Kazooie and The Crooked Mountains

Chapter five

The temple of origin

Her wing still hurt, her head still hurt, but honestly Kazooie didn't care, she would sort things out when Banjo was safe. Right know she had to find a way to reach the doorway on the wall, there wasn't any proper way up, so she needed to jump.

A few years back Jamjars taught her how to jump higher than she could before, the door wasn't low enough though, Kazooie looked back at the table she was sitting at before L.O.G went ballistic, it would have to do.

It was heavier than it looked, but she got it against the wall and climbed up, she bent over and got close to the ground, then she pushed upward and shot into the air, she hit the ledge that jetted of the wall and grabbed onto it, she swung her body and got her left leg over, then she rolled onto he back and started panting.

How did Banjo manage to pull it off? He did this multiple times while Kazooie was on his back, he was fitter than she thought he was. Kazooie stood up and walked towards the door, there wasn't a knob so she felt over it trying to find a switch to open it, she put a little pressure on it and it slid back and sank down into the floor beneath it, when she stepped inside it shot back upwards, nearly clamping on her tail feather.

The room was beautiful, well lit and was full of diverse flora, there was three passages that led to other parts of the temple, one of which was elevated about four stories from where she stood, there was a thick wall of vines that scaled the walls, she couldn't climbed them though, not with her talons, so she decided to go left.

The room at the other end had a small creek flowing through it, there was another wall covered with vines that led to a second floor, there was a display case up on the second floor, maybe the room she was in collapsed and this was all that was left? There was nothing useful in this room at the time, maybe later she could flood the creek, she was smart enough to think that through, this wasn't her first rodeo.

The second room was dark, but there was a crack in the ceiling that let in some light, she could see a nest of weird looking eggs, they were sky blue with white trails along the sides, she carefully crossed the room and grabbed them, she looked at the crack and spat one at it, when it made contact it let out a blast of wind that made the weak ceiling crumble.

"That's new" Kazooie uttered out loud by accident, she already liked these eggs. The light reviled the creek running through this room, the water was sloping downwards so it was coming from the other room, but she also saw switch that blocked the water flow into this room, she tried flipping if, but it was busted. She needed to find something else to block the water flow. She went back to the first room and decided that to wind eggs couldn't reach the display case, but there were some vines hanging from the ceiling that looked like they were baring seeds, one egg later she had a vine seed, and she knew what she was going to do with it.

She planted a seed in the second room right in front of the water grate, but then she remembered how long it took for plants to grow, mid thought she was corrected, the vines had formed a wall that blockaded the water from the other room, she didn't want to know how it happened so fast, she didn't care.

The next room had a nice body of water forming, the push open door wasn't triggered by the water so eventually it was high enough to reach the display case.

This better have been worth it, and it was, inside their was some weird foot attachments designed for all species, except snakes and things that didn't wear footwear. They were talon treads, the design was pretty basic, but the good thing was it was for all species, she could wear them, then Banjo could wear them and she'd never need to carry him again, then she realized if Banjo didn't need to be carried around, she'd be useless, he wouldn't need to rely on her.

Why did she care about this, maybe... maybe she relied on Banjo more than Banjo relied on her? Her train of thought was abruptly ended when she felt water on her feet, she fitted the metal cleats on he talons and found their extra weight might make it possible for her to swim under water, which would be even more useful than climbing down the vines and pulling herself to the door.

She jumped into the water and tried to go under, when she was submerged, she swam towards the door and pushed it a little, it opened and the water flooded out, she got dragged to the second room with the current, when the water was all gone, she returned to the main room. "Hope this works" she thought out loud unintentionally, then she kicked the vines and started to ascend, it was tiring but hopefully all the work would be worth it. The third room was circular, in the centre was a box, in that box was what she was looking for, before she could open it, she heard a familiar voice "L.O.G was wrong about you, you know" but it wasn't the apprentice, he sounded oddly familiar, even though she never heard his voice before. "And why is that?" She was genuinely interested in this new character.

"You see, this land, The inverted range, I created it in a attempt to impress my master, it was never meant to be adventured. He told me that you were a second rate side kick, you wouldn't be important to anyone because you couldn't manage on your own, but here you are." He sounded crazy, maybe he was insane. "It's very meta, you know" he said with great intrigue. "What do you mean, meta?" Kazooie was getting nervous, it was scary being in the presence of a practical Mad God.

"It's meta, the creator being destroyed by he's own creation, it's very odd, but might I say, you are very odd as well"

Kazooie opened the chest and pulled out a jiggy, but when she turned towards the exit, she saw a forest, she looked back in front of her and saw the stone slab, it was all so confusing, who was the voice? How did she get here? What did he mean by your very odd as well? She didn't understand anything about this place, it was all... Crooked.

She had 3 of the seven jiggys she needed to save Banjo, she looked at the slab and immediately read it three times over. It now said she needed 6 jiggys! What was this place, why did Grunty choose here?!?

What dark secrets did L.O.G hold? She needed to sleep on this, she couldn't understand what the hell was going on in this place, she just wanted Banjo and then she was gone. She lied down and curled up a little, she missed the warmth of Banjo's backpack, she missed having him there to say goodnight and good morning, she oddly missed the snoring as well. They say you don't notice everything you have until its gone, and the only thing she noticed was missing was Banjo.