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Be Careful What You Wish For

The Door That Does Not Open....

"1.... 2.... 3!" The Dragon Knights hurled themselves at the castle door in a unanimous effort. With a thunderous echo ringing throughout the corridor, the ancient door shook violently in place and then suddenly stopped. Still closed tight.

"Die!" Thatz kicked the door with his foot only to regret it. "Damn!"

Rune sighed. It had been nearly thirty minutes of useless shoving and the door still hadn't opened. Several chunks of the door had flown off, but not enough to be able to break through the door. "Tell me again, why we're trying to bust into one of the inner rooms of the Dragon Lord's castle?"

"Demons!"

"Treasure!"

Rune groaned, why did he even bother? "Rath, you know there can't be any demons in the palace."

"Demon info!" Nothing would dampen the young dragon's spirit in his quest for total demon annihilation.

Rune rolled his eyes and decided to ignore Rath. "I don't think the Dragon Lord is exactly going to appreciate our stealing some of his treasure, Thatz."

Thatz waved a carefree hand at him. "Not to worry! I asked Kai-stern and he said nobody even knows what's in this room anymore. He said as long as it wasn't some family heirloom or something we could have it. Now! Again boys!"

"Charge!" This time, only Rath and Thatz rushed at the door. "Rune! We need your help!" Rath pleaded with the Knight of Water.

Rune merely shook his head. "I refuse to. It's not like we're helping the Dragon Lord any."

Thatz was about to make a rude remark when a thought struck him. "Rune, what if there was information in here about how to break the Queen's curse and give the Dragon Lord an heir?"

"What are we waiting for! Shove guys!" Now enthused by the idea that he might be helping the Dragon Lord, Rune pushed against the door with all his faerie strength. Rath and Thatz exchanged smiles of victory before turning and helping Rune shove on the door.

Fifteen minutes later....

"Damn!" Thatz hurled his sword at the door in frustration and watched as it stuck in a crack between the door and the wall. "Man! It's not going to open!"

Rune tilted his head to one side and then another, an idea forming in his mind. "Perfect, Thatz!" Rune took hold the sword's hilt and started pulling it towards him.

"Of course! We can pry it open!" Thatz and Rath both pushed on the end opposite of Rune. Little did they know, they were going about it all the wrong way...

Fifteen more minutes later...

"Damn!" Thatz yanked his sword out from between the crack and went careening backwards into Rune, the two tumbling to the marble ground. "This isn't working!" He screamed.

Rune shoved the Earth Knight off of him. "We can't give up though! There might be a cure for the Queen in there!"

Rath glanced at Fire who sat perched upon his shoulder. "Fire says we ought to try using our dragons."

"Brilliant!" Rune immediately drew his sword and summoned Water. "Open that door!" Water obeyed and hurled himself, along with a giant gush of water, at the troublesome door. Upon hitting the door, Water and his liquid flow were thrown back by some invisible force. Rath and Thatz turned to glare at Rune. The trio was now dripping wet from the reflected water attack. "It's okay, Water. Maybe Fire and Earth can do something."

"You bet we can!" Thatz's Earth Dragon charged at the door, ramming it head first. Earth was also tossed back by the same force that had flung Water from the door. "Or... perhaps not."

"Stand aside! This is a job for... Fire!" Thatz and Rune scrambled out of the way just in time as Fire unleashed a mad torrent of flames at the massive wooden door. The three knights cheered as Fire's flames were not cast back at them. When the smoke from Fire's assault cleared, the trio gathered around the door. "It's...."

"It's...."

"It's...."

"CLOSED!" The knights fell backwards anime style.

"How could it be that wood survived fire!" Rune traced a hand over the burn free door. 

Another fifteen minutes of silence passed. Rune paced the hall, mind in deep thought over how to open the door. Thatz ate a small snack and took a light snooze. Rath simply stared at the door, as if he were trying to open the door with his mind.

At that point in time Kai-stern came walking down the hall. "Did you guys not find anything in there?"

"FIND ANYTHING!?" Rune, being the closest to both Kai-stern and suicide, grabbed the Blue Officer by the collar. "How could we!? The door won't open!" He violently shook the poor officer back and forth.

Kai-stern gulped and placed a hand over Rune's. "What to do you mean.... It won't open?"

Rath hurled himself at the door in demonstration.

Kai-stern wriggled himself free from Rune's grasp and walked over to the door. "You're going about it the wrong way." He slipped his fingers into the crack between the door and the wall and gave it a slight tug backwards. Without so much as an ancient squeak, the door eased open and revealed a dark room. "All the doors in this hall have to be pulled in order to open. We had a slight change of architects during that time due to an unfortunate accident."

The knights faces faltered and all stared at Kai-stern and the door in complete shock. Finally, Rune spoke. "But... we tried prying it open with Thatz's sword at one point and it didn't work!"

"Well, which way were you pushing on the sword?"

"Towards the right of the door...." Rune trailed off, already beginning to realize their stupid mistake.

Kai-stern bit his lip in order to keep from laughing. "I'll check back on you guys later." He walked down the hall and as soon as he rounded the next corner burst out laughing.

"That door was incorrectly labeled...." Thatz grumbled to himself. "It doesn't even have a door knob! How were we supposed to know you had to pull!"

Rath picked up a gleaming piece of bronze off the floor and chunked it at the back of Thatz's head. "It had a door knob."

Thatz stared at the bronze sphere that had bounced off his head and onto to the floor. "Piece of junk!" He kicked the door knob into the depths of the dark room they'd just opened. The obvious clank of metal against metal echoed back to them. "TREASURE!" Thatz grabbed a nearby wall candle and raced through the room.

"DEMONS!" Rath ran after him excitedly.

"NOOOO!" Rune hurried after them.

"What a waste of time!" Rune grumbled as he plopped down on rock.

"Not a single scrap of demon info." Rath lay back in the grass of the castle garden.

Thatz had seated himself on a rock close to Rune's and was currently rubbing away at some bronze thing in his lap.

"What did you find, Thatz?"

The Knight of Earth held up a dull metal lamp. It wasn't anything extravagant. Just your average time worn lamp; the darn thing didn't even have a lamp shade.  "Nothing much, just some old lamp. I don't think it even works anymore." He flipped up the switch at it's base, and a light flickered into life for a few moments before dieing out.

"Maybe it just needs a new light bulb?" Rath suggested.

"Maybe..." Thatz ferreted around in his handy thieves pack and dug out a spare light bulb.

Rune blinked several times. "Uh... Thatz, why do you have a stolen light bulb?"

The knight shrugged and screwed in a new bulb in place of the old one. Not even a flicker of light shone when he turned it on this time. "Piece of crap!" Thatz tossed it aside. The lamp tumbled across the grass before rolling underneath a rose bush with a faint squeak.  "Let's go get something to eat."

Even Rune was forced to agree. After all, they'd spent half a day shoving on a door the wrong way.