Chapter 5: Hope
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Everyone just stood there looking at the empty space where they last saw Ti'e'yong "I just can't believe it, she isn't gone, she has to be somewhere" sobered Rhen hoping that Ti'e'yong was still nearby but Zan just lowered his head in disagreement "I don't think Ti'e'yong would been seen again, she's now trapped in the sealed dimension, there's no way she could get out" Zan said trying to make Rhen understand, Rhen lifted her head revealing a miserable face as tears poured down her face "how could you say such thing, for god sake she's a child don't you understand what has happened, and all you try and do is pull us together!" wailed Rhen as more tears wept down her face "but you must understand..." "No you must understand, how much would you go through to save a child from danger!" interrupted Trivain with an angry looking face even though tears were gushing down her face, Zan paused for one second then he too felt the same sadness the others witnessed "I should've sacrificed myself as soon as I had open the portal" said Zan in misery as Welton slowly walked up to the gloomy group, he too saw what had happen "now I know how she felt when we left her, I'm such a fool" Welton said sadly as Rhen and Trivain walked up to him and embraced him tightly as their tears trailed down Welton's robe while Zan stood there thinking regretful thoughts "shhh there, there now, she was a brave Roserade and she'd stop Tangwon, she will not be forgotten" Welton said softly as he embraced them tightly as well, they all release themselves from their embrace and tried to recompose themselves but they still continued to sniffle for awhile "indeed she now a big hero to us, but what shall we do, I mean I don't think I can go on with this quest without her by our side" sniffed Rhen as her mind was on Ti'e'yong and not on the quest "I agree, I mean I always look down at her as a younger sister of mine, you wouldn't understand the pain I've been through all these years" said Trivain as a few more tears ran down her face "not only that, but we all promised we'd take her throughout this entire quest, I also agree, we're not going anywhere until we find a way to bring her back" concluded Welton sadly, Zan looked at the trio in agony "such a terrible fate, what have I done" Zan miserably said to himself, Trivain then remembered something and soon began to hum the tune Ti'e'yong used to play and as the music echoed throughout the cave Rhen, Welton and Zan was swept up within it "what is that?" sniffed Rhen as she slowly stopped sniffing "this is the tune Ti'e'yong hummed to me when we were feeling upset, and now I'm humming it to make us feel better" said Trivain and continued humming the tune, as the soothing tune continued playing Rhen and Welton decided to join so they both began to hum the tune with Trivain, once the song had ended everyone was feeling better now but their minds were still on the poor young Roserade Ti'e'yong "let get out of here, from this point for now shall be Ti'e'yong's resting place" said Welton and was limping his way out of the cave followed by the others, then Welton felt someone lifting him over their shoulder "I promised you didn't I" said Rhen as she walked through the cave with him over her shoulder "thanks Rhen, I promise I will not stop until we bring her back" said Welton smiling at her as he hidden his misery inside him, Trivain and Zan who was walking side by side was watching the Gardevoir and Gallade walk through the cave together "you see that, that shows how much they care and look out for each other, and that was what I was like when Ti'e'yong needed help" Trivain pointed out as Zan looked at them "I know what you mean, maybe I should do the same" suggested Zan.
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After an half an hour's journey back up to the temple Zan, Rhen, Welton, and Trivain all looked back at the Mushroom Woods "I just hope that she's alright once we found a way to get her out of there" worried Trivain as she watched the sun set over the horizon "Tangwon is still there with her but it will take some time for him to regain control of himself due to the portals effect, but I don't know if it also affects Ti'e'yong, she might forget her memories" mentioned Zan "lose her memories?! We can't let that happen, it won't be the same without the old Ti'e'yong with us to brighten up our day" worried Rhen, "do not fear it, that might have little chance in happening" said Zan as he lead the others to the huge front door to his temple "it's starting to get late, we should head inside I'll prepare something to eat" said Zan as he used some magic to open the door "oh dear, I wonder what druids eat these days?" Welton questioned to himself as he followed the girls inside.
Everyone was welcomed with a nice warm aura flowing throughout the place "wow this is such a beautiful place you have here" said Rhen as she looked around, the flooring was slated with white tiles, the fountain in the middle flowed with glamorous sparkling water which reflected a fabulous painting up on the ceiling, "you seem to take your sun issues close to you" said Welton as he looked up at the painting which had a mosaic picture of a sun with loads of people surrounding it as they hold out their arms towards it "we druids must treat our elements as if it was our only child" said Zan as he walked the left side of the room until he stopped at a corner and placed his wings on the wall "what are you doing?" asked Trivain as she and the others walked over to him, Zan took no notice and pressed a stone on the upper left of the wall and soon enough the wall pushed back and move to one side revelling an arch shaped hallway "I'm just opening a passageway to my chamber" answered Zan and lead the others down the short, narrow hallway, they then entered a dark room and as they stood there together Zan clicked his feathers and soon the beacons around the room lit up with golden flames revelling a stone door and another hallway to the right "what's all this?" asked Welton as he noticed six cuboids shaped alters in the middle of the room forming a shape of a hexagon "This is a chamber where my other druid trusted me to keep one of the gemstones locked away, the gemstone is just behind that door but we can't get in right now nor do I want to" answered Zan "and why is that then?" again asked Welton as Trivain and Rhen inspected the alters to notice that each one had a different shaped slot for something to be placed and were different colours "the door is locked by the six alters and the only way to open it is to gather the six gemstones which are scattered across this coast" again answered Zan as he watched Rhen pull out the opal of sins into the blue alter but nothing happened "it only works when all six are placed in order" Zan said to Rhen as she removed the opal and faced Zan "I'm not trying to see if it works, I'm seeing if this opal would reopen the portal that Ti'e'yong got sucked into" said Rhen "sadly that effect will not work, only the slot over at that cave in the Mushroom Woods would work, but it's too risky for the portal will suck up its next victim" said Zan getting Rhen to understand "I see" she replied as she and Trivain walked back over to Zan and Welton "well now shall head down to the dining room, I hate to starve you lot" said Zan as he escorted the others down yet another narrow hallway which lead them all the way to the dining room.
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Zan's dining room was a sight to behold, there were long dangling orange flags with a golden sun printed on it, the room was huge, almost like it was fit for a royal family, in the middle of the room was a very long oak table which could hold about thirty chairs, the chairs were neatly carved and their yellow leather setting was very smooth, along the table were five candles on golden holders and below the table was a nice long, orange carpet "my what a grand place, I feel like a queen's daughter" said Rhen in amazement as she admired everything around her "we use this chamber to hold our discussions with my other druids, not only that but we also have a feast when it my birthday" explained Zan as he showed them to their chairs over at the far end of the table, Rhen sat next to Welton at one side, Trivain sat on her own on the other and as for Zan he sat and the end between Trivain and Welton, but before Zan was about to get something ready he looked over at Welton who was shifting his chair away from Rhen as she was trying shift her chair towards him, "in your own time, we shall begin" said Zan as Trivain laughed at the scene, when everyone sat there waiting for Zan to continue Zan raised his wings up in the air and out came four golden spheres which then flown off to a doorway leading to the cooking area, and after a few minutes the door opened and out came four golden Pokémon who each looked like Rhen, Welton, Trivain, and Zan "well now that some fine magic to use for service" said Welton as he watched his golden self walked towards him with his silver plate of food held up high, everyone looked down when their golden selves placed their silver plates in front of them, on it was a nice basic meal, gammon steak with potato wedges topped off with salad "so this is what you eat? I was expecting something much less" snickered Welton as Zan beamed at him "I can take it away if you're not interested" suggested Zan as his golden self went round and placed some silver knives and forks next to their plates "I'm only joking, it looks good, just wouldn't have expected druids to eat meat" replied Welton as Trivain then noticed her golden self going round and placing shiny golden goblets filled with fresh rose wine, "rose wine? You're too kind Zan" said a pleased Trivain as Zan closed his eye as he shrugged his shoulders and stood up from his chair with his goblet lifted towards the front "I would like to propose a toast, to Ti'e'yong, for being the most bravest and friendliest Roserade to us all" proposed Zan as Rhen, Welton and Trivain stood up and held up their goblets towards him "to Ti'e'yong" they all said and sat back down to enjoy their meal.
As everyone had finished their meal their golden selves kindly took their silverware and goblets and walked back down to the cooking room with the door closed behind them "well how was it?" asked Zan as the others cleaned their mouths with their napkins "it was delicious" answered Trivain as she kept hold of the napkin "I agree with her, that was nice, thank you Zan" Rhen agreed as Zan thanked them "it's my pleasure, now then it's getting late, let's get you to your dorms for the night" said Zan as everyone left their napkins on the table and followed Zan through another hallway which lead to another room which had three doors in front of them "ok let's see here, right Rhen and Trivain will have the dorm on the left, Welton you can have the middle one, and as usual I'll stay in my own dorm, alright then I wish you all a good night sleep" said Zan and opened the door to his room followed by Welton into his own room and lastly followed by Rhen and Trivain as they entered their room.
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Rhen and Trivain's bedroom was quite fancy to say the least, in front of them were two beds on opposite side of the room, the quilt and pillow was nice and soft with its orange sheets, the pillow also had the sun crest imprinted on it, to their left was a fine oak wardrobe which almost touched the ceiling within the small bedroom, the doorknobs were smoothly carved as it shined dimly at them, they also realised that the marble, cold floor they were standing on a while ago was now a nice dark blue carpet, and dead in front of them in between the two beds was an elegant plain window with a marble frame around it, "since when did Zan know about fashion statement?" wondered Rhen "bets me, I thought druid's only care about nature and other elements" Replied a perplex Trivain, Rhen decided to see what was inside the wardrobe while Trivain admired the scenery outside the window, she slowly opened the wooden door and looked to see that it was empty "aww man, I was hoping some of Zan's druids left some leftover robes" moaned Rhen as she closed the door and faced towards Trivain, "oh well next time Rhen, next time, right now if you don't mind I need to get change" said Trivain as she slowly unbuttoned her school shirt "oh let me help you then" giggled Rhen as she walked up to Absol and tried to get the shirt off "hay leave me, no you'll rip it" panicked Trivain as her face went bright red as she covered her shirt with her arms, "oh come now, allow me" laughed Rhen as she tried to lift Trivain arms away from her shirt as it slowly slid down her arms "right that's it, come here you" said Trivain as the evil Absol lunged at the Gardevoir as she fell backwards onto the bed and quickly began to undo the buckles on Rhen's chest plate.
Next door to Rhen and Trivain's bedroom Welton was trying to go to sleep but he couldn't once he heard Rhen and Trivain screaming and laughing from behind the wall "no stop not there please!" Rhen's voice shouted from behind the wall, Welton put his head under the pillow hoping it would work but sadly it didn't "almost there, ah hay wait stop, that tickles!" laughed Trivain "not until I have my way with you!" shouted Rhen as she continued what she was doing as Trivain continued to burst out laughing, Welton sat up and threw the pillow at the wall as it then landed right next to him "hay keep it down in there, I'm trying to sleep!" shouted Welton as he banged on the marble wall but Rhen and Trivain couldn't hear him due to their outburst, Welton grew angry and decided to stop them in person, he got up in his blue chequered nightgown and went out the door and headed towards Rhen and Trivain's bedroom "hay knock it off will you!" shouted Welton as he knocked on the door but it was still no use as they continue to shout and laugh, Welton anger went up to a boiling point and immediately he opened the latch and opened the door hard as it slammed against the wall which made Rhen and Trivain jumped with fright, when the Gardevoir and Absol saw Welton they released each other from a grappling stance and quickly covered up their bra and underwear by using each other's clothing that was scattered across the bedroom, Welton stood there as his emotions quickly swapped from anger to embarrassment "umm, what are you two doing?" asked Welton as his face was bright red, Rhen looked at Trivain as she kept using her armour to cover herself up "umm we were, just making a play, yes that's it a play, called psychic types behaving badly" said Rhen as she scratched her head with a silly smile on her face, "umm ok then, but please just go to sleep now" said Welton as he quickly left the room as the door shut right behind him.
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As the door was closed Rhen and Trivain dropped the act as Rhen dropped Trivain's scrunched up uniform while Trivain dropped Rhen's armour exposing themselves, "sorry about that Trivain, I didn't know what came over me" giggled Rhen as she looked to see their quilts lying on the floor "same here, I guess that's what we girls are like" replied Trivain as she went over and lifted her quilt back on the bed and then went over to her bag to find her nightdress, "you don't suppose you have a spare with you?" asked Rhen as she could not cope going to sleep in her underwear "you're lucky, I have one right here" answered Ti'e'yong as she chucked a pair of black pyjamas to her, they both slipped into their nightdresses and walked over and slid under the sheets of their bed "it's been such a gloomy day, hasn't it?" said Trivain as she remembered the event that had happen today, "right you are, I just can't hope to think if Ti'e'yong is alright" worried Rhen as she leaned on her side facing towards Trivain "we'd better get something planned in the morning" said Trivain "I got it, in the morning we'll pretend that we lost something important, then head off to the cave in the Mushroom Woods with the opal in hand and find a way to bring Ti'e'yong back" explained Rhen as she gave out a silent yawn shortly before Trivain "god I don't know what time it is, but I suggest we get some shut eyes" said Trivain as she comfortably snuggled herself in "ok then, good night" said Rhen as she wrapped the sheet round her as she leaned towards the other side, before they could sleep Trivain had one more thing to say "hay Rhen" she asked "hmm" quietly replied Rhen as paid attention for one sec "I've heard that you really fancy Welton, is that true?" asked a suspicious Trivain "oh course I fancy him, he's charming, funny and so carefree, I'd just wish he would find it in his heart to love me back" answered Rhen as she went into a fantasy moment "well after that little incident back there, I'd say you are right" said Trivain picturing the moment when the Gallade slammed open the door only to spot the Gardevoir and Absol grappling each other while in their underwear, "I was kind of surprised when he entered our room with no hesitation, I mean didn't you see the look on his face before he became embarrass?" asked Rhen "that was priceless yet embarrassing for me, I mean since when do you see a hot looking vampire exposed huh? Welton could be thinking about us right now" blushed Trivain "well you wouldn't mind if it was a male lord dark type" again said Rhen as Trivain's blush faded away "now that I'd wish, I could almost picture it, a tall white Mightyena with long flowing black hair, his tight black suit shining as it showed his abs dimly within the night and a long black cape flowing through the wind, yep that's a hunk alright, oh and some pearly white fangs, all female dark types love pearly white fangs" said Trivain as she pictured the devilish yet handsome Mightyena "sometimes I don't understand you dark types, but I think that Mightyena you'd explained just now sounded attractive" said Rhen "we just try to find the most richest and powerful dark types we can find, but they are mostly taken before I do" moaned Trivain "well that would be difficult, but you'll find one soon" cheered Rhen "cheers for that, I feel a bit more confident now" thanked Trivain as then all of a sudden she let out a yawn revealing her crystal white fangs "god I've been talking too much haven't I? Let's call it a night shall we" said Rhen as again she turned to the other side of the bed as Trivain did the same, "goodnight Trivain, remember our plan in the morning" Rhen mentioned "I will do, goodnight to you too Rhen" replied Trivain as they all silently drifted off to sleep.
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The next morning Rhen had woken up to the morning sun that shone through the bedroom window "ahh such a nice day, isn't it Trivain" said Rhen as she gave a big stretch but she didn't answer for she was still asleep "hay come on now it morning, come on get up" again said Rhen as she shaken Trivain from side to side "urr not right now, just another five more minutes" answered Trivain as she shifted away from Rhen, Rhen began to think of something that will wake here up and soon she had an idea, she went over to the door and opened it, then she looked at Trivain as soon as she then slammed the door almost knocking the hinges off, Trivain jumped with fright as she heard the loud noise "that got your attention now didn't it" said Rhen as Trivain had her quilt covering her body "you damn right it did, don't do that again alright" replied Trivain as she got out of bed, they both got their clothes out from the wardrobes and slipped into them "ok now, let's go wake up the others" giggled Rhen as they both slid out the door and moved towards Welton's bedroom door "ok ready, one, two, three!" counted Rhen as she quickly opened the door "hay Welton, time to wake up you lazy Gallade!" they both called out but they didn't realise that Welton wasn't here "huh where'd he go?" questioned Trivain "beats me, let's see if Zan is still asleep" replied Rhen as they both left Welton's bedroom and headed inside Zan's room only to see that Zan was also not here "this is odd, where did they go?" again questioned Trivain "aww forget it, come on lets head to the dining room for something to eat" said Rhen as she and Trivain headed down the hallway towards the dining room.
They then looked with surprised when they saw Welton and Zan sitting at the table as their golden selves handed out their breakfast which was buttered toast with eggs and bacon "ah finely you're here, and just in time" said Zan as Rhen walked over to the table and sat in the same spots they were in last time "you got up pretty quick" said Rhen as she noticed Trivain still yawning after that little incident "quick? We got up at nine while you lot I'd say around ten to eleven" Welton pointed out as he took a bite out of the bacon "ten to eleven?! Guess that must've been because of last night" said Rhen as she then saw Welton slightly bushing "never mind that now" said Zan as Rhen and Trivain's golden selves walked out from the cooking room door with their breakfast in hand "now I know we all feel down from the events that had happened yesterday, but we got to go and find the remaining gemstones before Trifong's demon Pokémon get their hands on it" Zan said as Rhen and Trivain quickly eat everything on their plates as soon as their golden selves had placed it on the table, "fine, there's no other way then, but before we do, I kind of left my mother's necklace somewhere in Mist Mountains" said Rhen "but I didn't see you wearing one" said Welton but as soon as he was about to push the interrogation Trivain butted in "umm I too have lost something" said Trivain "really now, and what might that be?" asked Welton "my panties" answered Trivain, Welton and Zan went gobsmacked as to what they heard while Rhen slammed her head on the table "how could you lose something like that?! That can't be true" shouted Welton as his face went red "if you don't believe me, I can show you" said Trivain as she got up from her chair and was about to lift up her school skirt "no, no, no ok I believe you, please leave your skirt alone!" panicked Welton as his face went even brighter "ok then, we'll wait here until you reclaimed your... important things" said Zan as Rhen and Trivain quickly got up and left.
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When Rhen and Trivain were outside the temple they quickly shut the door behind them just to prevent Welton and Zan from following them, "now please tell me, what the hell was that?" asked Rhen after Trivain's little cheeky event "I couldn't come up with something that fast, so I said the first thing that came into mind" answered Trivain as she put her finger on her lips in a way that she was charming her "well I guess we were lucky to get away with that" shrugged Rhen as she walked over and looked down the staircase "looks like there's no mist today, we'd better hurry and get to the cave before the mist appears" again said Rhen as they both quickly walked down the stairs right down to the bottom, "have you ever tried telling Zan to build a mineshaft here?" asked Rhen as her legs grew wearily when they reached the bottom "I tried that but he said, these staircases are useful from preventing small war parties from getting up there" Trivain said in Zan's tone "well if that is what he said, then it's a good idea now come on, let us make haste" replied Rhen as they took off to the Mushroom Woods again.
They soon reached the Mushroom Woods again but before they entered it Trivain noticed that the goo shield Zan made had worn off "wait a minute Rhen, how are we going to navigate the woods without something to protect us from the poison fog?" asked Trivain as she knew she couldn't go back to ask Zan for another goo shield "not a problem, I got this from a dealer, he said with this it'll prevent hazardous things from entering the air passageway" answered Rhen as she pulled out two transparent bandanas from a new rucksack she got "so that's what you use to get to the cave while we were in trouble" said Trivain as she wrapped the bandana round her mouth and nose, "right then, are we ready?" mumbled Rhen through the bandana "yes let's go and save Ti'e'yong" answered Trivain through her bandana as they both headed off to the cave.
After a staggering run to the cave they eventually made to the cavern where they last saw Barkson and Ti'e'yong "ok now, what's the plan genius?" asked Trivain as she knew that this would not be a simple task "ok here what we are going to do..." paused Rhen as she put down her rucksack and pulled out an enormously long, thick rope "I'll tie myself onto this while you tie yourself to it as well, then you will go stand by that rock over there with the rope wrapped round it" explained Rhen, "ok then what?" again asked Trivain as she and Rhen wrapped each end of the rope around them "then I will go and place the opal of sins into that slot over there, that should bring the portal out for me to enter, and while I'm in there you keep yourself on the other end, as soon as I tug the rope twice that's your cue to pull me out ok" finished Rhen "ok, understood" nodded Trivain, Rhen and Trivain began to move into position "right, are you ready?" asked Rhen from a distance, Trivain nodded her head signing her that she was ready, without hesitation Rhen slotted the opal into the wall and slowly the dark blue portal appeared again "hang on Rhen, shouldn't Barkson be able to get out?!" asked Trivain as the portal began to suck them in "he won't because he and Ti'e'yong might've pass out in there!" Rhen called as the portal's vacuuming noise grew louder and louder, "please come back safely, I can't afford to lose you too!" Trivain called back as Rhen nodded her and turned to the portal and then was lifted off towards it.
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After a very short journey through the portal Rhen had now entered the sealed dimension and to Rhen's shock it turned out to be more scarier than what she had imagined, all the walls around were made of old rusty metal, even the floor and ceiling was made to metal "my god, Ti'e'yong would even take foot in this place" Rhen said to herself as looked ahead of the darkness to see a wire gate in front of her and a iron staircase to her left "may as well see what's beyond this door" again she said to herself and nervously walked up to it and slowly opened it making a rusty noise, when she walked through the gate it slammed shut which terrified Rhen as she jumped from the floor "god, I can't even take one step in this place without something going off" panted Rhen as she became traumatized but then she heard faint moaning through the door in front of her, as she walked up the door she began building up fear as she examined the door, it was made out of wood but it had what looked to be several blood stained scratch marks all over it, Rhen hand was shaking as she slowly reached for the doorknob and then twisted it open as it slowly opened revealing a horrifying fate, Rhen immediately became frightened for what she had saw was Ti'e'yong cuffed on a mechanical cross which when activated would stretch Ti'e'yong's torso until it will rip her in half, Ti'e'yong eyes slowly opened to notice the Gardevoir looking at her in fear, "Rhen, oh thank god you're here, I'm so scared I can't even take one look at this terrifying place" Ti'e'yong said breathlessly "I can get you out of here just let me..." before Rhen said anything else that gears that would lower the bottom half of the cross slowly turned for one second as the Roserade screamed with pain as she felt her stomach stretching "ahh! Please, make it stop!" cried Ti'e'yong as she gushed out with tears when the gears stopped "don't worry I find a way to get you out of here" Rhen said bravely and inspected the cuff, each of the four cuff had different keyholes in them "looks like I'm going to need some keys to get you out of here, I'll promise I'll get you out" said Rhen "please, be quick" replied Ti'e'yong faintly as she shut her eyes.
Rhen quickly left the room and headed towards the room where she found the staircase and with little hesitation she slowly walked up the stairs, all Rhen could here was the load metal footsteps she made when she continued her journey up the stairs, when she reached the second floor she then began to hear gears shifting from a distance which seemed to be coming from the door on her left, she walked up to the worn out door and opened it to see rotating gears within the caged walls, she began to look around to see if she can find the first key but then she noticed something on the floor, she went to take a closer look to only see that it was blood so she looked up and freaked out to see Tangwon attached to the ceiling with a hand missing "oh my god, what the hell is going on here!" panicked Rhen as she closed her eyes and tried to forget what she had seen, but then all of a sudden she heard a metallic sound land on the floor, she took a little peek and noticed it was a key so she quickly picked it up and left the dreaded room while taking no notice to Tangwon who was still mysteriously hanging on the ceiling "something tell me that Ti'e'yong won't live much longer" Rhen said to herself after what she had seen, then all of a sudden she heard something strange, it was the sound of Ti'e'yong melody which came from the door in front of her so Rhen quickly ran down the hallway and towards the door.
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Without hesitation she swung the door open to see a little Kirlia humming away while sitting down in the middle of an empty metal room, Rhen slowly approached the Kirlia as she continued to sing "have you come here to tear me out from my sins?" the Kirlia asked as she still had her back to her "no I'm not here for that, I'm here to save my friend downstairs" answered Rhen as she went to look at her from the side but before she did the Kirlia got up and walked up to the wall "you can't save here, she here to pay for her sins" the Kirlia said "huh, what are you talking about, she could never do something nasty!" beckoned Rhen as the Kirlia turned round showing her pale face, Rhen noticed the Kirlia holding a doll and around its neck was another key "listen, I'm going to need to borrow that key you got there" asked Rhen as she pointed the key around the dolls neck, "you want it? Go ahead, take it" the Kirlia said quietly as she reached her doll out to her, Rhen slowly reached her hand out to claim the doll but when she grabbed it the Kirlia tried to tug it away "hay, what are you doing?" questioned Rhen as she tugged the doll towards her "I can't let you murder my friend" the Kirlia said furiously "your friend, this little doll? You got to be kidding" said Rhen and gave one last tug and all of a sudden the doll's head popped right off as they both fell backwards onto the floor, "you monster! You killed my friend!" cried the Kirlia as she cradled the headless doll as tears wept down her face "I'm sorry, it was an accident" apologized Rhen, the Kirlia looked at Rhen in mean way and said "may the lords purge you for what you have done" then she quickly left the room, Rhen began to worry about the Kirlia for what she had said to her but then she noticed the key next to the dolls head "well that makes two, almost there" she said as she picked up the key and left the empty room.
She then looked around the hallway again to see if she could find another door, strangely she just made out a door that blended with the metal walls so she opened it as it screeched open, inside was the same as the previous room only this time there was a work table at the far end of the room, Rhen walked over to inspect it and saw what looked to be a sliding panel puzzle "I remember these, these used to be very annoying" Rhen said to herself as she started to slide the pieces about to see what it could form, after a few attempts she finely completed the puzzle which was a phase saying "your fate is sealed?" Rhen questioned to herself when all of a sudden the lid of the puzzle slid open to reveal yet another key inside, but when she took the key the lid slid back into position as the pieces shuffled around "well that was weird" said Rhen and was just about to head out the door when all of a sudden she heard a loud click as the door became locked "hay what's going on, let me out!" Rhen called out but no one answered instead she began to hear something rumbling from above, she looked and noticed the ceiling was moving down on her, she panicked as she tried to force the door open but it was no use "there got to be a switch somewhere!" worried Rhen and then remembered the puzzle, she ran to it and took another look at it and then quickly began to rearrange the tiles again, Rhen began to panic even more when the ceiling was nearing her head but in the nick of time she finished the puzzle which said a different phase "fate lied, this has got to work" Rhen said to herself as she was now flat on the floor as the ceiling was nearing the puzzle but when it touched it, it stopped and the door opened, Rhen then quickly crawled her way out of the dangerous room.
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"This place is torture!" Rhen said to herself as she got up off the floor, she then reached into her rucksack to see the three keys she'd obtained "ok one more and we're long gone" Rhen thought to herself, as she walked along the dark hallway she then heard a loud thud coming from the attic, as she looked up she saw the hatch dropped onto the floor as a ladder slid down from the hole, "I wonder what's going on up there" Rhen asked herself as she climbed up the ladder into the attic, all was dark as Rhen couldn't make out where she was going, that is until she collided with a something cold and hard as it rattled "ouch, what was that?" wondered Rhen and soon enough a red glow emitted from one end of the attic and eventually she could just make out what she had bumped into, it turned out to be a birdcage in a shape of an iron maiden and inside it was the same little Kirlia which she meet a while ago "oh, it's you again, have you decided whether to kill me or not?" asked the Kirlia acting so seriously as she just sat there in the hanging cage "now look, you can't just ask me to kill you, it's not right" Rhen called back to her "nothings right, sins are always not right, that is why I'm here" back chatted the Kirlia "and wait till death comes to get rid of you, you don't have a bright future ahead of you!" shouted a furious Rhen "the same goes to your friend down below, it won't be long till he get here" the Kirlia said and gave her an evil grin "what do you mean? What's going to happen to my friend? And who's this, he you talking about? Answer me!" shouted Rhen demanding to know as she began to shake the cage when all of a sudden she heard a crash then slowly came the scary sound of screeching metal noises slowly getting louder, "he's here, you'd best leave but I doubt you won't" the Kirlia said one more time in a evil way, the Kirlia handed Rhen what looked to be Tangwon's missing hand which was holding the last key, Rhen quickly snatched Tangwon's disjointed hand and made a brake for it to the hatch, as she climbed down she took one last look at the Kirlia when she then noticed the red glow getting brighter and brighter and soon a big shadowy figure was slowly advancing towards her, Rhen immediately let go of the ladder and landed back on the second floor as the ladder mysteriously lifted up back into the attic followed by the cover.
She stood there looking at the hatch nervously as to what would happen and it wasn't long before she did, in a few seconds she heard some footsteps stop and then Rhen eyes grew big when she heard a frightening sound which was the sound of a sword being stabbed into a human which was then topped off with the Kirlia's tremendous scream as it echoed everywhere, silence filled the area and then Rhen heard footsteps getting quieter and quieter, "I got to get out of here before whatever that was shows up" Rhen panicked to herself and began to head downstairs, but when she reached halfway down the stairs she heard Ti'e'yong screaming loudly across the hallway "oh my god Ti'e'yong!" Rhen panicked madly as her emotions immediately filled with fear, she ran as fast as she can to the torture room and slammed the door open to reveal the torture room completely empty, Rhen quickly looked at the cross to notice the cuffs being unlocked "but how could that be? I got the keys right here" Rhen questioned herself, then she noticed something horrifying for what she saw was blood trailing from the cross to a hidden door behind it "no, could this be, Ti'e'yong's blood? I must find her" Rhen bravely said to herself as she walked over to the hidden door while leaving behind some bloody footprints, she took one deep breath and opened the last door to find...
To be continued...