CastleVania: James Taylor's Story.
Chapter Twelve: Rotating Room.
James and Helika stood at the two doors and pushed. The doors opened soundlessly and they stepped inside. The doors shut behind them, and Helika looked back, to see her staff, bow, and quiver hanging on the door. She quickly plucked them off their hanging spot, slipped the bow and full quiver on her back, and held her staff in her right hand. James smiled and silently nodded to her.
As they began to walk in the strange room, James felt a sense of vertigo. He looked over at Helika who held a nauseated expression on her face, and kept walking. Then, with no warning what so ever, the whole room began to shake and parts of the floor rose from the ground, while most fell into oblivion. James quickly grabbed Helika and tossed her onto one of the now floating plat forms, just as the piece of floor she'd been standing on gave way and fell. James jumped onto the platform, and crouched down next to a very confused Helika.
"Stay down! The rooms still shaking, and if you fall, you're a goner!" James said, having to be a little loud over the rumbling. The room stopped shaking and James stood, and helped Helika stand. They began to jump from platform to platform, completely content with the bottomless pit below them. James was mid jump when he looked at the room around him, and actually took in his surroundings. There were floating candelabra, and the rest of the room was spinning. James did a double take as he realized that the room around them was actually rotating!
"Helika! Whatever you do, keep your eyes forward!" James shouted back at her. James was already feeling vertigo, and as he landed on another platform hear a light "thud", and then the noise of someone vomiting. James looked back to see Helika hanging her head over the edge of the platform she was crouching on, and she was puking over the side. James looked around, careful not to get sick, and saw several skeletons jumping their way toward them. He also saw an exit. Sadly, it was where the skeletons were coming from. "Helika. We have to move, now!" James shouted. Helika rose, wiping her mouth.
"Easy for you! You don't get motion sick!" Helika shouted, and began to leap platforms to James. James knew she'd catch up so he began jumping towards the skeletons. He whipped out a boomerang, and tossed it at the first three. The first one got its head taken off. The second one got struck in the chest, and the third met the same fate. The boomerang came back to James, and just as he was about to lob it again, he leapt to another platform. But James realized something as he flew through the air. He'd overshot his jump. He was going to hit the far edge, and tumble into the darkness below. And what could James do? Absolutely nothing. So as the inevitable happened, and James feet the far edge of the ledge, all he did was scream. Scream and fall.
