"I found it I found it!" Iera squealed, "I found the exit before any of you guys!"

"I'm happy for you Iera, could you please show it to us." Drem said in a sarcastic happy voice.

"Your just jealous Drem. It's over this way, come on I'll show you." Iera ran off toward the center of the city.

Everyone followed her through the twisted streets and the narrow alleyways until they reached an open gate which lead up to a green door similarly strange to the one they had come through.

"Wait," Noj stopped and turned toward Haka. "What does it say happens when you leave, what's on the other side of that wall."

Haka flipped through the book quickly scanning the pages to see if he could find anything.

"Ah, it says that once Scavo left the cave, his party walked for miles and miles looking for any sign of civilization." Haka stopped reading and flipped some pages.

"What then?" Iera questioned.

"Well," Haka looked up at the group. "That's the last entry until the next month where it says that they were taken to a large crater in the middle of a vast open wheat field."

Haka wasn't sure what that lengthy gap in the diary could mean but after going through this cavern he was hoping that Scavo and his team were having to good a time to write it down.

"Let's just keep moving then, we won't find out what's ahead until we see for ourselves." Haka moved up to the door and pushed it open, he could see the blue sky at the end of the long tunnel.

"Wait guys," Iera looked around worriedly, "where did Drem go?"

Drem came dragging a large rather heavy looking bag up the hill. He was a good fifty-feet behind.

"Drem what do you think your doing?" Haka growled. "You realize that we're pretty far behind schedule with that crazy dwarf guy holding us up back there."

"I know" Drem smiled, "but I couldn't pass up a chance to mine some of the most valuable metals in the world, I had to get some."

He opened his bag and he had sheets of roof shingles that were made of adamantine stacked up in his bag.

Haka just shook his head and kept walking, Iera and Noj both had a look on there face that was a mixture of being annoyed and just plain shocked.

When Haka reached the end of the tunnel he saw a large field with a forest of giant trees bordering it. A large raging river roared through the center, Haka took in a large breath and howled.

"It's nice to finally breathe in some real air!"

Iera and Noj both sat down in the grass and just lay there enjoying the nice breeze and the grass against their backs.

Drem was still quite a ways back dragging the bag along,

"Anyone want to help me here?" Drem was panting and sweating, "I'll share some of what I make after selling all this."

Haka laughed and went back to help Drem. Haka carried the metal back and Drem just dragged himself out of the tunnel. Drem came out into the sunlight and lay down right at the entrance, he smiled and sat up. He watched as Haka walked over to the river with his bag of goods. Haka suddenly dumped the contents of the bag into the river.

Drem jolted upright and ran toward Haka screaming.

"What did you do? I almost killed myself getting those." Drem frantically looked into the river seeing if he could grab at least one sheet but the raging river swept the adamantine away.

Drem stared at Haka with such sad eyes,

"How could you."

"Drem, just think, we aren't going to be going near a city for a long time and you nearly died trying to carry this bag for a mere two-hundred feet, it was only going to weigh you down in the end." Haka smiled and threw the bag at Drem.

Drem looked back at the river then at the bag. He sighed,

"I guess your right, but why couldn't we even just keep one, we could have made a fortune off of that one piece."

Haka was in such a good mood he didn't even feel like arguing. He just chuckled and walked back to were he left his pack at the entrance of the cave.

He bent down to pick it up and when he looked back up he was staring into the head of a sharp spear that glistened in the sunlight.

He looked down and saw a human like creature about four feet tall and rather skinny. It had on a shirt and some pants which lead Haka to believe that it was part of a civilized community. Haka backed away slowly he turned to see that a bunch of these strange men seemed to have risen out of the tall grass and surrounded the rest of his party.

"Do you guys speak common." Haka nervously asked the small man, not wanting to say anything that could result in anyone getting hurt.

The small man just looked at him then pointed toward the woods with his hand then showed Haka a blindfold and some rope hand cuffs.

He looked around and the other small men were also trying to put the blindfolds onto Iera, Noj, and Drem. Iera and Noj weren't putting up to much of a fight but Drem on the other hand was ready to explode.

"Don't touch me with your tiny hands!" Drem was getting to the point where he was going to hurt someone.

"Drem, stop fighting it will just get worse. Calm down and we'll think of something." Haka barked.

Drem stopped fighting and was blindfolded. Haka was then blindfolded and hand cuffed. Haka heard 3 small grunts.

"What's going on out there, don't hurt anyone."

The small man raised a club and brought it down on Haka's head. He fell to the ground and then everything went black.