Behind the shadows

Chapter 8: Things are not always what they seem

It was morning or so I thought. I woke up lying on a floor a floor that seemed slippery, something liquid but viscous. All I could hear were howling from wolves in the distance while I felt the cold wind enter through the window and then I noticed. I was laying in a pool of blood, hot red steamy blood. I tried to scream for help but I couldn't. I had no voice, so I got up and tried to run but my foot was chained to a door. A huge red door with a huge gold question mark in the middle and a tinny Little note next to a key hole. The note read:

Now that you have found the door the room will start filling itself with blood. The only way out is though this door, the key is missing, the door is locked. You must find the answer to this riddle and the key will appear in front of you: [what goes through the door but never goes in or out?]

The walls started to make a weird screeching sound until out the walls came some tubes that started poring blood. Hot thick steamy blood. I needed to guess this riddle, I could already feel the room running out of air. Okay think Serena, think. What goes through a door but never goes in or out? It can't be a key because that goes in and out. Through, Through the door... The blood was already up my thighs. Then it came to me, the door knob. I screamed at the top of my lungs The door knob, the door knob!! I couldn't believe it my voice was back and i was getting out of here. Then the same golden key for the trunk appeared in my hand then I opened the door and closed it behind me cause all the blood was flowing out but then I noticed I was still chained to the door so i couldn't close it. the hot steamy blood was still flowing out the door but I didn't care at least I wasn't suffocating to death but I was inside another room. I was so happy that I found the way out that Id-int notice the way out turned into the way in. Great now I have to find the way out again. As the blood flew out of the door I found another note behind it. The note read:

You thought that was over but you were wrong. You must free yourself from the chain. You must guess this riddle and the key will appear in front of you:[ flies without wings, strikes without beak, has no eyes but a target will seek.]

Okay this is harder. At least I don't have to worry about drowning in blood. Then in that moment tons of targets fell from the ceiling. Then fell a bow and arrow from the ceiling and it was pointing at me. Something told me I had to guess this quick or that will start shooting arrows. Flies without wings, What flies without wings. I know things that don't fly but have wings. Then the arrow was shot at me. I just moved out-of-the-way and it didn't hit me but the bow moved closer and another arrow came from the ceiling while the metal hand holding the bow and arrow still aimed at me. I was scared I don't want to die tonight. I need to guess this and fast before it shoots faster. Strikes without beak, So it's not a bird cause it has no beak and no eyes but a target will seek. Another arrow came shooting my way, two to be exact I ducked them and they hit the wall. Then I noticed I am the target. That bow and arrow are aiming at me that means I'm the target. The arrow has no eyes, it flies and targets at people. The word is arrow. I screamed arrow and everything just went back to the ceiling except the arrow only this time it wasn't pointing at me. It was pointing at the ceiling and then it shoots and a key falls from the ceiling to the floor near me. I picked it up, opened my chain and a blue door appears. I walk through the door and saw a red curtain, so I passed through it. I found an old woman's back facing at me. "come child" she said. I wasn't sure if I should trust her. After all I almost drowned and got shot to death but something in my heart said I should trust her so I did. As soon as I saw her face I remembered her. The woman I saw in the mirror that day. Then my head started to hurt and I was no longer there with the woman. I was looking through a window at my mom changing a baby's diapers but not just any baby, me. How can I be looking at myself if I'm right here? Then an old woman came, my grandmother I never met. She looks just like the old woman. Then I was back with her, my-my grandma, my one and only grandma.