Karma and The Newest Threat

Achuba's Crystal

Achuba and Jenni are walking down their corridor. As they walk, Achuba heres a faint musical sound coming from up ahead. As it get louder, he walks faster. He then stops in front of a corridor that peers off to the left of their corridor. He is staring down it. "Hey, Achuba..., you ok, if you need to go down there, go. I'll be fine.", Jenni smiles. Achuba turns aound and hugs her. He says, "Thanks for coming this far. Sorry I can't go any further with you." Jenni pulls away and turns him around. She whispers,"We will make it out of here. No need to be sorry." She then skips down the main corridor, Achuba staring after her until she disappears from view.

As he walks down his new corridor, the music gets louder and louder. It leads him to a great chamber with fragle ice dishes and pillars. He looks up the tallest pillar and sees his crystal. He sees a puzzle on the floor of the chamber. It is a square divided into smaller squares. Each on has a object or element on it. He notices a riddle at his feet. It says, "Opposed to dark and heavy, I sit apon a candle." Achuba sits on the floor in front of this ribble and thinks about it very hard to the point you could see it on his face. He thinks, "A candle is a flame of fire, but fire is probably not it. It's too obvious. 'Opposed to dark and heavy...' is probably the actually thing where as the candle actually produces the thing. So qhat does a candle produce... heat, warmth... LIGHT! A CANDLE PRODUCES LIGHT! Light is the opposite of dark and heavy. But there aren't any symbols for light on the squares. So if the answer is light, then how do I use ligjt to get my crystal." Just as he thinks this, he sees an ice window in the ceiling to his right to makes the chamber just visable. He looks around the chamber for some stones. The only problem is that they are under the pillar at the middle of the square. He looks from the stones to the window. He says, "I may be able to break that ice with the stones. I would have to use the force. But I've never used the force on something so far away. I am going to still try. No, I am going to get my crystal." Achuba sits down again, closes his eyes, and focuses the force on to the stones. He then imagines one of the stones floating and then flies it at the ice. A second later, he hears something crack. He opens his eyes to see the window was cracked. He then does the same thing 2 more times, cracking the ice more. He sees that there is only one sgone left. He images it again, but this time, he sees the ice shattering. Then, he hears the ice shatter and the rock thud to the ground. He opens his eyes and sees the window broke and light entering the room. As the light floods the room, the ice squares strat to disappear into nothing except for a pathway of tiles leading to the pillar. He carefully walks across the ice to the pillar and climbs up it. He gets to the top and grabs his crystal. He holds it clutched in his hand as he climbs down the pillar. He walks back acroos to the entrance of the chamber, kyber crystal in hand. He leaves the room as the window freezes over once more.

He follows the corridor back to the corridor he and Jenni choose. He goes right, following it back to the main corridor and that back to the main entrance where he finds Karma meditating. He is the first to return from his quest. Karma stands up and turns around and smiles when she sees Achuba. He holds up his crystal and says,"It took a while to get, but I perserved and got it." Karma grabs a tiny metal box and give it to him. "Put it in here for safe keeping. You are the first to return. We have to wait until everyone else returns." He turns to the entrance and looks back at Karma. She has sat back down, this time facing the entrance. He sits down with her and they both meditate.

Time that has passed: 1 hour