The Mirror Mansion

Chapter IX: Changeable Moods

   "WHAT???!!! What the heck?! Where were you?! Why didn't you help me you idiot?!" They screamed at me.

"I couldn't do anything!!!" I retorted back.
   "You're just as freaking useless as the rest of us now aren't you?!" They angrily yelled.
   "You can't blame me!!!" I yelled back.
   "Oh I can!!! And once I do, you'll go down with the rest of us!!!" They screamed...

Bam

Tyler shot up out of bed and gasped for breath. He felt his sweat deip down his body and wiped his forehead with his arm. His slightly dirty shirt stuck to him as he realized how much he sweat from...
A dream?
He didn't know.
He somehow felt as if metal was pushed into his chest and that there was a painful hole inside him but... There was nothing. He felt his chest for anythig used to stab him and realized that he was fine.
He was alive.
For now. At least.
   "I'll call him, I'll call him..." Someone groaned from the other side of the door.
Tyler blinked blankly at the words and slowly got out of bed and dusted off his pants.
The door then opened and he flinched as his head looked towards whoever opened the door.
   "See? He's awake. I didn't have to get him." Marco groaned.
Tyler just stood there and he somehow expected Mars to laugh and say something like, 'Stop standing there and let's eat!' And Jin or Carl would angrily chase her out of thw room. But...
Mars was dead.
The words shook Tyler as he thought of them and he heard someone snap their fingers.
   "Don't stand there looking gormless, Tyler." Geoffrey sighed as he came into Tyler's view.
   "Yeah sorry. Just a bit disoriented." He admitted as he let out a sigh.
Tyler stepped through the doorway and felt cleaner and more refreshed as he stepped into the hallway. He and the other males walked down the staircase quietly and made their way to the round table. Even Ryan who usually had something to complain about.
The females also made their way down and Celeste, who was usually bubbly and bright, was more than downhearted.
   "Guten Morgen!!!" Rang an annoying German voice. "Oh, good morning- Oh... Oh. Gah, grow up you Kinder! Don't be such weak-hearted babies!"
   "Babies eh?" Grumbled Carl almost like how Marie would do it. "Shove off Richard."
   "Schweinhund..." Richard grumbled in reply. "Well, since the remaining of you have survived another day, I'm rewarding you all!"
 

  "With more death?" Marco spat.
   "Nein! I'm rewarding you all with a new room in the mansion. Feel free to explore it. And you might just find something suitable to kill someone else with." Richard said merrily.
   "We kill and get rewarded for it?" Celeste sighed.
   "It seems very illogical. And likely to be more illegal." Selene sighed and Geoffrey agreed.
   "Agh! Just get up and check it out! Gah, Mars would've gotten up to check immediately and you'd be chasing after here!" Richard sighed angrily.
Tyler groaned and got up with Carl doing the same. And then Marco, Jin, Celeste, and so on.
They then trailed to the wall where there were two mirror doors. The one leading to Mars' death scene and the other leading to the kitchen. Mars' body was gone when they checked and the metal room where Haley was executed was just a regular wall again filled with the same dull mirrors.
When they entwred the kitchen however, there was another mirror door right across them.
They all exchanged looks of uncertainty and curiosity. Who would go first however?
   "I'll go." James said and walked towards the mirror. He slowly walked through it and after only a short amount of time, he had returned.
   "Would any of you want to see this?" He asked.
They once again looked among each other and slowly walked over to the mirror and entered the doorway and were in another room...
It was...
A library of two floors with dozens upon dozens upon dozens of books in all languages both old and new. Old hardcover books that could now cost millions for their age and rarity, scrolls containing prophecies proved false and true from the millions of years before, glass cases with quartzes, diamonds, and other gems of different rarities, and on the walls were swords and daggers and shields alike hung like trophies. The wooden floors and the homey decorations such as wall candles and It were as if that one room would amount to a whole museum... a museum where one would greedily spend their days trying to attain vast knowledge.
And from just one look at the room, they felt immense want. As if something had sparked within them.
And they knew exactly what to do.
Until someone cut off their thoughts.
   "Isn't this place dangerous? With all these knives and all?" Celeste asked the other's.
   "I don't know Celeste... It feels awfully homey..." Selene said with a smile of relief.
   "Ahhhh, you're at home here eh?" Celeste smirked at her sister and elbowed her.
   "Don't blame her Celeste." Geoffrey said with a smile.
   "The thing just smiled!!!" Carl gasped in a fake way. "Right, Mars- Oh yeah."
They then grew quiet. Mars... Maybe she would like to gape at the swords... or maybe Haley could read in peace.
   "Let's forget that first. Please." Celeste said and looked at Carl.
They then sighed.
   "Well then, let's go check it out then." Selene said a little excitedly.
   "She's smiling~~~" Celeste sang as she began to walk towards the staircase leading to the second floor of the library.
   "Celeste!!!" Selene shrieked and then ran towards her sister and soon they were chasing each other.
    Ryan sighed however. "Libraries aren't really my domain..."
    "Would you rather stay in a plane crash, sir?" James smirked but responded rather smartly.
    "James!!!" Ryan gasped.
Tyler smiled as they started feeling more lighthearted.
Tyler himself sat down on one of the soft and plushy chairs and sighed in relief at the comfortable feeling. He then saw a small mirror on the coffee table in dront of him. Like the small circular mirrors on the round table.
He tapped the mirror out of curiosity and the mirror became black and then blue. It then showed what seemed to be a small screen revealing names and sections of... Books and authors.
He placed his finger on the mirror to see if he was hallucinating and pressed something by accident.
He then heard the sounds of pages flipping and then a book on a shelf flashed in a bright blue and Tyler's eyes widened as the book appeared on his lap.
   Tyler shook his head. 'I'm dreaming right?' He thought.
   "I saw that." He heard someone say and looked towards the staircase.
   "Believe me, I myself don't believe that a book teleported off of a shelf." Tyler replied in well... disbelief.
The place was beginning to feel weirder and weirder.
And then... Richard called.
   "Sie Kerle!!! You lot, brunch finally came through. I'm allowing you to continue your adventure a little later."
   "Twelve o' clock already?" Celeste asked as she and Selene came back down.
   "Time flies when you're having fun." Carl shrugged. "Let's go. I'm starved."
They then all laughed as they all left the room.