Wednesday, January 18, 2012

a story I wrote, continued: Portal to Nature 3: The Temple of the Cobras

CLICK HERE for part 1 of this story.
CLICK HERE for part 2 of this story.

One day Phil wanted to go skydiving and maybe find some falcons while he was falling. But before he could, the portal came. And Phil jumped into it. And he landed at the same place that he was before: the world of animals. And encountered the same spider monkey, and he said, "Someone would like your help"

And the one who needed his help was an armadillo. The armadillo said, "I want some help to get to the Temple of Cobras." The temple of Cobras has a really special diamond called a ruby, one of the shiniest crystals there ever was. Unfortunately, it's guarded by a king of the temple. And the king was a monocled cobra. His temple shakes out tons of venom-y spit. "I need your help to get there." And Phil said yes.

Eventually they entered the desert. They were getting extremely thirsty. Eventually they found an oasis, filled with tons of delicious jobo fruit. The armadillo said he knew this place. It was the oasis of the basilisk. The basilisk owned this lake. It was free to get into. And he always gave someone some free jobo fruit once they entered. There was a huge waterfall too. They just stopped there for a while and relaxed at the beaver hotel there. That was just another location of the beaver hotel.

They continued their journey, and eventually the ground started to crumble. They fell down into an enormous hole, nearly endless, going near the center of the earth. And they entered the world of the devil worms. The devil worms are the deepest living animal. The worms sacrificed them and trapped them into an enormous cage of thick mud. But then there was a shaking in the ground. They eventually met a famous animal: the aardvark. His claws were so strong it could bust through concrete. The aardvark busted them out of the cage and brought them back up.

They kept on their journey. They let the aardvark come along with them. And the aardvark wanted to tell them how many more dangers they'd have to go through. They'd have to go through the trench of death. And they'd have to go through lava lake. And then finally, they would make it to the Temple. And the aardvark wanted to tell them about the Trench of Death. You see, the Trench of Death is a very far down trench. Once you finally make it down, you might get into some salt water (and shallow too). And in the water is stonefish!  The stonefish are really bad. They have spines on their back and if you step on it, it unleashes terrible pain. The only way across it is a narrow, old wooden bridge.

They started their journey. Aardvark forgot to tell them that the trench was in a lake. None of them were really going to risk going inside a lake because also down there in the lake was also lots of volcanic activity. The lake was filled with lots of gas. Volcanic gases are trapped inside the lake and it's building enough pressure to break out of the water surface. So eventually they did find a bridge. But unfortunately it was a wooden and extremely broken bridge. They risked going across it, but aardvark had a better idea: to tunnel under the water.

They finally made it through the lake and they make it to lava lake. There was only one way across it: a little bit of a frozen magma rock that they could float on, and so they went on. It didn't really carry their weight very well but they needed to risk it. They did. They made it through safely.

Finally, they made it to the ultimate temple. Luckily the monocled cobra wasn't there. So they just sneaked in and got the ruby. Unfortunately the monocled cobra came back and threw out tons of venom at them. They dodged it! But then the cobra chased after them on the way back. They lost him at the lava. And the monocoled cobra was never to be seen again.

But they all made it and brought the ruby back.

Footnote:  devil worms are real worms. They live very deep down in the earth's crust. They were found in a gold mine in South America.

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