The moment the naginatas went through the spider net, Cole, Maggie, Dragon and Vania immediately fell through the hole and resume falling down the pit, screaming as they do so, as the spiders look down it in anger, briefly hitting each other. As they fell, Dragon tried to grab his hat, which had came off his head again before sighing. "We're falling again." He said, unamused at Maggie's plan.
"Well, falling is better than being eaten by spiders." She replied as her hair turns back to normal and Dragon tries to grab his hat.
"It's not the falling I'm worried about, it's the landing." Vania said, looking down.
What they were about to land on was like a big slope, which they start to slide down while Dragon's hat lands on top of Cole's head. "Take my hand before we get separated." Dragon said to Cole and held it out, but he was too late as they came across two paths, where Cole and Vania slide down the right path while Maggie and Dragon slide down the left. Down their path, Maggie and Dragon scream as they slide down, doing a loop-de-loop as they slid.
Down their path, Cole and Vania also screamed as they slid down while Cole held onto Dragon's hat, also doing a loop-de-loop themselves.
They all soon came back to each other as Cole lets go of the hat, which flies off his head and Maggie catches it before they get separated by two more paths ahead, and Maggie hands Dragon his hat back, which he puts on. As they scream while continuing sliding down, Cole and Vania appear behind them before they end up on each side of a path of pillars. "Master Wu?" Cole asked. "Maggie?"
"Cole!"
They soon come across two tunnels, before Cole and Vania go through the right while Maggie and Dragon go through the left. "Are you still falling?"
"More like sliding."
"Okay, just checking! We are too."
Maggie sarcastically laughs. "No shit!" She yelled.
They then reach the end of the tunnel, where they reunite before they resume screaming and slide off a slope before landing down on another slope, where they start sliding backwards before sliding off another slope and fall, causing them to scream.
They soon land in a river, immediately getting submerged as a result before they start to swim for the surface. Cole, Maggie and Vania manage to surface and took in large breaths as Dragon's hat, which was floating in the river, was now on Vania's head before Dragon had surfaced and coughed. "This is outrageous!" He yelled as the river's currant was pulling them along.
"There's nothing to hold on to." Cole said, looking around.
Maggie soon notices some rocks. "Grab on to those rocks." She replied, pointing out to them. Cole holds his hands out before managing to grab hold of it before Vania grabbed onto Cole's waist, Maggie grabbed onto Vania's right leg and held out her left hand to catch Dragon. They struggle to hold on as the currant tries to drag them before Cole loses his grip and they resume moving down it before being submerged while Dragon's hat stayed afloat. Cole, Maggie, Dragon and Vania struggle to hold their breaths and to resurface as the currant was dragging them along some pillars before they manage to straighten themselves and move to resurface. Upon doing so, they notice a giant rock ahead of them before Cole and Maggie manage to jump onto them, and turn to the others before Cole grabbed Vania and Maggie grabbed Dragon. They pull them up out of the river as Dragon's hat lands on a small rock in front of the big rock before they sit to try and catch their breaths.
Suddenly, both rocks rise up, and they all realise that they weren't rocks, they were on top of a tortoise-like creature, who turns to them, making them gasp out of shock before it shook them off its back while turning around and tries to snap at them, but they had quickly fallen past it, and Dragon's hat slid off of its head. They all land back in the river where the currant drags them down it again, making them scream once more before it ends at a waterfall, and they go over it and into a lake.
Cole surfaces before sighing out of relief as Dragon's hat came next to him before Dragon himself surfaces underneath it, and Maggie and Vania surface as well before coughing a little, and Vania is suddenly dragged. "Help!" She yelled before Cole tries to grab her and they realise they're moving around in a whirlpool.
"Now what?" Dragon asked.
"It's a whirlpool!" Maggie replied.
"It's like a giant toilet that's been flushed!" Cole said. "Except in this case, we're the-"
"I know, Cole!" Dragon cuts him off, not wanting to hear it. "Just swim!" They immediately start to swim as fast as they can to try and get out of the whirlpool.
As they keep trying, Maggie breathes heavily. "This is getting tiring!" She said before she notices a stalactite over the whirlpool's origin. "Cole, the stalactites!"
Dragon gets what she was saying. "Break them off. Use your powers!"
"How?" Cole asked. "I can't reach them!"
"You can do it! You have to try." Cole stops swimming and started to get dragged along the whirlpool, passing by Vania, as he looks up at the stalactite before activating his Earth Punch and held his arms out to it. The stalactite started to shake a little as Cole kept trying his best to break it off. "Cole, you can do it."
"Ninja never quit, Cole." Maggie said as he passed by her and Dragon.
"You are surrounded by earth. Connect with your element. Your powers should be stronger than ever!"
Cole kept trying his best as he was passing them by with each turn he took from being sucked into the whirlpool as they start to become exhausted and were nearing the end as Vania notices Cole was nearer. "Concentrate, Cole!" She said.
"Just like how I unlocked my hidden power!" Maggie said.
Cole groans again before his glowing arms and scar started to grow brighter and sparkle as the stalactite did so as well. As he lets out one more scream of determination, the stalactite breaks off and lands in the centre of the whirlpool, plugging the hole at the bottom. The whirling soon stopped before they swam over to the stalactite, grab hold of the edge and climb on top of it as the water settles. Cole stood up as Maggie, Dragon and Vania all lie down, breathing heavily before Cole soon lied down as well. "I... I think we're safe now." Dragon said, turning his head a little.
"Oh, what a relief."
"We just need to find a way out of here, and let's avoid going farther down." Vania said.
"How could we get any lower?" Cole asked, lifting his head and hands in complaint before laying them down again.
Unfortunately, it causes the stalactite to crack all over, which gained everyone's attention. "Uh oh."
"Cole." Maggie said with shock, knowing it was him.
Soon, the stalactite breaks apart, and the whirlpool starts up again, causing them all to scream as they were dragged under and through the hole while the stalactite's remains soon completely block it.
They all fall down until they land in a small lake. Dazed by the landing, Cole opens his eyes before screaming, unintentionally letting out a giant gulp of breath until he notices Maggie swimming past and turned to see that she was heading for Dragon and Vania, who were sinking. Cole grabbed Vania while Maggie grabbed Dragon, and they immediately surface, coughing from swallowing some water in their fall while trying to keep Dragon and Vania's heads out of the water before Cole taps Maggie's shoulder. "Maggie." He said while breathing heavily before pointing out to the edge and they start to swim while carrying their unconscious companions. They both reach the edge before placing Dragon and Vania down and slowly start to drag them while Maggie was a little slow due to her limp.
They soon let go of them as they start to cough before they drop down as well. Cole and Maggie breathe heavily before Cole lies down on his back while Maggie looks around the cave. "Well, we're alive."
"Yeah, but where are we?"
Suddenly, a shadow appears over them, and they both look up to see a man with long black hair and a moustache, sporting a large white hat and white robe, which were covered in moss, staring down at them. "Ah, visitors from above." He said.
Cole immediately got up, shocked. "Who the hell are you?" Maggie asked.
The man simply held his hand out to her. "The good King Vangelis cast you out, has he? Well, fear not, weary travellers, for you are safe now."
Maggie takes it and tries her best to get up. "Where?"
"You are in Rock Bottom." Another person soon came up next to the man with the white hat. He had only a hood, bandanna, black gloves all the way over his elbows, black pants, black boots and a satchel. He folded his arms as another man came up behind him, he had long light brown hair, scar on his jaw, wristbands, shoulder pad on right shoulder, headband with a horn on it, a homemade necklace and a large axe on his back. He was wearing only a loincloth and boots that looked like they were made from some animal hides. "And there is no further to fall." Two more men soon came up behind them. One of them had long blonde hair, partly covered in dirt along with the face. He had a completely ragged brown jacket, red shirt lacking sleeves and torn in many places, black cargo parts with many tears, and was barefooted. The other had brown hair that was slightly smooth to the left, but there were several locks sticking out, with reading glasses that were cracked all over, a really old rucksack, scrolls that were really old and rotten hanging by worn lanyards, and dirty hands. He had a torn brown jacket with black sleeves with no shirt to expose his muscular chest, green sweatpants and black boots.
Pretty soon, a spider lands next to the dark clothed guy, causing Cole and Maggie to fall back and Cole to slowly move away. "Relax, guys." The dark clothed man said. "That's just Adam. He's harmless."
"We are all friendly." The man with the scrolls, rucksack and dirty hands said while the blonde haired barefooted man waved his hands a little as he says it. "We mean you no harm."
"You are safe here." The man with the axe and loincloth said. "You are among us. The Lowly."
"Huh?" Cole asked. "What?"
"Might as well get used to it because there ain't no way back up." The dark clothed man said. "This is your new home." Cole soon moaned before lying back.
"Cole?" Maggie asked, dragging herself over to him. "Cole!" She looked to see that he was unresponsive before she started to slap his face a little. "Come on, Cole. Wake up!" The dark clothed man soon laughed as Maggie kept trying to wake Cole up. "Cole, can you hear me? Wake up."
(A/N: Care to guess what my blonde haired OC was doing, waving his hands about?)