As soon as we stepped off the trolley, we headed straight for a familiar looking blue door. After unlocking it and stepping to the other side, we realized it was the locked door in the lobby that we couldn't go through. We stepped up to the wall with the indents for the stones and carefully placed them. After the last one was in place, the wall rose up, and revealed two big doors that we took the liberty of entering.
There was another trolley ride in front of us, and I couldn't help but think about Salazar when he escaped through here a few hours ago. It didn't surprise me that the little guy ran off to ride roller-coasters right after we first met him. I could almost picture him giddy with excitement as he got on, the two giant robed monsters behind him sighing and rolling their horrible mutant eyes as it was the twelfth time that day they had to go through that.
I shook the random thoughts out of my head as the ride began moving. No one really said anything, I just kept stealing glances at Leon every now and then and when he would look back I'd blush and look away. God, it was like I was in third-grade, what was wrong with me?
The ride slowly came to a stop and we stepped out of the trolley. We exited the only door in the room, and looked around in curiosity. This room was decorated like a medieval castle (which I guess it was), and there were many different ways we could go. There was a door to our left, a long hallway with a door to the right, a door to our immediate right, and another long corridor straight ahead.
"Which way do we go first?" I asked.
"Straight?" Ashley suggested, and so we went.
We ended up in a long, drafty hallway with large open windows blowing in the cool breeze. I shivered, wishing I hadn't given up Leon's jacket back in the village. We walked to the doors at the end of the hallway, but there were bars in front of them. There were two statues of a man and woman on either side of the doors.
"What do we do now?" I asked as Leon examined the statues.
"A Toast to our Royal Majesty…" He read aloud.
"It says the same thing on this one." Ashley pointed out.
"What, do we have to find something to give to them or something?"
"I guess… Only one way to find out…" The agent said and we turned around and walked back.
We decided to go right this time, taking the long hallway with the door at the end, but as soon as I saw the knights lined up in rows on the side of a red carpet leading down the hallway, I screamed. Loud.
"What the hell?!" Leon asked, frightened.
"I-I'm sorry… It's just... the knights…" I said the last two words in a barely audible whisper.
"They don't look very alive to me." Ashley smart-mouthed and I glared at her.
"Well those horses didn't appear very capable to breath fire, either."
"Alright, calm down." Leon said. "I'll go first and we'll see what happens."
He began walking down the carpet and when he got to the third knight, it began moving, and swung its axe down right at the man, and he did a super-amazing back-summersault out of the way just in time. He continued walking and dodged the same way two more times, and then he motioned for us to follow him, assuming it was safe.
"That was so awesome!" Ashley and I exclaimed at the same time, making him grin.
"You have to teach me that!" I begged, and he laughed.
"Maybe if I have some time after we leave this hell-hole, I'll think about it."
I couldn't help but let a smile creep across my face.
We turned right and stopped in front of a doorway to a circular shaped room.
"You girls stay here." Leon said and we obeyed.
There was a fancy looking cup protected in a cage in the center of the room. As soon as Leon took it out, a door slammed down, blocking us from entering the room.
"Leon!" Ashley and I both shouted.
Suddenly, you could hear gears turning and next thing we knew, there were three knights moving towards Leon, battle-axes at the ready. Leon pulled out his TMP and began shooting away at their heads, exposing a Plagas. Once all three heads were out, he threw a flash grenade, killing them instantly. After another round of Plagas infected knights, the door rose once again and Leon passed safely to the other side. Well, as safe as one could be in this place.
"I told you!" I shouted as we began walking back to the doors.
Leon rolled his eyes and Ashley waved her hand at me. "Yeah, yeah." She said.
When we got back into the main room, we took a right this time entering a golden door that was way too fancy for its purpose. The only things in that room were four pressure plates in the floor, a statue, and two other doors. One had no handle or anything, and the other was locked from the other side.
"What do we do?" I asked.
The agent thought for a second, then snapped his head up. "Emily, you stand on that plate… yeah like that. Ashley you stand on this one… And I'll move this here…" He pushed the statue onto one of the pressure plates and I shook my head once I caught myself staring at the way his muscles were flexed while doing so. Finally, after Leon stepped on the last plate, the door with no way of opening it rose up off the floor and we carefully entered.
Salazar was waiting for us in the middle of the room and in his annoying little voice said, "I think you've lived long enough…" Leon stepped forward in case Salazar was going to attack, but he didn't. "Let's see if you can survive this time…"
He threw his hand in the air and the door behind us slammed shut. My heart was racing. Then, the ceiling started lowering and spikes shot out of it. It wasn't until then that I noticed the holes in the floor.
"No!" Ashley screamed in agony, realizing what was about to happen. I heard Salazar rush out of a door beside us, laughing as he scampered away.
I didn't know what to do. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Leon rush towards the door Salazar had escaped from, but it was no use; he had locked it behind him.
"I'm gonna get that bastard, I swear!" He shouted in fury.
Suddenly, I saw a red glint of light coming from one of the corners. Then I saw more in the other corners, too.
"Leon, look at the ceiling!" I shouted. He immediately caught on to what I was telling him, and shot all four lights, making the ceiling stop and the door Salazar escaped to open.
We were all breathing abnormally heavy and looking around at one another.
"I thought we were going to die…" Ashley whimpered.
"Me too." I added and Leon looked at the both of us.
"You girls shouldn't be saying stuff like that. We need to stay positive. I mean, we've made it this far, haven't we?"
We both nodded. "Yeah," he said. "Now come on. Let's keep going."
You could see the look of relief on his face as we were walking down a long, narrow hallway, making it obvious he thought the same thing we did.
Right when we got to the end of the hallway, and Leon walked through the doorway, bars shot down, locking Ashley and I in the hallway. Confused at first, we looked at each other, but then we heard the crash from behind us and screamed; two freaks were riding a big power drill, and driving it straight for us.
"Girls, get down!" He shouted and we obeyed. Two rifle shots later, the two men were dead and the bars were raised.
We carefully stepped into the room and Leon began checking for injuries, even though the thing came nowhere near us. "We're fine, Leon." We both kept insisting, but he still checked anyways, making us both blush furiously. But maybe that was his plan.
