"I guess the only logical thing is to go up" I said calmly
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"You are unbelievable " Louisa said climbing up a big rock. I tried to stay calm and followed her on top. The liquid was gaining height quickly with every minute passing by.
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"How do we stop this?" Rebecca asked from the pedestal " There must be some sort of an escape mechanism a button, a secret door , a lever ?? Something?!"
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I looked around for a while, tried to see objects but apparently time was not on our side. The minimum lighting made it even more difficult to spot any sort of levers around. Just then I remembered
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"Rebecca, just pull out the crook and flail at the same time now!!" I waited but she just doesn't want to listen to me. "PLEASE FOR GOD SAKE !!." I screamed .
It felt like she was clueless what I was talking about still trying to process the commands... Like as if a robot was asked to run a code beyond it's capabilities.
"You mean this candy bar like thing??"She asked smiling at it...strange behaviour.
"YES THE CANDY BAR!!" I said looking at her hopeless state .
She finally pulled them out at the same time and a ray of light shot from the eyes of the statue straight to the opposite end of the room on the wall. A lever. It pointed straight at it. But it was out of our reach. Some one needed to Parkour to reach it and time was running out.
"You go " Rebecca insisted
"WHY IS IT ALWAYS ME?? YOU GO!! THIS MESS WAS BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T LISTEN." I answered back
" Shut up guys." Louisa intervened and began jumping from one rock to the next, mainting absolute precision and balance so that she doesn't burn herself and our hopes of escaping alive.
"I WILL SEE YOU, ONCE WE GET OUT." Rebecca said.
"Ohh please care to add an IF in that statement will you." I asked her giving a fake smile.
"What happens if we pull the lever ?" Louisa asked before she was about to pull it
"I honestly don't know, didn't plan for this " I said. What's the worst thing that could happen? This room gets filled up and we burn alive right...
"Only one way to find out." As she said this Louisa pulled down the lever. Just then all of a sudden I felt my weight increased 5 times. I tumbled and was appressed to the floor. The liquid had drained out but the massive force was hurting my bones.
I was gasping for breath but got none . With all the strength in my body I was able to open my eyes and see, that's when I realised we were going up, as if we were standing in an elevator moving upwards.
Louisa and Rebecca both screamed at the top of their lungs. Finally we stopped and the body was relieved of such a huge load. We all looked at each other and began laughing, surprised that we actually made it out alive. I looked around and found out that we again came back to the same floor it all started with.
"Please tell me you have the key!?" Louisa asked Rebecca. Rebecca took out the silver half of the key from her pocket and showed it to us.
Now we had to look for the second half. But just then I remembered, the cost of that key was blood... Fresh red blood from an alive human.
Not having the will nor the strength to ponder we all just got up and began searching for images or carvings on the Apse for the second key.
The blood was actually needed for a book to be opened, which when read would unlock the cursed chest and give out the key. Sounds simple right?
We all finally noticed a pattern, all the gods drawn were pointing to two vases that were needed to be kept on top of one another at a specific place to open a gate to the chest of Ponce de Leon. Surprisingly the vase was already present in place and just needed to be kept on one another.
"Looks like somebody had a picnic here already." I remarked
The sisters positioned the vase carefully and VOILA!! the wall in front gave way. This seemed much more simple than I expected it to be.
We all entered the chamber, and it surely was the most decorated room in this church. The jewels, the gold and even diamonds were laid down as if they were quite common commodities of those days.
"Put it down!!" Louisa commanded, as I was about to smuggle a diamond for my personal greed. And there it was, the cursed chest and the book lay right beside it. I didn't feel quite happy honestly at the first sight of the chest cause I felt that would be the last thing I would ever see.
Just then, Rebecca bent me down. My head dangling right over the book , as I started screaming like a little child begging for my life. Louisa tried stopping her sister but wash pushed aside against the wall. That's when Rebecca pulled out a sword and swung it in the air . I was jerking my body trying to escape but it was of no hope. I again closed my eyes confident enough that it was the end as i could here the sword getting close to me....
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