Requiem of the Fallen Dragon
Part 1: Rucas's Tale
Chapter 24: Inferno Cavern
Dungeon IV: Inferno Cavern
Inferno Cavern, as the name suggests, it seems like the closest place to the hell. This dungeon is very hot. Leonel said that this place is the hottest place in the Symmetria since this place was blessed with the power of flame from the Redflame Volcano. No one except Leonel likes this place especially Joshua and Rucas.
"Terrible… I'd prefer the blessing forest of Yggdrasil over this place…" Joshua gasps.
"Everyone has the different thing to be preferred. You must choose it by yourself; however, sometimes you couldn't choose the path you desire…" Leonel mumbles.
The most dangerous thing in this dungeon is the sea of lava. The only one that can resist the lava is Leonel.
"Here…"
Leonel climbs onto the platform after he had crossed the sea of lava. However, his other friends are still on the other side of the sea of lava.
"How can we cross this, Leonel?" Magnus asks.
"There must be some way…" Joshua crosses his arm.
Rucas thought, and then he got the idea!
"Magnus! What are the water type moves that you can use?"
"Hm? Well… Water Gun and Waterfall." Magnus answers.
"Magnus, use the Water Gun into the sea of lava!"
Magnus blasted the water from his mouth into the sea of lava. Suddenly, the lava became hardened stone! Making it is possible to walk safely across the sea of lava!
"Rucas! You are so cool!" Anastasia compliments.
"Huff… Huff…"
Joshua kneels down. The journey within the Inferno Cavern took him too much of his energy.
"Joshua! Are you alright?"
"Huff… Rock type… Ground type… Is there any rock type or ground type enemy…" Joshua mumbled when a wild Graveler suddenly attack everyone!
"Ha!"
Joshua jumps onto the Graveler and uses the Mega Drain to drain the energy from the Graveler and defeats him in a single blow.
"Ha! I feel so good!" Joshua raises his arm.
"Joshua… Did you just… drain the life force of that Graveler?" Anastasia asks.
"Of course! The grass type move that I can use is the Seed Bomb and Mega Drain, which is very useful for restoring my health!" Joshua replies.
"Me too! I can use the Thunder Shock and Parabolic Charge, which restores my health too!"
'… From now on, I must beware myself not to let Joshua and Ellisk to drain my life force…' Magnus thinks.
"CRANK!"
The steel bars blocks the door after Rucas and his friends entered the room! And that door is the only way to escape from this room!
"We are trapped!" Ellisk shouts.
"… It is the trap for the one whom tried to steal the treasure of the god of volcano…"
Leonel looks at the treasure chest in the room.
"Cool! So what is in that chest? Let's find out!" Ellisk walked up to the chest and tried to open it, but he couldn't.
"Only the Volcano Guardian that can open that chest…"
Leonel spoke and opened the chest, which contained…
"A Bow?" Rucas looks at the thing that Leonel picked from the chest.
"This bow… along with my spear… is the weapon for the Volcano Guardian, so only I that can use it."
Leonel drew the bowstring and shot the arrow onto the spot over the door. It removed the steel bars from the door!
"I shall keep this…" Leonel says and keeps the bow with him.
The deepest room of the Inferno Guardian is a vast room with the large, circular floor that is surrounded by the sea of lava. There is only one Pokemon in the room… He is the Pokemon that The Sword of Justice called "Mad Demon".
"GARLAND!"
Everyone roars, turning the attention of the Garchomp to them.
"You are late! Hero of Justice, you shouldn't keep me waiting for long!" Garland says with the unpleasant voice.
"What?! You were waiting for us?" Anastasia says with a surprising voice.
"Of course! Because the Blancer and the Noiria is very hard to find! I couldn't find it anywhere within this place! I will never to be able to find it! … Unless the Volcano Guardian is here." Garland looks at Leonel with the crafty face.
"… I have no desire to give you the thing you desire… If you desire it, try to find it by yourself." Leonel crosses his arms.
"Yes, I have found it. Now you have them with you, right?" Garland says craftily.
"…" Leonel doesn't answer Garland's question.
"So I couldn't open your mouth, right? Well… Maybe I could use some key to unlock that Charmeleon's shutting mouth…"
Garland swings his Souleater Rod, and then a Pokemon appears! He is the legendary beast of fire, Entei! However, Entei is seemed to get brainwashed by Garland's Souleater Rod. And… Entei is biting someone in his mouth too!
"Leonel!"
"!"
Leonel's body turned pale after he saw the struggling body of his half-brother that Entei is biting!
"Choose well… The Volcano Guardian… Your outside things or your inside blood…" Garland crosses his arms and looks at Leonel with the mocking face.
Rucas and his friends look at Leonel. They couldn't grasp what Leonel is thinking. Althought Leonel and Blazus hate each other to the deepest part of their heart, they still share the same bloodline.
"…Take them."
Leonel picks something from his bag. They are thee gleaming white ore and the glittering black ore! They are the Blancer and the Noiria!
"Leonel!" Rucas roars.
Leonel looks at Rucas with the sad face. "… Hero of Justice. Please accept my sincere apologize. I am the Volcano Guardian before I am the guardian of the world."
Leonel walked up slowly to Garland, but he still didn't give the Blancer and the Noiria to Garland.
"Hm? Why hesitant?" Garland asks.
"… I have nothing to guarantee that you will release that Combusken after I gave you those sacred ores…" Leonel answers.
"Very well… Okay… With the pride of dragon, I promise that I will release that Combusken after you gave me the Blancer and the Noiria." Garland swears.
Leonel shakes his head yes and gives the Blancer and the Noiria to Garland!
"Finally…" Garland mumbles.
"Leonel!"
Blazus roared after Entei released him from his bite. Blazus quickly ran up to Leonel. "Leonel! I am sorry for everything!" "… Never mind it…" Leonel turns his face away.
"Enough with the touching scene! Now I finally have everything I want! Just a bit more and everything will complete…" Garland roars.
"!" Everyone looks at Garland.
"… Rucas… I'd want a battle with you soon. Let's meet again. Today I will just give you a warm up…" Garland roar and swing his Souleater Rod before he disappeared!
"RRR!"
Entei looks at everyone fiercely before he started attacking everyone!
Volcano Beast
Entei
Entei uses the Fire Spin to attack everyone who stands near him, making it is impossible to approach Entei without getting hurt. Leonel decided to aim the bow at Entei and shoot him, making Entei stops using the Fire Spin so everyone could attack Entei.
Sometime, Entei run around the room and split the lava at everyone, so Magnus had to use the Water Gun to harden the lava into the rock and then throw the rock at Entei to attack Entei since Entei is weak to the rock attack.
After a long, fierce battle, the battle ended with the lost of the volcano beast.
"RRR!" Entei roared in pain before he leaps out of the room.
"What?! Why did Entei escape?!" Magnus said. But then, everyone noticed that this room has started shaking!
"What happen?!" Rucas roars.
"The volcano! It is erupting!" Joshua roars when he notices that the lava level starts to rise!
"We must escape from this place, at once!" Blazus speaks.
Everyone quickly runs out of the room before Rucas notices that Leonel did not move even a bit. Instead, he is singing the song…
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"Leonel! We must go now!" Rucas grabs the body of Leonel and holds him onto his bag and quickly follows his friends. Leonel doesn't seem to notice what Rucas is doing. He still continues singing that mysterious song…
Six Pokemon run as fast as they can to escape from the Inferno Cavern. Leonel still sings the song while the lava is flowing out of the cavern.
"We will never make it out alive!" Magnus says. The lava steam is flowing very fast!
"…NOW!" Leonel roars and spins his spear. That makes the blue flames to blaze out of the tip of the spear. Those blue flames cool the lava stream!
Leonel spins his spear faster and controls the blue flame to flow back into the Lava Sea!
"…Wow…" Everyone gasps after they survived from the incident in the Inferno Cavern. Leonel saved their life!
"… The wrath of the god… is so cruel…" Leonel mumbles.
"Leonel… What are those blue flames?" Anastasia asks.
"… It is the power of the guardian. I can control the lava of the Redflame Volcano. The song that I sang is the key to control the lava." Leonel answers.
'…The mysterious song… again…" Rucas thinks.
"…" Anastasia says nothing.
Leonel turns attention to everyone. "… Thank you for helping me… I am in your debt… What can I do for you?"
Hearing Leonel's word reminds Rucas of something. "…Leonel, have you ever heard about the Fallen Dragon?"
"Fallen Dragon? … I would hate to say that I knew no clue for this…" Leonel answers.
Everything became silent for a while before Joshua broke the silent. "… Then, let's go back to the town…"
Rucas was about to agree when his Musketeer Charm started glowing.
"Rucas? Is that you? It's me, Terrakion. I want you and your friends to meet us at the Volcano Lake as soon as possible. That Charmeleon is still with you, right? Then he could show you the way. I will explain everything once we got there…"
After the Musketeer Charm stopped glowing, Leonel spoke up. "…How could they know about the sacred Volcano Lake? And how could they got there?"
"Well… The answer lied there… We should go to that lake… Leonel, please lead us to that place…" Ellisk speaks.
"… Of course… Blazus, come with us too…" Leonel mumbles.
To Be Continue…
Dragon of Vale: End of Dungeon IV. Garland… He is evil… What will he do next? I couldn't grasp it…
Now 4 dungeons had passed. It means that Rucas's Tale is almost ends! Just a few more chapters…
But before that… I still have to write the 'Final Battle' of Rucas's Tale too…
The next chapter is Iris's Tale.