Skeletons Tomb
We woke up and did our usual morning businesses before sitting around the remains of the fire I started last night to discuss what we would do now.
"So, what should we do now? Or more accurately, where should we go now?" I asked, knowing that this would be a lengthy discussion.
"Hmm… I think we should…Uhh… I don't know, do you have any ideas?" She asked back.
"I mean, all we can do is choose a direction, but which way do we go? We've already travelled pretty far that way." I said whilst pointing in the direction we were originally going. "I think we should head either to the east or west of the way we were going before, because if we just keep on going in that direction, I feel we'll just fined another bone or bone fragment or not find anything at all."
Shirayaa contemplated my words for a while before she agreed with my words.
"You're right, we should choose a direction other than the one we've been travelling, but which way should we go? For all we know, they might both lead to nothing." She argued.
"True, but if that first bone, we saw a few days ago was where this one came from, then that means that these bones are the skeletal remains of a giant creature, what kind of creature remains to be seen." I retorted.
"True... Hmm... The only thing to do is decide, left or right. I can't feel any form of danger or instinct to go either way, can you?" She inquired.
"Hmm..." I closed my eyes and focused my senses in those directions. If the way we were going before was north, then I felt something tug at me instinctively, towards the west. So I said, "West." I don't know what was in that direction, but I felt like it was something important.
"Okay." Was all she said before getting up. I too got up and we then both headed 'westward' for a few days.
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We had been travelling for about another week before we came across more bones.
This time they looked to be part of the creature's spine that had collapsed over time and is now lying on the floor, broken and worn.
They were much larger than the fragment of what we had just now deduced was the tip of a rib.
Some more days of traversing the stone catacombs as we had started calling it and we found more and more of the creature's spine along with what we believed was more of its ribs.
Clearly this creature was something like a serpent or a centipede or something long in nature. And due to the decrease in size of what we theorised was its ribs we further deduced that we were heading towards the back end of this long creature's skeleton.
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After another few days, or was it weeks? We were losing track of these kinds of things, anyway, the further we went, the smaller the skeletons bones became. And soon, there were no more ribs, and it was just the tail.
We came across more of the viscous liquid and I offered it to Shirayaa but she declined, saying that she wanted to let me get stronger, but I knew that she was just being cowardly.
I of course, decided that it shouldn't go to waste, and drank every drop that I came across, adding more strength to the power it gave me.
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Soon the bones started to become smaller and smaller, thinner and thinner, and more scattered rather that it a straight line like they should have been, probably due to the way that the corpse decomposed.
Traversing along this series of bones, we soon discovered a much smaller, more recognisable skeletal structure. It was one from another serpentine like ourselves, clearly starved to death.
We inspected it and noticed that its fangs had been chipped, probably from trying to eat the unbreakable bones. This was extremely worrying, as it meant that there wasn't anything besides this large open space, this fully rotted corpse which has been reduced to nothing but its skeleton, and the remains of whomever else got trapped in here.
Another thing we noticed was that it looked like the person in front of us took their own life, indicated by the hand that was piercing their ribcage, right at the spot where their heart would be.
Scared, I locked hands with Shirayaa unconsciously. She held my hand and continued to do so over the coming days as we kept up with the same routine. Wake up and fuck each other, traverse the constant, barren landscape of mossy stone floor and the skeletons spine, then set up camp and go to sleep.
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After another few weeks, we came across the end of the tail, and what a sight it was.
An enormous skull rested before us, and it was a spectacle to behold, it took us another few days just to be able to even get a full scope of what it looked like.
The skull seemed to be split into three parts, one upper half where the brain presumably resided, and two lower jaw pieces. From the looks of it, it would appear that the three pieces where originally connected, but time wore them down, and they snapped apart. The upper skull now resided in between the two jaws, which had fallen off to the sides, we had to make sure not to scratch ourselves on the fangs.
The way that this thing's skull looked like kind of reminded us of snake folk, who were of serpentine origins like ourselves, but walked on two legs and had their tail come off of the back of the bottom of their spines. Their own skulls also resembled the one in front of us in some ways, making us think that this must be some sort of lost serpentine race of some sort.
After another night of sleep, we woke up and instead of having sex, we decided to explore and scale this humongous skull. We started by climbing up the one in the middle, as that was the only one with an interior, and when we got up to what we assumed to be the eye socket, we went in and all we saw was darkness.
It was scary but as we held each other's hands, we gained some courage, and slithered forth into what seemed to be an unending darkness. We travelled for what felt like hours, but at the same time, at some parts it felt like we were travelling for days, weeks, months and even years, but we knew better, if we really had been travelling for that long then we would have died already.
Eventually however, we started to see sparkles blinking in and out of our vision, like the night sky, and the further we went, the more they appeared, some of them event stopped blinking and stayed visible.
At some point the dark blackness also started to change. It changed into a deep blue and mystifying purple haze, that weaved in and out of each other, complimenting the lights, making it look like real depiction of the night sky, but without any other celestial bodies like the planet we resided on.
With a newfound wonder that filled our souls, we started to go around looking at different images that were made by connecting the dots, and creating our own constellations for fun. We didn't realise how much time had passed until we felt sleepy, so we decided to end the night off with a little dance, followed by us making out, and then huddling together before falling asleep.