Lets goo! Two in one week, ya never saw it coming! I got a song recommendation for this chapter, but don't start listening to it till they enter the monument, its Pokémon fire red and Leaf green's Lavender town theme. It goes perfect for the vibe I'm trying to capture.
The group was flying over the now, non-snow-covered evergreen trees, making their way south.
"We should be getting close, the map shows that it should be near the lake past the hills," Glacier told the group, "It's right on the border between the Sand Kingdom and the Ice Kingdom.
The hills slowly turned from an evergreen forest to a mix of rocks and gravel.
"Weird place for there to be a historical monument..." Turtle murmured.
"I am not sure why they put it here either..." Glacier said.
The group flew over the next set of rocky hills, and it was pretty easy to see it. The monument was large, but not overly so. It was a large round building that was covered in brush, vines, and it was cracked all over the stone pillars.
"I have never seen anything like this..." Starflight said in aw, looking at the historic structure, "Does this place have a name?"
Glacier shook her head, "If it did, it was lost during the Darkstalker era.
The group made their way down, landing on the gravel-covered ground that was around the monument.
Peril let out some fire to burn away the brush that was in the way of the path to the monument.
Glacier walked up to the palace looking around, "It is going to take years to repair this place to its formal state," she said while looking at all the cracks in the walls and pillars.
The rest of the group make their way up the stairs that lead into the monument, burning any plants, or brush that got in their way.
The inside was in much better shape, plant life not consuming everything. The inside of the monument was actually in good shape, the only problem with it was that dust was everywhere, making the air have a stale smell.
It was getting darker and darker as they went along, so Peril made her body heat up to where she was glowing, not having to worry about the floor since it was a stone floor.
Everybody was looking at the assortment of items that were around them in wonder, not recognizing any of them. There were multiple items that were up for display on pedestals.
Starflight looked over to the queen, "May I please look around?" he asked her with a pleading look.
She gave him a nod, "Just don't break anything,"
Starflight quickly ran off, looking at and studying all the items around him.
Clay just chuckled at the frantic Starflight, "Queen Glacier, I can feel the earth around me, and I can tell this place has multiple rooms, may we go look around also?"
Glacier nodded again, "Before you guys leave, can you make me a torch so we can study the place?"
Peril ripped out one of the few pieces of brush in the monument and lit the top of it on fire, handing it over to the queen before walking off with Clay to one of the other rooms.
Clay and Peril were chatting with each other, "So what do you think of this place so far?" Clay asked his girlfriend.
"Like nothing I have seen so far in our travels, this place looks completely different from every other tribe's type of architecture," Peril said while looking around.
Clay gave her a nod, both of them stepping into the next room. There were in a heptagon-shaped room, a statue of a dragon on all corners of the room. Each statue was from a different tribe of dragon.
Clay and Peril walked up to statue that was in the very back, it was obviously a NightWing when you looked at it. There was two different plaques in front of it, one of them held a weird triangle-looking item, and the other was a plaque that read something on it.
Clay looked down at the plaque and started to read it out loud, "Here lies Nightfall, a great leader, hero, friend, father, and loving mate..." Clay looked over at Peril, "Do you know who he is?"
Peril shook her head no, "Starflight might know, if not him then maybe Glacier?"
Clay looked all around at the other plaques that were placed in front of the dragon statues, "This must be a grave site," Clay said grimly, "Let's get out of here,"
Both of them walked out of the room, heading back into the main chamber, seeing Starflight reading one of the plaques, his head turned when he saw him, "Oh hey Peril, Clay, there you are, we think we found what we were looking for," Starflight said while looking at him.
"Really, you found the story?" Clay asked him, walking over.
Starflight nodded his head, "we were all reading the plaques, so we can put the story together quickly, and it confirmed the things that Glacier knew already. The plaques also say here that the scavengers made the dragons for war, as some type of weapon."
Clay shook his head, "I don't even know how that is possible?"
Starflight shrugged his shoulders, "Me neither, it hasn't said yet..." Starflight perked up again, "Apparently the war ended with some weird superweapon that almost killed everybody on the planet, and the moon was somehow involved... weird..." Starflight said while reading his plaque.
"Have you guys found anything else out?" Peril asked Starflight.
Starflight nodded, "Ya, we figured out that the very first dragon's name was Nightfall, sounds kind of like a NightWing's name."
"Hey, that's the name one of the dragon's that we found in those graves in the other room!" Clay said.
Starflight gave him a look, "Really... these plaques talk about him a lot," Starflight was quiet for a few seconds, "This place must be a monument to him,"
Glacier walked back in after he said that, "Have you found anything else?"
Starflight gave her a nod, "Ya, this place has a reoccurring name here and it's a dragon named Nightfall, he is apparently even buried here,"
"Hm, I have seen that name around here too, he must have been important," Glacier said.
"Me and Peril are going to look around a little bit more," Clay said, walking off once again.
Starflight waved them off, still reading the plaque, he sighed deeply, hardly any of these made sense. Maybe he could find something out by looking at some of the items, a lot of them had little name tags on them.
Starflight started looking at some of the items. Here is one, its called a... m60. It's a black item that looks to be made from metal and a material that he has never seen before. Starflight shook his head, he has no idea what it was.
He went on to the next item. It was a small little metal triangle that had a blue-looking crystal in the middle. It's name tag said "Mark three power armor core". Starflight shook his head again, none of these names were ringing any bells to him.
He did recognize the next item from some of the pictures that were on the wall, it was an item called a AIM9-L. He still didn't know what it did...
He recognized a name immediately on the next item. Nightfall's mp3 player, he knew whose item this was, but he still didn't know what it did. He grumbled to himself.
He came up to one of the last items in the room. It's name tag was in a neon yellow paper that had a skull sine on it, probably signifying it was dangerous. It's name tag said it was a W76 warhead, do not touch.
Starflight shook his head, bunch of useless junk.
Everybody walked back in after that, "Anybody find anything else?" Glacier asked everybody.
Everybody shook their heads no.
Glacier deflated slightly, "I guess I am going to have to send a team hear to study all of this to try and figure this place out.
Glory cleared her voice slightly, "So... about the war?"
Glacier sighed, "We will discuss it when we get back to the IceKingdom, but more than likely, I think I am done being in the war..."