Chapter 8, Part 1: Separate but equal
It has been 24 hours since Cindy single-handedly beat the first boss battle and rescued her friends. It has been 8 hours since Cindy and her friends decided to make camp and rest their tired limbs. Cindy, Libby, Carl, and Sheen slowly get up from their slumber.
"I wish I had some coffee right now." said Sheen, half-yawning in the process.
"Sheen, we all know the last thing you need is coffee. I mean you're already hyperactive enough as it is. I just can't imagine what would happen if you were to drink coffee." said Carl, who seems energetic.
"What do you mean by that, fatso?" yelled an angry Sheen.
"I said, weirdo, that the last thing you need is coffee, or anything caffeinated." said Carl, whose anger is starting to build up.
"That's it, you're going get it." said Sheen, who throws an extremely fast and extremely powerful punch at Carl.
Carl wisely rolls out of the way. He was about to retaliate when Cindy stopped him. By the looks of it, Libby had stopped Sheen from trying to cause any further harm.
"Enough!" screamed Cindy and Libby commandingly.
Carl and Sheen look at the girls with angry eyes, and then they calm themselves down.
"That's better. Now I want you two to shake hands and be friends' again." said Cindy.
Carl and Sheen, seeing no other options, shake hands and apologize to each other. Although they apologized to each other, neither meant it.
"Okay, now that you two are friends again, we can get back to trying to beat this game. Okay, on the way down the mountain, did anybody see any door?" asked a benevolent Cindy.
"No, I didn't see one." said Libby.
"Neither did I" said Sheen.
"I didn't on the way down." said Carl. "But I see one now. Look!"
The other look in the direction Carl is pointing at. They see something far in the distance. It's the door!
"Wow, I can see the door. Good job Carl!" said Cindy, amazed.
"Thank you." said Carl.
"Um, not to break up this happy moment, but how do we get up there. It's at least ten miles away." said Libby, forgetting she had two leopards to ride.
"Libby, did you forget that you have leopards we can ride?" asked Sheen, kindly.
"Ops, I guess I did." said Libby, as she mentally calls upon her two leopards.
Almost instantly, her leopards appear at her feet. Libby and Sheen climb onto one, as Cindy and Carl climb onto the other. They then proceed in the direction of the door. 10 seconds later, they stop at the door.
"Okay, we all know what happens when we go though these things. We have to be careful." said Cindy.
They all walk through the door. On the other side, there is a dormant cave. Slowly they enter the cave. All along the caves interior, there are pictures. Once they see the pictures, their bodies fill with fear and terror. The pictures on the walls of the cave are pictures of them, complete with their names.
"Okay, I'm really creeped out." said Carl, who is staring at the pictures of himself.
The pictures that Carl is staring at reveal a bunch of masked figures brutally killing him with sharp, pointy spears. Carl quickly closes his eyes, hoping that the horrible pictures would go away. When they didn't Carl slowly walks away and begins looking at another wall.
"This is spooky." said Libby, who is looking at her pictures.
Her pictures reveal her being thrown into a volcano, with masked men around the neck of the volcano, dancing a weird dance. Libby, just like Carl, slowly walks away and looks around the cave.
"I must agree; this place is scary." said Sheen, staring at his pictures.
His pictures revealed him being slain by his hero Ultralord. All that was left of him was a pile of ashes. Sheen walks away slowly, looking at the other pictures on the wall.
"Wow, I would have never imagined myself doing this." said Cindy.
Her pictures revealed her bowing down before a mysterious figure dressed in a royal robe. Cindy, after examining her pictures, follows the other, looking around the cave. The four friends eventually stumble upon a picture that absolutely shocks them. Their eyes land upon a picture showing Jimmy in a king's chair, with royal guards and servants around him. His eyes are looking right at them. Cindy, Libby, Carl, and Sheen, who are shell-shocked, walk away from the picture. The pictures eyes seem to be following them. They follow a path in the cave until they come across something strange to them. They come across a 4-way split in the cave. Stranger than that, each split had one of their names on it.
"Hey, where do we go now?" asked Sheen.
"I don't know. It's strange that each path in the cave has our names on it." said Cindy.
They all walk up to Cindy's fork. Libby tries to go though it, but is painfully electrocuted.
"Libby, what happened?" asked a concerned Sheen.
"I don't know, Sheen! I tried to go through the path, but I got electrocuted before I could proceed." explained Libby.
Sheen, being Sheen, tries to go through. Like Libby, he was painfully electrocuted. Carl was the next one to try to go though. Like the people before him, he was electrocuted as well. They all think they will get electrocuted, however, when Cindy tried to go through, she goes through unharmed. When she tries to go back, she is blocked by an invisible barrier.
"Okay, it seems like I'm blocked by an outside force. I think I see what to do. You all have to go through the path with your names. Be careful, because once you go in, it's a one-way trip. Sheen, do us a favor, incase we run into enemies, heal us every 5 minutes, if you can. Be careful!" said Cindy, as she walks off to find the end of the path.
Libby, Carl, and Sheen, hesitantly, go to their own paths. They are now separated.
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Great, now that they are separated, they wouldn't be able to surprise me and beat the level. Ha-Ha.
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Man, this is bad. After all the chaos of the previous levels, the last thing we needed to do was separate. The quicker I can get out of here, the better.
Cindy searches around for an exit. She hears something moving.
What was that?
Cindy turns around, only to find herself face to face with a bunch of armed guards with laser spears.
There are so many of them. There is no way I can fight all of them.
"Come with us, and you won't get hurt. Give us a hard time, and we are ordered to kill you." said one of the armed guards.
Cindy, not knowing what else to do, surrenders.
"Very good, follow us." said one of the armed guards.
Cindy follows the armed guards to an unfamiliar place. She and the guards enter a huge dungeon-like chamber. All around her, she sees dust and ashes.
I hope that that dust isn't from humans who have, gulp, been burned.
The armed guards stop and bow down when the encounter a mysterious figure dressed in a robe.
"Guards, you all may leave. That is a direct order," said the robed figure.
"As you command." said the armed guards.
Without warning, the armed guards vanish into thin air. Cindy, not knowing what to do, bows down before the robed figure. The robed figure takes off the robe revealing…
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I need to get out of this place. This place gives me the creeps. What was that?
Libby looks around, but finds nothing. The minute she steps forwards, she gets trapped in a human-sized net. A bunch of face-painted men come out, shouting some crazy, non-understandable language. They grab the net and carry it for miles. They stop in front of a volcano, with boiling lava at the bottom of it. Libby looks down, and almost faints out of fear. The others, with no remorse, through the net over the top of the volcano, chanting and dancing.
"AHH!"
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I wish I knew where to go. Wait, I see a light. It must be an exit! This is awesome, now I can get out of here and be with my friends.
Carl runs to the end of the tunnel. He exits in a field of flowers. In the center of the field lies the sword excaliber. Carl races to the sword. Before he can reach the sword, a group of native warriors surround Carl. They all have spears. They begin to mercilessly attack Carl.
"NOO!"
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This stinks. I've been walking this cave for an hour now and haven't spotted anything; no exit, no enemies, nothing. Hum, perhaps this would be a good time to heal everybody.
Sheen, wisely, takes this "empty" time to heal everybody.
There, I'm all done. Now to continue with this search for an exit.
At this time, Sheen sees something of interest. He spots an Ultralord action figure. He picks it up. Right before his very eyes, the action figure turns into the actual Ultralord. Sheen excitedly tries to give Ultralord a hug. However, Ultralord had other plans, as he pulled out his molecular blasting ray, and pointed it right at Sheen's head.
"Any last words?" asked the currupt Ultralord.
"I don't want to die." said Sheen.
At that moment, Ultralord pulled the trigger.