. The next morning we were on the bus to New Mexico. I sat in the middle of Pink and Sky as Pink stared outside. No one else was on the bus except for us. We sped on the empty highway clearing miles in minutes.
"We have to save her." Pink finally spoke but still stared out the window.
"We will." I put my hand on his shoulder. He put his on mine and looked at me, tears falling down his cheeks.
We finally made it off into Carlsbad as we got ourselves off the bus. Then in a familiar voice,
"You better hurry!" We turned to see the blue doors close shut and the bus peeled out.
"AAAGH! That was Dr. Dark!" Pink started to go after the speeding bus, but in a matter of seconds, it was out of view. He stopped but tripped and fell to the floor hard. We rushed over to him. He was sobbing. Sky helped him to his feet.
"We'll get him. Don't worry." Sky said. Pink hugged him and sobbed harder.
"Come on guys. We're about to go below the surface and we need to eat something. We're lucky that Dr. Dark didn't kill us on that bus." I picked up our luggage.
"It could be a trap." Sky came over to pick up some of the suitcases.
"Yeah, well, we got a long walk ahead of us, we might as well get started. Pink dried his eyes and came over to help us.
"You're right." He said. We finally got all of our luggage and started on the road.
We finally exited the trailer with path guided maps and regeristration and headed towards the Cavern's entryway where two girls waited for us.
"Got your passes?" One of them asked. Her hair was tucked into her black hoodie and her shades hid her eyes from the sun.
We showed her our tickets and she handed them to the other girl.
"Alright, come in." Her voice sounded familiar but she was also wearing shades and a black hoodie. She opened the gate and let us in. I looked down to avoid their invisible gazes. Then I noticed something I wouldn't have if I didn't look down.
They both were wearing colored shoe laces in their black converses. One with lime green and the other lavender...
After conditions from another guide who wore a white fishing hat and a blue button down shirt with white shorts and sandals, nothing suspicious about that, we began our descent into the open earth. Bst droppings covered the floor. Sky cleared us a path with his miniature tornado, and Pink created his own red bats. They followed us into darkness as I 'luminated most of it dimly with a small light orb.
We walked deeper and deeper downward into the cavern. We stopped to read lit up descriptions of the different sights. It seemed as though no one was there, which was weird for the fact that national parks like that are always having some kind of attraction but the caverns were more silent and more frightful.
Riskfully, I turned up the lighting on my orb and we rushed down the path until we came to level ground.
Stalagmites grew from the floor and hung from the ceiling. Everything was so quiet, we didn't even hear from Tangerine, For, Sting, or Dr. Dark, let alone creepy Decibel. Well not until we came to the bottomless pit.
Dr. Dark stood there holding someone over it with ease. He kinda looks like Father from Codename Kids Next Door.
A muffled and feint scream came from the hanging girl.
"Shanon!" Pink flinched as Dr. Dark toyed with the hostage. "What do you want?" Pink asked now still as the stalagmites on the floor and ceiling.
