To Elysion Part 5
By Kulia Makani (Tamar or T.K.)
Disclaimer: Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders characters do not belong to me.
[Tamara, I'm going to finish the story. It's not my attention to leave the story unfinished. To everyone else, I hope you see a little growth in my writing ability then the past chapter. I strive for improvement. The next chapter will be longer.]
The temple was a tall infallible building with dirgelike black stone raising toward the sky. The Jewel Riders were deposited next to massive door leading inside the structure. Nothing could be seen around the temple, The jewel riders could look at any direction around the temple and see nothing. Everything was died. The only sound heard was the beating their hearts.
"This place put the word creepy to a new level," Gwen stated as she continued to stare at the structure. Carefully dismounting from Sunstar, she moved toward the door, looking for a way to enter. Her hands move over the rough rotten wood holding the door together. Close to the knocker hidden within the ridge on the door was a button pressed down by Gwen, "Look like I found the way," Gwen quickly enter the temple followed by the rest of the group.
The entrance opened to a huge gathering place. As on the outside, the walls
were pitch black with a low blazing fire in the center of the room within a
caldron. On the furthest wall, three different passage broke out Fallon walked
in front the passage one by one, trying to feel a breeze, watch for a movement,
or look for anything to figure out, which direction to go
"We have to split up. All the passage look the same," Fallon recommended to
Gwen, standing in front of the last passage.
"Okay, I will take the furthest left, Tamara will take the middle and you will
take the last one," Gwen mounted Sunstar and heading the first passage.
"She's in a hurry!" Tamara held out her hand to the torch, Fallon placed on
her hand.
"We have to find the jewel before it's to late...." said Fallon, continuing
the rest of the sentence under her breath murmuring what jerk a certain prince
was, "Good luck, Tamara and God sped," Fallon left for the tunnel after Shadowsong
and Tamara entered their.
Gwen and Sunstar found themselves in the center of a desert, sand stretching
far as their eyes can see. (Which way do we go?) Sunstar called out to Gwen
through their link.
"Your guess is good as mine. Lets go straight!," Gwen said, holding unto Sunstar
flying higher up. The desert was spread out as a map before them. The dirt stretch
forever, nothing was there, "Their is nothing here," Gwen said asperated, continuing
to look for some form of life, "We can't even double back. What should we do?"
(This could just be a test. Remember what Mab said, We will run into five traps.)
Sunstar continued within the air holding her speed and attitude. A gray shadow
moved across the sky and out of nowhere rocks fell like rain on the area. (Hold
on, Gwen) Sunstar dived as rocks zoomed by her side. Through the air, stones
felled to the right, left and front of the group. Soon the rocks began to plumage
into Sunstar bulk body, one after another. (I can't hold on.)
"Crunch!!" One of Sunstar wings was hit, causing them to plumage toward the ground.
"NO!" Gwen held out her stone, forming a shimmering yellow protective bubble around them as the ground became closer every second. The bubble paddled their landing into the ground, "Sunstar, Are you alright?" Gwen figured the broken wing.
(I'm okay, but I will have to walk from here on, Gwen.) Sunstar tried to stretch her wings, only receiving pain throughout the broken wing.
"It's alright," Gwen hugged Sunstar around the neck as Sunstar sprinted across the sand, every step slowly inching themselves closer to the ground. Sunstar stepped became slower, while she pushed her feet through the sand.
(Something is not right.) She said strand through their jewels, (Traveling on foot should not be this hard. I can barely move my leg forward.) Gwen jumped off and surveyed the ground. Her legs slowly sunk through the soft ground. Gwen carefully pulled herself back on the unicorn back. "We have to get out of this before we sink under, but how?" Gwen said puzzle as the sand had reached Sunstar knees. She swing the jewel clockwise forming a long rope with a pitch fork end, sending it to the solid ground, while Sunstar did the same, "Try use the rope to pull you out," Sunstar contracted the rope, pulling her from within the quick sand. A bright light covered them as they disappeared into a room.
"It's so cold," Tamara said half-frozen as she walked beside Shadowsong. They had landed in area frozen with snow and ice covering everything against a backdrop of mountains. She shuddered, as her feet became numb with every step.
(You need to conserve your heat.)
"If I stop, I will freeze," said Tamara.
(Looks like we are heading for trouble.) Shadowsong pointed his head left to the large figure approaching. A huge monster, whose body was made from crystal to the top of his head to sole of his feet that, lit up against the sun. Its eyes were ruby, gawking at them from a distance. Tamara quickly climbed on Shadowsong back and headed toward the monster. (I don't think you be able to charm him with music.)
"You have so little faith in me," Tamara whispered to Shadowsong, "Hello, we are Jewel Riders looking for a crown jewel. Can you tell us, where we can find it?" She shouted out. The monster swapped at Shadowsong, causing him to knock Tamara off. Tamara stared in horror as her friend began to crystallize, where the monster had touched him. Slowly Shadowsong was nothing but an oversize crystal doorknob.