Chapter 2 'The mysterious cave':
Nick continued into the cave. He finally took time to notice one small problem.
"Strange why is there light in this tunnel? No signs of electricity, no light source from outside."
Nick finally reached a dead end, or at least no other way of going forward. There was a hole in the floor of the cave a massive one. Nick peered down and it was a big drop about thirty feet. But there was another tunnel entrance below and a lot of funny looking mushrooms. Nick still curious what was down this tunnel and started to climb down. Bad move the surface was slippery further down and he fell. Expecting a painful thump instead he felt a soft 'flump' (same sort of noise when you fall on top of a big soft pillow) he had landed on one of those mushrooms; it was as big as he was and soft like silk.
It was purple with brown spots.
"Never seen a mushroom like that!" he said to himself it could be a new species of Mushroom.
Bur Nick didn't know much about mushrooms anyway so he continued with his exploration thinking nothing of the mushroom that saved his life. He entered the second tunnel hall but this time it seemed what he was searching for has now been found. Nick's eyes opened with glee and astonishment. He was in a massive hall (if you could call it that) this hall was big, it had a large pool in the middle of the floor and the ceiling had a massive hole which looked up at the bright sun, the Sun reflected beautifully on the water's surface.
There were also white structures all around the hall, maybe there was constructions going on?As for the walls and rest of the floor they were covered with beautiful plants and there were other caves leading to other places quite a few in fact. Nick smiled, he felt happy not just because he was surprised by the natural beauty of the hall but he had discovered something like nothing else before. Who would've thought a cave system with a beautiful core behind the wall of a house?
Nick thought back to his favorite novel 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe' about when the little girl discovered Narnia through the closet how she must've felt when she discovered the winter wonderland and the lamppost is exactly how Nick was feeling right now. But then he thought to himself again.
"Well there are holes for doors, stairs and some sort of white constructions here, there must be inhabitants here" the place was deserted.
What Nick didn't know is that the inhabitants hadn't fully woken up yet, but being curious as ever he wondered on exploring. Who knows what else he might find? Nick saw a corridor right in front of him and went in it. He went up the stairs and there were other tunnels leading off to the side. He went through one on his second right and at the end was another hole but this one had a curtain drawn over the entrance. Nick was going to draw the curtain when he finally heard a yawn.
"Someone's in there!" he thought but were they friend or foe? What if they were monsters?
He heard another yawn but then a conversation from the room broke out.
"Mokey, Mokey wake up it's time for our morning jog!"
The voice sounded feminine but it also sounded like a very excited child somewhat. Another yawn crept out from the room.
"I'm up Red, I'm up but do I have to go jogging? I've been working on a painting I want to finish so badly" this second voice was also feminine but sounded peaceful and calm compared to the other. By the sound of it the occupants of the room sounded like they were just getting up.
Nick thought to himself;
"Hmm they speak English, and they sound civilized, heck they might be human!" Nick eventually summoned up the courage to speak.
"Uuuuhhh excuse me is anyone in there?" silly thing to say when Nick knew they were in there but he wanted to hear how they reacted. A response;
"Yeah of course! We're just getting up" came the excited voice.
"Good" Nick thought "They seem to be reacting in a calm way". Then the peaceful voice came again.
"Who is it? I don't think I've heard your voice before? Are you new here?"
Nick replied;
"Err yeah you can say that"
There were excited girlish giggles from inside the room Nick could here "Ooohh there's a new Fraggle here in the rock!"
"Fraggle" Nick thought "What in the hooba jooba is a Fraggle?"
The excited voice said out loud.
"Hang on we'll be right out! In the meantime what's your name?" it said.
Nick obliged the request;
"My name is Nicholas but you can call me Nick" he thought if he could socialize with whatever was in the room they wouldn't be hostile if they had any towards him.
The voices came again; Nick could hear they seemed puzzled by the name, in fact by the sound of it they never even heard the word before. Then the calm voice came.
"Alright I'm coming"
Nick was somewhat excited perhaps these were the things Sprocket kept chasing back in his house? Who knows they might be just human because they speak English and seem to be very social. The curtain finally opened;
"Oh finally I was wonderi…."
Nick couldn't finish his sentence for the sight he saw made his face turn white.