planet hopping?" Glory echoed, raising a brow.

"Yeah, found myself off my planet full of magical element creatures, on a planet with a secret war involving giant, autonomous robots from another planet," Zeke clarified, a small grin could be seen on his face.
"So, what are the others like?" Peril asked, still on edge and looking around every now and then.

"Rain's the joker, a skilled weapons warrior too, he once threw a pie at his friend, while on an obstacle course by the way, and hit her in the face, with the pie. It was quite an amusing story, and another room," Zeke cut himself off as they entered the room.

Three holes appeared beneath the three, leaving each one in a tight space hole.
"Welcome! Zeke, was it? You get the honor of either chopping your leg off and letting the others live, or, pull the lever beside you, and dropping a random member into a pit of spikes! What-," Zeke of course cut him off.
"Cut my leg off, I dare ye!" Zeke yelled. The saw shot at his left leg, but he turned into shadows, and teleported the three of them into the corridor at the end of the room. They took off down the hallway.
"You're traps are garbage!" Peril yelled back.

Team Deathbringer, Rain, and Destin (Team Weapon Masters)

"You're Rain and Destin, right?" Deathbringer asked.
"Ye," Destin simply replied.
"Yep!" Rain exclaimed. Destin's floating light lit up the corridor.

"So, what are your other friends like?" Deathbringer asked.

"Rain's a pain most of the time, Crescent's our leader, we still don't know much about him. He's funny when he puts the effort into it," Destin replied, not looking back.
"Destin's our metal dragon dude, he has all these cool abilities and skill sets. Zeke's the team tank basically, having quite a few different forms. Crescent, yeah, he's our leader, I can tell he's been through a lot," Rain said insightfully. The three then walked into a new room. Two corridors awaited.
"Hello! You can either go through one door, where a cannibal awaits, whose been starving for weeks, or, you can go through a room with thirty dragons with guns waiting, which will you choose?" The voice asked us. Destin and Deathbringer were thinking carefully.

"Dude, your riddles are garbage, the cannibal is dead, he's been starving for weeks, if not, he's very week," Rain rolled his eyes. The three then walked into the room with the now dead cannibal. Behind the speakers, a dragon was slightly annoyed.

Team Calcite, Crescent, and Snow (Team Humor)

Calcite

Eventually we made our way into our own room. In front of us were three cups of peach tea, or something like that. The speakers started to sound.
"See, these cups you will have drink, but if you don't…," a city popped up on the monitor.

"then this city will go up in flames!" The voice chuckled itself away. Crescent rolled his eyes and quickly drank his cup, the ice sat in the cup un-melted. Snow and I quickly followed, the ice lay at the bottom of our cups, only just starting to melt. We all looked at each other.
"I thought it'd be poisoned," Snow said, shrugging.

"Look at the ice!" I exclaimed, green liquid started to appear as the ice melted.
"It appears the poison was in the ice," Crescent observed. "Fascinating," he muttered.

"Fascinate my tail, let's get moving," Snow said, rolling her eyes. Crescent shrugged and the three of us walked into another hallway.

Sorry this chapter was a little short, school happened and I've just been overall busy. Anyways, I hope you all have a good week, and I'll see you, next time. Bye!