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chimachapterbooks · 1 year ago

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The Vault

“Longtooth! Wake up!"

The old Lion Warrior sat up abruptly. "I wasn't napping," Longtooth insisted, half asleep. "I was just . .. resting my eyes."

Leonidas was standing over him. He shook Longtooth fully awake. "I needed to find you!" Leonidas exclaimed.

"Because . . . um . . . because…”

Longtooth sighed. Leonidas was never very good at doing two things at once, like bringing a message and remembering what it was.

"Are we under attack?" Longtooth asked groggly.

"No," said Leonidas. "That's not it."

"Is the CHI in danger?"

"NO, not that," Leonidas replied. He furrowed his brow in concentration.

“Think!" said Longtooth, exasperated. "Did Laval send you to find me?"

"That's it!" cried Leonidas.

"Laval! CHI! Laval is trapped in the legendary CHI vault!"

Longtooth slowly rose to his feet. He already missed the nap he wasn't going to get to finish. "All right," said, yawning. "You had better start from the beginning."

As Longtooth gathered his CHI harness and armor, Leonidas explained what had happened.

A few weeks before, while Laval had been cleaning out the map room as part of his chores, he had stumbled across a particularly old-looking scroll. It belonged to the Lion Elders. The scroll told of an ancient legend about a CHI vault the Lions had built centuries ago, the last time the CHI was in danger.

According to the legend, the vault was filled with doom traps and was one of the most secure places ever created to store CHI. But when the danger passed, the Lions never needed to use their treacherous vault after all.

So it remained hidden somewhere in the forest. Lava asked the Elders about the legend, and they said it was just a myth. But Laval insisted that if it was real, it could be the perfect solution for protecting the CHI.

"Laval used the scroll and the Lion Elders' maps to figure out where the CHI vault might be," Leonidas explained. "I saw him sneaking out of the Compound this morning. Laval made me promise not to say anything.

But he hasn't been back all day. I'm worried something might have happened to him."

"All right," said Longtooth as they prepared to set out. "Where's this legendary CHI vault so we can go and find him?"

Leonidas's expression suddenly went blank. "Uhhhh, find him. Right . . ." he said.

Longtooth sighed. "You mean you don't know where he went? How are we going to rescue him if we don't know where he is?"

Leonidas scratched his head with a rolled up parchment he held in one hand. "I'm not sure," he said slowly. "I feel like Laval told me before he left, but now I can't remember."

Longtooth gently took the parchment from Leonidas's paw and unrolled it. It was one of the Lion Elders' maps, with a trail drawn on it.

"Did Laval by any chance give you this?" Longtooth asked.

Leonidas brightened. "Oh, yeah! He did. Good thinking, Longtooth. I completely forgot!"

Torches in hand, Leonidas and Longtooth reached the entrance to the ancient CHI vault marked on the map. At least, it was where the entrance was supposed to be.

Longtooth glanced down at the map and back up to the weathered, root-ridden rock crevice in front of them.

He frowned. "Is this really it? It just looks like an old hole in the rocks."

Leonidas shrugged. "I guess there's only one way to find out."

The two Lions advanced inside. Except for the glow of their torches, there was no light to guide their way.

They had gone only a short distance when Leonidas's eyes suddenly grew wide. "Hey!" he said. "Look at that. I didn't know you could grow grass in a cave with no light.”

"Grass in a- ?" Longtooth started.

Before Longtooth could stop him, Leonidas headed for the grassy spot in the middle of the narrow tunnel.

As soon as he put one paw on the grass, it caved in, revealing a deep pit below. Leonidas started to tumble in! Longtooth lunged forward and grabbed his friend before he could fall.

"Doom traps, remember?" said Longtooth. "I'm pretty sure the key word there is doom. We have to be more careful."

"That was a close one," Leonidas breathed. "Thanks."

Then, his face grew worried. "I sure hope Laval is okay."

"Me, too," said Longtooth. "Let's keep going."

Backing up a few steps, the two Lions took a running jump and just made it over the pit. They kept walking, until they came to a much wider part of the cave. On the left-hand side of the stone floor there was a vine tied into a loop. The vine trailed up toward the ceiling.

"Okay, now that one's too obvious," said Longtooth.

"Why would you step into that vine? Of course it will hoist you up toward the ceiling. All we have to do is go around it."

Longtooth took a few steps to the right of the vine.

Just as he was beside the loop, the stone floor under his feet sank a few inches. A big slab of rock suddenly shot out from the cave wall, big enough to crush him against the opposite side.

"This way!" yelled Leonidas.

He grabbed Longtooth and pulled him into the center of the vine loop. The vine yanked up, pulled tight around their legs, and jerked them into the air just as the slab crashed against the wall.

"You're right, it’s so obvious. Anybody could see you were supposed to step into it to get pulled up to the ceiling. Right?"

"Um, right…” said Longtooth. "I was just showing you why you would want to be up near the ceiling.”

The vine slowly lowered the two back down to the floor. Longtooth and Leonidas freed themselves and started forward again.

As they walked, Longtooth grumbled to himself. He was worried about Laval. He was also annoyed with the Lion Prince for getting into this mess. But as much as Longtooth's aches and pains were bothering him, he was beginning to look forward to the next trap. He was starting to see this whole thing as a big tactical challenge. And if there was one thing Longtooth was always up for, it was a challenge.

They had walked a little ways farther when Leonidas spotted something. "There's a pile of CHI against that wall. Maybe Laval dropped it? Or maybe it's another trap?"

Longtooth thought hard. It did look like an obvious trap, but the last time, the obvious trap turned out not to be one at all. So mavbe this one was safe . . . or maybe the ancient builders of the vault just wanted him to think it was safe.

But they would know he would never believe it wasn't a trap, so maybe it was safe. This was starting to make Longtooth's head hurt.

He knelt down to examine the CHI. Suddenly, one of the orbs flew out at him. He moved aside and it smacked against the cave wall with a loud thud.

"That's not CHI!" exclaimed Longtooth. "It's a rock painted to look like CHI."

"Wow, there are CHI rocks now?" exclaimed Leonidas “Awesome!”

More of the rocks flew out at the two Lions from a miniature catapult hidden beneath the pile.

"Leonidas! Run!" yelled Longtooth. They sprinted down the tunnel to avoid the barrage.

Up ahead, a sticky net was drooping low from the ceiling. Both Lions hit the floor and rolled underneath it. It was a good thing they were down low, too, because just past the nets, stone spikes started flying out of the walls above there heads.

"How did the Lions who invented this vault ever make it through to get to the CHI they stored?" grumbled Longtooth.

The friends crawled forward until they were past the spikes. Longtooth sat with his back to the cave wall, breathing heavily. He was exahusted. Leonidas, on the other hand, still seemed full of energy.

"Not sure how much farther we have to go," said Longtooth. "There might be a dozen traps between here and the vault door. We might be sitting in the middle of one right now. So why don't you look more worried?"

Leonidas shrugged. "I just take things one at a time," he said. "I sometimes try to take things two at a time, but that gets confusing. And you remember what happened when I took things four at a time."

Longtooth winced. He did remember. It took a week to clean up that mess, and everyone's fur smelled of swamp for a month.

Together, the two Lions started walking again. They came to a massive wooden door with a big keypad in its center and a handle on the right. This had to be the door to the vault itself.

Longtooth immediately began trying different combinations but none of them worked.

After each combination, he would push the door handle down and try to pull it open, but the door wouldn't budge. He started to feel very frustrated. Minutes went by, then an hour as he tried and tried to solve this last puzzle. When Leonidas suggested he take a break, Longtooth angrily answered that he would beat this challenge yet.

Leonidas waited until Longtooth stopped for a moment. Then he reached out, and tried pulling the handle upward. The door opened.

"Things that look like traps aren't," said Leonidas. "Things that look safe aren't. So I figured maybe something that looked like it was a normal, locked door... wasn't."

"And the vault builders guessed an intruder would be so angry by the time he got here, he would spend hours trying to find a combination that didn't exist," realized Longtooth.

Now they were faced with another door. It looked almost identical to the previous one. The only difference was the last keypad had numbers and this one had letters. Just as a precaution, Longtooth tried the handle up and down, but this door remained locked tight.

"Can I try?" asked Leonidas.

"Sure," said Longtooth.

Leonidas started using the keypad to spell out every word he could think of that might be the combination.

Lion, CHI, Chima, Legend Beast, even Vault. None of them were right.

"Boy, they sure made this hard," he said finally.

"The ancient Lions must have really wanted to keep their enemies out."

Longtooth smiled. "Leonidas… nothing is what you expect in here. Think about it: If you wanted a combination no enemy would ever guess, what would you use?"

Leonidas thought for a moment. Then he punched the letters on the keypad to spell:

W-E-L-C-O-M-E

The door swung open.

There was Laval, standing in the middle of the vault. He smiled broadly at the sight of his two friends.

"Am I glad to see you!" he exclaimed happily.

"Laval!" Leonidas cried.

"Are you okay?" asked Longtooth.

"I am now." Laval breathed a sigh of relief. "I wasn't sure anyone would ever reach me. I guess I shouldn't have tried to find this vault on my own."

"Might have been a good idea," Longtooth said.

"How did you make it past all those doom traps?"

Leonidas asked, amazed. "They almost got us . .. several times! l wouldn't have made it through if Longtooth wasn’t with me. "

Longtooth nodded. "Leonidas saved my hide a few times, too. How did you get past them?"

Laval chuckled and pointed up at the ceiling. "Didn't have to. I fell in from up there."

Longtooth and Leonidas followed his gaze upward.

Hish up on the vault ceiling was a cluster of tightly racked rocks that looked like they were blocking a large opening.

"There was a hole up there from the outside when I got here," Laval explained. "The rocks have probably been wearing away for hundreds of years. When I lowered myself in, they collapsed and the hole was blocked. The vault door was sealed from the outside, so I would have been trapped in here forever." He smiled gratefully at his two friends. "If it wasn't for you two."

“Wow," Leonidas said. "I can't believe you missed all those doom traps. They were really something!"

Laval put his arms around each of their shoulders.

"Well, I guess I'Il get to see them on the way out of this vault." He smiled. "But as long as I have you two by my side, l'm pretty sure we can handle anything.”

#lego chima #legends of chima #lego legends of chima #laval the lion #Leonidas the lion #longtooth the lion #chima #for chima

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fenth-eiria · 1 year ago

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In The Throne room…..

Lagravis had dragged his younger brother to a corner and hoisted him up before slapping his face very hard which resulted in Lavertus yelping in pain.

“YEOW!!!!! WHAT THE DAMN FUCK?!” He cursed loudly, causing his little nephew, Lucas, to come into the room.

“Daddy? Why is Unky Lavertus screaming?” He asked innocently, his father smiled warmly at his 10 year old son’s question.

“Because your uncle is being a douchebag.” He replied with a mischievous grin. Lavertus gave his brother a betrayed look.

“I’m the douchebag?” He asked in a sarcastic manner, to which Lagravis explained with a deadpan face.

“You literally just fainted because you saw Crominus’ wife Spinlyn.” He pointed out, while his brother exasperated.

“Try living with them before the Illumination!!!” He retorted, causing Spinlyn some concern.

“But if we were healed, why are you still acting like this?” She questioned the brothers, the king replied.

“My wife would have gone completely insane from the event if I hadn’t been calming her down.” He relayed, while Lavertus gulped and revealed.

“And… I was… getting busy…” He started to say, but his majesty covered his mouth and scolded him.

“We have a kid in the room.” He flatly said, making his younger brother annoyed.

“Ok. Ok. I'll keep it PG.. I was trying to become a father.. I succeeded but their mother isn’t a lion.. Don’t ask me who because she demanded that I don't tell anyone.” He explained, causing the rest of the group some concern. They were interrupted by LIllian, and Crominus, who had warm smiles on their faces. Lagravis jumped up, and raced to his wife, smothering her in kisses. Crominus went to his queen, took her hand in his and gently kissed it. Lavertus, being the jealous type, got in between his brother and his wife before stealing their kiss. Lagravis roared in frustration, while Lillian gave him a flat expression before punching him into a wall. After hearing the thud, Lothar came out of his room, walked over to his daughter and grabbed her ear, yanking it.

“Lillian… I said we use our powers for good, not make a dent in the wall because of a stupid lion’s decision.” He lightly scolded her, while Crominus tried to pull Laveretus out of the hole.

“This is why you don’t get along with any of us.” He pointed out in vain as he struggled to get him out. Leonidas walked over and effortlessly pulled him out, which made Crominus a bit grateful and jealous at the same time. Lothar gently sighed as he let go of his daughter, who was a bit annoyed.

“He shouldn't have interrupted my husband and I’s kiss then!” She exasperated at her father, but to no avail.

“Lillian..” He sternly said, before his daughter finally agreed.

“Fine…” She quietly said, promoting Lagravis to smile warmly and give her pecks all over.

“Lagravis! Dear! Warn me before you do that!” She squealed in shock, causing the king to pull back a bit. He looked at her with an apologetic frown as her magic caused a nearby pillar to collapse. She looked at him before adding. “You know my abilities act on emotions, so please do not startle me unless you are prepared for what my powers will do.

Tagging @olivescales3 for reading purposes.

And all of this takes place in my au.

#lego legends of chima #lagravis #lavertus #spinlyn #crominus #lothar #lion oc #lillian #lucas #leonidas

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