The 10 Gateways

Cave of Curiosity

January 11th 2008

Towards the end of the day, I decided to look at a strange steel pole I had found. I got gloves. I got a shovel. I headed out. I hesitated with no one going with me. But I didn't care. So I headed off. I checked out the steel pole. It had weird egyptian and greek writing on it. I didn't understand any of it. But oh well. I tried digging it out. But it went far in. Then I tried pushing it or anything. But I couldn't. Then I accidently hit it. All of a sudden I was tripped and was on the ground. I felt like something was around my leg. And it was pulling me. I yelled help immidiatly. But then I saw something weird happen.

The steel pipe was glowing with a weird white light. I became wide-eyed as it made a light grow into the sky and a yellow square grew. I recognised it as a portal right away.

But then I got dragged out of sight...

"HELP!" I yelled, but nobody came.

"I NEED HELP!" I yelled again.

"I'lll hellpppp youuu" Said a voice from behind. I guessed the person pulling me.

"NOOOO!" I yelled again. Then I saw Jenny right around the corner..

"JEN-" I was cut half way right when a terrorizing pain went to my body and all of a sudden I could barely breathe and I passed out.

I woke up in what seemed to be a cave. There were old stone pillars holding the ceiling. I was leaning against a rock, trapped by a thick web. Then a huge spider and a snake came up to me. The spider had a crown, and the snake had a tiara.

"Hisss.. Who issssss in our presssenssssse today." The snake hissed.

"A brown-haired humannnnn sneaking around our hollleeee and digging at the Sacred Pollleeeee." The spider said.

"Hisss... He doessssn't belong here..." The snake hissed back.

"Well we have himmmm captured. What shall be his punishmenttt." The spider said.

"Nothing." I blurted out. I became so scared and I couldn't control my mouth then. There was something confusing going on.

"What doessss he ssssay to ussss?!" The snake hissed loudly.

"Let's just throw 'em into the prison, and we'll kill him if he acts out of line!" The spider snapped back at me.

Then they took off the web trapping me, and shoved me along to a row of jail cells. There were a bunch of people in the cells. Ragged people stared at me. Regular looking people sat in a corner. One person looked like an animal and bounced everywhere in his cell. I was put in the very last cell. There was another person in the jail cell. But he just sat in the corner mumbling and seemed to be in his own world. 

The snake said, "Looksssss like we're outa ssssspace, so we'll ssssshove him in with the black-haired freak!"

They pushed me onto the bed. I felt ashamed. Usually being honest, trusted, and well-trained. But now I was in a prison. I couldn't believe myself. I sat on the bed for a long time thinking about myself and my training and how I promised my mom I will never try to get in trouble. This made me think back to my mom herself, and I let out a tear. 

"Hel- lo.. Si- r.." I heard all of a sudden, interrupting my deep thoughts. I look over seeing the scared, nervous, and shy face of a maybe young adult's face. I couldn't believe it. He seemed pretty young. How could that snake and spider be so cruel?

"Hi..." I stammered back.

"I'm Vic- tor..." He said back in the same voice.

"I'm -" I caught myself from using my nickname that's only used by us in the RP's. "Jeffrey." I replied.

"Nice - to meet you.." He said back sounding more confident.

I looked over him more. He looked really pale. He had a brown poncho on with long black pants. Also, he wore large brown boots that went pretty high. He looked like he could've gotten in this jail a second ago. I wondered why he was so pale and how he was so clean. But those were just at the bottom of my question list.

"Um.. Do you like a lot of questions? Because I have alot.." I stammered.

"Yeah. Ask anything you like. It's fine with me." Victor said.

"Who are you?" I said. I thought it was a stupid question outloud. But too late for that.

"I'm Victor like I said." He said. Knew it. Stupid question. But then... "I'm a half-vampire, and I've been looking for my family for a while. Do you know a Nathan?" He said back.

"I- I do... Nathan Keyham?" I asked.

"Yeah!" Victor exclaimed.

"So that's why you're so pale." I commented.

"Yeah. I got it from my dad, and I guess Nathan's parents, since they and most of my other relatives are vampires. And no, I don't like blood." He said.

I laughed.

"And one more question, How are you so clean..?"