Once they've upon entering the doors, the little mermaid and her companions swam downwards through the narrow caverns. Then the waters grew ominously darker as they ventured onwards, swimming through the tight gaps, one person creature at a time.
When they exited the caverns, they were all not prepared for what they've just seen. The aquatic group is at the foot of what may appear to be a triangular temple of the mythical mechanical god. The one ancient machine responsible for the Ragnarok of the Nai'Viqian race. The opposing structure of the temple is enough to immediately stroke fear upon the heroic adventurers. Not only that, Abzû notices the same triangular mines floating around the entryway. Despite of Flounder and Sebastian urging everyone to turn back, they refuse to let their fears get the best of them. After all, they've come this far just to help Abzû uncover the pieces of the mystery, there's no turning back for everyone now. They are going to see this journey through, no matter what it takes. So without a slightest bit of hesitation, the little mermaid and the adventurers proceeds to go further without clashing with the mines. With so many of the debris floating around the premises, they carefully evade the mines and successfully made it to the temple's entry.
The aquatic group has entered the temple doorway. Then suddenly, the doors abruptly closed behind the group. Just like before. Thus they all continue to swim forward inside the temple.
"What is this place?" Ariel uttered quietly.
"Oooh... I'm scared, Ariel..." cried Flounder as he swims closer to the mermaid.
"Oh mon. I don't know what 'tis is, but I don't like it." said Sebastian. "Not one bit."
"That goes double for me here." says Tickallo as he hid himself in Thomas's long locs. "This place already has given me the creeps. Let me know when this is over."
Thomas shook his head and he gently hold his sea pixie closer to himself.
"Don't worry, Tickallo. Just as long as you keep close to my side, then everything will be alright." said Thomas.
"Easier said than done." says Tickallo, feeling uneasy. "We don't know what could be lurking around the corner of the temple."
"You know for once, I agree with Tickallo on dat!" Sebastian added agreeably. "What if there's something waiting for us down the creepy hallway. Something that can be bigger than us. And it can have huge rows of sharp teeth, with some creepy tentacles, huge scary eyes and-"
"Alright! We already get the memo, Sebastian." Thomas said, interrupting the Caribbean crab. "This isn't our first rodeo, you know."
"Let's just stay close together, everyone." says Travannus, guarding his friends with his life. "We don't know what we're up against."
"Travannus is right." says Abzû. "This could be enemy territory. So we must stick together at all costs. And don't let your guard down."
"Humph! That's what I'm here for." added Travannus, flexing his muscles.
While they venture through the ruinous hallways, as well as evading the highly functional mines, they stumble upon what appears to be an laboratory. Despite of it being abandoned into ruins for thousands of years, the machines are still enacted. As they navigate around the corners of the temple, a pod of mechanisms that acts as robotic sea vipers swam by them, terrifying Flounder, Tickallo and Sebastian. Horrified, Ariel quivers a little bit. But Travannus is here by her side, to ease her fears for a brief moment. Abzû lead his group of friends onward through the broken labs.
"Be careful, everyone." says Abzû as he guide his friends through the dangerous labs. If anything happens, don't hesitate to scream out for help. Okay?"
"Okay!?" they all replied in unison.
The aquatic group continue to navigate the broken labs. During the navigation, they all have found themselves in the center of the lab rooms. Abzû activates the panels, only to his surprise that they still work. Even through a long periods of time. Then the group split up to look around in search for some clues. As the gang investigates the labs, Ariel makes a shocking discovery. She views the holographic light coming from the panel in lab room number 303. It is a diagram of the marine species and the Nai'Viqian body anatomy. Then it cuts to the diagram of Duncan the great white shark. And It cuts again to show the embodiment of machinery itself, the mechanical god. Then before the little mermaid knew it, the last diagram was of the same humanoid anatomy that matches Abzû's appearance. She learned that Abzû is really an instrument of Ragnorak. Created by the mechanical god and it's will. The humanoids's main purpose in life is to carry out the machine god's wishes. And that wish was to spread the roots of all evil from the oceans, to the mainlands and annihilate all traces of humanity's very existence as well as nature itself. The terrified little mermaid sunk to the floor, sobbing away in fear. After hearing her crying from next door, Abzû quickly swam into the lab. He sees Ariel burying her head into her arms in sorrow. He wonders what is wrong.
"Ariel? Are you okay?" Abzû asked in discernment. "What is wrong? Please tell me."
She can only look up at him with fear and sadness in her eyes.
"Oh Abzû... it is so terrible." cried Ariel, softly.
"What did you find?" He asked in a gentle manner.
"I think I've found the answers you were looking for." cried Ariel.
This just in, Travannus, Thomas and the rest of the group has entered the room, just in time to hear about the discovery as Ariel elaborates.
"When I was watching this thing-ga-bob, I've learn that these awful things were created by this weird monster." said Ariel and she went on. "And those murals that we saw along the way. They were telling us a story. A history of how they built this monster to protect their civilization. Or so they thought it was. But instead, the monster sought to destroy the entire race. Only a few manage to survive, but they unknowingly created another monsters after this one's image. That giant thing has been manipulating the Nai'Viqians for centuries. All it wanted was to destroy everything and rebuild our worlds into its own dystopian realm."
"Oh this is bad..." Thomas remarked in discernment. "But I guess that explains all the weird things we've seen on our quest thus far."
"Okay? I'm confused." said Travannus, scratching his dark hair on his head. "It does sound terrifying, but what does all this have to do with going through so much trouble for Abzû here?"
Ariel then slowly turns to Abzû, sharing the rest of the bad news.
"Oh Abzû. Just as much as I don't want to believe this myself, but you're the living instrument of Ragnorak." says Ariel in a shaky voice.
Shocked by this revelation, Abzû sunk to the floor himself. Everyone is stunned by the discovery Ariel shared with them. Abzû doesn't know what to think after hearing about this shocking news. Now that he knows what he really is, Abzû stares blankly at the floor in utter heartbreak. After all this time, he was left adrift on the surface, never knowing what he was doing there in the first place. All that he discovered, all the wonderful friends he made along the way, only to find that he is one of the mechanical god's living subordinates, bound to carry out its wishes of destruction and rebuild the earth into an dystopian wasteland. The world will be filled with nothing but corruption and machinery. It is a devastated truth, even for them to hear. But before they can pause in disarray, they can hear a voice echoing out of the blue. It sounds like a male's battle cry coming from the other side of the temple. With no time to be spared, the unlikely adventurers swam swiftly out of the labs.
They pass through the halls and now they have reach the chambers of endless despair. The chambers is filled with mines all over the place.
"Oh man! We'll never be able to make it to the other side." winced Tickallo in despair.
"Oh we will make it to the other side." said Thomas with strength from within. "We've done this before and we'll do it again."
Travannus took charge as he encourage his friends to follow his lead.
"Thomas is right!" says Travannus, being the tough guy to his friends. "What we learned from our nearly death experience, we just have to time our bypass cautiously, swim through without getting electrocuted by these things. And we'll be fine once we have made it to the other side of the bottomless chamber. Okay?"
"Okay..." Ariel replied quietly, unsure of the endeavor.
Everybody agrees to Travannus's words. Abzû didn't say a word for he is still in shock and distraught over the disturbing discovery about himself. However, he agreed with the mutant merman's strategy. And so the little mermaid and her companions must carefully maneuver their way through the other side without the mines harming them. This is no easy feat for the heroes. The mines hovered abruptly from one point to another. Ariel, Flounder, Sebastian, Travannus, Thomas, Tickallo and Abzû were all hit numerous times by the mines, painfully electrocuted. Although in excruciating pain from this horrifying ordeal, the gang must carry themselves forward if they were to make it on the other side of the chambers.
Once they've finally made it out of there alive, the group were met face to face with the one monstrosity responsible for the extinction of the Nai'Viqians and all they've created. The embodiment of machinery itself. The mechanical god. It's eye activated by itself and is now glaring upon the little mermaid and her companions. Ariel is terrified by the god's appearance and she never thought that she would come to see it up close. The same goes for Flounder and Sebastian themselves. Tickallo fearfully his behind Thomas's shoulder out of sheer terror. Travannus is stunned by the sheer size of the thing. He was only frozen with fear inside his heart. And the same thing goes for Thomas as well, for he too is in fear of the god. As for Abzû himself, he is finally arrived to meet his maker. The mechanical god is suspended in mid water with tubes coming from each end of it. Before they all know it, the gang can hear the roaring cries from the unknown. They turn to notice that it was Duncan the great white shark who has appeared out of nowhere to rebel against the machine god.
"Hey, guys! It's that shark!" exclaimed Tickallo in pure shock.
"What is he doing here?" Thomas wondered in pure shock as well.
Ariel watched in horror as Duncan swim in high speed, darting himself at the mechanical god.
"YOU FREAKIN' MONSTER!" bellowed Duncan in rage. "I'M GOING TO DESTROY YOU!"
The shark thrust himself into the god's eye. Ariel and her friends were all shocked to see Duncan attack the god that is twice the size of a warship. But his actions are in vain for it only cause the god to malfunction. In its wrathful power, the god charges up to unleash a massive shockwave, electrocuting not only Duncan but Ariel and her friends as well. From the excruciatingly painful attack, the heroes all have sunken into the darkest abyss below. As it may seem that all hope is lost, the mechanical god is too powerful to be stopped. And it seems that the machine god has completely won.
