Sail The Seas //ATEEZ

Chapter 2 : 'Old seeker's Cave'

'Old seeker's' Cave'

You would think the journey to the cave would be easy but alas it was not, though hongjoong had a high endurance rate, the terrain did the most damage all of the steep slopes and sharp rockes just made the journey harder than it should have been.

It took him approximately ten hours to reach the cave. When he arrived it was already late in the night so he decided the best option was to camp out for now and explore the cave in the morning. Setting down his things he laid out his sleeping mat and placed his bag to the top as a makeshift pillow. The spot he picked out to camp was pretty perfect in a sense that if tide came up he would not be washed away and his spot gave him a good cover from anyone as it was blocked by jagged limestone pillars. The interior of the cave by it self was beautiful it had a lagoon with emerald water which looked exactly to the jewel. The tall limestone pillars that touched the ceiling of the cave giving the cave a sense of grandeur.

Looking at the emerald water dance in the dimly light cave Hongjoong sighed and closes his eyes....

Crying......a newborns cry echoed in the raging wind.....the child was abandoned on the desolate beach...crying...screaming...

BOOM!!!!

The sound of thunder startled Hongjoong awake, breathing heavily he took a hand and wiped the cold sweat that had formed on his forehead.

"What was that about......?", he questioned,

" Maybe it was just a bad dream..",he said as he turned around to face the limestone wall behind him.

He fidgeted around for a while before coming to the conclusion he couldn't sleep, Lighting his torch he stood up and walked around, since he couldn't sleep he might as well walk round and explore.

From the corner of his eyes hongjoong spotted something on the wall it was dimly light by the glow of his torch, turning around he walked closer to the wall till the whole was brightened by the light.

Words....foreign words..

These words decorated a small portion of the wall they were legible for the eyes to read but hongjoong could not figure out what they meant he had seen many of these writings before but they were mostly all in his dreams. Scratching his head he studied the words and attempted to say them......key word attempt.

"l...l....sar...rion...qi...fa...man?", hongjoong said in a questioning voice,

"Mal...di..gion..koon?",he said in the same questioning voice .

"What the Hell does that mean?!", he exclaimed.

Sighing he turned his back to the wall and slide down,

"Maybe this was a mistake....", hongjoong said and then he felt a snap like if something was broken.

Then realization hit him.

"Fuck....how could i be so stupid...Hongjoong you idiot you were under the spell of a voice user....", Hongjoong said to himself after feeling the broken connection, this was a both a blessing and curse since the connection was broken that mean that the user was dead but that also meant someone killed them.

' You should have realized it when you heard the voice', hongjoong said as he internally scolded himself.

He knew that traits of some magic user because of the some of the books he read over the years.