It was dark when she awoke and stretching, she noticed the prince watching her.

"Whatcha look at?" she snarled at him.

"I have to thank you, you saved my life." he said, glancing away.

"Yeah, well I was about to take your life too."

"What is your name?" he asked as he used his magic to fix his arm..

"Do I have to tell?"

"Yes, we can't, well I can not go around shouting Oi you there." Amusement lit his eyes as she scowled.

"Its Shila." She said finally. "Yours?"

The prince was even more amused now. "You came to kill me, without knowing my name?"

Shila growled.

"Ok, ok, chill it would you? It's Jonathon."

"Well Jonathon, we better get a move on. If we're going to get out of here before we starve. I hope this cave leads somewhere, or we're both dead meat."

He nodded and stood.

They walked into the depth of the cave.

"Drat! I can't see anything in this darkness!" she swore.

"Wait," he said and lifted a hand, light fluttered from it, lighting the walls around them.

Glaring, she walked on. The cave seemed to stretch forever, in spirals too. She pointed this out to him.

"Are we going downwards?"

When he nodded, but didn't say anything, she kept going. Hours passed in silence as neither would talk to the other, finally they came to the end of the tunnel. An iron door blocked their way. It had intricate patterns cut into its surface; a phoenix gripping a sword seemed to be its emblem. Without a word, Jonathon tried to open the door with no success. Next he tried his magic on it. It only blew him backwards.

Finally Shila got bored. "Can't you just open it?"

It was his turn to glare at her now. "Why don't you try?"

"Fine I will!" she said and stomp over to the door.

Pushing the handle on it downwards, she pushed. The door creaked open slowly and Jonathon looked at her with awe.

"I couldn't even open that."

"Well you weren't trying hard enough," she retorted before stepping through the door. Winding stairs now lead upwards.

"Oh that's just greeattt. Stairs! Like I haven't been climbing enough already!" Despite her complains though, she continued to stomp upwards.

A whistling surrounded them, echoing off the spiralling walls of room. Shila ignored it and kept going. Jonathon just followed her, his face in grimace.

The stairs finally ended to show a well-lit cavern, quite like the one they had the meeting in. But the walls were crystals that glittered with light. A phoenix screeched above them and came to a landing just before them, eyeing them with interest.

"I am to grant a question to all who steps in here."