'Hurry up! They can be back at anytime!' Thalia ranted behind me.
'If you want me to be faster, you'll have to give me a kiss.' I replied, half-jokingly.
Thalia kicks me right in the back.
I groan, 'Ow! Not helping!'
Thalia looks satisfied, 'Not trying to.'
It's been days since Thalia and I have been taken here. Now that I think about it, it's actually quite funny.
First of all, we woke up in the street side in Italy. Yes, yes, a trip to a romantic country with a cute, and yet ferocious girl, my kind of a girl. Somehow though, five minutes after we woke up in Italy, a big scary guy stood in our way wearing a blue hoodie. The rude thing is, he kept blocking our way deliberately. When we wanted to pass him from the left, there he was, when we wanted to pass him from the right, there he was. Finally I began to yell, but before I got three words out of my mouth, he punched me in the face. Next thing I know was that we were already stuck inside of this iron birdcage with all our equipment gone.
The entire room is shaped in a circle. The room tone is dark, but these strange blue crystals that are placed on the walls and the ceilings, provide dim lights. The horrifying thing is that, there are a lot of torturing devices here. There's an iron maiden put in the corner of the room, a wooden table full of knives and wrenches (not the good kind), placed against the wall. Shelves lined up next to the table, and they're all filled with jars of internal organs. Another table, this one has big pointy needles, sticking in an upward position, placed opposite of the table with the knives. There's also a pair of chairs, with cuffs tied up on the arms and legs area. I'm pretty sure those are electric chairs. Also, of course, the most important feature is the giant birdcages. There are three iron birdcages, hanging in the air, twenty feet off the ground, and we've been occupying the middle one.
Funny thing is, they never tried any of those things with us. We've been here for days, but all they have done is bringing us food (three times a day), and locked me up with a cute girl inside a small cage. True, the level of the comfyness is limited, but they made it up with the companion. In another circumstances, I should be thanking them. Although, Thalia is pretty sure that they're going to roast us with some vegetables pretty soon, and I've heard talking about how this "Young master Jonathan" is going to torture us. I figured, it might be time to get the hell out of here.
Luckily, they didn't empty my pocket.
I kept a small case of lockpicks in my pocket. Thalia was enraged when she saw this, and I quote from her 'You had it all the whole time, and you didn't think of using it sooner!?'
Although, I do have to say, I just love the way she exploded at me.
Click. I smile the moment I hear that sound.
'And… Open Sesame!' I said proudly.
I push the door open. Thalia on the other hand, decides to push me out of the birdcage by kicking me in the back.
'Oooff!' I fall to the ground, face first. That hurts a lot.
Thalia lands smoothly right beside me. She looks around, cautiously. She crouches, trying not to make a sound.
I get up, rubbing my face, 'You know… That really hurt.' I said.
Thalia shushes me. She sneaks out of this room, not that I see anyone here. I follow her casually, not sure why she's so cautious.
There's not even a door here though, it's like this room is a gap on the walls of a very long hallway.
Thalia cautiously checks her left and right. She signals me to follow her. She sneaks to the right, and I follow her.
The hallway is basically almost empty. White columns, around thirty meters tall, is lined up near the walls. There's also a red carpet covering the entire floor, but basically that's it. There's nothing else here, at least nothing else we can see.
The hallway seems like it's an endless road. I can't see how far the road stretches from behind me till in front of me. There are blue crystals sticking on the walls and the columns, but I think that the crystals react to our presence. The blue crystals inside that torture room already went out. My guess is that the crystals will only light if someone is nearby.
Basically, we can only see what's right in front of us, and not what's way up ahead.
Thalia keeps sneaking forward, while I'm still walking casually right behind her.
We keep moving forward, until finally, we come across upon another room on our right side. Thalia takes cover at the edge of wall. She takes a peek of the inside of the room. She gives me a signal, and then she enters. I smile a bit. She's really cute when she takes things seriously like that. I follow her into the room.
The contents of this room are completely different from the previous room. This one has no torture devices. No iron maiden, electric chair, giant birdcage, scary looking knives. It's totally clean. The room's shape is the same, circular-shape, but this one looks prettier and the floor is made out of blue marble. A majestic silver throne is put in the opposite side of the entrance; basically it's up against the wall, but the throne is facing the entrance. The throne made from some sort of silver marbles and steels, and it looks like it is polished everyday. There's a small waterway, kinda look like a gutter, circling the room. Interesting part is, instead of black/green filthy looking water, this waterway holds delicious looking water. The water looks completely clean and fresh, it's transparent blue, and it shines with blue lights. The waterway starts from the back of the throne and ends right before the entrance. Blue crystals also decorate the walls of this room. The room has nothing else besides those things, but somehow, I can still feel the majesty of the throne. With such a simple design to the room, the throne still manages to show so much power.
Although, why would anyone put a throne room right next to a torture chamber? I mean, I know that it's not exactly next door, but it's just common sense. Someone must be using this room, and what if there's a prisoner being tortured in the torture room. It's not like this room is soundproof, with the giant gap in the wall as the entrance. You would hear everything from here.
Man, the one sitting on that throne must not be happy with the arrangement of these rooms.
Thalia walks around the room, examining it. I walk to the throne, running my hands on it. From all the video games I've played, there's always something extraordinary from a really shining object.
'What are you doing?' Thalia asked.
'It's a throne. Usually they have secret buttons or something like that to open a secret passageway.' I said while still pushing every part of the throne with my finger.
She snorts and laughs a bit, 'You've been watching too many films. There's no way—'
Click! I pushed a square button right under the left arm area. The button blended completely with the throne.
Immediately after the click, we can hear the sound of some gears working inside the wall. The wall near the throne opens up, revealing a small passageway. Thalia looks shocked, her mouth is still half open.
I grin, 'You were saying?'
Thalia recovers, 'We're not going through that. We don't know where that might lead. Besides, there are still other rooms, I'm sure one of them is the exit out of here.'
Right after Thalia finished saying that, sound of footsteps can be heard. Thalia turns around to the entrance, she and I can already see the shadows approaching. We also hear some grumblings, not the human kind though, so I'm guessing those are not friendly creatures that are closing in.
'So… Let's go?' I smile.
Thalia grumbles. She pushes me into the passageway. She follows me, and then the secret door behind us closes right away.
The passageway is really dark, and then the walls begin to glow, or so I thought. Apparently they also decorate the walls here with those strange blue crystals.
I smile to Thalia, 'Can I get a kiss now?'