(This chapter's normal length, sorry. Anyway, the part I was talking to you about will be soon.)
The Myth of Crystaelius:
Chapter Five: Silence and Fear
The chamber's temperature began to lower as Aaron approached the center of the room. Darkness began to slowly enshroud the walls and floor, but Aaron disregarded it, already knowing what it meant.
A large glass elevator mechanism stood in the exact center of the maze. He walked towards it, placing his hand on it and feeling it. "It must lead down, but would that mean there is no exit to the room?"
Aaron crouched down, inspecting the elevator. "How do I activate it?" he thought as the chamber darkened tremendously. Scryers began to appear and Aaron stood up, unsheathing his sword.
"So, where are the rest of your friends? I was interested in meeting them," Darius stated while smiling.
"Do you think I'm actually going to tell you? What have you done with that key?" Enrique responded.
"Relax, relax; I have it right here," he replied, removing the bronze key from his cloak and dangling it in the air.
"Give it here!" Enrique exclaimed, rushing at him, but Darius merely stepped out of the way.
"What did you think; that I was just going to hand it over to you like a merry little boy? Sorry, but my partners and I need this little trinket."
Enrique gritted his teeth. "Okay, and do you mind explaining to me why you need it?"
Darius sighed. "It's very simple. You see, my master has this plan of reviving the ancient land known as Crystaelius. Nowadays, it's only a bedtime story told by parents to little babies as their bedtime story, but my master believes he can accomplish it, and I'm very sure he can. But to do that, we have to draw the moon to Filgaia and merge them together, but in order to do that, we need the Onakasa generator, Orion. We're going to use it to increase Filgaia's energy tenfold, thus increasing the gravitational pull which would result in the moon crashing into the planet. However, by mixing the power of the moon with the power of Filgaia, planetary re- formatting would occur, and the two would fuse together."
Enrique cocked an eyebrow up. "To tell you the truth, that sounded like a bunch of baloney, not that I like it as much as ham."
Darius scowled. "How dare you make a mockery of the Order of Osiris! You'll pay!"
He then removed a short green rod from his cloak, which grew as a blade appeared at the end of it. "Let's see your petty little guns match my power of ice!"
Darius proceeded to jamming his staff into the floor, causing a wave of ice and snow to quickly freeze the entire room.
Enrique began to rub his arms, attempting to keep warm. "I-It's d-damn f-f-freezing!" he exclaimed as Darius chuckled.
"It's perfect," he stated before dashing at Enrique and swinging his spear horizontally. The black- haired Drifter ducked and rolled to the side before his opponent speared the ground.
Enrique quickly stood up and fired a few rounds at Darius, who easily began swinging his staff counter- clockwise, deflecting every single one of the bullets back.
Enrique crouched down to avoid the shells as they crashed through the ice, but Darius held out his hand as Enrique stood up, causing his right leg to freeze.
"What the…!" he exclaimed as Darius prepared another attack. "I'm disappointed; our little bout didn't last very long."
As he was about to strike Enrique down, Todd hurled himself at Darius knocking him down.
The red- haired warrior's spear slid away from him as he recovered from the fall. "Damn kid!" he shouted while kicking Todd to the ground.
"I guess I'll finish you first, so that you're friend can watch you suffer," Darius stated, raising his weapon once he grasped it. Todd gritted his teeth and stood up, but he attacked, only to cause Enrique to unleash a series of bullets, which collided with his right side near his rib cage.
Darius winced in pain as fell against the glass tube. Todd, seeing the opportunity, ran over to Enrique and began pounding his fist into the ice surrounding his leg.
Darius placed his hand over his side, cupping the wound. "Dammit! I let myself open for one second and he nails me! Well, all that matters is that I got the key," he thought before holding his Onakasa gem with his left index finger and thumb. However, as much as he concentrated and fed his energy to it, the gem would not respond and warp him out.
Cursing under his breath, he ran over to the door and placed his hand on it. After a moment, it opened, and he ran through it.
Enrique noticed this and began running after him once his leg was free, with Todd following in haste.
Jet and Virginia dashed through the corridors, trying to find a way out. The Scryers were growing in numbers and surrounding them, leaving no other option but escape.
"Are they endless or something!" Virginia asked while shooting at a few. Jet did not answer and turned a corner, feeling they were close to the exit. He shot through some that were in the way and turned one last left, seeing a large gate plastered in the wall.
"Finally; it was getting damn crowded over there!" he thought while running over to the gate, inspecting it for a way to make it open.
Virginia backed into him, trying to keep them safe from the onslaught. Jet grew infuriated as swept his hand over the gate in anger, but it suddenly glowed and opened. He quickly grabbed Virginia's arm and pulled her through as it began to close.
The chamber was pitch black while she rubbed her arm, stating, "You didn't have to be so harsh, you know. I think you made a bruise."
Jet sighed. "Yeah, well, I wasn't thinking about being a gentleman and helping you through because we were trying to be killed and the gate closed like two seconds after I opened it."
Virginia shook her head as the room they were in began to move, and light flooded through it.
Large windows cut from the side showed the large amount of water from the room. It illuminated some of the room, up to the point where they could see each other.
The room they were in seemed to act like an elevator, slowly gliding upwards from the previous chamber.
Aaron slashed five more times at the flood of Scryers, fiddling with the control panel beside the elevator.
He aimlessly pressed different buttons and such, attempting to turn it on while keeping the beasts at bay.
Fortunately, the glass tube suddenly slid open. Noticing this, Aaron quickly jumped in, evading a few swipes and attacks while sheathing his weapon away.
Leaning against the elevator wall he let out a sigh of relief and closed his eyes. A slight drop in temperature occurred when it passed a room covered in ice, but the elevator quickly came to a halt in a small room.
The door slid open and Aaron stepped out; he walked over to what seemed to be the only pathway out.
"Oh well…" he thought before walking through it.
"Hold on!" Enrique ordered as he and Todd chased after Darius who was way ahead of them. The passage they took began to stretch upwards, slowing them down slightly.
Darius glanced back at them for a moment before stopping at the exit. He quickly pushed on it, causing it to open. Bright light radiated from the exit as he ran through; Todd and Enrique quickly rushed through the door as well.
Their surroundings changed immediately, signifying they were out of the ruin and back on Filgaia.
Darius continued to run, only to be stopped by the fact that they were now standing on a canyon.
"Give it up; there's nowhere else to run!" Enrique shouted while raising his ARMs. Darius turned back to them. He grinned slightly before holding his Onakasa gem and suddenly disappearing.
"What the heck was that!" Enrique exclaimed as Aaron, Jet, and Virginia ran out of the passage; it seemed the separate pathways they took led to the same exit.
"Todd,
Enrique; are you guys okay!" Virginia inquired as she ran up to
them. Enrique hurriedly nodded and pointed to where Darius once
stood. "We're fine, but that Order of Osiris guy got away!"
"So,
one of them did beat us; did he get the key?" Aaron asked. Todd
nodded. "Yes, he did, but he also told us their plan about wanting
to merge Filgaia and the moon together to create Crystaelius!"
"Crystaelius? Daddy told me about that once, a long time ago, but he said it was a myth," Virginia stated.
Jet snorted. "What does it matter? We've still got to stop them from doing it."
Suddenly however, the ground began to shake violently as the ocean of sand down below began to split. "What's going on now!" Virginia exclaimed as a massive building arose from the sand. Seven towers surrounded one larger, central tower. A great metal plate suck out from the bottom, as if to absorb energy.
"What the Hell is that!" Jet and Enrique yelled in unison as Aaron stepped up.
"Grandfather… what have you done?"
(Just so you know, I love you guys… No, I'm just joking, but thanks for sticking around this long. Really, thanks.)
