"You have to admit that was pretty cool." Adven grinned.
"Cool?" Jet wondered as he continued down the hallway. Sa was at least nice enough to get them a day and a half into the journey, and not making them walk all of it. A waste of all of their times if that was the case. "You were nearly pissing your pants back there. I saw how you reacted to all of that."
Adven glared as his spirit fell. "So?"
"Maybe I should mention that to Sakura and everyone else when we get back."
"Then I will have to tell them about your own near accident regarding pants and urine."
Jet stopped. "What are you talking about? Sa had nothing on me."
"I know you were scared even though you hadn't shown it." Adven continued. "Just because you remain as still as a stone it doesn't mean you are any bit further from pissing your pants."
"Pheh." Jet started his walk again with Adven trailing behind. "A real hero is someone who is too afraid to run away, too afraid to stay, so they instead run into what they are afraid of." Jet coyly replied as he tried his best to defend his own actions.
"So…it was cool right?" Adven grinned.
"Well…his hair was made of fire, and that first wall of fire…yeah, it was." Jet admits.
"Hey, look we're home." Adven remarks as they pass through the door with the fire marking on it. Sitting on the floor quietly was a woman with a glare that had more heat to it than the Ever-Light, and that thing held the hottest flames known to the universe.
Jet and Adven stood awkwardly in silence as she watched them with crossed arms and legs. Her teeth nibbling angrily at her bottom lip. The two slowly looked to one another. Each swearing to one another because once more they did the same thing at the same moment. Both men were getting tired of that.
Jet looked to the door directly across from them and behind Mizu, who sat in the middle of the intersection. The door with the seal with a water drop on it moved aside without any noise or scrapping across tracks on the floor. It was almost as if it had just disappeared.
"Um…well," Adven rolled his eyes with a heavy breath.
"We'll be off now." Jet remarks with a salute as each of them walked as fast, and as slowly as possible across the hall. Walking around the woman as if she were not there at all. But, the beads of sweat on the men out of nervousness knew she was there.
"Wait." Her soft voice came. No emotion in it, and that was what made Jet cringe and Adven to turn to stone.
Slowly as if being turned bit by bit with a ratchet, the two men turned ninety degrees to face her. Each with their lungs waiting to see if it were safe to work or not. Even though it was only a few seconds it felt like eons. This loud silence.
"Well, let's get going, shall we?" Mizu offered as she walked past the two of them. Their eyes following her until Jet and Adven met glances. Looking to see who would be the first to follow. To see who would live and who would die.
"Are you two coming?" Mizu wondered as she entered the hall.
"Be right there." Adven replied as he watched Jet. The two of them going nowhere.
Jet took a step and followed Mizu, which made Adven then follow him. However, then Jet turned around and tried to push the brunette ahead. Adven countered and another grappling session began between them.
Finally they broke and looked to each other. "We go at the same time." Jet offered as an answer.
Adven nodded and the two walked at the same moment side-by-side of one another, and just to the back of the woman who was already ahead of them.
"What took you two so long in that hallway?" She wondered.
"Uh, well," Adven looked to Jet.
"The hall goes on for two days." Jet simply said. "Then at the end there was an ancient holy being of some sort, with fire hair."
"Oh?"
"Right." Adven nodded, even though she could not see that. "Apparently two days here, is two seconds in the real world. So…about three seconds have passed there."
She nods. "I see."
"And…at the end of each of these halls is another being, with another item that you put together with the others to make one single item that can counter the Cane of Calamity."
She turns to them, but continues walking backwards down the blue stone halls. "And…you have one of the items?"
"Well...no, because Jet had to go and damage Salamander's name, so now he will only give us his item if we can get Gnome to fix his name."
She looks to them confused. "His…name?"
"It's better not explaining it." Jet remarks. "The fact is simple, that we must meet this water being and then the Gnome. After that we should have three items, and we can get back to treasure hunting, or whatever, as soon as possible." He nods as if stamping that proposed plan.
Adven nods. "I'm with Jet for…no…not once…again. Let's get going." The two men continue along their way along the shifting blue room.
Shifting?…
It was as if light coming through water was around them and made that glow to the room. Though, there was no such water anywhere in the hall. It was simply there without an agent that placed it there.
The trio did feel a bit odd in such a place. It gave one an unsettled stomach.
"No name to mess up this time." Adven grins. Jet sighs and looks ahead along the path. A fit of dizziness taking him over for a moment. It seemed like he was moving suddenly without his legs taking a step. Like the end of the tunnel-like hall was closing in on him quickly. It was not just him though, because Adven and Mizu had felt the wooziness as well.
And then it was over. Jet blinked and he let out a breath, but seeing bubbles. Water. Jet and the others were in a pool of water suddenly. The hall was far-gone. They were merely in a pit of water that none of them could get out of. Mainly because they couldn't swim. On a planet with no water they have no time to practice at this. So there was just twirling, but then Jet came to the top and was treading water.
Somewhere deep within his mind there was a memory of how to swim. So Jet snatched up Adven's head of hair and Mizu's shirt. The bra coming undone at the same time, but there was no time to complain in all of the bubbling shouts. And it was in the name of lifesaving. Adven was with his horrible sour face though, all due to the hair-tugging.
Jet burst forth from the water pulling his two companions along with him as deep breaths were taken in. Followed by a fist to Jet's left cheek by Adven, and a slap from Mizu on his right.
"How dare you try to go to second at a time like this?" She shrieked.
A clapping filled the room in echoes. Like that of clashing waves. The three went quiet as in this stillness they scanned the room. A silhouette of a woman on a platform like that Sa had his throne on, but the throne was missing. The egotistical take on her imprisonment was not her at all, as it had been Sa's.
"What vitality!" She expressed boldly in a vibrant voice filled with energy. "The man with the gray hair is of my liking." She glimmers.
Adven stood immobile. The woman would be considered naked if she were human, but she was the water being, and like Sa with his hair, this woman had her body made of water. The water that was in a small layer along the floor. Her hair went right to the floor. Her body of a perfect ten made of water as the light shined upon it.
Mizu had fixed her bra strap by now from under her shirt. Standing as she finished. "So you would be…"
"You don't know who I am?" The water being balked.
Adven stood up fixing his hair and testing his breath quickly. "Undine." He simply said out of nervousness. Adven had always thought the first breasts he would see were real ones, but the outlines of them made of water still were the sort of thing that would cause him to stiff up in all his muscles, much to his dismay.
Jet finally planted his two feet in the shallow puddle that spread across the floor. "So what is the item that you hold?"
"Quick to the point. I love a man who knows what he wants." She giggles with a hand to her mouth. "I have never seen another being who could move like that in water." She grins with her hands at her hips. "What is the name of the man who can move like a water sprite?"
Jet blinked. Adven let out a giggle. "She…c…a…l…l…e…d…y-o-o-u-u-u…a s-sp-sprite!" The laugh burst into one that shook the very water itself. Even Mizu could barely keep her own laugh still in, but she did and held it back tight with a smile.
Suddenly the waters around them swirled and Undine's anger flared, but unlike Sa only water flew about the place. Without warning a torrent of water shot from the floor and flung the brunette into the far wall shattering the tiles upon first impact. Splinters of debris falling into the shallow water. Adven slowly falling to that shallow water not long after.
Jet glanced to the woman who had sent Adven to the wall so easily. A pleasant smile on her face. "So…as I was saying." She looks to Jet with a fond smile. "Will you honor me, by taking my hand?"
Jet stood there like a statue. "I…guess." He rose a brow. Such an odd request, but he moved through the water to the woman out of fear he may be the next one imbedded in a wall.
Gingerly he took her hand that was made of water, but it was like any other soft woman's hand to the touch. "Is that all?" He wondered.
She laughed. "Silly man." She wrapped her arms around Jet who was the shorter of the couple. The muscles tensing ever so quickly within the android's body. "What is your name?"
"Uh…it's…er…uh," Jet was beginning to feel bad about this.
"It's Jet Enduro." Mizu said simply out of outrage. She knew what was going on, and felt Jet deserved it.
Undine gave a welcoming smile. "Thanks you, woman."
"So…uh, I mean…are you happy…now that I took your hand?" Jet nearly squeaked as her breasts ran across his chest briefly as she breathed.
"Jet, when I say to take my hand, I mean for you to take it in marriage." Undine giggled.
Jet went rock-solid. "Jetty Boy?" She questioned.
Mizu shook her head briefly. Jet knew his memories were terrible to him. Look what they got him into now.
