#caveesssss

[misty-zzz]

Chapter 7 woaaahh

i wrote this quickly- uh but, i kinda got to nerd out abt caves! man i wanna go to a cave again...

     The Wubbox gets up from the sitting position. “Didn’t you have a bag earlier?” Asked Ghazt. “Oh, yeah, I left it at the edge over here.” The Wubbox laughs. It picks up the bag, hanging from a small spike on the island. “Could’ve almost forgotten this, luckily not, it has all my equipment in it!” It looks at Ghazt, who is not impressed. “Alrighty, let’s go!” Tootoo jumps.

     Ghazt watches as the walk off, still not the biggest fan of the idea of going into the caves. The caves  were closed off, boarded up. “Stand back,” said the Wubbox. It winds up its arm and punches straight through the wood. Tootoo and Fiddlement step back, as little shards of wood fly past their heads. “Ouch,” The Wubbox picks out some wood from its hand. 

     Wet, cool air blast out of the caves. The Wubbox searches through its bag, finding a Wubbox sized flashlight. They step into the cave. They waltz through the entrance, almost too small for Wubbox. The Wubbox lays the bag on the ground, crouching down to look through it. It pulls out a book, with all the information about these caves. It wasn’t much, but it could help. “It’s this way, I hope.” It points the flashlight at the tunnel.

     Tootoo gets a gut feeling, something is going to go wrong. She gets a tad bit of déjà vu, back from wublin island. Tootoo sighs, she knows the rumors are probably untrue. Who knows, maybe they’ll be like the monsters before, and never come back.

     Fiddlement Carries on lighting the way with their head. “Don’t you get the feeling something might happen?” Tootoo is still a bit unsure. “Somewhat, some of those stories sound a bit fake.” Fiddlement responds. Tootoo agrees and tries not to worry.

     Tootoo practiced some of her ballet, across the halls. The fears started to slip away, this has been the most excitement both of them have ever gotten. Back on light island it was a boring place, even with its song. Now they get to explore these caves that haven’t been explored in years! A tad bit dangerous - yes, but who could ever have adventures without dangers? 

     “What are we looking for?” Fiddlement asks. “A long time ago, they carved, and painted things on the walls. There have been links to the titans.” They walk through the cave some more. 

     The walls started to form into formations, and water could be heard in the distance. The ground was wet, the air was murky. “It might get a bit slippery.” The Wubbox feels the walls around it. The march through the cave systems carried on. 

     The running water became louder. “Don’t you think cave formations are weird, water moving slow enough to pull off just a tiny bit of rock. Over a couple of thousands of years, they become like this!” Tootoo nerds out, those science books paid off. “You’re a nerd, like me.” Comments Wubbox. “Uh, I mean, kinda. Just smarter than the average monster, I guess!” She points at her head. 

     Now the walls were becoming larger. It made the Wubbox happy, having more room to move. The sound of water is much louder, a small little waterfall falls from an opening in the ceiling. The Wubbox points the flashlight at it. Big stalagmites and stalactites ran across the whole room. “Isn’t this pretty neat?” It shows off the rest of the room with the flashlight. “How deep underground are we?” Fiddlement wanted to know. “I would say 300-ish feet.” The Wubbox estimated. 

     They climb up to the next halls, all except Fiddlement. “Those carvings and paintings should be around these areas, keep an eye out for them.” Wubbox keeps the flashlight on the walls. 

     The water started to trickle away, they can barely hear it now. The ground is now dryer. “Hey, hold on!” Calls out Tootoo “Is this one of the paintings?” The wall had a painting of something. Wubbox leans over to see what it depicts. “It is, but what does it mean?” The 3 try to make a conclusion to what it's trying to say. They could make out a couple of things. There seemed to be maybe an Anglow raising one of its lights in the sky. Maybe the cave island titan, and some other monsters that were too hard to figure out who.

     The wubbox takes a mental note of the painting, and they continue on. Along their ways they find more of the carvings and paintings. What they could find was- a Buzzinga and its Knurv talking with the Faerie titan, none of them knew the language, it was some sort of hoo-man language. There were other paintings, but they were all unclear, or worn away. And one with what seems to be a Strombonin, just that, a Strombonin.

     “Why do you think they all show mythical monsters in them?” Fiddlement asked. “I’m unsure, but the ethereals have had a rivalry with them for years now. These seem to predate those times though.” Explains Wubbox. “Strange,” mutters Tootoo. 

     Not too many new paintings could be found after that. They had left the hotspot for those wall paintings. “I think we should continue further, until one with a light island!” Suggests Tootoo. The others agreed with her, and they continued walking. By now their feets were getting tired, hurting from all of these hours of walking. 

     “Y’know who would like this?” Tootoo said. “Who? Delta?” Replied Fiddlement. “Exactly,” the 2 rambled words about Delta and their ideas. “Who’s Delta?” The Wubbox wanted to understand them. “She’s a character we made. She’s cool, she’s a half hoo-man half dragon!” Explains Tootoo. “That’s cool then.”

     They endlessly went on about Delta. Once you mention her to them, they won’t shut up. Wubbox tries to tune in, not truly  understanding their words. “If I understand correctly, Delta was a dragon and mysteriously was put under a curse to be half hoo-man. Now she’s trying to figure out who did that?” Wubbox tries to make sense of it all. “Pretty much, yeah.” Said Tootoo.

      A few more minutes of walking, they only find one new painting. From what it shows it might show a churrable playing music, and one of the titans, maybe. 

     “Hey! Get off of that!”

     Someone else was here. Who could be here if it’s been closed off for so long, how could they survive? Wubbox tries to creep around the corner. A light could be seen off ahead. “Guys, look at this.” The Wubbox gestures them over. Fiddlement and Tootoo are just about as confused as the Wubbox. Was there a secret society here?

     The 3 collectively decided they should check this out. They inch closer to the light, finding a greenish room there. “Who on this planet would want to live in a cave? Especially this deep, I would estimate were about 450 feet or so. Maybe this is where those monsters went.” Wubbox whispered. It made just about no sense to anyone. 

     By this point they could see in the room. It was almost a whole new world, multicolored slime filled the walls. 

     “Is there someone…” the same voice asks. Now they could see who is asking. “Uhm, hello?” Wubbox tries to make a good enough first impression. “Ack, oh my stars!” The monster screams. She has almost a flower-like head, and a feathery body. They hold out 1 of her hands of the 3 she has in a defense way. “Who the hell are you?” 

     Fiddlement enters the colorful other worldly room, “Fiddlement,” they state. “Auglur,” the flower head monster says. “But, I still don’t understand.” The 2 other monsters enter in “It’s Wubbox, and Tootoo. We came here because we had to do some research around here. Guess we discovered you then.” It looks around at the other monsters around.

     “Auglur who are these?” A large pink one asks, with gold rings along its tail, and a pair of wings. “Wubbox, Fiddlement, and Tootoo, sir.” Auglur explains. “You shouldn’t be here.” The pink one scowled. “I don’t think anyone should, who are you guys? The monsters that went missing in these caves?” Tootoo said. “Sometimes I forget the other ones, but no. I see you already know auglur. This one, who auglur was yelling at earlier, Gaddzooks, seriously stop try to climb the synthesizer.” He started to introduce everyone. “Then Yooreek, not much, I don’t know. Blarrit, that annoying blue guy. Meebkin, yeah he likes the meebs. And I am Dragong!” He spreads his wings in glory.

     “Dragong, dragon… hey almost like…” Tootoo leans to Fiddlement. “I’ve heard enough about Delta to last a century!” Exclaims Wubbox “But hey, a Dragong? Aren’t you a double elemental?” Wubbox asks. “Yeah, so what? It’s a long story, been here longer than all of these dweebs!” 

     The Wubbox still was confused about Dragong being here, let alone the other monsters. Wubbox decides to ask, “How did you get here?”