Huuuuuu...Huuuuuu...Huuuuuuu...
It was almost impossible to see anything, a snow storm covered the whole area, and as far as Bell was told, this storm never ended. They were in the second half of the 61th Floor now, and it looked quite different than the 59th and 60th Floor. Where the upper Floors still had some small forests, the 60th only contained of large frozen lakes and rivers, some lonely small mountains, rocks and wide areas filled with snow, and it was way colder.
Without the special clothes they would probably die, even like this they felt numb and shivered. Constant monster attackes kept them warm, but sweating was dangerous in this environment.
Also Bell felt strange from inhaling such cold air so fast when he started to pant.
Nevertheless, this Floor was beautiful.
All in all it made look a bit boring, but the light was what made this Floor incredible. It was constant evening on the verge to night fall, streaks of green light wandered the sky in a never ending show. They told him that on the surface in the far north this also occured and was called "Aurora Borealis".
For the first half this Floor was really beautiful and calm, even with the monster attacks...but then...they came into the area that was called "Icy Hell".
Passing through a tunnel they came out in a snow storm with a biting icy cold. The visibility was only a few meters, the howling of the storm drowned out all monster noises and the flurry of snow drowned their smell. In addition, the floor shook from time to time without anything happening.
It was nearly impossible to spot monsters before they would attack, also every single monster here had a white color, be it fur or skin. Finding a way was hard and getting lost very easy. The Loki Familia had needed two years to find the way through this hell, on their last expedition they had finally found the way to the 61st Floor and to their surprise with a save point right next to the tunnel that would lead them further down.
They had taken their time to explore this Floor and map the area. And the expedition had discovered something else, the monsters on this Floor attacked more fiercly when the party tried to return to the upper Floors. Is if they were trying to lure them in with an easy way forward and then snap the trap shut. There was an area on this Floor where they could find Frostwyrm´s with extremely valuable dropp items, but thankfully they didn´t need to go through their territory, they hadn´t come up with a good strategy to counter them, since it was too dangerous to scatter in this storm.
Bell had tried to remember the path they had taken and drilled it into his brain, getting lost here would probably mean his death, even as a level seven.
And another thing got obvious for him, Riveria and Lefiya were nearly useless here, defensive magic could be used but without a clear target they couldn´t use their big magic spells.
They needed about one day to cross this Floor, it seemed to be a pretty short time but he remeberred that the Loki Familia needed two years to even find the direct way.
It was cold...very cold, it was dangerous, he felt unwell, it was sometimes scary, they got exhausted...Bell Cranel loved every second of it.
This is a real adventure!
And soon he would see a Floor that no one ever before had seen...at least out of living people.
"We will soon arrive at the save point!"
Bell just had to trust Finn, for him everything looked the same, it was a good thing that the Loki Familia had given him a small map for himself, they had marked certain waypoints, just in case he would get separated from them.
It was very exciting moving through such a weather and being on alert every moment, still sometimes he wished himself back in his warm bed, cuddling with Ryuu.
Suddenly his head jerked to the side as something hit him, he whirled around but no monster came. The snow storm carried sometimes pieces of ice with it, completely invisible in the storm.
"Bell?!" Ais jumped to his side with a worried face.
"It´s okay Ais, it was just ice that hit me."
"I...hit you?"
"No not you Ais, I meant ice."
"Not me...but me?"
"No, I meant ice, Ais."
"So you mean me?"
"No Ais, I mean ice, like I said..ice you know, Ais?"
"Eeh?"
"Ice you know, Ais?"
"Why are you saying my name twice?" She tilted her head in confusion.
Is Bell...an airhead?
Why does Ais have to be such a cute airhead?
He picked up the small piece of ice. "Here I meant this ice, see?"
"Oh...Oooooh...You meant...Oh...mmhhh!..." She turned her face away and kept walking.
Is she...embarrassed?
Sometimes Ais Wallenstein was just like that...and it made her only more adorable for her friends and Familia.
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"We´re here, kill the last of them, hurry!"
Suddenly, Tione, Tiona, Ais and Lefiya threw themself into battle with a vigor that Bell hadn´t seen before on this expedition.
"Hurry!"
"Strike them down!"
"Almost there!"
"I...want to go...in.." Ais sounded as excited as always...
Go in? In the cave?
"Just let them be Bell Cranel, they are always like that when we arrive here."
"O...kay?..."
Soon the last monsters were taken care of and they entered the cave, it was the savepoint, as well as the tunnel to the next Floor. It feld like they were passing some kind of barrier as they walked in, the temperature rose to a pleasant level, and the howling of the wind stopped. They followed the tunnel a bit and after a few corners they arrived in a big cave, about as big as the living room in the Heart Mansion. Two tunnels branched off to the side, a large one leading down and a smaller one remaining on their level.
"Huh? Eh...M-my ears?" Bell tapped his ears in confusion, they felt muffled.
"Don´t worry Bell Cranel, that happens when you come out of that wind after such a long time." Riveria took off her hood and shook out her hair.
"Oh..okay.."
"It will go away in a few moments."
"Heeey Finn, is it okay if we go right away?"
"Yes, yes go, we will keep guard, Riveria do you want to go with them?"
"Haa...I won´t say no after being in this weather."
The women of the expedition put down their backpacks in a corner and started to see through them.
Bell joined the other men. "Where are they going?"
"Heeey Argo, do you want to come with us?"
"Bell with us...good idea." Ais nodded enthusiastic
"Eh..together with Bell..I...am not against it.." Lefiya´s cheeks got red.
"If he wants to." Tione shrugged her shoulders.
"Forget it girls, thats an absolute no."
"Eeeeh, come on Riveriaaaa.."
"No means no, Tiona."
Finn chuckled. "In the smaller tunnel there is a second cave with a hot spring in it, whenever we take a break here they want to go inside."
"A hot bath after such a weather, I can understand that, but honestly even without Ms. Riveria saying something I wouldn´t join them."
Bathing with Ais and Lefiya the other day was one thing, but with so many women didn´t felt right for him.
"Embarrassed?"
"Maybe a bit, but I won´t look at the body of any other woman than my wife´s."
"Admirable, and I´m happy that you have such a good relationship with our girls."
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They watched as the women went into the smaller tunnel. On the side Bell noticed how Bete took off his jacket, it was the first time he saw how much if his arm he had lost.
Bell was both shocked and impressed that he was going on like this, not giving up. Bell couldn´t know that, but Bete had calmed down a bit in his behaviour ever since he had lost his two limbs, they were some rumors that he was seeing someone, an amazoness, but no one dared to ask him that.
There were things in Bete´s head that no one knew about, but over the time he started to realise he couldn´t go on like that forever, if he wanted to admit it or not, he was afraid of losing Lena.
Still one thing about Bete Loga didn´t changed, he would bark at anyone glaring at him, he just didn´t did that with Bell because he knew that Bell was way stronger than him.
"But a bath may be nice, when they are finished."
"Don´t have much hope, they will take a long time now."
"Hmm."
Finn was right, it took about an hour before everyone returned, Riveria was the first but she still forbid Bell to enter the bath even if she was gone now...not that he wanted to.
But he had to smile, everyone that returned smiled blissfully, as if this bath was the best experience in the world. Later he admitted that it felt really good as he took a bath together with Gareth and Finn
Later after they had dinner, everyone went to sleep, except for two guards at the same time.
"Ehehe..." Bell and Ryuu had discovered something new, when they held the hilt of their swords and stroked the hilt lightly, the other would feel that as if they were stroking the others hand.
So Bell kept listening to the two steady heartbeats and more or less stroked Ryuu´s hand until he fell asleep.
Tomorrow they would discover unknown territory.
"Good night, you two."
Soon he wouldn´t need his sword for that anymore, soon he would be able to hold his wife and daughter in his arms when he went to bed.
As long as nothing went wrong...
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"Okay everyone, get ready, we will soon move out."
The expedition made their last check-ups, they had changed into their normal battle gear, the only thing they knew about the next Floor was, it wasn´t covered in ice.
The women had taken a last bath in the morning, they didn´t know when they would get another chance.
"Ready?...Alright, let´s go."
Ryuu...
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On the surface Ryuu suddenly had a bad feeling while she stroked her round belly.
Bell...please be safe...
She sent a prayer to heaven. Alise...everyone...please watch over him.
For the first time while Bell went on the expedition, Ryuu was afraid of him without knowing why.
*****...your papa will come back safe...
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They followed the big tunnel, as many other before it went down and down in spirals. The further down they came, the warmer it got, but this felt different from the heat of the 58th Floor and above.
"Hah...hah...hot..." Lefiya panted lightly, she was used to heat...but this felt different.
She wasn´t the only one who was sweating, Ais´ back glistened and even Tiona and Tione were sweating.
What is this heat..
As they turned the last corner, it was stifling, damp heat. They walked out of the exit...and stopped.
"Oh..."
"my..."
"Loki..."
Dear gods...what is this?!
The exit...or entrance depending on the direction, was high up on a rock plateau, a path led down ... straight into a jungle.
It was not like the jungle that the Loki Familia had seen before as the Glacier territory had changed due to the demi-spirit. This jungle here was the original form of these Floors.
Trees dominated this Floor, huge trees from which lianas hung down as far as the eye could see. Mountains and valleys could be seen, huge rivers, one of them so huge that it looked like a small sea, they heard and saw thundering waterfalls, spray and mist hung in the air. The humidity and stifling heat was immense. Also there was no such a thing as a cave ceiling, it might be an illusion but over them was just sky with clouds. Over some areas of the jungle there were only light clouds, on some others massive dark clouds, in one area they even looked...blood red.
But what caught their eyes the most were buildings...or rather pyramids. In several places step pyramids of different sizes protruded from the jungle, the smallest at least fifty meters high ...from their location they could see at least two pyramids that were four times as high...and one pyramid in the middle ... the top of which pierced the the tips of the pyramids, light flowed towards other pyramids, it didn´t looked like rays of light...more like...a river? It had similarity´s to the form of the sky lights on the 61st Floor.
Buildings in the dungeon were rare, the 37th Floor was an example for many buildings...but...this was on a whole other scale. As they took in the scenery in front of them, they saw that the jungle around the pyramids became lighter and stopped completely at a distance of about 50 meters.
What they first thought were birds in the sky turned out to be huge winged snakes.
For a few minutes no one said a word, they just let their gaze wander over the vast jungle in silence. While they looked it would a bit darker and the sky growled, it looked like it was about to rain.
"What a sight..." Lefiya couldn´t believe her eyes.
A chuckle came from Finn. "Feast your eyes on this my friends! That is the reward for our efforts! Unexplored area, not mapped!"
"Are we...going down into the jungle?"
"No Bell Cranel, we will stay here in the entrance and wait for the rain that will soon start to stop, meanwhile we will start mapping."
"I have never done that."
"Don´t worry, we have experts for that, you will stay on guard duty, who knows what might come from the jungle."
Finn´s order turned out to be a blessing. They stayed on the plateau until the first rain began and then returned to the tunnel ... if you wanted to call it rain. Neither of them had ever seen such a downpour, a true monsoon. It rained for three hours, but at least the temperature dropped a bit.
Bete and the supporter turned out to be mapping experts, they had special paper with them and drew everything they saw from the plateu. Meanwhile Riveria and Lefiya sat down and took notes, about how many pyramids they saw, how the plateu looked like, the path down to the jungle, what the trees looked like, the winged serpents, the sky and so on.
It was Bell´s first time seeing actual mapping on this scale. He realized that they would later sell or give these maps to the guild, they would become official maps.
"Ha man I´m happy to be here, we are making history here." Tsubaki used the sudden break to check the equipment of everyone again.
"Lefiya I counted twelf pyramids, do you see the small one nearly hidden behind the big one over there?"
"Hmmm...Yeah I think I get what you mean, so twelf pyramids so far..."
The two elves kept on taking notes.
Tiona and Tione just looked out of the tunnel.
"Looks a bit like home."
"Yeah I thought so too, just the buildings are different."
Bell stepped to them. "Your home looked like this jungle?"
"Similar, takes you back hm?"
"Indeed, sister."
The only one who had no real job was Ais, and she was also the one who looked the most unhappy. With one hand she pulled her shirt slightly forward and fanned the air underneath with the other, even with a completely bare back and again a short skirt she sweated ... and she didn't like that at all.
"So much water down there...irgh..."
"Ais? Are you okay?"
"Yes...just a bit sweaty...please don´t come too close, Bell..."
"Maybe I have something that will help you."
"Hm?"
He rummaged in his backpack and took out a small bundle. "Here, I took some of the eternal ice from the last Floor with me, who knows how we could use it."
The eternal ice was a dropp item from the 61st Floor, like it´s name suggested it never melted.
Quite relieved, Ais took the bundle from Bell and pressed it against her forehead.
"Aaaah...much better..."
After cooling off a bit, Bell took the bundle from Ais, unwrapped the chunk of ice, and began to break it into smaller pieces with the Hestia Knife. He looked up in his work as the first clap of thunder rumbled through the sky. He broke down the ice into six smaller pieces, giving Ais back one of them.
Aaah...Bell...I love you...
Sighing from relieve the blond girl sat down in a corner, wiping along her arms, armpits, back, neck and under her shirt with the cool bundle.
"Ms. Riveria? Lefiya? Do you two also want some?"
Both looked up to him as he offered them two small bundles, after feeling the cold of the bundle they accepted it smiling.
"Thank you very much, Bell Cranel."
"Thank you, Bell."
Gigggling, Lefiya returned to her work, even Riveria smiled. Next he offered Tiona and Tione each a bundle but they refused.
"Ah thanks Argo, but we are used to something like that, thats why we are wearing such clothes, you know?"
"Thank you, but I don´t need it."
After that he offered the last three pieces to the others, Gareth took one, so did the supporter. Since he had one piece left, Bell used it himself and sat down next to Finn who looked out of the entrance.
"You are really caring, Bell Cranel."
"I just can´t stand it when women feel uncomfortable."
When the rain eventually stopped, all of the expedition that weren´t busy with mapping, walked out of the plateu, the jungle was literally steaming. Thick fog settled over everything, and the jungle got noisy.
Far away they heard monsters screaming, closer they heard chirping, hissing, croaking and gurgling.
"Alright everyone listen up, we will move with the outmost care, slowly and steady. Our goal is to record everything we see, every monster, plant and so on. Safety is our number one priority ... we will all return home."
They took up their usual formation. Lefiya showed Bell a shy smile, she was as excited as everyone else. That would soon change...
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"Aaah...hot...it´s so...hooooot!" Lefiya wiped her forehead and groaned.
It was really hot in the jungle, the extreme humidity only made it worse. Except for three people, everyone was sweating heavily. And especially for the elves it was very unpleasant.
Tiona and Tione wore light clothes and were used to such an environment so it wasn´t that bad, and Ais had the benefits of her clothes...and the cooling bundle she had gotten from Bell which she had shoved under her chest, it helped a bit.
There was something like a path that they followed...it might be better to say that there simply weren't that many lianas and trees were too close together.
The ground was overgrown with creepers, ferns, all kinds of mushrooms and other plants. To their surprise, they also saw insects ... especially mosquitoes. Where the ground was not overgrown, it was extremely damp, sometimes muddy.
Between the trees they saw some pools, the whole area was dominated by intense moisture and heat.
Bell understood that is was very hard to stay concentrated in this area, the members who were busy with mapping were not to be envied. He glanced over to Riveria and Lefiya, both of their necks glistened from sweat and so did their ears.
Lefiya had the advantage that parts of her legs and her armpits were free, but Riveria was covered from her neck down.
"Mr. Finn? I-"
Suddenly the jungle became silent, as if someone had thrown a switch.
"Watch o-"
One of the pools next to them behind two trees exploded literally as a huge creature burst out of it. In the moment they had to notice what it was, it already slapped one of the trees with his right arm and turned it into splinters.
"Groooooo!"
It was a lizardmen, but an extremely bulky kind. If someone would have crossed Asterios and Lyd it would have come close to what ran roaring into their direction. Over two meters tall and covered in green scales, feet and hands ending in razorsharp thick claws, four on each hand. Short bone spikes covered the creature's back and hump, running in a long line down to the tip of its tail. The head had similarities to Lyd but was bigger, the cheeks, neck and top of the head were also covered in bone spikes.
Since it´s maw was open they saw that the tongue was violett, as well as the inside of the maw. The little yellow eyes were protected by horn combs. Their limbs were massiv, each arm wider than Bell´s whole body.
It was their first monster on this Floor, and they heard something answering...two more of those creatures burst out of nearby pools. Like the first one, they just smashed through everything in their way.
"Battle formation!"
The first creature just waited long enough for the other two to attack with him, apart from this they were as subtle as a siege ram. Gareth used his enormous shield to block the first incoming monster, as it smashed right into him, Gareth´s eyes widened in shock.
The sturdy dwarf got pushed back, the huge claws grabbed the edge of the shield and began ... to crush it. The shield was made out of pure adamantium and this creature was about to destroy it.
"Gareth!" Tiona used her beloved Urga, jumped from the side and hacked right onto the head of the monster.
Thud!
"Huh?!"
Her sword was stuck, she had only minimally scratched the horn comb. Gareth let go of his shield, grabbed his enormous axe and hacked onto the claw in front of him. He managed to cut halfway through two claws, enough to let the monster scream in...anger, not pain. Tione joined them and together they fought against this beast.
Protected by the others, Lefiya started her chant. Since her magic had a strong piercing ability, it might help.
Finn, Bete and Tsubaki fought against the second monster. Bell and Ais against the third, the supporter held himself back and Riveria kept an eye on the area. They didn´t knew what they could do or where their weakpoints might be, but they were some rules for all living creatures.
Soon they discovered that these things were highly resistant against physical attacks.
"Ack!" Tione was the first one that took a full blow against her body.
She was a level six adventurer but she sunk down to her knees, coughing and spitting onto the wet ground. She groaned in pain and gasped for air, a simple punch had driven all the air out of her lungs.
"Tione!"
Tiona attacked the monster fiercly as it wanted to stomp onto the kneeling Tione.
"Groooooo!"
It did the impossible...as Tiona´s Urga came from above, it caught the blade in one claw. As it closed it´s claw, Urga creaked but didn´t broke, thanks to the Durandal effect.
"Let go of her!" Gareth jumped up and hacked onto the wrist of the monster, he had attacked that spot again and again, this time he cut into it, cutting of the claw.
It was the first serious injury they had dealt to one of them.
How tough are these things?!
Instead of showing pain, the monster attacked with the other claw, then it rammed the stump of his arm right into Gareth's face, breaking his nose with a loud crack.
"You damn lizard!"
Tione and Tiona used their berserker skills and mercilessly attacked the beast again and again, groaning from pain, Gareth joined them. .
"Firebolt!"
Bell fired the electrical firebolt into the face of the monster he fought together with Ais. There was a small explosion that did...nothing.
The expedition learned the hard way that these special monsters only had two benefits, toughness and brutal strength.
As Bell ducked down to evade the arm swinger, the claw shredded right through the tree behind Bell.
Hiii!CURSIVE!
It was focussed on Bell, ignoring Ais´ attempts to slash or pierce it´s back, the sword princess was the first to notice that the backs of these creatures were extremely armored.
"Backs immune!" Ais yelled out of the top of her lungs.
The Loki Familia had a simple code to yell when they discovered something on new monsters.
Since Finn was fighting in close combat, Riveria had the role to give orders, next to her, Lefiya continued her chant, magic circles formed around her.
Suddenly the one monster that fought against Finn, Bete and Tsubaki charged forward with it´s shoulder, forcing them to evade. It didn´t wait for a gap in their formation, it made it´s own gap. With a brutal scream it charged...right onto Lefiya.
"No you don´t!"
Bete jumped from behind, aiming at the monsters head.
"Bete watch out!"
The monster that fought against Bell and Ais turned to Bete and spit a ball of violet liquid in his direction, then it charged onto Finn and Tsubaki. Bete managed to evade the ball and as soon as it hit a tree, it didn´t splattered around, it clutched to the wood.
"Adhesive poison!"
The expedition started to change their formation, just as the charging monster turned around and ran into Tiona´s direction. The third monster used this chance, attacked Gareth with it´s remaining claw, then with a sudden speed it whirled around, swishing with it´s tail. Tione jumped over the tail but hitting her was never it´s goal.
With incredible aim, a small ball of mud shot into Lefiya´s direction, right into her eyes.
"Aaaaah! My eyes!"
She screamed in pain and the chant broke, the supporter took a bottle out of his back and ran to Lefiya.
The third monster opened it´s maw to spit poison, but Bell was faster and thrusted Fairy´s Dawn into it´s maw. Just as he had hoped, the inside of the maw was softer, but even so the monster only got enrage.
"Mouth vulnerable!"
The sound of an angry wasp rang out as Ais made a somersault over the monsters head as it wanted to throw his whole body onto Bell. With perfect aim, she sank her sword in the monster's eye, up to the parrier bar.
"Gro.."
The monster made another step, then it turned into ash.
"The eyes!"
With one monster gone, Bell and Ais split up to help the others. The eyes were the only real weakness, since they noticed how Bell had attacked, the monsters stopped from spitting and closed their maws, they learned fast.
And they held their heads up to a group of level six adventuers and a level seven... If the expedition knew everything about the monsters, the fight would be much easier, but the first time was always the hardest.
Bell, Tione, Tiona and Gareth attacked from all sides, slashing and stabbing the same spots again and again, damaging the thick scales little by little. Wide thick weapons like Gareth´s or Tsubaki´s didn´t had much effect, on the other hand Finn´s spear and Ais´ sword could pierce the eyes.
Bell managed to ram the Hestia Knife into the wounded monsters eye, but the blade wasn´t long enough to kill it. The new wound only enraging it more. Tsubaki was sent to the ground by the other monster, after she recieved a massiv headbutt, she was instantly knocked out.
"Grooo!"
The monster raised it´s enormous arms to crush Tsubaki.
"Arcs Ray!"
A ray of light fired by Lefiya smashed into the monsters face, piercing and burning many scales. Normally this attack was a one-shot kill against the most monsters.
"Lefiya, good job!"
Finn and Ais attacked together in quick succession, soon Finn´s spear found it´s way into the monsters eye, turning it into ash.
Just as they turned together onto the remaining monster, something came out of the jungle...darts. A hail of small darts shot into the direction of the supporter, Riveria and Lefiya. After firing it´s weapon, the monster who did it vanished into the jungle.
The attack came so suddenly, that they didn´t evaded every dart, Riveria was hit in the waist, Lefiya in her left thigh.
"Ack!"
"Aaah!"
Both collapsed on the ground from intense pain, Bell and Ais jumped out of the formation and sprinted towards them, while the supporter searched for antidotes. The others swarmed the remaining monster and bit by bit brought it down.
The supporter was still searching for antidotes.
"Bell hurry, I take Riveria!"
Ais knelt down next to the groaning Riveria, rammed her sword with the tip into the ground. Hastily she ripped away the robe of Riveria, grabbed the dart and ripped it out.
"Ais! Use this! Careful!" Bell threw Hakugen to her.
"Riveria, this is going to hurt!" As gentle as possible, Ais put the tip of Hakugen into Riveria´s wound who hissed from intense pain.
Bell leaned over Lefiya. "Lefiya, I´m sorry, please bear with it!"
He ripped her skirt where the dart had hit her, the dart stuck near to her hip. Bell didn´t had time to think, he ripped out the dart, leaned down and pressed his lips onto Lefiya´s thigh. He sucked on the wound and began to spit out the poison, since Lefiya was squirming around, Bell put his right arm around her naked thigh and pressed his lips on the wound. With his other he pushed down her upper body to hold her in place.
Wounded or not, Lefiya burned from embarassement over Bell´s reaction. Being a gentleman he refused to look under her ripped skirt.
Their fast reaction gave the supporter enough time to use the antidote for Lefiya, since Hakugen abosrbed and burned away the poison in Riveria.
Eventually they managed to return to their formation, but since Riveria and Lefiya were exhausted, Tsubaki unconscious and the rest pretty beat up, Finn gave the order to return to the save point.
They had made first experiences with monsters from this Floor, the question was now...were all monsters this strong?
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Just as they climbed the path up to the cave, Ais carried Riveria on her back, Bell carried Lefiya...a rumble echoed over the jungle. There was a noise like rushing, they looked over their shoulders and saw light gathering around the biggest pyramide in the middle. White and blue light, the rushing got stronger, with a sound like hundred rivers streaming next to them, Broke a pillar of light out of the pyramide into the sky, far away where the clouds were blood red, a second pillar but looking like blood shot into the sky.
"What is this?!"
They hurried up the path but looked over their shoulders. Before they reached the cave, an apocalyptic roar shook the whole jungle.
"Dear gods!"
"What is this?!"
"No way!"
Out ot the clouds that covered the tip of the biggest pyramide came something down.
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It was a titan...their was no other word for a monster that big.
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An enormous feathered, green snake with two giant and two smaller wings came out of the clouds. Instead of a normal maw, the head ended in a green beak, at the back of the head was a crown of red feathers, with a few blue feathers in between. The wings were also green, only the lowes feathers were blue, also five lines of blue feathers went down along the body to the tip of the tail. From beak to the tip of the tail, this monster was at least sixty meters long and three wide.
Thankfully it didn´t looked into their direction, with a second titanic roar the Floor boss declared it´s dominance, then it turned and flew into the direction of the red light...from where another roar answered.
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"Quetzal...coatl..."
As they kept running, Finn looked again to Bell.
"What did you say?"
Tiona yelled out. "You are right! It looks like the one in my picture book!"
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Bell and Tiona rememberred the story about this monster very well, a queen of the skies.
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In those stories the king of the skies fought against a king of the earth...
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And as they eventually entered the cave, the ground shook while roars filled the air over the jungle...as the Floor boss started to fight...the other Floor boss.
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Authors Note2: Hey everyone, in case you are thinking the ice part was too short, just let me say this, we are not done yet with it.