Suddenly, they noticed something in that empty room. It was a box. Fanie noticed it and went to open it. Fortunately, it wasn't trapped. There were three glass bottles in it.
"What are these?" Taylor asked her, curious as to what these things might be.
"Careful!" Zac shouted. "They might be poison."
"No, not necessarily.." she said, looking at the prescription which were written on the bottles. One of them was a potion which can heal, the second was a potion which can relax and the third was a purify potion, which can be used either to break activated spells or to break the disguise of a hidden ninja.
Zac shrugged at the thought of having to encounter ninjas as he looked at the small glass bottles. Fanie noticed that and said "Don't worry, I don't think we'll have to use it for ninjas. But it will be useful if we see illusions again." Then she stopped, thinking a bit about it, and then continued. "Though, there's only one purify potion and we have to use it wise."
"Watch out!" Demi screamed in fear, trying to warn her friends, though it was too late. "A cage from the ceiling!" She managed to get away, while the others found themselves trapped in it. "Don't worry, I'll save you!" even though she tried to reassure them, it was clear that she was more worried about it than they were.
They tried to find a way to escape, but they couldn't. And suddenly, Zac remembered something. "The purify potion!" he suggested. "The cage might be an illusion as well!"
Demi agreed that it would be a good idea and then smashed the bottle and poured the liquid on the cage. Her eyes widened from the realization. "It's not an illusion!"she gasped.
"And we lost that precious potion for this.." said Taylor.
"Come on, we can't be that screwed. There must be a lock somewhere, to open it.." said Zac, trying to make them feel better.
"Maybe my hair pins will work this time?" Demi suggested, still worried about what would happen to them if they couldn't find a way out soon enough. She opened the cage quite easily, and they were free again.
Free... Once they entered this tower, they simply couldn't be free. Or safe. On the ceiling, there were little volcanoes, ready to erupt. They looked up to see the new danger they had to deal with.
"A door! Everyone hurry!" said Taylor.
They opened this one with the hair pin, as well, they didn't have any other tools to use. And why would they? They were supposed to be partying and having fun now, not... getting locked in mysterious rooms and fighting for their lives.
"Now what?" said Demi, annoyed. "What monster is gonna come and get us in this darkness?"
"Stop whining" said Fanie. "There's.. something behind you!" she continued, looking over her shoulder.
"What?" Demi screamed, while running away scared.
Zac found a stick and lit it with his lighter, so he could see what had scared her. "It's just an armor" he said.
"Give me that for a second" Taylor asked him. Zac gave him the torch and as Taylor leaned in a bit closer, the armor came alive and attacked him with a sword. He blocked the attack with the torch, avoiding to get hit.
"Taylor, catch!" Zac screamed at him, while tossing a sword from another armor which was close to them. He caught the sword and threw the torch back at Zac.
"Taylor, you can do it!" said Demi, trying to encourage him. "You can win this thing!"
"Kick his silver ass, Taylor!" said Fanie.
It seemed like the armor didn't really want to attack Taylor. He just wanted to take Demi with him. Taylor understood his intentions and tried to stop him, but in the end, the armor took her. He grabbed her neck and said "Don't move or she dies."
"You wouldn't!" Zac said. "You want them alive!"
"Are you willing to take that risk?" the armor responded to him with his monstrous voice.
Zac fell silent. He didn't know how to answer that.
"I thought so" said the armor, satisfied that he was right. Then he grabbed Demi, pressed a stone on the wall and managed to get away from a secret passage that Taylor, Fanie and Zac weren't quick enough to follow, before it closed.
"Now what?" asked Taylor.
"We should try to open that passage too. He pressed one of these rocks, it shouldn't be too hard." Fanie said, trying to give them solutions.
The three of them tried and tried to find the stone, but they couldn't find it, so they came to the conclusion that he must have used magic.
"Magic words?"Zac suggested. "Maybe some Harry Potter spell, like Avada Kedavra?" he said and laughed at his own joke.
"No, this is stupid.." Fanie started. "There must be another way." She looked around for a while, until she found something. "Hey, there's another box!"
"Thank god these boxes exist" Taylor said, relieved. "It's like we have some sort of help."
Zac opened the box this time and inside, he found another purify potion and some explosive device. They used the device which cracked a hole in the wall and got out of it. But as soon as they were out, they were in trouble once more...