Immortality

Prologue

I jumped down into the cavern, adjusting my charcoal leather jacket, and the grey hood that was over my head. I look around, seeing very little except the grey stone floor which had grass and flowers growing in-between the cracks, reaching up towards the hole in the roof of the cavern. 

I pull out a glow stick from my pocket, cracking it and giving it a little shake. I walk into the darkness confidently, dragging my hand along the cavern wall, feeling the cold rough stone. I stopped as I came across a drop, I look down, seeing only looming darkness. I shrug, "Only one way to go." 

I place the glow stick in-between my teeth gently, then begin climbing down the cliff face. I came across the bottom in a matter of minuets, jumping down the rest of the way. I take the glow stick out from between my teeth, walking once more. 

I noticed the stone begin to show carvings, I drag my fingers across them. It felt similar to glass, smooth yet fragile. I then reached a dead end, the markings swirling towards the center which was a symbol of an eagle. I held out my hand, placing my entire palm in the middle of the eagle. 

That's when the marking glowed brightly, giving off a light blue glow. The ground shook as the wall moved upwards, the scraping of stone reached my ears, dust and small pebbles fell from the door. Once it stopped I walked through into a large room which had many marking, another door blocked the way. 

I walked along the bridge, looking down to a sort of puzzle. "They always loved their puzzles." I say, looking back up to see many pillars with metal bars sticking out of them. I placed my glow stick on the ground, then jumped to the closest bar, landing perfectly on top of it. 

I looked back down, trying to figure out what they want. I then noticed a blue glowing square with smaller markings similar to the one on the floor. I jumped onto the bar of the next pillar then went around the pillar to go on the bar on the other side. I examine the small square to see some pieces were out of place. 

I moved the pieces around a little bit, once it was the exact same as the floor below the two pillars, the square sunk in. I look across on the other side to see the same thing, except it was a bit bigger. 

I move onto that one, shifting the pieces till they matched the floor. It seemed easy enough, that is until I reached the third one which was diagonal from the second one. I jumped on the first bar, however, that made the pillar twist around moving the floor. 

I jerked slightly, nearly falling off, not prepared for the pillar to move. I then jumped across onto the next bar for the floor to move again, when I reached the square I tried moving the pieces to match the floor. But this time, the pieces didn't move, so instead I jumped onto each bar, making the floor instead look like the square. 

The fourth one was the most difficult, as lasers shot out of the walls each time I moved a pillar. Sometimes I would jump back to avoid the lasers, landing on another bar which moved the floor. However, I stayed determined, knowing this will all be worth it in the end. 

Once I was able to match the floor with the square, I jumped back onto the bridge. The door slid upward, I walked in. I looked around the circular room, there was very little light, most of it coming from the room behind me. Surrounding the wall there were at least eleven stone figured, in the middle of the stone figures there was a small table with a floating yellow orb. 

I walk up to it, placing my hand on the orb, the room transformed into a yellow light. The circuit below that led to the statues glowed bright yellow. I took in a deep breath, then released it, "Please let this work." 

I close my eyes, the orb begin to glow brightly, "ແສງສະຫວ່າງອັນຍິ່ງໃຫຍ່ຂ້າພະເຈົ້າໄດ້ສະ ເໜີ ຈິດວິນຍານຂອງຂ້າພະເຈົ້າໃຫ້ແກ່ທະຫານທີ່ລົ້ມເຫລວເຫລົ່ານີ້, ເພື່ອຢຸດຄວາມມືດບໍ່ໃຫ້ລຸກຂື້ນ"

The orb created a bright flash, in that moment the stone became flesh, as the people collapsed to the ground. I take my hand off the glowing yellow orb, walking over to a man with one arm, black hair, and dark eyes wearing black robes. 

"Malik! Long time no see." I say with a warm smile, tears coming to my eyes. 

The man looked up at me confused, staring into my red and blue orbs, "Who are you?"