Shining Heroes

Chapter 19

"Hey will I be getting any tips or anything since I've never done anything like this before?"

"Do you think you will get any tips from a villain in your first fight with one?" The voice asked in a mocking tone.

I took a step forward and I heard a soft clicking sound before I jumped back. A giant flame thrower had revealed itself from the ceiling and began shooting fire at the ground.

Hoping it wasnt a on time thing I took a deep breath before stepping through the flames.

After passing through the flames I saw the floor dropped into a pool of water that stretched across the room and was about four feet wide.

I examined the other edge of the pool and noticed a couple tiles were slightly higher than the rest.

The water seemed to be fine, so I jumped as far out as I could. As soon as I hit the water I found out it was a lot deeper than I had thought. 

I had to have sank atleast 9 feet before I hit the bottom and began to swim towards the surface.

I managed to pull myself out of the water easily enough. I luckily remembered correctly about the tiles that seemed like they were possibly traps.

"Is there a time limit on this?" I asked aloud while I tried to figure out where to go next.

"No, but the room changes itself after a certain amount of time." I could hear the man smirking through the intercom.

I ran over to a raised platform and jumped to grab its edge. As I began to pull myself up a giant boulder attached to a chain began to swing above the platform.

"What do you think this is the dark ages?" I yelled before the platform began to rise while other areas around me began to change with it.

I glanced down and I had to be about dangling off this platform probably 40 feet in the air.

I pulled myself onto the platform and I was concerned when I could no longer see the swinging boulder.

I cautiously walked over to each side of the platform. Only one side had a way down and it appeared to be a rockwall type design, but I couldn't see anything the bottom of the wall. About half way down the wall there was another platform across the mystery depths, but the biggest issue seemed to be making that jump from the rockwall.

"I guess that's a problem for me to figure out when I get closer." I muttered to myself as I sat down on the edge.

I rolled over onto my stomach and slowly lowered myself until one of my feet made contact with a rock. I slowly inched my other foot until it made contact with another rock.

Eventually I managed to actually began to descend the wall until I placed my foot and heard a click.

Suddenly what looked like a water balloons began slamming against the wall. I wish I could say it was water in the balloons, but whatever was in the started to freeze and make the wall slick.

I reached over to touch one of the rocks that had frozen over and a loud hissing was followed by steam as the ice melted.

I thought it would be easy to repeat the melting process with another rock, but I wasn't focused on the fact the rocks at my feet were also covered in ice.

I closed my eyes as I began to fall. I expected to end up falling into a pit of bugs or something, but instead my body slammed onto something very solid. I painfuly opened my eyes and rolled onto my side.

What I thought was a drop into a pit was just a trick of the eye. Up close it's easier to tell its just a picture displayed on the ground.

I was genuinely upset that I had been so easily tricked.

I completed more obstacles that seemed to be pointless to finding out the extent of my powers. Minus one where I accidentally set my entire body on fire, but that happened because that guy pissed me off by mocking me for not dodging a few swinging pendulums.

The final task seemed easy enough. I just had to climb a rope to get to the green box.

As I climbed the rope I felt a sharp prick in my shoulder.

I glanced over and a dart with a yellow and red stripe pattern on it was in my arm.

I swiped the dart off which hurt a bit but continued climbing so I could get this over with.

The higher I climbed the more pircks I would feel. I'd swipe most of them off, but I had to ignore some of them.

I lost count of how many darts had hit me as my head began to grow fuzzy.

I'm not positive if I actually made it to the green box or if i just imagined it happening because of the darts.

I raised my arms in victory before I sat down and watched the room return to how it was at the begining. After the room had stopped moving I ended up laying down and evening passing out.