Chapter 5
Ahh... Just another morning...
Warm sun, bright sky, and Mr. Wayne is leaving for another meeting. Don't even have to get out of bed to know that... Go me...
Alfred should be coming in to tell me he has to got to go and do some errands in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
The door of her room opened. Alfred entered and looked at her "sleeping" form. "Miss Martin?" he asked. She didn't move. "Miss Martin, I don't know if you can here me or not, but I must go to town and run a few errands. Master Wayne is going to a meeting but he will be back at three to talk to you. I'll be back at 2:30. Goodbye for now." With that, he shut the door. She then opened her eyes and listened to his footsteps growing ever quieter as he made his way down the hallway and down the stairs.
Hmmm... 2:30... It's 12:05 now... he's going to be completely gone at 12:10, so I should have plenty of time to explore! A mischievous adventure-seeking smile grew over her face.
There was just so much to see in the mansion! The kitchen was amazing, and the dinning room was wonderful. The multiple dens were full of their own little bonus, pool tables, big screen T.V's, the works. The room with all of the armor from different countries was fascinating, everything was marvelous.
Now... she thought, according to Alfred's directions, the library should be somewhere around here... I wonder if he has any Tolkien... She thought as she walked through yet another hallway.
She then opened the large, double doors of the library. She gasped at the sight. Shelves upon shelves were full of books that had probably never been read. "Oh my God..." she said under her breath. "This is awesome!" She looked through about 10 rather long rows of books before she ran up one of the flights of stairs that lead to the desk area. She looked at the beautiful woodwork on the desk and looked at one of the glass and gold paperweights on his desk. "This is beautiful!" she commented to herself, "And this is a paper weight? This would be a family heirloom if it were mine..."
Suddenly, she heard a bump somewhere within the library and jumped, sending the paperweight flying into the fish tank behind the desk, luckily, not killing anything.
"Jeeze..." she hissed under her breath as she made her way to the fish tank to retrieve the paperweight, which had conveniently fallen behind the little plastic castle near the back of the tank.
"Man, I am so paranoid... I gotta' pull it together. I mean, it's not like I'm not supposed to be here... is it?"
She rolled up her shirtsleeve and plunged her arm into the tank. She wrapped her fingers around the paper weight and pulled up, but what she didn't know, is that she bumped a little red button she had no idea was there. As the paperweight hit the surface, a loud groaning sound filled the library. She clutched the paperweight to her chest and whirled around, her eyes huge in fear.
A few feet in front of the desk was an iron maiden, which was now opening by it's self.
"Holy-" she said, but trailed off. She placed the weight back on the desk and made her way slowly toward the maiden that was now fully open.
"This is so cool..." she said as she inspected the inside of the maiden. She giggled as an idea crossed her mind. She then backed up into the back of it, making sure she didn't hit the spikes and crossed her arms as she stood there. She was starting to walk away when the doors of the maiden began to close.
She gasped in fear; she was going to be spiked!
All I have to do is walk through the doors! But wait, it doesn't always work, what if I walk into my death! Oh, this can't be happening!
The doors closed completely, but she hadn't turned into a human pincushion. She looked around the maiden. There was light! Suddenly, the ground started to move apart, revealing a tube-like slide in the ground!
She screamed as she slid down the tunnel into God only knew what. And at that moment, Alfred poked his head into the library to make sure everything was okay. He saw nothing, and left.