Chapter 18: The Sanctuary of Rock and Lava
He was back in the swamp. He went ahead and fought a pirate on a piece of netting and smashed it. Then he jumped onto a platform and started sailing down the swamp. It was just like in the Bayou, he remembered, zombie chickens and all.
He jumped onto a steady wooden bridge and jumped over some barrels. Then he swung from a purple lum and landed on a tree branch of some sort. And from there he dropped onto another branch in the swamp.
He shot some giant eyes and broke a piranha's teeth on it. Then he jumped on some rocks and jumped again onto another bridge. He turned around and saw the source of the sound calling for help. He shot at and broke cage number 61. A purple lum flew out of the cage and he grabbed it and swung some more. He then grabbed a golden fist and made his way into the temple.
He shot all the eyes bouncing around like crazy in front of him and made his way in. He shot at some nightmares going up a slope, jumped from the platform and broke cage number 62. He went through a door and shot at more black, poofy nightmares and climbed some bars on the wall to the other side. He shot and some swaying vines in the way, jumped on a purple flower and began riding it.
During the ride, he shot back at the same vines as the flower was retracing his steps. He broke cage number 63 and quietly rode down a hole made out of vines. More vines. Oh, great. It was like the Cave of Bad Dreams, only minus the creepy harp-and-theremin music, and that this time the vines can shoot out of the walls and hit you in the face if you don't shoot them first.
In the "vine hole" Rayman shot at a blocked door, while still on the flower, to clear his path. Some fire burned the flower so he jumped to safety to the next flower ahead of him. The second flower burned also later on so he jumped onto the third flower.
The third flower eventually disappeared into thin air after taking Rayman past some vines so Rayman helicoptered down onto a platform and saw…… surprise, surprise, lava.
Rayman jumped onto some platforms in the lava — some of them not very steady — and broke cage number 64. He then jumped over some fire being shot out by a panel in the wall and shot at a vine. He came across a button and shot at it multiple times to make a platform emerge from the concrete in the lava. He then jumped onto the platform and continued deeper into the temple.
What he saw next filled him with anxiety. It was a very big rotating concrete or stone platform with a lavafall (like a waterfall but with lava) falling right on it on one side. Rayman dodged the lavafall by using a section jutting out of the rotating platform to shield himself from the lava. He stood under the section and could cross the lavafall and to safety. Then he climbed up some bars and smashed Cage 65 hanging in the far corner of the chamber.
He hit a button, a door opened, and he continued on his way. He banished some more nightmares away in the next room (this temple doesn't seem a good place for sweet dreams, what with all those vines and the lava……). He then shot at a button in the wall many, many times to open up the door ahead of him. And going into it, he shot at a vine standing in front of the door, and entered the next room.
The first thing he heard was another call for help. He climbed down some bars near the door he just passed through, stood on a platform and broke cage number 66. Then he climbed back up the bars before the platform he was standing on tilted and fell into the lava. Then he crossed some more long platforms before the "vine walls" (concrete walls with vines) on those platforms pushed him out into the lava. "YEAH!" he cheered, when he made it past them.
He crossed the lava again via some small platforms and went into a quiet, tall, lava-free (phew!) room. He collected a lum behind a pillar and broke his 67th cage hanging from the ceiling. A Teensie with a flower crown popped out and landed infront of him, and the rest was history.
