We made our way through the winding cave, occasionally picking up some copper and iron, until we came to a large drop off, too dark to see the bottom. "Woah... scary..." I said as I crouched over the edge, trying to see the bottom. "I'll say" said Jeff. He dug in his bag a bit and took out a glowing green rod. He then tossed it into the pit, and it lit up the way down before hitting the bottom with a loud "thud". It was even deeper then I had expected, looking about forty or fifty feet. "I guess we're turning back, huh?" I said as I looked over the edge, then back at Jeff. "Nah, this shouldn't be much of a problem" he said as he took a shiny silver chain with a hook at the end in both hands. "Hold on tight" he said as he put his arm around me. Before I could say anything, he leaped over the edge, pulling me with him.
We plummeted down into the cave, and I was completely terrified. Just before we hit the bottom Jeff threw the hook end of the chain, and it latched onto the wall of the cave, stopping us. We hung from the chain for a moment before he let go and hopped down, and yanked the chain back out of the wall and coiled it up, and stuffed it back into his bag. I took a minute to completely grasped what had just happened. After catching my breath, I looked over at him, scowling. "What are you, crazy?!" I shouted at him. "Hey, hey, settle down. It turned out fine, didn't it?" He said as he set another torch in the wall. "Well yeah, but we could have died!" He chuckled a bit. "Sure, but how else could we have gotten down here?" I rolled my eyes, and sighed. It was clear there was no arguing this. "Alright, alright, fine. Lets just keep going" I said, and picked up my pickaxe, which I had dropped on the way down.
We continued to walk forward, and Jeff put another torch on the wall. There were a few clay pots on the ground ahead of us, and a old, beat up looking chest. "Woah, cool!" I said as I walked up to the chest and flipped it open. I rummaged through it a bit, and inside I found a wooden boomerang, two star-shaped bottles with light blue liquid inside, a large amount of rope, and some unlit torches. "Hey, not a bad find at all" Jeff said as he picked up one of the pots. "What are you doing with tha-" before I could finish, he smashed the pot against the ground, and shattered it. There were a few triangular bottles with red liquid inside. "Woah, hey, be careful!" I said as he picked up the next one. "Don't worry, it's fine. All of these contain one item or another, may as well find out what" he proceeded to smash the last two pots, finding more rope, and a grenade.
We started walking again, but I found myself keeping some distance from him. Jeff seemed more reckless then I first thought, but I couldn't deny that he knew what he was doing. We kept going, and we eventually reached a patch of stone. As we moved forward, the cave seemed more and more stone instead of dirt. We eventually came to another chest, and this time Jeff opened it. He took out some more torches, another red bottle, and a few throwing stars. It wasn't much longer before we could hear some grumbling from the darkness. I looked over at Jeff, a bit worried. "Uh... what's that?" He took out his long blue sword, and looked back at me. "Could be a zombie. Be careful." "A zombie?!" I said, surprised. "I thought there were just those weird little blob things!" I shouted, and took out my wooden sword. "Keep it down. And yeah, there are a lot of different monsters. This world has all kinds of evil lurking through it" he started to advance, and I followed carefully behind him. He put up a torch, and we were both a bit caught off-guard by what we saw.