The White Zone

[Gifted]

Cristel gained confidence when nothing happened and pulled it off. Sighing in relief, she grinned at the dragon. "Thanks so much!" and ran quickly back to Yaz.
Yaz turned into a cat and jumped into her arms, she caught him and laughed.
Then she turned as if she'd just remembered Alexis was there, stroking Yaz in her arms. "Oh, I'm Cristel,"

[Sparrow]

The dragon nods, then watches the group to be sure they don’t toss anything in the volcano.

[Raven]

"Yeah, that's right," Alexis said to the dragon, then to Cristel, "It's nice to meet you."

[Sparrow]

The dragon looks worriedly to the sky, then back to the group,
“Beware what Host leads you to believe.” She says haphazardly.
Quickly the dragon turns and glides back into the volcano.
Moments later the symbol glows harshly.
Then to a flash the group is back in the white room. The cube hovers in its place with the symbols green octagon, and an orange hexagon on its surface.
“You are near the second level, choose.” Host says calmly.
The room seems off balanced, as if tilted to one side; however this can not be seen by the eye.

[Raven]

"The hexagon," Alexis says imidiately.

[Sparrow]

“Very well.” Host says quickly and in a flash Alexis is gone.
“You two, choose.” Host says calmly after a moment.
The orange hexagon, and green octagon remain.


After the light subsides Alexis can view her soundings.
This land seems mute and two-dimensional. The ground is evenly flat, and the horizon is a perfect line. In the distance is a forest, before that a river. However the river seems flesh to the ground and looks to have no depth. Rocks and twigs are also flesh to the ground, almost like they were masterfully painted on. With further inspection the trees would be noticed to be flat, much like cardboard cutouts, but obviously real in some way.

[Raven]

Alexis giggled slightly and went to the river, testing whether or not it was wet.

[Gifted]

"Octagon," Cristel said, and Yazermen nodded. She was worried about what the dragon had said.

[Sparrow]

A low pitched but loud grumble shakes the ground as soon as the water is touched; however the water ripples and is wet like a normal pond. The sound is similar to how one would think metal would sound when being ground.

“...Very good then.” Host says calmly stifling a hissing laugh.
In a flash Cristel and Yazermen find themselves in the new zone.
The entire area appears completely flat; however there is about two inches of water covering it. The sky is white at first but every other second shifts to a different solid color. The water is pale blue, but after further inspection they would see that it branches off into different areas as different colors; the colors abruptly change for area to area, and do not meld. The colors are blue, green, red, purple, black, yellow, white and one area holds a static TV look. Here and there under the water’s surface are large paintings of strange looking animals.

[Gifted]

Curious as to wha the drawings meant, Cristel instructed Yaz to stand guard. She layed face down in the water, holding herself up just enough to be able to study the pictures.

[Sparrow]

The larger pictures she views are a strange peacock-like bird, and a fish with a fanning sail-fin.
A much smaller but highly detailed picture is nearby, it is a bluish mouse curled into a ball, with a fin at the end of its tail. As soon as it is even touched slightly it appears to move; it uncurls and glances at her.

(The other pictures will move / come to life if touched by anything.)

[Gifted]

Thankful her power allowed her to speak underwater without distortion, she said in a kind voice "Hey there... you okay?" trying to see if the mouse would respond to kindness with more of the same. Perhaps the animals inn these pictures were her allies.

[Sparrow]

The mouse tilts its head,
“Hello.”
It looks side to side then back to Cristel.
“Hey did Host drop yha here? I bet he did, yep.” It says then nods agreeing with itself.

[Gifted]

He. That confirmed what Cristel'd thought all along then, that Ruby either was not there or was being controlled in some way. This relieved her more than it should've.
"Yeah," She confirmed what the mouse had said. "Hey do you know if any of the animals in the other pictures are dangerous? Will they attack me if I let them out?"

[Sparrow]

“Other pictures?”
It looks side to side twitching its whiskers.
“Oh, yes them. Most of them will.” It replies nodding.
“Who are you? If you don’t mind me asking.”
It appears as if the mouse is trapped behind glass.