Chapter 20 - A-maze-ing
After having traveled 3 days to the south-east, we found a cave. Seria told us that the mysterious village is supposed to be on the other end of the tunnel. Now, 2 days later... we're hungry and weak. And we're LOST! Man, I wish she knew that we wouldn't be facing a HUGE maze. So this is why there aren't many hedgehogs that know about this. It takes us several hours to finally find some water. The maze seems to be getting less complicated and wider too. "You think we're almost there?" I ask. And I asked it a lot of times before too. Most of the time one of them just answers; uhhh. But now... Seria's face changed when I asked that. Don't know if it's because of the water she drank, or my question. "There's water... I think that we'll reach the village after a few more miles." Finally a different response! "Do you think there are any civilization there? Or maybe even food?" Jody asks. Of course, smart Seria probably knows the answer. "If there's a civilization, there's food. But I think they've all passed away, so there just might be food." Might be food? I shouldn't have entered this place...
Well... she was right. We were near the village, and we finally arrive. But there's no one except for us. There is food, so we stuff ourselves after finding it, which didn't take long at all. Strangely, the food didn't seem to be there that long. Nothing was spoiled yet. And there's no one in the village. Who cares? At least we won't die out of starvation.
After stuffing ourselves to the limit we check out the village. It's a long shape, but not very wide. At the end there's a big sanctuary. We climb up, only to reach an altar. There's a sword lying on it. The blade is broken, nearly all of it is gone. The pieces are nowhere near the broken sword either. I walk up to it, though Seria warns me not to do it. Then I grab it, and take a look at it. It's very... shiny. The handle is very dark blue, though I thought it was black from a distance. When I turn around, the ceiling opens and the sanctuary starts shaking. I don't know what exactly is happening, but I have a slight idea. So I call Jody and Seria to get over to where i'm standing.
Just like I thought. A mechanism was triggered after I grabbed the broken sword, and now we're being raised to the surface... I think. We could always end up somewhere else too. It rises very slow. But after 15 minutes the speed picks a bit up. It takes about an hour before we can see daylight, and not long after we're on the surface again. Finally, broad daylight! Though we seem to be in the middle of... Jody taps me on my shoulder, and tells me to turn around. We ended up right next to a... city? I have no idea which one it is. We leave, as hedgehogs from all around rush to see the sanctuary. It's not my fault if that thing goes down again, and takes them with it. Before we enter the city, I look at the sign. We're at the west entrance of... Brick City? Brick? I wonder why they named it like that.
"Hey, you're finally here!" Tails? "That sword! My scanner says it has of a lot of energy. Can you give it to me!" Hasn't he heard of greeting friends? At least the ladies. Jody slaps him. That's the 2nd time now. Maybe I should keep counting them? "Show some respect for us, will you?" She says. "Ohw, sorry. Hello Jody! Hello Seria! I think I should bring you to the others first." What? He doesn't greet me? "You're darn right about that." Jody says. I give Tails the sword. "Just start examining it while we're on the way. It might come in handy someday." Tails looks at it's ahm... shininess. "Thank you, Hero!" So now he is polite? Hmm... might Jody have anything to do with that? We've been walking and talking for 15 minutes already. I wonder why Seria has been so quiet... She's the only one that didn't say a word. So... I decided to ask. She's walking a bit behind though.
Me: "What's up?"
Seria: "Ah... me? Everything is fine."
Me: "No, it's not. You know something about that sword, don't you?"
Seria: "The sword... it's a massive energy source. But... it's not the one i'm looking for. But..."
Me: "Not the one you're looking for? I already have an idea what it is now."
Seria: "Tell me."
Me: "No, not yet. I'll tell it if Tails is done examining that thing. I might be wrong about it."
She runs forward to Jody and Tails, and says them something. Then they all run to me. Ah... so she's using them to get to know it? No matter, if I tell them they might make wrong assumptions. We can't afford that.
Tails: "Hero, Seria said that you knew what this sword is."
Me: "Maybe, i'm not sure about it."
Tails: "Tell us."
Me: "No, I won't. I have my reasons for it."
Jody: "If you tell is, i'll tell you something special too."
Me: "You first."
Jody: "I... I love you."
Me: "That's not something special."
Jody: "But I really do."
Me: "Of course you do. It'd be pretty sad if you don't love a friend."
Jody: "Damn... you got me."
Me: "I don't fall for tricks like that."
Jody: "Yes, you did. You said that I should tell my thing first. So now it's your turn."
Me: "I ah... damn... I think this sword might be the power source of Summers."
Jody: "My brother doesn't use his own power?"
Me: "He does, but he needs energy. Every time I drained energy from him, he got it back within a second. Of course, it's logical to assume that no one has infinite energy themselves. They need to have something that refills it. And this isn't the source Seria was searching for, so that's why I think it might be the source your brother uses."
Seria: "So it's just a theory?"
Me: "It could also be that he just has infinite energy from himself, and I could be totally wrong. So Tails, don't examine the sword thinking you already know exactly what it does. I might be something else."
Man... I got tricked before I even used my own trick. So now they know. But I asked them not to say anyone else about it yet. It's not long before we arrive at a lab. A new lab that Tails build, and a house is in it too. How the hell did he manage to make that in a few days?
End of chapter