"The Tunnels I" by Enderhorse1

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The Tunnels Part
I

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There is a place where none of the citizens go in the village. Once, the King ordered an expedition to travel there. On the way, many of the soldiers who were going began to want to turn back. It seems as though it was not them controlling those

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thoughts, because the King began to feel it to. Although the King wanted everyone to go back, he resisted the urge to order it, and told everyone to continue moving. When they eventually came to their destination, they realized that it was a cave, but not

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an ordinary one. It was huge, with ten story walls. When they entered, it began to shrink, and eventually got so small that they each had to walk one in front of the other. Then they had to crawl on their hands and knees. When it looked like they could

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not progress any further, they saw a small light in a huge room. They entered, but then the King accidently tripped on a stone. Everyone that was there heard a screeching mechanical noise, and then they heard large rocks hitting something. Then, the roof

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gave way above their head to thousands of small boulders. They tried to escape, but the passageway out of the cave was blocked. The survivors heard the fast-moving rocks, filling up the passageway. They were getting closer. But, all of a sudden, one

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person trips something, which opens up some sort of emergency door. The last four surviors went through. But, three of them were running to fast and tripped on some large rocks buried in the dirt under them. They fell, and the rocks behind them were still

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going. The person who did not trip saw sunlight ahead, and started to run full speed. He came out of the passageway, and kept running. The rocks tumbled out into the cave. Whoever had planned the trap put the exact number of rocks to fill up all the

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passageways. The last survivor took one of the King's horses, and galloped away to the closest village. He told his story to the villagers there, and the story was passed down through generations, until three brave men decided they wanted to see if this

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tale was real. Many people in their village told them that it would be a long journey, and that it would be extremely dangerous. But, they did not listen. They took their only horse, and went onto the path that headed towards the cave.