Chapter 11 The Journey through the Valley of the Dead

Morgone and Mairea looked around at their surroundings as they walked through the Valley of the Dead. Surrounding the Valley of the dead in a dome where the Mountains of Van'halo. there massive craggy peaks towered over the valley.As they walked through the Valley of the Dead Morgone saw broken and destroyed temples of gods long gone, dead from the battles of the God Wars. Mairea stopped and looked back to find Morgone had walked into one of the destroyed temples."Wait come back!" Mairea cried out as she ran in after him "Von'tek! {Idiot}" she cried out once she caught up with him."Oh, Mairea I am so glad you came back," Morgone said his voice a dry monotone Mairea looked around and saw that the temple was covered in mystic runes and in the center sat a table where a dark red blade was broken in three pieces lay." Do you know of the God Wars?" Morgone asked Mairea not to take his eyes off the blade he could feel it. The power of the Quenns flowing through the blade."I only know that The God Wars were the result of Kara and her brother Lupine disagreeing," Mairea saidMorgone nodded " so you know nothing. Do you even know what you are looking at?"Mairea did know that " yes that is Demonsong. The sword wielded by Ryi'june when he defeated Lupine Riddle. it is said that the blade was made by The Quinns cosmic beings older and far more powerful than the Elder Lords."Morgone nodded and said " those stories are quite true. I can attest to that.""Destroy it! you know you must!" Lupine cried outMorgone held his hand back, it took every ounce of his will power to just walk out of the temple without destroying the blade"YOU FOOL!" Lupine screamed inside Morgones mind Morgone fell to the ground in pain Mairea knew something was wrong, so they rested there for a few hours. As they walked Morgone saw many dead skeleton-like creatures roaming about searching for food. Other creatures' skins were dark green with mold and skin falling off them. Morgone could hear their moans and groans that sounded like a thousand demons screaming in pain being tormented in the depths of Under hell. Morgone saw that these creatures were paying no attention to them. Some of the creatures had on Dark demon Amour with large black spikes jetting out and they held long fiery whips and would whip the other creatures that were dressed in rags and would yell out in a tongue that Morgone did not understand. Morgone asked Mairea " What are those creatures, why do they not care about us who are the ones whipping the creatures, and what are they saying?" Mairea replied"Those are the Dead Walkers they are the ones who are not on the Gatekeepers list and then sentenced to give up their mortal soul and became a slave to his Workmasters for all time who only speak in the Forgotten Speech." As they traveled through the valley it became intensely hot and there were less Dead Walkers. Morgone asked Mairea " Do you know where we are?" she replied " Yes, I do we are in the desert part of the Valley of the Dead. We should soon be approaching the wintery part of the Valley." As they continued through the blistering heat, suddenly, the heat turned into an ice storm. Morgone yelled over the storm " Mairea I see a pathway that leads up a mountain do we take it? Mairea replied, " Yes we take it!" as they ran for the pathway that was enclosed inside of a mountain.Morgone and Mairea walked into the dark and evil-looking tunnel. As Mairea and Morgone walked into the tunnel they picked up a lit torch and as they were walking around, they saw pictures of unknown origin painted on the walls.Many of the pictures showed a man wielding a sword of pure light while surrounding him were the symbols for fire, water, earth, air, and ice while fighting a huge dragon-like beast. " What do all of the drawings mean," Mairea asked as she touched the drawing of the man wielding the sword. " Mairea, I found a way out to the other side." Morgone cried as he had found a tunnel that leads from the Valley of the Dead to the Spire. Mairea said, " Well you are almost there, and this is where I leave you Morgone." Morgone asked surprised " Why?" Mairea replied " I do not want to go up to the Spire. The closer I get the more unstable I became." She paused and then said, " I will give you one piece of advice, with all of the dark power of the Spire will come drastic transformations and side effects, the more power you obtain, the more warped your mind will become." Morgone replied " How do you know my plan?" Mairea replied " I am not dumb; I knew from the start. I just was not going to stop you. I am only telling you this warning as a guide you can choose to ignore it if you wish."Mairea paused and said sternly staring Morgone in the eyes Morgone gulped as he could see a burning fire beyond them.The flames in her eyes scared Morgone, they spoke and said that she was serious." But as the princess of the Dragonkin and as someone who loves Tylingariea and does not wish to see it destroyed by you or my father. If you begin to harm this world, I swear the next time we meet will not be on friendly terms."Morgone nodded " yes princess." he said When she was long gone Morgone said: " Ala'vara {Praise the Gods} I thought she would never leave." He headed up the pathway that leads up the Spire. The pathway was steep and many of the passageways were blocked off, so he had to use magic to move the boulders.As he traveled up the Spire the pathways became wider as he reached the top all he could see were dark clouds. Once he finally reached the top of the Spire, Morgone could see the Seven Dark Power Crystals. He could all most taste the dark power. His first mission was nearly complete then he would be one step closer to his goal to find the six remaining Rings of Darkness.