Ruins That Smell of Seawater Here? Kew?(Levi)

The flames along Meramon’s body continued to ripple and erupt, rising and falling like the tides. “I’ll burn you all, until there is nothing left! YOU HEAR ME!!” he roared as the flow of lava continued to grow more violent and began to seep deeper into the ruins.

“You are taking their escape… well. I shall return to give my report. Good day, Meramon,” Buraimon bowed his head to Meramon and turned away. As if it had been called, the great dinosaur bird rose from behind the cliffs that surrounded them. Diatrymon bent down allowing Buraimon to climb atop its broad back. “SCRAWK! BACK TO BASE?”

Meramon barely took notice of this and the volcanic flooding of the ruins continued with even greater aggression.

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Meanwhile, Levi had paused in the darkness. There was almost no light at all, making it slow work to traverse the tunnels. Only the cold stone at their feet, the dull drip-drip of water and that smell of sea-water. They walked for a few more minutes, finding themselves in a deeper tunnel that looked no different than any they had found before. Until, light emerged.

“Buggy, look! Light!” She pointed her fin behind them. As light was filling the tunnel they had just left behind. “Maybe, someone turned on the switch?” Her head tilted a little. “Levi think… is warm?” They had reached what looked like a dead end.

The stones at their feet were starting to grow warmer as the light grew closer. Levi jumped back, falling into Masamune as it flooded around the corner. Beating against the walls and roaring like a dragon. “That’s a scary.”

“No toast, no toast!” Levi muttered as Masamune pointed out the opening above them. “Les’ go!” Gently but with as much haste as they could afford, Masamune pushed Levi up into the upper tunnel away from the swelling lava. She held down a fin to help Masamune up, pulling at him with all the shark might she could muster.

“Das a big scary…” She muttered, looking down at the lava that was still rising to follow them but at a slower rate, due to their newfound height. “Let’s go, follow tunnel! Hopefully away from the scary lava. Only chance?” Levi turned to look at Masamune, her head tilted a little to one side.