"Let's meet back here alright?" Honoka said as she looked at her team. She watched as all of them shook their heads in agreement, and with that Honoka and Umi went into the left passageway. As they went in they were sucked into the darkness. Umi looked back once more and saw Rin and Hanayo go into the one ahead, however from where Umi was it looked like they went right. Then a couple seconds Kotori and Eli went into the left one, she also noticed that they were holding hands as they went into the passageway. "Are you okay, Umi?" Honoka said as Umi turned her head back.
"Yeah, sorry," she replied.
"Man it's really dark in here," Honoka said as she held out her index finger and a little flame came out. "That's a little better," she said looking around. Although Honoka soon wished she never looked, let alone lit her finger. There was dried splattered blood all over the walls, and a few skeletons leaning against the walls. She even had to step over a dried up intestine.
"H-honoka...Can you put your flame away?" Umi asked as she tried not to puke. Instantly her flame went out, but she didn't say anything as she continued to walk. Then as Honoka was walking part of the floor went down.
"Um... Umi?" Honoka said standing as still as she could.
"What's wrong?" Umi said looking over Honoka's shoulder.
"I-I think I stepped on a trap," she replied as she lit up her finger again. Umi looked down at Honoka's right foot and saw that the stone tile that she had stepped on was pushed down. She looked up and saw that the path ended and there were many little holes in the wall. She then realized that they had arrows in them, Honoka also noticed this as she began to panic. Umi thought of something as she made a disgusted face. She walked back while leaving Honoka there, and found the fleshiest corpse she could find and picked it up. As she did, it's arm ripped off it socket and fell on the ground, Umi tried her best to not throw up and held her breath as she went back to Honoka, who instantly squeezed her nose with her index finger and her thumb. As Umi threw the body down onto Honoka's shoes. Honoka screeched.
"Why would you throw it on me!?" Honoka yelled as she still stood in the same position.
"It's your fault for stepping on it! Besides you didn't have to carry it!" Umi yelled back. "Now shut up and step off of the tile slowly," and so that's what Honoka did, as she began to step off, both of them started to sweat and there was a uncomfortable silence. Honoka took her foot off and closed her eyes, but nothing happened. She opened her eyes and heard Umi sigh in relief. Honoka turned back happily.
"We did it!" Honoka said. Umi smiled at her.
"Yeah, but now we're at a dead end," Umi said looking back at the arrows where there was nothing but the wall there. Honoka then turned back and noticed something, she stepped over the corpse and walked over to the little holes. "Honoka, what're you doing?" Umi asked as Honoka started observing the wall. She then found what she was looking for and pulled out a string from one of the arrow holes. She continued to pull out the string until there was a rumbling noise. Honoka stepped back as the floor slid underneath the arrow wall to reveal a staircase.
"How did you-" Umi started to ask amazed.
"I'm smarter than I look you know, besides doesn't it seem like something that would come from a game?" Honoka answered. Umi stood there dumbfounded for a while as Honoka started to go down the stairs. Umi then followed after Honoka down the stairs. As they continued to walk in the darkness, except for Honoka's little flame, they came across another trap. This time even Umi activated it as the floor beneath them suddenly disappeared. Honoka began to fall down, but Umi caught her wrist. She then helped pull her up.
"There better be something good for us when we finally get through this!" Honoka said after panting from fear.
"Calm down, Honoka," Umi said, but she couldn't argue with her. This has got to be Omar's layer, with this many traps, Umi thought as she looked down at the open floor where there were spikes at the bottom of the floor. There were more skeletons, with some of them still on the spikes. Umi shuddered as she turned back to Honoka. After waiting for a while the hole closed back to the way it was before. They went into the path making sure not to activate it again. As they walked down the dark hallway they began to see a light. Umi summoned out her water bow, as she Honoka summoned out her fire sword, not having enough power and energy to go into her bear form yet. The two tensed up as they walked into the light, they were suprised to see how spacious the room was. It was made out of stone with red flags hanging down on both of the sides of the walls. Straight ahead was a man sitting in a chair who was sipping blood red wine.
"Ah you made it, I wasn't expecting you to," he said. He had slicked back black hair and a pointy moustache. He matched the picture of who Omar was. Umi drew back her bow while Honoka held her sword in front of her with both hands.
"Oh my, there's no need for violence, sit down let's talk," he said with his hands behind his back.
"We're not here to talk, you're under arrest!" Umi said.
"Even though you're not officers?" Omar asked.
"We have a friend with us who's an officer," Honoka said.
"Oh I'm assuming they went into the other passageways then?" Omar asked grinning.
"That's right, so you have no escape," Umi answered.
"Well then they are probably already dead, especially if they went into the left one," he said chuckling. Umi's eyes widened. That's where Kotori and Eli went she thought. Honoka looked at Umi.
"Umi?" Honoka asked. Umi shook her head.
"It's nothing," Umi said looking back at Omar who still had his hands behind his back. All we need to do is capture him, and then we can check up on the others Umi said as she shot her arrow. The arrow broke into a chain as it coiled around Omar and part of it stuck into the ground. Honoka put down her sword as Omar was captured.
That was easy, Honoka thought as she began walking towards Omar, but suddenly Honoka was knocked back. She hit the ground beside Umi. Umi kneeled down next to Honoka.
"Honoka!? Are you okay?" Umi asked as Honoka rubbed the back of her head.
"Owww, yeah I'm fine I was just knocked back is all," Honoka replied, she looked up as Omar moved his arms up, breaking the chain as water fell next to him.
"You've done your move... Now it's my turn!" He said as he lundged forward towards both of them. He was too fast for either of them to react as he grabbed both of their faces and threw them down. He kept holding them down, as Honoka and Umi grabbed his ankles with fire and water. They both threw him off of them making him hit a wall. Honoka and Umi both staggered while standing up, as they watched Omar also stand up unfazed.
There's no way...There's not even a single scratch on him! Umi thought as she looked over at Honoka who looked just as suprised as Umi.
"What's the matter? I thought you said you were going to arrest me? Or was that all just talk?" Omar said while smirking. Honoka clenched her teeth.
If only I could use my bear form then maybe we could get somewhere... Honoka looked at her hands before clenching them.
"Umi, I need your help," Honoka said without looking at Umi. Umi looked back at Honoka.
"What is it?" She said.
"I need you to hold him off for a while," Honoka said as she put away her fire sword. "Can you do that?" She asked now looking at Umi. Umi pulled back her bow as she summoned another arrow.
"Of course, just don't take to long okay?" Umi said smiling at Honoka before turning back towards Omar.
"Okay!" Honoka said as Umi shot her arrow and Honoka sat down and closed her eyes. Omar caught the arrow and broke it in half, making it turn to water as it splashed around him, Umi threw her hand out and the water wrapped around his legs.
All I need to do is hold him off until Honoka is ready. That shouldn't be too hard, Umi thought, but Omar just kicked his leg up and broke the water again, but before Umi could make the water coil around him again, Omar was right in front of her as he punched her in the face sending her to crash into a wall. Blood started to fall out of her nose
Crap I let my guard down Umi stood up and saw Omar walking over to Honoka.
"That's not fair, sleeping during the middle of a battle while your friend has to suffer!" Omar punched her, but as he did, Honoka caught his fist. She opened her eyes as she began to transform. Omar stepped back a few steps. "Well isn't this interesting?" Omar said as Honoka transformed.
"Honoka!" Umi looked at the orange bear as Honoka roared. Honoka charged at Omar and whacked him in the side of the head as he was sent flying into the wall. He hit the wall so hard that chips of the wall started to break from where he had hit. Umi drew back her bow and made a larger more lethal arrow and let it fly into the dust of the breaking stone. Honoka and Umi charged towards the wall, Honoka thrashed around at the dust as it disappeared, but nobody was there.
"W-what!?" Umi shouted as she looked around for Omar, but he wasn't in the room. "He got way?" Umi said as her water bow disappeared. She wiped her nose. "Coward..." She looked over at Honoka, who fell over while transforming back into a human.
"Honoka!" Umi went over as she saw Honoka's nose, eyes and ears bleeding. There was blood trickling down her mouth as well. Instantly she put her ear onto Honoka's chest, as she heard a faint heartbeat. "Honoka..." Umi said softly before starting to put her on her back as she carried her down the passageway.
How am I supposed to explain what happened to the others? Umi thought to herself as see carried Honoka down the way that they came from.
Authors Notes
Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter, so now we've got all the characters points of views from which passageway they went through. Also Nozomi should be introduced soon into the story, but anyways I hope you liked it. Oh and by the way just in case so you're informed Honoka's bear form takes a tremendous amount of energy/power from her so if she uses it too much it begins to put stress on her body, so that's what happened to her, just to clear things up a little. I'm so sorry I haven't been able to publish for so long I had lost my account and I forgot my password so yeah... but I got it back now!
