Chapter 12

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I don't know why, but I kept walking on that creepy lawn. It was just getting more and much more cloudy. As if I somewhere in the clouds. I couldn't see a thing ahead. That was until......I reached a forest. I could see that forest, but it was like a white cloth spreading inside the forest, and only the first few trees of the familiar forest were visible.

As far as I remember, we had started from the gate, in the side opposite to the forest. How in the heaven, could I still arrive at the same place? This.is.impossible.

Since I had no other choice, I kept walking into the forest, feeling much dizzy at the entrance. I guess there's something in these clouds..... Shit. These.must.not.be.clouds. My dizziness was increasing with the clouds. I don't remember for how long I walked, when did I finally fall, and when did I land up here.

I can't open my eyes even though I was awake. I am blindfolded. I'm tied up. But my mouth is free. Voice.....well, let me search for my voice.

"Anyone here?"

No answer.

"Ash? Tany? Shyera? Irwin?"

No answer.

"Ash? Tany?"

I was about to go on screaming random things so that someone listens to me, but I heard a soft mumble beside me, and felt the person next to me move.

"If it is you Ash, then write Y on my palm."

The person wrote Y.

Somehow we managed to free my hands in about 15 minutes. I quickly opened my blindfold. some time later, both of us were free completely, and were freeing Tany and bringing her back to consciousness.

Once she was fine, we took efforts to look around that small place. Barely six feet wide. A very small place. Too heighted. Expected. Ash and Tany looked around the room for any hidden doors. I had expected this and just look up. Exactly how I had seen in my dream, the room had some outline in the middle of the ceiling.

I looked around the room, to find stairs, if any. I began pressing on a wall to find any buttons to bring out stairs. I finally hit something. It cut me a little. But I managed to trace tthe outline of whatever it was without getting cut again. I tried to push it in and it got pushed a little. When I removed my finger, releasing all the pressure from that button, and it came out. The button was weird. Something was engraved on it at the top. A dragon-like thing. But it also had one arrow pointing to the left. I moved left and found another button. One by one, following the directions on the buttons all the buttons came out. I frowned. What next?

Ash took a chance and pressed two buttons in. They got pushed in. Didn't come out. We heard a cracking sound behind us. We looked back. A stair had come out, with three hooks on it. Tanyra began to tie the ropes together, first making them into three long ones. Me and Ash continued the process of bringing out stairs. The stairs were all rocky and heighted. Like big rocks.

We climbed up with great difficulty since we were no experts at that. When we reached the top, we almost lost our breaths.The stairs that we had left behind, had DISAPPEARED. There.were.no.stairs.to.go.back.down.

I gulped. Taking deep breaths, I pushed up the lid on the ceiling.

I came up that hole, and then pulled Tanyra and Ashton up. We decided to put the lid back in its place. Once we placed it, I saw something engraved on it. It was like:

                 1 0 4 9 9 5

What the hell was this number supposed to mean? 1,04,995? Or a code or addition or something else?

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