"If you get lost here, you are worse than a headless ghost." Razvan chuckled as he led his team into a large hall. "Alright people, today we are going to explore this room." He gave the order, then grabbed Rahul by the arm and started walking into the complete darkness.
"Hey boss, being so transparent. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" Teveli shook his head with mock disapproval. "He wouldn't be him if he didn't do it that way." He chuckled, then let the floating eternal lantern over his head. "Kele!" He called his ghost, who appeared in front of him with folded arms.
"Well, what the..." Here he turned his head and looked up at the ceiling of the cave. "Oh, it's that time of the year again." He lowered his hands. "I'll go and look around." He waved and rose from the ground.
"Thank you, Kele." Teveli nodded at the blue-clothed ghost, then he started in the cave with his arms clasped behind his back. However, his steps soon stopped when he saw a figure to his right. "Suk?" He tilted his head to the side, then closed his eyes and pressed the index and middle finger of his left hand to his temple.
"Csillagszirmú pippentér." He said the other boy's password in his head. "Suk!" However, much to his surprise, the communication system was silent. He also tried the common system of Athamana, but was also unsuccessful.
"Kele." He addressed his ghost, and when it appeared next to him, he continued. "Something is not right. I saw Suk walk towards that way." He pointed in the direction of the corridor. "Let's see what happened." He declared and already set off into the unknown, with the floating ghost in his wake.
Meanwhile, in another part of the cave, Suk, who belonged to the Zovárd tribe, stared at the cave wall yawning and had no intention of doing anything else but waiting for the others to be back. He wasn't the type to get up early anyway, and he hated acting in situations like this, more than anyone in the whole world, especially when he didn't see any sens in things.
In his great idleness, he dug out the thin iron needles from the inside of his clothes, which his tribe usually used for special healing or to influence the will, and started playing with them. If they weren't in a cave right now, the boy would have been studying the vegetation to see if he could discover a new species of plant, but at the moment the cave held nothing new for him.
A strange crackling startled the boy from his play, but when he looked around he saw no one. He frowned and scratched his head.
"What the fene was that?" He asked, then pushed himself away from the wall, against which he first leaned and dusted his clothes. "Is it?" He spotted a suspiciously blue dress. He didn't even stop to think, he just charged into the darkness. Well, the members of the Zovárd tribe are not known for being afraid of anything, on the contrary, they are the tribe, which live every day waiting for the neighbor to literally push a bread knife into their back and are aware that if they don't get the knife, then they put poison in theie dinner, they are prepared for anything. That is, for most of everything.
" Teveli!" The boy exclaimed happily, when he saw the Koál boy and his ghost in another hall by the light of the eternal lantern glowing pale blue.
"Suk!" Teveli sighed with relief in his voice. "Are you crazy? What did you think, wandering off on your own?" He punched his friend in the shoulder, who gave him disapproving glances when he started to press the affected area.
"What do you mean what did I think?" He put his hands on his hips. "You were the one, who went somewhere you shouldn't have gone!" Said Suk accusingly, but at the same moment the two boys looked at each other with wide eyes and in a split second they were already standing with their backs to each other. Teveli had his twin swords in both hands, and Suk had three daggers in both hands. Their eyes wildly scanned the room, that is, the part of it that was visible in the light of the eternal lanterns.
"It's a trap." Teveli declared, and his friend nodded.
"And we walked into it like fisherman's children to a mavka's nest." Suk gritted his teeth.
"I think the boss was right. We really are idiots." The Koál boy grunted.
"Procolici from the left!" Shouted the Zovárd boy, and the other immediately went into action and finished off the undead creature without thinking.
"Same to the right!" He said now, and Suk threw a dagger, which returned to the boy's hand on a faintly shining thread. There was no need to talk about the arrival of the next procolici, the two boys beat the creatures side by side, one after the other. However, as soon as one was killed, three others took its place.
"Oh, let Mother Moon drown them in the waters of Delivoghjagh! Where do they still come from?" Suk growled as he severed the head of another procolici from its neck.
"I don't ha..." Teveli stopped in the middle of the sentence, the word stuck in him and he dropped one of his swords and fell to the ground. "Motherfucker. Kele!" He called out and the ghost opened his mouth. Not a sound came out of his throat, but the creatures with rotting skin and eyes resembling ghost, that is reflecting their last moments alive, all staggered back.
"Teveli!" The Zovárd boy immediately turned on his heel and knelt down next to him.
"The bastard caught me..." The Koál boy clenched his teeth, but did not put his hand on the gaping wound on his side, emitting a horrible smell and blood. He had the healer of the Athamana team by his side, he knew that if anyone, Suk would know...
"Damn Teveli, this is too deep for you." The boy in yellow cursed to himself.
In the observation cave far away, Mo Ching paced nervously. He hadn't expected the procolicis to be so wild. He did not want to cause physical harm to any of the team members. But now it happened. He was about to stop the test when something happened that made the old cultivator's eyes open twice as big in surprise.
The boy in yellow took the other's face between his two hands and pulled it close to him with a completely serious look, and to the great surprise of the chán man, the two boys exchanged a kiss.
"What in the name of buddha?!" Mo Ching blinked in front of himself, then came to his senses and raised his hand to stop the test, when the boy in yellow pushed himself away from the other and started to wipe his mouth.
"Get fucked by a wild maiden, Suk! There is no way that you don't know a better way to do this!" He cursed, while the other pressed his hand to his side, which immediately started to glow green.
"I'm working on it, you know!" He opened his eyes, which were green instead of the Koál boy's brown eyes. "But it's still the fastest way."
"I don't care! Even then, it's fucking unpleasant!" The one in yellow picked up the weapons of the one in blue from the ground and looked grumpily at the other.
"I told you I'm sorry for stealing your first kiss." Suk rolled his eyes in Teveli's body. "Would it be better if I told you that it was my first too?"
"No! Fucking not! Now, if you hadn't just healed my body, I would have skinned you already. They must be watching us, now they found out because of you." He growled and turned away from the other.
"If they were watching us sooner or later, they would have found out anyway." The Zovárd boy rolled his eyes.
"You shut up Suk, then heal me so I can get myself back!" Teveli gripped his swords harder. "Kele, next to me!" Teveli said and then, staying relatively close to his friend, continued to fight the living dead.
"I'm finished!" Suk finally croaked after long minutes, then he jumped up, grabbed the other's shoulder and turned him towards him. Their lips met for a moment and the two boys returned to their bodies, but before they could continue fighting to get out of the procolicis the ground beneath them shook and their minds were swallowed by darkness.