The Last Guardian

Chapter 14

The pillar to my right had a staircase wrapping around it. I went over to it and started to climb up while Trico would back up enough to not be scared and then get to close and he would get scared again. Once I reached the top it had the other railroad that had went straight. I looked across to the other place to the left and there was two barrels. I knew I would need Trico's help getting up there so I looked where he was and once I saw him I jumped down and landed on his back. 

I pointed up above to the area where the barrels were and he looked above us and went over to it. He sat down and exhaled quickly and hoisted the upper half of him up and let me onto the balcony. To my left were the barrels and to the right was a wall and another way to go to the left. I hurried over to the barrels and fed both of them to him by throwing them over the edge by his head and he caught them both in midair and ate them.  

After feeding him I went to the left and I went through the new path and there were cages and chains hanging from other bars and beams above. The first cage was broken and had no bottom and barely went down from the top. When I jumped over to it and landed on it, it teetered and almost flung me off but I clung to the chain holding it. The next jump was just a chain with no platform. I made it and made it to a cage that was still intact and finally to another chain that had a long wooden beam below. I dropped down onto it and the side I was standing on tilted down and the other side went up. On the other side rose up. The eye had a thin metal platform with points on both sides of it. It also had three long boards with one small one sticking out enough for me to grab onto. 

I took some deep breaths and sprinted down the long beam and jumped the gap between the beam and the eye. I got to the second one from the top and held on with both hands. I sighed a sigh of relief and took one hand and reached for the next piece of wood. My other hand slipped and I fell very quickly to the bottom piece of wood. Luckily, I managed to grab the wood and steadied myself and caught my breath. 

I climbed the boards vertically and got to the thin metal platform and went sideways to the front of the eye with my back facing Trico. I hoisted myself up onto front of the eye and saw above me small concrete ledges with spirals embedded on them. After I climbed onto the small platforms there was a big piece of glass missing that I was able to walk through. When I was on the other side I had to drop down onto the bottom plank and go under other concrete slabs. On the other side I had to jump up two more times and climb a chain holding the eye.

After climbing the chain I was standing on a long piece of metal under two, to three others. I climbed up the other chains and the metal bars and finally I was on top of a very long metal platform that had many holes like a grate with small bars on them. The platform was very narrow and had a lever halfway across. Walking very slowly and carefully toward the lever I didn't dare look down. Finally I got to the lever and pulled it up and I noticed it could roll either way. I needed it to go forward toward Trico to keep it out of the way so that's what I did. When it went over the edge Trico stepped back a small bit and watched it fall. 

Trico finally looked back up when I called for him and he prepped himself to jump but I didn't think that would go well because there were a couple metal rings with feathers attached to it by small strings. There was a round white sphere with a ring around it with blue symbols on it. But to my surprise he jumped through them and landed on a pillar and looked back and up at me. I crept to the end of the path and looked down at Trico. He was still looking up at me and he had one foot out and his wings were outstretched and slightly flapping and he kept calling. 

I closed my eyes and took a few steps back and sprinted forward then jumped. After I jumped I opened my eyes, all I could see was Trico with his ears up, eyes focused, and he had his mouth open to catch me. Thankfully he did and after he had me in his grasp he threw his head in the air and let me go. I landed on his back and then he jumped across two more pillars until he came to a stop because he was afraid of an eye lying on a path of wooden path with bits of glass broken and missing. I climbed up onto his head and jumped down onto the wood and ran to the eye where I pushed it off. 

Walking back to Trico who was still on the pillar and I called for him. He jumped down then the wood under his feet broke almost making him fall. He regained his balance and stepped forward to let me on. I hurried on and Trico and he sprinted down the path and jumped off to another pillar. The pillar started to break so he had to jump to the next but the same thing happened again and one more time but the last pillar we had no more pillars to jump to so Trico just moved his feet up and down to let the rubble fall away. The good thing was the pillar was stronger than the others so it stayed up. 

I had to go down his tail to jump to the wall behind us where I could see some more stones sticking out of the wall for me to climb up to go inside this place. Before I went into the building I turned around to reassure him I was coming back.

"Don't worry Trico I'll be back for you," I slightly yelled so that he could hear me. He flattened his ears down across his head and howled response. I smiled at him and went into the building, before I went through the doorway I saw a soldier with it's head slightly tucked into it's collarbone. There was a large staircase going up left and right with a lip in front of the soldier which is where I knew I needed to go to help Trico.

Authors note

Hey guys!!! I'm back yay! School is almost over, man is it just me or did this year just fly by? Probably just me but hey at least I asked. So I will hopefully get another chapter out before school is done but no promises. My school schedule is kinda jacked up for all our special days with no work and going outside to do stuff and so on. Anywho thanks y'all!!! Later guys!!! P.S. Sorry about no emojis it's the computer so XP