Inside a round large bottomless tunnel, four figures- a person, a fairly large golden rat, a very big black rabbit and a little white animal that resemble a unicorn with wings, fall freely inside the tunnel with each creature sporting different expression or reacting differently at this sudden situation that resulted when the floor underneath them a moment ago suddenly disappear to reveal a very large hole, this tunnel they are now falling freely through.
Their figures continue to fall freely at a very great spead for a very long time. And at a point they all spotted at the bottom below a sparkling white light like a ring, awaiting their arrival.
(Squeak "Sky, we will soon hit the ground, do something")
At this sight the distorted loud squeak of the golden rat traveling along the air draft rushing upward in the opposite direction to their fall, echoed weakly on the walls of the tunnel and barely reached Skylar and the rest.
Ah, its true, we need to land safely...
Skylar who pieced the faint message together after he scanned the faces of his comrade came to a conclusion.
His figure glowed brightly and accelerated downward, falling faster and moving father from the others, until from the sight of the others it faded.
What's he doing...
The golden rat thought at this strange action from Skylar.
"..."
Next; a faint unreadable sound probably from Skylar, reached the others, their figures still falling freely. And like this they approach the white sparkling light which is getting bigger every second as they come close.
One, two and three...
Not long after, Skylar looking up at the very large hole above, in front of him, counted in his mind the figures of his comrade falling from the hole and as they landed safely on a large heap of fine sand except for the little guy floating just below the hole.
Skylar landed with the rest in a large underground space - as large as their abandoned room up above the large hole. The space has a couple flowing rivers passing through it, a herb vegetation of different kinds with most glowing purple and therefore match the color the rivers' water reflect, and countless blue crystals like the stars which dot its brown walls, its brown muddy floors and some small areas on the super high black crystal roof where the very large hole is.
"Where is she at"
Skylar muttered as he joined the others and lay on the heap of fine sand to rest his body. The heap of sand he probably made for the others to land on when he landed somehow ahead of them.
(Squeak "Sky how do you know she will come")
Raftellia sitting upright after dusting the sand particles off her fur asked softly.
"I already told her to meet us here. See, she is coming, just in time"
Skylar with his body on one side of the enormous heap opposite another side where a tunnel from nowhere leads into the underground space answered lazily with a drawn out voice.
(Meow "My mate, you can't believe it")
An excited and familiar voice drifted from somewhere in the tunnel connected to the underground space.
(Squeak "Is something happening on the surface")
Raftelia asked the owner of the voice as she projected her own voice into the tunnel.
Well i know what's going on... but i pray those guys don't go overboard...
Skylar thought as he stood and went to the other side of the heap in front of the tunnel to join the others.
(Meow "They are killing each other like crazy, its no longer the riot my mate described. Its a bloodbath, a lot more intense than in the arena today")
The voice replied as the figure of the group's contraption, the car appeared at the entrance of the tunnel, in front of the underground space.
Following the figure of the car behind, and at its base is the figure of the white furry interloper leading the car slowly into the space, closer to the group.
This is really something else... I bet the old fogies we never believe this scene if they see it... They will rather find another explanation for it, like they are all under an illusion or they are having a common dream or even go on their knees and worship him as he...
Lady cat thought as she took a longer look above, at the large hole on the black crystal ceiling of the underground space.
"You brought the car?"
Skylar inquired at the sight of the contraption stopping beside one of the rivers which water is reflecting purple.
(Meow "Yes. Wait, don't change the topic, tell this great me how you did it. What gave those idiots the guts to take their fight to all the three walls")
Lady cat asked as she jumped and landed on Skylar's chest.
And the others at lady's cat question settled their gazes on Skylar, patiently awaiting his answer.
Fu.k, its that bad...
Skylar thought as he held lady cat to his chest, which she now comfortably nestled on like usual.
"Let's leave here first. We don't have much time, that bitch, sorry, serpent may catch up anytime"
Skylar instructed as he approached the contraption, about to board it.
(Squeak "If we know we were going to have our car back, we could have brought our stuffs along (sighs)")
Pretty sis said as she boarded the cars along with the others, with everyone taking their rightful seat.
"Our goal as always been to escape this place, we can always replace our stuffs when we reach safety"
Skylar said just as everyone settled and the enthusiastic driver, mr rabbit indicates he is waiting for the go signal.
And as mr Rabbit saw Skylar nod his head, the view on the front screen of the contraption after a few seconds slowly start changing like the reel of a motion picture, an action which signify the car is in motion, heading straight towards their next destination.
(Squeak "Sky how are we going to cross the cloud sea")
"We will tunnel through the bridge, i know how to locate it"
Well, someone who almost escaped here in the past told me how to find the bridge underground and that's the reason we must have lady cat with us...
(Meow "Tell this great me arlready. How did you start that bloody riot")
"Its simple. I introduce my roasted meat to some guys in the previous arena and i also instructed them to introduce it to others especially the top guys as payment in the arena today..."
(Squeak "Are they fighting because of meat")
"Something like that, its just that at the previous arena battle i already spread my method of roasting meat to this same guys who helped me to also spread the rumors of the wolfs never coming back to the lair at that time as payment. I also made sure the roasted meat recipe reach the hands of the top dogs today at the beginning of the arena battle..."
(Meow "Then how did it turn into a bloody riot")
"If someone piece everything together, we have this. You had the taste of something worth risking your life for, the meat..."
That's true, even i will kill to have it...
"...you have the method of making it and today the materials and opportunity presented itself in the arena what do you think those guys will have in mind?"
(Squeak "Yes they will want to try it for themselves")
"but what if someone they find not so important interrupt and put a stop to their plan, especially with the top dogs included in the arena today"
(Meow "this great me will just kill that fellow")
"What if that fellow is the green serpent"
(Squeak "Sky, i get it. The riot happened after she put a stop to the arena battle because of us...")
"Yes, she tried using us as an example to warn the others not to attempt anything funny, but she didn't know that's where her current problem all began. Like i said most creatures in this arena if not all don't fear her at all but the wolfs behind her"
That's what she gets for acting low-key behind the scene, acting like a random manager riding on her bosses coattails... Well she is probably up to something shady in that outer wall and that's why she is acting that way...
"..she might already have realized this when the wolfs disappeared, and that's why she needed us, the scapegoats..."
(Squeak "You are saying you anticipated everything")
"Yes, i know how she thinks, i know she was going to do nothing about the tunnels we dug in the arena until we plan to use it..."
Well for her it was a play... watching her prey device all means to escape and like most intelligent people she took everything as a challenge intending to checkmate us at the very last juncture and enjoy to the fullest our expression of despair and hopelessness... Really a source of amusement for her, but not until the wolfs disappeared...
(Squeak "It was all a decoy, everything, including the first and second plan you made with us, you deceived us also")
Well, that is right though... i know, like the intelligent and controlling being she is, she would be spying on us every second... i also think she might be able to intercept lady cat's telepathy since she stole the ability from her... there is no way that serpent doesn't know about it... but all this is not really important...
"Not really it was a guess until i saw her do that special edition of the arena battle where she mixed the top dogs with the weak guys like us, it was then i confirmed she already know about the tunnels and our plans"
My mate, you are not going to confess... You might even be the one pulling everyone's puppet string, you guessed or you expected, isn't that why you subtly told me to dig a tunnel that leads under your room when you fail, to wait there to collect the reward of the strange bet you proposed that time...
(Squeak "So the serpent did that special edition thing because she didn't want my lady to start the riot we planned in the viewing platform")
"Yes that was the only way she could eliminate her without raising any suspicion and like i said she wants us to use the tunnels as fast as possible and make our escape attempt. The tunnels were becoming a big variable for her as long as the wolfs living in the arena don't return"
(Squeak "You are saying she made it easy for us to escape through the tunnels so that she can catch us in one fell swoop like she planned, and then use us as a scapegoat and at the same time have a reason to collapse all the tunnels you and mr Rabbit dug, the growing variable")
"Yes, with lady cat with us, she expected i might make a gamble and use the tunnel even without the riot we expected.You can even see the stage she prepared to welcome us"
My mate, basically she fell into your trap...
(Squeak "So you let her catch us")
"We had to try"
You won't even admit it...