Diamond Mine (M/P)

The gap was big and the ceiling was quite low however that wouldn't be a problem for them. The ninja training gave them the means to climb that wall, though the thought was good but the surface was a little wet and slippery which posed a danger. The Duchess decided to not do it the climbing way and quick handseals brought an invisible wall of 7 meters long and 5 meters wide. She would simply stand on it and there she was flying over the gap below Hoshiro in case he fell down. It took them around 10 minutes to reach the other end, it was a dead end, nothing was around there "This isn't good. I don't see any way pass this wall.".

She looked around for any hidden switches and asked Hoshiro to do the same however that was impossible, there was no switch "It could be possible we were meant to go down." she thought aloud, that was the only way to process. They could use the wall she was standing on and slowly descend. With that thought she would show the shinobi where he could step and off they went. Dropping very deep, it became really hot and hard to breath.

The more down they went, the hotter the air became. This was indeed very dangerous, she stopped the descend while Hoshiro would ask if she was ok. Of course she was, using that little chakra meant nothing to her strength but there was the problem of using fuuton. "Don't worry about me. We need to stop here, going further down will set the platform of fire." it was bad enough to not bring a wire or a sturdy rope with them. She left a hiraishin kunai at the place in case and then look deeper down. "Well, it looks like its not that deep. I think I'll risk jumping in." she said that and jumped right after leaving the cubes and platform suspended in midair.

She wasn't taking a risk, she knew there was water down there due to the moist and a glister seen earlier. Her feet would be coated in chakra to enable her to walk on water. Once landed a loud sound could be heard from afar. They were in some kind of a sewer that lead to god knows where and the smell was awful. The water she stood on was very hot, if anyone soaked on it, it'd really be nasty. She looked around and noticed there was only one way to go but suddenly something splashed in front of her. It seemed to be person.

This guy somehow managed to get a balance, not bad. From what he said, he just happened to be here accidentally. It didn't look like he lied either and Hoshiro was trying to convince her "I doubt he even knows where we are. I propose we bring him along. He can't be too dangerous if we keep an eye on him... Even if he's just a rogue ninja who stole the headband. I've never seen him before, but I can attest to the fact that I haven't seen everyone in Otogakure.". She agreed in the end, they could use another help down here although the shinobi didn't have his weapons too.

The Duchess led them forward, the water became even hotter giving off steam. Looking ahead of them there was a light, hopefully that was it, no more tunnels. Once everyone arrived at that light their sights would be filled with a large glowing mass of lava in the middle of what could be called a round room. There has to be an artifact somewhere hidden. When the last member of their group entered the tunnel behind them would close up and the large mass of lava came to life. It looked like a golem twice as big as each of them. Its two yellow glowing eyes looked down on them and prepared to punch with its huge hands. "Out" she yelled while shunshining 10 meters to the left side. There she would start doing handseals.

The new shinobi was once again saved by his fellow ninja with a kick which sent him flying away from the wrath of that golems fist. Hoshiro used the ice coating the Duchess gave him and skillfully climbed up the enemy alongside its arms striking his sword at one of its eye. The golem being that big was slow and therefore couldn't avoid such an attack although it seems like the creature didn't feel anything. The stab in the eye didn't even make it hiss, it just became angrier and would shake its whole body to get Hoshiro off. Lava would fly here and there from its body while shaking, this will definitely convince Hoshiro to get off.

While running and dodging the lava she remembered the old legends about lava golems, they had a weakness, everything did. "I remember from stories that golems usually have a core inside them. If we can find it and disable then we should be fine." she said but wondered how they could find the core. It was apparent her ice was good enough to not melt under this heat and the scimitar worked too. "I think that enough ice could actually stop it but I am not sure. It'll also take time to freeze it and I'll need a distraction."

A few handseals brought her a large tower-shield, large enough to block any lava coming from the golems attacks. Their adversary would not just stand idle since losing one eye it grew another one to replace the lost eye. So it can even regenerate now she thought but then a blob of lava came out from its body, about 1x1 meters. This meant it was losing some mass by regenerating. Just to test her theory about freezing the golem handseals flew here and there and started to freeze one of its arms, left arm to be exact. The ice began to coat it.

An angry golem was not a good sign and it began to feel the freezing effect of her jutsu. The golem would put his limbs closer to its body and then it started to bubble, a small ball-like drop shot at the roof, more drops began to appear, one nearly hit one of the Duchess clones. In a while the whole room would be under those shots, lucky she had the tower shield.