An Adventure Of Epic Proportions

Chapter 12

~View changes to Jupiter's~

I had lost the prince. I had also caused myself to end up lost. I had been trying to follow the red-haired women, however, I had now lost her. I had been wandering around the castle for a good 29 minutes before I came across a very unusual door. I felt a sudden need to know what was behind the large doors. It was just a slight pull to find out what secret these doors were keeping. however, I still fiddled with the large lock. I almost gave up, because honestly, nothing that interesting could be behind the doors. I remembered the pins in my hair and took it out, sticking it into the lock. The doors, I realized as the chained covering it the doors feel away were made from the same wood and carved in the same way as the booth that I bought my sword from. None of the other doors had passed had been like this. The carving I realized as I leaned closer depicted scenes of elves and fairies dancing, dragons fighting, Phoenixes in flight, pixes playing and other magical creatures, friend or foe. I was now more curious then before and pushed wood forward, it let out a long creak. I slipped inside before the noise could attack a passerby.

I stumbled down roughly carved steps, gripping onto wet cave walls. When I reached the bottom of the stairs, I gasped. The stairwell opened up into a large cavern with a lake, spilling out into the ocean. An old wooden boat was moored in the moonlight water. Any nerves of I had of someone catching me, had disappeared as I walked down the steps to the boat. The boat didn't seem too old to set sail, and I knew that when the time came, I would take this boat, and escape. Voices came from above, right at the door. As their footsteps got louder, I frantically looked for an escape. A stumbled towards a corner, my hands desperately trying to find something such as a hole in the wall that I could hide in. My hand pressed into something with a grind of gears a part of the cavern retracted into the wall. I opened up a secret room which I darted into. The wall shut after me just as the footsteps reached the bottom.

"Nothings down here"

"I swear I saw someone"

"I'm going back up, im not going to entertain this foolish idea any longer".

"I'm gonna stay here a bit longer, better safe than sorry"

A pair of footsteps made their way back up the stairs, once the other man was long one his partner traveled around the cavern. I backed up farther into the dark, dank, room. I just as the other man started to make his way up the stairs I let out a small cough. Cursing myself for my foolishness I clamped my hand over my mouth. The steps stopped, I knew I was done for, I wasn't allowed to be down here but I wouldn't give up my only escape out of this castle. As the cogs began to work, I closed my eyes tight, praying that I would be caught. My back pushed its self father into the wall, scraping my back against the rough cavern wall. Something was off, how had the man not noticed me yet.