Title: The Lost World Fourth Season Series
Disclaimer: You know what? They belong to anybody but me. Life is so no not fair!!!
Summary: The path to Avalon reveals to be a danger one.
Author's Note: Thank you for the reviews. I'm totally aware that this may be a confusing thing right now, but it will get better. By the way, on your reviews, you all just said, that you're loving this story, but I wouldn't mind if you would give suggestions about the story, like do you think that my characters are believable, or if not, what could I do to make them better.
Kat: In a way I agree with you. Marguerite's appearances would make Roxton feel more miserable, so I tried to put a little bit of that on this chapter.
The Chosen One: I just named him like that because I love the name Richard!! There's no specific reason beyond that. I'm sorry if it bothers you that it has the same name that in your story. But I didn't do it on purpose. I always try not to copy anything from the other stories.
The beginning
They walked trough the jungle.
Everyone was rather quiet that day. They had been walking for five days now, which made them get tired more easily.
"Vee, how much farther to Avalon?" asked the younger female, during on of their breaks.
The others looked up to Veronica as well. She could tell that they were all anxious. She took the map of her pack, and examined it.
"By night we'll reach the Deevon's Desert, then we'll walk trough it, until we get to the Loion Oasis, it says here that he have to beat to guardian of the oasis, then we also walk trough there, after that a few more days, and we'll reach the Frozen Lands, after that we'll reach Avalon." She said
"We have to go trough all that?" Finn asked, and at Veronica's nod she snapped the map, of her hands." Let me see that!"
"What for? You can't read it." Veronica said bitterly
"Gee Veronica, I never thought you selfish." Said Finn a little hurt.
"I'm sorry Finn, I think that the stress is getting over me." she apologized
....................................
By nightfall they reach the Desert.
"We should camp for the night."
"You're right Roxton, we should camp, and make plans for tomorrow." Agreed Challenger.
They set camp without much talking, each one doing what they were supposed to do.
"I don't if you guys already thought about this, but I are going to cross a full desert?" asked Malone when they all sitting around the fire.
"I thought about that too." Confessed Challenger "My idea was to fill our canteens to maximum, and to wet here and now a peace of clothe to cool us."
"It might work."
....................................
It was the third day of their walking trough the Desert. Challenger's idea had worked the enough for them to stand the heat, but exhaustion was visible on their faces.
"Vee how much longer."
"There! The oasis!" Malone exclaimed
They looked and saw it too.
"Come on. I bet that there is water there." Exclaimed Finn, enthusiastic could be heard on her voice.
They ran, Roxton was up ahead with the others close behind him.
Suddenly he stopped which made Veronica almost hit him, as well as the others.
"What is it?" she asked
"There, look!" he pointed to a creature asleep.
"Amazing!" exclaimed Challenger, "It was obviously a pterodactyl, but somehow he must have develop to stand the high temperatures, look at him, the skin seems more rough and he's much bigger." He examined
He was right the once pterodactyl, was bigger than anything that they ever saw, his skin was black, showing that he was still young, his wings were far more bigger than even the creature, and his claws seemed much more sharp, maybe to be able to catch the food more easily since it could be obviously much more difficult to catch wherever it was in the middle of a desert.
"Let's pass trough him without a noise" said Roxton, the others looked to him "I don't know about you, but I much rather having him asleep than fully awake." He said laughing a little,
Finn heard a strange noise and looked behind, the creature started to stand up.
Roxton was still giving instructions to the others and none of them had noted the situation as Finn did.
"Uh.guys?" she said
They continued talking without noticing the worry on her voice.
She then started shaking Challenger's arm. He continued the conversation without paying much attention.
"Guys?!" she said exasperated
She shook Challenger's arm again, and he looked at her.
"Finn stop that! What is it?" he asked annoyed by her actions
She pointed to something behind him. They all looked.
The creature was fully awake now; his eyes had already scanned the area and saw the intruders.
The advanced pterodactyl opened his wings, to prevent their passage to the oasis.
"I'm guessing that we've found the guardian." Murmured Roxton
A huge roar filled the Deevon's Desert and the dinosaur attacked.
"And I guess this is a good part to apply the famous: RUN!!" exclaimed Ned
Each one ran in opposite directions, Roxton ran to the left, Finn and Challenger to the right and Malone ran back into the desert.
They all stopped when they heard Veronica's scream.
She had tried to pass trough a fissure that opened in the protecting wings of the dinosaur, that opened when he was trying to attack, but he caught her and thrown her away with his claws.
She was caught in surprise and screamed.
"Veronica!" she heard Ned's scream
When he saw her like that on the ground all he could think about was revenge. He took the gun, and started firing against the creature.
That only made it angrier with them.
"Ned don't!" Challenger shouted, "Its skin is more rough remember? We need to find his weak point."
Malone only heard half of the sentence for his attention was on Veronica.
"Are you alright?" he asked
She looked up to his face and managed to give him a small smile.
"Yeah, I guess I should have been more aware of the situation. I'm fine, although I'm a little sore because of the fall, but fine."
Finn was looking to the creature. It was more calm now, since it seemed that the intruders weren't trying to pass trough it anymore.
"Why don't we shoot everywhere?" she asked
"Because we need the bullets. We don't know what we'll find up next." Explained Challenger, "Give me a minute, I'll observe it and I'll come up with something."
They nodded and Challenger sat a little far from them looking at the dinosaur.
Roxton had distant himself too; he sat on the sand waiting.
"Roxton." a voice called him
"Hm?" he looked around but saw no one, "Must be my mind, playing tricks on me." he concluded after a while.
"Roxton!" the voice seemed more firm now
He looked to the pterodactyl. Could it be? Marguerite came up behind the creature.
"Shoot him on its wings, that way he won't have anything else to protect the entrance." She said as she gave her brightest smile
And then her figure disappeared into the air as smoke.
He stayed there looking at the place where he last saw her. He could hear his friends calling him as if they were miles away.
"Roxton!" called Challenger.
The urgency of his voice brought him back to reality.
".What?"
"Are you alright? You almost looked like you froze, or something." Finn said
"No, I'm fine." He replied, "What were you saying?"
"Challenger just came up with something." Malone explained
"What?"
The looked over to Challenger.
"Well actually it's quite logical. You see, no matter what, you have to think that pterodactyls are just like birds, and."
"Go straight to the point Challenger." Interrupted Veronica
"We shoot his wings." Said Roxton
"Yes, how did you know I was going to say that?"
"You said he was like a bird, bird's weakest point are its wings." He explained
"Correct. I see you followed my though." The scientist exclaimed proudly
"Let's just get over it."
They started walking to the dinosaur and again they were assaulted with a wave of attacks.
"Now" Challenger shouted
Everyone shoot to its wings, and when the best's wings closed around the dinosaur's body they ran and passed trough it.
....................................
They sat camp in the middle of the oasis near a pond.
Challenger took the first watch, and the others quickly went back to sleep.
Everyone was asleep, but Roxton couldn't. His mind wandered over the past events. His meeting with Marguerite during his childhood, the man and his mother talking about them, he didn't understand most of the talking, sometimes they seemed to spoke in a different language, but he understood the last part: 'tomorrow they won't remember each other, and this never happened'.
He got up and went to sit down on a log near the fire.
"Hey." He looked around and saw Challenger standing right behind him.
"Hey."
"Couldn't sleep?" the scientist asked as he sat beside him
He nodded his head.
They stayed like that for a while until Roxton decided to break the silence:
"You know, it's been four months now, since she disappear." Ha said, "I miss her so much."
"Roxton." he didn't know what to say, "I think I know how you feel, or at least I can imagine. When I think about Jessie all alone back in London.without really know how she is.I just think that I was a fool during my whole life, always paying more attention to work, when I should have more attention to her."
Roxton looked to scientist. He really never had much of a thought about how Challenger missed his wife; he was always busy around his Marguerite.
"Don't worry you'll see her again, I just wish I could say the same thing about Marguerite." He sighed, "I know that she's alive, I can feel it. You know, in the first month I used to wake up, thinking that everything had just been one big nightmare, and that I would walk up to her room and I would see her there, sleeping peacefully. Everyday that I wake up, I still have to think, that I cannot put an end to my existence, because that would mean that I lost hope. Every second that I watch you all, I keep remembering little details of her, like when Malone got back from his journey, I remembered how she would liked to be there, or when I see Ned kissing Veronica, I remember that maybe I'll never kiss her lips again. That's a Hell of a thought I can guarantee that to you. And it tears me apart to walk into her room, and look at her little things, and think that maybe I'll never argue with her again like we use to."
Challenger was nearly tears, he had never saw Roxton like this, and it hurt him, not be able to do anything to ease his pain.
"You know I even sleep in her room sometimes, to feel her close to me. I don't know if I can take this anymore Challenger, everyday when I have these kind of thoughts I also keep thinking that it wasn't my fault, that I couldn't have done anything, but."
"But that's true, it wasn't your fault." Replied Challenger
"No Challenger, deep down, I know it was. I shouldn't have left her. I had climbed because the Conquistadors were surrounding us, and I told her that I needed a little extra firepower. She then got up but a time warp came, and that was the last time I saw her."
"We'll find her. In the mean time, stop blaming yourself over nothing, it wasn't your fault! Now get back to sleep, tomorrow we'll have a full day's walk ahead.again."
....................................
"John?"
"Marguerite."
She smiled.
"Are you crying?" he nodded, "Why? Aren't they always saying that men don't cry?" she asked jokily
He nodded.
"It's just that I miss so much, why can't I found you? I know that you're alive, but where are you?"
"You'll find me more soon than you think. I came to say that once you get to the Frozen Lands, Avatar Warriors will be waiting to escort you all to Avalon." She took a pendant of her neck. "Take this, if you got any trouble with them, show them the pendant."
He looked to the object. The pendant in a shape of two S's in opposite directions, with a spot in between, was made of pure gold he could tell, a closer look and he that the spot had a strange picture inside of it, a symbol that he had already seen somewhere, was encircled in a serpent, all inside the Trion."
"I see you're in your paradise, with all this gold." He joked. She laughed, "It's the same symbol of your birthmark."
"Yes." She said
"Did you find your answers?" he asked
"Not yet. But I'm looking forward to." She replied with an adoring smile on her lips
"Marguerite?"
"Hm?"
"How do you know all of these things?"
"I thought you would have figured it out by now.I'm Morrighan, well at least that's what has been told to me."
"Morrighan?" he said, "But then that means."
"That soon we're going to see each other."
"Oh God, I miss you Marguerite, I really miss you."
He grabbed her waist her pulled her to his embrace. After a while she looked at his green eyes and saw what she wanted to see: Love, care, tenderness.
"I miss you too, John." She said as tears made their way trough her cheeks.
He cleaned them away, with his strong hands.
His touch sent a shiver trough her spine. And she leaned to a kiss.
The kiss gentle at first soon became a passionate one. He tightened his embrace around her waist, and her arms were around his neck, her fingers playing with his hair.
When they broke apart both were breathing heavily.
"Soon, I promise." She said as she leaned to another passionate kiss.
....................................
"How the Hell we're gonna cross that?" asked Finn looking at an enormous lake.
"There must be a bridge around here in somewhere." said Challenger
"Really? Where? I don't see one."
"There!" Veronica exclaimed
"What?"
The explorers followed Veronica to a huge block of stones.
"Cool!" exclaimed Finn, when she saw the confusion on the explorers face; she emended" It's kinda cute, what's that?"
"It reminds me of the standing stones near my Estate."
"Look!" Veronica pointed to some symbols engraved in the main rock. One was a snake; the other was the Trion, and the other one, the one in the middle, were two S's in opposite directions, with a spot in between. "Look at the symbols inside the spot.It's the Trion, around the.Xan's symbol, which is encircled by a snake." She said
"Yes, but that symbol doesn't mean that that's Xan, remember that it is also the symbol of fire."
"Interesting, but.How do we cross the huge lake?" asked Finn once again
Veronica took the Trion and putted it on the symbol.
An ice bridge appeared.
"I guess that that answers your question." Said Roxton, trying not to laugh at Finn's astonished face.
They crossed the bridge and once they were on the other side, it disappeared.
....................................
"It's certainly getting cooler. We must be near the Frozen Lands." Said Challenger
As he said this a view of frost came into view, and after a few miles, they were surrounded by ice.
"Who are you strangers?" asked a voice
They looked and saw a man.
"Avatars." Explained Veronica, then she turned to the Avatar warier that was now side by side, to at least one more dozen men "We've came in peace, we only wish to cross the Frozen Lands." She said
"My lady Protector...We'll escort you."
He made space for her to pass, but when the explorers were following her, he made them stop.
"Only the Protector pass trough here. We thank you all for bringing her here." He said
"What?" Ned exclaimed
Roxton took the pendant of inside his shirt, and pulled it outside for the man to see it.
"It was told us that we must go with her. And I don't know about my friends, but I don't intend to leave her."
"We'll fight you all, if that's need." Finished Ned
The man eyes widened when he saw the pendant. Morrighan's pendant in the hands of a.he looked up to Roxton's face. Of course! The guardian.
"Very well follow my warriors; they well lead you to Avalon!"
The explorers started following the warriors. Veronica on lead and Roxton close behind them.
"You know you two must have a great connection, for her to give you her pendant." The man murmured to Roxton
....................................
They spent four days travelling trough the Frozen Lands, coats were given to them, since they couldn't stand the cold around that area.
And on the fifth day, they walked out the Frozen Lands.
An entrance was visible in the open side of a mountain. It was covered with tick vegetation.
The man walked to entrance and touched a rock that immediately went down.
"Only an Avatar warrior, the protector or the Chosen One can open this entrance, if anyone else tried to do the same, I can guarantee that it would die."
The vines that covered the entrance dislocated themselves and they entered.
They walked trough a cave until they saw daylight.
They looked and saw, what was beyond imagination.A land with all the types of flowers was visible. In the center was a village adorned with beauty, and on the end of their sight was an enormous palace.
"We're here" the man said "Avalon."
To be continued
Author's Note: They're finally there. (I thought they never would!!) Anyway, thank you guys for your support.
Disclaimer: You know what? They belong to anybody but me. Life is so no not fair!!!
Summary: The path to Avalon reveals to be a danger one.
Author's Note: Thank you for the reviews. I'm totally aware that this may be a confusing thing right now, but it will get better. By the way, on your reviews, you all just said, that you're loving this story, but I wouldn't mind if you would give suggestions about the story, like do you think that my characters are believable, or if not, what could I do to make them better.
Kat: In a way I agree with you. Marguerite's appearances would make Roxton feel more miserable, so I tried to put a little bit of that on this chapter.
The Chosen One: I just named him like that because I love the name Richard!! There's no specific reason beyond that. I'm sorry if it bothers you that it has the same name that in your story. But I didn't do it on purpose. I always try not to copy anything from the other stories.
The beginning
They walked trough the jungle.
Everyone was rather quiet that day. They had been walking for five days now, which made them get tired more easily.
"Vee, how much farther to Avalon?" asked the younger female, during on of their breaks.
The others looked up to Veronica as well. She could tell that they were all anxious. She took the map of her pack, and examined it.
"By night we'll reach the Deevon's Desert, then we'll walk trough it, until we get to the Loion Oasis, it says here that he have to beat to guardian of the oasis, then we also walk trough there, after that a few more days, and we'll reach the Frozen Lands, after that we'll reach Avalon." She said
"We have to go trough all that?" Finn asked, and at Veronica's nod she snapped the map, of her hands." Let me see that!"
"What for? You can't read it." Veronica said bitterly
"Gee Veronica, I never thought you selfish." Said Finn a little hurt.
"I'm sorry Finn, I think that the stress is getting over me." she apologized
....................................
By nightfall they reach the Desert.
"We should camp for the night."
"You're right Roxton, we should camp, and make plans for tomorrow." Agreed Challenger.
They set camp without much talking, each one doing what they were supposed to do.
"I don't if you guys already thought about this, but I are going to cross a full desert?" asked Malone when they all sitting around the fire.
"I thought about that too." Confessed Challenger "My idea was to fill our canteens to maximum, and to wet here and now a peace of clothe to cool us."
"It might work."
....................................
It was the third day of their walking trough the Desert. Challenger's idea had worked the enough for them to stand the heat, but exhaustion was visible on their faces.
"Vee how much longer."
"There! The oasis!" Malone exclaimed
They looked and saw it too.
"Come on. I bet that there is water there." Exclaimed Finn, enthusiastic could be heard on her voice.
They ran, Roxton was up ahead with the others close behind him.
Suddenly he stopped which made Veronica almost hit him, as well as the others.
"What is it?" she asked
"There, look!" he pointed to a creature asleep.
"Amazing!" exclaimed Challenger, "It was obviously a pterodactyl, but somehow he must have develop to stand the high temperatures, look at him, the skin seems more rough and he's much bigger." He examined
He was right the once pterodactyl, was bigger than anything that they ever saw, his skin was black, showing that he was still young, his wings were far more bigger than even the creature, and his claws seemed much more sharp, maybe to be able to catch the food more easily since it could be obviously much more difficult to catch wherever it was in the middle of a desert.
"Let's pass trough him without a noise" said Roxton, the others looked to him "I don't know about you, but I much rather having him asleep than fully awake." He said laughing a little,
Finn heard a strange noise and looked behind, the creature started to stand up.
Roxton was still giving instructions to the others and none of them had noted the situation as Finn did.
"Uh.guys?" she said
They continued talking without noticing the worry on her voice.
She then started shaking Challenger's arm. He continued the conversation without paying much attention.
"Guys?!" she said exasperated
She shook Challenger's arm again, and he looked at her.
"Finn stop that! What is it?" he asked annoyed by her actions
She pointed to something behind him. They all looked.
The creature was fully awake now; his eyes had already scanned the area and saw the intruders.
The advanced pterodactyl opened his wings, to prevent their passage to the oasis.
"I'm guessing that we've found the guardian." Murmured Roxton
A huge roar filled the Deevon's Desert and the dinosaur attacked.
"And I guess this is a good part to apply the famous: RUN!!" exclaimed Ned
Each one ran in opposite directions, Roxton ran to the left, Finn and Challenger to the right and Malone ran back into the desert.
They all stopped when they heard Veronica's scream.
She had tried to pass trough a fissure that opened in the protecting wings of the dinosaur, that opened when he was trying to attack, but he caught her and thrown her away with his claws.
She was caught in surprise and screamed.
"Veronica!" she heard Ned's scream
When he saw her like that on the ground all he could think about was revenge. He took the gun, and started firing against the creature.
That only made it angrier with them.
"Ned don't!" Challenger shouted, "Its skin is more rough remember? We need to find his weak point."
Malone only heard half of the sentence for his attention was on Veronica.
"Are you alright?" he asked
She looked up to his face and managed to give him a small smile.
"Yeah, I guess I should have been more aware of the situation. I'm fine, although I'm a little sore because of the fall, but fine."
Finn was looking to the creature. It was more calm now, since it seemed that the intruders weren't trying to pass trough it anymore.
"Why don't we shoot everywhere?" she asked
"Because we need the bullets. We don't know what we'll find up next." Explained Challenger, "Give me a minute, I'll observe it and I'll come up with something."
They nodded and Challenger sat a little far from them looking at the dinosaur.
Roxton had distant himself too; he sat on the sand waiting.
"Roxton." a voice called him
"Hm?" he looked around but saw no one, "Must be my mind, playing tricks on me." he concluded after a while.
"Roxton!" the voice seemed more firm now
He looked to the pterodactyl. Could it be? Marguerite came up behind the creature.
"Shoot him on its wings, that way he won't have anything else to protect the entrance." She said as she gave her brightest smile
And then her figure disappeared into the air as smoke.
He stayed there looking at the place where he last saw her. He could hear his friends calling him as if they were miles away.
"Roxton!" called Challenger.
The urgency of his voice brought him back to reality.
".What?"
"Are you alright? You almost looked like you froze, or something." Finn said
"No, I'm fine." He replied, "What were you saying?"
"Challenger just came up with something." Malone explained
"What?"
The looked over to Challenger.
"Well actually it's quite logical. You see, no matter what, you have to think that pterodactyls are just like birds, and."
"Go straight to the point Challenger." Interrupted Veronica
"We shoot his wings." Said Roxton
"Yes, how did you know I was going to say that?"
"You said he was like a bird, bird's weakest point are its wings." He explained
"Correct. I see you followed my though." The scientist exclaimed proudly
"Let's just get over it."
They started walking to the dinosaur and again they were assaulted with a wave of attacks.
"Now" Challenger shouted
Everyone shoot to its wings, and when the best's wings closed around the dinosaur's body they ran and passed trough it.
....................................
They sat camp in the middle of the oasis near a pond.
Challenger took the first watch, and the others quickly went back to sleep.
Everyone was asleep, but Roxton couldn't. His mind wandered over the past events. His meeting with Marguerite during his childhood, the man and his mother talking about them, he didn't understand most of the talking, sometimes they seemed to spoke in a different language, but he understood the last part: 'tomorrow they won't remember each other, and this never happened'.
He got up and went to sit down on a log near the fire.
"Hey." He looked around and saw Challenger standing right behind him.
"Hey."
"Couldn't sleep?" the scientist asked as he sat beside him
He nodded his head.
They stayed like that for a while until Roxton decided to break the silence:
"You know, it's been four months now, since she disappear." Ha said, "I miss her so much."
"Roxton." he didn't know what to say, "I think I know how you feel, or at least I can imagine. When I think about Jessie all alone back in London.without really know how she is.I just think that I was a fool during my whole life, always paying more attention to work, when I should have more attention to her."
Roxton looked to scientist. He really never had much of a thought about how Challenger missed his wife; he was always busy around his Marguerite.
"Don't worry you'll see her again, I just wish I could say the same thing about Marguerite." He sighed, "I know that she's alive, I can feel it. You know, in the first month I used to wake up, thinking that everything had just been one big nightmare, and that I would walk up to her room and I would see her there, sleeping peacefully. Everyday that I wake up, I still have to think, that I cannot put an end to my existence, because that would mean that I lost hope. Every second that I watch you all, I keep remembering little details of her, like when Malone got back from his journey, I remembered how she would liked to be there, or when I see Ned kissing Veronica, I remember that maybe I'll never kiss her lips again. That's a Hell of a thought I can guarantee that to you. And it tears me apart to walk into her room, and look at her little things, and think that maybe I'll never argue with her again like we use to."
Challenger was nearly tears, he had never saw Roxton like this, and it hurt him, not be able to do anything to ease his pain.
"You know I even sleep in her room sometimes, to feel her close to me. I don't know if I can take this anymore Challenger, everyday when I have these kind of thoughts I also keep thinking that it wasn't my fault, that I couldn't have done anything, but."
"But that's true, it wasn't your fault." Replied Challenger
"No Challenger, deep down, I know it was. I shouldn't have left her. I had climbed because the Conquistadors were surrounding us, and I told her that I needed a little extra firepower. She then got up but a time warp came, and that was the last time I saw her."
"We'll find her. In the mean time, stop blaming yourself over nothing, it wasn't your fault! Now get back to sleep, tomorrow we'll have a full day's walk ahead.again."
....................................
"John?"
"Marguerite."
She smiled.
"Are you crying?" he nodded, "Why? Aren't they always saying that men don't cry?" she asked jokily
He nodded.
"It's just that I miss so much, why can't I found you? I know that you're alive, but where are you?"
"You'll find me more soon than you think. I came to say that once you get to the Frozen Lands, Avatar Warriors will be waiting to escort you all to Avalon." She took a pendant of her neck. "Take this, if you got any trouble with them, show them the pendant."
He looked to the object. The pendant in a shape of two S's in opposite directions, with a spot in between, was made of pure gold he could tell, a closer look and he that the spot had a strange picture inside of it, a symbol that he had already seen somewhere, was encircled in a serpent, all inside the Trion."
"I see you're in your paradise, with all this gold." He joked. She laughed, "It's the same symbol of your birthmark."
"Yes." She said
"Did you find your answers?" he asked
"Not yet. But I'm looking forward to." She replied with an adoring smile on her lips
"Marguerite?"
"Hm?"
"How do you know all of these things?"
"I thought you would have figured it out by now.I'm Morrighan, well at least that's what has been told to me."
"Morrighan?" he said, "But then that means."
"That soon we're going to see each other."
"Oh God, I miss you Marguerite, I really miss you."
He grabbed her waist her pulled her to his embrace. After a while she looked at his green eyes and saw what she wanted to see: Love, care, tenderness.
"I miss you too, John." She said as tears made their way trough her cheeks.
He cleaned them away, with his strong hands.
His touch sent a shiver trough her spine. And she leaned to a kiss.
The kiss gentle at first soon became a passionate one. He tightened his embrace around her waist, and her arms were around his neck, her fingers playing with his hair.
When they broke apart both were breathing heavily.
"Soon, I promise." She said as she leaned to another passionate kiss.
....................................
"How the Hell we're gonna cross that?" asked Finn looking at an enormous lake.
"There must be a bridge around here in somewhere." said Challenger
"Really? Where? I don't see one."
"There!" Veronica exclaimed
"What?"
The explorers followed Veronica to a huge block of stones.
"Cool!" exclaimed Finn, when she saw the confusion on the explorers face; she emended" It's kinda cute, what's that?"
"It reminds me of the standing stones near my Estate."
"Look!" Veronica pointed to some symbols engraved in the main rock. One was a snake; the other was the Trion, and the other one, the one in the middle, were two S's in opposite directions, with a spot in between. "Look at the symbols inside the spot.It's the Trion, around the.Xan's symbol, which is encircled by a snake." She said
"Yes, but that symbol doesn't mean that that's Xan, remember that it is also the symbol of fire."
"Interesting, but.How do we cross the huge lake?" asked Finn once again
Veronica took the Trion and putted it on the symbol.
An ice bridge appeared.
"I guess that that answers your question." Said Roxton, trying not to laugh at Finn's astonished face.
They crossed the bridge and once they were on the other side, it disappeared.
....................................
"It's certainly getting cooler. We must be near the Frozen Lands." Said Challenger
As he said this a view of frost came into view, and after a few miles, they were surrounded by ice.
"Who are you strangers?" asked a voice
They looked and saw a man.
"Avatars." Explained Veronica, then she turned to the Avatar warier that was now side by side, to at least one more dozen men "We've came in peace, we only wish to cross the Frozen Lands." She said
"My lady Protector...We'll escort you."
He made space for her to pass, but when the explorers were following her, he made them stop.
"Only the Protector pass trough here. We thank you all for bringing her here." He said
"What?" Ned exclaimed
Roxton took the pendant of inside his shirt, and pulled it outside for the man to see it.
"It was told us that we must go with her. And I don't know about my friends, but I don't intend to leave her."
"We'll fight you all, if that's need." Finished Ned
The man eyes widened when he saw the pendant. Morrighan's pendant in the hands of a.he looked up to Roxton's face. Of course! The guardian.
"Very well follow my warriors; they well lead you to Avalon!"
The explorers started following the warriors. Veronica on lead and Roxton close behind them.
"You know you two must have a great connection, for her to give you her pendant." The man murmured to Roxton
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They spent four days travelling trough the Frozen Lands, coats were given to them, since they couldn't stand the cold around that area.
And on the fifth day, they walked out the Frozen Lands.
An entrance was visible in the open side of a mountain. It was covered with tick vegetation.
The man walked to entrance and touched a rock that immediately went down.
"Only an Avatar warrior, the protector or the Chosen One can open this entrance, if anyone else tried to do the same, I can guarantee that it would die."
The vines that covered the entrance dislocated themselves and they entered.
They walked trough a cave until they saw daylight.
They looked and saw, what was beyond imagination.A land with all the types of flowers was visible. In the center was a village adorned with beauty, and on the end of their sight was an enormous palace.
"We're here" the man said "Avalon."
To be continued
Author's Note: They're finally there. (I thought they never would!!) Anyway, thank you guys for your support.