Chapter Four

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Chapter Four

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The entrance to the Underdeath was a huge cave with crystals the size of stalagmites. Karen was ogling the crystals and even chopped up part of the crystal. Cain took the moment to lecture her about it.

“Karen, you shouldn’t do that, it destroys the environment and crystal drakes lose their food source.”

After he finished the sentence he looked around the room and grabbed a lizard that looked like it was made of pure crystal. Damian and Mikaela started teasing Karen and Cain.

“Cain and Karen sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage. That's not all, Cain got hit with a-.” then they deviated with Mikaela ending the song with “-basketball.” and Damian with “-fireball.”

Then Cain barely dodged a fireball the demon flung. Damian burst into a fit of glee and while he was recovering Elizabeth smacked him with her shoe. Where there would have been a bruise was a glowing string. “Elizabeth if you're going to use restraining magic then at least do it to Asher too, also Ow.” Elizabeth took her little brother’s suggestion for once and smacked Asher too and the same thing happened to him too.

“You witch!” Asher yelled at Damian.

Elizabeth shouted, “Watch your profanity! Also don’t talk to him like that.”

From the background, Teddy growled at the path they were meant to be following. The elf and Goliath, who were off in Narnia up until that point, had come back.

“Weren’t we supposed to follow that path?” the elf inquired with Turkish delight still in his mouth. Karen facepalmed when she realized they were all acting like idiots (as per usual).

Once the group decided to finally stop arguing and generally acting like idiots, they headed down the path. It comprised of blood-soaked bricks and every twenty feet they found the hanged bodies of dark elves. Most of the group was shocked at the number of bodies but after a few miles, they grew used to it.

None of the group were talking but Damian was humming something that sounded suspiciously like ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road.’ He was unfazed by the glares he got from the rest of the group and continued humming. Eventually, they came across an enormous fortress that dwarfed even Asher who was the tallest member of the group at 6’5”.

“Are we going to be able to even get in?” Elizabeth asked.

Damian took a moment to think and then responded, “If Asher is willing to help we can get through the door.”

After Asher agreed with a wolfish look in his eyes he said, “Anyone under eighteen covers your eyes and ears.” Karen, Elizabeth, and Cain did as he asked and after five minutes Damian and Asher started violently making out. Mikaela could tell that they were both into it. After about ten minutes of increasing violence that Asher targeted Damian with, they finished the ‘ritual’ and they both got off the ground.

Damian then channeled an extremely powerful burst of fire magic, disintegrated a door, and yelled at Elizabeth to open her eyes.

Mikaela was filled with curiosity at how Damian managed to accomplish the impressive feat of magic from ten minutes of making out and getting beat up. He was soon distracted by the lich walking out of the hole where her door was, obviously mad.

“You know you could have knocked. Instead, now I have to replace my 300-year-old mahogany,” She said, fuming. Mikaela quickly recovered from his distraction and focused on the question he wanted to ask Damian.

“How did you disintegrate the door by making out?” he asked with a tone of jealousy in his voice.

Damian flung a heavy book that was bound with what appears to be human flesh and spoke with an annoyed tone, “The answer’s on page 13.”