The Doors

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Reaching the first ordinary worn red door, I slowly turned the handle and revealed the horror that was behind. A deep void was what greeted me on the other side. In the center of this void was a hideous monster, it had a humanoid face, tusks protruding from either side of its jaw, drool dripping from each tusk, looking almost like a crazed elephant, it took a deep rugged breath and started walking towards me. Sizing it up, I saw a semi-human body that was covered in scales. It had fins like a shark. Its arms were that of a praying mantis, constantly moving trying to find its prey. Finally, the beast's legs, there were eight in total with all of them being the size of a grown man. Slamming the door shut I took a deep breath and moved to the next door not knowing what to expect.

Still in shock from the last door I approached the next door; a chilly aura was radiating around the door as if trying to ward off intruders. Holding the handle that was cold as ice I slowly turned the handle, snow started pouring out from the buildup of snow on the other side. Completely covered in snow I slowly walked in. The landscape of this door was of an ice wasteland, completely barren of anything except snow. After walking for five minutes, shivering and only finding one or two dead trees, I started to feel tremors from far beneath the ground. The tremors started getting stronger and stronger until a massive worm with thick leathery skin burst out from the ground. The creature had a spiraling mouth that was filled with teeth that were spinning in a circular motion and looked like they could mince anything that got in their way. I ran as fast as I could, the worm slammed onto the ground and stared chasing after me. Luckily, I made it back to the door quite quickly. Slamming the door shut I turned quickly expecting the worm to break the door, but nothing happened. Shivering, I moved to the next door. 

Brushing the remaining snow out of my hair I followed the path to the fourth door. Either side of the path was full of varying poisonous-looking mushrooms. The fourth door was covered in mold and mushrooms. The handle of this door was also a mushroom. Not wanting to grab the suspicious looking mushroom with my hand I ripped off a piece of my shirt and used that to turn the handle. The landscape of this door was unique to say the least. The ground and grass were a grayish purple. There were massive mushrooms with bendy stems and colorful tops. Exploring a bit, I found what looked to be houses made of mushroom. The inhabitants of these houses were small people with rainbow mushroom caps on their heads, wearing them like hats. When they saw me, they started to run in circles and scream. After about 20 seconds of deafening screeching, a large crowd of them had gathered. Something strange started to happen after about 100 congregated. They began to climb onto of each other to create a figure of a human about 2 meters taller than me. Realizing that this could only go badly, I started running, but being distracted by the creatures I had lost the way back to the door. After finally losing them, I hid behind a massive dark red mushroom that was tall enough to climb to get a view of the surrounding area. After spotting the door in the distance, I looked to the left and saw the mushroom man close to the door. I started moving closer to the door, and when I was close enough, I made a break for it. The mushroom man saw me and started chasing me but luckily enough I made it and shut the door before the mushroom man got to me.

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