Serina and Kate were going down the mysterious stairs they had found.
After having taken only ten steps, Serina focused her eyes towards the top of the staircase, where the door was, and it looked as though they had taken twenty!
"Kate!" Serina uttered in amazement, "Look!"
Kate turned up her head and saw the same sight.
"How strange..." Kate gasped.
"Should we keep going?" asked Serina.
"I don't know."
Kate was a little disturbed by this illusion, and began to lose her excitement for adventure.
"Maybe we should go back up," Serina suggested.
Kate agreed.
They began to climb the stairs. But then, something went wrong.
As they tried to ascend, the top got further away.
They started to run up the stairs. Suddenly, Kate and Serina fell into a hole in the wall.
They rolled down a dark tunnel, and came to a stop, about 25 feet from where they started.
Kate got up, and found one of their flashlights. She looked around, but there was no climbing out. It looked as though there was more tunnel that they could walk through.
Unfortunately, Serina was knocked out from the fall. Kate thought to wait for Serina to wake up, but after about 15 minutes, she got an idea.
She got out some rope from her backpack, and some from Serina's. She tied the two together, and then to Serina's arm, and to her own.
Kate started walking through the tunnel, and then came to what seemed like a room. On all sides of this hollowed out area, there were more tunnels, each one leading to somewhere different.
She decided to check each one out, as far as the rope would allow her to.
The first tunnel spiraled upward, and the second led to a room filled with an orange substance that was flexible. The third tunnel led nowhere, and came to a dead end, but the fourth was full of silver powder. The fifth had giant bubbles of purple, bouncy stuff, and tunnel number six spiraled downward. The last one seemed to continue forward, but had a sword, lying in the walkway.
Kate tried to pick up the sword, but the rope was not long enough for her to reach it. However, she was determined to get it. She tried getting on the floor to grab it. When that did not work, she reached out her leg, stretching as far as she could, only touching the edge. She kept reaching, trying to scoot it with her foot, and she got it.
She returned to Serina, who was just waking up.
"Hey," Kate said, "are you alright?"
"My head hurts pretty good," Serina answered, "where are we?"
"I don't know. But there is some weird stuff down here. Can you get up?"
"I think so."
Serina tried getting up, she was rather stiff, but she made it to her feet.
Kate and Serina traveled down the tunnel to the hollowed out area. Kate explained what was in each tunnel, and Serina wanted to see the orange, purple, and silver substances for herself.
So Kate took Serina to check them all out.
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