After Miri called Malakaus to attention, Team Super-Awesome-the-Best were told to head towards the Warrior Kingdom. [b]"Yes! Awesome. This will be fun."[/b] Malakaus could imagine all the fights and adventures he'd have there, pitting his mettle against other warriors. Sure he might not be the biggest or the strongest amongst them, but he liked to think he was worthy as a fighter. He left with the rest of his team on the [s]chocobo[/s] bird-drawn wagons as they head towards the lands of Hiy-on. For a place known for war, it was quite beautiful. He brought a post card that he'd send back home to his parents for this adventure. Along the way they fought some slimes, but aside from gumming up the wheels of the wagon with their bodies, Malakaus and his crew didn't have a problem fighting them.

Soon they were at the base of the mountain, blocked by giant rocks. He got out of the wagon and was considering just trying to climb over them, but than Miri mentioned the golems. He wanted a fight, sure, but no need to head towards danger like an idiot. Plus, he only had his flail as a blunt weapon, which he doubts would be effective against the golems. Soon they were led to a different entrance, which made him considerably think about fighting golem.s [b]"Riddles...."[/b] A magically sealed door that only allows smart people. Like most riddles the ones presented were vague, and they couldn't use this 'Internet", whatever that was. Malakaus did try to open the door himself, but they wouldn't budge no matter how much force he put to it. Giving up, he stepped back and looked towards the riddles, trying to guess what they could mean.

[center]I have rivers without water,
Forests without trees,
Mountains without rocks
Towns without houses.
What am I?[/center]

Malakaus wrapped his head around this one. He remembered back in his school years about how bodies have blood that sort of flowed like water, and the rest of the riddle he just filled in with what he knew. Forest was like hair, mountains could be teeth or... Gendered things. Towns could be civilizations of those little things in his body that fights viruses and stuff. He liked to think of them as knights in his body fighting against demonic invaders. [b]"The body."[/b] Was his answer to the first riddle.

[center]I turn my head and you may go where you want.
I turn it again, you will stay till you rot.
I have no face, but I live or die
by my crooked teeth
Who am I?[/center]

Now this one was just weird. The first thing that came to the orc's mind was a sign, like the ones that would tell you where to go, but trying to match that up with the rest of the riddle made no sense. He felt that "Crooked Teeth" had something to do with it, and for some reason he thought the awnser was a comb. But that was also a dumb answer, so he didn't say it. [b]"Maybe it has something to do with a grave..."[/b] Unable to come up with an answer, he skipped it to look at the next riddle.

[center]Two brothers we are, great burden we bear
By which we are bitterly pressed.
In truth we may say
We are full all the day
But empty we go to our rest.
What am I?[/center]

For some reason the first thing Malakaus thought of was a stomach. Full as in having enough to eat, but when it gets empty you... Go to sleep? No, if Malakaus had an empty stomach, he'd go eat some more. That didn't make sense, so he put it aside for a more serious guess. Malakaus looked towards the skies, thinking that somehow this riddle might have to do something with the moon and sun. He remembered a story his mother told him along ago about how the moon and sun were siblings, but that story had the sun the brother and the moon the sister, not two brothers. [b]"Maybe the sky and the earth...?"[/b] Malakaus looked around the door for any hints to the riddles that might help, maybe images or little scribbles that would tell him the answer. He definitely knew if he could figure out the answer, he'd carve it into a rock next to the door.