Dak And Stell/The Travelers Trilogies

1.24 The Light in The Dark

"That was amazing," I said to Xalmia as we ran through the dark, Stell leading us with Silk leading him.

"Thank you," she said to me as we turn another corner down the endless chasm. "I wish we still weren't going to die. Maybe it would have been better to end it there."

"No!" I said firmly, jumping over a small rock outcropping. I could hear the sound of hundreds of clicking noises chasing us as we ran through the dark. Luckily, we had Silk to keep us from taking paths that ended, leaving us trapped. Still, we had no way out, and I could tell xalmia was getting tired. Her legs were a lot short then mine, and I was barely keeping pace with Stell's tree-trunk legs.

I whirled around and let Xalmia run by me and formed five marbles in my hand. I drew back and waited, then once I could see the reflective lines on the crystal crypt crawlers, I threw the spheres and ran. It didn't matter where they landed. I just ran towards the others as fast as I could and released my will.

The chasm erupted in howls of whines and squeals. The crawlers were terrifying, as their bodies were tossed and smashed into walls. The force of the spell releasing gave me a push as I kept on running towards the others. The others had stopped and were staring at me with wide-eyed amazement.

"Why are you guys stopping?" I said as I caught back up with them, but then I noticed that they weren't staring at me. I turned around to see what they were gawking at, and I couldn't believe what I saw. The part of the chasm that the crawler had come after us from was a giant wall that stretched over fifty feet high. The marbles had destroyed the walls of the abyss, and the smashed rock, crystals, and dead crawlers made a wall to block the way. Except the wall was glowing from the ichor from the crawlers.

"Even in destruction, there is art," Stell said, walking up to me. Then he began looking around at the block in the passage.

"I'm just glad I cant hear that click-click-click noise anymore," Xalmia said with a sigh and sank to the floor. We were all exhausted, and I had put a lot into those last spheres. Suddenly Silk started to spin around Stell's head, Acting very frightened. Stell tried to calm her, but she zipped to his ear and said something to him, and then hid in his hood.

"Dak, Silk says something massive is coming," Stell turned and said to me, but I could already feel the ground under me tremble. Slowly the chasm crystals began to light up with a dark purple glow. Something was wrong. Then I started to hear a sound.

At first, it was only a low scream, but as it came close, the sound became a violet roar that sang of ages long ago. The sound vibrated my mind, and I couldn't seem to think anymore. It was like someone was non-stop shaking me, and I couldn't concentrate until something small slapped me across my face.

"Dak!" The voice yelled at me, and then I was back in the chasm. I shook my head, clearing the last of that sound from it, and looked up at Xalmia.

"Thank you, there was a sound that was shaking me from the inside," I said to her as I got up. I hadn't realized I had fallen. I looked over and seen Stell pulling himself back up, with Silk pulling futilely on his robe to help him.

"Something happened to Stell, but Silk flew down and bit him on the ear, which seemed to bring him out of the shock. That's why I hit you," she said, blushing and turning away. Shyness and blushing at a time like this? she was a fantastic creature. Whatever this was, it was old and big, and we had no way to escape.

Then the monster came into view. It was massive. It had a swirling horn protruding from its sizeable wolf-like face, and it was cover in purple fur. The thing was so big that it looked as if it could stand on its hind legs and crawl out of the chasm. There was also a strange eight-pointed star with circles around it and strange marks that I couldn't make out.

"No!" Xalmia began to cry, sinking to the ground.

"What is that thing, Xalmia? Pull your self together!" I shouted at her, but she just sat there.

"You don't understand, we are dead, and there is nothing you can do. The Chasm Behemoths are immune to magic," she said, still crying. Immune to magic? Is this possible? Just then, Stell made a wall shoot up in front of the Behemoth, but I just walked into it, and the spell dissipated.

The beast roared, and a streak of purple lightning struck Stell in the side and sent him sprawling on the floor, leaving a trail of blood. He didn't move or make a sound. My eyes lit up, exploding with blue, and I made a sphere with everything I had, yet even as I released it, I felt the spell fall apart. Lightning struck me, and I was sent flying into Xalmia.

"I'm sorry, Xalmia, I should have listened to you, but I'm glad I met you," I said, coughing up blood.

"Its ok," She said with tears in her eyes.

I could see the Behemoth looming over us, getting ready to devour us, but then I saw a blink of light above. It was like a star was streaking down towards us, and we were bathed in a ray of radiance as Diagon, God Of Balance, plummeted down from the heavens, spear forwards, glowing with radiance.

He plunged into the side of the beast from above, the flipping forwards, ripping his spear out as he went and stabbing and slashing as he ran towards the head. He ran un and leaped in the air, then slammed down, driving his spear into the base of the Chasm Behemoths skull. The great beast fell with an earth-shattering thud.

Diagon leaped down and grabbed Stell and leaped to the top of the chasm. We could only lay there in shock at what just happened in a matter of seconds. There were about to die, then Diagon came and saved them, but they hadn't called him. What does this mean? I went to feel my shoulder where the chasm behemoth had hit me, but there was nothing wrong, even the clothes were fine.

Just then, Diagon slammed to the floor and grabbed the two of us. Before we could say anything, we were flying at breakneck speeds up and out of that horrible black abyss. Diagon set us down but then turned away. I knew what this meant.

"Your one of us now," I said to him, but he didn't say anything. "You won't be able to go back, now that you came by your own choice."He sighed and turned around to face me.

"I deserve nothing less traveler, I don't deserve to be a god if I can't help the ones that are trying to save this world," Diagon said to me, lifting his head. "We will just have to make this journey together."

"Well, we aren't in any place or shape to argue, but we do need some sleep," I said to him as I sat down and saw stell already snoring; the light may have healed the hurt, but tired was tired. What a crazy ride so far, I thought, and Xalmia curled into me and instantly fell asleep. New friends to help us find out what's going on here and now a superpower on our side with Diagon joining us. I smiled to myself as I slowly fell asleep. Tomorrow would be a new day.

The End

Thank you all for taking the time to read my first book. Stay tuned for the next part of the Traveller's Trilogies- The Crystal Jaw Pass

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