BPOV
We stepped in through the passage and inside the entrance was a big room with stone carved dragon heads along side some stairs and in the middle it looked to be a counter weight that seemed to keep the door open. My mom felt as if she was a little child in Candy Land as she observed the statues by the stairs.
"Bella what is that?" Abigail asked looking at the weight
"it's a counter weight that holds the door open" I said
Then this creaking/ moaning sound echoed through the room as Riley got closer to the structure.
"What is that sound?" he asked
Riley pointed his flash light onto the one of the pillars that was holding the structure up and he placed one finger on the rope that was wrapped around the pillar which cause it to snap and the whole structure came tumbling down. Ben and Abigail huddled together as wood and stone from the weight came crashing down on them. While Riley hit the ground covering his head that almost got crushed by the pillar he had touched and I backed up to the nearest wall, Mitch did the same and my mom and dad stayed by the stairs in the corner by the door. Since the weight was holding the door and was now laying on the ground in pieces the door began to close and my dad tried to keep it open but the rock that sealed the entrance was to big that it close us in and trapped us with only one way out. Forward.
"Sorry" Riley called from were he still laid on the ground.
"Are you ok?" Mitched asked him and offered him a hand to get up.
"It...It's locked" as my dad tried to push the door open and Ben joined him in the effort of opening the door once more
"Patrick what have you done?" mom accused
"Some kind of a bolt" dad ignored mom as usual
"there only one way out of here now...forward" Mitch called from the bottom of the platform were we all stood trying to get the door open. 'What a big help he is'.
When we all realized that trying to open the door would only tire us out even more we agreed and moved on deeper into the cave system that hopefully lead to the City of Gold or a way out of this hell hole. As we made our way through the tunnels they were covered in cob webs and stones were on the floors which made it impossible to walk without twisting an ankle. Ben took the lead with me behind him and Mitch was the caboose of the line. As we moved further on the walls were carvings of Native American symbols and relics.
"I've never seen so many relics...so beautifully persevered" mom looked like she was at home admiring the stone art work.
Mitch however was not interested in the history that was around us since he was in flashing his light behind a pile of rocks in the corner.
"looks like we'll be moving some rocks people...there's a tunnel back here" still shining his light in his little hole.
"Guys look at this" Riley called from the other side of were Mitch was and on the wall in a little shelf was a golden little man
"it's a little golden man" Riley whispered in awe as if he just found the most interesting thing to him in the world.
Ben, Abigail, Mitch and I walked up to where Riley stood and examined his find for our selves. Riley and Abigail moved closer to take a better look at the golden man.
"look he has a tiny little torso" Riley squinted his eyes as he closed in on the statue
"look at that..." but before Riley could finish his statement all 5 of us walked into our first booby trap.
The floor tilted and we all slide down and landed on this woboly platform. Riley, Abigail and I were the only ones that landed flat on our backs so we didn't role off the edge. The same thing couldn't be said for Ben and Mitch as they tried to get a grip on anything they could. We watched as my brother Ben and Mitch kept rolling to their deaths and at the very last second Ben dug his nails into the wood and stopped himself from falling to his death. Mitch how ever wasn't as good as he said and we watched as his body disappeared over the edge. Carmas a bitch'. We didn't see what had happened but we could tell that he hadn't made it was his screams and he plummeted to his death and the crunch of his body hitting the ground below. We stood still for a second until Ben yelled at us to get up we moved over to him to grab him but that only caused the table to plummet on his side and our weight became uneven.
"pulled back...move back...other side...back up, back up" Ben yelled as he tried to pull him self up and we situated our selves in the three corners closest to us.
Once Ben was on his feet he yelled to Riley "Riley move forward...move forward"
but when he came to much forward the table tilted towards Ben and he told him
"back up, back up" and Riley did as he was told but he almost lost his footing and if he hadn't gotten it back he would of joined Mitch with the same fate
"WHAT DO I DO" Riley screamed at Ben who was shuffling his feet a making the thing move even more
"Stop!...stop" Ben told him and he froze in place
"We have to...balance our weight to even this thing out" Ben instructed us
"Guys look at this...it's a ladder...I mean what's left oh a ladder" Abigail said while pointing her flash light behind Ben's head. I twisted my body around carefully not to move my feet and were her flash light was pointing was a old latter at the tip of the left corner on his side.
Abigail threw her flash light Ben since he had lost his when he was rolling towards his almost death.
"Bella I think you will be the most likely one to reach it" Ben said and then he explained that we are going to walk closer to each other and then we are carefully going to switch places so that I am in front of the ladder and then they are going to step into the middle and lift the corner up as high as they can were I will jump and climb the ladder. Ben and I counted to 2 and on 2 we would move a foot when we were arms length apart we slowly shifted as planned to the other corner. Once I was on the tip of the corner I looked back at them.
"The rest of us on my count on 3...we all move together" Ben told Riley and Abigail.
"1...2...3" and then took a step in and the table inched its way higher up to the ladder
"1...2...3" I threw my flash light on to the ledge above and I took one last breath and launch myself onto the ladder. Once I had a firm grip of the ladder I looked over my shoulder and asked "Ready?"
I could hear Ben say "Go" and then there was no surface under my feet. I used all the muscles I had to use my arms to climb the ladder and on the 3rd bar it snapped an I swung me out but I kept a firm grip on the other bar so I wouldn't fall. When I got my grip back I continued to climb and I was finally safely on the ledge. I ventured a little towards the back and saw the tunnel that led out.
Riley called from behind "Bella what do you see?...is there a way out?...what's up there Bella?" he called from behind
Abigail was the next one to come up but as soon as she was lifted in the air the platform started to come apart and Abigail was having trouble grabbing the ledge so I reached and grabbed her arm and pulled her up. Ben pushed Riley to go next seeing as there wasn't much time until the platform would collapse. Abigail and I looked at this gold Idol and got this idea
"ok Ben we found a gold Idol here...we can roll it over to substitute as your weight" Abigail explained
"then roll it" Ben yelled.
I grabbed the Idol and pushed it off the ledge and it landed on the platform but as soon as it hit the table it began to completely fall apart and Ben ran as fast as he could, jumped over the rolling object and at the last second jumped and made it to the ladder. The table remains crashed to the ground below. That was scary and cool at the same time I wish I had that on video camera cause that would be a youtube hit.
"Give me your hand" Riley yelled to Ben
"Thanks Riley" Ben said when he was at the same level as Riley was
"Why couldn't a girl see me do that" Riley wondered
"don't worry Riley I'll voucher for you" I smiled at him.
"Your ok...your ok" Abigail repeated as if more to assure her then Ben.
Once we pulled everyone safely up we took a moment to catch our breath and slow down our hearts and moved on the only way we could...forward.
Oh no Mitch died for those who have seen the movie wait until a couple of chapter to find out who stays behind and who get out alive.
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