Chapter 5: *ROAR*

Adore appeared above a thicket and landed on top of them.

"Hey guys you alright."

….

"Guys?" Adore turns around to see nothing except a sea of green leaves. "What the? Hey guys come on out, this isn't funny!"

….

"Shit. Guess I've gotta find them." Adore walks along the leaves as he's baffled at how they're supporting his weight. "I'm getting nowhere just walking." He looks down and parts some of the leaves but is greeted with more and more leaves. He continues and finally sees dirt. "AH HA." He shouted triumphantly as he digs through the dirt and falls in. "Why is it so dark in here?" He looks around and sees that he's in a tunnel but he can't see anything besides where the light is coming in from the hole. "I've got a bad feeling about this." He walks into the darkness and doesn't find anything for a while before he hears a clicking sound. He's about to walk towards before he stops himself and digs into his pocket pulling out his phone. He turns it on, blinding himself for a moment before he turns on the flashlight and points it towards the sound. "What the fuck." He muttered quietly as he quickly turned it off and started heading back the way came only to bump into something hard and dropping his phone. Adore quickly searches for his phone before grabbing it and turning on the flashlight revealing and blinding a giant ant who was hovering above him. He quickly gets up and runs away pointing his flashlight in front of him.

"Shit shit shit shit. How the fuck are there giant ants here!" Adore yelled out in fear before he arrived where he first came in only to see that a few ants were working on sealing it. "Shit!" Adore turned around and bolted back in the direction he came from. After a while he stops to catch his breath. 'OK think I'm trapped in an ants nest but they're all fucking massive… yeah I'm screwed if I don't find a way out.' Adore takes a few deep breaths before walking along the tunnel cautiously.

Adore reached an intersection where he heard clicking noises. He couldn't tell where it was coming from due to it being distant and an echo distorting it. 'I'll try my luck with the right one.' Adore continued down his path before reaching another intersection. He chose his path again and again and again and again. 'Alright!! This is ridiculous! How big is this fucking place. You know I should just dig why didn't I think of that before!' Adore mentally berated himself before proceeding to dig straight down.

The clicking noises could be heard getting louder and louder as he could see light starting to peek through the small cracks. He was almost through when something grabbed the back of his shirt and threw him back. 'No! I was so close!' Adore looked up to see a giant ant blocking his escape route. 'Fine! Since you want to fight so badly.' Adore charged the ant and tried to punch its eye but his arm was caught by the pincers digging into the flesh causing Adore to cry out in pain flailing his arm fighting to get free. The ant swung its head around swinging the human with it smashing him against the wall over and over before throwing him again.

Adore stared at the unmoving ant before something dawned on him. He quickly pulled his phone put and activated the flashlight blinding the ant. As the ant flails around Adore quickly pushes past it using it back as a trampoline jumping off it and directly towards the spot he dug. He swung down towards it, breaking through making a hole big enough for him to fall through. "HA HA Suck it ant!" He exclaimed triumphantly before looking down and realizing that while he was falling he couldn't see the bottom.

'Holy shit!' Adore looks around him as trees bigger than mountains surround him on all sides, animals as big as skyscrapers climb and jump all around them. A vine catches him giving him a chance to contemplate the situation he's in. '...' he collapses onto his back looking to the treetops seeing the giant series of dirt tubes… "Dear God. I'm fucked like actually truly fucked! H-how the fuck do I find my way out? How do I find them? H-how- '' Adore's rant is interrupted when hears a large snort behind him. Terrified he slowly turns around freezing when he sees a giant head. Neither of them move before the creature turns its head and chews on the leaves next to the vine.

"O-okay so you p-probably only eat plants w-which is a good thing for me." Adore breathes deeply before regaining his composure. Adore looks around before sighing. 'Looks like it's my only way… fuck… There's no other way seriously…. Fine.' Adore prepares himself to jump but before he can a giant bird lands on a branch near him and spots him before screeching and soaring towards him. Not having much choice, Adore leaps off the vine but before he can reach the creature's head it moves at the last second causing him to plummet towards the bottom. Adore turns and sees the giant bird dive bombing towards him with its talons at the ready and getting faster and faster.

'Fuck fuck fuck!!!' Adore spirals in the air nauseating him. As his face turns green the bird prepares to grab him but before it can Adore throws up and the vomit hits the bird in its eyes knocking it off course right past Adore crashing into the giant creature's torso dazing the bird. Adore lands on the bird and hangs on for dear life as the bird shakes violently trying its best to get rid of the vomit.

The bird screeching in anger looks around desperately to locate Adore while Unbeknownst to it Adore was clinging to it and doing his best not to scream. After a while the bird gave up the search and started to fly through the air. 'Where are we going?' Adore looked up and saw that they were soaring through the air. 'It's actually pretty nice when looking at it from above.' Adore enjoys the sight before a bright light blinds him causing him to cover his eyes. 'What the hell.' Adore looks around, and sees that they've broken through the forest and now sees a giant flatland with the occasional tree and lakes. 'It's beautiful.'

Adore looks around and breathes deeply before they land at a tree. 'I wonder why he stopped.' His answer came when he heard a loud cracking and squish sound. 'I guess he's eating. I wonder what it is.' Adore climbs higher on the bird before looking and seeing a giant beetle with its shell cracked open and the bird eating it. 'Huh this is a weird place. Thank God I have a moment to rest.'

After the bird was done eating it started to collect branches and twigs and puts them together. Adore wakes up startled but calms down after he realizes what is going on. Adore just watches as the bird makes its nest and settles into it. After making sure the bird was asleep Adore carefully climbs to the top of the nest before sitting down. 'Michael, Rose wherever you guys are I hope you guys are okay. I promise I'm going to find you both and make sure you're alright.' Adore turns to the asleep bird. "And you're going to help me."

Elsewhere

"Come on move it we don't have all day!"

"Yeah yeah I know don't rush me!"

"I wouldn't have to rush you if you did your job right!"

"Alright alright!"

Mechanical whirling drowned them out as a drill quickly struck the ground and went down. The surrounding men started to run around moving equipment and running tests. One of the men went inside a building before quickly shutting the door and sitting at his desk.

'This is a waste of our skills. A waste of time! What do they expect to find here, this island is nothing but death wherever you head. I lost 10 good men on our way here! Dammit!' The door quickly opened and closed when the one standing at the desk turned and faced the other taking a deep breath. "What is it?"

"One of our drills has broke sir-." *CRACK*. He jumps back quickly while looking at his boss, shocked to see a hole in the wall.

*Deep breaths*" Apologies, I'm just infuriated at why they would send us here for some make-believe story meant to scare foals."

"May I ask what are we supposed to find here?"

"Some giant gate they didn't give me much other than that."

"That's ridiculous there's been nothing here since forever.

"Exactly that's why I'm pissed off they sent us here."

"What do we do boss?"

"Nothing we can do other than dig where they want us to dig."

Both stayed silent, a sad blank look in their eyes.

"Don't worry kid, I'll get us all out of here." The boss said, breaking the silence and hugging the kid.

"Thank you."

"No problem, just remember I'm the Boss, it's my job to keep you all safe and that is exactly what I plan to do. For now just go back to work." The kid nods before exiting. The Boss sits down before pulling out a cigar and lighter. "God help us, we're gonna need it if we plan to escape this Tartarus."