Ive wanted to write for a while now but I had no idea what to do for this stupid blue door. Its the one dark spot I have in the plan the story.
Angel
The group, four this time, stood by the final blue door. A chill ran dow Angel's spine remembering her time through the red door. She ran her hand over the mostly healed cuts on her arm. It still hurt a little but not enough to slow her down too much. Hex had been trying to cover up the pain from his wounds and to act tough. Probably trying to show that he isn't just dead wait. Angel still felt guilty about what happened to him. She had fainted and Hex was still able to get they key, fight off the weird key-beasts, and get the two of them out alive. It made her a little jealous that he could do that with only a few days training. Most of which appeared to be Streak beating him up.
As soon as Kayla opened the door a blast of warm fresh air came rushing over Angel. Unlike the red door there was no narrow hallway. Instead an open field lay behind the door. There was real wind and a few flowers growing out of the neatly cut grass. A wooden table sat in the center of the field.
"Would you look at that? Nothing tried to kill us this time." Streak exclaimed tossing his hands into the air.
"There's still the matter of getting the key." Kayla pointed out. She was walking around the table in the center "It looks like some kind of puzzle." She held up a few wooden panels with carvings of different animals on them.
The party gathered around the table. It was extremely thin with eight indentations in the otherwise smooth surface. Each indentation was the exact size and shape as one of the panels. "We only have four panels and it looks like we need eight." Kayla announced. She passed around one of the panels to each of us. Angel's was carved with the picture of a dog. The panel looked ornate and old. The dog had its teeth bared and its head drawn back in a snarl. She looked around at the other panels. Hex's was a snake. The carving was a close up the snake's head with extra detail around the eye. Streak's was a bear standing on its hind legs. Lastly Kayla's was a hawk. Its wings outstretched.
"I'll go look around for the other panels." Angel declared. She strolled away from the wooden table perusing the grass and the walls for anything out of place. It was hard to focus with the pleasant environment. Angel despised the cold and it felt great to be somewhere warm. Even though the chamber was much warmer than out in the Frostlands it couldn't be more than forty degrees. She felt like laying down in the grass and enjoying the breeze. Noticing her concentration slip away Angel backtracked a ways and repeated the search. Hex and Streak were also searching around the room. Kayla was staring down at the table. She shrugged and placed one of the panels into a indentation. At first nothing happened but within seconds the ground began to shake. Instinctively Angel spread her wings and hovered a few feet above the ground.
Several parts of the floor collapsed including the one Angel had been standing on only seconds before. She watched the debris plummet into darkness below until it vanished from sight. "What the hell just happened?" Streak yelled sidestepping through the collapsed surface towards the center table.
"All I did was put one of the panels in." Kayla stammered. While Kayla and Streak fiddled with the panels Angel patrolled the holes looking into each one. They were all exactly the same. Perfectly square and infinitely bottomless. She landed next to Hex on the other side of the field.
"Find anything useful?" she asked hoping that Hex had a more successful search then her. Hex nodded and pointed at the wall. An indentation identical to the eight on the wooden table was pressed into the wall.
"Don't know which panel to stick in there we don't need any more of the floor collapsing." A good thirty percent of the room had already gave way and fallen into the darkness. "There is also another indent on th-" The low rumbling sound picked up again and Angel immediately got off the ground. Angel saw the tile Hex was standing on crumble into rubble and collapse. He jumped just in time managing to hold onto the edge of an adjacent tile. It too gave way and Angel watched in horror as Hex fell into the darkness.
With one big push from her wings Angel dived down after Hex. Immediately she began to regret it. Only a second down everything turned black with no light from the surface and it eerily quite. Unnaturally quite. She couldn't hear her own wingbeats or the sound of her breath. Couldn't feel any wind blowing against her face. All her senses were shut down leaving Angel disoriented and 100 percent in the dark. There was no way to tell which way was up, which was down, or if she was even moving at all. A wave of fear washed her. What if she hit the bottom. There would be no way of knowing. Could Angel even tell if she did with all senses nullified.
How long had she been falling? It felt like hours but it couldn't be. Only seconds maybe a minute it was hard to tell. Everything was hard to make out. Feeling utterly helpless Angel let herself fall and began to count the seconds. That way she would at least know how long its been. For better or for worse. 10...20...30 still nothing 40...50...60 a full minute passed. "61, 62, 63." Wait... that was her own voice. Angel had clearly heard it. And it felt great to hear anything. She could hear her breathing very quickly for that matter. Angel slowed her breathing and took a deep breath partly just to hear it. Soon the darkness below her began to light up. A refreshing change from the darkness. The light was racing up towards her and she could now feel the wind and the cold.
Angel fell into the light and it burnt all over like falling into a fire. As unpleasant as it was at least her senses were restored. The burning was thankfully short lived and the blinding light faded. She was standing on solid ground though her knees wobbled and her head hurt all the colors and sounds seemed too bright and too loud after the nothingness. Angel crumpled to the ground not feeling quite as thankful for the return of her senses. "Angel, are you okay?" screamed a familiar voice. She could make out Hex running towards her. His gray clothes seemed too vibrant to look at and the sound of his footsteps to be excruciating.
"Just stop being so damn loud." Angel groaned in response holding her hands up to her head and shutting her eyes. She could feel consciousness slipping away as the pain began to ease. Angel didn't even try to fight it. She just wanted a moment to rest.
When Angel came too she was afraid to even open her eyes though everything sounded normal. She could hear her breath and it wasn't as loud as canon fire. Angel slowly opened her eyes and got her first good look at her surroundings. The room was oddly shaped as a sphere. The floor and ceiling alike were curved leaving no flat surfaces. The entire room was blue except for the center of the ceiling. It was open and the searing light from before flowed out of the hole though it wasn't nearly as bright now. Hex was sitting next to her looking concerned. "Are you alright?" he asks making a conscious effort to keep his voice quiet to her request.
"I think so, but that was definitely the worst experience of my life." A quiver ran down her spine just thinking about it. "Do you have any idea how we are going to get out of here?" The only way out she saw was through the light and back into the darkness. Angel didn't wasn't sure if she could manage that again. Hex stole a glance at the light and then looked back at Angel. He must have seen the fear in her eyes because he hesitated to say anything.
He finally answered "Before we worry about that it looks like you need to some good news. I found these while you were out." He lay out the four missing panels and a shining stone. Unlike the other four which were wooden planks these were made from obsidian and carved with monsters and demons.
"These panels sure show the hell we went through to get here." Angel could tell from the look on Hex's face that his experience wasn't very pleasant either. No need to talk about it further. Who would want to? "But what about the stone?"
"I assume its for showing where to place the panels. We don't want the whole floor collapsing in." After Hex said that the two of them sat in silence for a moment dreading what comes next. Getting back through the way they came.
Hex broke the silence after a few minutes "We had better try to get back." Angel waited another few seconds before answering.
"Yeah... I guess you're right." The two of them stood in the center of the spherical room gazing up at the light. "Here we go." Angel announced as she picked up Hex. Her heart fluttered from him being so close to her. It made hesitate a moment longer before taking off into the light.
As soon as she entered the light she felt completely weightless and soon after a golden flash further illuminated the already bright area. Then without the expected agony Angel felt her feet land on the ground. She opened her eyes and they were back in the open field. She saw Streak and Kayla watching them and Angel quickly let Hex go feeling a blush creep over her face. Angel her a little laugh from Streak and then saw Kayla elbow him in the ribs as a sign to shut up.
"That was quite the entrance!" Streak exclaimed clapping his hands. Angel rolled her eyes at Streak. He was still trying not to laugh.
"Anyways we got the remaining panels and this stone. Hopefully it will help decode where each panel goes." Hex passed the stuff to Streak and Kayla while he announced the news. Streak took the panels and tossed the rock to Kayla. She ran it over the table and a faint glowing imprint of each panels carving sprung to life in each section of the table. Streak placed the panels in one by one until every slot was filled. The tabled folded up and receded into the ground. The blue key rose from the ground in its place.
Streak snatched the key "About we time we got all these damn keys." He swirled the blue key around his finger "I can't wait to kick Helix's ass." And with that the party left the field and the bad memories in brought and went back to the cold dank chamber. "Since you got the panels you get to put in the last key." Streak handed Angel the blue key. She inserted the key into the key hole and twisted it. The door swung open creaking like it hasn't been opened since it was built which is probably the case.
"You guys ready for this?" Kayla asked.
"Born ready." Streak replied. Hex and Angel both just gave a nod. Neither quite as excited about this as Streak. Besides wether she was ready or not Angel was about to fight a god.
Now that this dark spot is through I can get on with the plan so hopefully I will update somewhat faster next time. Though as you can probably tell I can't keep an update schedule for my life but I'll do my best. As always reviews are appreciated.
