Earth: Stream

"I have heard this cave has a stream filled with gold, jade and pearls", said someone from the crowd.

"Don't be deceived, this place contains dormant evils and it knows how to lure", said Ogre from behind.

But the idea of wealth in the face of death was more than enough to entice a few of them. They all have been able to control themselves until now but Ogre knew that they were going to lose many, many will be deceived by the magic and he can not save all of them and his intuition seems pretty accurate they started losing many, people started vanishing on their own; some walked directly inside piked stones, some forced themselves inside running streams and some walked to different paths.

All who were remaining were standing in front of a small caved mouth with a pond in front of them. The water was as clear as air, they can see the bottom with their naked eyes and it wasn't deep; the cave mouth was so dark that they can not see beyond two feet past the entrance.

Ogre knew what was on the other side of the cave and he was being eloped in the similar feeling of greed that he had witnessed last time, he didn't want anyone else to have it. He was trying to wave it off but he knew someone needs to sacrifice themselves so he'll witness it once again. He wanted someone to enter it without concern, someone to break, he just needs to wait, wait for few seconds and then he'll enter it.

Images started throbbing in his mind and he wanted to win, win this time but he almost failed last time and he was able to overcome it just because he was with him, he held him.

Ogre was still busy trying to figure his mind when someone jumped into the stream almost incapacitated by water, he dived directly to the bottom of the lake... like he was trying to find something. He was getting closer to the grottoes.

"Look, there's something shiny there," said Ymir.

Arne tried to look inside the stream when something enormous burst out of water.

Arne saw a huge dark shape--- something muscled and coiled like a serpent -- before a massive wave rose above him and slammed him facedown inside the water.

The serpent eloped towards the man who was trying to enter the cave; within few seconds his limbs were floating over the water.

Arne ran towards the surface but the water which had only come up to Arne's waist had only been getting shallower the closer serpent came towards him when Arne opened his eyes inside water, the surface seems miles away and he can feel the serpent swirling around him. He saw pale green light shining from the grotto floor. He saws faces, beautiful but eyeless. Human faces embedded in the sand and coral and endless mosaic studded with golden ingots - a bed of treasure extended all the way from caves mouth to the extent his eyes can witness. He was getting silent but calm, everything was getting beautiful.

Something was wrong, he realised Ymir was not here he heard the faint noise of his daughter screaming, he kicked his way towards the surface.