We Must Get Out of Death Valley

Chapter 5: The Workshop

Pandora picked up her box, walked out of the house, and went down the road of Olympus, picking up her cousin Soterio on the way. Her mother was the worst. Pandora's mom had gotten what she deserved. Pandora and Soterio jumped off of Olympus and flew down to earth gracefully. It was the best feeling Pandora had in a long time. She couldn't remember the last time she had been happy, or if she ever was happy. When she landed she heard her name being called. "Pandora..." It said. She followed the voice, and Soterio followed her. She couldn't resist it. It was like she wasn't aware of what was happening. But the voice was. The voice guided them to a beautiful Kingdom. In the Victorian era. They had gone through time to get to the place.  It was a beautiful tan color. The grass was green and there were lots and lots of people.

Current time...

"What was that?" Nene asked. "Is there a kid in this house?" Ella questioned. "Oh no, I don't do kids." Ava said. "And if it's one of these monsters that makes it even worse." There were puppet legs that were walking towards them. "Ah! What is that!" Nene said, gripping onto Soterios arm and pointing at the legs. "Follow me!" The mysterious voice said again. "Are the legs saying that?" Lily asked. "I think so..." Elijah answered. The legs walked up the stairs and the 9 of them followed. They led them to a workshop that was in the house. It was a doll workshop. "Why is there a store in this house?" Gavin asked. They walked in and the legs jumped onto what looked like a work table, and slid onto the endoskeleton that was sitting on the table. "Find all of the doll's pieces before the hour ends or you're all dead." Pandora said. Gavin tried to grab at her but she disappeared before he could. There was a notecard on a desk in the shop. "I see with no eyes. I am peach with gold tails. I am on the north rails." Jessie said. "Let's go to the north staircase." Ava said. On the rails of the north staircase was a hollow head that was peach and had golden pigtails. They grabbed it and went back to the workshop to put the head on the endoskeleton. A drawer in the room burst open and there was a notecard in it. "I am pink and have a rainbow on my chest. Find me where it is food that you digest." Brodie read. "I think we should go to the dining room." Lily said. "On the dining room table was a pink torso that had a skirt attached to it. They went upstairs and opened up the torso so that they could put it on the skeleton. Another drawer opened and there was a card in it as well. "I am the last piece of the doll, I reside in the living hall." Gavin read. "Let's go to the lobby." Elijah suggested. There were two arms on the couch, there was a hook on her left arm. Nene grabbed them and they went back up to put the arms on the skeleton. The dolls eyes blinked and it got up and ran to the hall death challenge rooms and ran through the door. Breaking a hole in it. "Well now we don't need the death challenge room key." Jobe said. "We need to vote." Soterio said. The clock donged again, meaning that it was now 1 o clock A.M. They didn't discuss who they wanted to vote for and all picked people individually on each of their own terms. After 5 minutes everyone was done and Soterio shook the hat with their names in it, and pulled out two papers. "The 2 people voted in the death challenge are... Ava and Ella." Soterio said. They looked at each other like they wanted to cry. "Whoever voted for us, I hope you feel great. Now my best friend and I have to go against each other." Ella said. "Let's just go Ava." She said again. They both went through the hole in the door. In front of them were two tables with boxes, with circles in them that hands and arms could fit through. They were in pitch black darkness and saw the doll in front of them, sitting on the floor in a lifeless position. Pandora appeared behind them. "This death challenge, I like to call the death box. You each must put your hand inside of it and get the cube inside of it through the square shaped hole in the back of it. However there are tiny spikes in the arm holes that will make it feel like you are being scraped with tiny knives as you are moving your hands in there. Whoever gets their box out first will need to get the Mythic stone floating in front of you after the monster kills the person who doesn't get the cube out of the box. Have fun." Pandora laughed and then leapt up and disappeared. They hated her. They looked at each other and hugged. "I love you Ella, I don't want to do this." "I know me either, but we have too. We're doing this for Jobe and Nene. Just think of it like that." Ella said. Ava nodded and they stuck their hands into the box. They were weeping in pain and it hurt so bad. They were even bleeding a little bit. Ava pushed the box to the left and then a little bit forward. Ella pushed it forward and then moved it right. They moved the cubes and Ella finally got hers out. She thought about it for a moment. Was she going to kill herself or her best friend?