Tales of Nova Terra - The Twins (wip)

The "Unforgable" Ore

Lynk and Lynn were both standing there staring at each other like they figured out the answers to the universe, then they finally snaped out of it and Lynk says "Now that we have that figured out for the most part, maybe we should start studying this ore? Also I want to make sure the shop is in working condition. Hopefully they didn't sell the place or sell everything inside of it when they declared me dead..." Lynn then responds "Yeah, I think the shop was left alone though as they probably would have taken most of this stuff down already if not, or someone else had been using it and left all of this up!" Lynk then says "Yeah I guess your right" they both look at eachother and then to the door of the shop, Lynk walks up to it with Lynn following close behind and grabs the handle, he then says quickly as he twists the handle "please be decent! please be decent!" but as he does so the door makes a loud clanking noise and doesn't open, Lynk confused looks at Lynn and she shrugs and says "I don't remember there being a lock on the door" Lynk replies "Me either... Well there isn't any other way in that I can remember..." Lynn looking around snaps her head to the side of the house "Lynk, what about the chutes on the side of the shop?" Lynk says "Oh yeah, we can just go down through those, they are big enough for us to fit into them, so let's try it" they both quickly walk over to the left side of the shop to where the chutes are and Lynk unlocks and opens the hatch to one of them and looks down into it and sees nothing but darkness other than the light coming from the open hatch, he looks at Lynn and says "Well, wish me luck! Meet me at the front door" then he leaps head first into the hatch yelling as he flies into it, Lynn watches then hears a thump and asks "Are you alright?" Lynk replies "yeah, make your way to the front, I'll meet you there!" So Lynn nods and started making her way to the front of the store and by the time she got there the door swung open and lynk was standing in the doorway smiling with a heroic pose like he was the best... Lynn laughed then proceeded inside bumping into lynk while smiling.

While entering the light from the doorway lights up most of the whole shop and small cracks and holes in the walls let light shine in in certain places, the shop itself looked unused for years and the air was dusty and smelled of metal, burned coal and musty rocks. Upon entering to the left was a heavily used anvil in the middle of the corner of the room with tools lining the wall behind it, and a barrel with a very small amount of water in it right next to it. To the far back left was the Smeltery or fireplace which was lined with ashes of once fresh chunks of coal from the mines. To the front right was a long worn wooden desk with a glass display of tools and weapons once forged by lynk which were ready to be sold right in the middle of it, and a bunch of papers were on the desk itself which consisted of customer orders and bills, and a few coins in a pile on the desk on top of some papers. Behind the desk, lining the wall were shelves of parts of weapons and tools which could be made or bought aswell as a few great swords hanging made of finely polished iron and steel and an empty holder for one which had been sold... In the far back right was a storage room which held all of the coal, ore, and other miscellaneous materials, there was a lot of coal but very little amounts of ore and then other materials. The whole shop looked decently usable so Lynk and Lynn both went to work right away, Lynn ran outside after they both checked out the shop and she started dumping the Mysterious ore into the chute while Lynk arranged the ore into bigger and smaller peices, strangely each time they touched a piece it would slightly glow... After they finished sorting them Lynn grabbed the pickaxe from the cart and walked inside and set it near the door. Lynk then started testing the strength of it by using a diamond tipped chisel on it and it didn't break which was odd, it was stronger than diamond so he then tried multiple other types of materials against it like iron and steel which wasn't stronger than diamond but he still wanted to try them just in case but as expected nothing happened... Lynn then suggested trying to melt it and forge it into a short blade so they both got started, Lynn grabbed and handed Lynk a few peices of the ore and threw it into the smeltery, strangely it wasn't affected at all at some of the highest temperatures they could go to... Lynk and Lynn both worried, wondered if they wouldn't be able to forge it at all but Lynk then remembered when they first had mined it he was using a special alloyed pickaxe made by their parents, it was made of the legendary unnamed alloy and it had been able to pierce the ore and break it, so that's what they needed, the pickaxe from the mine.