Fojima went to the training grounds to visit sarah? a place she usually is training her high tier magics. The room was made with spell-resistant irons all around, the smell of different elements were everywhere and always fresh as every magician from different classes trained here. Fojima arrived at the entrance, looking at students inside, smiling, as he saw a lot of them progressing in their powers...
A teacher : Ikisha! Focus your hurling flame on the center, don't let it slide!
Another teacher : ehhh... That was quite a good lightning arrow Bianca... But damage and destruction isn't all that lightning magic can bring...
Fojima looked at Sarah, training alone in the edge of the training room.
Sarah shouted : vortex of flames!!
An immense explosion took all over the training room and the dummy that was supposed to tank the damage, was completely obliterated...
Fojima stood there shocked and terrified at her powers, whispering : and Lionye wants me to bring her to hell to increase her flame powers?... These walls barley hold against her magic already...
Fojima shake his head and thinks : it's not time to fear my own wife's power... We have a journey to complete.
After all the dust had settled from her magic, Fojima shouted : hey! Sarah!
All the teachers and other students turned their face toward the entrance, seeing Fojima, they bowed to show their respect to the greatest lightning teacher in library : welcome to the training room Mr Fojima! (all said together)
Fojima blushed a little : ehehe... no need to...
Sarah interrupted him : hey Foji!!!! Long time no see! (she ran toward him and jumped into his arms)
Fojima hugged her : ahahaha sorry for not visiting you often!
Sarah smiled : no worries! you just gotta go for few nights without dinner my dear husband!
Fojima's smile faded in fraction of a second : that's cruel...
Sarah : I'm just messing around! (she gently smiled)
Sarah and Fojima leaved the training room and started walking in the hallways of library.
Fojima : um, Sarah...
Sarah : what is it?
Fojima was a bit embarrassed : well... Lionye tasked both of us for a bit of hard work...
Sarah happily asked : you are worried about it? You and I have been through hell together.
Fojima : uh... Yeah, but this time we are actually gonna go through hell...
Sarah was a bit shocked : you mean traveling through literal hell? The home of flame lord? Elemental king of fire!? (her shock turned to excitement)
Fojima : Y.. Yes... But wait! You are excited for this? Huh?
Sarah : of course I am! I'm confident to surpass minosashi and sewn mouth. Can't fall behind!
Few minutes later, Fojima and Sarah went to their house in the library. A lovely place they use to be together without anyone interrupting their personal life.
Sarah : Fojima! Don't forget to bring those scrolls of magic! We might need them.
Fojima teased her : do you need sunlight cream for the heat of hell?
Sarah responded : do you need carrot for when you get hungry?
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Fojima : that... Was kinda racist...
Sarah shouted : no it wasn't!! I always thought you love carrots!!
Fojima just sighed and said : ahhh... Let's just gather what we need and leave with portal magic...
Sarah was embarrassed : I'm sorry Fojima... I didn't meant to...
Fojima : I'm not upset! Don't worry! I actually love carrots... (he blushed and put his head down)
Sarah laughed : good! Then I'll make sure I bring you some when I traveled to earth again!
Fojima followed her laugh with a smile.
After they've packed everything together, Sarah focused her energy, a portal into the oppressive heat of the Cave of Hell in the Mountain of Ruination shaped into reality. Before they step in, the sound of tortured sinful souls of hell, shake their bones in their body... With a deep breath, they stepped through, leaving the safety of the library behind. Their destined training ground and their trial, awaited.
Fojima and Sarah arrived at the mountain of ruination, the portal behind them, shattered like glasses. The mountain, filled with goblins and low-orcs, always lurking around to find prey, a group of orcs was watching the newly arrived guests near cave, but as Fojima swept his gaze toward them, all sensed the immense power difference, running away for their own survival...
Sarah : what is it Foji? Is something bothering you?
Fojima : no, absolutely nothing. (he thought : those orcs think Sarah is an easy prey? What a fool...)
He looked at the skies above and whispered : let's be quick, we can't just stand here to be eaten alive by those dragons (he pointed at the sky, multiple flying creatures, battling each other for feasting and survival)
Sarah : alright, time for some flame resistant magics. (she moved her hands in the air, wisps of fire spiraled out of her fingertips, slowly shaping an orange aura around herself and Fojima, reducing the heat around them to normal degrees)
Fojima pulled out one of the scrolls that he brought from library : your magic is strong but can't hold the heat of hell, we need something more defensive... Core of hell is fueled with the essence of fire itself. No ordinary magic or monster can hold its own in that place.
Fojima recited the magical words on the scroll : lightning magic, strike!
A thunder hit the scroll from sky, burning it down. A sharper aura with reddish color shaped around them.
Sarah : is this one of the forbidden magics? Master told me red and black are signature of forbidden magics.
Fojima responded : why do you think I used a scroll for it? Only Lionye and your father are capable of such magics and count them as normal.
Sarah blushed : well... Yeah... Let's get moving. We have a long road to take.
*scrolls are used for some high tier magics or forms of forbidden magic that cannot even be casted by high tier magicians.
They put their hands together and both stared at the cave's entrance to hell, sound of souls getting tortured, behind them many souls going into the cave for their torture in afterlife and above, flying dragons battling for survival...
Sarah : this is really... Not what I like to see before my training begins...
Fojima : just stay close to me and don't even think about anything. Together we can overcome every impossibility. (he smiled to comfort her)
Before they enter the cave, sarah looked at the floating souls around the cave entrance, being scared and sad... Torches started to flame by themselves, lighting up the path forward in the cave, the wind started to blow in the mountain, pushing them toward the cave.
They stepped across the threshold into the cave mouth, once they were inside, a pressure of power was felt from within the depth of hell, shaking their whole body.
Fojima whispered : what a devastating aura... No wonder they call him the strongest.
Sarah : that's... Flame lord?
Fojima : he is probably training his top generals.
Sarah shouted : this is what am I going to train with? He will kill me!
Spirits who walked past her whispered : quiet... Quiet... We need silence...
Fojima frowned against them : mind your own business human souls.
As they go deeper and deeper in the cave, they reach a lake, filled with black water, a man on a boat from the mists was emerging toward them, with a ghostly body and skeletal face, wearing a part ripped mantle reached to them : oh... Long time since a living creature has set foot upon my boat of death. You are very welcome... But first, payment. (his voice echoed in the lake)
Fojima summoned 10 black coins (the currency of hell) and gave them to the man.
The boatman : I... Sense a relation, a strong bound... You two are happy together...
Thanks sailor. (fojima said calmly)
The boatman : I am destined to tell the truth...
Sarah : that's a strange curse...
The boatman whispered : it's not a curse... But a blessing...
Sarah and Fojima entered the boat and sat down.
The boatman pointed at the ghosts and spirits behind Fojima and Sarah : there are others we need to bring aswell...
Sarah looked at the looming ghosts : if they pose no threat they are very welcome. (she smiled at the ghosts)
The boatman : good... Then come in spirits, only eight for now...
The human ghosts gazed upon the two livings and waved their hands for them.
The boatman then started to row in the black lake.
Sarah : what's this water? It doesn't seem normal... Is it... Black magic?
Fojima responded : this, is the lake of hatred. I don't know what entities lie within it... The only time I heard of it, was in an old book in the library...
In their path, Sarah heard multiple souls suffering from torture and some being happy as their torture is ended. (Those whom suffered enough, are purified and can be a soldier in hell's army under flame lord's power.)
She asked fojima : is there any rules that doesn't let us as living beings enter the underworld?
Fojima : there is only one rule, and that, is the gatekeeper of hell and watchdog of flame lord, cerberus.
Sarah's mind fluttered back to her memories and life in human world, the name was familiar, cerberus... She asked : is it the same legendary cerberus I read in Greek myth?
Fojima blushed a little : ah... No it's a bit different from the one you know.
Sarah smiled and continued watching the lake and beauty of the cave with dark blue crystals shining, soul of innocent human kids playing around.
While she was looking at the lake, she saw multiple chains that were moving under, eyes without pupil, staring at her.
Sarah pointed at the lake in fear : th.. Th... There are... Chains... And.. Eyes... He is... Staring at me... Something terrible... That power is.... (she put her hands on her mouth before vomiting from the immense power she felt)
Fojima was shocked : sarah?!!! Sarah!!!
Her body felt heavy, her eyes seeing a blur of fojima desperately talking to her, as she felt unconscious for the rest of their journey...
Fojima : Sarah!!! Please get up!!! (his hands became green, and around her body, a circle with magical words appeared, but they all were shattered in an instant)
Fojima was shocked : wha... Why... Why can't I use... My healing magics...
The boatman : seems like the world is going to meet it's end...
Fojima shouted : what do you mean!!?
Souls were scared from his anger, but the boatman calmly answered : whispers of chaos will take all across the world...
Fojima : damn you! (he continued to try his healing spells on Sarah's body)
The boatman : we are near the end of the road...
"and our road will soon begin, binder" the boatman thought.
Fojima gazed upon the entrance of the second cave while his tears were falling down, turning to steam mid air... Molten water dripping from the ceilings, the steam of magma, filling the entrance...
Once their boat reaches the end of the road, the boatman looked at Fojima : this medicine, might cure her... I am old enough to have seen these form of power and sickness... Don't waste your powers... A wound caused by sheer existence, cannot be undone by physical healing magics...
He then swing his oar and moved away, fading within the mist... Fojima on the other side, opened Sarah's mouth and poured it with the medicine, desperately trying to help her while his tears fell down : please Sarah... Stay with me...
