Chapter 10

After reading the first puzzle I already knew the answer and knew we had to work fast. I said to Jess,

" Jess give me your compact."

" Ren why do you immediately assume…"

" Jess just give it to me we don't have time."

" Fine."

She hands me a circular compact with a sun on it, how fitting. I pier up at the ceiling and sure enough the hole in the ceiling was there and I could see the moon inching toward the hole. I say to Luke,

" Give me a boost."

He cups his hands together and I shove my foot into his hands and push off with the tiny mirror open and ready to catch the moons rays. I aim the light at the wall and a second later it dissolved into the ground leaving two passage ways. I jump down and look at the two passage ways trying to figure out which way to go, but Nico had some other ideas. He started toward the passage on the right when I grab him by the shoulder and throw him to the other end of the room. He yelled,

" WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!"

" I just most likely saved your life."

" Bullshit!"

Jess went running to Nico to make sure he was okay, at worst with a dislocated arm. Jess jumped up and said,

" What's wrong with going that way?"

" He didn't check Jess."

" Well you dislocated his arm because he didn't check."

I walk over to Nico take his messed arm and shove it back into place. He screams with and say,

" It's no longer dislocated."

I walk over toward Luke and take his sword. He yells,

" What the hell is wrong with you Ren?"

I take the sword and thrust it into the right passage and black vines with thrones on them start to wrap around the sword and starts to reach my arm, now my shoulder when Luke grabs me and pulls me out of the vines grasp. I look around and see all their faces arm amazed as well as slightly alarmed that I knew what was going to happen. I say to Nico,

" You're welcome for saving your life."

Nico nodded his head and said,

" Sorry, and thank you."

We started down the leftt passage and stayed down that way for a little while until we came across the next puzzle. On the wall it said,

A blue house is made of blue brick

A red house is made of red brick

What is a green house made of ?

There where three vases in front of us they all looked like they where made of glass. But I know better that one of them is not what it appears to be. I say,

" We have to figure what doesn't belong."

Jess says,

" How do you know?"

" That damn titan hates odd numbers."

" Please explain Ren."

" He went extremely hard on me because I was alone, because I was one. These puzzles are a cake walk because there is an even number of us. Trust me there has to be two not three."

" Which one is the question?"

" That I don't know."

Luke walks up to the vases and just takes one and walks toward me. Then I see a wall coming straight toward him, so I kick Nico in the chest so that he flies into Jess so that they are on the other side of this fast moving wall. I grab Luke by the shirt and throw ourselves to the left. I land on top of him and I hear the wall shut between us with Nico and Jess on the other side. I get off of Luke and start slamming on the wall yelling,

" JESS! DEATH DUDE! ARE YOU ALRIGHT!"

I could barely hear her but she said,

" That hurt Ren, but we're okay. What about you guys?"

I look over at Luke who is shaken up but fine. I say,

" We're okay."

I look at the wall and see a question written on it.

Where is the point?

I go to the other side of the room and take my knife and start to carve in the wall which said,

You have to solve this on your own.

After Luke read he asked,

" Why?"

I tried to talk to him and prove that I couldn't help because no words could come out of my mouth. Luke understood that you have to solve a puzzle for everyone you get wrong. He looks around for awhile and can't find anything, but then he finsds an old sword sticking out of the ground. He puts his finger on the point and we hear a click. I see spear whizzing toward me and goes into my shoulder and into the wall. I pull the spear out of my shoulder and throw the spear so the tip hits the dot over the "I". And the wall started the to go back. In started to stumble and fell to the ground, I was losing a lot of blood. Luke came running to me saying something but I couldn't hear him. Then everything went black.