Portrait

Chapter 2: Deep Under

"Ugh, where...am I? This is not the museum. The walls are all blood red and there are weird paintings around me. The weird thing is...there's no way up to where I came from." said Lucy.

Lucy didn't have any choice but to walk along the path infront of her. On the walls, were the words COME LUCY COME COME COME COME. She followed the path until it ended and infront of her, was a table with a pink rose on it. She took the rose and moved the table aside that was blocking the entrance to a green door and proceeded in.

"What kind of room is this? It's all blue in here with one beautiful painting of a woman..but hey, there's a note on the wall. It says -When the ??? dies, so will ???-" said Lucy confusingly. "What the heck is that supposed to mean? All these languages!!! It's either I can't understand them or I just am stupid."

Before she left the room, Lucy obtained a yellow key and  the painting of the women turned all bloody and she gave a deathly smile to Lucy. 

The table Lucy moved outside of the room had a note on it. It said "You and the rose are ???."

"I am nothing like the rose...am I?" said Lucy. "Wait...what's that on the walls? It says I am a thief? Are you serious?"

And Lucy went back to the werid paintings. Back to where she started, but it seems another path has appeared, so Lucy followed it. It led to a yellow door. Thinking the key could opened the door, Lucy tried it, and it opened.

"So I guess this means that the colour of the key opens up the colour of the door. But, where am I now? The painting around me are all bugs. I infer, that this room has a bug theme."said Lucy.

She saw a green door to her right and went in. It's too bad because there is a giant gap in the floor to block her from proceeding, so she left that room. Lucy turned to to her right and a hallway leading somewhere so she followed it. As she passed some of the walls, dark hands popped out to grab her, but she ran until she reached the end of the gloomy hallway. Her breathing was hard, for she was only 10 years old. Her heart felt like it was on fire and her legs are worn out, but she kept going.

The door at the end was purple, but it was locked. Right beside the door was a painting of a ladybug. The painting was loose and it fell off the wall, making a silent thump. Right where the painting was, there was blue paint spelling "TAKE IT" and Lucy did. 

"So...what am I supposed to do with this?" said Lucy and she thought for a moment and figured "I can use this to go over the gap in the over room. This painting is like my bridge!"

She avoided the dark arms in the hallway and opened the green door and put the painting of the gap and went over the gap. She arrived at the next room. She saw a statue that she saw from the museum standing at the end of the room and right infront of the awkwardly looking statue was a purple key! Just what she needed, so she picked it up. Suddenly, the headless statue made a growling noise, unlike a dog, this statue didn't even have a face. The statue started heading towards Lucy and she ran back to the other room. She turned back and saw the statue break the painting and fall in the gap. She was safe.

"I should head towards the purple door now."said Lucy and she went through the dark hallway again.

She arrived at the purple door and unlocked it. Inside, was a room, and on the wall was a heart shaped hole. She guessed that she would have to find it so she went to a room on her left. There were curtains everywhere and she opened up one and there, infront of her, was a heart stone. She took it and inserted it into the wall, but it seems to be missing a piece of its bottom. She turned to her right and went to a room. 

Inside, were statues and dolls, just like the one that was chasing her.