[ WP ] `` Why did you come , human ? ''

I've done a lot of stupid shit in my life, it comes with the territory really, in fact it's practically a job requirement. Adventurer! Snassy job title, hard to profit from and it does n't look great on your CV but damn it if it was n't the best job I've ever had. heh, nearly was the last job I ever had. 
 
 I found the map in an pawn shop on 51st street. That's part of the job, trawling pawn shops. Pawn shops, markets and garage sales that's where you find these things, nobody ever found hidden clues towards El Dorado at Walmart, Target does n't have a treasure map section. 
 
 Anyway, found the map in a pawn shop on 51st, it was n't much, just a drawing showing an entrance to a cave deep in what resembled the rocky mountains along with some signs on it, I went to an expert offcourse, you always do, a buddy of mine from the University who likes partaking in adventures on his down time. Apparently the damn thing was over five thousand years old, the writing closely resembled some early signs from Dadiwan in the chinese Gansu province. Naturally it was impossible to truly translate as any record of their true meaning was long gone but similar later styles of writing from the region gave us a general idea, really the words `` forbidden'', `` interfere'', `` beast'', `` you'' and `` tomato juice'' should have given us a hint that something was up. I see you're confused, do n't worry about it I did n't get the tomato juice thing either, assumed it was just a bad translation. 
 
 Well, we ignored it, went straight to the rockies and started looking for that cave we did. Took us 4 months combing over any area that resembled the map in the slightest, we turned every stone and looked everywhere. Off course we found it when my friend the professor stumbled and fell face first to the ground and went straight past it into a cave opening, fell 6 feet and broke his collarbone. Once I'd gotten him of to the hospital I went straight back, grabbed my gear and walked into the cave. It was dark, I had filled my backpack with long lasting glow sticks, military grade ones that would last for 18 hours, I taped one to the wallevery 50 feet, sometimes closer if the cave turned so I would allways see the next one. Most adventurers use long ropes, it works better for long time stays and it's much cheaper, not so good though if you need to get out fast, I found a very angry bear deep in a cave once and the resulting sprint convinced me of the superiority of the glowstick. When I'd gotten a mile and a half in the cave started to heat up and expand a little, I thought I'd hit gold when I saw glowing in front of me, then I realized it was a small creek of lava that went along the wall for a good 30 feet before dissappearing beneath it again. Word of advice, unexpected lava is a sign that it's time to turn back. I walked on, stupid shit remember? 
 
 It was another mile before the heat really got stifling, it was becoming hard to breathe and I was seriously considering to turn back, then the cave expanded and turned into a huge cavern. It was an impressive sight, the roof was glowing with huge stalactites hanging down like lightbulbs, it must've been a 200 feet up there and twice that between the walls. In the middle was a huge rock, I decided to climb it in order to get a proper view of the entire thing. I first thought the rock was just made from some weird type of stone I'd never seen before, it was smooth and incredibly hard but sheeted with a gap between each sheet, easy to climb. I'm my excitement I forgot to pay attention to my surroundings, I'd gotten a good 10 feet in the air before I noticed that the rock was moving. It was n't moving a lot, just slightly up and down, up and down. I looked closer, there was a flat part in front of me, no rock sheets, when I touched it I noticed it was almost skin like, the skin like rock suddenly dissappeared upwards and was replaced by a huge glowing orange eye. As a sidenote, I do n't recommend falling 10 feet just to land on your ass, you will bruise it. 
 
 While I was sitting on the floor of the cave, ass hurting, the entire rock I'd been climbing decided to stand up and I realized it was n't a rock at all, it was reptilian, it was huge and it was breathing out smoke. It let out a huge firestorm that engulfed the roof, all the stalactites turned fiery red and the entire hall lit up, the creature turned its entire body, both of its eyes staring straight at me, I stared straight back, not out of courage but I had frozen up entirely, then it spoke. `` humaaaaaan'' it said, dragging the word out. Its voice sounded hoarse, like it had n't been used in a long time, even so there was incredibly power in it as the voice rumbled and echoed through the cavern, it looked at me, a penetrating gaze that left me with no secrets, then it spoke again `` why are you here?'' 
 
 ^Well, ^that's ^my ^second ^time ^writing ^something ^on ^this ^sub, ^please ^come ^with ^comments ^and ^if ^anyone ^wants ^the ^next ^part ^I'll ^write ^it ^up ^later.
