The New Light of Hope: Books I to VI.

Chapter XXI: The Cave.

Amethyst:

We all fell down the hole and into the pitch black darkness and eventually fell into a shallow pool of water. "Welp, note to self: Move away before you fall into an underground cave." Sadie said. "Yeah, no shit!" Abby spat aggressively. "Language!" Summer yelled. "All right, enough, let's just stop arguing and get up." I said. We all got up and brushed ourselves off as we looked around the cave, it was giving off some sort of light from the plant life "What is this place?" Milly asked. Sadie and Jemma looked around the area once more. "Hmm…" they looked at the ground. "It looks like this cave has bits of luminous moss, or Elfin-gold around it and some sort of plant life that can naturally produce light in dark places such as this." Sadie said. "But it's really going to act as a good light source of we're going to explore pitch black areas."
"I've got this flashlight." Summer said. "It's a long story, but let's just say I brought it with me just in case."

"We weren't curious anyway. Now come on, the sooner we find a way out, the sooner we'll get out." Jemma said. We then followed them.

We were exploring an opened cave area with puddles and crevices in it. "Now, we've been in caves before and know how to get out at times, but this… this is very complex." Sadie told us. "You're telling me." Jemma said. "We were chasin' some random creature and then the next thing ya know. Boom! Here we are."

Bellatrix: "I'm sure we'll find a way out somehow."

Summer: "Hopefully we do."

Amethyst: "I'm just hoping we don't get lost in here."

Abigail: "Oh, what's the matter, Amethyst? Can't handle a confusing underground maze of sorts? Ha! What a joke, not like you're already a joke yourself."

Summer: "Abigail."

Abigail: "All right, yeesh."

Can't Abby just give this whole thing a rest for once in her life? I bitterly asked myself. Summer then looked at me; her green eyes filled with empathy. "You're not a joke to anyone, Amethyst; remember that." She told me; she was right, I was not a joke to anybody that I knew of and most certainly not to my parents, nor brothers.

We looked around us to see if we can find a way out of the cave with Sadie and Jemma's help of course, we could not give up; giving up was nowhere in our nature.

"There may be hollows around here so be careful where y'all step." Sadie told us; we looked to see a few hollow holes near the ground area of the cave floors in which we were walking on. No animal nor human would want to end up stuck inside of a hollow in the depths of a dark and maze like cave system that you had no idea how to get around in. I stood close with the others for safety reasons.

I do not know why, but for some reason, it felt like there was someone watching me and studying my every move, but for now I just brushed the feeling off for right now and just kept on moving forward with my friends. "You all right, Amethyst?" Summer asked. "You seem a bit off."
"Yeah, I– I'm fine." I replied hoarsely.

Summer: "Are ya sure?"

I shook my head "yes" in response. "All right, if you say so."
I did not want her to worry about me too much, though she seemed to know that I was not telling the full truth. But she did not want to stop and just to so I could tell her the truth, for we had to find a way out and stopping to chat while trying to find your way out of a cave system is definitely not a good time.

We then came to an abrupt halt when we came across a hollow near the ground level. We looked down to see if we saw anything down there. "Should we go down there and see what we can find?" Bella asked.
"Wait, youngsters." Summer said. "There's no way we're going in there only to end up stuck down there if we don't know if it's safe to go down there or not."
Well, she most certainly was not wrong about that. How were we supposed to be sure if it was safe to go down there or not? "As a safety precaution, I'll go first and if it's safe and not a dead end and there's more to it, then I'll give y'all the word to come down."

We nodded our heads in agreement as she made her way through and slowly went into the hole; for a moment, we let look around the area and waited for her to respond, though it did not take lone until she looked up at us and said: "There's an extended tunnel down here, so y'all can come down now but we just have stay close to one another for the time–" she stopped and paused as she turned her attention to the wall of the cave. "Um, y'all. There's something down here!" She said; at that moment, we all went down the hole and looked at what she was staring at–it was a bunch cryptic cave symbols of some sort; that is, we did not seem to understand what it said because it was in a language we did not understand. "I think me and Jemma have seen this before." Sadie said. "Y'all have?" Summer asked curiously.

Jemma: "Why, yes. It appears to be some sort of cryptic message in the form of an old language. Me and Sadie know some but not a lot. And this in particular is one we haven't seen before in a lifetime."

Sadie: "But for right now, we need to focus on getting out of here. But we'll definitely try and figure out what this is."

So, we continued on with trying to find a way out of the cave.

Eventually though we finally found an exist and there happened to be rocks in the form of stairs that led up to the hole; and so, we climbed up to the top one by one and we were now on the surface, free from the looming darkness of the cave system. "Now we just gotta find a way back home." Aurora added.