Chapter 6: The Temple
The next mourning we resumed our hike, but not before we had some breakfast though, Smithy had gone out early and found the sweetest fruit that I had ever tasted. I was still licking my fingers as we began our hike, I couldn't believe how willingly I had opened up to Smithy last night, I mean some of the things we talked about I would only share with my closest friends if them, it was a very different feeling I had for Smithy a feeling I could not identify, but I liked it. We had been walking for some time when there came into view a temple that looked like it might have been there since the world began.
"Is that the temple?" I asked excitement bubbling up inside me.
"Yes it is, now come on!" Smithy called running ahead; all we had to do was to cross a rope bridge that spanned a very deep gorge. Smithy went first and made it all the way across without anything happening. "Its safe!" he called over to me. I began to walk across the bridge, when I was about in the middle I heard the sound of ropes stretching I looked back the way I had come and saw the ropes beginning to snap I ran for the other side, but just before I got to the other side the ropes snapped and the bridge fell from under me, smithy's hand grabbed mine in the nick of time. I looked up at smithy, my eyes wild with fear. "Don't worry I won't let ye fall!" Smithy assured me. Smithy noticed a change in my eyes; they no longer looked fearful instead he saw a look that said, "I trust you." He pulled me up and we both sat near the ledge to catch our breath.
"Thanks for saving me again" I said,
"Your welcome, ye ready for the temple?" Smithy asked, I nodded; we got up and turned to look at the temple.
The temple loomed up before us casting a shadow that reached all the way to the other side of the gorge. We went up to the doorway,
"I'll go first I don't have a torch, but that shouldn't be a problem because the path is straight, if ye want too though, ye can hold my hand" Smithy explained to me. I gladly took his hand, and then we went in together, into the darkness of death.
We seemed to have been walking in the dark for hours, when I began to notice a soft yellow glow coming from up ahead. Soon we came into a room that was drenched in the soft yellow glow. Near the back of the room there was a pedestal beyond that the inscription Smithy had told me about, the yellow light seemed to be coming from the letters themselves.
"You wait here I'll go put the treasure back." Smithy whispered. He walked up to the pedestal and took the treasure out of the bag and placed it onto the pedestal, then he turned around and started to walk towards me, but suddenly the ground shook and then split right under Smithy, he fell into the fissure!