Onward to Adventure: Chapter 13

Several days had passed in similar fashion as the first, sleeping during the day and moving under the cloak of night. The two rarely talked after that first day, spending sometimes hours with just their own thoughts.  The air grew gradually colder and colder. The animals they saw changed as well, they became animals the likes of which Brinvok had never seen before.

Suddenly, the snow began to fade to a hard volcanic rock.

“This must be the Far North,” Brinvok pondered “I had only heard legends of this place, the birthplace of the Guardians”

The air seemed to smell of evil, as if it oozed out of the ground, infecting anything that tried to grow there.  There was a massive volcano that loomed over the entire area, when the sun passed behind it the land had the appearance of night.  Brinvok thought back to the legend that his father used to tell him when it was time for bed.  The legends told that at one time many eons ago, the now massive volcano was once a tiny hill.  One day, the earth began to shake with such force that the hill split down the middle and out crawled the Guardians, beasts that devoured anything they could and ruled over the other beasts with an iron fist.  That was until man crawled from the caves and fought the Guardians back from whence they came.

Now Brinvok was faced with that very legend.  The volcano oozed not lava, but a thick black substance that reminded Brinvok of blood. When light reached the liquid, it did something that baffled Brinvok, the liquid retreated back into the volcano as the light seemed to chase it back up.  

“What is that stuff?” Brinvok asked the Baolab,

Startled, as he was not expecting Brinvok to speak replied “Oh um that? You will find out in due time”. This was followed by a series of low chuckles that never failed to run a chill down Brinvok’s back.

The creature placed Brinvok on the ground and pushed a large boulder out of the way which revealed the large maw of a cave, the Baolab motioned for Brinvok to walk in.  The Baolab followed behind Brinvok as he entered into the volcano.