The Last Guardian

Chapter 24

We looked around all over the room full of doors for a way out. Every now and again Trico would stop to lick his wounds which were almost fully healed thanks to the helpful substance in the barrels. Trico kept looking up at the ceiling and I didn't know why so I looked up and I saw a small circle about the same size as the light from the mirror. I shone the light on it and a couple seconds later a floating cylinder came down to the ground. There was an opening with a bench carved into the white stone. 

Trico walked over and sniffed it while I slowly stepped inside. Once I was inside a shiny metal gate slammed down and trapped me inside, then it started to rise again which would trap Trico in that room. 

"Trico!" I yelled through the gate and he looked up and roared in panic and then he jumped up on top of the elevator which hesitated to go back up at the sudden weight upon it. But, it then started to rise again and all I could see was Trico's tail and symbols on the walls glowing and flying by from the speed we were going. We soon came to a stop at a place with more frosty smoke above the floor and empty, broken barrels scattered all over the floor. 

The gate opened and I stepped out onto a barrel and Trico jumped off on the other side of the elevator. There was a barrel on the floor that wasn't broken so I went over to it and picked it up. I then took it over to Trico who was looking up above at a long stretch of cylinder like stone connected to the wall and a giant sphere covered in symbols. After I called for him he looked at me and his eyes lit up and he turned to face me. I swung the barrel backwards, Trico perked up in alert, and when I let go he snagged it out of the air. Three chomps and it was consumed, pieces of barrel fell to the floor to join the other broken and barrels. 

I climbed onto Trico's back and we got to the first jump and four more until we were right under a reddish brown and a light blue swirling blades. They looked like fan blades and Trico's head was so close to the spinning blades that he had to keep his head lowered. I got off of him and landed by his feet and made my way over to a small hole in the sphere. I entered the hole and on the other side I got to a crouch before I slipped and fell down onto my stomach. In front of me when I stood up was a giant black ball of a weird substance. In the middle of it was a blue ball that was spinning slowly, covered in symbols, and surrounded by metal bars.

Around the ball of the weird substance were little ramps that came to a drop off at the ball. In between the ramps were small pools of water. Above were some blue sections of fence that were some how levitating and circling at the top of the ball. I took a step forward and the ball shifted and the substance near me turned into spikes that looked liked they were reaching out to me. I put a hand out to touch one of the spikes and when I made contact, symbols clouded my vision and I was thrown against the wall. 

My head pounded when I got back on my feet. I had to figure out how to get to the top of the tower, and, more importantly, figure out how to get Trico to the top through the blades. I decided to try and shine the light on the sphere and thankfully when I shone the light on it, spikes erupted all over it and it started to shrink. I waited until it was almost just the blue orb showing, but I didn't want the light to touch it in case something effected me. So after it was small enough I ran over to the bars and started to climb. I got to the top of the bars where there was a solid covering over the sphere. One of the sections of bars came around and so I jumped onto it and onto another until I was standing on top of a section to where I could see a center piece low enough for me to jump to. So I did and I had to move to the left, still hanging, until I could get back up and when I was up there I was above the spinning blades. 

When I looked close enough there was an alter on one of the blades so I timed the spinning until I saw the perfect moment then I jumped. Landing on the blade with the alter, but, as soon as I landed the force of the spin was too much so I fell over. I felt like I was going to be sick so I hurriedly put the mirror in the alter. The blades screeched to a stop and I called for Trico and I heard squawking and jumping. Soon through cracks in the metal in front of me I saw two glowing horns jumping up above the blades. As soon as he was up I took out the mirror and ran over to a ledge on the wall in front of me and I climbed onto it before the blades got back to full speed. I got up on more ledge and then one more piece of metal that was a small wall preventing things to fall down into the blades.