Moon: Oi, sorry there was no note in the last chapie. Oh, and I'm doing a universal disclaimer in my profile, no noone sue. I'm really trying to make it funny, and I think it's working. Just keep waiting for the torture, because I like making fun of my original characters.
Oh, and Anonymous? So very grateful for your opinion.
Noeli looked at the demolished fortress yet again. It had a tower in the middle, and said tower was still standing. It was pointy and black, and it had a kind of evil grace to it. The fortress obviously used to be surrounded by fields and woods, but demolished areas for working now surrounded it. It didn't look like the good guys lived here, seeing as the plants had probably been making weapons. The ents were still guarding it, but the group needed food. "Let's go," she whispered to the girls surrounding her. They snuck down the hill. When they got to the bottom, they hid behind rocks and peered around them. There was a small building nearby, A shack, by the looks of it. They ran to said shack.
Nelena opened the door. The room was pitch black, causing them to stumble around. Lilly tripped. "Hey, I think I found a torch and whatever lights it." She announced. A minute later, Lilly was holding a lit torch and putting flint and steel into her pack.
"Hey look! There's a tunnel!" Ria pointed to a dark hole in the ground. The girls went in to discover the catacombs. Lilly's torch lit up supplies.
"Sweet!" Lilly ran over to a box of food and started packing her bag. Ria helped her. Noeli filled her own bag with food as well. Raul and Nelena found a box of rope. They picked up some of the gray cord.
"I bet this stuff is weak." Nelena muttered.
"Let's assay said rope." Raul suggested. She gave Nelena one end and took the other. They pulled as hard as they could, but the rope didn't fray. They pulled about 300 yards of it and placed it in Raul's pack. "Assemblage, squelch." Raul said. Following this was a three person "Huh?"
"She says shut up people." Nelena yelled.
"Is that audible to your ears?" Raul whispered.
"Yeah." Lilly replied. "It's like a faint rush of water. And it's getting louder."
Suddenly, they all saw the reflection of Lilly's torch against something as big as the tunnel they were in and as fast as a car on the highway coming right at them.
"Get out of the tunnel!" Nelena yelled. They were scrambling out before she finished. Noeli got out first, followed by Nelena and Lilly. Just as Raul climbed out, the water hit them.
Ria was swept away by the rushing water. "Ria!" was the unanimous cry from the older four. The flood sprayed them with a mist, and that mist drenched Lilly's torch with the help of a splash. Pitch darkness blanketed the room and all they could hear was the horrendous rush of water and the fading screams of Ria.
When, finally, the rush of water stopped, Noeli spoke. "We have to follow her." The others verbally agreed, all with hesitant yet determined voices.
"But we don't have light," was one of the disembodied voices. It sounded like Lilly was holding back tears nearly unsuccessfully.
"What about the staff, isn't it magic?" Nelena's voice suggested.
"Oh yeah." Raul pulled out the staff from its resting place behind her back. The others didn't know this; all they heard was shuffling. "Mohiv!" she burst out. The tip of the staff glowed brightly.
"How'd you know what to say?" Noeli inquired.
"Assembling the bow staff wasn't the singular thing I did while distant from you guys." Raul grinned.
"Let's go!" Lilly yelled as she jumped through the trapdoor. There was a squishing sound. "It's all muddy down here." Lilly called up. Noeli, Nelena, and Raul jumped in after her. They sunk an inch into black mud.
The rescue party started trudging in the direction the water had gone. They had no idea where they were going.
Moon: I know for a fact that the "elvish" Raul is speaking isn't really elvish at all, just a code I made up to use in my stories. Gomen, I was considering using Japanese, but then I thought "I don't know enough Japanese". See if any of you can break the code, ne?