Novel Drama
68
Morgan pov.
"Fuck yes!" I shout as the Indigo block finally turns to a solid stone. The sun is starting to come up again, but I don't feel tired as I proudly stare at what was once bookshelves in front of me. With a proud smile I leave the library and head to my bedroom where I find a large box at the foot of the bed. With a frown I open the box and find a jumpsuit in it with a simple note.
Wear me.
I take a deep breath before snatching the garment out of the box and going to the bathroom. After my shower I get dressed in a yellow suit, finding it skintight but comfortable enough for me not to hate wearing it. When I get back to the room the box is still there, so I peek inside of it to find a pair of sneakers and a backpack. I put on the shoes and examine the backpack, opening all its compartments and find a note in one of them. Fill me.
"With what?" I wonder, leaving the room with the bag in my hand. As I walk past the dining room, I notice the food on the table is packaged. "Oh." I mumble as I stare at the backpack. I take the two big bottles of water and clip them to the bag before looking at the contents of the table. There's rope and weapons that I know I might need so I pack them. Then I pack everything that's sealed like the granola bars, peanut packages and fruit rolls. Once the pack is filled everything disappears and a normal breakfast spread takes place. I fill myself up before strapping the backpack to my body and making my way outside into the garden but there's no indication that I can leave this place though there. I think about it for a minute before I rush to the library where the solid-colored walls have turned into doors with a riddle written above it. I have lakes but no water, streets but no cars, I have many places and borders, but I'm in one piece. What am I? I read it over a couple of times before I smile.
"A map." The riddle disappears as I say the answer out loud, and I walk towards the red door, but it doesn't open. I try the rest of the doors, but they don't budge. "A fucken map." I mutter finally looking around the library. I search in the desks and the cabinets before I find a map of the world book, but all the pages have parts of the maps sliced out. "You can't give me a fucken break?" I scream into the empty room, plopping down on a chair, frustration bubbling inside of me.
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"Casey" I call to the sentinel in my head, but silence greets me, brining tears to my eyes as I deploy my magic to search every part of my mind but she's no where to be found. With teary eyes I look at the ripped maps in front of me, wishing they would all just be whole. I've been alone for the past four days and as much as I loved being by myself before I met Rain, I'm not used to it. Then we bonded and I got Casey, and I truly knew what it felt to be whole, to not have any missing pieces.
"Missing." I mutter, wiping the tears from my face as I stare at the parts of the maps that are sliced out. I think back to Ragna and how I mended the missing parts of his wings and let out a dry chuckle. "Fuck you Magnus." I hope he can hear me. I focus my magic on the map in front of me, watching as the missing pieces of the map fills itself in. I go through the whole book like that before I try the doors again, but they're locked still. "Keys. I need keys." I mutter, taking the backpack from my back and leaving it in the library.
I make my way back to my room and start looking, pulling out every box I can find, going through every crevice of the room until I come up with four of the seven keys I need, each of them a different color. I move on to my bathroom and then my closet before I have all seven keys in my hands. Heading back to the library I place the keys in the doors with their colors and twist them, but they still don't open. With a sigh I place the pack back on my back and pick up the book of maps before I try the red door again. It opens, much to my delight. I step through it and the door closes behind me, disappearing into the trees I'm surrounded by.
Nothing about this place looks familiar and so I page around the book until I find a page that has a slight red glow to it. I study the map, finding an area clearly labeled endpoint with various numbers on the map. I'm in the middle if the tree on the map is any indication and I have to get to number one that's all the way on east end of the map. Making sure my pack is secured, and my shoes won't get untied I start walking in that direction, noticing a blimp that moves as I do. When I finally make it to number one there's a puzzle piece on a pedestal waiting for me, so I grab it and place it in my backpack. Looking at the map I notice number seven is much closer than two, so I head in that direction, only to find a dome covering the puzzle piece.
"I have to do it in sequence." I mutter to myself, hiking towards number two on the map. As I hike between the numbers I stop to rest, drink water, have something to eat and curse Magnus to the ends of the world. When I finally reach the end point, I fit all the puzzle pieces together and almost laugh at the words on the final piece.Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.
In life, there are no shortcuts. Only those who follow the rules earns the prize.
With a grin I nod to myself as the door appears once more and I step through it. Back in the library I have no idea how many days have passed since I went through that red door, but I promise myself this, I'll make it to the end and when I kill Magnus there won't be any short cuts. I'll be all too lucky if I can manage to put him through the torture he put me though.