The four cleaned the main hall until everything was back to the way it was, except for the chair that got cut. "Ah, good as new," Green said, enthusiastically. The hall was cleaned at last; there was clapping and footsteps behind them.
"Well done boys," a calm, old voice said. The Mikes looked behind them and saw that the keeper woke up. "I'm pretty sure my maids could have cleaned up this mess, but bravo for your effort."
"Y-you have m-maids?" Green stuttered, in shock.
"Of course I do, I'm surprised you didn't run into them when you came in… speaking of which, where are they?"
"I don't know," Purple said, "there was nobody when we came in."
"Strange, I wonder where they could be."
"Hey," Blue started, "am I the only one bothered by the fact that he was watching us the whole time!?"
They looked at Blue, then at the keeper, then Blue again; Purple facepalmed, he felt embarrassed now since Blue brought up the fact that the Keeper was watching them clean up the room.
They heard voices coming from a nearby closet. The five rushed over to the closet. "Ashley, Sarah, is that you!?" the Keeper called.
"Master?" A female voice asked.
"Quick, open the door," the Keeper ordered. Blue pulled on the door, nothing happened; he then pushed, it still wouldn't budge. Blue had an idea, "Move away from the door if you can," he called to the maids. They heard footsteps from behind the door. Blue pulled out his flail and slammed it against the door, nothing happened. Blue stared blankly at the door.
"That won't work, all the doors in this place are made of reinforced wood, so they won't break" the Keeper explained.
Blue's eyes twitched, "DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD'VE TOLD ME THAT BEFORE I TRIED TO KNOCK IT DOWN!?" Blue was steaming, he had finally lost it. Even though he knew it wouldn't help, he slammed the flail against the door over and over again out of anger. Suddenly a chip of wood smacked Red in the face. Purple, green, and the keeper were shocked.
"He's doing it," Red said excitedly, "he's doing it."
The door finally broke open, wood scattered everywhere. In the blink of an eye the two maids cleaned up the mess without hesitation. When they finished, they stopped so that the Mikes could get a good look at them. They were both young, one obviously older than the other. The older girl had wavy brown hair and hazel eyes; the other had straight blond hair tied up in a ponytail and amber-colored eyes.
"Hi, my name is Ashley," the one with brown hair introduced herself, "and this is Sarah, she doesn't talk much."
"H-Hi," Sarah said shyly.
Red looked at Sarah and had a goal in his mind, get her to talk more. "So are you four quadruplets or something?"Ashley asked.
"No we aren't," Green said, he pulled out his sword and explained what happened.
"So to sum it all up," Ashley started, "You transported here from another world and you pulled out a magic sword that split you into four different people?"
"That's exactly right," Purple said. "For some reason it also gave us each different personalities as well."
Sarah checked the clock, her amber eyes widened as she noticed the time. She pointed at the clock, mouthing something to Ashley. Ashley looked at the four and asked, "Would you like to stay for dinner, I'm sure master would be okay with it." She glanced at the Keeper who smiled and nodded yes. The Mikes thought it would be a good idea, considering they just cleaned the main hall. Red even asked if he could help, strangely enough.
Ashley and Sarah led Red into the kitchen as the Keeper gave the others a tour of the mansion. There was an indoor swimming pool (not that he really needed it, considering that the mansion was located under the lake). A fully stocked library with literally every book you could imagine; they lost Purple somewhere in there. There was an armory with a testing arena, which Blue got distracted with. And there was also a game room that had: a pool table, an air hockey table, every game console known to man, and even some old Arcade machines. Green thought of playing something, but he knew that it would distract him from his main quest.
"So," the Keeper started, "why did you decide to come to my humble abode?"
"We came for the last of the sacred weapons." Green was a little nervous saying this.
"Ah, you mean the Sword and Shield." the Keeper thought for a moment, then spoke again, "Follow me." The Keeper led Green towards a certain spot in the hallway, and looked at the floor. "You see all of these tiles on the floor, correct?" Green nodded a yes. "Well, they are arranged in a certain pattern. All except for one," the Keeper pointed at the ground and at a certain tile. The tile looked almost as if it was pointing at something.
Green's eyes followed the point of the tile up to the wall. There was a crack in the wall, almost as if there was a door there. He stepped towards the wall and pushed it open. The door led to a small walk-in closet type room. The Keeper tuned on a light switch, which revealed a jade chest that had a golden latch. Green walked over to the chest and opened it. Inside was none other than the Golden Sword and shield.