Gate to Shangri La

the team reached earth's Heaven's Gate it  hung suspended from an asteroid rock on the end of the road nearest earth there was a chain of dark energy around it keeping it locked 

Bethany rolled her eyes in exasperation and blasted it with energy, the chains fell away and the door opened the group flew through the door and found themselves standing in the middle of the ruins of an ancient city surrounded by a dome

it was a celestial sanctuary not unlike wolf city, now uninhabitable, most buildings collapsed and destroyed, overgrown with weeds and bushes even more damaged now by the recent shaking 

this city seemed to be tucked into some of the earth's tallest mountains that towered above them covered  in ice and snow, they are at a very high altitude but the sun was shining brightly and it was warm here 

"Where on earth are we?" Justin wondered