"Heero, where are we?" Relena asked as she and Heero were shoved in a deserted room.
"I don't know. Noin had us blindfolded as she placed us in the room." Heero told her trying to calm her down.
"Well I hope that someone rescues us." Relena said before she drifted off to sleep.
"I hope someone does. Especially with the condition your in, you're still losing blood and Noin keeps on forcing you to move." Heero said to himself as he checked the wraps covering Relena's wounds. He could see the blood seeping through it.
"Guys, you'd better come soon." Heero thought to himself as he fell asleep next to Relena.
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"Well, so far we went through the door and crossed the floor. Now where is somewhere that is bright?" Quatre wondered.
"There's a chandelier over there." Duo said pointing at a chandelier that was hanging over a small table.
"Well, that's at our left. The note says not to go right or left, just to go strait." Quatre reminded him.
"Well, it won't hurt to look." Duo replied.
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"Yea Duo. It won't,... for me!" Noin said laughed evilly as she started to put her second plan into motion.
"Now, just to press this little button as soon as he's there." Noin said as she watched Duo through the little screen.
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"See Quatre, nothing. There's nothing to worry about." Duo stated leaning on the small round table totally oblivious to the small motions of the chandelier.
"Duo, watch out!" Quatre yelled as he rushed forward and pushed Duo away from the crashing chandelier.
"Whoa, didn't see that one coming." Duo said as he got up and helped Quatre on his feet.
"Well now that we tested Noin about not lying, lets actually follow what the riddle says." Quatre said as he started to brush himself off.
"Well, the only light that's ahead of us is that lamp connected to a wall." Duo said.
"Not unless." Quatre started as he ran to the source of light and started feeling around.
"What are you looking for?" asked Duo bewildered.
"Found it!" Quatra exclaimed as he flicked a tiny switch. Just then the area of the floor and a portion of the wall including the lamp turned and they were in a small hall that had a staircase.
"What the heck." Started Duo as something bumped against his head. Floating above them was a balloon with a note attached to it. Quatre the grabbed the note and glanced at it.
"Well?" Duo asked.
"It says,
'Take 10 steps up,
And find 3 doors.
1 leads another riddle,
And 2 have no floors."
"Ok, well this one seems,... hard!" Duo said.
"And this time, we'll follow the riddle, and not take another way." Quatre said as he thought of the chandelier incident.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Enough with the past and lets find our friends. So far we only have,.. an hour and 35 minutes! And we're still on the first floor" Duo panicked.
"Don't worry, well be going 10 steps up. We'll probably be on the 4th or 5th floor by the looks of it." As he glanced at the steps.
"I hope so, do you know how big this place is. Man, it'll take us forever to find those two." Duo said.
"I know, but we can't lose hope. We have to keep on going. They're probably waiting for us. Now come on, we have a long way to go." Quatre assured Duo.
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"How true you are Mr. Winner. Relena and Heero are waiting for you. But don't worry Maxwell, you'll find them so keep your hope. The thing that you'll be losing is your life." Noin said as she laughed crazily again.
"Now, onto step 2." Noin said as she started pushing buttons.
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"Ok, well we've gone up 9 steps. Here's the 10th, but where are the doors?" asked Duo.
"Maybe it's hidden like the lamp." Quatre stated as his fingers started roaming around the wall.
"Uh, oh." Duo said.
"What?" asked Quatre who was still trying to find a button or switch.
"Well, the 1rst step has been opened and there seem to be crocodiles swimming there. And the 2nd and 3rd step are starting to become flat, and if we don't find that door we're gonna go down a long slide and into a crocodiles mouth." Duo said frantically as too started searching the wall.
"Well lets hurry up!" Quatre said as he started looking even faster.
"Come on, it's the 4th and 5th step now." Duo said as tried to find a bump or anything at all that would have a door appears.
"And 6th and 7th too!" Quatre replied.
"8th!" Duo said.
"Found it!" Quatre said as he pushed a button and a door appeared. Just as he walked through 9 went out.
"Hurry up!" Duo said as he pushed Quatre and walked onto the floor just as 10th helped complete the slide.
"Whew, just in time." Quatre said.
"Sorry boys, no snack today." Duo yelled as he stuck his head out the door and stuck his tongue out at the crocodiles.
"Come on, we still have to get to those 3 doors." Quatre stated as he pulled Duo out of the door and made him follow him.
"Ok, 3 doors. One leads to the riddle and the other 2 don't. Now which one, the right, left, or the middle?