A/N:
Dear readers, I'm terribly sorry for the late release of chapters.
I just want to inform you all that I will not be able to upload another chapter.
I have an exam that outsets on Monday and prongs on Friday.
I will need some time to ponder, but I will get back to you all after the exam.
WISH ME LUCK!!!!
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THE EXAM
The others stared at the ingress in excitement and I stared at it with a couple of expressions on my face. I had a feeling of going into it , and I also didn't wanna go.
There was a feeling of suction from the ingress. In no time we were sucked in and the ingress closed. The area where we stood before was deserted , and the people moved on with whatever it is they were doing. It was like they weren't aware of what happened to us; as if time stopped when the ingress appeared .
The ingress went on like a tunnel and then dipped suddenly down. I landed hard on a pile of sandalwood. I looked around me to see ….no one. My friends were no longer with me , but in their position stood trees. I was in a forest.
Suddenly , a voice echoed in the forest;
" Ladies and gentlemen, listen carefully when you have arrived at your Dreamland. This is the place I suppose you all dreamed to be and now you're here.
You all must and will spend three days here before you'll be allowed to enter the exam hall. Familiarize yourselves with these weapons at your disposal that sure is my only advice for you...…. any questions?"
There was an eerie silence and the voice was gone. The place sounded like a graveyard. Surprisingly, I wasn't the least scared.
After what I think was an hour, I started hearing loud bangs and crashes coming from everywhere. When I looked around there was hardly a soul.
Just then, so many shelves stacked high with weapons of all kinds appeared. I turned around and saw tables filled with chemicals of all kinds.....it was like a lab. There was even a table filled with varieties of foods.
As I searched high and low for a weapon which might suit me, the same voice was back again
"Quick you sloths! Discover weapons and be familiar with them . You have only two days left."
' What?! A day had passed and I had hardly found a weapon I might like.'
I thought so hard and I finally came up with a brainstorming plan.
I went up to one of the tables and looked at it .
'If it was an exam we wouldn't need any weapons, we'd need to be clever, brilliant, intelligent, courageous and must have endurance.'
I started combining solutions in the beakers which had labels on them, creating deadly poisons and making so many poisons worse than every first I made. I picked a bow and a dozen arrows. This was one of the weapons I could proudly proclaim to be a pro at. I laced the arrowheads with some of the poisonous solutions I had made. I picked a dagger, and pocketed it. I picked a bag , and dumped a number of dishes into it. Surprisingly, the small bag was able to take in everything.
' Magic.' That was the only thought that rang in my head.
" This …should do. " I added some scraps of metal, I saw lying around in the bag.
After some time,The voice came again
" Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for your exam?
You better be ready or you will all die!
Open the gates to HELL!!"
A shrill voice screamed,
"To Hell!!"
The voice from the other time said again
" No. Not to Hell, you fools. To your exam hall ! Open the gates, I said."
A loud voice could be heard and I suddenly appeared antecedent to a deep, gas-filled, monstrous infected, extremely large trench. I never knew the first test could be this hard.
It looked uncongenial at first, but I took a deep breath and stared at it . The gas was a green toxic gas and the trench could be more or less, thirty - nine meters deep.
I jumped into the trench,either my calculations were wrong or I fell very slowly. I had plenty of time to look at myself and wonder what was going to happen next.
Down, down,down. Would the fall never come to an end!
' I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?'
I landed on a pile of sawdust. I got up and walked straight following the arrows which magically appeared on the ground.
I suddenly stopped in my tracks when a large shadow appeared before me . I raised my head and saw a Dritten ( the combination of a dragon and a kitten).
'Kittens liked to play,they liked milk, they ate fish while a dragon is a fierce looking animal. It doesn't look fierce at all.' I thought.
I produced a large dish and put in it a fish and poured milk in it. The Dritten looked at me and stood there without moving a muscle. It suddenly breathed embers into the dish and the fish was roasted.
It kept staring at the roasted fish and I took the chance to get away! .