When they all woke up some of them noticed changes on their legs and hands. These were Nazi, Mata and Zack. It was a bite from unknown. The reaction was quickly spreading and it looks very disgusting.
“That will surely be a spider” Emily said.
“Do you know its remedy?”
“Yes, if really it’s a spider, the leaves are not difficult to find”
“Let’s go before it spread beyond control” Dylan said.
“Have you come to this place before?” Sonia asked between doubt and nervousness.
“No. But it must have another way out”
They carried their belongings, collected flames from the already dying fire to light up their paths. As they walk they could see patterns, images and symbols drawn on the walls. Rickie stood watching them carefully. He saw what looks like drawings of humans. He didn’t understand it but he kept looking at it curiously. This implied humans once lived in the cave.
“This could be over five centuries” Zack.
“Nobody lived in a cave even nine centuries ago. This is over a millennium” Rickie corrected.
“How are you sure?” Zack asked.
“I go through several articles to collect information, and If over five of what I read says the same thing then what they talk about is true”
“So why are those things still clear?”
“There is no living thing here to be scratching it. Climate too doesn’t get here easily. So it can possibly remain like this for as long as the walls are still standing”
As Rickie speaks the rest of the guys were nodding as they were seeing evidence to what he was saying. Besides people easily believe what they can not argue.
They got to a very wide area with pillars descending from the roof, ancient scary images carved and many items that would make one imagine what exactly lived there. The room was a little brighter. There were many paths to take and many places that looks like a room, with a rolling Stone in front of some entrance. This place doesn’t look like what nature sculpted. It was clearly done by humans. People once lived here years ago. They went separate ways to examine the cave well forgetting they needed herbs to treat their diseases.
“Witches lived in this coven not humans” Dylan muttered as he kept observing.
“I found something guys” Nazi called from a small room. The rest rushed to see it.
“A book shelf”
“Old books. Let’s find out what is written in them. We may discover useful information” Rickie urged.
Everyone started picking what he or she would want to read. Most of the books does not have cover. Some of them, the remaining pages were fewer than the missing ones.
“This must be the oldest note here” Zack said holding a big brown dusty book that has lost about thirty pages. Everyone turned to know what the book was all about.
“This is not an English book” Dylan confirmed. “How do we read it?”
“But it’s written with English alphabets. This book is written for a purpose. Maybe the sounds means something”
The rest went back into searching for more. Rickie found one titled. SEARCH BOOK. He opened it and t was written in an old English. He saw many things he considered irrelevant and skipped them.
Step1. To locate anything in the cave Consider the name
Step2. Follow paths with letters that form the word.
Step 3 Start from anywhere you find the first letter….
This wasn’t intriguing, he expect how to get out of the cave and not how to find anything else. Something he doesn’t know about. He dropped the book and searched for another.
“Skeletons are rising” Mata shouted. They paused and turned, it was old dusty bones coupled loosely coming from a room with underground opening.
They dropped their books and stared at them terrified. Dylan’s book fell. Titled WAYS OF THE SPIRITS. He didn’t drop it deliberately so he bent to pick it up without looking down. His eyes were still on those bones. He mistakenly picked the one Rickie dropped titled SEARCH BOOK.
“Where did they come from?” Dylan asked.
“Maybe Zack invoked them out with that book. He was reciting the words”
“That could be a book of spells” Dina thought.
“I was only pronouncing the words, I don’t know the meaning” Zack tried defending.
“It doesn’t change the efficacy”
There was no way out. The skeleton already surrounded them. Dylan advised them to eliminate their fears and face them.
“Why should I fear dried bones?” Bond sniggered. This statement gave others confidence.
The first skeleton attacked Nazi, at first Nazi was nervous, he kicked the skeleton in defense to make it stay back but instead the whole bones scattered, fell apart and did not rise again. They were shocked but it very comfortable now to fight them. Scattering them became fun. There they noticed some people with skills. Like Emily. She was good at spinning and acrobatics like a ninja. Within twenty minutes all the skeletons that were over two hundred were in pieces.
The last one got them scared. It was five times bigger than the ones already on the ground and was tightly jointed. They surrounded him and fought him. Now it wasn’t fun and easy with them. Some of them their smartness and skills were made useless. Their cooperation was their only chance. The giant bones injured almost each and every one of them before they surmounted.