Ch:47 – Magi the Labyrinth of Magic – 3-1

You would think in a dungeon you would have to worry about the traps more then the monsters, you would be wrong. Thought the traps could be dangerous if you got caught unaware we never had that problem thanks to Tama and Jess, not to mention we were all on high alert.

But the creatures were fare more dangerous and tricky, Jess could see the ones moving around on her map. But the ones that were dormant were invisible to her, that as untill it was too late to avowed them, but what was truly bad was they never came as small groups. They came in monstrous waves.

We have already bin in the dungeon for two days and have ran into five waves, because there were always creatures moving around the longest any of us got to sleep was an hour. For me it was hard, though I could do it the dragon in me wanted to go back to sleep. Reaper and May had it the essayist, as I found out later May was the kid of a general and was raised in a very strict home and Reaper was an ex-capten and going on little sleep was all par for the course for him.

The ones that had it the worst though were Jess and the newbies. Jess being a young girl, was not use to having to move around so much on so little sleep. Plus the enhancement path she was on did little for her strength and endurance.

You would think that Jacob being a old man would slow us down the most, but it was Jill that made our progress so slow. Jacob was slow, but he kept a steady pace and never complained. Jill on the other hand could not go five seconds with out complaining. I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty. For the two day's we were stuck in this dungeon she kept getting worse,we were all tired, hungry and thirsty. But with Jill's constant whining, we all were on our wits end.

Inside the dungeon it was impossible to tell the time of day, but Tama informed us that as a (former)sun goddess she could tell us the passion of the sun at any time.

Just as Tama let us know it was 10 at night we got to a place I was very familiar with. It was the lava pool that blocked Aladdin and Alibaba in both the anime and manga. The heat in the room was suffocating. The magma was so bright it could blind you. With both together we felt like we had stepped into hell.

May:''How are we going to get to the other side?''

May had walked to the edge to look to the other side to and see what was there, as she looked she was able to see a large metal door. The door was as red as the magma in the pool.

Chris:''We have to jump from the stones in the pool to the other side, in the manga and anime to open the door Alibaba used a leaver or something that is inside the mouth of that stone snake statue. After the leaver is poled the door will open, and a secret door would open for who ever poled the leaver to go into. But before they can go in they would be surrounded by raging fire.''

Hearing what I had to say, the others faces sank.

Sakura:''Did they die?''

Chris:''No, the flames never touched Alibaba. But I don't think we should assume that it will happen like that now.''

I then turned to May and asked if her webs could poll the leaver, sadly she said the heat was to strong for them. Before I could think of another method to try Jade came up with the perfect salutation.

Jade:''Just send one of my skeletons to do it.''

Simple and straight to the point. It was perfect. Before we sent a skeleton to open the door for us we headed to the other side, every now and then some flames would shout up next to one of the rocks we were standing on. But as long as we kept our limes close to us we were ok.(Jill took over ten minutes though)

The door was even hotter then I could have guest at, the heat was so strong that the air near it was distorted. Seeing that we were all across, Jade summoned a low level skeleton and sent him to the snake statue. Sadly no one notice that as soon as Jade summoned the undead skeleton Jacob got a weird look on his face.

Though the skeleton was week, it moved fast and got to the snake statue in record time. Putting it's boney hand onto the snakes mouth and polled the leaver that was inside.

WOCH!!!!

Instantly a massive tornado of flames in golfed not just the skeleton, but the snake statue as well. As soon as the tornado of flames appeared, the red hot door slowly opened outward. The heat from the door was even hotter as it opened, sending waves of hot air at us. Just from the hot air alone we knew we would not be able to go in in till the doors were at least half way open.

Seconds after the tornado of flames appeared they went out, were the skeleton and snake statue ones was only a little melted rock and a small piece of bone was left.

Seeing that I was right I was about to sigh in relief, when things went bad again. From the lava pool ten magma snakes slither out. There heads are half a meter high and a full meter long, there body's twenty long and as round as a tree. The scales were mads from dark magma and you could see fire between them, they slowly started to slither at us with there mouths open and magma dripping off of there fangs.

Chris:''SHIT!!! Slow them down!''

We all open fire right away, but all the bullets bounce off of there scales. And to make maters worse it made them mad. The only thing that seamed to slow them down was the ice magic of Jade and Tama, but it was short lived. The heat was to strong, seconds after it was cast it would evaporate.

Thinking fast I put my hands on the ground and push a third of my mana into it, as soon as I put my mana into the ground a monstrous amount of mana in the air flow into the earth as well. Right away a massive wall of earth surged into the air, it was a meter and a half thick and twenty five meters high.

Chris:”I CAN'T HOLD THIS FOR LONG!''

Sakura:''JUST HOLD ON FOR ONE MORE MINUTE!''

When the wall went up all the magma snakes started to attack it with all there strength, I had to keep my hands on the ground and keep sending mana into the wall to repair the damage that was being done to it.

One second, two second. It was a nightmare. Even though I was told I only needed to last a minute every second felt like an eternity. You may ask why I made a wall instead of using grenades or something to hurt the snakes, easy. Not.Enough.Room.

We could barley move around on the platform as it was, but if we tried to use our weapons(sword or magic). We would have hurt ourselves even more then the magma snakes.

Reaper:''IT'S OPEN!''

As soon as I hear Reapers yell I stopped sending my mana into the wall and ran as fast as I could through the door.

With no more mana going into the wall it could only hold out for a couple of seconds before the snakes made holes in it and come after us, throwing some grenades behind us we try to slow them down but no mater what we throw at them they doing seam to notice them one bit. It looked hopeless.

Jade:''What's that!?''

Looking up ahead we could see what looked like a mirage or ripples in the light, without thinking I tell every one to run into it, hopping for a miracle. We made it to the mirage in seconds and ran through, as we passed through we were hit with a cool wave of air like stepping into an air conditioned room. It was bliss. We ran for only two more seconds before we hit a wall, with no were left to go were turned around to face the snakes head on. But they never came.