“Heracles – help me.” screamed Gwen. They seemed to be inside a tunnel of light and were falling very fast. Lightning sometimes flashed in the opposite. Even so, Heracles couldn’t see much of what was in front of him. Everything except Gwen in front of him was covered with a thick layer of fog. The things he could felt clearly at moment were winds which blew strongly against his face and Earth’s traction on his body. He tried effort to open his eyes, kept watching on Gwen below. Gwen was facing to Heracles; his back turned to ground. Waving hands violently he called: “Help me, Heracles.”
“Give me your hand.” Heracles screamed, stretched toward Gwen. Their hands reached on the others. Heracles grabbed on Gwen’s hand then pulled Gwen back to him. He hugged then helped Gwen turn to the same direction with him. “Where is Amelinda?” creamed Gwen. He had to do that because strong winds blowing pass their ears made them difficult to hear.
“I don’t know. We must find her. Hope she is ahead.” shouted Heracles.
Then they stretched trying to move ahead. It’s about one minute later, they saw Amelinda in front. “Amelinda—Are you okay?” cried Heracles.
“Yes, I’m still okay. How are you?” she replied.
“I’m fine.” said Heracles loudly.
“Where is Gwen? Do you see him?” cried Amelinda, still didn’t turn back.
“He is here, by me.” Heracles replied, “Wait a moment. We will come to you.”
Then Heracles and Gwen slowly moved ahead and then gathered together with Amelinda.
“Where on the world we are now?” lamented Gwen, frowning.
“It may be space tunnel.” said Amelinda.
“Space tunnel? What is this?” Gwen tried to speak loudly. “Where do you read about the thing? I don’t see it in the diary.” he added in impatient voice.
“No, it is mentioned in the diary but to be called by another name. There has very little information so you don’t pay attention.” squealed Amelinda.
“So we don’t get in any danger, right?” doubtedly Gwen said.
“No, we don’t.” said Amelinda certainly.
“How long will we come to there?” asked Heracles.
“It can be an hour. I’m not sure.” said Amelinda.
“God, an hour in this place -- It’s not fun.” screamed Gwen.
“Honestly, I feel a bit interesting. Look! We can have the feeling that we are flying.” said Amelinda excitedly. She departed from them and spread her arms wide pretending as like she was flying.
“It’s not fun, Amelinda.” screamed Gwen.
“Alright. I stop.” said Amelinda, made her way back, kept staying together.
Bright light suddenly appeared in front of them. It was too dazzling making their eyes pained. Heracles, Gwen and Amelinda couldn’t stand up. They were forced to close eyes but kept holding their hands.
Suddenly, Heracles felt heavy pressure on his feet. It’s as like he just reached on the ground after jumping down from a very high place that made him have to tried effort to keep himself not to fall down. Still kept his eyes shut up, he heard voice of Amelinda “Ouch--” then felt his hand was pulled. Amelinda was fallen down. Hurriedly, he opened eyes to take a look but he was dazzling and couldn’t see far. He kept his eyes open ajar looking at Amelinda who was lying on ground.
“Are you okay?” he said, gently pulled Amelinda to stand up.
“Yes – I am fine.” replied Amelinda at one. “I just fall down but I think we did come.” she added, still kept holding Heracles’s hand.
“Really! Are you sure?” the excited voice of Gwen who was standing by Heracles. Gwen opened his eyes to look but he immediately was dazzling. “Ouch!” he cried, then narrowed his eyes to adapt to the light. Everything turned clearly after few second. He got again his sight, immediately looked to the right seeing Heracles and Amelinda. That moment Heracles and Amelinda had gotten again their sight. They were turning around observing the place. Gwen released Heracles’s hand, hurriedly watched.
“We seem to come to a wrong place. This is not Treasure Island” he squealed.
“God!” at last Amelinda screamed, “Where is this place?” Her voice turned much anxious. Heracles was the only one person who still kept calm. He silently observed everything but there had no clue for him to know where he was. It’s very strange at the place they were giving them a feeling of becoming small and also insecure feeling. Because, surrounding them the moment was tremendous standing stones. There were twelve standing stones standing into a circle. Under their feet the ground was covered by pieces of stones. There had only some shape of the stone pieces, square, rhombus, trapezoid and the biggest it was circle at the middle. Though Heracles didn’t know exactly, the twelve standing stone – circles made him think about a magic tool.
“Do any of you know what the things are?” Gwen spoke up. He was a little impatient. Heracles turned to him and saw he also focused on the standing stones
“I don’t know. I had never seen them before.” said Heracles in deep voice. He turned to Amelinda who was silently walking toward a standing stone.
“Oh what are things here?” Gwen spoke up. He lowered his body then sit down. “Look! There have shapes on the stones.” he added, turned to Heracles. Heracles immediately sat down to see. There were shapes carved deep into stones. “They,” Heracles stopped a second, “are not the symbols of gods and goddesses, are they?” he said. His voice turned highly, “Here I see a hammer, the symbol of god Hephaestus; peacock, cow, the symbol of symbol of goddess Hera and there --” he continued by even voice.
“You are right Heracles.” said Amelinda. She turned back from the standing stone heading to them. “The thunderbolt, the symbol of god Zeus, the owl, the symbol of goddess Athena.” she added, scanning on ground.
“Oh yeah – here I see a pair of wings, the symbol of god Hermes and there the trident, symbol of god Poseidon.” said Gwen excited having a little excitement.
The place turned much noisy. Heracles, Gwen and Amelinda turned back to their age, excited with their game searching for the symbols of gods and goddesses after that. Later, when all of symbols were found out, they stopped. They gathered together.
“Anyway, did you mention it? All the symbols are arranged in a certain order.” suddenly Amelinda said.
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