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Chapter Three: Kenny and Rei Die (sorta)
The boys looked around them warily. The tension was so thick, you could slice a chunk of it off and spread it on some toast. The corridor suddenly split into two sets of stairs, one leading up and left and the other going down and right.
"Which way should we go?
"I say we take the one going down."
Taylor had her eyes open now, and her chin resting on Kai's shoulder. The Bladebreakers went right. Max stepped down onto a step. It shifted under his weight. Suddenly the stairs became a giant slide.
"Another unoriginal idea!" Taylor yelled as she slid uncontrollably down the slide.
"Look out!"
Up ahead, a wall of 4-foot long spikes blocked the staircase. The boys grabbed the stair rail. Taylor's heart jumped. Frantically, she tried to move her arms. Nothing. They still wouldn't respond. She shut her eyes tightly.
"Taylor!"
Taylor's arm was nearly jerked out of its socket. She opened her eyes. Max was hanging on to her arm; her feet were only a foot away from the cruel- looking spikes.
Taylor tilted her head back.
"Thanks Maxie."
"You're welcome," he said, pulling Taylor back up the staircase towards him.
Taylor looked up and noticed how blue Max's eyes were. She had never noticed that before.
Max pulled Taylor up the slide. She smiled sweetly at him and he blushed.
"Um, are you going to pull me up? Or are we going to hang here all day?"
"Oh, right."
Up above them, Kai pressed the switch step. The slide turned back into a set of stairs and the wall of spikes disappeared into the ground. Max pulled Taylor onto his back.
"That was a close one," said Tyson.
The Bladebreakers continued carefully down the stairs. The steps were constantly creaking ominously. They entered a hallway lined with pillars. The candlelight flickered, throwing distorted shadows on the walls. A few of the doors were open, revealing spooky, dusty, old rooms. A bedroom, a library, a bathroom. Kai opened a door. It was another hallway, twisting and turning into darkness. Kenny whimpered. Something touched his shoulder.
"Ah!"
"Shhh! Hey, it's just me."
Taylor had her hand on his shoulder.
"You look frightened," she said.
"Yeah, but who wouldn't be in a place like this," he answered.
Many more passages branched off in different directions. They turned into one lined with suits of armor, each one holding a very real looking axe.
"Wait guys," said Taylor. "Suits of armor. Holding axes. A trip wire."
"It's another trap," said Rei.
"And a very unoriginal one at that."
The Bladebreakers stepped over the trip wire, nervously looking at the glimmering axe-blades. Suddenly, a beeping sound rung around them.
"What's that?"
Taylor looked down.
"Motion detector. Run!"
Behind them, the axes fell with a thump.
"Go, run, go!"
The Bladebreakers ran as the axes fell to the ground only a few inches behind Kenny's (the slowest) feet. The last axe fell to the ground.
"Another close one."
"Whew," said Kenny, obviously relieved.
A voice vibrated around them.
"The next one will take one of you out. "
"Where is she?" said Kai, looking around for the source of the voice.
"Don't try looking for me. I am anywhere and everywhere, I hear every word you say, I even know your heart rate and body temperature, mwahahahaha!"
"That is truly disturbing," said Taylor.
"Shut up, you. Look, just know that I'm watching every move you make. None of you will make it out of this house alive."
The voice laughed.
"I'm so evil," it said.
"No, you are so...disturbing," said Taylor.
"Shut. Up."
The voice didn't speak again. The silence lasted for at least a minute, before Tyson said,
"I hope she has food, I don't want to die on an empty stomach."
"Tyson, you won't just die on an empty stomach, you'll die on an empty brain too."
"Ooh, harsh."
"We have to be extra careful now," said Rei.
"If I'm any more careful, I'm gonna explode!" said Max.
"C'mon guys, let's just make it out of here alive."
The boys continued walking down the hallway. The lights flickered on as they approached and dimmed as they passed so that they could only see a little ways behind and ahead. There was a rumbling sound behind them.
"Uh oh."
"That doesn't sound too good."
Just visible in the darkness, a giant boulder came rolling towards them, fast.
"AHH! RUN!"
Everyone turned around and ran for their lives. But with Taylor on his back, Kai fell behind quickly. An idea suddenly sparked in Taylor's mind.
"Kai, turn into one of those side corridors!"
Kai quickly complied, followed by Rei, Tyson and Max. Everyone peeked around the corner.
"Did Chief make it?"
"AHHH! HELP!"
"I'll take that as a no."
"Chief!"
Kenny ran frantically. Up ahead of him, the hallway ended in a dead end. He stopped abruptly and spun around to face the rumbling menace. His life flashed before his eyes. Getting his first computer at age 5, meeting Tyson in the sandbox at age 6, blading for the first time, the Russian Tournament. And to his surprise, he thought of Taylor. She was the only one who didn't fall asleep when he gave one of his technical and/or scientific lectures, even if she did get lost most of the time. Sometimes, when she didn't get lost, Taylor was quite a help. She was actually very bright, despite her daydreamy appearance. He suddenly had and idea. He just hoped he was small enough.
"KENNY!"
The boulder rushed past. The wall in front of it opened up, let it through, and closed up immediately after. Kenny had flung himself into the corner where the wall met the floor.
"Kenny, are you ok?"
"Ouch, ooh, a few minor abrasions, but I'll be fine."
"Wow Chief, that was amazing!"
"Totally awesome."
"Sometimes being small has its advantages," said Chief.
"That's four booby traps," said Taylor. "She's gotta run out of them soon."
"I have a lot more where that came from," said Dart.
They turned into another corridor that led to another set of stairs heading down. The architecture changed half way down the steps. The walls became stone blocks of granite, torches lit the stairway.
"This must be the dungeons," said Rei.
"No doubt there's gonna be a skeleton or two in one of the cells," said Taylor.
Sure enough, a skeleton sat grinning at them from behind the bars of a dungeon cell. Something shining in the skeleton's hand caught Rei's eye. He went to investigate. The door clanged shut behind him. The sound made the others jump.
"Rei!"
Rei wiggled the bars on the door.
"It won't open," he cried.
"How did it close in the first place?"
Kenny studied the lock.
"This is a very old fashioned lock," he said. "Hey, Taylor, do you have a hairpin or a barrette?"
"Is it just me, or is there suddenly water in here?"
Everyone looked down. The once pretty much dry ground was wet and rapidly getting wetter. A voice laughed.
"It's Dart!"
"Your turn, Rei. I hope Driger doesn't dislike water."
The water began rising faster, now over the tops of their shoes. Tyson shook the bars frantically.
"Taylor, the hairpin?!"
"I don't have one! I put my hair up with a hairtie!"
"We have to get Rei outta there!" said Max.
The water was now at their knees.
"Kenny, how much time do we have?"
"At this rate, I'd say about six minutes!"
The water began flooding in. They could feel it coming between the cracks under their feet.
"Make that three minutes."
The water rose over their waists.
"We all have to get out of here!"
"Not without Rei we don't!"
"Um, guys," said Taylor. "Just to let you know, I don't think I'll be able to swim in this condition."
"Right," said Max, wading to the stairs. He set her down on a step that was out of the water, but still low enough to see the others. He waded back to the boys, the water high enough so that he almost had to swim his way back. Kenny waded over to the stairs, holding his laptop over his head. He pushed it into Taylor's arms and went back to the cell that was holding Rei.
"Hurry guys!"
"I don't know what to do!"
The water pushed the Bladebreakers off the floor. They were floating. Soon, the water would up to the ceiling and Rei would have no air.
The water pushed the boys around like bath toys. Rei suddenly realized something. He dove down to the skeleton and grabbed the shiny thing in its hand. He came back up with a ring of silver keys.
"Where'd you get that?" said Tyson.
"You know that skeleton down there?" said Rei, choosing a key and trying it on the lock.
"Yeah."
"It had the keys, that's what I saw to lure me in here in the first place."
"You'd better hurry up, or you're dead meat!"
The boys' heads were almost touching the ceiling and Rei had to dive down to get to the lock.
"Guys get out of here," he said.
"No way!" said Max. "We can't just leave you down here!"
"Just go! It's better only one of us than all of us."
"But-"
Rei dove down to try another key.
"Guys, c'mon!" said Taylor. She had to lay down on the steps in order to see them.
Rei bobbed up to the surface, spluttering.
"Why are you still here? Go!"
The water pushed the tops of the boys' heads at the ceiling.
"Guys c'mon!" cried Taylor.
Everyone took a deep breath as the water closed over them. Rei tried another key; he had tried over half of them but there were still at least ten left.
Taylor dunked her head under water. Although her glasses didn't work too well underwater, she could still make out the shapes of the Bladebreakers. Those stubborn boys were still holding their breath under water. She could only watch as Rei frantically tried key after key. Kenny swam to the stairs and burst out of the water, gasping for breath. Soon after, Max bobbed up coughing and spluttering. Tyson pulled himself onto the stairs. Kai swam to the stairs and sat, trying to catch his breath. Taylor dunked her head underwater again. Rei was still trying out those keys.
There were only three keys left. Rei's lungs were dying for breath. Stars were bursting in front of his eyes. If he didn't pick the right one next, he'd be history. He jammed another key into the lock and twisted. The door swung slowly open and Rei swam forward. He knew he wasn't going to make it; he was going to die down here. He thought of the White Tigers and the Bladebreakers, they'd be crushed, along with Taylor. Although he had only known her for a week, he had grown fond of her, in that 'neighbor's cat' kinda way. He suddenly remembered a promise he'd made.to a special someone.
'We'll always be friends, right Rei?'
'Of course Mariah, I'll always be there for you.'
'Thanks Rei.'
I'm sorry Mariah, you'll have to survive without me.
Taylor scooted up another step as the water continued to rise. She couldn't see Rei anymore.
"I can't see him anymore," she said.
They waited anxiously for any sign of him. Suddenly, the voice laughed.
"Yes, finally one of you died! I did it! Oh yeah, go me!"
Kai growled.
"Don't be so sure!" yelled Taylor.
A stream of bubbles floated up to the top of the water. Rei floated slowly up to the top.
"Rei!" The boys jumped in the water and dragged him onto the stairs.
"Oh no, please say he's alive," said Kenny.
Rei coughed up water and opened his eyes.
"Thank goodness!"
"He's alive!"
"Whew!" said Taylor. "I was afraid I'd have to perform CPR. Mariah wouldn't have liked that."
"Taylor!"
"What!? I'm glad he's alive, too. Wah!"
She squealed as Tyson pushed her into the water. She sat up spluttering.
"Tyson, YOU ARE SO DEAD!"
Dart watched on the computer screen as Taylor beat Tyson up as best she could. She swore. 'So that's where she those d*** keys got to,' she thought.
On the screen, Kai picked up Taylor and started walking up the stairs. They were headed for the ballroom. 'Perfect.'
Yep, so that's it. Hyperhyperhyperhyper! Wahoo! I don't need sugar to be hyper! WEEEEE! Yeah, so stick with me you guys, I'm almost done, and yeah I know that chapter.what am I on?.well, this story's kinda short, but I love it anyway. Go ahead and clickie that little button down at the bottom, you know, the one that says 'Go' on it. Until tommorow!
SEEYA!
~LadyofAnime
Chapter Three: Kenny and Rei Die (sorta)
The boys looked around them warily. The tension was so thick, you could slice a chunk of it off and spread it on some toast. The corridor suddenly split into two sets of stairs, one leading up and left and the other going down and right.
"Which way should we go?
"I say we take the one going down."
Taylor had her eyes open now, and her chin resting on Kai's shoulder. The Bladebreakers went right. Max stepped down onto a step. It shifted under his weight. Suddenly the stairs became a giant slide.
"Another unoriginal idea!" Taylor yelled as she slid uncontrollably down the slide.
"Look out!"
Up ahead, a wall of 4-foot long spikes blocked the staircase. The boys grabbed the stair rail. Taylor's heart jumped. Frantically, she tried to move her arms. Nothing. They still wouldn't respond. She shut her eyes tightly.
"Taylor!"
Taylor's arm was nearly jerked out of its socket. She opened her eyes. Max was hanging on to her arm; her feet were only a foot away from the cruel- looking spikes.
Taylor tilted her head back.
"Thanks Maxie."
"You're welcome," he said, pulling Taylor back up the staircase towards him.
Taylor looked up and noticed how blue Max's eyes were. She had never noticed that before.
Max pulled Taylor up the slide. She smiled sweetly at him and he blushed.
"Um, are you going to pull me up? Or are we going to hang here all day?"
"Oh, right."
Up above them, Kai pressed the switch step. The slide turned back into a set of stairs and the wall of spikes disappeared into the ground. Max pulled Taylor onto his back.
"That was a close one," said Tyson.
The Bladebreakers continued carefully down the stairs. The steps were constantly creaking ominously. They entered a hallway lined with pillars. The candlelight flickered, throwing distorted shadows on the walls. A few of the doors were open, revealing spooky, dusty, old rooms. A bedroom, a library, a bathroom. Kai opened a door. It was another hallway, twisting and turning into darkness. Kenny whimpered. Something touched his shoulder.
"Ah!"
"Shhh! Hey, it's just me."
Taylor had her hand on his shoulder.
"You look frightened," she said.
"Yeah, but who wouldn't be in a place like this," he answered.
Many more passages branched off in different directions. They turned into one lined with suits of armor, each one holding a very real looking axe.
"Wait guys," said Taylor. "Suits of armor. Holding axes. A trip wire."
"It's another trap," said Rei.
"And a very unoriginal one at that."
The Bladebreakers stepped over the trip wire, nervously looking at the glimmering axe-blades. Suddenly, a beeping sound rung around them.
"What's that?"
Taylor looked down.
"Motion detector. Run!"
Behind them, the axes fell with a thump.
"Go, run, go!"
The Bladebreakers ran as the axes fell to the ground only a few inches behind Kenny's (the slowest) feet. The last axe fell to the ground.
"Another close one."
"Whew," said Kenny, obviously relieved.
A voice vibrated around them.
"The next one will take one of you out. "
"Where is she?" said Kai, looking around for the source of the voice.
"Don't try looking for me. I am anywhere and everywhere, I hear every word you say, I even know your heart rate and body temperature, mwahahahaha!"
"That is truly disturbing," said Taylor.
"Shut up, you. Look, just know that I'm watching every move you make. None of you will make it out of this house alive."
The voice laughed.
"I'm so evil," it said.
"No, you are so...disturbing," said Taylor.
"Shut. Up."
The voice didn't speak again. The silence lasted for at least a minute, before Tyson said,
"I hope she has food, I don't want to die on an empty stomach."
"Tyson, you won't just die on an empty stomach, you'll die on an empty brain too."
"Ooh, harsh."
"We have to be extra careful now," said Rei.
"If I'm any more careful, I'm gonna explode!" said Max.
"C'mon guys, let's just make it out of here alive."
The boys continued walking down the hallway. The lights flickered on as they approached and dimmed as they passed so that they could only see a little ways behind and ahead. There was a rumbling sound behind them.
"Uh oh."
"That doesn't sound too good."
Just visible in the darkness, a giant boulder came rolling towards them, fast.
"AHH! RUN!"
Everyone turned around and ran for their lives. But with Taylor on his back, Kai fell behind quickly. An idea suddenly sparked in Taylor's mind.
"Kai, turn into one of those side corridors!"
Kai quickly complied, followed by Rei, Tyson and Max. Everyone peeked around the corner.
"Did Chief make it?"
"AHHH! HELP!"
"I'll take that as a no."
"Chief!"
Kenny ran frantically. Up ahead of him, the hallway ended in a dead end. He stopped abruptly and spun around to face the rumbling menace. His life flashed before his eyes. Getting his first computer at age 5, meeting Tyson in the sandbox at age 6, blading for the first time, the Russian Tournament. And to his surprise, he thought of Taylor. She was the only one who didn't fall asleep when he gave one of his technical and/or scientific lectures, even if she did get lost most of the time. Sometimes, when she didn't get lost, Taylor was quite a help. She was actually very bright, despite her daydreamy appearance. He suddenly had and idea. He just hoped he was small enough.
"KENNY!"
The boulder rushed past. The wall in front of it opened up, let it through, and closed up immediately after. Kenny had flung himself into the corner where the wall met the floor.
"Kenny, are you ok?"
"Ouch, ooh, a few minor abrasions, but I'll be fine."
"Wow Chief, that was amazing!"
"Totally awesome."
"Sometimes being small has its advantages," said Chief.
"That's four booby traps," said Taylor. "She's gotta run out of them soon."
"I have a lot more where that came from," said Dart.
They turned into another corridor that led to another set of stairs heading down. The architecture changed half way down the steps. The walls became stone blocks of granite, torches lit the stairway.
"This must be the dungeons," said Rei.
"No doubt there's gonna be a skeleton or two in one of the cells," said Taylor.
Sure enough, a skeleton sat grinning at them from behind the bars of a dungeon cell. Something shining in the skeleton's hand caught Rei's eye. He went to investigate. The door clanged shut behind him. The sound made the others jump.
"Rei!"
Rei wiggled the bars on the door.
"It won't open," he cried.
"How did it close in the first place?"
Kenny studied the lock.
"This is a very old fashioned lock," he said. "Hey, Taylor, do you have a hairpin or a barrette?"
"Is it just me, or is there suddenly water in here?"
Everyone looked down. The once pretty much dry ground was wet and rapidly getting wetter. A voice laughed.
"It's Dart!"
"Your turn, Rei. I hope Driger doesn't dislike water."
The water began rising faster, now over the tops of their shoes. Tyson shook the bars frantically.
"Taylor, the hairpin?!"
"I don't have one! I put my hair up with a hairtie!"
"We have to get Rei outta there!" said Max.
The water was now at their knees.
"Kenny, how much time do we have?"
"At this rate, I'd say about six minutes!"
The water began flooding in. They could feel it coming between the cracks under their feet.
"Make that three minutes."
The water rose over their waists.
"We all have to get out of here!"
"Not without Rei we don't!"
"Um, guys," said Taylor. "Just to let you know, I don't think I'll be able to swim in this condition."
"Right," said Max, wading to the stairs. He set her down on a step that was out of the water, but still low enough to see the others. He waded back to the boys, the water high enough so that he almost had to swim his way back. Kenny waded over to the stairs, holding his laptop over his head. He pushed it into Taylor's arms and went back to the cell that was holding Rei.
"Hurry guys!"
"I don't know what to do!"
The water pushed the Bladebreakers off the floor. They were floating. Soon, the water would up to the ceiling and Rei would have no air.
The water pushed the boys around like bath toys. Rei suddenly realized something. He dove down to the skeleton and grabbed the shiny thing in its hand. He came back up with a ring of silver keys.
"Where'd you get that?" said Tyson.
"You know that skeleton down there?" said Rei, choosing a key and trying it on the lock.
"Yeah."
"It had the keys, that's what I saw to lure me in here in the first place."
"You'd better hurry up, or you're dead meat!"
The boys' heads were almost touching the ceiling and Rei had to dive down to get to the lock.
"Guys get out of here," he said.
"No way!" said Max. "We can't just leave you down here!"
"Just go! It's better only one of us than all of us."
"But-"
Rei dove down to try another key.
"Guys, c'mon!" said Taylor. She had to lay down on the steps in order to see them.
Rei bobbed up to the surface, spluttering.
"Why are you still here? Go!"
The water pushed the tops of the boys' heads at the ceiling.
"Guys c'mon!" cried Taylor.
Everyone took a deep breath as the water closed over them. Rei tried another key; he had tried over half of them but there were still at least ten left.
Taylor dunked her head under water. Although her glasses didn't work too well underwater, she could still make out the shapes of the Bladebreakers. Those stubborn boys were still holding their breath under water. She could only watch as Rei frantically tried key after key. Kenny swam to the stairs and burst out of the water, gasping for breath. Soon after, Max bobbed up coughing and spluttering. Tyson pulled himself onto the stairs. Kai swam to the stairs and sat, trying to catch his breath. Taylor dunked her head underwater again. Rei was still trying out those keys.
There were only three keys left. Rei's lungs were dying for breath. Stars were bursting in front of his eyes. If he didn't pick the right one next, he'd be history. He jammed another key into the lock and twisted. The door swung slowly open and Rei swam forward. He knew he wasn't going to make it; he was going to die down here. He thought of the White Tigers and the Bladebreakers, they'd be crushed, along with Taylor. Although he had only known her for a week, he had grown fond of her, in that 'neighbor's cat' kinda way. He suddenly remembered a promise he'd made.to a special someone.
'We'll always be friends, right Rei?'
'Of course Mariah, I'll always be there for you.'
'Thanks Rei.'
I'm sorry Mariah, you'll have to survive without me.
Taylor scooted up another step as the water continued to rise. She couldn't see Rei anymore.
"I can't see him anymore," she said.
They waited anxiously for any sign of him. Suddenly, the voice laughed.
"Yes, finally one of you died! I did it! Oh yeah, go me!"
Kai growled.
"Don't be so sure!" yelled Taylor.
A stream of bubbles floated up to the top of the water. Rei floated slowly up to the top.
"Rei!" The boys jumped in the water and dragged him onto the stairs.
"Oh no, please say he's alive," said Kenny.
Rei coughed up water and opened his eyes.
"Thank goodness!"
"He's alive!"
"Whew!" said Taylor. "I was afraid I'd have to perform CPR. Mariah wouldn't have liked that."
"Taylor!"
"What!? I'm glad he's alive, too. Wah!"
She squealed as Tyson pushed her into the water. She sat up spluttering.
"Tyson, YOU ARE SO DEAD!"
Dart watched on the computer screen as Taylor beat Tyson up as best she could. She swore. 'So that's where she those d*** keys got to,' she thought.
On the screen, Kai picked up Taylor and started walking up the stairs. They were headed for the ballroom. 'Perfect.'
Yep, so that's it. Hyperhyperhyperhyper! Wahoo! I don't need sugar to be hyper! WEEEEE! Yeah, so stick with me you guys, I'm almost done, and yeah I know that chapter.what am I on?.well, this story's kinda short, but I love it anyway. Go ahead and clickie that little button down at the bottom, you know, the one that says 'Go' on it. Until tommorow!
SEEYA!
~LadyofAnime