The Resurrection of Darkness

Chapter 5:

After the events that had happened the day before, our heroes were exhausted. You see, they weren’t exactly looking forward to being knocked unconscious and waking up in a jail cell, just to fight themselves without any weapons. Yes, they were exhausted.

But despite this, Felix was feeling much more hopeful. He and his friends had just narrowly escaped death in what seemed impossible. It was simply them and their determination to live. It was indeed, death being evaded. Now, despite the, erm, ODD things that happened when he put on his necklace the day before, he was no different (despite his eyes now being purple rather than his normal sky-blue and everyone’s weapons glowing with force energy).

It was nearly noon the next day when the group couldn’t stand their hunger, they went to ask Rob to have some lunch, when they remembered; it was stolen. So, that evening, they went to go search for food in the fortress (or what was left of it. Quite a bit of it was destroyed in the shockwave).

Of course, from sheer coincidence, Felix was paired with Voice Over; but we’re not going to get into that (you can tell how Felix would react from past occurrences). Let’s follow Tempest for a minute.

He was looking through the fallen-in roof, when he saw a glint of light reflecting off of a metallic surface. He dug and finally found it; it was a silver rod with a ruby at the tip. He made to grab it, and as he did so, he felt an energy course through his veins. He made a swift movement at the ground with it, and as he did so, the remains of the fallen fortress started to quake. Suddenly, all the pieces of it rose in the air; with the ponies still standing on it!

Everyone freaked out. Rob yelled, “Felix! Turn the amulet off!” as he was trying to balance and stay on his piece.

“It’s not the amulet! I have no idea why this is happening!” He yelled in response.

“ Guys! I think it’s this thing I picked up!” Yelled Tempest. “I don’t know what its doing!”

“Well make it stop!” Yelled Gears.

Tempest frantically looked up and down the rod until he found a button on it, and when he pressed it, the pieces were thrown off the other side of the mountain.

Tempest flew off to grab Woodsy, Rob grabbed Pomaria, and Silverwing made to grab Felix and Voice Over, who were on the same platform, but the piece was falling so fast, he missed.

“What do we do?!” Screamed Voice Over. Felix was frantically looking in every direction for a chance of survival, until he saw a lake about five-hundred feet below. He grabbed her hoof and jumped off the edge.

They were falling at a very high speed; and it was not pleasant. Both of them were screaming. After what seemed like an eternity of falling, they landed in the deep lake. Felix swam up with Voice Over’s hoof, as they crawled back onto land, full of gasps and their hair soaked.

“What… What were you thinking?!” Said Voice Over.

“I’m so sorry… We were about to crash and it’s all I could think of… At least we’re alive…” Said Felix. Suddenly, he tripped on a rock and noticed that his glasses were still in the lake; he could barely see without them. Just about that time, the others were landing next to the lake where they were.

“It’s a miracle you survived that. How’d you know you were gonna land there?!” Said Rob, setting down pomaria.

“Just luck I guess. I felt we would land in it.” Said Felix. “Oh, and guys, how are we going to get my glasses? They’re in the lake, and I can barely see without them!”

“ I’ll get them. I can dive pretty well…” Said Tempest, and as he said it, dove down under the water. He saw the glasses on what seemed to be a statue next to a temple. He wanted to see what was inside, but he was running out of air, so he grabbed the glasses and swam back up.

He handed the glasses to Felix. “Thanks.” Said Felix, drying off his glasses as he put them back on.

“Now, what’s that thing you found Tempest?” said Rainbat.

“Oh, this? I’m not sure, I just found it in the remains of that fortress. Enh, it seems like too much trouble to deal with right now. I’m famished!” He said, and suddenly, the rod twitched and potatoes and carrots flew at them from all directions. “Maybe this isn’t such a bad weapon…”

“Speaking of weird, that reminds me of something! Down under the lake was a temple!” Said Tempest.

“Really?” Said Echo. “Was there a way inside?”

“Yes, it was giant! Should we go look?” He said.

“Let’s look into it tomorrow morning. We should set up camp” Said Rob (who, amazingly, had his camp pack on when the fortress was being searched).

The next morning, they prepared to go into the temple (this time, Felix used a strap to keep his glasses on his head). “Wait, how are we going to stay under there with no air?” Said Gears.

“Maybe the amulet can do something about that.” Said Felix, tapping the gem inside of his necklace. Immediately, an air bubble appeared over their heads. “Well, there’s one solution.”

On the count of three, they all jumped in, making to find the entrance when Tempest pointed to an opening that looked like it had bars that rusted off. They swam inside and were amazed to see what was inside.

It was a humongous cavern full of crystals growing all over the walls, gold on the bottom, and a great chest in the middle of it all. They saw an entrance to a tunnel and (silently) decided to swim through it.

They swam and swam through the seemingly never-ending tunnel. Finally, after about half an hour of swimming, they came to a seemingly dead end. That’s when they saw a giant button on the wall, they pressed with all their combined strength, and the water suddenly started to go down until there was no need for the air bubbles- all of the water had gone. Felix pressed the gem on his amulet and the bubbles disappeared. The end of the tunnel suddenly opened into a great room full of giant diamonds growing everywhere.

“What is this?” Said Silverwing.

“I don’t know, but I would love to bring one of these home! Well, if it’s still there-you know what I mean!” Said Voice Over. That’s when Felix noticed that he had been near Voice Over almost the whole time since the fall. His whole face turned red as he, as casually as he could, walked off a bit. Just then, Rainbat touched one of the diamonds. The whole thing turned white, as did the rest of them, and a horrible screeching noise filled the room.

Then, from the ceiling, sand and water started falling. Quickly, Felix gave them all the bubble-helmets with his amulet. The entrance to the room started to close, but they had just managed to get through in time. They swam through the tunnel as fast as they could, and came out back into the lake. Suddenly, from a lake-wall, a hole opened up and a giant squid came out.

It was complete chaos. Tentacles were grabbing everyone, and before long, the only ones that hadn’t been caught were Rob, Felix, and Tempest. Suddenly, Gears threw a boomerang, and almost hit the squid’s eye. Tempest did some quick thinking while the squid was distracted and pointed his rod at the wall.

Immediately, a chunk came out off of it. He flicked the rod at the squid, and the chunk of the wall flew into its face. Felix tapped his amulet gem and him and Rob’s sword were connected to a beam of energy from the amulet. The struck the beast in the head and killed it. They made to cut all of the other’s free.

It was evening and everyone was exhausted around the campfire.

“Well, where are we going to go next?” Said Gears.

“I don’t know, but based from our luck and quick thinking, I think barely anything is impossible for us to do now.” Said Felix. He glanced at Voice Over and blushed. Not for the last time.

“Well wherever our journey takes us next, as long as we work together, I’m sure we’ll be able to deal with it!” Said Rainbat.