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Chapter 10:

My eyes we wide, having scrambled up moments ago, Leo and I stand, hunched over by the wall of the tunnel, confused. Leo's eyes are wide and his face is flushed from the little 'episode' a couple of seconds ago. The volcano hasn't stopped shaking and rumbling, and I can't help but worry about whether or not this thing is really inactive. I worriedly fumble with my fingers and run after Leo as he suddenly pelts down the tunnel. He's going at a faster pace than me and I rush to catch up to him. He turns around a corner and I can't see him anymore, he seems to have vanished into an invisible room. When I get to the spot where he vanished, I'm confused because there's nothing there, it's like the rock just opened up and swallowed him. I'm beginning to panic and I try to calm myself down again as my mind races to find a solution. The rumbling is getting louder and seemingly angrier so without thinking I bolt down the corridor.

After a couple minutes of full out sprinting I begin to slow to a stop, out of breath. I raise my head in confusion as I realize the tunnel is getting smaller, soon I'll have to crawl. I feel my face flush and the panic rises up in the pit of my stomach, I'm not very good at staying calm... I know that soon, I'm going to run out of plan B's. I slide myself forward and suddenly, I feel the floor cave, I can feel the air suck in as I fall through a weak point in the floor. For a moment I'm free falling, the air shooting across my warm face. I let out a yell as I feel my leg crunch underneath me when I hit the ground moments later. I can tell I've landed in a large room when I hear the echo of rocks and cave debris against the smooth floor.

Coughing to clear my stinging lungs, I slowly began to stand; only to collapse again as a sharp pain jolts up my lower leg. I curse and blink rapidly, trying to clear the dust out of my watering eyes. When they are clear enough for my surroundings to be visible I am met with a sight I was not prepared to see, not here.

I'm sitting in the middle of a very large room, with smooth black tiled flooring and velvet furniture scattered around to room. There are black lace curtains mounted on the wall even though there aren't any windows to go with them. The lighting is dim and there is an overpowering scent of lavender in the air. The dusty, uneven rock ceiling seems out of place with the elegantly furnished room. There are rocks and debris strewn on the floor around me, making the otherwise spotless floor dusty.

Focusing on my injured leg, I hold my breath and slowly slide it out from under my body, wincing as I feel slight pain. Abruptly, the rumbling in the tunnels that had otherwise stopped, began again, getting louder and louder with each second, this time, a low, inhuman moaning noise accompanies it. Slowly, I turn my head to the corner of the room farthest away from me, and the source of the sound, already instinctively sliding farther away.

There, curled in the corner, was a creature which was certainly not human. I could see the bare torso of a man but that was the closest it came to anything normal. Sprawled out underneath it were two long, coiled viper tails, a dark olive green color. The most disturbing part was his hands, hundreds of tiny snakes instead of fingers, all of them at least eight inches long. As far as I could see, wings were folded across his back, the tips poking out from behind his head….. His heads…. Hundreds of animal heads sprouted from his neck and back…. bulls, boars, serpents, lions, leopards, but in the center, one lone human head sat, scarred and cruel looking. It had deep set eyes with barely any eyebrows to go with it, and a hard set mouth and an unruly beard to go with it. He had pointed ears that stood out on his dark, matted hair, and red eyes full of fire.

The low, inhuman sound didn't come from his mouth, but rather radiated through the room, ominously. His cold eyes bored into me and the low sound became of a screeching one. He slammed one of his 'tails' on the ground, making it rumble and shake, bringing it up and flinging a boiling red rock flinging it in my direction. Thinking quickly, I dove to my right, dragging my injured leg with me as I scrambled to get out of the fire zone, ignoring the pain that laced through my leg.

Stumbling backwards, I slammed against a wall, only to feel the solid wood give way and swallow me into a black hole. I was so sick of falling. I hit the floor much sooner than the first time, and it didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, seeing as I landed on my tailbone and not my injured leg. I could still hear the creature going on a rage, the ground shook violently and I assumed another fireball must have hit a wall. My heart was still beating irregularly and with a shaking hand I felt around the dark room. My hand suddenly hit something soft, skin…. A face. I involuntarily let out a scream, before the stranger spoke, a voice I knew.

"Alex?"

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This is where it gets intense. :L