The Second One

Staring at all of the floating drawings Xilo looked at each one individually waiting for something else to maybe happen as he stood in thought. "Nothing....Looks like this wasn't the right way after all." With no further changes after hearing the first ring of success from the blank spot he guessed this probably had to do with something else entirely. "It's just a matter of what though." He didn't have an exact idea of what he had done but he did have an inkling of what happened. When the Astral Energy passed over his body that was when the ringing had shown up unlike the other times it hadn't which led him to believe that the Astral Energy was most likely scanning him whenever he felt that tingle.

"So it wants us to show it something...but what?"

"What did you figure out?"

Hearing Xilo's muttering after thinking she finally spoke up eager to know what he had thought.

"From what I can tell we were wrong about the ordering of the drawings and instead it seems like we needed to get scanned by each drawing and show them what they want."

"Then what did you do for that drawing?"

Pointing to their first right answer she asked that to help get a better understanding since even if what Xilo was saying was correct it still left a lot of guessing that could be a massive waste of time. She didn't know when they would fail this test but there was no way they could stay in this room forever even without a time limit regardless. They may be able to last a lot longer than normal people without basic needs but it wasn't forever and who knew how long the other tests would take as well. It already felt like a long time to Xelfia since they entered but she couldn't tell the exact amount and time was ticking.

"I'm not exactly sure but I know I was calm when it happened and combined with the blank drawing it probably wants us to do something in relation to each one and they're just there to give us hints probably."

"Well at least that's something even if it isn't exactly perfect."

"Well let's start with the simplest one of them all and see how right we are."

After saying that both turned toward the image of flowing water a little bit aways from them and stared at it. Out of all the drawings in the room this one was probably the easiest to figure out without failing unlike some of the others. Walking toward it Xelfia stood in front of Xilo, well he stayed behind her a little bit and told her what to do. If his guess was right then this one wouldn't be a problem in the slightest and then they could move on from there.

"Create some water and put your hand up in towards it and wait for a couple of seconds. Let's see if that does it."

Listening to Xilo, Xelfia created some water patiently well Xilo stood behind her preparing himself just in case anything expected happened as he watched her raise her hand towards the Drawing and wait. He didn't know what would happen if they failed and he really hoped he didn't have to find out here as he tensed his body and waited. However the worst case scenario didn't happen as he heard the same ringing sound echo throughout the small room they were in after waiting a little bit.

*Ding*

Opening her eyes some Xelfia felt some joy as she retracted her hand. Even if this was the easiest one to figure out she still felt happy now that they had a direction to go in unlike before where they guessed blindly and had nothing backing it. Now it was only a matter of time before they completed this test and left. Seeing that one was right as well Xilo turned to the image beside them and stared at the pair of fangs next trying to figure out what they could mean but the only thing that came to mind looking at them was blood. Feeling the fangs in his mouth, that was the only thought that ran through his head facing them especially when he remembered some things he didn't want to. "There's no way right..." Lifting his hand up he brought it to the side of his arm and slashed down as lightly as possible cutting himself and waited for his blood to start coming out before he moved toward the Fangs.

Watching that scene so suddenly Xelfia almost panicked but she held herself back after she watched Xilo go towards the Fangs. "idiot..." Watching Xilo act so recklessly again she really wanted to say something but she knew it wasn't the time instead she could only sigh when she heard the same ringing sound be released from the image of the Fangs.

*Ding*

With that they moved on to the next symbol of the heart and repeated the same kind of thinking though this one took them awhile until they eventually figured it out after being stumped for a while until Xilo finally stepped forward with something in mind to see if it worked and thankfully it did though he was too embarrassed afterwards to tell Xelfia about how he figured it out by thinking of her. After that was the dragon symbol which eventually after some time Xelfia figured out after showing her own pride and spirit. Finally they turned to the Star Symbol that was left over and thankfully that one was a lot easier then they thought. After showing some of their Astral Energy there they succeeded as the last of the ringing sounded through the room and they finished all the symbols.

Finished with this test Xilo looked around for something as he finally spotted it on the wall where the Star Symbol was. Moving toward the little cubby that opened up he looked at the same crystal he was given before from the snake after passing his trail except this one was yellow in colour instead of blue like the one before. He still didn't know exactly what they were since he hadn't bothered to try and use them just yet but he was pretty sure it was the reward for clearing the tests so he took it with him.

"What's that?"

Seeing Xilo coming back with a yellow crystal before slipping it into his pocket Xelfia was a little curious about it since she felt some energy coming from it that she hadn't before.

"I don't exactly know what it is but it's the rewards from completing the tests, I wanted to wait till we did all of them though before messing around with it. If that's okay with you of course."

Hearing Xilo's explanation Xelfia didn't mind it since to her anything they found was their's together and she would let Xilo take the lead most of the time regardless so she forgot about it quickly as she ran up to him just as eager as Xilo to move on and go to the next test, Xilo went towards the entrance to the room as the thought of leaving was one step closer and seeing his excitement Xelfia silently slipped her hand into his as they walked through the same familiar path once again.