The sword of rai
Part two
Thunder consumed the atmosphere around Gohan as his strong, determined body pushed on through the darkened skies; cold and deadened. Skies lit only by the pure sapphire flames that bled from the warrior's huge form, cutting through such blackened and angry clouds with its purity, as the auburn haired warrior fought on fiercely. His mind was racing, seemingly echoing the busy skies around him. His mind's eye swimming with thought's of this new power he sought. He began his long-winded descent down to what looked like a secluded lakeside, his muscular physic now visible in the clear daylight. He sat down next to the soothing sound of the lake, reaching out with one strong hand plucking a small rock from the ground; flicking his wrist to skim it across the water now in front of him; the small rock created beautiful patterns in the lake as it danced across the ripples it left in its wake. Gohan saw the sun was setting looking around seeing some broken branches and decided to build a fire; He fired a small yellow spark of ki at it igniting it at once. Then he settled down and relaxed, his mind wondering to all the things he could accomplish with his new found power.
The restless saiyan awoke; stretching out his long well-built arms. Rummaging around in his bag bringing out the old fragile map to read where to go next. Gohan's tired eyes scanned the scroll before him; old and musty. It spoke of a cave and a key contained within it's darkness, but even this only lead on to a further part of the puzzle laid out in front of him that he must solve. Gohan began to power up; becoming stronger and stronger. His aura beginning to glow sapphire once more as he pushed down and blasted off with the speed of a bullet from a gun. Following the map he held, the saiyan shot through the skies until he reached where he needed to be. As his feet touched down gently to the ground he searched more for the cave promised by his map. His eyes searched the area; there was a huge towering mountain before him, but no cave.
He scanned the surface of the mountain carefully, looking closer for any sign of the cave, but found nothing. Mind wrought with confusion he sighed and turned to look away. Just as he was giving up something caught his eye. There was a fracture all down the mountain edge, glancing back at his map in confusion he realised this was where he was meant to be. His tough arms almost moved of their own accord behind his back and held their place by his waist. Sudden sparks of bright cobalt energy began to gather between his cupped hands. Then once the energy was at its largest creating an orb of power his hands flew forward gracefully and with a mighty flash the wave of Kamehameha energy shot from him, assaulting the wall of mountainous rock and crumbling it to nothing effortlessly to reveal the towering dark entrance of the cave he sought.
Gohan slowly approached the cavernous hollow on the mountain that had been revealed. Taking a few fist steps within cautiously. Firstly he was faced with a long, dark and narrow corridor with and overwhelming feeling of gloom. The warrior stood firm flinching his muscles and rolling his neck in preparation for anything he might find. He clenched his fists tightly and urged his distinctive blue flames to begin licking away from his skin. Encasing him in pure light. It had the desired effect and his way down the corridor was now lit as he pushed onwards. He reached the end of the extensive corridor; on the wall facing him was a crooked sign which read. "Continue if you wish to seek out power, but be warned once you go deeper there's no turning back." The saiyan stood still in thought for a moment dwelling on the decision he must make, but he knew there was only but one choice. He proceeded up a large, steep staircase that winded away on his left side. Each step taking him closer to what he sought, but also closer to possible dangers untold.
As he reached the top of the staircase he was led out by the pathway to an open and large room. Keeping his wits about him, ready for anything the warrior stepped out and walked towards the centre of the room suddenly the walls groaned and rumbled, the siayan's eyes looked around frantically for the cause, but by the time he looked behind him the walls had closed around the staircase and he was trapped. No way to leave his new surroundings, no way out. Now knowing there was no choice but to simply go on, but not seeing any way to go his eyes searched the room and finally fell on another filthy and frail sign hanging on the wall to his right. Slowly he approached and tried to make out the words. "Up ahead lies the key to the next part of this journey, this room is no ordinary room and to get to the key you must be quick and have a good memory."
Gradually he walked forward; there was a tiled floor in front of him. Sizing up the floor Gohan was deep in thought attempting to figure out what this was all about. Out of nowhere the tiles began to illuminate one after the other in a sequence. This set in motion a number of seemingly impossible tasks, the floor behind him began to crumble away slowly and as he looked up at the end of the room something was happening but it was too dark to see what. The saiyan charged a small amount of amber energy in his hand and fired it at the end of the room, as it lit up the room he discovered that there was a door at the end of the darkness, it was gradually descending from the roof to seal the warriors fate. The room felt different all of sudden, Gohan's body felt one hundred times heavier than normal, he could barley move. Gohan stepped on a tile and a huge ki blast shot out of it, he had no time to block the unexpected blast and it hit him square in the face. He realised that he had to step on the tiles in the sequence that they lit up in.
The mighty saiyan warrior was in trouble, Gohan began moving from tile to tile in the correct order, he felt like he was lifting huge boulders when he was simply lifting his legs to walk. Gohan found himself stuck, he couldn't remember which tile was next and time was a luxury he didn't have. The ground began to disappear quicker and quicker soon it would be Gohan that fell into the darkness of the void beneath. Then just as time was running out Gohan thought of something, he began charging cobalt energy once more this time the energy was more intense and larger than before. He flung his arms forward firing an unimaginable blast of mighty power it hit the entrance wall but as it was too thick to destroy it instead forced the saiyan backwards at an astounding rate, he shot through the door just in time as it slammed shut in front of him.
To be continued...