A Tale of Many an Adventurer- Joe's Story
Chapter 13
Joebushy- Will the team get the legandary weapons? Here you can find out, But only if you read! Reviews are still appreciated.
" So, what you're saying is that you saw the Lekino staff?" Ben asked. " Yeah," Joe confirmed. He had just told the dream he had to his team. " What did it look like?" Chris asked in awe. " Well," Joe started, " It's a little hard to remember. It looked like my staff, although it had an ice crystal embedded in the top. Oh, and the one side was sharp, I think..." Well," Chris said with enthusiasm, " I guess it's off to the mountains, to get the Lekino staff, and then, to Helioa, for the Dukito Spear!"
The team packed up their things. Joe suggjusted they go into town, but considering the people, everyone dissagread. They didn't have supplys, though. Jake said that Carinia was really eleven days away, and they had a path connecting the towns. "Well, they did have a path, Jake said, " but now it doesn't go the whole way. The twistend spell made sure of that." Zach wondered around while the team was packing to collect hurbs, and many other potion ingrediants. He had to make as many helpful potions as possible. When he had, Jake used Levise to put the things over their heads and the team set off from Neasmil. " Off to Carinia!" Chet sang. " Chet, shut up," Taylor said with annoyence. The team was off.
Four days passed until anything happened. The team was near a small pond, where they had decided to camp. It was almost six o'clock at night. The mountains hadn't provided to much of a probem; the path had leveled out after the portion that the twister had destroyed. They considered themselves lucky because of thieir enviornment. The last few nights had been slept on rocks. " Oh, shoot-" Joe said as they settled in. " I've completely forgot of my hat!" Joe hadn't worn his hat since the encounter with the wolves. " When was the last you saw it?" Joseph asked. " Before you and Chris rescued me the first time," Joe said.
No one had seen it since. " I guess I didn't really need it..." Joe said, shrugging. There was a quick and nearly silent hum. Joe looked around. No one else on the team had noticed. He saw a dark figure moving along the path and behind some rocks. He pursued it. When he got to the rock, no one was there. He looked around again, this time much more cautious. The dark figure was moving inward to the mountains. Joe followed it. He came to a mountain path off the main one. The figure was standing there, holding something. Joe looked at the thing and the figure. Both of what he saw surprised him.
The thing was his hat. The pointed hat of a healing mage, Joe. The figure was actually a person, hooded in a brown cloak. Jude. " Why are you doing this?" Joe asked him. He did nothing. The shining blue-eyed sword-wielding druid just walked on. Joe looked at the back of his real-world friend and rival. Where could he be leading him? Up the mountain, of course. It was get cold. Joe was starting to sweat from walking so much... then it came to him it had only been four days. How could he have forgotten? The dream, the cold sweat. The cavern, of course. Jude was bringing him to the Cavern.
The mountain path went up past the clouds. It almost had to, being as cold and icy as it was. Jude and Joe stopped at the end of the path. " Well, here we are," Jude said. " What? Why haven't you talked to me before?" Joe asked in awe. He was just awestruck that Jude had just talked now. " Well," Jude started, " A fool like you wouldn't understand of course. High altitudes are my freedom. But as soon as I go into that cold cavern, I get all blue- eyed again." Joe looked at Jude. His eyes were no longer glowing blue. " How did you get me up here then? You couldn't control yourself, right?" Joe asked. " Let me explain. A person of your intellagence would never understand."
"Then start," Joe commanded with interest. " Don't you dare boss me around, worthless being!" Jude yelled. Joe coughed, but it sounded like ' He's still Jude, alright'. " The intensity of pressure is the main factor. The more pressure, the more control. In the mountains, the high altitude is perfect. At times, mainly in the lower mountains, I have near complete control. Then, in the highest part of a mountain, I control everything. I can move and speak freely. So can Amit. He's down watching your friends, but, as I said, the lower the altitude and pressure, the less control. He's strugging to not harm anything or anyone. Get it?"
Joe got it. Most of it, at least. " But what about the cavern? It's no different out here then in there, I would know-" " What?' Jude asked. " I had this dream where-" Joe started, but then Jude cut in. " Spare me the drama," "Humph." Joe snorted. " Well, you'll see," Jude said. " Huh?" Joe asked. He didn't know how he would see... well, whatever Jude wanted him to see. "You're going in there, aren't you?" Jude asked. " No," Joe said firmly. " What about the Lekino staff?" Jude asked. Joe had to admit, out of everything, that's what he really wanted. Maybe he could actually use the spell to heal his team. " Maybe I will..." Joe admitted.
" Well," started Jude, " Good, because I can't go with you." " What- oh, yeah," Joe said, " But where's the enterence?" Joe turned his back from Jude to look around. Nothing. When he looked back around, Jude was a step closer. He grabbed Joe and started pushing him towards a wall. Joe closed his eyes, ready to feel the pain. None came. It was an invisable barrier. The path went on another few steps, where it ended with a large drop-off, extending as far as anyone could see. Jude brought Joe and held him over it. Joe was struggleing to put his feet on the solid ground Jude was on. Jude then threw him. " Phyc," he yelled at Joe as he fell. Joe saw Jude's eyes glow that shade of blue again. " Damn you!" Joe yelled with rage.
Plummeting into complete darkness. Icy cold cavern. Jude. They all came to Joe's mind as he hit the hard ground. His back cracked. " 'Spare me the drama,' he says. Geez! Who does he think he is? Throwing a healing mage down to the ground off a cliff... he must be really stupid." Joe healed himself, then got up and started walking into the cavern. There was a thump behind him. " Not again!" He yelled. He looked back to see both Amit and Jude. " Oh, now you too? I feel really stupid right now, because I'm talking and you're not listening. Hello?" Amit and Jude had started walking farther into the cavern.
The journey was an easy one. Sometimes, on the downward slopes, Joe sat down and slid. Amit and Jude just flew over the slopes.
Jude was a blond/brown hair white male. He was no less then half an inch talller than Joe. He usually was never happy, and had a very serious expression on his face. Amit was a black haired indian-colored male. Both were equally smart. Jude had better strength. Amit had a better perspective and imagination. Usually.
A light was at the end of the cavern. It was coming from an icy blue stand. In the stand was what Joe was looking for. The Lukino staff. It looked as though it hadn't been moved since the begginning of his dream in Neasmil. He knew what would happen when he touched it. The ice golems. He walked forward to the staff. He reached out his hand slowly. He knew the concequences of touching it. It all came back to him and then- " Just do it!" yelled Amit. Joe grabbed it. Nothing happened.
He turned to Amit and Jude. They stood there. " Now," Jude said, " Let's see how you bear agenst your rival!" Jude took his sword out of it's seeth and slashed Joe's left shoulder. Joe howled with pain as he fell to his knees. " Get up," Jude said. Joe didn't move. The pain was unbearable, immense. " You hindrence to human kind! Get up! Get up!" Jude slashed at Joe's other arm. It fell off. Joe screamed with extreme pain and agony. But then he calmed. " You, Jude, can't be telling me you think you can hurt a healing mage and make the pain stay? Well, then, Heal!" The same green glow as usual came about Joe. He arm reattached. He got up.
" You think you can heal your way out of everything, do you not?" Jude said, " Well, I hate to say it, but your false sense of confidence just might drive you insane! Hindrisa!" A beam of darkness shot from Jude's hands, straight for Joe's heart. It hit dead-on. Joe started struggling from complete pain. He fell to the ground, feeling as though he had thousands of needles pricking at him. Then it felt as though he was being trampled by a stampede of animals. His rage was building. Not here, he thought, Please, not here.
Then he burst into a firey red color. His hands became engulfed in flames, his hair a firey red. " Finally," Amit said. Joe had become a Flamist yet again. He stood up. He had no control He fired at the ice on the cieling above Jude and Amit. The ice became water and splashed on the two's heads. The water froze quickly. Amit and Jude were frozen solid. Joe realized what he had done. He looked around. Then, he fainted yet again.
" Joe!" Chris yelled. The team couldn't find him. " He must've snuck off while we weren't looking," Taylor said. They hadn't seen Jude, nor the shadow of him. Joe was supposedly supposed to be helping pitch the tent, but he got away from doing it. The team split up to look for him. No one found anything but Chet and Chris. But what they found was almost more important.
They had went around the mountain by their campsite and up a path. The weather had went from warm to cold to colder. The altitude of the mountain must of been immense. After walking for almost half an hour, Chet decided they needed to turn around. Chris objected, saying he was looking for something other then Joe. " What the heck could you be looking for besides Joe!" Chet snapped. " The Dukito spear," Chris said with a smirk. Then, about another twenty minutes later, the two heroes came to a landing.
" This must be it," Chris said with curiosity. " You know," said Chet sarcastically, turning away, " I don't think you're gonna' find anything inside a rock wall." He looked back at Chris, or, at least, half of him. Chris was halfway into a rock and halfway out. " Are you coming?" He asked Chet. " Huh? Oh, um, yeah, right," Chet said, confused by the rock veil. " How'd you know about that?" he asked. " A book," Chris answered. " Oh, ok," Chet said. Chris shifted his whole body into the wall. Chet walked up to the wall, and still not sure that it wasn't solid, tried pounding on it. His fist went through. " Ow!" Chris screamed.
" Sorry..." Chet said.
Chet walked through the barrier. The two were standing inside a firey tunnel of rock. " What is it, ninty degrees in here?" Chris said. The two walked into the cave of heat. They started sweating as they went deeper and deeper down the slanting tunnel.
" Chet," Chris said, " I've found it." What was in front of the two was a stand, and in it the Dukito spear. The stand was agenst the final wall of the cave. The spear gleamed a shining silver, it had an enlarged grip, and the tip was cut in four, yet still together. Chris reached out and grabbed the spear. When he did, a hole big enough for the head of the Dukito spear grew into the cave wall.
" Chris," Chet said, " I've got a really bad feeling about this." " What could go wrong?' Chris asked. He pulled the spear out of it's socket. " It's even better then I imagined," Chris said as he examined it. He held it as though to attack, then he ramed it into the hole in the wall. The cave quaked violently. " Hang on!" Chet yelled. The hole in the wall widened because of the Dukito spear's tip splitting into four. The cave stopped shaking. The walls started turning red. " Chet!" Chris yelled, " The cave's going to melt!" And it was. The heat was turning immense, intensifying every second. Chris ran for the hole and grabbed his new spear, with Chet in close pursuit. They jumped into the hole.
What they found froze them stiff. They were in and icy cavern. Joe was lying fainted on the ground. Amit and Jude were frozen stiff with ice. " What happened here-" Chet asked. The hole was getting bigger that connected the two caverns. Soon it was the size of the whole path. " Ut-oh," Chris said. " What do you mean?" Chet asked him. " You know what happens when heat and ice mix, right?" asked Chris "No," Chet said " Well," Chris started, " When they are mixed and there is more heat, there becomes steam. More ice, the ice melts. That side is just about to become a wet, boiling inferno. This place is just about to become an underground waterway."
The icey cavern was rapidly getting warmer. Amit and Jude were thawing out quickly. Chris and Chet ran over to them. " Are you guys ok?" Chris asked. " Yeah," Amit answered. Jude then said, "Joe, he went all crazy fire guy at us and then... we lost all
concessness." " We have to get out of here," Chet said, cutting the subject short. " We'll go through the ice cavern- the fire tunnel will be impossibe to see in," Chris said. " No!" Jude yelled, " There's a wall that goes straight up at the end. We can't go that way." Chris looked at him, thinking as hard as he could. Chet yelled, " No! We're going no matter what. It would be better then not seeing in a path of hot lava."
" Chet," Jude said, "I know we aren't that good of friends, but you have to trust us. We can't go that way." Chet looked at him. No one knew what to do. The fire path was building in heat and steam. The ice path was melting over their heads. " Then," Amit said simply, " We must travel the way of the lava and steam. No doubt in my mind." The four heroes started running, Chet picking up Joe as they went. He was still unconsious. The ran into the fire cave, not knowing the direction because of the blinding steam. " It's impossible, it's scalding hot!" Chris yelled. " Guys," Jude said, " Get close. I'll put a veil around us so we don't feel the heat. Othith!" A shield of darkness covered the team.
The heat became less, although now the team was pushing agenst each other just to move, and their vision was still blured. " This isn't working," Chet said. Jude lowered the sheild and the immense heat came back. The team's skin was starting to blister. " Guys, back to the ice cavern!" Chris commanded. The team hurried back. They ran into the icy cold cavern to find the water from the ice being up to their knees. It was rushing toward the fire cave. More steam. " I have an idea!" Chris yelled, " We need to go to the wall here in the ice cavern and wait. The water level will climb. We'll have to let it bring us up." Amit looked at him in disbelief. " You really do take us for stupid, don't you?" he asked. " Yeah," Jude said, " If you thought we hadn't thought of that, you were wrong. It would take so long that the water would be boiling."
" Use magic!" Chet yelled. " Stupid! We can't block liquids," Amit said. Chris had a smile on his face. " Well," he said, " Then we need to speed up the process!" " What?" Chet asked. " I'll show you if you put Joe down," Chris answered. Chet laid Joe in the water that was the cavern floor. Chris pulled his foot back, and in one swipe he kicked Joe as hard as he could. " Dah! What was that for?" Joe asked, finally coming to. He got up and looked around. " Chris, Chet, what are you doing here?" Joe asked. " Let's just say we got the two legandary weapons we've been looking for, and now we're trying to ecape a hot-cold death trap. Make sense?" Chris asked. " No. Not really," Joe answered. " Joe," Amit said, " We need you to help melt that ice so we can shoot to the top of the cliff." "Why would I help you?" Joe asked. " That ice did something to us. We're not possesed anymore," Jude said. " Yeah, you told me something similar right before you threw me of the cliff." Amit looked at Jude. " Nice one, Jude," he said.
" If you don't want to believe me, that's fine," Jude said. " Wait, I-" Joe began. " No, no, it's fine," Jude said. " Wait, I need to tell-" Joe started again. " Just shut-up," Jude said. Jude got out his sword and slashed at Joe's side. " Heal!" Joe yelled. The cut healed, leaving only a rip in his hard healing mage robe. " Jude!" Joe yelled, " What are you doing! Stop!" Joe's robes started changing from the dark purple to the fire red. His hair became firey red spikes. " No!" He yelled. The Lukino staff lay on the ground in front of the Flamist. Joe could no longer control himself. He spewed fire from his hands all around the cavern, barely missing everyone else. " You and your ideas," Chris said to Jude. The ice was becomeing water, dripping from the cieling and walls. " Wait!" Chet said, " How do you expect to get Joe to the cliff!" The water level was rising rapidly. It was soon up to everyone's necks, and Joe was showing no sign of stopping. Jude thought for a moment, then he swam toward Joe, the water being hotter the closer he got, and he jumped over him. Joe aimed, but to late. He missed and hit the ice above him. The ice melted, then splashed down on Joe. He looked around for a moment, then he became a healing mage again.
" What the heck?" Chris said. " I extinguished him," Jude said, " The water level should start getting even higher now because of the heat from the other cave." " Jude, I hate you so bad," Joe said. " Why didn't you faint?" Amit asked. " Dunno'," Joe said, " But we need to get out of here." He was right. The team had to wade to stay afloat. " Let's swim," Chris said. The team took a deep breath then went down into the water, where they started swimming to the cliff. Joe was still awestruck of the things that had happened. When they reached the cliff, the water had hardly moved. " Guys," Joe said, " We have a problem."
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