Dragons : The Dragon Hunt

8. The Start of the Journey

As we entered the cave, I felt pride and nervousness in my body, as we start the lifetime journey for once in my life. We used our flashlights to observe the cave, the cave's height is about 25 feet tall, Which I highly favored that this cave would continue for several miles up to its end, It would be hard for us in some point because there might be some rough and narrow tunnels that we might encounter. For a minute we enter the cave, Kent was literally happy in entering it because he never explored a cave before, and he even wanted to see the dangers that lurks in this cave, eventually. The cave has some deposits of Magnesium, which I didn't know where it originated from. And some other minerals like iron and gypsum. Mainly, I never thought that this would be an entrance to a certain else, but I think it would be one.

"Do you know this place Dennis? " Kent asked, probably nervous and curious about the cave we entered. Well, I am determined about in seeing two things from this cave already: One, some weird caves or drops that might take us in something that we had never seen before; Two, the exit towards this place just in case we get lost.

"No, but I never seen a cave like this before, Straight and smooth edges and it is in a perfect rectangular shape." I replied at Kent, barely exclaiming at him. Kent only lets out a chuckle as he heard this, we still both continued walking in going towards the end of the cave to see what is inside.  

"So, do you have any guess? " Kent asked me again, as I glanced at him and only released a sharp breath, I shrugged my shoulders and tried to take a guess, I finally had one in mind and quickly spoke to him.

"If my guesses were correct, this would be an entrance to a old abandoned mine, or only an perfect cave that was eaten or carved off by a special type of acid, which dissolves and eats the rock." I concluded, as I tried to point my flashlight on the sides of the cave and tried to observe its edges if it really was eaten by some acid that makes it in perfect shape. It is perfect in shape but somehow I had really thought that this is an abandoned mine already. Kent only sighs and spoke to me.

"That is a theory, probably you are correct on the first theory though." Kent said, as he pointed on his left hand to a rusty signage that was lying on the ground. Being crooked at some point, but it is still in one piece, I walked towards it and picked it up as I tried to read the content of the sign. The sign was written in Icelandic, neither the both of us do not understand Icelandic.

"If I am correct, I would say that this signage says that we need to be out from this place" I growled, not glancing at Kent. This time, I am now determined that there would be really inside here that have been abandoned or working, but the sign is so rusty that the message on it can't be seen clearly. I narrowed my brows as I am determined in seeing more things that could be present here, as I finally stood up and walked deeper on the tunnel. As we traveled further, we saw more signages and wooden support beams, it was like an real abandoned mine. But other than that, Magnesium deposits still runs on the sides of the cave, even the wooden support beams still hold the boulders up above it in, they are between 10 feet apart. Also, there are also communication wires that runs on the left side of the cave. The wires and the wooden beams, are probably old, which I never guessed what exactly the date when it was first placed there.

"This tunnel runs for miles! ", Kent scoffed, who was being annoyed in walking for a long time already. He lets out a groan of disappointment and exasperation as we still continued to go deeper on the tunnel. We had been experiencing hot temperature inside as we are so far from the entrance. We had been sweating heavily as we walked farther, I only glanced at him again and spoke.