Scared Volcano

The carriage slows to a stop. The royal family exists and the two twins in the summoning robes walk to the bridge. The Queen hugs both of her children. "See you at the ball. Be careful, trust each other and don't lose heart." The twins hug their mom and smile at each other. "We will." They say together. The king now kneels in front of his twins. "Now, Nedla, Folcön. This is not the time to challenge each other but to work together. Normally this is done alone but you have each other." The king rafles his kids' hair. "Dad!" Both yell with a smile on their face. The twins turn and head to the volcano.

They soon reach the entice to the cave of the scared volcano. "You ready, Ned?" Folcön asks looking at her twin. He smiles at her and grabs her hand. "Together with you Cön, we can overcome anything that comes into our paths." Folcön smiles back at her brother. They take a deep breath and step into the cave together. The instance that that entered the cave all the torches lights up with flaming red fire. "Come little ones. Come pass your trials and earn your phoenixes. I await you at the center of the volcano." A strong yet kind voice echos throughout the volcano. "Was that the mother of fire just now?" Folcön looks at her twin each seems to be as shocked she was. "I believe so." Nedla answers once he got a hold of himself.

They smile at each other and start walking farther into the cave. They walk in silence in the cold cave with the light of the torches. "If we're in a volcano how in the cave so cold?" Folcön asks confused. "Well, maybe because we're very far from any lava." Nedla answers with a shrug of his shoulders. After a long time they are suddenly hit with a heat wave. The twins are breathless with the sudden temperature change. "I think we're getting close to the first trial." Nedla says once he gets his breathing under control.

The twins freeze as the torches suddenly end. They stare into the pure black cave. "Why did the torches suddenly stop?" Folcön asks confused and slightly scared. "I think this is the start of the first trial. The test of courage." Nedla says and looks at his sister. He smiles and slightly tightens his grip on her hand. "Let's go." Folcön nods and follows Nedla into the lightless cave. As they walked the heat raise and becomes almost unbearable. The twins could not see each other but they have yet let go of each other's hands. After a long walk through the darkness they see light and the end of the tunnel. They start to run to get to the light. They exit the tunnel into a very large room. The twins stood on a small ledge with a very straight and narrow stone bridge connecting to the other ledge on the other side of the room. "We made it to the lava bridge." Nedla says looking around. The twins look at the lava bubbling and the small rocks the fall occasionally into the lava.

"No wonder it's the test of courage." Folcön says with wide eyes. Nedla nods, "I'll go first." Nedla says as he let's go of her hand. Nedla starts walking to the bridge. Folcön panics as she saw a couple of rocks hit Nedla as he walked on the bridge. Soon Nedla makes it safely across. "Cön, come on it's your turn now!" Nedla shouts out from the other side. Folcön takes a deep breath and walks to the bridge. She walks keeping her eyes on her feet. She does the same thing as Nedla. With her arms out and walking heel to toe. Suddenly something hits her left shoulder hard. Folcön looses balance. "Cön!" Nedla shouts as he sees her lose her balance. Folcön regains balance and continues to walk. She doesn't look already knowing it was a rock. After get hit three more times on the head, right hand, and left forearm. She makes in to her brother's side.

"Okay, that was very scary." Folcön says looking back at the bridge. "Do we have to cross it again?" Folcön looks back as her brother knowing that he payed attention in class. "No we don't. Come on let's continue." They start walking into the new tunnel. Slowly the temperature lessen to a comfortable temperature. "Strange at first it was super cold, then unbearably hot, now it's hot but comfortable." Folcön comments. "Well at first it was just earth the cave was large so the torches only gave light and not heat. Then we got near the lava pit. Now we are deep within the volcano so the earth around us is warm since there is a lot of lava around us but the earth is putting a natural barrier between us and the lava." Nedla says as they now enter another large room but this one is a lot small then the last. In the center of the room is a pedestal on the far wall is a door. The twins walk up the the pedestal. "This is the test of strength."

"Many enter in this world of fire. To continue this journey. One must test their own flames. What does that mean?" Folcön asks after she reads the pedestal. "Hey, Cön come look at this door." Folcön runs over to Nedla. Her eyes widen in shock. The door had no handles or knobs. "How do we open the door?" Nedla continues to examine the door. "Well this is the test of strength and the pedestal said to continue we need to test our fire. I think this door is somehow opened with our fire."

"Maybe those silver tubes have something to do with the door." Folcön says pointing to one of the two silver tubes. Nedla smiles, "that's it! We use our fire power to open the door by putting it through the tubes. Folcön you focus on the tube on your right and I'll focus on this one. We most likely have to do it at the same time. So on the count of three." The twins move into position. "One...Two...Three!" Nedla counts and on three both of them shoot fire out of their hands and into the tubes. They soon run out of fire power. The move away from the door and see nothing happened. "Nothing happ..." Folcön says but a loud bang sounds and the door slowly opens. "Never mind."

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