Beware of the House (The unedited version)

Chapter 16 - Rainbow doors ... in a bank?

Taka and I sighed and began pushing our way through the crowd looking for where there might be stairs of some sort.

“Do you see any stairs?” I asked Taka.

“Nope, but I do see doors, a whole bunch of them!” Taka pointed towards a smallish room about 6 metres in front of us which had no door. The room was surprisingly really empty; there were only a couple of people in there.

“Okay, there is randomly an empty room there, normal.” I replied, “Where did you see the doors? The room is doorless!”

“Umm, look inside,” Taka replied. I looked inside and saw that the walls of the small room were covered in doors, different coloured doors.

“Okay… how on Earth did I miss that?” I asked myself.

“Easy! Step back a bit then look!” Taka said with a little too much enthusiasm, creepy. I did as she told and before my eyes, the doors disappeared along with the colours making plain white walls. I stepped forward again and they reappeared. Okay…

“This is beginning to creep me out; can we just get it over and done with?” I asked grabbing Taka’s arm and pulling her along to the ‘doorless door room’.  As we walked the doors appeared and reappeared over and over again until when we got there when they just stayed visible. “Okay... which door first?”

“The first one silly! That way we’ll know we don’t miss any!” Taka exclaimed. Okay, her enthusiasm is REALLY starting to creep me out, it’s just a door. There must be some reason behind it; happy gas, not enough sleep, cute guy (she always acts weird around them for some reason), excitement about being human again? I bet it’s more than one reason. Oh well, hopefully she will radiate her happiness to me as well. I nodded to show I know what she meant, before walking up to the door just behind Taka.

She swung open the red, surprisingly unlocked door to reveal a room full of boxes which had money spilling out of them all over the floor like carpet. I looked around the room and, surprise surprise! Each corner of the 3m x 3m room sported a high tech security camera. To top it off, there are three buff police officers standing in the ‘doorless door room’ armed with tasors. I have no idea why they don’t just put a lock on the door; it’d be a lot cheaper and easier. I saw taka almost sneak a $100 note off the floor but I stopped her and showed her the police officers and cameras.

“Thanks Minigeisha, oh and by the way, what’s with the big red button near the police officers and the big metal door hidden at the entry of the door room?” Taka asked.

“Haha, I dunno about the big door, maybe they lock this place up at night, but I do know what to do about the big red button. If you want to know what it does, I suggest you press it; at a distance of cause.” I replied.

“Oh, okay. My arms aren’t that long so I think we should just move onto the next door,”

We walked up to the next door, the yellow one. We opened it up and guess what, no stairs. This room was about 20m by 20m and in cages, as many indoor pets I could think of along with a couple of outdoor pets. My favourites are; pig, unicorn, raccoon and cute lil’ bunny wabbit. Oh and in case you missed it, yes I said unicorn. There is a big white unicorn. I saw Taka look around the room in pure glory until she saw the unicorn. Her eyes widened and she began jumping up and down. Okay, this is DEFINITELY not normal. What happened to the mature Taka? Normally I’m the crazy one out of the two of us. Hmm, I’ll have to ask Cleo later because this is defiantly not normal. Taka stared at the unicorn and blinked a couple of times as if she were making sure she wasn’t seeing things.

“A UNICORN! I WANNA PET UNICORN! OMG IT HAS WINGS TOO! I WANNA FLY ON THE UNICORN!” And with that, she was gone, running towards the unicorn like a little kid. “It’s okay little unicorn,” She said as she petted the majestic creature, “I understand what it’s like to be different. Maybe we could be friends! Cleo won’t mind if I take you home, will she Minigeisha?”