Hello! I'm sorry for the long wait but I have a good reason on why. I got into a bad situation and kinda lost my inspiration. When I finally got my inspiration back, my sister was on the computer.
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Chapter 6
The Intelligence Cave pt.1
"It's pitch black in here!", exclaimed Tucker.
"Ouch! That was my foot!", said Velma.
"Sorry"
The torches flickered to life along the walls. On the wall in front of them was another silver plaque, the words were gleaming by the flames of the torches.
The Intelligence Cave
This cave will test your intelligence in many ways. You must act quickly and resourcefully to survive. This is the only way to tp get past this cave.
Out of nowhere appeared glowing blue wrist bands hovering in mid air.
"Should we put them on?", questioned Velma.
"I guess"
They grabbed them and put them but the latch on the bracelets disappeared and they tightened.
"What the heck!", Tucker exclaimed trying to pry the bracelet of his wrist.
"We can't get them off!", Velma said.
A loud rumbling shook them and toppled them down. The wall was suddenly splitting open, scattering dust and pebbles in their directions. The shielded their eyes from the debris. When they opened their eyes, they let out a gasp as they laid eyes on the site before them. It seemed as they if they were in the center of the earth. The walked into the newly formed cavern and peered down the ledge. Magma was bubbling underneath as if it were a monster, eyeing it's prey while waiting for the right moment to pounce. Further off, the magma abruptly exploded like a fountain to the rock ceiling, which was much higher now, wherever thy looked. The temperature also greatly increased. They could feel themselves getting hotter and hotter by the second.
"Look!", Tucker pointed to the other side. Velma turned and saw the exit tunnel on the other side.
"How do we get over there?", asked Tucker.
"As I think it has to do something with this.", Velma said showing Tucker what she was observing before.
On the far wall was what seemed to be a puzzle. This puzzle, however, seemed extremely complicated. They were slabs of square hard stone, with the mysterious language written on them.
"This shouldn't be to hard.", Velma said taking out Tucker's PDA.
She was just about to turn it on when it came a faint yellow spark and died.
"My baby!", exclaimed Tucker, grabbing his RIP PDA out of Velma's hands.
"Why do must the good die young!", he cried to the sky.
Velma rolled her eyes and stared at the new plaque on the wall. It shimmered for a moment then it deciphered it self to the English language.
You must figure out this puzzle on your own without any artificial help While one person deciphers the ancient riddle, the person will help the other person to make the journey across the pits of magma. The bands that you wear prevents you on leaving unless you succeed and cross, or failed and perish to the pits of Hell. Be warned that you will have a limited amount of time.
A shivered was sent down both their spines as they imagined falling to their doom. Out from the magma came a slab of stone about 6 feet in diameter.
"Are you good with puzzles?", asked Tucker, finally out of rant.
"I guess so," she started, "I was always good with crossword puzzles."
"I'm terrible, I'm better with technology."
Velma started walking to the puzzle, pondering this difficult challenge. Tucker eyed the floating platform warily. He wasn't afraid of heights since he always flies around with Danny. It was the boiling magma down below that worried him. He gave a leap of faith and almost had a heart attack as he fell to the floor of the platform. "You all right?", Velma turned. "Yeah, just spooked.", he blushed. Velma turned back to the puzzle and pulled out her pencil. Sure her knowledge was challenged with mysteries in castles and dungeons but nothing this life threatening.
'Can I actually so this?', she worried herself.
Tucker was so busy on watching Velma that he gave a yelp as the platform started moving to the center of the dome. The plaque shimmered again and Velma read the few words that made her heart leap.
You may begin.
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Velma whirled around and started concentrating on her task. She looked at the order the symbols were arranged.
xxxx xxxxxxxx xxxx xxx
xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxxx
xxx xxxx xxxx xx
xxx xxxx xxxx xx
xx xxx xxx xxx xxx
xxxx xx xx
'Okay Velma, you just have to think logically.', she thought as she took a deep breath.
Looking at the challenge, she racked her brain for all of the information she has ever learned about the English language. She knew the origin, grammar rules, and even the most of the dictionary but these things did not look like they would be of any help. She gasped as memory of her childhood came back to her. Why this would happen in such a situation she never knew but she was grateful for it.
"Come on Daphne! Let's play Snoopers!", a little six year old Velma begged her friend.
"I don't know.", she mused.
"Like come on!", joined Shaggy.
"It will be fun!"
"Oh all right.", she sighed.
"Okay everybody knows the rules?", asked Fred.
Even back then he was the leader. His friends nodded.
"Then lets go!"
As they played, Velma was in charge for her team to decode little codes like 'School sucks!', 'You owe me a cookie!', and 'You are supposed to do my homework!'. She would use secrets to decode them.
She learned stuff like the letter E was most commonly used letter in the language and also at the end of words. THE,OF, AND, IN, A, IS, THAT, FOR, and IT were the most commonly used words. Her friends would play this game for hours on end. It was this game that made them so good at solving mysteries in the near future.
Velma snapped back from memory lane and smiled. She now knew what to do. Taking her pencil from behind her ear, she approached the 'code'.
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'Oh my gosh!', Tucker thought desperately as he gazed down from the platform.
He took back about not being afraid of height. Normal heights, no. Heights where you could fall to your doom when the only thing keeping you up is a slab of stone, yes. He looked back to where Velma was and gulped. It was a long way from where he currently was at.
Oh sure he faced dangers before. Being a superhero sidekick was not an easy task to manage. You had to run, duck, and more running just to manage to get out of the fight in one piece. But that was just it. Sidekick. Danny was nowhere in sight. If he falls, he won't be here to go ghost and fly him to safety. He was on his own...
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So there you go. I know, another short chapter but I hope it's interesting. I decided to do this so I have time to write an exciting pt.2. Check my profile for news on my stories. I got this idea from number of sources. Mario64(the magma episode),this computer game I played, and my best friend Daisy. If it wasn't for her, you guys would've probably been reading this three days later. So give a big shout out to Daisy everybody! RnR!