"What the...What is that!? Where did the dragon go!? Don't walk away from me without answering, Ice!?" Prince snarled. I laughed as Invent stifled a giggle.
The cat looked at us, then at Ice, then back to us before finally saying, "My name's Kitty the dragon cat! I'm Ice's guardian." She then launched herself into the air and followed Ice, easily catching up to him.
"That doesn't answer anything!!" Prince yelled after them.
"I'm sure Icee will explain it all later...right?" Invent asked. I nodded although Ice's record of actually telling us stuff was nonexistent at the moment. Prince sighed but gave in as we followed after Ice and Kitty. Eventually we made it back to the cavern where Ice had stopped in, except it was different now. Before it had been an empty cavern but now it was like a lake! The entire bottom of the cavern was full of deep water with no way to walk around the pool of water.
"This...This wasn't here when we first came through right?" Invent asked, her voice full of curiosity. Ice shook his head while Kitty landed on his shoulder.
"She's up to her old tricks again." Kitty mumbled shaking her head slightly, "Honestly, she should have more control over herself, so she doesn't cause problems for others."
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We all eyes her, even Ice before he simply said, "Who just tried to kill three innocent people?"
"Are you siding with her!? Besides I'm always cranky when I first wake up." Kitty said indignantly.
"We'll have to go through it...theirs no other way back to the exit." Prince stated.
My panic was rising as I stuttered, "W-We WHAT!"
"We swim...or at least Ice, Invent and I swim. You and Kitty can just fly over it." Prince stated, clearly done with this conversation. I eyed the water as he continued, "At least you should be able to control it to not get you wet, if you did swim."
"Y-Yeah..." I stammered a bit flustered.
"Oh, come on Prince. It won't be that bad." Invent giggled as she started wading out into the pool. Prince shook his head before he followed after her. Kitty flew quickly over the pool as Ice swam out. Oddly enough Ice made it to the other side seconds after Kitty did. I took a deep breath before I started flying over the water. By the time the others were on dry land again, I was only halfway there. That's when it happened. Something wrapped around my waist, yanking me into the water with a scream on my lips.
As I was plunged deeper into the depths of the water I heard a voice, echoing through the water itself, "Miiiiinnnneee!!" I started to black out from lack of oxygen, but I noticed a stick at the bottom of the pool. The thing that had me flung me around a bit and as we passed the stick, I feebly grabbed it, hoping to use it to dislodge myself from the beast that had me. I managed to pull the stick free, but I passed out right afterwards.