Rumbling Falls Cave Novels & Stories

You are one of a lucky person invited to participate in a FALLING GAME. GOLDEN RULE: ONCE YOU FALL, YOU LOSE. Rules: Exclusive for students of Oxford International School only. Any transferee or an exchange student must sign a contract to avoid ghosting or other problems. Don't kill other participants. You are allowed to harm anyone in the game but killing is a crime. No to inactive and have an absence issue. This is a couple game. Two absents are equal to removing in the game plus a punishment. Can do activities and attendance. Failure to comply means a punishment.

A low rumble rolled through the cavern, answering her words. I pulled her closer, growling at the darkness. “It doesn’t get to claim you.” Her fingers curled into my shirt, gripping hard. “I didn’t fall,” she said, breath uneven. “I was taken.” Cold slid down my spine. Before I could respond, the ground trembled violently. The red glow beneath the stone brightened, veins of light racing outward from the center of the chamber. Something massive shifted below us. Not rising. Turning. A voice rolled through the cavern—deep, ancient, and wrong.

Steam curled from the water in lazy, twisting ribbons. A waterfall spilled from a jagged opening halfway up the far wall—not just water, but glowing, shimmering liquid, threaded with faint sparks. Heated brimstone mist—hot, but not caustic—cascaded down, meant to cleanse rather than burn. It crashed into a central basin, sounding like distant rain on metal. The roar wasn’t loud, just constant—a living backdrop wrapping the cavern in steady hush.

Just as we neared the final bend toward the cave's rear exit, a low rumble vibrated through the ground beneath us. We stopped in our tracks. "Did you hear that?" one of the girls whispered, eyes wide. Then we heard it again, a distant roar, like something tearing through the earth itself. A loud, echoing BOOM shook the tunnel, followed by what sounded like gunfire or explosions and screams in the distance. "Shit," Stella hissed, crouching low. "Something's going on out there." My wolf stirred violently inside me, scratching against my chest. My skin prickled with unease.

My teeth rattled against each other in a rhythmic, mechanical stutter. A low-frequency vibration began in the stone. It was a deep, subsonic drone that I felt in my feet before my ears. Each cycle sent tremors through my teeth. The stone groaned—a heavy, grinding sound of molecular failure. Dust rained down, coating my hair and sticking to the sweat on my neck. "Clear the hole!" I roared. My heart was racing, a frantic thud-thud in my ears. "Pull back!" We scrambled backward. The grit was abrasive under my palms as we climbed the tunnel entrance. We cleared the lip just as the physics took over.

“I can handle myself very well; just tell me where Isabel is? Antoine said. Jerika felt intimidated by Antoine at that moment. He was loud, angry and creating a scene out of his nature. Moreover, crowd started to gather hearing the commotion between the two. Jerika felt it was best to leave if Antoine won’t. Jerika stood to leave but Antoine grabbed her hand demanding answers out of her. Jerika protested to ask him to leave but she felt restlessness. She experiences pain in her neck and back muscles, increasing by the second. She was breathing with great difficulty and in few seconds she collapsed. Before Jerika lost all her consciousness she heard faint voices of people reaching out of her,

They start to hear the water flowing from within the cave, the same sound Dante had heard. Fireflies are still present inside the cave attached to the moisten walls of the cave. Magnificent stalactites and stalagmites are present inside the cave. As they go deeper into the cave, they also o saw the same glowing object stuck in a stone boulder a few meters away from them. It is surrounded by water. This was definitely the source of what they were hearing a while ago. There is a waterfall behind the stone boulders that creates peaceful sounds of flowing water.

I can barely seen anything. Lance can though. So, I hold onto his hand and follow him through the darkness that stretches on. Until finally, a soft glow radiates through the black up ahead. We continue until we reach a breathtaking cavern. It looks like fireflies are embedded in the ceiling, flashing light onto the rock below. A blanket has already been laid on the smooth rock, with two glasses, a bottle of champagne, and a picnic basket of food waiting on it. A bouquet of red roses lay nearby. Soothing music echoes through the cavern.

We approached from the area with the least traffic and staying as low as we could, we got ready to attack. Todd pulled the pin from one of the grenades and tossed it toward the entrance, Liam followed suit and Devon had his rifle aimed at the sky. As the grenades hit Devon’s shots rang out, felling at least three Nephilim. The flashes of light drew their attention, but we had split up and were already moving, headed in the opposite direction. Cassi, Liam and Todd had headed in one direction, while Devon, Kenneth and I headed in the other direction. Pausing intermittently to shoot and/or throw explosives in, we continued to work the perimeter of the nest. Kenneth’s arrows taking some of them

Then the rocks shifted. Without warning, part of the ceiling crumbled, scattering stones that rained down. Dust clouded the passage, choking their lungs. A loud crack reverberated through the tunnel, and one officer was nearly pinned beneath a falling boulder before his partner yanked him away at the last second. The earth groaned, as if protesting their intrusion. Still, they pushed forward. Minutes blurred into hours underground. They waded through knee-deep murky water in places, rats skittering past their boots. Then came the snakes. Thin, hissing, venomous creatures disturbed from their nests.