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"Jared, quit doing that!" I screamed for the trillionth time.
"Sorry," said Jared for the trillionth time.
"Quit that! Or I'll abandon our deal and leave you alone in here!"
Finally, he stopped snaking his hands around my waist. Instead, he held my hips.
"Don't do that!" I yelled.
Sapphire whistled. "Jared, please."
"Yeah," I agreed with Sapphire. "You'll fall and die."
Jared sighed. "Fine, then. I'll leave you alone."
But Jared smiled—because when Penny started to fall asleep, she leaned onto him, then Jared took that advantage and held Penny, making her to lie on his chest.
Sapphire just snorted and flew on.
"Jared, what are you doing?!" Penny's voice snapped.
Jared froze. "You just fell asleep on my chest."
"Not that, but that?!" Penny said, pointing to a far end.
"Queen Penelope's castle," Sapphire added.
"It's been abandoned for centuries, Penny." Jared replied.
"Why?" Penny's adorable redhead turned to look up at him.
"Because everyone were afraid to enter, even afraid to enter and preserve the castle—because they believed that the castle are haunted. The throne has been moved to deepest, and the throne's pretty much hard to find."
Sapphire landed on a makeshift place so that she could land and sleep, and live there.
"Get off. I can't go to that place where the throne is, but—"
"Sapphire, only you know how to get there. Penelope told you the way how to get there. You must—"
"Jared, shut up. If this Penny is the real Penny, then she'll know how to get there. If she's not, then…she's not the one." Sapphire said.
"Jared," Penny said, "I feel confident. Come on, let's go."
Jared and Penny entered the long doorway and looked around.
I couldn't believe my eyes. The place was filled with cobwebs, dust, and pieces from ceiling, walls, and floor were cracked.
"Whoa," I said, spiraling to see the room in my whole view.
"Yep. It started to become ruins since Penelope disappeared."
A feeling that urged me to move. "Follow me," I said, and walked off to a hallway on my right side. Then the hallway opened up to a large maze. The way out is far away, where other hallway are.
I walked in the maze, with Jared behind. I instinctively took a hold Jared's hand.
He gave me a look, I said, "Because I have a feeling that something will happen and separate if we don't hold hands."
He nodded, and pulled me closer to him. There was three choices: Right, middle, or left. I took left.
"You sure?" Jared asked me.
"Yep." I said as I faced other choice and chose right.
"But—" Jared began, but a sound shook the ground.
"Dragon." I said, and looked to my right. I snuck my hand in the maze hedge, and pulled out a sword.
"Hey! Where did you get that?" Jared said, confused.
"Shh! Be quiet." I said, and crouched down, my dairymaid dress making a circle as I crouched.
Soon we could feel a heavy thumps from the dragon. The dragon appeared, his mouth open, ready to sprout fire.
I dropped my sword. I got up. I turned to Jared, and said, "Stay here. Don't move, or leave." Then I turned, and started to head for the dragon.
Sapphire could hear the dragon roar and hoped that Penelope and Jared is okay. Sapphire sighed, and sat.
She waited.
"Whoa, calm," I said in soothing tone. "I'm not here to hurt you, but I'm here to go to the throne. I have to test it myself."
"Really?" the dragon asked, doubtfully.
"Yep, you know Jared? He says that he thinks that I'm the real Queen Penelope. So I came here and test it out."
"Are you aware that if you fail to take the throne, you're killed immediatedly?"
"Yes, I am."
"Hmm. Do you need guidance?"
"Oh, no. I know the way myself." I said. I turned to say "Come on, let's go." to Jared, but he was gone.
Sapphire was confused when she saw Jared appear beside her.
"I don't think that I'm allowed to be beside with her," Jared said in low voice. "Now I will never know if she's safe or not."
Sapphire calmed. "I hope so," she agreed.
I was confused. "Where is Jared?" I asked the dragon.
"You must go on this quest alone." He simply answered.
I sighed. "Excuse me," I said, and stepped around the large dragon.
I walked, then chose left.
My mind just said: Right. Left. Left. Right. Right. Left. Right. Left. Right. Left. Center. Left. Right. There's the hallway.
I saw the hallway. I started to the hallway, but I banged into a invisible force that prevented me from entering.
"Get out! I want to enter!"
"You must answer the riddle before you pass."
"Then what is the riddle? Tell me now!" I yelled at nothing.
"What is more powerful than God? What is more evil than Satan? What the wealthy man needs? What the poor man does not need?" the voice said.
"I can imagine that Penny's lost in maze, and…and…" Jared sputtered, sweating. Sapphire frowned and snorted.
"Penny is okay, Jared. I know it."
"Penny lost in maze…scared…dragon devouring her…I can't take it anymore!" Jared screamed, and suddenly sprang to his feet. He ran to the large doorway, but he slammed into an invisible force and were thrown into the air, then slamming onto the ground.
He blinked, and then the darkness enveloped on him.
I didn't have to rack on my mind. It just came instinctively, "Nothing. Nothing is more powerful than God. Nothing is more evil than Satan. Rich man needs nothing. Poor man doesn't need nothing."
"Right answer. You may pass." The invisible force disappeared and I stumbled forward.
The voice said, "There are 4 different tasks. You have completed the first task, and the castle is regained into their rightful beauty one-fourth. You have three tasks left. Complete them all and you shall see the throne. Test it, if you fail, then the palace will lose its beauty again. If you make it, then everything will be back to normal, the castle will be more beautiful than before."
I looked around, and it was true. The darkness now were replaced with gleaming torches; the walls were regained their smooth walls.
I smiled, and continued to my next hard task.