3 The Journey Begins

"That was.....weird," said Alex, pulling a funny face, "where are you, Stu?"

"I'm here," beginning to walk around.

After walking for a while he bumped head on with Alex.

"There you are!," said Alex, "any ideas on how to make light without fire or a torch?"

"Nope."

Alex sighed. It was hopeless. They would never get out of here. But suddenly, big golden letters came into view through the darkness. Alex read them out. "Illuminos Madiro..." He felt a tingle shoot up his arm, and he looked down at his hand. There was a yellow ball of light hovering between the tips of his fingers. Alex screamed and waved his hand about, until it shot off and burst in mid-air. Light illuminated everything. They were in front of a huge jungle, through which led a path to the mountain where the Mystic's hut was. This was it. Only one choice...they had to go through the jungle.

They started to walk up the path, when Stu turned his head towards Alex.

"You don't think we'll...," he gulped, "...be here...forever, do you?"

"We're not, because we're gonna try and get out of here."

"How?"

"By going to see this 'Mystic'."

"Alex?"

"Yeah?"

"How did you do that light trick thing? Was it some kind of magic?"

"Stu," Alex stopped, turned to Stu and put his hands on his shoulders, kneeling down to be eye level with him, "there is no such thing as magic. That's just made up."

"Okay..."

Alex nodded, smiled and continued walking up the path, Stu following.