Should Have Let Me Die

We all ran up the wide trail through the jungle, but this time I was in the lead, with Rena On my back. She was surprisingly light, and I hardly felt her when I stopped up straight. I opened the two Gates and we took off. The path that we had to take was lined up straight with the mountain.

There was nothing around us other than the trees that fell past as we ran, and even then I kept my head down. It was starting to get worse, but the mountain was getting close, but it was still another ten minutes of running before we reached the foot of it. The next part was to find a cave, but there wasn't an entrance, the road just stopped at the mountain.

"Hey! What do we do now?" Cable yelled.

The rain was starting to come down in sheets. The area was bare, but there was something near the bottom of the mountain. I was about to tap Rena's arm to get her to get off, but I decided that I would stay warmer this way.

'Getting pretty cozy, there aren't you?' -Trinity.

'What am I doing wrong?'

'Wrong? I never said anything about it being bad, but there is a problem. At first, I thought that she was just hiding, so I looked around for a while, and then I called for her. Eva is gone, and I have no idea where she went.' -Trinity.

I stopped, but then kept walking to what looked like a handprint pressed into the stone. Where would Eva go? I hadn't really considered asking her because I knew that she could only speak to Nina, and she had no way to get a message to the other girls.

'I don't know what we can do about it for now, but are you going to be alright in there? You can talk to me if you want.'

'Thank you, I will try not to annoy you too much, but I have to ask. Do you like her?'

I ignored the question, for now, I was at the handprint and I finally tapped Rena to get down. The rain instantly chilled my back, but I ignored it and bent down to check the stone print and place my hand on it.

Suddenly, the print and rock burst straight up from the ground and I stepped back and almost ran Rena over. The stone pushed out a massive solid black cube, and I knew what it was. 

"Get back, this thing is tough!" I said shouting at everyone, as the cube started to show lines of light, but Cable walked up past, with a big smile.

"I got this boss! Check out my new moves!"

Cable walked up to the shifting cube, and I prepared to grab him, but it wasn't necessary. Cable placed his right hand on the cube and let out a croaking noise.

"Be-dum, Be-dum, Be-dum, dum, du-dum, dum!"

The sound didn't come from his mouth, but from his hand, and the effect was out of this world. A Grax Cube was a sentinel from the final Temple on The Transport Gameworld. They were tough and could rebuild themselves, but this one had just shit all its insides out the back of it and went silent.

The sound that came from Cable's hand was a series of mind vibrating bass drops. The bass blast was so intense that the rain was forced away from us while it happened. A hole in the mountain appeared, and I waved everyone in. I was getting sick of this rain, but the second we got into the tunnel, the place went pitch black.

"Where did the door go?" I heard Moshi ask.

"Typical dungeon, just look ahead and follow my voice. I am almost positive it will be...yeah, you can see it now. Just look at the ceiling and you will see a special glowing moss called Lumimoss that my brother created to help identify dungeons."

Soon, our eyes adjusted and I could see everyone again. Rena was close to me and the others were just behind. I got a questing feeling about traps from both Breth and Buddy, meanwhile, Cable was hungry.

"I don't think there should be, but that isn't a guarantee. The last time I did a dungeon-like this it was just a jog from challenge to challenge, so I can't see a lot changing. Still, it is a very good point, we will just have to watch," I said, moving forward down the tunnel.

It only took five minutes for us to reach a fork in the road, and it was split three ways.

"Hmm? What do you think, fearless leader?" Breth asked me with a smile.

What was up with him?

"Don't say it like that. I am your fearless leader! And I guess we have to split up. I don't really see the point of us all going down one path," I said looking at the splits.

There was nothing distinctive about any on the tunnels, but they all lead straight ahead like the path had just been divided into three sections.

"Who are the teams then?" Cable asked starting to walk to me, but Breth grabbed the back of his shirt and dragged him along to the far left tunnel, not even waving goodbye, but I could see a self-satisfied smile on his face.

I was going to corner him after this and find out what his little game was that he was so amused by. If Breth was taking Cable, then the girls each had to go with one of us. They both had magic, but neither had evolved, so it would be best if they each stayed with one of us. 

"That sounds like a good plan, but can I talk to you before we go?" Buddy asked.

I looked at him and then the girls, and sighed. 

"Sure, girls, wait for us for a minute," I asked as I turned and walked back down the hall.

We didn't go that far, and then we stopped and I looked at Buddy, waiting to hear something about Rena, but that wasn't what he wanted to talk about at all.

"Hyde, will I like having kids?" Buddy asked with a fairly serious expression.

"What? Why don't you think you will?"

"Goblins don't have kids like humans, so I don't know if I'll even be any good at it. Sorry, I know this isn't the right time, but you haven't been around, and Moshi has been bringing it up."

I slapped both my hands on his shoulders and smiled at him with one of my big dumb idiot grins. 

"Buddy, you are not a goblin anymore, maybe a little bit like one, but that's not who you are. I am kind of like one of those big dumb ape that throws his own shit for fun, but I don't do that. You will be a great dad, hell, probably better than me."

"I will just settle for being good at the job, but thanks. I needed to get that out, it was bothering me."

"Any time, bro! Now, let's go figure out this place so we get back to the ship!"