The Labyrinth

Chapter Three

Labyrinth Doors

By Ronin S. Oath and mudrakdragon1

When Shawna and Casadena reach the beginning of the labyrinth, they see a poor troll-like creature being chased by hundreds of fairies.

"Konnichiwa!" Casadena screams out, calling attention to them.

The troll-like creature instantly stops and looks in their direction. But just as he does so, he is assaulted by the fairies.

After half an hour, the fairies get bored with the troll-like creature and leave him alone.

Shawna and Casadena are still standing there with blank expressions on there faces.

Shawna is the first to speak. "Hey… Are you okay?"

"Konnichiwa!"

The troll-like creature looks up from his position on the ground before blacking out.

Casadena strolls over to the troll-like creature, and gently taps his shoulder with her foot. "Wanna wake him up?"

Shawna walks over. "Yea, wake 'em up!"

"How should we do it? How should we do it? How should we do it?" Casadena repeats over and over again, jumping up and down as she did so.

A wicked smile appears on Shawna's lips. "I know how!"

"How?"

Shawna pulls a CD player from her abnormally large pocket.

"What are ya gonna do, Shawna?"

"I'm gonna wake 'em up," Shawna replies, sneaking slowly up to the troll-like creature.

"M-kay," Casadena says, watching. After about 5 minutes, when Shawna is still in the process of sneaking over to the troll-like creature, Casadena gets bored and pulls a flyswatter from her all-around book bag. With a quick look around, Casadena spots a large group of fairies and starts running after them.

When Shawna is finally beside the troll-like creature, she turns her CD player on loud and places the headphones on the troll-like creature's ears before hitting the play button.

The troll-like creature nearly jumps out of his skin when the song 'Let's Get it Started' by Black Eyed Peas comes on, which causes Shawna to start a laughing fit.

Hearing the sudden laughter, Casadena faces them. Then gets hit in the head by charging fairies and falls to the ground as they begin attacking her. "Ahhhhhhh! Help me! They're trying to murder meeeee! Help!"

"Huh?" Shawna glances in her friends direction. Just as she does so, the fairies abandon Casadena and start chasing her instead!

Casadena stands, dusting herself off, and walks over to where the troll-like creature was sitting, staring at the CD player in horror. "Konnichiwa!"

"Casadena! Some help here!"

"Oh yea!" Casadena pulls her all-around book bag off of her shoulders, and searches through it until she finds what she was looking for. Standing back up and placing her all-around book bag back onto her back, Casadena throws the item and the fairies go after it like a dog with a ball.

Shawna exhales a breath of relief, standing up from the attack, dusting herself off. "What was that?"

"Fairy Treats!"

"Fairy Treats?" Shawna asks, an eyebrow rose. "Hm…" Shawna goes to look at the so-called Fairy Treats, and picks one up off of the ground. It wasn't Fairy Treats at all… It was pure sugar cubes! Shawna's eyes fill with tears. "These were my sugar cubes."

The fairies stop devouring the sugar cubes, and glare at Shawna evilly, their tiny faces covered with uneaten sugar.

Shawna gulps, seeing the murderous glares. "Um… And now they're yours!" she says, slowly stepping back until she was beside her friend and the troll-like creature.

"What do you want?" the troll-like creature asks in a grumpy voice.

"We wanna get into the labyrinth!" Casadena answers merrily. "Will you help us?"

"Hoggle doesn't help no one."

The evil smirk returns to Shawna's lips. "Oh, you'll help us."

Hoggle looks to Shawna oddly. "Why should I?"

Casadena bites her bottom lip, trying to think. "Because we need into the labyrinth."

Hoggle glances over to Casadena, then turns his attention back to Shawna. "Well? Why should I?"

"Because we need to get into the labyrinth," Shawna repeats.

Casadena nods in agreement. "How do we get in? How do we get it?"

"That's all you need to tell us," adds Shawna with a shrug.

"Why ya want in there for?" Hoggle inquires.

Shawna sighs, before answering. "We wanna get to the castle."

"How do you get in?"

"Through the door," Hoggle answers as if it were logical.

"But where's-" Casadena stops what she was about to asks, her head turned to the side. "Fairies!"

Shawna jumps around, preparing for battle. "Fairy? Where? They'll not get me twice in one day!"

"Never mind," Casadena replies, placing her left hand on the back of her head. "It was just a leprechaun."

Shawna blinks. "A leprechaun?" Once again, her eyes fill with tears. "You should have captured it!"

"Why?"

"We could've been rich if you have captured it!"

"Why?"

Shawna hits Casadena on the head. "Anyways… What door?"

"What door to what?" Hoggle inquires, going back to his business.

"That's not really very helpful," Shawna replies dully.

Casadena walks up the nearly hidden gate. "Is this the door?"

Shawna looks to Hoggle. "Is that the door?"

"You're not asking the right questions."

Shawna growls. "Where is the door into the labyrinth?"

"Right there," Hoggle answers, pointing to the gate beside Casadena.

As the gate open, the three of them enters.

Shawna looks down both of the passage ways. "Left or right? Right or left?"

"If I were you," Hoggle cut in, "I would go back the way I came."

With a gasp, Casadena raises her finger into the air. "I know!" Casadena runs right into the opposite wall and falls backwards.

Shawna blinks, looking down at her friend. "Well… Guess we don't go that way." Grabbing Casadena by the back of the girl's shirt, Shawna drags her friend down the passageway to the right.

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Seemingly walking for hours, Shawna stops and drops her friend.

Casadena's head falls backwards, hitting the hard floor. "Ouch… That kinda hurt…" Rubbing the back of her head, Casadena stands up.

"This is getting us fucking nowhere slowly!" Shawna growls out, hitting her head against the wall.

"'Allo."

"What?" Shawna stops hitting her head on the wall in order to look around. "'Ello?"

"Hey, look! A worm!" Casadena picks up the worm and places it inside her mouth, getting ready to eat it.

Shawna quickly smacks her friend upside the head, causing the girl to spit out the blue worm. "Don't eat the worm, ya dipshit!"

"'Allo," the worm repeats from where it was first standing.

Shawna glazes down at the worm. "'Ello."

"Thanks for the bath."

Casadena smiles.

"Come inside and meet the misses," the worm tells them, entering a small hole which it called 'home'.

Shawna blinks down at the small hole. "Uh…"

"M-kay," Casadena replies stupidly.

"How are we suppose ta get inside?" Shawna asks Casadena.

"Hm…" Casadena bites on her bottom lip as she tries to think. "I know!" Casadena pulls a set of markers out of her all-around backpack, and starts drawing a face on her index finger. Once she was finished, Casadena sticks the finger into the small hole.

A vein appears on Shawna's forehead as she tries to keep her cool, and without warning, she whacks Casadena on the back of the skull.

Casadena removes her finger from the hole in order to grab the back of her head with both hands. "Ouch!"

The blue worm crawls out of his home. "Where did Chris go?"

Shawna looks from Casadena, to the worm, back to Casadena, then to the worm once more. "Who?"

"Chris."

Casadena looks at the face drawn on her finger.

Shawna pushes her friend out of the way. "Do you know which way we should go?"

"Neither," the worm tells her.

"Huh?"

"Neither," the worm repeats. "I'd go through that passage over there."

"What passage?"

Casadena concentrates on the wall. "In the… wall?"

"Okay…" Shawna takes Casadena by the arm. "Let's test this idea."

"Which idea?"

"This one!" Shawna says, before throwing Casadena into the wall.

Casadena passes through the wall, but fell right on her face since she expected to hit wall instead of pass through the wall.

"What do you know… It really works." Shawna walks through the wall, trips on Casadena's leg, and falls right on top of something.

To Be Continued…