"I know it is odd." I told my sister as I slowly guided her down this hallway that had suddenly appeared.
"Can't we just find another way?"
"The other exits are all closed now and I am not dragging you across the water just to find another closed one." I tell her as she moans childishly against my ear. Yet, it wasn't just her usual antics. So I could forgive her this time as she had some nasty wounds.
"Can't you just slide us down here, then?"
"Neither of us can tell if this is a trap, Larishazza, to waste magic like that..." I say before we suddenly came upon a light. And, it confused me because moments ago it was just pitch black. So where did this light come from? Better yet, why was it slowly filling with smoke!?
"Blegh." my sister let out after that thick stench hit us.
"Okay, some magic is required." I comment quietly before I start to push away at the smoke. Slowly taking us through the exit and getting us below the thick clouds of it. There was something very off about the ground, however. It felt oddly familiar.
Which made no sense at all until a sudden thought crossed my mind. Was this Omb's magic residue that we were walking in? I guess it made some sense as to why everything was hot enough to cook food on. It even explained the strange familiarity about the place.
"Ombbo! Ombbo!" my sister began to call out before I covered her mouth. Only to jump when someone suddenly appeared before us. And they were most certainly not him...
"Why'd you have to do that...?" I ask my sister as I slowly start bringing us both back towards the exit. Something I kept on doing even as we went back into it. If this individual wanted to fight, we'd have a better chance surrounded by water...
"How did you do that?" this girl then asks us in confusion as her pursuit met a very solid wall that kept her away from us.
"D-Do what?" I ask as I slowly let my sister stand on her own in the event this was a trick.
"Get through here." the girl clarified before she knocked on the invisible wall as if it were a door.
"I just walked...?" I tell her as ice begins to build up around my wrists.
"I guess that must mean there's someone else here." the girl said before she suddenly shot off out of sight. And all the smoke in the area suddenly washed over us. Leaving me and my sister both covering our faces before we watched it carry on behind us.
"Go find Omb now?" my sister asked as she placed her hand at the edge of the pathway exit. It made me uncomfortable as if that girl was truly trapped in there, she could be dragged in now.
"Stop that!" I snapped on my way to her before I tried to sense where my teacher was. Yet, with all this residue, it was hard to find him. And, when I did find someone amongst the magic that wasn't flying all over the place, it still couldn't have been him. The way it felt, they were too small and too weak to have been him!
"You look confused."
"Omb's not in there, but he has certainly gone through here." I tell Larishazza before I take a tentative step back into the arena. Then, a sudden step forward when she lunged onto my back.
"Let's go!" she cheerfully lets out before she cries in pain yet again.
"Stupid..." I mumble quietly after I finally stabilise myself.