A wave threw the small boat against the rocks, smashing an enormous hole in the side of it. Samuel swore under his breath, and Steve swore at the top of his voice.
"Jump!" he shouted, and the duo leapt overboard. Another wave threw them to shore, as the ocean battered the boat against the rocky cliffs that jutted out of the water.
"We're screwed."
Steve nodded in agreement. "We'll find a way to pay back the poor guy. Right now, we have a world to save."
"Where's the next seal?" Samuel asked, and Steve shrugged, summoning the map into his hands. Samuel was still a little surprised at the strange abilities Steve possessed, but Samuel had seen just as weird in his time travelling the world.
"Looks like it's in the mountains up here," Steve said. "Other than that, I have no idea where it is."
"Well that's fantastic. Let's go."
After several hours of searching, Steve spotted something on the peak above them. A small, seemingly destroyed ruin.
"Over there," Steve shouted, and Samuel hurried after him, and they climbed to the peak. The ruins were tiny, and there were no symbols anywhere.
"Oh no," Steve muttered, and he looked around the ruins. "Could these have been destroyed?"
Samuel shook his head. "There's no way it could've been destroyed by looters, or any human for that matter. The seals were built to be indestructible."
"Maybe this isn't it then," Steve said, and he shook his head in dismay.
"Let me see the map," Samuel said, and Steve passed it to him. Studying it, Samuel looked around at the obvious landmarks on the map.
"This is definitely the place. It should be right here-" Samuel was cut off as a trapdoor collapsed beneath his weight, and he fell into darkness.
Samuel rubbed his head as he climbed to his feet in the middle of a dark room. Looking up, he could see the hole that he had fallen through, and Steve was leaning over it, looking at him.
"You okay?" he shouted, and Samuel nodded. Within a couple of minutes, Steve had thrown down a rope and had joined him in the temple.
Samuel held a torch up against the wall of the temple, and groaned.
"Well shit," he muttered. "It's a maze."
"A maze?" Steve asked, and Samuel pointed at the hieroglyphs that were etched on the wall.
"These markings mean hidden passageway that twists which is fucking Ancient fancy talk for maze."
"And you're saying at the end of the maze is the rune that unleashes the next Guardian?"
"Yes. You need to hurry though," Samuel said, and he pushed down on a button that revealed a dark entrance to the maze.
Steve shivered at the thought of going into the dark tunnels alone, but he did it anyway.
The maze was, well, a maze. Steve left a trail of redstone, so he knew where he had been. After only a few minutes, Steve found himself at the end of the maze. It was here he saw a strange sight.
A large white egg, in the midst of a flaming piece of netherrack, with the rune he was looking for carved into it.
"Please tell me this isn't what I think it is," Steve muttered, and he placed his hand on the rune.
The egg started to shake, and crack, and glow, and then it exploded into nothingness.
"What the fuck?"
Suddenly, the ground started to shake and cracks appeared all over. Something smashed through the floor and burrowed through the ceiling of the cavern, too fast for Steve to be able to tell what it was. But it was big. And fast. And had wings.
"Samuel!" Steve screamed, running back into the main room of the temple. Samuel looked over from the wall he was studying, and raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah? Did you find the rune? I found the beacon," he said, gesturing to a doorway at the side of the room.
"There's a dragon outside," Steve said, and Samuel gulped. A reptilian scream pierced Steve's ears, and he started climbing up the rope.
He poked his head out the hole in the ruins, and ducked back into the temple as fire sizzled the air above him. Jumping out, Steve laid eyes on a majestic creature, flapping its wings back and forth, keeping it in the air. One glowing black eye sat in the middle of its head, and it opened its mouth, showing its teeth, and roared.
Steve charged at it, jumping up in the air, and the dragon swooped at him. Fire erupted from its throat, and Steve narrowly missed being completely disintegrated. He tumbled to the ground, and the dragon soared into the sky, turning around to face him.
"Come at me!" he shouted, and the dragon swooped.
Dodging out of the way, Steve grabbed onto the tail of the beast, and was pulled into the sky. Summoning his sword back into his hand, he shoved it into the back of the beast. It screeched, and flew higher into the sky, whipping its tail around, trying to fling Steve off.
Climbing up the dragon's back, Steve gritted his teeth as the dragon spun and dived, trying to throw him off. Steve arched back, and stabbed his sword into the throat of the Guardian.
It spun to the ground, screaming, and Steve fell off of the beast, crashing into the side of the mountain.
"Ow," Steve moaned, and he walked over to the dying creature.
"Sorry buddy," he said, and he stabbed it through the eye. Picking up the fallen crystal, Steve walked back into the ruins and climbed down the rope.
"You okay?" Samuel asked, and Steve laughed.
"Do I look okay?"
He walked into the side room, and placed the crystal on the beacon, activating the third seal.
Coming up on the home stretch now. It's going to be awesome.
Now, reviews!
CobaltZephyr: ... Now, I just want to make it clear, creepers, when they kill themselves through explosion, respawn in the Nether. You're correct about the Kryptid trilogy, but in the end I feel like Steve is the main character just a little bit more than Kryptid. And I'm glad you like my story! Also, cool name you've got.
~ Dark