Chapter 3 - Discovery
"Oof, OWW," yelled out Hashirama, he honestly didn't expect to fall from a cliff the height of a three story building, and he was pretty sure he broke something when he landed on his hand.
"Hashirama, you fool, why in the world didn't you use the tree walking exercise!" Madara yelled, looking over the edge of the same cliff the previous boy fell, was another boy with raven colored hair.
He looked angry, understandably when his idiot of a friend let himself get hurt like that, he himself, while using his hands to hold unto the rocks his feet held him firmly on the surface.
"...uh, oops I forgot," Hashirama sheepishly answered, with his one good hand scratching the back of his head, "ouch," which then he immediately started cradling his bad hand.
Madara eyes twitched, annoyed with what Hashirama said, 'how do you forget that you climb?'sighing and shaking his head, using the technique Tree Climbing, he scaled his way down.
When he got down, he went and looked at the other twelve year olds arm, he seemed to have broken it, thankfully cleanly, so it should heal over in a few weeks.
Hashirama on the other hand was looking at their immediate surroundings, it seemed he fell in what looked like a miniature valley, surrounded by cliffs, except one side had a opening that lead downwards to what he assumed was another cliff.
He was sitting on grass, and a few trees here and there, and a few plants, though…, there was something that caught his interest, there was a red flower, now normally that wouldn't attract his attention, but what DID was the fact it looked like it was made from blocks.
"Umm Madara, take a look at that," he said, now thinking over what this would mean, Madara raising a eyebrow took a look, and blinked.
He as well saw a red flower, along with a Purple and Blue one, and there was also one floating on water, they all looked like they were made of blocks.
He suddenly didn't feel good, this reminded him of the beasts that recently appeared to the world earlier from the year.
A few months ago, the entire continent was field with what looked zombies, Skeletons, and enourmous Spiders, as well as green things that apparently explode when you get too close and a tall Purple-eyed black monster, it teleported but looked neutral until someone apparently looks at it in the eye.
The black thing, from what it appeared was damaged if it touches water as it was seen in the rain taking damage, and oddly enough if they take damage they momentarily turn reddish, which when they die they evaporate in smoke.
And what was even stranger is when they do die, they drop things, the zombie dropped mostly his flesh, but strangely enough it also sometimes dropped iron, potato, or a carrot.
Skeleton dropped bones and arrows, or rarely a bow, which they used to shoot at their victims, the green things that seemed to be suicide bombers, just dropped a pile of grey substance, they didn't find a use so they called it trash.
The spider when killed dropped string, and disgustingly their eyes as well, an black guy would dropped this green spheres, they usually were the size of their fists, at first they didn't know what it was, but when one of the Shinobi threw it, while they did take damage they seemed to teleport the person anywhere they were thrown.
Sadly, they rarely appeared, so you couldn't exactly be able to go kill a ton of them and get them, and there is a chance that they won't drop them, as that happened the first time they appeared, and you don't exactly want to fight a teleporting enemy, trust him he already tried with his many visits to Hashirama by the river, it was bound to happen.
They seemed to be able to appear anywhere at first, later realizing that light and the sun fend them off, now a days, the clans home was litter with so much light you would believe it was still daytime, if a bit dark.
Madara looked around some more, and found something else, a Door, well hidden in a corner, but it shared the same feature as the flowers and monsters.
It was made of blocks
It was open, as if something left it open,...no it looked more like someone was in a hurry and failed to properly close the door, knowing Hashirama is also looking in his line of sight, he signaled to follow him.
Slowly, the two boys made their way to the door, making sure their steps were quiet while Hashirama was cradling his hand, when they made they saw that the door that would've been facing them if it was closed, was what looked like, accurately a side of the same cliff wall they are at, if this was closed, they didn't believe they would've found this.
With the same speed as before, they made their way inside, and in all honestly weren't expecting what they found.
Inside, there were brick stone walls, while the floor was made of dark brown wooden planks, all of it in perfect cube shape, exactly ended with every cube being one meter in length at each side, at the very top, among the Stone were weird , orange and black cube, they themselves weren't sure what it was.
'Could this be connected to the monsters?' Hashirama thought, in all honesty, he was on edge, they by chance managed to find on area that could be connected to the sudden appearance of the blocky monsters.
There was also a lever at the entrance, just sitting there on the wall, not exactly interested in it, since he wasn't sure if it was good or not.
When they passed the door, they found a three pathways, a left corridor, right corridor, or a pair of doors right in front of him.
They had three options, two led to more mystery, one led to what they assume would be a room.
With a brief look at one another, they decided to try and map out the area, they started with turning left, since it had more doors, from what could see in their area, at the first door at the left, Madara turned the handle and opened the door.
And found what he assumed was the bathroom, there was a toilet, a bathtub, and sink, it was dark as it was In the corridor, there was another lever, there seemed to be numerous of them, the room itself was white, like very white, it added beauty to it.
Decided that if there was no harm to it, if there were a lot of them, he pulled the lever down, and at the moment he was blinded by light, his body on instinct got into a fighting stance.
After a moment where nothing happened, he opened his eyes, where he has gotten a bit used to it, he still had to squint, but it was better than nothing, behind his shoulder, he could see Hashirama in a fighting stance of his own, but unlike him he was rubbing his eyes.
He looked back to investigate the source of the light, he looked up, and seeing the black orange cube lit up, it seemed that pulling the lever turned on the lights.
How did this work?, it didn't look like it was a lamp, it was far to bright, there as well wasn't any heat emitting from it, he couldn't understand how the late came to be, though pulling the lever seemed to be the trigger.
Seeing nothing particularly odd, ignoring it was made of blocks, him and Hashirama left the room, with him, pulling the lever back up, no need to leave trails for whoever lives here.
Since Hashirama was at the back when they came in, he ended up taking the lead, going down the door across him he opened the door.
It lead to a room, a slightly bigger one, it was mostly made of Stone, but it did have a kettle and a cauldron, both with a fire in the floor was burning.
There were shelves on the wall, actually...now that they look at it, it did not seem to be the same as the other things in this place.
It was not made of blocks, it actually looked like a normal shelf would look like, but the bottles on it was made of blocks, many were filled with liquids, all ranging in colors.
Madara went over to the shelf, and picked up a random glass bottle filled with an orange colored liquid, he shook it a bit, it was lighter than what a water filled one would've weighed.
He opened the bottle, and took a sniff, Hashirama a few feet just in case, Madara, not smelling anything too another sniff.
"It's odorless, there's no smell in there that I can detect," he finally answered, eyes narrowed.
"Do you think it's poised?, doesn't look like any fruit and water I have ever seen," Hashirama took a closer look at the bottle.
"I don't know, I have never seen an odorless poison of this color, or any really with bright orange, he'll admit if this is a poison, they made the most unique one, the cauldron just had boiling water.
Deciding there was nothing to take any more notice, Madara closed he the orange Liquid bottle, and moved on to the next door to the right.
With extreme caution, as they showed for the previous doors, Hashirama opened next door, the first thing he noticed was Chests, a room full of Chests, there was also pictures in front of every chest here.
One had a picture of what he assumed was iron bar, others had things like, wood, an apple, a square rock, red dust or whatever it was, and numerous more.
Him and Madara looked around, Madara seeing another lever on the wall, pulled it down, as before, it turned on the lights as the previous rooms did.
Warily looking around, Hashirama decided to try and open the chest with a piece of Square wood, he first tried to open it gently, seeing as it wasn't working he tried harder, no matter how hard he tried he couldn't pull it open.
Seeing as the chests wouldn't open, both of them left the room, making sure to turn off the lights once more.
The next room, they at first assumed were outside since there was natural lighting, they were confused that there was light, they were sure they didn't see glass outside.
"Perhaps the glass is like the door at the entrance?, very well disguised," Madara mentioned, coming up with his own theory.
Hashirama nodded seeing the logic, since the door was incredibly well camouflaged their was no reason that windows won't be, though it didn't explain how they be THIS well hidden and still have light come through.
There was actually another door in the room to the right, that actually led to what they can understand is a kitchen with a black and white square flooring.
They could see pots and silverware on the table, all not made of blocks, though they were put in a specific Organized Groups.
The kitchen itself was mostly on the walls, and in the middle, was a table, presumably to place the materials in it.
This room had a window as well, made from what they could only guess from the other window, though apparently they loved apples, whoever lives here, going by how many apples there are.
Seeing as there is only one door left, they didn't give as much caution as the previous doors, but still wary, a careless ninja is a dead ninja.
When they opened it, they just stood there, they didn't really expect there to be a staircase behind it, another brief look at each other and they went down.
When they reached the last flight of stairs, they heard a familiar grunt, or make that grunts, zombies, but what are they doing here?
Finally reaching the floor, they see something incredibly strange, the structure they are looking at is the most peculiar thing they have seen so far.
A structure, in the middle had four or five zombies in it, while at the sides, with around five meters of length apart were holding, what looked like a humanized Versions of the zombies that had especially big noses.
Looking down at the pit, directly below the centerpiece, they see a four-way water flow, that seemed to lead to lava,…they would be sure to keep distance, as they stepped back.
The room itself was made of stone, eighty by eighty by eighty meters in length, this was by far the biggest room they have seen so far.
The blocks in the structure, they seemed to have one particular ability that they could see,…apparently with the ability to fully ignore gravity.
Both Hashirama and Madara were giving bewildered looks at that, they didn't really see a reason for building such a thi…
GRREA
They jumped back ten feet, when a new blocky creature appeared literally out of nowhere, it had red eyes, head and nose similar to the non zombie's, made of iron, and held in its hand?,…a rose?
If they were confused before, now they had a 'WTF' faces on, why would a creature like this hold a rose of all things.
This only lasted for a second, before the iron Giant fell right into the pit, looking down, making sure they still have a good bit of space seeing as the lava is still there, they saw as the iron being was being killed fast, and when it reached its limit.
Like all others, it puffed, but there was one thing that made a big difference, it dropped iron, not like a bar rarely dropped by zombies, but what they can see dozens of them, and a few being roses, they could as well see grey devices at the sides that seemed to suck the iron and rose up, they can only assume it went somewhere.
"an Iron Generator," Madara spoke out loud, one eyebrow raised, they have noticed that certain action caused certain effects, less light caused appearing monsters, killing monsters caused items to drop.
He looked at the zombies who seemed to be actually ignoring them in favor for he non-zombies, while the non-zombies seemed to be running in circles with what they can only assume to be in fear, even though they made no expression in the eyes or face.
Did the act of them running from the zombies summon the iron humanoid?, and if that was true, and every once or twice in a while they would appear, die, and drop iron,…did the group that live here, Create in infinite iron collector.
Eyes wide, he turned and saw in Hashirama's face that he has reached the same conclusion, though there was more, for the past minutes there was a swirling noise, they ignored it before in favor for the iron generator.
They saw a similar structure, with a few exceptions of course, the sides weren't there, there was another pit below the center, though what stuck out was a giant squared shaped frame structure, with the middle having purplish energy swirling in the center.
They saw something especially uncomfortable, they saw pigs that were bipedal, rotting like a zombie, the Black Structure, was floating in the air, the pig zombies and dropping to the lava pit, and what they saw made them shocked,...gold.
Whoever built this, had a literal infinite amount of iron and gold to go about, assuming that the monsters still come.
Whoever made this...was dangerous if they had that much control over all of this, they could practically own a country or destroy it out of Economic Collapse.
Seeing nothing more in this room, both of them ran back up the stairs, they made their way to the initial entrance, and went into the door that was straight ahead.
A Library, an enormous library, only a little bit of it was filled, but what they searched through was that the owner had a lot of information, both including Uchiha and Senjutsu, not that the two of them knew each other's Clan name.
Seeing a pair of Stairs leading up, they decided to go up, another hallway, although it looked incomplete.
There was a doorway, that had no doors in it, it had a tunnel that led to another to what they would guess is a doorway to someplace.
It also had pillars of the white blocks that had been seen at the kitchen and the bathroom, when they were about to explore some more, they heard the portal making a new sound, distorting, and seen a few sparks of fire go through.
….someone was coming, and whoever was coming had fire coming with them.
Seeing no other place to hide, they went behind the pillars by the entrance.
They waited a moment and out came out a figure, at the same time a puff of smoke came out with it.
Rubbing his eyes, Hashirama, after the smoke cleared, he was able to see the figure in his position, a girl.
He blinked, a blood haired girl, with a long white sleeved shirt, pants that seemed puffy, and a long red cloak, see actually looked around his and Madara's age.
She was bending over in her knees, and coughing, once she has finished, she stood up straight, she looked like she was about to move forward, but then she paused, and looked at something, it honestly looked like she was looking at thin air.
She took a deep breath and sighed, and pulled out a...stick?what, but the weirdness hadn't ended she started to do motions with it.
Left
Up
Right
Right
Down
All of the sudden, his and Madara's bodies flew toward each other and crashed, we have slammed at each other heads first.
Before we could recover and back off, she threw a weirdly shaped glass bottle at us, shielding their eyes and vitals, fully expecting the glass shards, instead when the bottle fell on the floor in front of them, out of thin air appeared a bunch of Webs that they couldn't get out from.
Noticing that they cannot escape, at least not for a while they instead chose to watch the red head.
She was slowly walking down the stairs that led to the portal, with an indifference expression, though for some odd reason, she had a spark of interest.
"Now the…" she spoke, bringing out a chair, wherever she got that from, she sat down, put one leg over the other, and an elbow on her knee on top, with her head on the head, "care to explain what you are doing here".