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## Character introduction

The narrator is an alligator, as of Chapter 4.

Kraid is an ancient alligator of Greek descent (though it is sometimes believed that he was born somewhere else nearby), who is secretly an antagonist.

Khanjimitan is a hippo with an exceptional amount of bravery, but he sometimes gets lost in his mind and leaves what he is trying to do without realising it.

# Book 1

## Chapter 1

I was alone in the desert, walking on very risky sand country, ground that formed holes a lot. I tried not to run or sprint, since that would cause me to trip and fall into the earth, possibly into a lava pit if I got unlucky.

I saw Kraid around a Half of a kilometre away. Then, I walked toward Kraid and attempted to greet him. When he turned around, he said "αὰκ δ᾽ ἔκηα". He appeared to be imagining what the ground would do if he were unlucky. Then, holes were popping up in the ground under our feet. He then said "Ἢ εἰ δή τιν ἐχεπευφήμησ᾽ ἀκέων χωομένοιο κῆρ...", and then dug under the ground.

Kraid, after the fact, was terrified of what was happening to him. He saw his scales going apart from each other. Even though it didn't hurt, he was so scared. It was not common for an alligator to get this disease.

He fell into an underground lake below the sand and dirt. When water got into his wound, it turned the water red, and the wound hurt so bad that he fainted and almost drowned. I fell near him, this time on the shore of the lake. I tried to pull him out of the lake, but he woke up and walked out himself, albeit extremely weakly. I groaned in sadness, looking at what happened.

"I couldn't even understand what I was sayin'." Kraid said.

"Were you dizzy? What happened?" I replied.

"Ow..." Kraid exclaimed in pain, "My leg..."

He clenched the injury, trying his best not to touch it. Then, he healed the injury using his mind, though his scales seemed a little uneven.

I was feeling just as bad, wondering how to escape. I tried to dig using my hands, but the rock I was attempting to dig up was a metal ore.

"Guess I'll just explore this place, then." I said this as I saw the cave close to the shore of the underground lake.

## Chapter 2

I walked very nervously, hallucinating dangerous things like megaspiders. Kraid soon came with me, creating a lightcube in his hands. We saw a kind of writing on the walls, looking like an odd notation that uses a unique style of creating symbols.

Kraid looked at the writing and said, "No camels." It was like he understood the language they were writing. The sentence consisted of a depiction of a camel with an X above its back.

Later on, we saw a longer sentence, which Kraid read as "Why cannot we go outside of this cave? It is prohibited without permission from the King.". What the sentence meant was King Viper, who had been alive for over 12000 years (until 2038).

Then we met One of the people who wrote in that language. He wasn't an alligator like us. He appeared to have been sleeping for 10000 years. He was unable to communicate in modern English, and we couldn't read the drawings aloud without reading them in English.

"I'm still confused as to how any species of our level can live that long." I said.

"That's weird..." Kraid said quietly. "Super, look."

"What's that?" I replied.

Then, I saw a long repeating pattern beyond the man, a sentence that describes feeding a herd of goats infinitely many times with 8923 layers. I was scared; what did this mean?--why is this sentence so long?

## Chapter 3

We started walking toward the beginning of the sentence, since it was on the right wall written left to right.

As we were walking, Kraid said "That Greek I spoke? It was not really ''Greek''. I was born in a Greek-speaking community, but now, my Greek is quite rusty since I haven't spoken it in a while."

I replied, "I used to really want to learn Spanish, not that I'd use it or anything, but now, I don't know any real Spanish words."

"I'm not sure you know many other languages other than English...do you?"

"I am learning a language I have been interested in for around 10 months now..."

... Our chat went on for a long time, varying between some topics.

## Chapter 4

Then, someone I was familiar with, a hippo, fell through the ceiling of the cave. He appeared to be Khanjimitan.

"...What happened?" he said.

We decided to have him join the trip. After a few moments, we were attacked by a bunch of opal-coloured mannequin insects. Their colours ranged from teal to magenta to yellow. The mannequin insects had long pickaxes in their hands, and when we tried to flee, they tried to mine us. The specific one they were trying to mine was Kraid. They did this because they knew he was immortal.

I had to leave the cave, and went back to the lake.

## Chapter 5

{The next events in the story will focus on Kraid and Khanjimitan.}

Kraid was under the mannequin insects. He managed to kill them with a very unique method.

Khanjimitan was trying to wake up Kraid, since he was unconscious. He tried to talk to Kraid but it didn't work, until Kraid said "Ὀ τε κράτερ κάρητ᾽ ἐστεροῦ χρυσεόων, πληρευτών...". He then appeared to be aware again.

Then, the air surrounding them got colder and colder. As Kraid tried to reach a standing position, Khanjimitan found a really dangerous place when looking through the cave. The place had water frozen as liquid nitrogen, and the rock surrounding the place was of temperature that was not so stable; first it was really cold, and then only a few milliseconds later, it was hot, sometimes becoming molten. The hole also contained a really strong current of wind, making the liquid nitrogen boil to create a fog of steam that obscured vision. As he was attempting to climb through a hole, he slipped into the fog. He was scared. He knew he would freeze, but he didn't know the exact time. He hoped he would make it through.

It got colder, and colder, and colder. Eventually, he passed through the fog and reached the top, where he found the entrance to the cave, but Kraid was nowhere to be seen. He began to search, trying to look through the cold substance on the floor of the cave.

It was very difficult to find Kraid, but he finally found him. Kraid had been knocked unconscious and frozen. He had gotten extremely close to the liquid nitrogen, and it had cooled the air that he was breathing very fast. As the air cooled to absolute zero, he froze to death. After he came to his senses, he was lying on his back, staring at the ceiling of the cave. However, the air suddenly turned so hot that the ice cracked and melted. The duo fell under the ice, and the water became so hot that the rock under the water became molten, and the water started boiling. The lava shot through the ice hole, and they escaped as it was eaten by the air and liquid nitrogen.

At this point, Khanjimitan noticed that the mannequin insects had returned, but this time, they had L.A.S.E.R. beams on their hands. The air was so hot that even the mannequin insects were starting to melt.

"S...Something's wrong..." Kraid said.

Khanjimitan suddenly became unconscious and sank under the ice. He was drowning.

Kraid said "O-Oh n...no!"

The mannequin insects decided to help Kraid. They jumped down to the ice and grabbed him, and walked up to the previous part of the cave, taking Kraid with them.

## Chapter 6

Kraid was relieved. Kraid then saw a tunnel right next to the entry of that part of the cave, appearing to be glowing white and yellow. When Kraid entered the tunnel and the light, the light turned red, and a loud beep sound occurred, almost blinding and deafening Kraid. Then, Kraid was pushed out of the tunnel.

Kraid decided to go to the lake again. When he arrived, there wasn't a lake, just a desert.

"Oh no..." Kraid said.

A suspicious voice responded to Kraid: "What's wrong?" The voice sounded a lot like Khanjimitan, but it was raspy, and had a slightly different accent.