Chapter 12: The Earth Guardian Revelation

While they were working as bellboys, janitors, and whatever the job their boss asked them to do, Edward was called by one of their customers.

"Yes ma'am? How may I help you?"

"Oh yes please. See I have lost my Truffles. I believe she went at your backyard. Please go and get her for me."

"Umm...sure ma'am. So...what does she look like?"

"Well, she's about a foot high and her tail is 2 feet long. She has white and blue fur."

"Okay. I can’t promise you that I can find her but I will try."

"Thank you very much."

When Joed got out of the room. Their boss called him to ask what the customer wanted.

"She lost her dog and asked me to find it."

"Is that all?"

"Yes. Should I go now to look for her dog?"

"Okay. Just hurry back here. There are many customers to take care of. And it's almost dark out there."

"All right."

When he went out at the backdoor of the inn, he has no idea what he got himself into. The supposedly backyard of the inn was a 20 hectares or so of trees.

"Oh my god. What have I got myself into. This is not a backyard. This is a forest."

With the thought that he would not find Truffles and the possibility of getting lost, Joed went into the forest to look for her.

"Truffles...Truffles...here girl. Come to me."

Then he heard a faint barking and tried following it. When he got to where he heard the bark, he saw a cave and heard it again coming from inside.

"Oh no...no way I'm getting into another cave."

But Joed has no other choice. So he bravely entered the cave to retrieve Truffles.

When Joed entered the cave, he felt that someone or something is watching him. He went deeper inside the cave to look for Truffles. Finally, he saw her and was about to return to the inn when he saw something glowing. He went to where the glow was coming from. It was green crystals that lighted a flight of stairs headed downwards. When he was about to turn back, Truffle jumped and went down.

"Truffles! Come back here!"

Joed chased Truffles down the stairs. While he was going down, he heard someone calling his name from down below. When he finally got down, Truffles was waiting by the foot of the stairs.

"Bad dog! Bad dog! If you were not so adorable, I would have left you here to die! Now...where did you take me?"

Joed looked around and something large caught his eye. It was a very big door. On it were carvings of plants.

"Whoa...now that is some big door. I wonder what's behind it."

Joed was walking towards the direction of the door when everything around him lighted. The stalactites and stalagmites glow of the color green. The floor on which he steps has a mark of a tree. Then something rose from the earth. It was a throne that looked like a tree.

"Okay. I'm officially freaked out...but this is cool!"

When Joed was about to get near to the throne, an earthquake happened.

"Now what's happening?"

While the earthquake was happening, the big door was now slowly opening and within it, bright flashes of green light came out. After quite some time, the earthquake subsided and the door was fully opened.

"Now, let's look at the prize behind door number one."