Re Done Chapter 2 For Wolf Messenger 2 Date- 7/28/20 11:09AM
Hello, and sorry for the wait for the next chapter. Unfortunately, I read the data for last chapter and throughout the first month (from June 9th to July 13th 2020), there had been an insufficient amount of visitors. But I can understand why this story does not grab enough attention, and that is due to low amount of words within this content. But I will promise you all following viewers that I will try and keep up with the work. It's been a tough 31 days. From me being tested Positive for Corona Virus, to my uncle passing away from it. I suffered writers block. And now that I look back on the second and third chapter, I noticed that the dialog and actions had not been written as good as the first chapter. But I cannot help myself but publish this chapter. So. I will publish it now, and edit this chapter and the third chapter before the publishing of the third and the fourth.
UPDATE- 7/28/20
I have updated chapter 2 to add more interesting adventure and more stuff to the story that could be more interesting. I am dissapointed in the amount of visitors. Judging by the views, people are just coming in, reading a handful of sentences for chapter 1, and just losing interest. I have soo far around a total of 10 visits for both chapter 1 and 2 this month. I am also working on a website. So stay tuned.
chapter. - 2
"Hey, can I just call you Messenger? You cannot tell me your real name, so can I just call you The Messenger?"
The Messenger cringed. They were trudging through the cold woods as they were reaching more towards the warmer temperate lands. It was morning, and the sun had just came through the horizon to shed light on the gloomy pine trees after a snowy night.
"Yes. YES! Just call me messenger!" The Messenger barked as he snapped in Noah's face, causing Noah's head to move back with his ears pointed up and sideways with concern. Then his head refrained and moved back forward with a small smirk.
"Gosh, you ask soo many questions." Messenger complained.
"Maybe you're my lifeline. All I am asking are harmless questions. You won't tell me your name, and you are breaking the rules of "DEATH" just by saving me from him." Noah discussed.
"It was a mistake, I should of left you for death to take." And with that, Messenger speed walked from him, leaving with his tail throwing in Noah's face.
"Hey, why so grumpy? Wait up!" Noah scurried, galloping after him until he caugh up with the flustered Messenger. "Is it the staying up part? I knew you should of slept instead of staying up all night."
Messenger did not respond, so Noah did not speak more, worried that Messenger would give up on Noah. Atleast too soon.
It was 5 hours later, and the sun was already centered in the sky. The climate and temperature quickly risened the more they traveled south, and they saw the last of the snow just 3 hours ago. They had to reach the end of the pine forest before they met a large golden meadow filled with waving wild wheat. Once they crossed the meadow, they came across another forest filled with birch and some oaks here and there. That was where they went hunting for breakfast. Messenger earned two fat rabbits himself while Noah's pathetic hunting skills got him a malnurished squirrel. Then it became rocky and treacherous, but thanks to it lasting quickly because they had just reached the desert where Messenger always repeated where the portal had to be, which they arrived much quicker than expected. They were caught dead in the volcanic areas of the desert. There were lava pits everywhere, small volcanic lava giezers that spurted pieces of melted and semi melted rock into the air. There was smoke everywhere, but only a little covered the small trail in which they must enter. This was a little spot in the desert that was known for the massive volcanic activity, and rumors of a secret portal to hell many tried to seek but never found, but only the gifted can. These stories were told to pups, mainly from their fathers.
Already, Noah backed down. He was already having butterflies in his stomach.
"What now?" asked Messenger, growling as he sensed his partner's distress. Noah turned to look at him and his ears pinned back.
"I don't know about this. I'm getting hungry again, and that squirrel was not enough for me. Can we go back to the woods real quickly?"
Messenger forced past and got ahead of him towards the small mountain by a pool of lava. "We're not going back. We must do this now." then Messenger stopped and looked back with his tail hugging himself, showing that he too was feeling fear. "We're on a mission, Noah. Do you want to live?"
"Well, yeah." Noah dropped his shoulders, looking down as he gave up. "Let's just go." And then he got up and got back to Messenger's side again and they both proceeded once again to find this portal.
The stories of the explorers made it sound soo hard. But with the assistance of Messenger, they came face to face with the portal like it was a walk in the park. Noah's anxiety was bubbling up from his stomach again, and he thought that he was going to throw up.
"So, this is the portal?" Asked Noah as they approached it. It had white doorframes, and inside of the portal was the portal. The walls of the portal was black with red waves, like someone took a red glowing puddle and placed it vertically on the wall of the mountain, if they could break physics. Not just that, but it was surrounded in a door frame. A black door frame made of wood. How the wood door frame lasted through the years of fire and lava is a mystery.
"Yep. And we're going in." Replied Messenger. "I'm going in first. After you enter, we will go find the red crystal. What ever you do, do not stray too far. Once you get lost, you are lost for good."
"Got it." Noah Replied. But he still looked pretty uncertain. His ears were still hanging low and his tail was still tucked between his legs.
Messenger was the first to enter. Noah was standing behind Messenger so that he could watch. He entered face first into the portal with confidence. Noah watched as the last of his tail dissapeared into the portal behind him with shock.
"Well, I guess it's me now." Noah sighed. He approached the portal and touched the portal's wavy mesh with his paw, checking if it's safe. Then he slowly went in himself.
It didn't feel like anything, except the hot breeze that is now blowing and hitting his cheeks and face, followed by the air soo stale forcing them to breath through their mouths. He opened his eyes wider and he never thought he would ever see hell- atleast this soon.
Everything was red. A sea of lava everywhere. There was islands dotting here and there from the surface of the lava. There was only a bridge trail surfacing above the sea of lava allowed them to get to every island. There was massive stalactites hanging from the rocky cave ceiling above that replaced the sky. Noah looked to the left to see another trail on his left that curled around the edges of the rocky land and caught Messenger trotting fearlessly- yet dangerously along the sides of the shore. Noah got out from his idling spot and walked after him until he stopped at a specific place. Once Noah got to him, infront of them both was a spiralling trail that ran along the edges of the mountain, encircling a small lake of lava in the center of the bend.
"Where would this trail take us?" Noah asked.
Messenger turned his head to face him with his expressionless rabbit mask "How do I know where this trail goes? I've only been here a couple of times in my afterlife."
"Are you scared? O-or have you been scared?" Noah stuttered. He did not want to keep prying questions from Messenger. He had to be afraid every time he visits.
"Well, no... Well, yeah. I've been more afraid when I first came here. Death showed me this place when I first worked for him." Messenger stood silent as Noah could feel he was looking over at the bubbling lava lake while they stood near the edge. "I still am. But we don't have much time. Can we just... go down this spiral trail so we could find the crystal?"
Noah nodded his head quickly before he walked past Messenger. And Messenger aventually followed after Noah.
Within the walls of a mountain was a small room with jail gates which were left half open. Behind the iron bars was a bed and a trunk, plus some canine bones spreak across the floor in a heap from what was probably one of the unfortunate wolf who spent prisonment after his/her's death- which Noah wondered if he would become that way if Messenger had not come to get him. As Noah lead Messenger deep down within the spiral, they thought they saw what looked like a black dog at the very end of the spiral trail that made a curve.
"This is where the crystal is. If you find it quickly, we are determined that we will be safe from the clutches of Death." Said Messenger.
Noah was sitting on his tail, anxiously observing the horrible scenery of fire, burning rock and the misery of darkness. "Ok, Messenger. But will you help me find it? It's a really big place."
Messenger turned his head and looked at him as he laid on his stomach. "I came down here only by memory of where I've seen the crystal rock. If we find it, it will determine that you will be strong enough to make it."
"Well," Noah began with a weak voice, then he cleared his voice and stood up, sounding more tougher regal "I am up for the challenge but I can't do this alone."
"That's right. And I helped you, and I am still helping you now."
"Like how?" Noah pressed as he pinned his ears and grimaced with stress.
Messenger sat on his hind and somewhat did a pout "Well, I'm doing everything I can. It could be in the rooms, or in the storage chest. I know the crystal is in hell, but I can't remember exactly where it is placed at. Death has a mysterious way of placing things."
Noah could not argue. Then he took off to where Messenger had assumed it would be in. Messenger stood up as Noah ran down the spiral. They checked through almost every nook and crevace they could find. Excavated holes in the charred soil of the ground. Messenger also took advantage of searching in some of the jail cells that contained the unfortunate wolves who are reduced to bones. But they still could not find it.
While Noah was still digging, Messenger approached Noah and shoved his shoulder lightly "Noah, I don't think we are going to find the crystal here." Noah stopped digging and looked at him with concern in his green eyes, and Messenger had to continue. "I think we have to find crystal somewhere else. It could be on another side of hell, but here."
Noah sighed and looked away. "I want to keep searching. It has to be here. I can sense it... Well... not literally. But I know it is here. I want to use ever drop of options and advantages, even if it took us a couple of days."
"That's some dedication."
"Ofcourse it's some dedication. It's my life!" Growled Noah. "And it's your's too."
Noah froze to some disturbances in the lava at the corner of his right eye. He had been distracted by that black dog at the edge of the small cliff at the end of the spiral trail. What if that dog knew where the crystal is? That was Noah's thought.
"Messenger? Who is that dog?"
Messenger's eyes scanned the dog who droned near the edges of the cliff. He hadn't seemed to notice that we had noticed it's presence. "It's just some ghost dog trapped here in hell." Messenger replied.
"Do you think that black ghost dog would know where the crystal is?"
Messenger nodded, but then thought, and shook his head. "No. It would be too obvious that he would he wouldn't be here in the first place." But what other option would they have?
They come near the black dog. They hoped that if they could get answers or hints, they would have a higher chance of finding that crystal.
"Excuse me, but, do you happen to know where the crystal is? The crystal. Hell's crystal."
The black dog turned it's neck to face them both, but mainly towards Noah. It sniffed, and then it growled. Messenger shifted for an attack while Noah backed off. It was clear to them that not only did this dog sit here long enough to lose the ability to reason, but it can also smell the fresh, untampered soul coming from Noah.
"N-nevermind." finished Noah, before he canceled, turning back and walking up the spiral trail once again. Messenger soon followed, sensing loss of hope. Where is this crystal? Messenger thought that it was right here. He seen it here a long time ago. But where?
Although, there was no other place that they could check, unfortunately. Could it be that they were searching in the wrong side of hell? Was Messenger right all along?
"I'm sorry, Noah." Messenger turned to face Noah. "I know how much you wanted to find this crystal so you could live a full life. But it does not mean that we have to give up so soon."
Noah was sitting at the edge of the cliff as he watched the dog mindlessly stand at the same spot at the edge of the cliff. He wondered if the ghost dog was thinking the same thing. "No. We can't just give up. What if we did not search hard enough on the most obvious places?"
Messenger gave Noah a raised eyebrow. But Noah pointed with his paw to the jail cells built into the walls where Messenger was previously searching in and said "what if death hidden the crystal deep within those cells?"
"What if someone already took the Crystal?" Doubted Messenger.
"I don't want to think that. Let's just go in and check."
"Alright." Messenger sighed. "Ok." Messenger looked down. And then back at the jail cells again. "Let's search in there. If it's not going to be in the jail cell, then we search the other side of hell."
They came back, backtracking their steps back to the jail cell. They searched theroughly within the cell, under the painful-looking rock bed, inside the ancient wooden chest. But all they could find were bones from the unfortunate previous captives, and some metal scraps and junk.
"Noah. It's not here!" Cursed Messenger.
Noah, out of anger, kicked the chest, and the chest fell apart and spilled all the contents onto the rock floor. "Fine. Then we'll search somewhere else." But something caught his eye. It forced Noah to further inspect as he got closer to it. It was a doorway in the corner of the jail cell. A doorway? Somebody must of left open the metal gate that lead down a dark hallway. Noah looked at Messenger, who was watching Noah. He did not have to say "Come here" when Messenger came over to investigate.
"It's a hallway… But to where?" Noah questioned.
"I don't know. But I am sure death knows." Said Messenger.
"Could the crystal be in here?"
Messenger's expressionless face studied the darkness "Could be..."
Inside the hall was dark. Pitch black. They could not even see past the darkness. They will both have to enter. And so they did. They entered slowly, with Noah leading the way, since the hall wasn't wide enough for them to walk side by side. They came across a two-way fork in the path, and they had to either enter left or right.
"I'm choosing right. You think right is a lucky direction?" Noah asked. But Noah could sense a little fear coming from his masked companion when he did not say a word right away.
"We're not gonna split up. We enter this way together. We don't know what we'd be facing in there." Warned messenger.
"I was not thinking about splitting, Messenger." Growled Noah. But Messenger did not respond. Luckily when they continued their route to the right, the hall had gotten more wider, and they were able to walk side to side. Noah thought that he could smell his way while walking to their destination. His nose sniffed up the air. He even sniffed the ground for any scent. But there was nothing but old paw scent. Just as Noah was beginning to wonder if he could get lost in these halls, his nose detected a unpleasant fowl smell. Noah had smelled just enough dead wolves and rotting flesh. But this one had a fishy smell. And it was making Noah's nose wrinkle and lose his appetite. He turned and looked at Messenger to see if he had noticed the smell too.
"Messenger? Do you smell that?" Messenger turned his neck to look at Noah and said "Yeah. I smell that too."
"It's really bad. You think something just died recently down here?"
"I hope not." Messenger frowned. They kept sniffing over and over until they came to a dead end in the cave, which opened up into what seemed like a observation room. There was wooden tables set along the walls everywhere, a shelf full of books. A cushin. A painting on the wall. The room was lit up by a wall lantern. Although, Noah and Messenger hid themselves behind a pillar by the doorframe, sniffed while they tried to listen out for anybody in the room. But they could not hear anybody. Nor could they stand the intensifying smell of the rotting flesh. They stepped in, and what stood on the desk was a bowl. And when Noah and Messenger took a closer look, it was filled with spoiled tuna salad. Fluffy grey mold poofed from the slimy surface as white foam bubbled from the fermenting tuna and mayo.
They seen enough. Messenger and Noah backed away. Messenger gagged as he nearly threw up his meal from earlier today while Noah scoffed with disgust.
"Ughhh Tuna? Why tuna?" Noah begged for answers as he desperately paced for relief.
Messenger coughed and choked. He tried to speak, and Noah pricked his ears to listen further. "I-I don't know why. It seems soo… out of context." The smell was soo bad, they could both taste it. "But besides the nasty food, look around… this place looks like it would have the crystal."
"No kidding..." Noah swished his tail as he gazed around the room "It's like some sort of office."
Messenger thought he saw Noah's tail start to wag. But Messenger did not replied. He persisted on looking for the crystal. Noah saw Messenger, and he did the same, continuing looking for the crystal.
There was a lone wooden clothes dresser in the very back of the office, and Noah had to appease his urge of opening it. He trotted to the dresser and he reared onto his haunches and put both of his paws of the very top dresser. Messenger saw Noah mess with the dresser and he grew concern. Noah pulled on the dresser and it opened. He looked into it in a awkward way. But Messenger walked to the dresser and leaped up at the top. The dresser rocked and thunk against the rock wall. There was nothing in that drawer. So he went to the second drawer in the middle. There was nothing in that drawer either. Nothing but…
A paper?
"Noah, that paper. Could it be anything?" Messenger gripped at the cream-colored stained paper and fished it out from the drawer in his paws. It began to crumble, and Noah cursed as he caught it on the ground. The page must of been soo old that it is losing it's integrity to keep together. In the faded fine print, he could make out the word "crystal" in the fine cursive script. Noah read the script while Messenger stood silent while observing the Noah held the page on the floor. Noah's eyes began to widen, and his tail started to wag.
"That's it! The fork!" Exclaimed Noah with a expression difficult to read whether he was happy or mad, but he definately looked excited.
"What does it say, Noah?" Demanded Messenger as he looked at the paper, then at Noah, then at the paper, then back at Noah.
"The crystal is located at the left fork. We just went right. There is a sepparate room like this one, except it has a secret box to the crystal. The box holds the crystal." Noah's eyes stared into deep space, and Messenger had to snap Noah out of his trance.
"Well, what are we waiting for? We can't just find the crystal just by standing around. Let's go!" And with that, Noah saw Messenger turn and run to a direction, leaving the office. Noah could not leave the page like this. He put it back in the drawer and closed it with both his paws before dashing out of the room and after Messenger.
They reached the part of the hall where the fork had split the trail into three ways; One goes back to the portal where they came from, the second one on the right goes to the room where the crystal had to be. The third one behind them lead them back to the office where they found the paper instructions. They took a right and down the new trail and went down the dark cave trail. They soon came to the identically sized office room, but this one was more complex than of the basic office room that they had been in before. This one had rows of short white pillars morphed into the walls. Across the room was a small hole in the floor with a drain. after the drain was a statue of a red diabolocal creature with tenticals coming out of it's back. It must of been a fountain, but it had no water. It was just a empty room with no furniture, except for a counter beside the droughted fountain.
They spotted a golden safe that was left open, and they approached the safe. Messenger did the honors and allowed Noah to reach inside of the safe to grab the crystal. Noah sat on his haunches before he stood on his back legs, standing. He gripped the rim of the open wall safe and stuck his head inside. There was nothing but gold coins, and a straw sack. If this mission wasn't about finding a special crystal, Noah would of grabbed the golden coins for himself. But the crystal at this moment has more value to life than the gold coins itself; for Noah, atleast.
"Do you see it?" Messenger mumbled as Noah heard him pace behind him while he checked inside of the safe.
"See what?" Noah made a hurt groan as he felt the ridges of his spine ridges grind against the top rim frame of the safe.
"The crystal... duh." Wrasped Messenger, and Noah rolled his eyes.
"No, but there's this straw sack." Noah clamped both of his paws together on the bag and he dragged it out of the safe before dropping it onto the floor infront of Messenger. Messenger scrambled to untie the sack just as Noah squirmed to get himself out of the tight safe. When he got himself out, Messenger allowed Noah to do the honors to search inside of the bag. As Noah's paw seeked the what-seems-to-be-an-empty-bag, his paw touched something hard and rough, like a rectangle piece of coal, but with more angles. Plus it felt like glass, too. His green eyes lit up wide with hope, and he slowly slid out the object from the bag;
A firy clear orange, yellow and clear-as-water combination color crystal. His eyes desperately scanned it as Noah could not believe what he had found in the adventure of hell.
"You found it... I can't believe you found it..." Messenger's voice wrasped quietly. "I can't blieve it. I've never met someone soo destined in my life, neither my afterlife." Messenger approached to Noah and held out his paw like he was asking him to hand it over.
"wha?... You mean, we found hell's crystal?" Noah asked, incredulously. Noah's eyes scanned deeper through the smooth glass-like surfaces of the crystal. It was a clear water-like crystal with a blaze of orange and red on the inside. He handed the crystal to Messenger and he took it to observe it.
"I still cannot believe you found it. Out of all the normal wolves I have came across, I had never come across a wolf soo destined." Messenger repeated.
"Don't make me too flattered," Replied Noah, his tail waving side to side as he panted with new thrill and excitement. "I wouldn't of found this crystal if it hasn't been for you." While Messenger inspected, Noah bashfully wanted to ask a question. "So. I guess, since we found the crystal, does this mean that I am free?"
"Not quite." Messenger took some time to reply. "We still have to find another crystal."
Noah whined, hanging his ears. Noah's dignity deflated soo low, it would of probably reached the depths of hell even if he was in the overworld. "Now, Noah. Do not cave. You still found one of death's crystal. It still means that you are destined to live."
"Then where is it, Messenger?" Demanded Noah as he watched Messenger slip it into his messenger bag. "Where is this crystal?"
"Well, that's a really good question. But I think the other crystal is in atlantis."
"Atlantis." Noah froze, and then he went back into searching inside of the safe.
"Noah? W-what are you doing?" Messenger asked him confusingly as he went back into the safe.
Noah did not respond. He thought he saw a paper crumpled up in the corner of the safe when he searched for the crystal in the safe for the first time. He spotted the crumpled ball of paper and took it out of the safe and dropped it down onto the ground. Messenger went to study the paper when Noah got back down onto his four paws. They both worked together to uncrumple the paper only to reveal a cruddy drawn map with a tital exclaiming "CRYSTAL OF ATLANTIS". Noah could not help but suck in his breath, and his chest.
"It's a map. A map to atlantis." Messenger exclaimed while they both read the paper. Yes, it was a illustration to where the crystal was. It told them how to get to Atlantis, and where to find it when they reach there. Although, the map was poorly drawn out, they could still make out where to go.
"We don't need first half of the information, Noah. I already know how to get to the portal to Atlantis. It's the finding crystal part that is when we need the map the most."
Noah took his last scan on the map before he started crumpling it into a scroll and looked at Messenger and said "Well, that's great. Really. But how far is it? Where is the portal of atlantis?"
"The portal is much easier to get there than finding the portal to hell." Explained Messenger as he secured the little crystal in his saddlebag before taking the map and putting it in the saddlebag as well, then he started walking from where they found the crystal and down the cave towards the jail cell. Noah followed pursuit, trying to get answers. "All I know is that the crystal is in the ruins of atlantist. I am not particularly sure where the crystal would be exactly located, just like down here. I have not been in atlantist in a while, but I only know where portals are located."
"Where would the portal to atlantist be?" Asked Noah, digging for more answers.
"The portal's in the jungle. Once we leave this terrible place, we must head up the desert until we reach the woods where we came from. From there, we will cross the river and find Paw Bridge, which you should also know where that is, Noah."
Noah did know where the jungle would be. And he also knew where Paw Bridge is as well. It is a very large wood bridge that crosses from one body of land to the other, sepparating the woods from the jungle. In the center was a stream that goes off into the sea. On the opposite side, the stream travels deeper between the woods and the jungle, forming a river that goes on for miles. While they near the exiting portal, Noah liked the sound of "atlantist" more than hell, and he also had expectations and hopes that that particular place would be less hot and miserable than this hellhole here. The thought of that black ghost dog being stuck here gave Noah the chills. He had newfound high hopes that while he leaves this hell for good, he would never have to return back to this miserable hot place for eternity if Messenger fails him, just like the black dog.
Hello,
Following to the changes of this chapter, I will try and make a goal. I will try and make chapter 3 and 4 once I reach 50 viewers. Chapter 3 will be under re-construction to be compatible with the second chapter featuring the new map Messenger and Noah discovered, which will make the story make more sense.
Also, I am going to try and attempt to be more flexible and hip. I am going to try and attempt to make a twitter account and also open a discord account so we could all get together as a fan community.
But I can't do that if you cannot show me. you must show me that you like this story if I get a lot of views and visitors. I have been following fanfiction since I was 12. Will you please show me that you want to see more of my story? Will you please give me 50 views? Judging by the speed of the views, I will have enough time to edit chapter 3 and produce a little for chapter 4.
Enjoy.