"Ho-ly Crap."
The door behind the two closed, and they stood there, Keru rubbing his eyes, Niina staring at this next room in horror.
The last room had been noisy and white. This room was silent, and multicolored. Any color you could think of and more was on the walls, ceiling, or floor. There were no machines, it was a room, just a room. Nothing but color was in it. Or so they thought.
"I think... I'm blinded..." Keru said, taking his hands away from his eyes and blinking nearsightedly. Niina gave a nervous giggle at that, and the two peered around the room. "So... ah... Where's the door?"
"I have no clue... The colors blend everything together..."
"You won't be needing any door." The voice echoed through the room. Keru and Niina looked up with a start, spinning around wildly to spot the holder of the voice.
"Hahaha! Look all you want, you'll never find me!"
"Augh!" A sharp cry emitted from Keru's mouth, and Niina spun to look at him. He had a cut across his cheek and a small knife dug into his arm. Blood dripped onto the floor and the voice laughed again.
"All you can do is wait. Wait for me to slice you to bits! But maybe I should have it be Ladies First!"
Niina let out a yell as she found a knife in her leg, just above her boot. Grimacing, she yanked it out, thanking the gods that neither the knife in her leg nor the one in Keru's arm, which he had just taken out, had hit a nerve or anything, just flesh. It was as if the person wished to prolong their misery. Or just had really bad aim.
"Coward!" Keru yelled at the walls, taking out one of his own knives. "Why don't you be a man and show yourself!" The voice laughed again.
"Why should I? All I need to do is kill you, and I can get the reward!"
"Reward?"
"Rooks knows all about you, Keru. The thief who wants to destroy us all. You came here before, when you were eleven, and narrowly escaped with your life. But someone left you with - these!" A ripping sound could be heard, and Keru spun around.
Another knife was dug into the wall, a little piece of crimson fabric hanging from it. Keru looked down, and saw that the person had slice through the fabric of his top at the back, and it fluttered downwards, to reveal four scars on his back. They came from the middle of the back and headed outwards, two heading towards each side, like a tiger's stripes. The voice laughed, saying, "You are always reminded of what you lost when you look through a mirror onto your back, aren't you? Your mother, your father, both killed by the Rooks. And almost you, though why we let you go, I don't know. Ah well.'
Keru growled, throwing a punch at the wall. Unknown to him, Niina stared at his back, tears welling up in her eyes, a hand to her mouth. Then she screamed, felling a hand on her shoulder. She spun around, her brown hair whirling, but there was nothing she could see. Keru rushed up to her, but seeing nothing, and seeing as how Niina didn't scream anymore, he went off to another corner, trying to see if he could feel the person, if they were just invisible.
Then Niina let out another scream. He spun around, to see that Niina he brought up a hand to slap something. He heard a sort of small crashing noise, and then he spotted something else.
It was a person, lying on the ground, rubbing their red cheek.
"Pervert!" Niina yelled, giving the person a kick. A lingering red was still on Niina's cheek, so Keru, running over, could only guess (pretty accurately) what had happened.
The person yelped when Niina's kick landed. This person, they couldn't quite tell what gender it was, though Niina was positive it was male. They had a scrawny frame, and long, blonde hair, which look as though it had been tied in a ponytail, but had gotten loose. Then, slowly the person turned over, sitting up, still rubbing their cheek.
And the person was female.
Niina just screeched some more, yelling about feeling so violated, about lesbian perverts, and things like that, until the woman interrupted her.
"Hey," she said, and Niina stopped raving for a second for the woman to wink at her and say, "You have a nice a**." Then she continued ranting. Keru, on the other hand, picked the woman up by her collar, rising her above the floor.
"Okay, let's get your mind off Niina, and onto some questions, shall we?" The woman shrugged, she was very calm, despite her situation.
"Who are you?"
"Second gatekeeper to Rooks, Chameleon."
"Well, that sort of answer the next question..."
"About how you couldn't see me? Yeah, I've been training for years to blend in with anything around me."
"So, why all those colors? Isn't it easier to dow with just one?"
"Yeah, but then I don't get to hurt people's eyes."
"Okay... Ah, where's the door?"
"There isn't. You have to make one."
"I have to make a door?"
"No, not you. You couldn't even dent a wall. Go ask lovely Niina over there to do it for you."
"Wait, so you're just going to let us go without any more of a fight."
"Only if Niina lets me touch her chest again."
"NO!" came Niina's reply.
"Oh, phooey. You'll have to knock me out then."
"Gladly." Niina said, and raised the hilt of her sword. Keru moved Cho into a good position, though Cho squirmed, trying to get out of their way. Niina hit her head, and then the two walked away from Cho's unconscious body, Keru taking off the rest of his tattered shirt during that time.
"You sure you want that Cho to have that?" Niina asked, stopping once they got to the wall opposite of where they entered.
"Meh. Whatever. It'll only slow me down anyways. Let her keep it." Keru said, stopping as well. "So, how are you going to make a door?"
"Step back." Keru stepped back. Niina raised her sword, and slowly, power seemed to form in it. She brought it slicing down to the wall, and large quantities of smoke came from the wall, like an explosion but without the bang. When the smoke cleared, there was a door-shaped hole in the wall.
"You never told me you could do magic." Keru said, stepping through the hole.
"You never asked." Niina replied, stepping through the hole, noticing that it closed up behind her. "Now shut up and get moving."
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