As of right now me and Sean are currently walking down a dimly lit hallway inside this temple. I glanced to my right and could barely make out the carvings on the walls. The carvings were of serpents or lizards killing each other, is that a dragon?
On the wall opposite this one had carvings as well. From what light we had I could see serpents and lizards all lined up and bowing? It looked like they were showing respect to a much bigger lizard with wings, oh wait that's a dragon.
As I was gazing at the walls I didn't notice Sean stopping till I crashed into him. "Why did you stop?" I asked as I jumped to my feet. "Well the path goes two ways" Sean said pointing to the two paths in front of us.
"So what do we do" I asked. "We split up" Sean said simply. "What1, but if one of us gets hurt..." I trailed off leaving the warning hanging. "You worry too much" Sean said with a shrug. "Ugh...well who goes where" I asked.
"Hmm...why don't you do down that one" Sean said pointing to the path that was connected with the wall of bowing reptiles. "And I will go down this one" Sean said pointing to the path connected to the wall of serpents killing each other.
"Alright, see you later" I said and watched Sean walk down his path like an adventurer, wait where did he get the cowboy hat? "Well might as well go" I mumbled and started to make my way down my own path.
As I walked down the path I noticed that the light was growing in strength and I could see the carvings on the walls easily. "What do these mean" I questioned as I ran my hand along the carvings. Shrugging to myself I continued on.
About a few minutes later I arrived as a new hallway with slits in the walls. "This has trap written all over it" I mumbled to myself. As if on cue I took a step forward and felt my foot sink a bit. Looking down I saw a slab on the floor sink into the ground.
"This can't be good" I said and heard the sound of gears being moved and soon huge dual axe blades were swinging from side to side. "Does the universe hate me" I questioned. Just as my question left my mount metal spikes started to rise and sink from the walls and ground.
As I was curing my luck Sean was currently making his way down a hallway that lead to three paths. "Well this sucks" Sean mumbled and started to pick a path. Shrugging his shoulder he picked the middle path and started walking.
The path lead too many corners and turns and Sean soon found himself back where he started. "Well, that was confusing" Sean said while scratching his head and looking at the three paths again. "So it must be a maze of some sort" Sean mused and took the path to the left.
After a few more turns Sean hit another fork in the road. He was standing in front of two path one lead straight on while the other was a stair case. "Do I go down or straight on" Sean questioned himself.
"What do you think" Sean asked as he looked at the skeleton that was attached to the wall beside him. His answer was the skull falling to the floor and shattering. "Down it is" Sean cheered and started to head down the path.
While that was going on I was having lots of fun. "Damn it" I yelled as I dropped to the floor to avoid one of the axes and had to roll to the side to avoid being stabbed. Jumping to my feet I just got out of the way of the same axe.
Diving to the side I avoided being stabbed through the head and rolled to avoid the spikes coming from the floor. "Whoever designed this is going to get a cleaver through the chest when I find them" I yelled in frustration.
I looked to my left to see an axe just about to cleaver me in two. Thinking fast I summoned my gear and held it in front of me. Just as the axe tip hit my gauntlets palm it bellowed out "DIVIDE" and the axe blade disappeared leaving a stump aimlessly swinging from side to side.
I was about to sigh in relief when I heard the sounds of more ears moving and the floor slightly shaking. "Is my luck really this shit" I yelled as I looked behind me to see the floor splitting apart in segments and it was getting closer to me.
As I was having one of the worst experiences ever Sean was just walking down a stair case without a care in the world. That was until he stepped on one of the steps and felt it lower slightly. "Well, shit" Sean mumbled.
Not a second later did the steps begin to flatten out and with the ones at the bottom going first. "Oh shit" Sean said as he spun around and started running up the steps. Looking behind him he could see that the steps were getting closer to him.
And just to add more danger the floor at the bottom of the steps slide away reviling a pool of lava at the bottom of the steps. "Double shit" Sean yelled as he tried to climb the stair faster. Sean didn't get far as the step he was on flattened out and he started to slide down towards the pool of molten hot lava.
"Damn it" Sean yelled as he was sliding down the path way faster and he was running out of options. Running on pure instinct Sean rolled onto his stomach and summoned both his boosted gear and Reaper-toll.
Flipping his sword into a reveres grip Sean pushed himself up with his gear and stabbed his sword into the smooth surface he was sliding on. His buster sword stabbed to about half way and started to slow the black haired Canadian down.
Gritting his teeth Sean clenched his gauntlet and forced a boost to his feet as his gauntlet bellowed "BOOST". The new strength flowed towards his feet as Sean started to dig his shoes into the ground to further slow himself down.
Sean feet slipped off the edge of the slide and just as he thought he was about to die by lava he stopped. Looking up Sean saw that his sword had just stopped him from falling to his death and now he was left hanging there.
"Wait...aww my hat" Sean said as he watched his cowboy hat fly past his face and fall to the lava below. "I liked that hat" Sean whined as he hung from his sword. Sighing to himself he looked across the chasm of lava to see the hallway on the other side.
"Well now what do I do" Sean questioned as he looked around himself for anything that could help him. "Damn it, why can't I have a sword with an extendable chain like Glenn" Sean yelled in frustration.
Sighing to himself Sean looked to his sword and thought of an idea. "Well if I was Glenn I would do something really stupid that could get me killed" Sean muttered as he started to sing from side to side on his sword.
With one final swing Sean ripped his sword out of the floor and stabbed ti straight into the wall he was swinging at. "I can't believe that worked" Sean muttered as he started to repeat the process.
While Sean was having a Glenn moment I was still running from the splitting floor. The floor was just splitting a few feet away from me and I could tell it wasn't going to be long till it got me. Thinking fast I grabbed onto my sword and extended the chain into my other hand.
Letting go of the handle I grabbed onto the chain a few inches away from the handle and started to spin my cleaver around. Looking up I swung my cleaver towards the ceiling just as the floor split at my feet and caused me to start falling.
As I fell my cleaver stabbed into the ceiling and caused my chain to tighten and make me swing in an arc like indie Anna Jones, wish I had a hat to go with it. The arc reached its end as my clever ripped itself out of the ceiling.
With a surprised yelp I landed on the floor just as the floor stopped splitting behind me. I sat up and just before I could sigh in relief my cleaver collided with the back of my head and sent me face first back into the floor.
"Is my luck really that bad today" I grumbled as I picked up my cleaver and glared at it, if this thing could talk I would say it was laughing at me right now. Grumbling to myself I placed my cleaver on my back and looked ahead.
I could now see in the hallway and to be honest I feel like a treasure hunter right now. Feeling curious I looked behind me and down the hole that I could have fallen into. Down the hole was huge spikes that looked quite menacing, I wonder if Sean is having this much trouble.
Turing back to the hallway I began walking again, I still have no idea what the carvings on the walls mean. After a few minutes I found myself inside a narrow room with a door at the other end. Being carful I stepped forward and felt nothing happen.
Grinning happily I took another step and then felt it. The ground was rumbling again. I looked down but the floor wasn't splitting. Looking around I soon found the source of the rumbling. Above me was a huge hole in the shape of a circle and rolling down it was a bolder.
After giving off a light scream I started to rush towards the other door and the bolder hit the floor and started to chase me, why does it have to be me? I reached the door but didn't stop running because the bolder decided that the door was a problem and crashed right through it.
While I was running for my life Sean was casually walking down another hallway without a care in the world. "I feel like Glenn in trouble" Sean said as he stopped mid step. "Eh, he can handle himself" Sean said and continued walking.
The Canadian soon found him in front of a huge door but it didn't look like anything would be able to open it. "Well this is a problem" Sean muttered as he inspected the door and found that there was no key hole of handles on it.
Running his gauntlet across the door Sean felt a slight bump on this surface. With his free hand Sean summoned a small flame and looked to see a dragon symbol on the door. "Ok...what do you do?" Sean asked as he pushed the symbol but nothing happened.
Taking a step back Sean tried to think of something as he stared at the door.
While Sean was thinking I was still running for my life. Why are these hallways made so the damn bolder can roll freely in them? Diving around the corner I looking behind me to see the bolder flying past the same corner and gain speed in its attempt of kill me.
Looking around I could see that up ahead there were beams going across the roof of the hallway. Thinking fast I throw my gauntlet forward and started to make a path of ice up to the beam. When I final started to run up the pathway I made I could feel the bolder right behind me.
I was right because the moment my foot made contact with the beam the ice path shatter as the bolder smashed through it and went on its marry way. "Does this tomb have a really bad sense of humour or something" I yelled out.
Sighing to myself I jumped down and rested my hand against the wall beside me. I freaked out when the part of the wall I was leaning on sunk in a bit. After a few minutes of nothing happening I shrugged my shoulders and blamed it on a defective trap.
Back with Sean, he was currently sitting down staring at the door. As he was about to give up the door glowed slight and started to open. "Ha, I knew I was a Jedi" I cheered as he made his way into the door never knowing it wasn't him that opened the door.
Once Sean was through the door he saw that at the end of the hallway was a light. Grinning from ear to ear Sean rushed to the light and found himself inside a huge room with two pedicles at the in the middle of the room.
On each pedicle was a diamond shaped jewel that Sean guessed was the dragon's eye. As he was looking at the blood red and sliver jewel he never noticed the wall above the door he came through open up.
I on the other hand did because I was currently falling through that same opening. Crashing into the floor just behind Sean I looked up to see him giving me a confused look. "Where did you come from" Sean asked.
"I have no idea, one moment I was walking down that path way after a bolder and the next I was falling through some hole in the ground" I explained, stupid tomb this pace just loves to hurt me. After I climbed to my feet I looked to see the two jewels in the middle of the huge room.
"Mm...Are those them?" I asked pointing at said emeralds. "Don't know" Sean said with a shrug. He was about to start walking forward when a chuckle was heard from the shadows of the room. Walking out of the shadows was a man wearing a red ankle length trench coat and a big red fedora hat with a feather.
I couldn't see his face but the orange glasses sent chills down my spine and the black hair wasn't helping at all. To top off the outfit was a black dress suit under the coat and I could see with looked like pistols just hidden from view.
"I was wondering when you two would arrive" the man chuckled as he stopped walking just behind the jewels. "After a couple thousand years the heavenly dragons have returned" the man said. "What are you talking about?" Sean asked.
"Your predecessors created these jewels to strengthen their own power, but sadly they never got the chance to use them" the man said. "But enough talk, it is time to claim what is rightfully yours" he said and I could see the toothy grin he was giving off.
"You're not going to stop us" I asked, this seems too easy. "They are yours, I can't use them" the man said. "Who are you" Sean asked. "Hehehe, you can call me the count, and I just watch over the jewels" the count stated with a chuckle.
"Well, I guess we take the jewels then" Sean muttered. Before Sean could take a step forward the man started to chuckle again. "It seems you haven't grasped the meaning behind the jewels yet" the count said.
"So we aren't allowed to take them" I questioned, this is just confusing me. "You can take them, but without the meaning they will not leave" he chuckled, stop chuckling its creepy. "Then what's the meaning behind the jewels" Sean asked.
"I can't say, but I will give you a hint" he chuckled, this guy just loves to chuckle doesn't he. "The answer is around you all the time" he said, that doesn't help us. "Around us?" I questioned out loud. "Any ideas?" Sean asked.
"Mm...Around us" I said and decided to look around the room for a bit. The thought about the carvings on the walls came into my head. "Wait that's it" I cheered. "What is it" Sean asked. "It has to do with the carvings on the walls" I said.
"How does that help us" Sean asked. "They are the only things that were around us" I said with a smirk and got a deep panned look from Sean. "That's your reasoning" Sean yelled. "Yes" I replied simple.
"Well...it's not like we have anything else" Sean muttered as he went into a thinking pose. "What do we know about the carvings" Sean asked. "They both involve reptiles, but they are different" I stated.
"Yea, one side is full of fighting and death, it was complete chaos" Sean said. "And the other one had all of the reptiles in line with the dragon keeping order" I finished. "Well, I'm stumped" I said with a shrug.
"You really surprise me sometimes" Sean said, what is that suppose to mean. "You still haven't got it yet, have you" Sean asked. "Wait you figured it out" I yelled, why didn't he tell me. "Yes! You said it not five seconds ago!" Sean yelled.
"Really?" I questioned, I'm still not getting it. "How do girls think your amazing is beyond me" Sean muttered. "The jewels represent our powers" Sean said. "The power to boost someone's strength and cause chaos" San explained, Oh I get it.
"And the power to divide someone's strength and bring order" I finished; how the hell did I miss that? "I see you to have figured it out" the count said, I completely forgot he was here. "Step forward and claim your power" the count said.
Sean walked forward while drawing his sword much to my confusion. Before I could question him, he said "release: Grimcutter" and was surrounded by flames. Stepping out of the flames he was wearing his black hoody with his released sword in his hands.
Following his example I walked forward and drew my cleaver. "Release: demons bane" I spoke as my jacket disappeared and was replaced with the scale shoulder armour. The scaled gauntlets and grieves sprouted from my arms and legs as the phantom demon appeared behind me.
I reached the pedicle that held the sliver emerald and summoned my divine divide. Sean did the same and garbed onto the blood red jewel with his gear. "Well, I got this" Sean said as me spread his legs apart and held his sword in a reveres grip.
He then crossed his arms with his gear in front and the jewel held in his armoured hand. "RELEASE THE CHAOS: DARK CONSCIENCE " he yelled and Sean was engulfed in a ball of blood red flames. When the flames disappeared Sean was quite different.
Sean was standing there without his jacket leaving his head uncovered to see the blood red face mask in the shape of a toothy grin. [Imagine the hollow mask halibel from bleach] One his arms and legs were the gauntlets and grieves his balance breaker uses.
What was even more of a surprise was that instead of a sword or any melee weapon in Sean's hand there was a three barrel shotgun with two big pieces of red metal running on the sides of the barrels.
"I guess it's my turn" I muttered. Spreading my legs out I flipped my sword around and held it behind me and raised my gear with the silver jewel above my head. "Let's kick it up" I grinned as I felt my phantom demon away leaving a ghostly blue mist around me.
"RELEASE THE ORSDER: HEAVENS TORMENT" I yelled out as my body was engulfed in a blue glow that kept me out of sight from Sean and the count. Inside the glow I watched as my scaled gauntlet and grieves glowed and morphed into the gantlets and grieves of my demon scale.
My shoulder armour disappeared and was replaced with a piece of armour that run up my spine and sprouted off as my shoulder with a spike on each. My chest was left uncovered but a white armoured chain wrapped itself around my waist and hung loosely at my side.
When the glow died down I looked in my right hand to see that I wasn't holding my cleaver of my spiked cleaver any more. In my hands was a shiny white Katana with a blade as long as my cleaver. The handle was wrapped in a ice blue clothe.
The strangest thing about eh weapon was the guard. it was made of four spikes separating the blade from the handle and each spike had a small line of a different colour. If I had look as my face I would have seem that my mask shared had changed slightly.
Instead of the normal shard, my mask now had longer and sharper teeth and the ice blue markings on the mask had changed to silver just like the jewels on my gauntlets. The biggest change was the fact that a white flame was now on the side of the mask just keeping it out of the sight of my uncovered eye.
"I see you two like your new powers" the count chuckled. "Why don't we test your new skills and powers" the count said. Before we could question him the sound of claws being scrapped across the ground could be heard.
I looked towards the shadows to see creatures with claws and sword like appendages walking out of them, it that a scorpion tail? All of the creatures stopped when they left a circle of a few meters all around us.
"What is this" Sean growled as he aimed his new shotgun at the creatures. "As I said, let's test your new skills" the count replied with a huge grin. "Why don't you go first" the count asked as he lazily waved towards Sean.
Sean didn't reply as he looked towards the creatures. "Maybe this will be fun" Sean said with a grin as three of the creatures charged forward. Sean meat the charge head on as he bumped a shell into his new weapon.
When the first creature was a meter away from him Sean lifted his shotgun and fired the three barrel weapon into the face of the creature. A flaming explosion fired out of the barrels and took the first creatures head off while taking the left and right arms of the other two.
Releasing his hand from the grip of the shotgun the two metal plates that covered the barrels move slightly. Two spikes of red metal extended out of the plates as San swung the gun around and sliced through the chest of the creature to the left of him.
As he spun on his heel the spikes were then stabbed into the chest of the last creature causing it to disappear into the shadows. With a grin Sean bumped a new shell into the barrel of the gun as five more creatures charged at him.
Sean didn't move as the plates on his gun lifted up and snapped together. Sean then flicked the handle of the gun back as the three barrels of the gun started to spin around. Sean then moved the handle and made the back of the gun extend out leaving a gap.
What happened next was one of the barrels sliding back into the gape and with a click the rest of the gun shot forward and the second barrel clicked into place with the last one attaching to the end of it.
The two metal plates then folded together and curved around the end of the top barrel in the shape of a scythe. As the first creature was in striking distance Sean swing his weapon as a shiny blade extended out of the red metal plates making the full scythe.
The scythe cut right through the creature as Sean spun on his heel and faced away from the charging creatures and faced another five charging ones. Just as the ones behind him reached him Sean pulled a trigged on the staff of the scythe and a gunshot echoed out.
What happened was that a bullet flew out of the small barrel hole on the top of the scythe and took the head off of one of the charging creatures while the recoil made the button of the staff shot backwards and impale another creature.
Sean then flipped his scythe around slicing the impaled creature in half while the scythe then came back down and sliced a creature that was in front of him in half. Spinning on his heel Sean swung his scythe around and caught another creature between the blade and the staff.
Swinging around the creature was pulling in front of another one as Sean pulled the trigger again. The result was the creature in front of the scythe had its head taken off while the one in-between the blade and staff got had its stomach sliced through.
Not stopping there Sean Spin his scythe in his hands and brought it above his head. He then brought the scythe down on the head of a charge creature and ended up stabbing the blade into the ground. Without a second thought Sean jumping making him and the scythe travel in an arc.
Landing on his feet Sean fired the gun again killing another creature while also freeing his scythe from the ground and bringing it back over his head and into another creature. Once he ripped his blade out of the creature he held the scythe behind him as he looked at the last four creatures in front of him.
Sean grinned as he flicked the trigger back and reviled a different leaver. Pulling this new leaver the metal blade of the scythe flicked up to go parallel with the staff and was then engulfed in flames. "CHAOR RAIN" Sean called out as the blades flames changed to blood red and the jewels of his gauntlets glowed.
Sean then swung his scythe making a stream of blood red fire explode out of the blade and wash over the last of the creatures like a wave of hell fire. "That was awesome" Sean said as his scythe retracted in to its shotgun form.
Sean the stepped back on to the pedicle as his gauntlets, grieves, weapons and mask were engulfed in flames. What happened was that San's buster sword reformed in his hands as well as the jewels of chaos.
"Impressive young dragon" the count said and then turned his gaze to me. "Guess it's my turn" I questioned and got a nod from the red clad man. I stepped forward with my new sword and with my armoured thumb flicked the spikes of the guard.
The guard started to spin and soon landed on the spike with a blue line running up it. As I fell back into a stance the bladed edge of the Katana glowed slightly blue and five creatures sprung forward.
Meeting the charged I side steeped a tail and sliced it off with my sword. Spinning around a claw I reached out with my free hand and grabbed onto the shoulder of the attacking creature. With a quick stab I stabbed my Katana through the creature chest.
As he disappeared I rolled forward and avoided a tail swipe from another creature. When I was on my feet I spun on my heel while calling out "frozen wave!". A wave of water shot out of my blade and cut through the creatures around me.
As I stopped spinning I flicked the spikes again and this time the spike with a red line was chosen. Four of the creatures charged forward and two of them slashed their claws at me. Ducking under the attacks I slashed one through the chest, spun around and cut through the back of the second.
Spinning again I blocked a tail slash from another creature and rolled backwards to avoid getting stabbed by the claws of its friend. As I stood up I held my Katana at my side and looked towards the two creatures charging again.
Swinging my Katana in a diagonal arc I called out "arc of flames". An arc of orange flames escaped my blade as sliced through the two creatures like butter. Hearing a claw scrap across the ground behind me I spun around and blocked a claw strike.
Flicking the spikes again, I landed on the spike with a white line of it as I stepped back and punched the creature with my armoured hand. As it staggered back I stepped forward and cut it head off and side stepped the tail strike from the creature behind it.
Kicking the creature back towards a group of two other creatures, I held my blade above my head and called out "tornado wake" as wind started to circle around my blade. Bringing my katana down a whip of wind extended out and sliced through one of the creatures.
Slashing my Katana to my side the whip mimicked the move and cut down the creature to the right. With another swing the whip cut through the third creature before the whip disappeared. As I flicked to the last spike I looked as the line of six creatures all glaring at me with blood red eyes.
As they charged forward I extended the chain at the end of my Katana into my other hand and moved the hand holding my Katana to the chain a few inches away. I started to spin the sword around like a buzz saw as lightening started to spark across the spinning blade.
"Lightening blitz" I called out as I throw the buzz saw forward. In a second the blade was across the room and embedded into the far wall while the creatures all stood there with a confused faces, if they had faces.
Raising the gauntlet that wasn't holding onto the chain I snapped my armoured fingers together as it bellowed out "DIVIDE". A second later half of each creature disintegrated and the rest slumped to the ground before disappearing as well.
With a little tug my Katana was freed from the wall and arrived back in my right hand as the chain returned to its normal size. "Now that was cool" I said as my armour was engulfed in a blue glow and I felt my Katana grow heaver.
When it died down I was standing there with my school jacket on and my cleaver and the silver jewel in my hands. "That was quite the show you put on dragon" the count praised as I turned to face him. "So what now" Sean asked.
"Nothing, this tomb has served its purpose but this isn't the end of your journey" the count said. "What do you mean?" I asked as I stored my cleaver and jewel away. "Hehehe, those jewels are part of a set" the count chuckled.
"A set of eight jewels, but that's all I'm going to say" the count said as he disappeared into the shadows. "That was creepy" I whispered as I watched him leave. "Aww, I wanted him to teach me how to do that" Sean whined, only you Sean only you.
As I was thinking a door at the far end of the room opened up. "At least we don't have to go through all of the traps again" Sean said as he started walking. I snapped out of my musing as Sean reached the door. "Hay, wait for me" I yelled as I ran after him.
After getting out of the tomb me and Sean made our way towards the car. "You're not driving" Sean yelled as he went to get into the driver seat. As he was about to open the door I heard the sound of something flying, and it was getting louder.
"Sean run" I yelled as I dived away from the car with Sean doing the same. Not a second later did something collide with the car and make it explode. "Aww, the car" I cried, it was a really nice car. "I hope the goblin king doesn't make us pay for a new one" Sean said.
"Sorry boys, but we can't have you leaving yet" a female voice giggled.