Chapter 35

Author note:

ElenaLOVER

I'm sorry it's not going to be a Elena x Gabe actually I'm more of a Gabe x Mateo fan, that and I kind of believe that Elena wouldn't date ether one, not hating on the ship or anything do what you want but as a character in tv show, I believe she won't seeing that her main dream is to be queen, and that Mateo and Gabe have different dreams than her, so for me a real relationship should be fair cause if Gabe or Mateo became king, they would have drop everything and rule a country, Mateo wouldn't be the greatest wizard in the world as his time would be very slim, and Gabe as the royal guards captain may have a chance, but under the pressure of king would be to great dealing with politics, going to war, constantly making laws and dealing with scandals, sorry as it's kind of Elena x Alexzander story. I tried to find what stories you we're talking about?, and I hadn't written anything like that...

I have no problem with people shipping it's just, that's how I look at things when it comes to story writing, that and I wanted someone who was like Elena who loved adventuring with their friends, but walked away cause of life and have Elena show Alexzander what he's been missing, and find love along the way Elena experiencing a different kind of love, an Alexzander trying one more time after what Kyra did to him. Sorry for this long author note I tried writing to you personally, but it didn't let me.

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After traveling on the long pathway, near the road on the mountain side, far off on the mountain showed an entrance, "Huh? If the giant is so secret about where he lives why have an opening on the mountain side?," Mylene says while pointing at the entrance as they walk up to it but was only blocking by the mountain, "welp that answered my questions right away..." Mylene placing her had on the smooth surface. Knocking trying to hear if it's hollow Amir walks over seeing the entrance as well, "I think this is where the dwarf comes in" Amir opens his arms letting his body glow white, as he changed his form smaller than his natural size, he smiles at his made dwarf form "okay all I need to do is touch this and." When Amir touched the smooth surface he was pushed back by a huge force, causing him to turn back as he slammed into the snowed ground, getting up in anger "how!? I was a dwarf I don't see what the problem is?!" Amir turns back into the dwarf, running in a full on sprint Conner hurried over "wait!, I don't think!" But Amir didn't stop slamming into Conner who yanked Mylene along, as she was standing close by as the three fall in the entrance as the spell was lowered, the three disappeared the others hurried over to help them, as they walked inside a waterfall rushing down a partly frozen river could be seen. Elena walks down the slope towards the waterfall then stepping on a small blue grassy patch, Alexzander and LIarm helped their tangled friends as Gabe pulls Mylene off, who was pissed that she was grabbed glaring at Conner "what the heck man!"

Conner helps Amir up who was mad that his plan didn't work "for my 500 years being alive, this was my worse plan so far that didn't work," Gabe looks at Amir "this wasn't your first?" Amir nods while dusting himself off, "very and I hope this will be my last."

Alexzander walks over to Elena placing his hand on her upper back, Elena looks at him seeing he wanted to get her attention, "you don't see theses kinds of things in Avalor?" Elena smiles "waterfalls yes... I do see them but not frozen ones like this," Alexzander smiles "maybe after all this I'll take you to the small lake pass the temple, in Valisia" Elena smiles "what something special going on over there?" Alexzander chuckles "I'm going to guess that you never ice skated before?," Elena nods "nope and I'm going to guess you're going to show me?"

"We'll see" Alexzander's says walking away towards an off path going further in the mountain, Elena didn't notice Gabe was behind her as he watched Alexzander walk away, "Oh my god...you have a crush!" Gabe says loudly before Elena covers his mouth, "don't you dare say anything or I will tell Mateo you like him!" Elena shoots back, he glares pulling her hands off his mouth "you wouldn't!" Elena glares back "try me!" Gabe frowns letting Elena go as he follows the group, he then turns back to Elena "so you know Elena I'm definitely telling Skyler an the others," "Gabe you wouldn't!" He laughs "what I'm you're best friend why wouldn't I!" Gabe runs away as Elena chase after him, he stopped when seeing what the group was looking at the place was covered in ruins.

"Amazing I thought that only the ice giant lived alone..." LIarm walks over to a wall, looking at the strange markings as Mylene looked around "wow it's kind of small how did this place hold a giant anyways!?," when she yelled the place rumble "shhh! Mylene you are going to cause this place to cave in," Conner puts a finger over his lip "ops...sorry you know I get to loud..."

"Found anything LIarm?" Alexzander asked as he could see the elf pulled out his old note book, "actually these use to be human ruins..., and by the looks of the carvings they look like the ones Mylene and you destroyed as kids," Amir looks over "Huh...the founders I'm guessing..." Alexzander looks back at Amir "founders?" "Well that's what I've been calling them, their not really important as they died way long ago," Elena walks over to LIarm "is there anything important here?"

"Well princess I'm seeing a very old picture of a man holding what looks like a stone or a gem...?" LIarm sketched it down in his book, "hey it kind of looks like the one in the crystal mines?" Elena points out, "Wait what we're you doing there?, did anyone known she was there?" Amir jogs away knowing he would get a earful, father like son Alexzander doesn't like it when someone doesn't tell him anything. "And looks like their giving it to the ice giant, but look hear this looks like elfish carvings it looks my people had came here and taken the sword, then here comes the dwarfs...taking the stone or gem away."

"But I really don't get it..." LIarm "how so?" Conner looks at LIarm confused "so they had the royal sword and gems,"

LIarm looks over at the group "these elf and dwarf carvings were dated, in the past when the the two factions was fighting over what land Valisia had..."

"Are you saying both came here at the same time, during the civil war that was going on?" Elena could see she was right "but at the crystal caves it showed, dwarf handed what look like Kritis an a stone?..., and what looked like he was kill some undead?"

"Well I be damned, we are standing in the first ever settlement of man of Valisia, and the two factions had known about it..." Conner says looking around at the ruins at the fallen statues, "sooo...what does that mean?" Mylene didn't get it all of this was just a bunch of rocks, and and old junk "it means Mylene is that we're standing on the turning of our history, this spot was when our ancestors or actually mine ancestors before Alexzander's great grandfather I don't know how many greats, showed up" Conner could see even now started to look around, "so you're blood line was here before anything that was established?" Gabe asked, Conner nods "yes but we barely know who they are like Amir said, it was like they disappeared without a trace but a few stayed, some scripts was already in the palace but during the war with Kritis, they all was burn away there was only one script left though, about something of the dead and deal with something called a spirit soul for some reason."

Mylene was looking at statue till a thought came pointing a finger out, "hey don't you still have our adventure book?," LIarm pulls it out from his green robes "right here," Alexzander puts his hands on his hips "I still don't understand why you made copies of our adventures, someone will get the wrong idea" as Elena watch LIarm hand the book over to Mylene Elena remembers the symbol on the book, "Wait it just looks like the one Isabel has when we got here?" LIarm stops realizing what she meant, "by the heavens I had forgotten I gave that to her and I'm guessing that's how she known about the crystal caves...," Elena nods hearing what he meant Mylene was looking through the pages, "look it's the same statue under the palace but this ones facing the wrong way though...," Elena walks over getting up close to the statue then getting an idea she climbs up the wall, "Elena be careful this place is crumbling around us here" Alexzander walks over trying to stop her "I'm fine it's not like I haven't done this before, and I'm small size to squeeze in so no worries" Elena winks and continues what she was doing, as she doing this Amir was thinking about something.

"I really don't get it..." Amir says as he was walking around now holding LIarm's book, "get what?" Gabe asked "if the founders lived here why only let the elf's and dwarfs allowed to come in?" Elena turns the statue causing a now revealed open door towards a staircase, Alexzander catches Elena when she jumps down Elena was holding on Alexzander, giving a small blush "thanks..." Alexzander grins "you're welcome..."

"Ewww!" Mylene yells as the group was making their way to the open door, Conner quickly covered her mouth the cave shakes more as part of it crumbled, he glares at Mylene who gave a sorry look Alexzander and Elena quickly ran up the staircase, afraid that the room would cave in, "how disheartening..." LIarm says seeing thousands of bodies all over the place, "it's like a bloody massacre happened here..." Mylene walks around seeing elf's, dwarfs, and human bodies lying around, "I see why the ice giant hated man..." Alexzander kneels down looking at a dead elf body, "seeing that there's more elf bodies I'm guessing they didn't like them coming in anymore," Amir points out.

"So the elf's are the ones that should have had the royal sword I'm guessing, and the founders had taken it away" Elena didn't like this people lost their lives over some sword, "you're not wrong the founders saw that the ice giant had taken more of a liking of the other races, I'm guessing they felt like they we're being used by the ice giant...," Amir says "like a child giving a parent a gift but the golden child had gotten more praise then them, how sad..." Conner walks over "at the same time I wouldn't blame them, they worship this ice giant and some how only get over shadowed, you can feel the anger towards him build an on the other hand, they shouldn't had aimed towards the other races they didn't know."

"I'm starting to see why Kritis wanted unity these two factions had bad blood against man, an didn't want Kritis establishing a new life here..., but when the undead some how came back...everyone started to come together," Alexzander says walking towards a carved wooden door, moving the dead bodies out the way, "why don't we see what's on this other side shall we?, Gabe you mind giving me a hand?"

"Sure!" Gabe runs over helping Alexzander slamming the door open with their shoulders, the two fumbled forward Alexzander grabbed Gabe before he fell over, a cliffside pulling him back "thanks..." Gabe breaths in, Alexzander pats Gabe's back "consider a favor."

"Wow...He is huge..." Mylene says the mountain side was open to the snow and sky, imbed on the other side was the ice giant but he was long dead, his skeleton was covered in large wooden spikes his head cracked across his temple to his eye socket. Alexzander sighs "so this is it there's no way we can fix the royal sword, the one who made it is dead before we even got the chance to ask," Elena looks down at the ice giant's hand that hang over the ruins, "look it like he's holding something..." before anyone could say anything Elena runs over, jump down the ruins Alexzander chase after to stop her again. Grabbing her arm "will you stop that, everything is crumbling down!"

"Guys look out!" Conner yells seeing part of the ruins fall towards Alexzander and Elena, Alexzander quickly runs out the way with Elena jumping over, a gap as the rock takes the ruins down the mountain causing Alexzander and Elena to be separate from the group, "you guys okay!"

"Yeah we're okay how about you guys?" Elena yells, "we're fine!" Mylene yells back then turning back to Amir, "you going to help?"

"Actually no Elena is right the ice giant had something in his hand, hey Elena!" Amir yells "yes!?"

"Go see what he has I'll look over to his other hand if I find anything there!," Amir turns into his owl form flying over to the ice giant's other hand, Mylene throws up her hands "what about us..."

"Actually I'm sketching the layout of the area," LIarm says leaving Mylene, Gabe, and Conner nothing to do, "welp you go guys...we'll just cheer on the side lines," Mylene let's her arms swing out of boredom till Conner taps her shoulder, "look why don't we go back inside to see if we miss anything back here, come Gabe maybe you can see something differently here."

Elena and Alexzander walks over to the bone hand of the ice giant, Alexzander pushed back a finger allowing Elena to look inside, she pulls out what look like a wooden box walking out the way, holding out it so Alexzander could see Elena opens the wooden box inside lies a key. Holding it up "why you think he has this?" Alexzander didn't know hearing the rumble again, Alexzander pulls Elena away from the ice giant as it falls down causing the ruins to collapse, Amir flys away holding something in his claws going towards LIarm, who jumps to grab on Amir to get away from the falling floor, Alexzander and Elena ran away through an off side door, it crumbled away blocking their path to get back with the group. Elena and Alexzander watch it come down till everything stayed silence, "is everyone okay?"

"Amir and I are fine we'll half to go up as that's the only way we can land!," LIarm yells for anyone who could hear him.

"Mylene, Gabe, and I are fine but we kind of see or sort of a way out of this room, we'll meet you guys somewhere in the ruins!" Conner yells back. Leaving everyone now separated walk through some paths in the ruins, the two came across more bodies "makes me wonder what they we're thinking, at their last moment..." Elena says Alexzander was looking around to find a way to get back, to the rest of the group "hey Elena I'm going to toss you up, I think I see something you can use to get me up there," Alexzander said as he points at the whole in the ceiling Elena nods as Alexzander cups his hands, Elena steps on his clasped hands "I'm hoping you won't run of again this time," Alexzander says while toss Elena up as she takes hold of the edge of the ceiling whole, Elena shots back a remark "well then again I like doing things my way."

"And that's better how?" Alexzander raised his eyebrow, "cause 'mister I know what I'm doing' I think I just found where the key goes," Elena smirks tossing a rope down while rapping it around a large pillar, Alexzander climbs up the rope and sees a large golden door, "how you know this is the one?" Elena grins holding up the key "well for one it has the same markings as the door, mister" Alexzander shakes his head "god...remind my self why I like you again Elena...," Elena puts the key in the door as it clicked stopping when the metal grinds together, Elena looks at him in surprise "y-you like me?" "I-I mean not you know what I mean," Alexzander covered his face shielding his blush "I-is it stuck?" Alexzander walks over till a small latch pops out with four rows of spinning balls, with markings.

"Alright who touched it!" Conner voice could be heard not far off, "I didn't do it!, I swear!" Mylene yells "it was us!" Alexzander yells getting they two to stop bickering, "did it do anything over where you three are at?", Gabe looks around now seeing what looked like the ceiling had dropped, "uhh...yeah you guys kind of dropped the ceiling..."

Elena leans over to the moving one of the silver balls, "you guys are moving the ceiling!, Wait! Stop! There's some wording on the ceiling!" Gabe yells back. Elena stopped at where Gabe requested who shuffled around to write it down, Conner and Mylene we're looking at the strange writing "you think this is some old human writing?," Mylene asked Conner who really didn't know as this wasn't something he seen in his life time, "actually I have it's same writing on Alexzander's sword holster, we saw it with LIarm" Gabe says while writing it down, "you know what it means?" Mylene was only given a shrug, "I have no idea like at all" Gabe watch the two knights groan "great I'm going to guess that we have to find out, run around this damn place to find out or even better something is still alive here so we have to kill it," Mylene throws her hands up in irritation Conner sighs "please don't jinx it...you always jinx it..."

Gabe could the air start to be more depressing as the two knights didn't really want to deal with it, "hey come on guys knock on some wood and everything will be fine". Mylene and Conner looked at each other "what do you mean knock on wood?, is that a Avalor thing?" Conner looks at Gabe confused Gabe was speechless "y-you guys never heard of that term?," both shaking their heads no, this is going to be very strange day Gabe thought.

The ceiling moved again till it started to crumble, moving out the way of rocks coming down Mylene tossed Gabe over her shoulder, in one move Gabe was in shock that she could even lift him. Mylene sets him down "h-how did you?" Mylene looks at confused, "how did I what?" Gabe gesture all around himself "I'm like half your weight, and height better yet how did you move so fast?" Mylene and Conner smiles "part of being a knight you have to be top on your game, if you want I'll show a thing or two" Mylene winks at Gabe but Conner puts a hand on her head causing to turn back around, "I fear that you jinx us and I was right as always," at the ceiling top stands what looked as the undead coming back, "uhh...guys!" Gabe yells at the two Valisians "I think we kind of disturbed something here and I thinking we should run!"

Conner cups his hands as Mylene grabs Gabe again, hopping up towards the ceiling while slashing at the undead, with her saber putting Gabe down Mylene turns around for Conner to grab her hand, lifting the heavy armored man up Gabe was dealing with the undead. Slashing away Gabe got attack by the legs, as the undead latched on seeing more of the purple color rocks, on the undead bodies as more claws up from below where they once stood, Gabe punched the undead as he held his hand in pain "ow ow!, it's like punching a rock!" Mylene did the same even she to held her hand in pain, "my god your right!" Mylene blew at her hand that was in pain. Gabe fell back when seeing more crawl towards them, he panicked seeing more coming, Mylene yanks him up "hey don't stop on us now! Conner found a way for us to go?!"

"Hey don't expect me to know what to do right away do you?!" Conner yells back, "well excuse me we're kind of in a spot here!, an- oh look stairs!"

"Really Mylene!" Conner yells.

"Stop yelling at me! I'm sensitive!" Mylene says turning away with a fake tear, forming in her eyes "sensitive my ass!" Conner was about strangle Mylene once again.

"For my time of knowing you Mylene this was the worst you have done!" Conner now at Mylene's neck not really strangling her yet, but getting ready to "oh so the time I nearly sank our ship, 2 years ago wasn't that bad then?" Mylene smirks but Conner glares, at her "no this is way worse than sinking a damn ship, and don't get me started about you getting us all nearly killed by a troll!"

"So what I jinx something how bad could it be?!"

"Oh I don't know the undead coming back alive!" Conner yells.

"Guys!"

"What?!" Mylene and Conner said in tone, Gabe points at the now large and two building size clumps of undead.

"You jinx it and you jinx it bad..." Conner said looking at the now undead monster.

"What can I say it's a gift" Mylene shrugs while Gabe stands up, putting his hand out to protect Mylene, "go I'll try to fend it off" Gabe says "okay!, have fun!" Mylene smiles patting Gabe's back, then running away Gabe looks back seeing her running away. Then doing the same as it crawled faster at him, freaking out as it glowed purple with arms trying to grab in every direction./span/p