After breakfast we went outside. Kelly's dad was at breakfast, and we had to hold Noah back from stating his "comments" about his company's name. I told Kelly to stay behind at her house, and we would take care of Angus. She agreed reluctantly and took the elevator upstairs to get our stuff. What little we had was stuffed into a few small plastic bags and we were sent off will many "good luck" messages. Kelly said something in Hawaiian that might have meant, "Goodbye maybe forever." and then they all went into the house one final time.
After we had decided to scale the mountain to spot Angus from up high, we stashed our stuff in a small cave behind a rock and started up the mountain. It was a tough climb. We had no water to hydrate ourselves, so we had to make this whole mission fast. Noah didn't have a problem with the climbing, but he waited for us about ten feet up. I was itching to just become my dragon form and fly up, but I was staying tough on the climb for Sara.
When we reached the top, we were astounded by what we saw. The mountain, however gray and rocky, was really a volcano with a hollow crater at the top! The crater had, after some examination, a long flight of gray stairs leading deep into the crater. These steps would have been almost unnoticeable from even a short distance; they were very narrow and pressed up against the side of the volcano. Sara started descending the stairs first, then Noah and me. They were very extensive, and it took a while to get down them. At the bottom was a silver-colored platform that had a faint arrow pointing to a square section along the side of the chamber.
When Sara used her psychic powers to lift the heavy piece of metal from its position, a ladder attached to the wall of the mountain became visible. We climbed down the ladder and Sara put the piece of metal back in place. I wasn't completely dark, because there was a mysterious red glow coming from down below. I suddenly had a thought that it was lava, but then I realized that no one would put a ladder leading into lava. That would be insane! This all seemed like one of those secret laboratories that were in cartoons and comic books, but now I was the great hero finding his way into the lair of an evil villain like Angus. But none of the cartoons or comic books had a villain that changed into a dragon. I couldn't turn into a dragon because that would provoke Angus to do the same. I was with friends, powerful ones at that, but I still felt anxious. Here, as we descended the mysterious ladder into the ground, I realized that my final battle was coming up. And soon.