The Last Guardian

Chapter 11

I awoke on my stomach and my head buried in my left arm while my right was on a rock. My head was pounding and my stomach felt like it was going to explode. I was in a dark room and half way up the middle was a crevasse​ where I had passed out. Looking all around, Trico was no where to be seen.

I stood up on very wobbly legs which were still asleep, I made my way toward an open room. Once I got there, in the left corner was a soldier with no head so it was inactive. Right in front of me was two big circular holes that dipped into the ground in the center. It had many symbols on them and one had a cage that had a broken chain and lay on the ground.

I stepped into the one with a broken cage and as soon as my feet touched the edge of the circle the symbols began to glow a light blue color. I jumped back startled, then the symbols faded back to normal.

I went over to the other one to see if it would do the same and sure enough it did but this time something above was making noise and when I looked up there was a fully working cage lowering down toward me. I stepped back but not going out of the circle and letting the cage continue it's decend.

Once it came to a stop at the bottom it did not reach the ground but hovered a little. Once it stopped swaying a blue stream of light streaked all around the middle and two flaps, one on top and one on the bottom flew open and made a door.

I hesitated for a moment then I stepped in, seeing that it was the only way out. Once I got in, the blue light flashed again and the door closed and the cage carried me back up.

When the cage reached the top the door opened once again and I stepped out to see an empty circle platform. Many pillars were to the right and straight forward was a staircase leading downward towards me but half was missing and all that remained was a hand rail to the left. I went over to it and climbed ontop and very carefully moved over to the far half of the staircase.

Reaching the other side I jumped off the rail and ran up the stairs. Turing to the right, then up vines, to the left, up a chain, and finally up one more clump of vines. They led up to an old tree and in the distance was a tail, covered in feathers.

Something clicked on my mind, Trico! I walked more quickly Al of the old tree and as I got closer to the tail, more and more feathers appeard. I got to the tail and climbed it, then got to a plank and the upper part of the tree. I got closer to the end of the tree and there was faint creaks which became louder the closer I got to the top.

I got to about five feet from the very end of the tree before the end of it snapped and fell down into the depths. Trico stirred up above and when I turned around and looked up there was no Trico. It was evil Trico, armor and all.

I quickly jumped up and grabbed the edge of the land above me and climbed a tree to where a rope tied to the tree ran to the other side of the area. Evil Trico kept jumping up to get me as I steadily walked across the rope.

It had come close many times but always came up short. I finally made it across and there was a gap in the wall which ran all the way down to the bottom with the beast so I had no choice but to climb some vines and crawl around the wall.

Once I made it over I dropped down and some rocks blocked the way but left a small hole just big enough to crawl through. So I ducked down and crawled through. Another elevation with small stones lined the edge and went into a passage with torches on the walls and pillars near the outside.

Running through the passage there was a drop with a ladder which went into an area with many large stone blocks with the blue symbols on the tops of them. The only way out that I could see was up and over them. The first two were easy but the next one was way to far away for me to make it and if I dropped down it was going to be way to high to jump up onto.