Chapter Five
By Hdogg
The Cave of Wonders
Story Told by Mo
Note: Hiya! I'm back! Did ya miss me! Hehe. Guess who's going to tell the story? Me! Hehe. Hope ya enjoy!
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"Whoa!" Yelled Danny. His gorgeous brown hair fluttered in front of his eyes. "Watch where you aim, girl!" He laughed as he nimbly dodged one of my flaming balls of fire.
"Oops…wrong way, again." I said, looking sheepish. I had done this the past few times I've thrown my fireball at something. They always seemed to try to hit him, instead of trying to hit the beasts. "I didn't mean for the thing to go towards ya."
Danny sighed, smiled, and said all at the same time, "It's all right. Just please, watch where you aim." He ruffled my hair and walked off.
I smiled mischievously at him and looked into his eyes, "Whatever you say, dude." Stuy was picking up stuff that fell onto the ground out of the icky corpses of things that we had killed.
"Hmm…look at what I found, a ring, a scroll, some potions, mana and healing, and some armor." He said dumping the armor in front of Danny and me. The potions were on his belt, so I guessed he wasn't about to share those with us.
"I want studded leather thing!" I called out reaching for the armor. The armor was a bit old but it fit well. "Uhh…is there any other color besides brown? It doesn't look good on me." Danny and Stuy just stared at me with blank looks. I giggled. Danny had the cutest looks! "Okay…never mind." I thought, 'Men, no sense of style.'
"Hmm…let's see what kind of scroll is it?" Asked Danny, looking at the scroll that Stuy held in his hand. His wand was stuck onto this belt as he looked at the scroll.
"It's red so I believe that is it an identification scroll." Replied Stuy. He ran one of his hands through his slightly curly dirty blonde hair. "Wonder how you use it…I would like to see what kind of ring we found, chaps."
"Perhaps, we read it?" I said, stating the obvious. I rolled my eyes. Some men can be such stupid idiots.
"Perhaps, ol' gel." Stuy broke the seal, opened the scroll, and read, "Oh punt! Oh punt! Uitbrengen uw zuiver vorm voor mij!" The ring glowed and the metal turned a bluish tint.
"Oh, cool! Look, it changed colors!" I said picking up the ring. "And it's blue! It's so totally me!" I looked at the ring closely. A blue topaz was set into the blue tinged gold.
"What did you say, Stuart?" Asked Danny, as I admired the ring. The scroll had disappeared into thin air after Stuart was done reading it. To bad it didn't burst into flames. It would have been a little more interesting.
"I don't know…it's in a different language, one I don't know, surprisingly." He said. I fingered the ring, wondering what it did. I was tempted to put it on but it could kill me if I didn't know exactly what the heck it did. I twirled it around in my hands.
"How do you what it does? It's not like we're on a computer and can just click the ring, ya know." I mumbled to mostly myself but apparently the gorgeous brown haired boy was listening to my opinion.
"Good point, Mo." Danny said. "I wonder how we figure out how it works…" The ring felt natural in my hand for some odd reason. It started to hum. "Umm…is that good?"
"I haven't a clue…" I slipped the ring on my figure. Nothing happened or so I thought. A band of rats with quils on there back started firing needles at us. "Eek!" I squeaked, jumping behind Danny.
Danny pulled out his sword and started chopping at the little rats but he kept missing them. "Damn! Why can't I hit them?" He swung again and hit the ground. "Grrr…"
I threw a fireball at one. The rat it exploded. Charred pieces of its flesh were spread out on the ground. The two guys thought it was cool but it was a little too much for me. I shrugged and turned to the next Quill Rat in line to die. "Hmmm…." I threw two other fireballs the other rats. Both were dead in a matter of minutes. "I killed all the rats…" I mumbled, without much victory in my voice.
"Hmm…I think that ring boosted your attack rating and perhaps some of your mana, Mar." Said Stuart, studying the dead monsters. "I wonder…Steigern mein servieren! Komme und Kampf als mich, mein Krieger!" A skeleton warrior raised out of one of the rats.
"AHH!!" I yelled as I hid behind Danny. He gave me a funny look and turned to Stu.
He gulped nervously and asked Stu, "Dude, what is that?"
"Wow, it worked..." He said to himself. He was looking at his wand then to the skeleton then back to his wand again.
"WHAT WORKED?" Asked Danny, loudly, slightly annoyed with Stu.
"Oh a spell I learned. I can raise an army with this spell…Interesting, eh?" He replied walking around. The skeleton followed him silently except for the slight creaking of its bleach white bones rubbing in their joints.
"Umm, no I think its creepy, dude…" I said to Stuy then I wisphered in to Danny's ear, "Danny, do you think its safe?" I wisphered softly, putting my hands on his board shoulders. I stood on my tiptoes, to look over his shoulder, to glance at Stu.
"I hope so." I felt him shudder. I have a small, hopefully, reassuring squeezed.
"Hey, guys!" Yelled Larry from a distance always, "I think we found the cave!" I groaned as I stuck to Danny like glue, not letting him go.
"Your attached to me now, aren't you?" He asked, smiling. I growled at him and, almost reluctantly, let him go. "Perhaps not…" He shrugged.
He, Stuy, and I ran over to where that barbarian was. The cave was just a hole in the ground and it was dark. I attached myself to a bolder.
"I refuse to go in there." I said stubbornly. My friends stared at me with either amused, annoyed, or in Larry's case, blank looks.
"Hey, you made me come out here. If I go in, you're coming with me." Said Aly glaring at me. She looked awfully menacing with her spear in her hand.
"Uh uh. I ain't moving no matter what." I said, hugging the rock like my life depended on it. My friends glared at me. Danny wisphered something to Larry. He smiled at me as he approached me. "Why don't I trust that smile on your face, Larry." I mumbled with a slight glare. Larry moved quickly and picked me up off the ground.
"GRAHH! LET ME! GO YOU BABOON!" I said hitting him in the head.
"Owe! Hey stop that!" He said, slinging me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
"Larry, if you don't put me down I'll be forced to throw Fireballs at you." I growled out, preparing my spell.
"Hehe." He ripped my staff from my hands and handed it to Aly. "No, you won't."
"Wanna bet?" I asked. A mischievous smile played on my face.
"Nope." He said as he crawled into the dark cave. The cave's air was musky and smelt like dead flesh. I gagged. After a moment or two, Larry stood up in the carven. Danny and the others popped up next to Larry out of the hole. Aly lit a torch. The walls were all slimly and moldy.
"PUT ME DOWN! I WANT OUT OF HERE!" I yelled. There was a loud crash behind us as the entrance of the cave melted away into the wall. I held onto Larry's neck against my will. "Oh my gosh! I hate the dark!" I sniffled and increased pressure on his neck.
Aly, Jenny, and Stuart all held torches. "Think, I should put her down, Dan?" Asked Larry, almost choking from my death grip.
"You better, we'll need her lovely fireballs against the demons in this cave, ya know." He replied all ready heading down a passage. Larry sat me down and Aly handed my staff back to me and started following Danny down the passage. The rest of us followed, Larry and me were in the back of the line. All of a sudden, there were shouts ahead.
"Do you think they're fighting up there? Or did someone run into a stalactite?" I asked Larry, trying to see over Aly's head. 'I hate being short. IT'S NOT FAIR!' I thought grudgingly.
"I think it's fighting." He said looking over my head. He was a good deal taller then the rest of us. "There's fighting. I just saw Jenny kick a walking corpse in the head." He snickered.
I thought, 'Joyous…More evil monsters to fight and I'm so hungry…' There was a noise behind Larry. The loud clanging noise of armor. WHOOSH! An arrow whizzed past Larry's arm and missed me. "What was that?" I asked. I heard a sickening crack of a skull being broken by a heavy blow. Wide eyed, I swallowed nervously.
"A vile hunter or whatever they're called shot an arrow at us. Stay down." He shouted as he charged at a zombie.
"Fine with me." I said, hiding behind a stagalmite. Larry was having a picnic chopping stuff in half. "Larry! Behind you!" I yelled as a monster crept up behind him.
He didn't appear to have heard me. "Fireball!" I shouted waving my staff and pointing to the monster. The monster dropped dead when the fireball hit it. Larry had finally chopped off the last monsters head and headed back towards me. He was bleeding in several places. "Did you notice that you're hurt?" I asked pointing out the obvious.
"Uh-huh." He said as he sat down on the ground. I went around gathering various items. A large leather shirt for Larry, some potions for both of us, and a few scrolls. There was nothing to valuable in this little gather.
"Here, Larry. Drink this." I handed him a red vial.
"Umm…Is it safe?" He asked. I nodded. He drank all the contents in one gulp. All his cuts were healed, thankfully. "Thank you."
"And here put this on. It looks likes it'd fit you." I handed him the leather armor I had picked up. He slipped on over his head.
"Thanks. Now we both have armor, right, Mar?" He said to me, smiling.
"Yup. Now lets go find the others." I replied, looking down the passage to where some other fighting was going on. Larry stood up and started walking towards the noise. I followed behind him closely, watching wearily for more demons.
We didn't have to walk to far because they had turned around. I asked Danny why. "Oh, it was just a dead end. Let's try the passage." We headed to the other passage just opposite of the first one we went down.
"Hey, where'd ya get that armor?" Asked Aly, looking curiously at Larry's new armor.
"Mo, found it for me." Replied Larry, slightly beaming.
"Hmmm….I see. Well, we found some stuff too." Said Aly, dropping a few more potions and scrolls. There was also a short sword, another magical item that needed to be identified, and a pair of broken gloves.
'Now, why someone would pick up a broken pair of gloves is beyond me…' I thought looking at the stuff.
"Graahhh!" Yelled a little red demon as an it waved its torch around in mini circles. For a fleeting moment, I thought it looked cute. Then I threw the broken gloves at its face.
"DIE!" I yelled at the monster. It gave me a blank look. I laughed nervously and hid behind Danny, once again. He gave me a queer look and just shrugged.
"Incoming, monsters." Said Jen as she sliced one's arm off with her katar. The little demon yelled at her and banished its torch in Jenny's face, slightly burning Jen's face. "Grrr, you are SO gonna pay for that!" She said kicking the monster into the afterlife. "Teach you to burn me, you little demon." Jenny drank a vial to heal herself. The rest of us watched surprised.
I was slightly afraid and held onto Danny's tanned, muscular arm. Then, I wisphered to Aly, "She dangerous when she's mad. Remind me to rather make her mad, Kay?" I shuddered a little.
"Uh-huh. Same goes for me too." She wisphered back. Dru was busy killing a big beast with Larry while Danny picked up gold from off the floor. In my somewhat strange mind, I imaged him to be singing for joy as he collected the gold off the dusty ground.
"Let's see I found…100 gold coins. Anyone know what 100 divide by 7 is?" He asked, jingling the money in his hand.
"Just give everyone 14 coins, Danny." I said to him. Larry and Dru came back with blood on them from the big beast.
"But then there's 2 left." He said, handing out the money. I smiled happily, accepting the money.
"Then give it to me." I said, as he handed the rest of the money to me.
"Okay, whatever." We kept on walking, not encountering any more things. Danny stopped us and said in a low voice, "There's ten zombies up a head, be careful. They eat flesh so watch your back, guys." Then he charged head first into battle. 'Oh, he's so cute when he does that!' I thought to myself for some unknown reason. Larry charged second.
"RRAHH!" He screamed bashing the zombies with his club. Stuart's skeleton fought for Stuy while Dru and Jenny fought side by side against three zombies. Aly took care of what was left. Then I noticed the unique monster.
'What was his name again…' I thought, absentmindly, as I watched the unique Zombie. Then Zombie charged for Danny. "Danny! Behind ya! Corpse Fire is right behind ya!" I yelled across the cavern.
"Huh?" He said turning around as the zombie hit him in the side. "Ahhh!" Danny cried out. He wasn't wearing any armor at all. He dropped his sword and shield and clutched his bleeding side.
I growled and shouted, "Ice bolt!" A blast of ice sprang out of my staff and hit Corpse Fire in the back. I stood in shock as the zombie came after me. 'What did I just yell? I don't know the spell for Ice bolt…or do I now?' I thought still in shock of what I did.
"Rah!" Yelled Larry as he killed the flesh-eater, with a single mighty blow of his club. "Hey, you okay, Mo?" He asked me with a concerned look, on his handsome, young face. His blue eyes looked so comforting. I could get lost in them so easily.
But I just nodded and answered. "Yes, thanks, Larry." I gave him a quick hug and ran over to help Danny.
"Oh, gees, that hurt." He groaned, "could someone get me a health potion?"
"Umm…oops." Said Jenny, as she mistakenly drank the last one.
'Oh, dear…' I thought then said. "I'll go find another one. I'll be right back." I took off down a very narrow shaft in the cave. I used my magic to light a light blue flame on the tip of my staff. Thankfully, the fire wasn't burning my staff as I walked down the narrow shaft. "There's gotta be a vial around here somewhere…" I saw light ahead. I thought it was my friends but it was the little red demons again. "Grrr…Get out of way!" I yelled as I fired a fireball at one of the little demons. The rest scattered.
I heard a scraping noise behind me again. "Graahhh!" Yelled the red demon that I had thought I killed.
"Eek!" I screamed as I sent a crushing blow to the demon's head with my wooden staff. "How'd ya come back to life…?" I asked the dead demon. Then I saw the fallen shaman in the shadows. "Oh…well, that could a reason why, now couldn't it?" I mumbled to myself as I threw an ice bolt at the shaman. "DIE YOU DEMON!" I yelled, the creature did die too and dropped a red vial.
All of a sudden, it seemed that someone had turned on the lights. Shafts of sunlight came though opening in the ceiling. I ran back to where I had left Danny and the others but they were gone… 'That's funny,' I thought holding the vial tightly in my hand, trying to figure where my comrades had gone, 'I could have sworn they were here when I left… Where could they have gone…?'
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Where are the rest of the warriors? Did they leave Mo on purpose or did they just disappear? Will Mo be able to find them? And does Mo like Danny? Or could it be Larry? Only time will tell. Stay tuned in for Chapter Six told by Aly.
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Note: Hmm…Here's a new twist to the story…Everyone disappeared…What will Maureen do? And what is this about her thinking that Danny is cute? Does she have a crush on him? And she was actually nice to Larry and she thought she was handsome? She wasn't throwing fire balls at him? Did her brain cease to function or something? Mysterious….