Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Sarah knew she should've got the extra rope. The rope she had led half way down the pit. She was hanging at the edge of the rope Indy behind her.

'Indy there's no more rope, we're going to have to climb back up.'

'Like hell we are,' he replied keeping his eyes on the ever-burning flame.

Sarah dropped her stomach racing up through her gut, seeming like it would force itself from her mouth. She looked down and saw she would miss the torch by about four feet. The force she made when her body hit the ground surprised her totally. Her body fully collapsed the floor.

' Indy when you jump from the rope try to miss the torch area,' she yelled up.

' Why,' he asked a little annoyed.

' It's an underground lake.'

Indy nodded in the darkness and let himself fall. His body hit the lake with a splash. He turned his head towards Sarah and saw her standing near the torch. She picked it up and shone it towards him. He saw that she was standing on a block in the middle of the huge room and climbed onto it.

' Something doesn't smell right,' he said grabbing the torch from Sarah.

' I know what you mean but I can't exactly put a finger on it,' Sarah replied.

Indy took the torch hoping to be right and tossed into the lake. As the torch hit the liquid it ignited it. Indy turned towards Sarah with a grim look on his face, ' Oil.' Light blazed up through the ceiling hole and permeated the rest of the temple. They were trapped. Hours passed of just waiting. Their clothes were covered in the oil so they dared not near to close to the fire. Sarah closed her eyes and fell asleep. Indy soon followed.

The two woke up in about an hour. The fire had died down a little but still the blaze kept up. Indy shifted around and again looked for a way out. The rope still hung twenty-five feet above. Sarah looked nervous. She had almost totally given up hope of getting out. ' Hey Sarah did you pack any food,' Indy said pulling out his pistol.

She turned over to her pack and pulled out a turkey sandwich. ' Here take it.'

Indy caught the sandwich in the air and took a bite. A bit of turkey fell from his mouth landing in the pit of flames. He pulled the hammer of the revolver back with his thumb and aimed for the hanging rope. ' Get ready to catch it,' he said to Sarah as his index finger tightened on the trigger.

Sarah got up and ran to the edge of the block. The bullet cut through the air cutting right into the rope splitting it near the top. As it fell Sarah caught the bottom and pulled it as quick as she could in. ' Now what,' she said finally ready to leave.

' I don't know I just thought it would be a lot easier if I had something to work with.'

She let out a deep sigh and contemplated just jumping into the fire to get out of the temple. Indy grabbed his pouch and fingered through his items. The only things that he pulled out that wouldn't help the fire were his empty lighter and piece of chalk from his classroom. Nothing came to thought. What could he do with a piece of chalk and an empty lighter? He dropped the chalk on the block. The impact shattered a bit of the chalk causing it to crumble. He picked up a bit of the chalk and tossed it into the flame. A blaze shot into the air and disappeared just as quickly.

The idea entered his mind. He grabbed the rope and lighter. He tied the rope around the lighter. He then ripped a piece of his shirtsleeve off and wrapped around the end of the nozzle of his pistol. Finally he grabbed some of the chalk and dropped it into the fire. He then quickly stuck the pistol out into the blaze. The oiled soaked piece of cloth immediately caught fire. He laid the cloth on the block and hung the lighter over it.

After awhile the lighter fused into the rope as a bullet shaped piece of melted plastic. ' Now what,' Sarah said.

' Now this,' Indy replied sticking the piece of plastic directly into the nozzle of the pistol.

Sarah looked him in the eyes saying, ' That rope is never going to reach the ceiling.

' Your right,' Indy said taking off his jacket and his shirt. He laid the jacket on the block and started tearing his shirt. He had about five four-foot pieces but it still wasn't enough. He turned his head towards her and she

' NO!' she said knowing what he was going to say next.

' You want to get out of here.' She nodded. 'Then take off your shirt.'

She started unbuttoning her shirt. Indy tried to keep strictly to what he was supposed to think. She tossed her shirt over to Indy and grabbed up his jacket putting it on and zipping it up. He cut the rope near the middle and added the torn clothing. Indy fired the gun. The plastic bullet hit the ceiling near the hole they first climbed through. The climb up was tiring. They pulled themselves up the hole and each practically passed out in the rotunda. Indy pushed himself to his feet and pulled out his pistol at the site of the one in front of him. About four nazi troops stood in front of him. ' How the heck did you find me here,' he said.

One of the nazi's said in a deep German accent, ' We have spies everywhere.'

Indy pointed to Sarah and one of the Germans shook his head. The nazi aimed his luger at Indy and said, ' Get into the truck.'

Indy walked out of the temple and saw the wreckage of his jeep. Behind it was a German truck. One of the soldiers pushed the gun to Indy's back forcing him to make his way to the truck. As he made his way to the truck he looked back at the Temple of Light. The green color had left the walls and it had returned back to its normal sand stained coloration.

The nazi soldier behind him held the luger in one hand and some type of statue in the other. The statue was green and some what resembled a jaguar. just shook his head.