Episode 6: Hanging on and New Discoveries
Hey here is the newest chapter I hope you guys are liking the story 3
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They continued to walk in silence the dragon concentrating on the path and, Nicole busying herself by looking around to see what she can find soon they reach an entryway but, before they can enter the dragon stops and turns to face Nicole he then tells her "the exit is not far from this point human" she nods slowly still upset about the fact the dragon refuses to call her by her name. They soon enter a smaller looking cavern that somewhat resembled the one Nicole found the dragon in she was once again in aw the cavern had large bright crystal rocks that grew from the ceiling as well as the floor you could also hear the relaxing sound of water dripping down from the crystals into a beautiful lake "wow".
As Nicole looks around in aw all she can think about is how cool exploring the cavern would be and that she would never have an opportunity to explore a place like this again the dragon not bothering to check if Nicole was following him keeps going he then turns to tell her something only to notice that the human wasn't following him. He then finds Nicole just standing by the entrance looking he then tells her "human get a move on" but Nicole is set on exploring the place.
she turns to the dragon and begs "can I just explore the cavern for a bit" the dragon looks at her annoyed and says "no human get moving" she then brings her hands together in a praying motion and tries to convince the dragon again "just for a little while then we can go please" the dragon looks at her annoyed but even then she refuses to give up and move the dragon realizing that she won't give up on the opportunity to explore the cavern says "what an annoying human ok only for a few minutes then were leaving no exceptions".
She then jumps up in happiness and hugs the dragon "yes thank you" the dragon shocked that a human would hug him tells her "ok ok just let go of me would you" Nicole then let's go of him and he flies over to a rock and sits down he then starts to watch her as she walks away to explore more of the cavern while muttering to himself "strange human". Nicole mean while starts to explore and is amazed about everything in the cavern I wonder if I can find anything to take back with me as she says this she trips on a small rock as she starts to fall she ways her arms wildly trying to catch her footing but, she can't and she tumbles down a ledge the cavern echoing her scream of whoa.
The dragon hears her scream and gets up he then spreads his wings and starts to fly calling out "human hey human where are you" but, he receives no answer he then thinks to himself "now were could that human have gone?" he starts to fly a little faster in the direction where he had last seen her go. Meanwhile Nicole who is lying down on the floor covered in dirt gets up and starts to clean herself off she also rubs her sore knees "I have fallen to many times today" she then looks around "I don't remember being in this part of the cavern".
She then yells out "dragon hey dragon can you hear me?" as for the dragon he was looking for Nicole "just where could that human be?" he then hears her calling him and, flies in that direction the screams where coming from only to see that she had gotten herself stuck in a lower part of the cavern he flies down to her and asks "are all humans this clumsy or is it just you?" Nicole crosses her arms and says "I am not clumsy today is just not my day" the dragon rolls his eyes and says "yeah whatever you say".
Nicole looks around the new part of the cavern and asks the dragon "is there a way back up to where we were from here?" the dragon looks around and says "I don't think so but I'm going to take a look don't I repeat don't go anywhere" Nicole then says "ok I won't" the dragon gives her a look that says I don't believe you "I mean it human if you get lost again I will leave you got that" Nicole nods and says "ok ok I got it I won't move from here" the dragon gives her a warning look and then flies off.
Nicole starts to look around the newly discovered part of the cavern it was darker then the upper level of the cavern but you could still see because the caverns crystals gave off a soft light. Nicole takes a look around the room she notices something shining from the corner of the room she tries to ignore it and wait for the dragon to get back "just ignore it Nicole it's probably nothing interesting just wait for the dragon to get back so we can get out of here" but, the more she looked at it the more curious she got and the more she wanted to see what it was "It'll just take a second ill go take a quick look then come straight back" with her mind made up Nicole tells herself "ok ill be quick" with that in mind she starts to walk towards the direction of the shining object.
The dragon looks around the upper part of the cavern but, sees no way that connects with the lower cavern or that was possible for a human "I wonder if there could be a way out from down there" as he flies down towards the lower part and looks around the room he notices that there was a part of the lower cavern that was on higher ground and possible for a human to climb "if the human could climb that she would get back to the upper half of the cavern and we could be on our way out of here" he then turns around and flies back to were he left the human. As for Nicole she was walking towards the shining object as she neared it she noticed something on the wall she stops and looks at it then scratches her chin and, says "I swear I've seen this somewhere" she then thinks back but, can't quite remember "I know I've seen this somewhere but I can't put my finger on it oh well if it was important it will come back to me" she then continues to search for the object.
The object Nicole was searching for was in the wall but, it wasn't just an ordinary wall it was covered in pictures the biggest one was of the earth surrounded by the rest of the world Nicole thought it was amazing and a work of art she then walks closer to were the shining object was and, was surprised to find what it was it was. A beautiful neckless it had a golden chain that shined in the dim light and at the end of the chain there was a beautiful golden dragon the dragon was holding something in its gold claws it held what looked to be a scale Nicole had no words for she had never seen anything as pretty as it before.
Nicole was mesmerized by it and reached out her hand to take the neckless out from the wall when she felt the surface of the neckless she gave it a tug the neckless looked as though it would be hard to remove but, to her surprise it came right out of the wall when she got it all she could do was stare at it and say "wow it's so beautiful" when she looked back were she found the neckless she noticed that it wasn't the only thing in the wall "hey there something else here". she then reached back and, picked up some sort of metal object or device "what could this be I've never seen anything like it before" she looked at it was rectangular and not very heavy she then shook it a bit but nothing happened she then remembered about the dragon and, what he had told her "oh crap I have to go back before he gets there and notices I'm not there man he's going to be pissed" so she put the metal thing in her pocket and with neckless in hand ran as fast as she could back to the spot where the dragon had told her to wait.
Nicole ran as fast as she could to the spot were the dragon had warned her not to leave when she arrives panting and out of breath she says "I made it back before him thank God" just as she says this the dragon comes towards her flying at high speeds. He then stops in front of her when he does he tells Nicole "good news human…" but before he can finish he sees that Nicole is trying to catch her breath "human why are you out of breath" she looks panicked for a second and replies "o-out of breath w-who is out of breath" but the dragon doesn't believe her he looks at her as she nervously looks back after a while he lets out a sigh and says "you humans are some much trouble" Nicole falls on the floor exhausted and panting tells the dragon " yeah yeah so did you find a way out?".
The dragon shakes his head and clears his throat "yeah like I was saying the only way back to the upper cavern would be for you to climb" Nicole looks at the dragon as though he was crazy "you want me to climb up a wall you know the last time I did that I almost fell to my death and then i almost got burnt to a crisp" she crosses her arms "so I think I've had enough rock climbing to last a lifetime thank you" the dragon looks at her annoyed "well if you plan on ever getting out of here you have no other choice then to go up".
Nicole looks at the dragon unconvinced "there has got to be some way that doesn't involve me risking my life" the dragon not looking impressed tells her "that's the only way but if you want look for yourself" she turns to look around "fine i will" she then walks in the direction the dragon came from" the dragon sits down on the floor and folds it's wings behind it's back "this should be good". A few minutes later she comes back "I think life hates me I couldn't find anything so I guess that means I'm going for a climb".
The dragon gets up from the floor he had a look on his face that screamed I was right and you were wrong "so shall we get going human" Nicole sore that the dragon was right and rubbing it in her face grumbles "yeah yeah" they soon arrive and, Nicole does not look excited she looks at the high wall and gulps "is this really the only way maybe we missed something" the dragon turns to her "you know there's no other way" she slaps her cheek and tells herself "ok you can do this I mean you climbed that cliff though I did almost fall and die" she took a shaky step forward. The dragon knowing that she would never start to climb flew in front of her face and told her "I know that you are scared human but you can't let this stop you I know you can do this human".
Nicole looked at the dragon this was the first time he spoke to her in a positive way she felt he was encouraging her and that he really believed she could do it with the dragons words in her head and heart she says "ok I know you are right I can do this" she takes hold of the first few rocks at the bottom but, before she starts to climb she turns to the dragon and smiling tells him "thanks" the dragon is surprised but none the less answers with "whatever human" she laughs and starts to climb but unknown to her the dragon's lips curl into a smile.
She continues to climb as she does she yells out to the dragon "how much further" the dragon flies up and tells her "not much further your almost there" she then tells him "ok because I'm kind of getting tired exercise really isn't my thing" the dragon who was close by said "funny real funny" as time passes the climb gets more difficult but, she makes it with all her strength she gets her upper body on the floor of the upper cavern and manages to hold on to the ground "finally I made it" but, as she says this the rocks that were supporting her legs give out with nothing more then the ground to hold onto for support as she starts to slip closer to the edge and her death.
Oh no Nicole is in big trouble I wonder what's going to happen I guess you have to wait for the next chapter to find out :)