Fortress of Doors

Floors of a chess pattern shape

Stretched for miles before her eye

The walls of bloodied, gray stone

Under a new and wicked sky

The sky did move unusually

In shades of green, purple and blue

It swirled, making her feel a little sick

As she walked into something new

The Rage Box misted in her eyes

'Causing a scream of pain

Her heart raced fast and cruel,

A forceful power she would gain

The card guards came from everywhere

She slashed the knife a little bit more

One and two, and through and through

The cards now laid dead on the floor

She ran past them through the blood

And found a ledge with levers of three

Cat had said, in a certain order

They must be pulled to set her free

She tried again and again

Until she got it right

The doors now lay open

In the hallway light

The chess floor guided her onward

Across the swirling sky

The card that guarded was slain

Before her emerald eye

She ran and ran through the hall

Until she found the portal

A mist of neon green, she walked through

Now returning to mere mortal

The chess floor shook

Then broke, moving up and down

She stepped on each plank carefully

The correct steps, she found

The painting above the entrance

Showed her gagged and bound

With a musket at her chin!

She shivered, but didn't make a sound

Through another portal

Boojums were there to greet her

With a dash of her toy cards

Flames emerged where they once were

The spinning doors opened

One holding the familiar green

She walked through onto stone

Hoping not to be seen

Two boojums and cards were near

As she ran through the stone way

One by one, she took them down

And left them where they lay

"Entering Skool requires a real leap of logic,"

Cat soon said with a mischievous grin

She jumped from the ledge to the door

Another task would soon begin

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