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4:13 PM
The next part of the Abode of Alarm was a maze. More specifically it was a Labyrinth. Naturally, it was an Ancient Greek themed part of the attraction. Keeping with the blue walls, Basil and Venus entered it without any clue where they were going. Although Basil had been to the Abode of the Alarms more than once, the Labyrinth part was notorious for its design in that it featured walls that would slide out to make dead ends. Also, there were animatronic gorgons, a Minotaur and even a three-headed dog that were placed in the dead ends, with two exceptions, and would activate due to motion sensors in the eyes when someone reached a dead end.
For one unfamiliar with what a gorgon was, a gorgon was one of three female monsters, sisters in fact, who had snakes for hair and the ability to turn any living thing into the stone just by looking them in the eye. The three gorgons were Stheno, Euryale and Medusa and indeed inside the labyrinth were three animatronic gorgons, each with a different appearance as if they were meant to reflect one of the three sisters.
In Greek mythology there had only been one Minotaur. A man-eating monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man, the Minotaur had dwelt in the Labyrinth of Knossos in Crete. More specifically, its dwelling was the very center of the Labyrinth. The animatronic Minotaur was a noted exception of to placing animatronics in dead ends as it was instead placed in the center of the maze with panels on the floor causing it to spin around and face whoever approached it from behind or the side.
As for the three-headed dog, the animatronic was of none other than Cerberus. Cerberus' job wasn't to keep mortals from entering the Underworld he didn't have any problem with that. His job was to keep people from living since in the case of the dead they might not realize they were dead and so he didn't differentiate from the living or the dead and kept both from leaving. The animatronic was situated at the very end of the maze as if it was keeping the patrons from getting out.
The animatronics were all realistically colored there was nothing about them that was glow in the dark. Even worse they were all dark in coloration so they would blend in with the darkness, the only light being the glowing aspect of the attraction,
Basil and Venus had gone in circles three times, ending up at the Minotaur once again. They were plentifully scared but things only got worse when the flapping of leathery wings came to their ears.