I hit the ground hard. The force of the impact takes the breath out of my lungs and leaves me gasping for breath with an agonizing pain coming from my back. The whole world seems to be spinning and I'm seeing double. Slowly my mind recovers and I start to remember where I am and how I ended up on the ground in the first place.
"That was a dirty trick!" I yell as I slowly get to my feet with my joints feeling like their on fire.
"Oh Johnny boy if you only could remember me then you'll know I've never played fair" The creepy voice says with a eerie laugh. "Now you better hurry up and get that key in place because in two minutes boom!"
I don't even waste time to reply and head as fast as I can towards the dining hall where the witches and that box is. Unfortunately because of that fall and the resulting pains in my joints means my fastest a slow crawl through the corridor, I only can manage even this slow pace by leaning on the cold stone wall for support. I can barely move and each step I take is pure agony but some how I manage to crawl back to the dining hall and up to the table. Leaning over the table looking down on the box I see three key holes. They all look the same so ever every key fits into every slot or it will be trial and error until I find the right hole for the key. Ever I get lucky or guess right the first time as I put the key into the left key hole and find it fits first and are rewarded by the sound of gears moving around inside the box.
"Good work Johnny you won the first game now onto the second" The Creepy voice says. "But first you deserve a reward" There's a sudden loud clink and I turn to find Yoshika lying on the floor unchained and just waking up by the looks of it. "Once you healed your wounds head to Minna's office for the next game and bring that little girl with you"
"John who is that" Yoshika says as she gets to her feet but as soon as she see's the state I'm in her eye's widen and she soon forgets about her question. "John are you OK what happened to you?"
"I'm fine but I could use your healing magic right now" I tell er trying not to show how much pain I'm really in. Oh and I fell off one of the support beams in the hanger"
"OK stay still and I'll have you healed in no time" Yoshika tells me with a smile as she begins to heal my wounds. "What were you doing up there in the first place"
"Getting a key, after your done we need to head to Mina's office to get another key" I answer.
"Shouldn't we get the other free first" Yoshika asks as she finishes her spell and looks around at the rest of the 501st.
"That''s why we need to go to Minna's office the only way to free them is to get two more keys" I reply as I stretch my joints finding that all my pain's are gone. "Come on the sooner we get to Minna's office the sooner we can free them"
As soon as we enter Minna's office the door slams shut behind us and locks it self. Nothing here seems out of place, I've been in Mina's office several times in the past and right now the room looks no different now then it did any of the other times I've been here.
"Johnny are you read to begin?" The creepy voice asks as it fills the office. "This game is simple find the door key and get out of the room, you have five minutes again to get back and I don't need to remind you about what will happen if you don't get there in time"
"What's he on about John?" Yoshika asks as she grabs my arm. "What is he going to do"
"Oh I forgot you only just started playing our little game" The voice says. "If you don't make it back before the times up than... BOMB! No more witches. No let the game begin"
"Why would..." Yoshika begins to ask as a loud ticking sound fills the room but I cut her off by putting my hand over her mouth knowing that arguing with this man will be a waste of time.
"It's no use lets just find that key" I say as I uncover her mouth. "I'll check the left you should check the right"
Within minutes we've turned the whole room upside-down and made a complete mess of the room as we throw objects randomly at he ground but we have still failed to locate the key. By this time Minna's office is a mess with all her books and paper work littering the floor, her desk has been over turned and I've moved her bookshelf away from the wall but still we can't find the key anywhere. Yoshika isn't really helping as she want's to constantly stop searching for the key and to clean up this mess, I'm starting to get tired of telling her to stop cleaning and start looking.
"Two minutes until the big bomb guys you better hurry up" The creepy voice taunts.
"Where is it?" I ask out loud.
"It can't be here we've searched every inch of this room" Yoshika answers sparking a sudden thought in my brain.
"No we haven't" I tell her looking up at the ceiling and noticing for the first time that some of the wooden planks above my head are lose. "Get on my shoulders we haven't check the ceiling yet"
Yoshika doesn't hesitate and climbs on my shoulders as soon as I bend down to make it easier to climb on, Yoshika doesn't weigh much and I can probably hold her up all day if I had to but with the time limit ticking away I doubt it will come to that. We move around the room stopping to check any wooden planks that Yoshika feels are lose and finally after checking four or five planks Yoshika finds the key and a wave of relief washes over me.
"Good work now you better hurry only sixty seconds left" The voice says as Yoshika jumps down of my shoulders.
"Give me the key I can get back faster" I tell her as soon as her feet hit the ground.
