A Blood Red Top Hat

Chapter Eleven: Crystallized

The water still splattering when I've reached end of the road which connects to the falling water. "How?" I whispered to myself. This place is way to...Watery.

"Wanna see something awesome?" He nudged me on my side while stepping forward, before I could say anything, the boy step forward, the air around us tense up and starts to spin. I took a sharp breath as it moves faster and faster. My hair begin to swill in the air and bouncing randomly. Covering my vision and whipping my face.

Before I would know, I am no longer in front of the waterfall, the water is no longer splashing and roaring like before. Instead, a cave.

The walls are decorated with glowing crystals that spiral around the dark tunnel, every step I took will make a loud echo that carries on into the darkness. "Where is this place?" The sound echos down into the darkness. "Huh." the boy laughed, "Do I have to explain again?" He pointed at himself and chuckles.

"Right." I raised my hand in defeat, the camp. Of course, why am I so 'stupid'?

"Come." He starts to walk down the dark cave.

Each step we take, each sound we make, will travel down the dark cave, but the cave doesn't get darker, the crystals lights up as lanterns slowly open up our way.

We didn't speak for the rest of the walk, until a small orange light starts flashing at the end of the tunnel past a left turn.

As soon we turn, a big cavern, like a huge room, with some platforms on the sides connected with stone ladders, a huge fire is going off in the center with all of it's glory. This places looks way too good to be computer generated, but who knows, it is a game after all.

"The clan leader;Infinity (Suggested by: @Starslayer_NightWing) , the girl you've just talked to, she founded this place and established a base down here. And who knows, she is probably one of the first jammers who been put in this 'hell'."

"Wait, she is one of the first ever people were put in this place?" I paused, remembering how 'weird' she was and how I thought she was those 'really bad' leaders. "She way seems weird when you first met her, but soon she will be the one who starts kicking bad guy's butts." 

"Well that explains." I shove my hand in my pockets, this place is pretty cold and it is slowly eating up my finger.

The boy moved again, walking to the closest stone ladder, and jumping on it and slowly climbs up. "Come on slow poke, we don't have enough time till Christmas." He laughed, "Well.." I laughed back as I grab the base of the ladder.

The ladder was cold, but it still got the grip, after a few minutes of climbing, we reached the top platform, I pull myself onto the platform as I see the boy walk towards a curtain-like door, he spread open the curtains, by the time he have done it, I have already stand by his side.

In the room was simple, a warm glow from the red and yellow crystals that is the walls and roof. Two mats been placed on the ground both matched with the same color blankets. 

"This will be your room now, you don't share a same room with other people, we just have two sleeping places just in case a new comer."

I give a 'mhm' sound as I walk into the growing red room, "I will just wait till they come back." The boy quickly exit out of the room.

"Wait who?" Before I could turn around, he is already gone.