Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-34320391-20181031112919/@comment-35851166-20181226153804

Sorry it took so long. This was longer then I thought

Cora. New stars

When I awoke my face was being slobbered by a kainine tongue. I just chuckled and sat up, letting him know I was awake. Momo then went to the far side of the cave to retrieve what looked like a half eaten rabbit corpse. Where he got it I had NO idea. Maybe he went to the forest, or the tunnels lead to some greenery…

My thoughts were interrupted by a bleeding bunny being being places right in front of me. I stared at it with wide eyes. It looked disgusting and smelled repulsive. I look up to see that Momo had sat down in front of me wagging his tail and smiling. He looked at me as if expecting me to eat the meat. He looked so happy about it to. I smiled a weird smile. Oh gods this was gonna be hard. I can’t eat this. And I can’t start a fire either, that’s asking the troops to come for us. I looked back at him, then at the meat. Momo just stood there, smiling.

“I….uh…. thank you..” I said weekly. I looked down at the meat. Maybe if I eat a small corner, I could still satisfy him enough…

I poked it. It bled. Nope.

“I… don’t think I’m hungry. Sorry buddy. Why don’t you have it, you seem WAY more hungry than me.” It wasn’t such a lie. I have gotten used to not eating much in a while and Momo here had his ribs sticking out of his skin. I smiles shyly at Momo. At first he looked disappointed, but then accepted the food kindly and started eating away faster. He really was hungry.

“I guess we’re all good then.” I petted his head, and he rubbed my hand in return. I smiled. We were gonna make a good team, at least until I can find my friends again. Maybe these caves would lead me to them. I had to try right? All these caves have to lead somewhere, if not to the same spot. I sighed and looked back down at Momo, who had a bit of blood dripping from his mouth. Yeesh.

“When your done and ready, we head out of here and for that tunnel. I’ll find you a new home… and maybe one for me as well.” I thought sadly. Even if I did find my friends I don’t think we could go back to berk. Not right now, anyway. It may be hard for others but I have been waiting for an exit for a while. An adventure. To finally see what’s up there, there is something. I looked back down at Momo.

“Let’s go have an adventure.” And when he seemed to howl in agreement, I then yelled, “YAY, adventure!” I smiled. I hope it would all be ok.

***

We had walked into the tunnel and seemed to be going for a long time. Hours maybe. As we went deeper, I made sure it was safe to light a piece of wood on fire so that we could see. I kept making sure Momo was by my side. Who knew if that monster from the sand was in here as well. While we were alone in here, I took out the scales from my pocket bag and began to think. These scales had to have some sort of connection. While they all seemed to vary in texture, color, and size, they all seemed to keep some small consistency, at least in shape. Right now I had 4 scales. The first one, a smooth pearl one. The second, a sharp dark red one. The third, a sandy yellow, and the forth, looked quite similar to the third, except it had specks of green. It had to belong to the same… thing. The scales were unlike anything I had ever seen. I had seen some snakes in the forest, but none had scales like these. Snakes mult big sheets of skin anyway, so a snake wouldn’t make sense. Which begs the question, what was down there in that sand cave?...

I froze when a single word rang through my head. Dragon.

I quickly shook that word out. It was just a dumb thought. Mr.smith said it was a dumb fantasy, it isn’t real, and, and… wait, when is Mr.smith ever right? I shook these thoughts out and put the scales back in my pocket bag. There was no proof. There was no reason to jump ahead. There were plenty other reptiles that had scales… this was just some dumb fantasy.

I looked up to see that Momo had stopped to see what the matter was. I ran up to him and we continued. He nuzzled my hand to see if I was ok. “It’s ok Momo, just thinking.” And so we continued down the cave.

***

A few hours later it seemed, we were both really tired, plus I was actually starting to get really hungry. Nothing interesting had come up in the tunnels. I did see some other tunnels along the way but decided to head straight. I was about to suggest we rest, when suddenly, out of nowhere, I saw a sky light. I looked ahead, there was light outside. Moonlight I think. I rushed over to it, followed by Momo. This could be it! This could be the exit to everything!

I went up to the light and stood below it, looking up. So did Momo. What was above was a huge pot whole. It let upwards about 50 feet and then revealed a big spot of night sky. It was up there. But how was I to get up there? Sure I could climb but Momo couldn’t, and the dog was barely ¾’s my size and almost twice my weight, so I couldn’t carry him. I looked around the wide tunnel until I saw something I wasn’t expecting. A rope. It came all the way from the top, probably attached to something,  and then came all the way down to a dangling rope almost touching the floor. I walked over to it with an idea in my head and gestured for Momo to come over. I picked up the rope and examined it. It seemed sturdy. And new. Who was putting it here? More importantly, why were they using it? Someone was coming up there or down here, repeatedly. What was up there that was so important to a mystery person?

I decided I would find this out another time. We were both tired and needed to get to earth. I began tying the rope around Momos middle and tested it, making sure it was secure.

“Ok Momo, I’m going to climb up there and when I’m up I’m going to haul you up as well. Got it?” He just blinked at me wagging his tail.

“Ok. You got it. Now let’s hope we don’t get killed by whatever’s up there the moment we step foot in whatever land this is.

And with that, I started to climb. It was hard, painful, very painful, and almost thought about just letting go. But Momo and I needed to get to the higher ground. We needed a home. And so I sucked it in and made it all the way to the top. When I got there I took many breaths and layers on the ground for a minute before continuing my exercise of pulling Momo up. It was much harder. He weighed a lot more than I thought and I was never one for lifting, so I took the end of the rope (that was tied around a rock) and made a pulley system with a sturdy looking tree branch. With that, I pulled Momo up to the top. When his head stuck out, he scrambled out on his own using his claws. When he was done I sat down panting again. That was horrible.

I untied Momo and then finally looked at my surroundings. We were indeed in a forest, but it wasn’t Burt. The sky was very starred, like in berk, we seemed to be quite high up. The plantation was beautiful. Especially at night. There was a shore not so far from here, just a long way down. We did seem to be on a hill there was a stream not far from here. Animal life seemed good. Everything seemed perfect. And then I turned towards the south side. And I saw berk.

It was very small, very far ahead. But it did look beautiful. Some lights were on, and an aurora was starting. It was beautiful. The sky reflected on everything, the water, the lights, the beach. The beach… FRIENDS. Gah, how could I forget? I was probably even farther from them right now. I sighed, put my back to a tree and and put my head down. What was I going to do now? I was too far to go back. Besides this place was perfect. I hoped that the gods blessed me with being able to bring or even FIND my friends here. I missed them. A lot.

I sat down and decided I would go exploring in the morning. I was helpless right now but it wouldn’t help that I was sleep deprived. Maybe it would end up alright. Hopefully. Somehow.

Momo came up to me and curled up next to me for warmth. It really was starting to get cold. Believe me, during the summer, this place was a tropical paradise, but in the winter, you couldn’t stand 30 minutes outside without possibly getting frostbite. Hopefully I had found shelter by then. I never liked the cold.

And so I layer down next to Momo and petted his head.

“It will be ok.”

In the distance, there was a growl