Chronicles: Second Earth Online

Chapter Thirteen

Demons have higher ranking status and a wider ability than any other races. This makes them an independent country on their own independent territory.

---Second Earth Online Guide for Gaming, Characters

Black Lava City has two main roads that leads to Green Bark Village, the one of which lies on the northern part was the route Nex and his party took. But they are not headed for the said village, weeks ago, in the midst of exploration, Fawn accidentally found a strange rock that is unusually large, hidden safely inside the thick circling trees. Jake managed to land a hit on the rock when suddenly, it shrank to the size of a pebble revealing a stairs which leads downwards.

They found the underground cave deserted and decided it to be their hideout, the girls were responsible for lighting the cave in the place where they just explored. Unnaturally, the cave is bigger than they have thought, so big it could fit in three football team without being so crowded. There are also passageways that leads to somewhere the four of them did not yet know. Calculating it, Nex and his party occupied 1/15 of the space of the whole cave including the places in which their flames could reach.

Right now, they are walking down the stairs and the pebble above just returned to its original state and at the same time, torches that they installed started blazing moderately, lighting the path and illuminating the area. All four of them are quiet until the last step of the long narrow stairs led them to a marble floor, the feeling of something slippery were back to their senses again.

"Huuuuump!!!" Fawn raised both of her hands and clasped something in the middle of the air, moments later some of her veins are drawing themselves from her palms to her wrists and finally to her arms. "Damn, these things sure are heavy!!" After saying those, she was able to crack open the marble floor and pulled out five stone boulders shaped as plain chairs and a table. She sat on one of the chairs and let droplets of sweat escape from her skinny forehead. "That was very gentleman. I appreciate the help jerks." She mouthed. The other girl also helped herself and sat down, so did the two boys and they finally occupied the four chairs.

After a few minutes of silence, Jake started talking again. "What do you say if we try to explore one of these passages, we don't even know what lies ahead of us and yet here we are? It's as if we are waiting to be ambushed by some bandits." Jake said but lowered his voice down on the last part of his statement.

"Remove the spooky thought, scaredy-cat." Fawn regained her energy back and she started hitting on Jake again.

"Why don't you remove yourself here, stick girl?" Fawn shot him a glare mixed with hurt and hatred, she got struck by his tease that she stood up and walked out. "Tss, walk out queen, does she think I can be dragged with her drama? I can do better than that!" Jake continued. Nex walked behind him and gave him a fistful spank in the head.

"You jerk, have crossed the line. Don't be too dumb!" Jake seems to understand this and jolted off of his stone chair to closely follow Fawn, but there are no traces left of her, she must have ran swiftly in this situation. But Annie, as usual stared into nothingness and is like waiting to be ordered around.

"Annie, stay here for just a little while, I'm going to follow them." In which Annie just replied with a nod and closed her eyelids with her arms crossed in her chest and her feet crossed in a closed number four. Nex ran and ran. The passage was way too straight and way too long! But when he heard of gasps and heavy breathing, he tried figuring out where it comes from.

He found Jake panting heavily with his back faced the wall, a shock is painted on his face. But there are no signs of Fawn in the vicinity and since not much light comes here, the place is getting darker and darker as he moved deeper.