I entered a pick black room with no source of light at all. "WELCOME YOUNG BOYS!" a voice of girl echoed throughout out the room and suddenly lights were turned on in the room.
The room looks like an old circus and around us were a lot of mirrors.
We all stand in the middle and a young girl wearing a colorful puffy dress that is above her knee with gloves and have clown make up on her face.
"Welcome, welcome young boys, my name is Mimi jingle" she giggled and started to juggle colorful balls on her hand "my test is easy peasy, all you have to do is play hide and seek with me" she giggled and now riding a unicycle towards us "easy peasy right, right, you all would be the it and I will be the one to hide" she got off her unicycle and did a bush of cart wheel.
I clap my hands "thank you thank you, no pictures during the show" she said and giggled.
"Now the game will start, now all of you close your eyes and count to ten, and if you dare cheat I will take your eyes out and make them into by juggling balls" she giggled and gave us a creepy smile "what are you all doing?, Start counting if you all don't want me to take out your faces and make them into my mask" she pouted at us and crossed her hands.
We all covered our eyes and started counting from 1-10 "oh goodie, now where should I hide" that was her last words when we opened our eyes and she was already gone. 3 mirrors appeared on the bottom of the stage.
"What's this?" said Zagreus walking to the mirrors "mirrors" I answered him and he gave me glare "why are you here?" one of the boys said "only the top five can enter this room" the other boy added "oh I know that's why I'm existing this room and moving on to the next" I told him "what?!" one of the boys said "I passed the test on the second room and I'm going to the final room" I told him and smirk "what are you talking about?" now he is looking annoyed with me and I saw Ashir smiling at the situation right now.
"What the lady told us in the second is to find a partner and exchange drinks with them and only the top five can enter this room right?" I said to him "yes" he answered me "I pass the test with in the time I exchange drinks with my partner and I'm going to the next room" I said to him.
"Huh" he said "your stupid man only the top 5 can be in this room and those who pass the test with in the given time can still be in the trial, meaning he passed the test on the second room, he is still in trial, but he can't take the test here because he isn't one of the top 5, that's why he is skipping this room" Ashir explained to him.
"What?! That's unfair" he said in shock "the rules were pass the test in the given time and top 5 can enter this room, but she never said that people that pass on time and isn't in the top 5 can be eliminated, meaning I'm still in the trail" I said to him "so they were six in poisoned drinks?" one of the boys said.
"No, 3 drinks were poisoned" I said to him "the rule was just exchange the drinks, she never said to drink it" I added "mom is such a clever person" Ashir' said "WAIT WHAT?! MOM?! What are you talking about?" I said to him "dad mom yelled at me" Ashir hid behind Zagreus pointed at me.
"OH HELL NAH" I yelled out "well, this suddenly got interesting" we hear Mimi's voice around the room "hey Mimi where is the exit of the room?" I asked her "its there see the shinny sign that said exit" she said to me "thank you" I said to her. Zagreus look at me with amazement in his eyes "so that's what you meant by being the top of the to finish this trial, your very cunning Hiraya" he said to me.
"Did you just compliment me?" I said to him "I was being sarcastic" he answered me "I only have one question if you were one of the top five then will you know where the girl is?" he asked "yes" I said to him "where is she?" one the boy asked "if I told you then it wouldn't be fun but I can give you a hint the places she is hiding is one of those mirrors" I told them and walk to the exit but the door suddenly closed.
"You meanie, you can't just give them a hint like that" Mimi said in annoyance "I didn't break any rules Mimi now open this door" I said to her "no, no, no" she said to me "if you want outsies then you have to find the other exit in this room" She said to me. Another exist? I never remembered writing an other exit in the rooms here.
[Hidden task:
Find the hidden exit in the room of mirrors.
Difficulty: S
Reward: 500 points
Time limit: 1 hour
Punishment: trap in your own reflection]
Really now? A hidden exit, what is going on in this novel, I never remembered there being an extra exit here. Let see Mimi jingle is a side character, she loves pranks and games, tricking people for her own amusement. Could she be bluffing.
No, no, that can't be I annoyed Mimi and when she gets annoyed, she's serious about things.
"PING PONG! Hehehe hello again boys in our game of hide and seek I will be adding 3 new rules since little cutie patutie right here made me mad" she giggled there was a tone of wickedness in her voice "1st rule no one will talk with each, all of you boys can't talk with each other, 2nd rule if you don't find me within every minute then a role of ties will disappear, and the last rule there will be time limit of 1 hour game" she added.
"Oh, yea I almost forgot since cutie patutie here can't join you he will have a rule of his own, 1st rule if you don't find the exit of this place you will be my assistant for all eternity and you can't say no, 2nd rule there is a time limit for you too that is 30 minutes, and 3rd rule on talking to them or cheating, or I will sew your mouth up like a little rag doll" she giggled at me.
Zagreus took out his sword and carved up a message on the side of the wooden stage it read 'you better not become that girl assistant or I will get rid of you myself' and went back
Wow, what a threat. "Mimi why do you have so many mirrors?" I asked her "because I like looking at my pretty little face cutie pie" she answered me "you know I test your right?" I started to walk to the up the stage and pulled away the two curtains behind it and there was a lot of broken mirrors.
"If you really love to look at yourself then you wouldn't have a lot of broken mirrors, right?" I smirked but she didn't respond to me "do you know the name Marlzed?" I started to look into all the broken mirrors "HOW DO YOU KNOW THST NAME?" I heard her angry voice echoed throughout the room "weren't you his favourite crew member?" I go in deeper to the huge room with broken mirrors "WHAT DO YOU KNOW LITTLE PIE, YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING" her angry voice echoed. Sudden shard shattered pieces of glass came above me, I quickly dodge.
More and more shatters of glass fly towards me, I swing my sword to destroy the shards, but it wasn't enough more and more came at me. Then a bunch of mirrors surrounded me, my reflection came out of the mirror, and started to attack me, one scratch my shoulder good enough to make me bleed, I stab my sword to him and he added into a miss, I keep one killing them but they just keep on coming.
One of the reflections almost scratch my face but a kick came straight at his face "you couldn't even handle this much?! Your weak" Zagreus said to me and took out a bunch of my reflection. As expected from the protagonists of my novel, his strength, he is completely way out of other people league. "Go father" I heard Ashir teasing voice to the side still finding where Mimi was hiding.
[System warning: 5 minutes before the task ends.]
Rotten apples, I'm gonna be screwed. I keep on avoiding the shattered glass that keep coming to me, Zagreus kept on killing the reflections "hurry up and find the exist ugly duckling" he yelled out to me while still fighting the reflections. "He was such a nice person towards you, but why did he disappeared like a bubble when you all were doing your last show?" I asked her.
Where is that mirror, it's got to be here somewhere. "no person ever disappeared like that without a trace, instead that he was got rid off" I said to him "YOU LITTLE PRICK! What else do you know huh?!" her voice grew louder with anger and keep on attacking me "everything Mimi, all what you did and who you really are" I said to her still looking around.
Found it. The dresser mirror of Mimi jingle.
I hold up an old photo of two little clowns, one is a boy and one is a girl. "Isn't this you Jingle jack?" I said to him and pointed to the old picture "YOU LITTLE PRICK, FINE I KILLED MY SISTER ANF THAT LITTLE RING MASTER. Both of them deserved to die, no one ever look at me, it's always my sister, one ever knew who I was" his voice slowly became calm.
"Its always my sister, always on the spot light, I just ask once if I could be in the spot as my sister and you know what that little pig said to me, you can't be in the spot light because I was not good enough and good looking, and my sister was just laughing at me from behind" he spoke with anger in his voice and a bit of sadness.
"I'm sorry that you had feel that way Jack but your were always good enough, and your a pretty good looking person, and you don't need to feel that way because I know that your already enough" he the attacks of him stop and everything went silent.
I hold the frame of the mirror and I heard a creak and I tasted something sweet in my mouth which is odd because I know that I just ate garlic bread, hey can you hear me? I heard Jack's voice you gain my interest cutie patutie, I put a seal on you, I hope you can entertain me a little bit more cutie patutie he said to me, I look around me and saw that everyone was still busy finding him, no one heard his voice expect me.
You should be honoured that I made a guardian contract with you he added, yes I'm very honoured to have you here Jingle Jack, I hope we can work together from now on, even though you tried to kill me you psycho I said to him and he giggled.
I opened the mirror and there was a way out of the room. I heard another creak came from outside and I was that they found him in his hiding place.
He looked at me with his eyes tearing up, I smiled at him and went inside the door.
[Congrasolations, Hiraya, you have passed the hidden task, finding the second exit.]
[You have received 500 points]
I crawled down to the narrow way, there was only one light and that is coming from the other side of the narrow way.
I reach the end of the narrowed way; I couldn't get the small latch to open because it was stuck. I kick the small latch a few times and it finally opened.
I crawled out and I saw myself standing in a beautiful room fit for a royalty. The room was decorated with high ceiling with a golden chandelier.
There were many books and the room is coated with golden brown color. I saw a tall handsome man sitting and reading a book under the moonlight. This no doubt about it this gorgeous person in front of me is Damon, the corpse prince.