Sharp As A Tiger, Quick as a Dragon [PERMANENTLY UNCOMPLETED]

Chapter 23: We Play the Game of Hearts

We leave the darkness of that corridor to enter into a brightly light room. In the middle of the room on the wall facing us was a big sipinner/wheel like the one they have on gameshows.

"Step right up and dare to spin and find out your next challenge. Rules of the game: Only one person is need to spin the wheel, and that person is the only one allowed to answer the riddle. No one can help them!" annouced a voice.

"I'll do it," Tom voluntered steping forward.

"You sure?' I asked nervously.

"I'm sure," said Tom but he sound like he's trying to convince himself more.

"ALLLLRIGHTY!" said the voice excitedly as Tom stepped onto the small platform in front of the spinner "Now, take your spin!" Tom gave the spinner a good big tug, and the wheel went spinning and spinning until it slowly slowed down and came to a stop.

"You have chosen....GUESS THAT PATTERN!" said the same voice like a gameshow host. Soon the whole room changed. All over the floor, the ceiling, and the walls were pictures of intricate geometric shapes. The spinner was replaced with a huge digital screen. Over top the screen was in light up letters, Guess That Pattern. On the screen a series of shapes were taking turns showing up on the screen. Triangle, Square, Trapizoid, Pentagon; Rectangle, Square, Triangle, Parallelogram, Trapizoid, Pentagon, Octogon, Hexagon, and so on and so forth. Neither me nor Yedana could figure out the pattern. Each group of shapes were different each time. However, Tom looked like he had an idea as he quizzically studied the screen.

"I think I've got it!" said Tom after a while "It's the colors!"

"What?" exclaimed me and and Yedana at the same time, utterly confused.

"Even when the shapes change, the colors don't," explained Tom pointing at the screen "See, orange, red, blue, green. That's the order the colors go in everytime. No matter if it's an orange triangle, or an orange pentagon the colors always stay in the same order. Orange, red, blue, green!" Sure enough, I began to notice that too. The colors always stay them same! Hooray for Tom!

"CCCORRECT!" exclaimed the voice rolling the first c in correct. The small platform that Tom was standing on moved aside the reveal a small triangular doorway. All of us dropped down to our knees, and one by one we crawled into the door way into the next room and our next challenge.

In this room there was a HUGE circular vault on the wall facing us. On the vault was a huge dial like the ones that you have on your locker at school except this one doesn't have any numbers.

"For this challenge you have to figure out how to open the vault," instructed the voice as we stood up "As a clue here's a riddle." Then just when she said that a huge scroll apeared on the same wall next to the vault, and unrolled itself.

"In order to open the lock, you must first turn against the clock

As the wind blows east, the sun sets west

And now my friend, to put this riddle to an end

You must push with all your might

If you it opens, then you know you got it right." recited the voice before disappearing once again. We stared at the dial for a long time. We really confused.

"Anybody got a plan," I asked hopefilled.

"Okay, let's try to solve this line by line," proposed Yedana.

"Okay, good idea," said Tom.

"In order to open the lock, you must first turn against the clock," recited Yedana "What does that mean?"