After stepping through big, golden, double-doors to the left, we all stared down in shock at the magma filled chasm below us.

"Wait here." Leon said after stepping on a very small platform with giant wheels.

"Wait, you're actually going across that thing?! Are you insane?!" I hollered.

"I have to agree with her on this one…" Ashley said.

"See? It's too dangerous, Leon."

"I'll be fine girls. Just stay here. I promise I'll come back."

"What have I told you about promising things like that?" We locked eyes for a second, before he sighed and looked away.

"Fine. I'll try my best to come back, okay? If I'm not back in ten minutes, then you can come looking for me or whatever. But for now, just stay here."

Ashley and I nodded and a few seconds later, he was gone.

I turned to her tentatively. "S-so… what happened while I was gone?"

Her eyes got wide and she suddenly seemed to have enough energy for the both of us. "Oh my god, it was so freaky! First there were these BUG things, and then there were these big axe things swinging from the ceiling! Oh! And then after that, there was this huge freaky maze, and these dogs that had these weird tentacle things coming out of their backs!" I laughed at her explanations. "Oh, and then there was this woman in a red dress—"

"Wait," I interrupted. "Who is this 'woman'?"

Ashley rolled her eyes. "Well, if you wouldn't have interrupted me like that, I would have gotten to that part!" I motioned for her to continue. "Anyways, she was some Asian chick. She was all 'Leon… long time no see…' Like she was trying to seduce him or something. After that Leon tossed me a whole bunch of money and told me to go upgrade my gun. You will not be-lieve the firepower on this thing now!"

"So you didn't even try to listen or anything?!"

She snapped her head up in confusion. "What? No… why would I?"

I face-palmed. "Ashley, they could've been having SEX for all you know!"

"Ew, gross! I don't want to think of Leon like that!" She complained.

"Ash, he's like twenty-something years old. He's had to've at least done it once."

She quickly plugged her ears. "Shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shhh… I can't hear you."

"… What, do you want me to say 'Aye, aye, Captain!' or something?"

She took her fingers out of her ears. "Just… don't say any more stuff like that. It makes me feel like a pervert or something…"

I laughed. "Hah. Okie dokie, then."

Just then, Leon emerged from the door on the other side of the chasm and made his way back to us. When he did, he chuckled and said, "See, that wasn't so bad, was it?"

I completely ignored what he said. "Are you a virgin?" I asked, nonchalantly.

It took him about two seconds before he fully processed what I had asked him. "… What?!?" he yelled.

"Jeez, calm down. It was just a question." I said, rubbing my ear because it was that loud.

"Wh-… calm down?! Y-you're only seventeen! You shouldn't even be thinking about this stuff right now!"

I laughed probably louder than necessary. "Are you kidding me?! I know at least four pregnant girls in my grade alone!"

"That's not the point. Yo-you just shouldn't be asking that kind of stuff." He kept stuttering, and if I didn't know better, I would've said he was blushing too. "What on earth brought this up?!"

Mine and Ashley's faces turned beet red and we began backing up, failing horribly at playing innocent. "Uh-um, nothing! Nothing at all! D-don't worry about it…" We gave nervous laughs and ignored the 'what-the-hell' look he was giving us.

"…Uh huh…" He said. "Well… anyways… I found the Lion thing… Now all we need is the Serpent and we can get out of here."

Wait… Serpent? I quickly reached into my back pocket and pulled out the 'legs and snake tail' stone found back in the room with the knights and handed it to Leon. "Here you go."

"Where'd you find this?" He asked, astonished.

"Back in the room with the knights before they turned all alive and stuff." I said casually.

"Well, this is it then! Come on."

We all three walked to our left and stood in front of a strange, out of place trolley. It was blue and there were red-colored velvet seats on each side.

"Sh-should we get on?" Ashley asks, looking very tentative.

"I don't see why not." Leon says as he steps on and sits down. Ashley sits on the opposite side of him, leaving me with a huge dilemma; sit next to Leon, or sit next to Ashley? I decide to take the latter and avoid a lot of awkward silences.

As soon as the door shut, the trolley began moving. It wasn't very fast, but fast enough.

"So…" I said awkwardly. No one said anything. "You never answered my question, Leon." I said, remembering our earlier conversation.

He sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Why do you want to know?"

"I dunno… just curious." I said in a sort of sing-song voice.

"Well frankly, I don't know if that's any of your business."

Ashley shifted uncomfortably in her seat.

"Is that a no?!" I asked, getting childish-ly excited.

"I'm not saying anything."

I turned to Ashley. "Hah! I told you!"

Ashley turned away, her face redder than mine has ever been, and Leon snapped his head up. "Wait, what?!"

"Um… Nothing." I said.

Leon just sighed again. "I swear… the conversations you two have when I'm gone…"

I smiled. "You know you love us…" Another sing-song voice.

He just laughed and didn't deny it; mine and Ashley's faces just about matched the color of the seats.