Fire and Water

We're in This Together Now

Nice name, Jake, well, actually, Fireboy thought, smiling at the girl, but she frowned back at him. 

Fireboy and Watergirl huh? Well, we better get this done and over with. Lauren/Watergirl thought to herself.

"Come on, Fireboy, let's find out what we need to do, the instructions are written on the walls. This way."

"No! Don't go that way! It's a dead end, I just came from there!" Fireboy stopped Watergirl in her tracks, and she looked at him, clearly frustrated, "Give me one reason why I should trust you."

"Uhhhhhm." He muttered, "Because I want to get this over with as much as you do?"

Watergirl rolled her eyes, "Ok fine, we'll go your way."

Fireboy bit his lip and lead the way, in the opposite direction.

In front of them, there was a red diamond hanging in the sky, floating above a big puddle of glowing red lava.

Fireboy frowned at the diamond, it looked exactly like the one he clicked to enter the battle in the first place, before he knew it would be virtual reality.

Watergirl want down and touched the red liquid. She almost screamed at the lava burned at her fingers like acid, leaving a whisp of steam hanging in the air. 

"Hey look what it says here!" Fireboy pointed out, "Don't mix fire and water?"

Watergirl looked at the words, ...Never mix Fire and Water!, and huffed, "Well, you could've said that earlier."

"I could've." Fireboy shrugged, and waded into the lava. He seemed to have no problem with it at all. "Uhhh... And what am I supposed to do. You saw how much that stuff hurts!"

Fireboy shrugged and kept walking. As he touched the red diamond, it made a ding sound, and disappeared. "Cool..." Fireboy muttered.

Watergirl rolled her eyes at him and started looking for another way to pass the pool of red-hot lava.

Fireboy had reached the other side of the pool, which was about three or four meters long,and called back to her, "Why don't you just jump over, Watergirl?"

She looked at him in disgust, "Did you seriously just suggest that? Come on Fireboy, do you really expect me to be able to jump that far?"

He shrugged again, "You might as well try."

"And get myself killed? Nuh uh!" 

"How do you even know that it's gonna kill you?"

"The way it stings tells me enough. I'm not toughing that stuff. I'll find another way."

Fireboy rolled his eyes, "Just jump on the spot then. If you're right and this is VR, the game should have some kind of 'super jump'"

Watergirl glared at him, but he just shrugged back at her. "Fine. I guess it couldn't hurt to try, but prepare to be proven wrong."

Long story short, Fireboy was right. Watergirl effortlessly jumped a few meters high into the sky, and touched down safely, the only thing that got damaged was her ego.

She took a deep breath, and jumped over the pool, landing neatly at the other side. "I hope I don't have to do that again."

"Well, then you can forget it." Fireboy stated, "Cuz there's another puddle ahead."

Watergirl groaned, but brightened up when she saw that is was a shimmering, light blue water pool, with a big blue diamond hanging in the air above it.

She frowned at the diamond at first, noticing that it looked precisely like the on she clicked to enter the battle. Then she shrugged, and waded in with ease, smirking at Fireboy, who jumped back when he touched the icy water.

"Ouch!" He yelled, "That hurts!"

"Ya it does! You wouldn't want to land in that now would you? You'd probably die."

Fireboy shrugged, "I'll just jump over it, like you did."

Watergirl watched as he leapt over it, touching the blue diamond on the way. He landed roughly at the other side, but managed to stay standing.

The blue diamond was still floating above the pool.

Watergirl frowned, but walked up to it and touched it. There was a soft ping, and it disappeared, just like the red one had when Fireboy touched it.

"Does that mean I collect the red ones and you the blue?"

Watergirl nodded, and waded out of the water, "So. Where to next?"