Time travellers pt. 3
#4 of Time travellers
When they finally get the spy back to the castle, he tells them and the king what he had learned. The rumors he had heard were very troubling. On the island he was on, there was a newly discovered set of caves.
"The town hired a mercenary to explore the caves and to make sure that he did as they paid him, they sent a civilian to follow him. When he arrived at the mouth of the cave, the civilian says that the mercenary was talking to a golden fox who apparently wanted him to leave. When he refused, the fox held up a paw and incinerated him.
(What the civilian saw)
"What is going on down there? What does that fox want? Wait. What is she doing? Oh my godddd!! Oh shit, I think she saw me!"
"You had best leave now boy!" I heard her say but I was already gone.
"That has to be her. Come on guys! Were going to that cave and we are going to get Robert or
at least get revenge!"
"Can you not stay even for a little bit?"
"No I am sorry your highness but we have to rescue Robert."
"I see. Well I have some supplies for you on your journey. Come back alive."
"We will!"
Taking the supplies, the group boards the Epoch and with a map drawn by the spy, they begin to head to the island. Upon arrival, they head to see the mayor.
"Now let me get this straight. You want to go into the caves so you can save your friend? I don't know the way but if you can get Jack to show you the way, by all means go."
"Who Jack?"
"He is the one who saw the mercenary Odium killed. His house is over there and good luck."
They head right to Jack's house and knock on the door. A small man opens the door. He stands about 5'4 and has a look of insanity in his eyes.
"Who are you? What do you want? Please don't kill me!!"
"Calm down! We want you to lead us to the cave."
"THE CAVE?!?!?!? I WILL NEVER GO BACK THERE!!!"
Smack!!
"Ayla!? Why did you hit him??"
"Village chief says hitting clear mind"
"OWWW!! What gives? Fine I will lead you to the cave just don't hit me again!!"
"See! It work!!"
Jack leads them to the cave entrance but then he says that he will not go any further. He then runs back as fast as he could. They turn back to the cave and head in.
"WOW! This is huge! How is it lit though? Don't answer that please."
"Ok Caroline as this is probably your first time exploring a cave like this. Rule one is never ever wander off alone. Rule two is always heal yourself when hurt. Third don't touch it if it looks odd. Now lets go"
They find that the cave is infested with all kinds of creatures. The team avoids the majority of them only having to fight the bigger things. As they explore deeper, they find that it stops being a cave and becomes more like ruins of a temple. They see strange writing all over the walls and what appear to be human bones lying around everywhere. They end up in a large seemingly roofless room that has a giant rock in the middle. As the enter, a voice calls to them.
"Accersitus, why have you come back. I said I would guard your ring for all eternity. I also told you I would kill you if you came back."
They hear something take a sniff in the air.
"You are not Accersitus. You will die here fools." With that, the rock in the middle of the room begins to shake and then cracks open to reveal some kind of stone snake.
"What the hell is that thing?"
"I am one of the last stone dragons in the world. You are my food. Foods meet stone dragon stone dragon meet foods. Now hold still. Or will we have to do this the hard way?"
"RUN!!"
"Oh no you don't!" he says as he summons a stone wall to block the entrance. "You will not get away that easily. Now you will die!"
"Wait! Who is Accersitus?"
"She is a golden fox who came here leaving something for me to guard." While he was talking, Ayla was sneaking around behind it. When she got into position, Chrono yelled "Frog now!"
"eluvies!!" Frog summoned a massive wave of water to strike the dragon. It caught him completely off guard.
"levitas flatus!!" Chrono yelled causing a huge electrical bomb to explode over the dragon.
"Ayla!! Get ready to try something new! Frog and caroline! Focus on the orb of electricity I am making! Give it all your power!"
"Ok!!"
The resulting attack went like this: a ball of electricity was formed and then around that a water orb appeared and then engulfing both, an orb of pure darkness. Ayla performed a triple kick and with the added power of the super charged orb, slammed into the dragons head three times. Then the dragon attacked. Summoning large rocks out of the ground, it flung them at Chrono and also summoned a rock tomb to appear around Ayla. Ayla casts Black hole on the rocks flung at Chrono and then together, they destroy the tomb around ayla. Frog got hit by the things tail and was flung unconsciously against the wall. "ebullio" Caroline yelled and the dragon was hit by massive exploding bubbles. Chrono took this time to draw his sword and jump up at its head. Before he could reach it though, the thing headbutted him and knocked him out. Ayla runs up behind Caroline and picks her up and tosses her at the dragon.
"Caroline do magic!!"
"unda fulsi!!" was the spell that Caroline used and it worked. The snake was blasted with a powerful beam of water that knocked it into the wall. Ayla now ran at the thing and with its mouth open, jumps in. In its mouth, Ayla begins to actually hurt the monster. She claws and bites the inside of the mouth and then in a final move of supreme strength, she jumps out, lifts one of the boulders knocked loose by the battle and stabs the dragon in the head mortally wounding it.
"IS IT POSSIBLE? COULD I BE DEFEATED BY HUMANS?!? GO TO THE SUN KEEP IF YOU WANT TO FIND ACCERSITUS!" With that the creature died. The dragons body crumbles to dust and in its place, a single gold ring appeared. Ayla picks it up and gives it to caroline who puts it in her pack. Then they tend to Chrono and Frog and leave the caves with a new goal in mind. When they board the epic again, Caroline asks what the sun keep is.
"It is a place that has existed for all time. It is the only place where the sun never sets. We have been there before to charge a sunstone and we did not find anything else there.
"Accersitus is the name of that damn fox who stole Robert. Already we have learned more about her. It has been what, 12 weeks since he was abducted? At this rate, we will get him in no time!" Caroline claimed very happily. The team makes their way on the Epoch to the sun keep hoping to find Robert before it is too late.