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Chapter 5: Him and The Maze Game

"This rose...is so...wilted. I need to heal it! The vase should help!"said Lucy and she put the green rose in the vase. As time passed, the green rose was beautiful once again. 

Lucy returned to the boy, hoping to somehow help him.

"Are you okay?"said Lucy, hoping to find him as great as ever, for she cannot do anything to help him at most.

"Mmm..."said the boy and then he had a dazed look as he looked up. When he saw Lucy he screamed and stood up and ran backwards, staring at Lucy. "Stop! I don't have anything to give to you anymore!!"

Lucy looked at him, confused. 

"Wait. You must be someone else who got trapped in this world too! I thought I was a l o n e." said the boy.

Lucy looked at him and told him everything that happened to her and what she saw and experienced.

"I see. Well, let's get out of here! Oh! Silly me! I forgot to ask your name. I apologize. I am Romeo and you are?" said Romeo.

"Lucy..."said Lucy quietly.

"Well, I can't just leave you here. Let's be partners and escape this place together okay?"said Romeo.

"Yeah!"said Lucy. 

Lucy lead him to the door where the headless statue was blocking the door.

"Hey? Can you push this thing out of the way?"said Lucy.

"Yeah, no problem. Step back a bit, would ya Lucy?'said Romeo. And Lucy stepped back a bit.

Romeo moved the statue, then he took Lucy's hand and they went through the door.

They appeared in a room with a passage leading to other places with rooms. Right infront of them was a bride's left hand on one side, and right hand on the other. 

"Um...the hands are moving, but staying in place. Maybe we should go further Lucy."said Romeo.

Lucy and Romeo saw a painting with a face asking for the rose so he could "sniff" it, but they denied. They kept moving forward. 

Around the place, they both saw a path (still in the same area) with hands on the floor moving. 

"Hey. This hand looks dry..."said Lucy.

"Maybe we can help it, if we found moisturizer..."said Romeo. "Come on. There are still more rooms to visit."

Romeo and Lucy entered the room and inside, was a maze game. There were headless statues walking around and there were buttons and switches and secrets in this place. When Lucy saw the maze, she had a scared look on her face.

"Hey, if you don't want to go, just stay outside. I can just do this myself then." said Romeo.

"N-No thanks. I'm coming with you. We're a team right? Teams always stick together!"said Lucy.

"Okay then. If you say. Let's look around this place, but avoid those weird statues."said Romeo.

Romeo grabbed Lucy's hand and swiftly moved around. They reached a corner where no statue could see them.

"So let me see, there should be something here and..."said Romeo slowly and quietly.

"Ummm...Romeo? There's something behind us."said Lucy.

They both turned fully around, seeing a canvas with letters on it. On the canvas, it is written: One switch is right, others are left. 

"What is that supposed to mean? One is left...WHAT?!" said Romeo.

Lucy grabbed Romeo's hand and ran to a switch she saw and passed by earlier in the maze. 

"Lucy! What are you doing! The statues are going to catch us if we act carelessly. We're exposed!"said Romeo.

Lucy flicked the switch and she and Romeo ran out of there. 

"What were you doing!?"said Romeo.

"What we had to do."said Lucy and she walked towards another room. "Wait here."

"But."said Romeo. Then Lucy went in. "Maybe I was to hard on her...I guess I was just surprised. I should say sorry when she gets back."

A moment after, Lucy came out of the room holding something. 

"Hey, Lucy. What is that?"said Romeo.

"Its moisturizer! Now we can help the dry hand."said Lucy happily.

As the two were walking back to the dry hand Romeo said "Hey...Sorry for being mean before. I was just scared...that.."

"No worries. We're still alive right now. We're still living. Don't be sorry. Kay?"said Lucy with a smile.

"Okay"said Romeo.

They arrived at the hand and moisturized it. It disappeared and appeared at the wall and it was pointing at it. 

"Hey...I think it wants us to go to the wall."said Romeo.

"But, there's nothing there"said Lucy.

"Right..."said Romeo.

Romeo felt a handle and opened the door. They both went inside and it was a narrow, small, empty room.

"Stay by the door. I'll get whats inside the room." said Romeo. "I promise. Don't worry."

"Okay...I trust you!" said Lucy and she stood by the door.

Romeo went inside for a few second and then came back out holding a blue glass ball.

"I don't know what it's for, but it could be useful."said Romeo. "Lets go"

"Wait...I felt like I've seen that blue glass ball...Follow me!" said Lucy as she took the ball from Romeo. And Romeo ran after her.

Lucy inserted the ball into the hole into a painting and another painting fell. On the back it said "Look behind a sculpture and someone will be happy."

Lucy ran to a room with sculptures in it while Romeo was still chasing after her. She ran out of that room holding something and headed towards the bride's hand. Lucy put the ring on the woman's left hand, on the ring finger. Suddenly, flowers came from the ceiling and Lucy took them. 

Finally, Romeo catched up with her.

"Whoa..Huh...huh...Lucy...huh....you run pretty...darn fast."said Romeo, all worn out. Romeo looked up and saw the bride's hand not moving and saw Lucy holding a bouquet of flowers. "Hey, one day, when I get married, I'd give my bride a nice infinity ring like that." And Romeo smiled and so did Lucy.

"Well, let's give these flowers to that painting that we ignored earlier. I think it'd be nice."said Lucy and they both went.

"SO? CAN I SNIFF SOME FLOWERS? PLEEEEEASE?" said the retarded painting.

"Of course you can Mr.Painting. Here!"said Lucy and she handed to bouquet of flowers to painting.

"TIME TO EAT!"said the retarded painting and he ate the bouquet. "SINCE YOU GAVE ME FLOWERS, I'LL LET YOU THROUGH." And the painting transformed into a door.

"Let's go through, Romeo."said Lucy. 

And both went through the door.