The inside of Spa Days looked calm and relaxed. The walls were painted a relaxing purple and the floor was hardwood. Small lamps let out soft amounts of light. They were in the lobby. To their right was a red couch and chairs. A dark wooden coffee table in front of the couch held a stack of teen magazines and a plate of cookies.
Sumi walked up to the desk to their left. A woman sat at the desk typing away at her computer. She was pale and straggly. Her dirty blonde hair was tied up tightly in a bun. Her piercing green eyes finally looked up at Sumi.
"My friends and I are here for a spa treatment I arranged. It should be under the name Sumi Coniglietto. "
The woman sighed as if Sumi had just asked her to go do hard labor. She began typing again. She paused and read what was on the computer. "Go on in." With that she turned back to her computer and started typing like before.
"Okay, you all, we can go ahead in." Sumi informed. They all gathered back together and went through a door. From there, they found themselves in a large room with mud baths, massage tables and more stuff of that sort.
A short muscular woman shuffled over to them with a warm smile. She went up to Sumi and Sada, giving them a tight hug. "Sig.na Sumi e Sada! Come siete stati?" She looked at the rest of the group. "Sono questi più clienti?"
"Yes, Stephanie, these are our friends. Sumi dragged us all here for a spa treatment." Sada sneered, rolling her eyes. Sumi elbowed her.
"MOST of us are glad to be here." Toki offered, "I apologize for Sada, she can be moody." She threw in a friendly smile to the small woman, who smiled in return.
She turned to the rest of the people. "Hello, I am Stephanie Durnaby. It is nice to meet all of you." Her accent was heavy and it was kind of hard to understand what she was saying.
She looked at the clipboard in her hands, lifting up the first sheet on it and glancing at the second. "It looks like the girls have a manicure and pedicure while the boys have massages. All of you have the mud baths."
She pointed at one door that had the word 'donne' written on it. "All of you girls need to go and change into your robes in that room." She then pointed to a door at the other end of the room. It had the word 'uomini' written on it. "All you guys go in there and change."
With that she walked off to other people in the room. The group separated and went into their rooms.
In the room labeled 'uomini' the boys had already begun to change. They had found a stack of clean robes in a basket and had started in on them. Max grabbed the last one. That's when he noticed something odd.
"Kai, come here." Max called over quietly, trying not to grab the attention of others. Kai sighed and strolled over to see Max studying the bottom of the large basket.
"What could possibly be that special about a basket?" He sneered rolling his eyes to himself. He looked at the others who were heading back into the main room. "The others are leaving you know."
"Does it look like a door at the bottom of this?" Max asked, completely ignoring Kai's rude comments.
Kai reluctantly got down beside his friend and examined the basket. In the middle of the basket was square cut out in the middle with hinges on it's right side. It was just big enough to fit one person at a time in.
Kai, now as curious as Max, slid his fingers under the left side of the square and tugged up. It opened like a normal door would. From there it had a set of stairs that a sewer might have, leading down to another place.
Max excitedly jumped up and climbed into the basket, starting to go down the newly found stairs.
"What in hell do you think you're doing?" Kai asked angrily, grabbing Max by the back of the collar, ready to pull him out.
"I'm just going to see what's down there," Max protested. "I'll see what's down there and come right back up. Go ahead and join the others, I'll be back soon."
Kai snuck a nervous glance toward the door, "I... I'm coming with you."
"Why?" Max asked, half of his body already out of sight.
"Because, Sumi can be as sweet as anything, but if she finds out I let you go to some strange place by yourself, she'll skin me alive. She's straight from hell I tell you." Kai glanced again at the door. It wasn't just Sumi either. Sada would kill him too, for being so stupid as to go down a set of stairs when he had no idea where they let out.
Max laughed a little, "Sumi will never know." Looking at Kai instantly let him know what else was on his mind. "Sada won't ever know either."
Kai looked a little eased. "Go on then, I'll be right behind you."
The two of the climbed down those stairs for a while, until Max finally saw a landing. "It's not too far down from me," he whispered up to Kai, "I'm going to jump from here." Before Kai could protest that, Max jumped from the stairs to the floor below. He moved out of the way. "You can jump now."
After a pause Kai landed next to Max. He looked around them. They seemed to be at the beginning of a hallway.
"I can't see a thing." Max said squinting.
Kai reached down into his pocket and found the beyblade keychain that Sada had given him. It had a light on it. "This will help us at least find out where we're going," Kai explained.
Turning on the light, the two of them struggled through what at first seemed like a series of hallways, but quickly turned to a series of tunnels. At the end of one tunnel was a metal door. The metal was rusted. Even the lock that was on the latch was rusted. On a sign, 'M.I.M. Room' was hand written.
Kai used the fake, miniature beyblade on his keychain to bust the rusty lock open. The door was hard to open and made a loud grinding sound as it did. Once it was completely open, the two boys stepped through.
Across the dark room they heard what seemed to be another door open and close. They heard footsteps.
"Welcome, Max and Kai of the Blade Breakers."
