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You're still at the Maze Garden.
CRACK! SHPT! THUD! SNAP! THUD-THUD!You moan in pain. Your body continues smashing into brushes, walls, trees, and everything else high enough for you to pound into as this freak stone angel turned alive flies over an endless maze garden, towing you along with it by a whip snaked around its cracked ankle you somehow found. The possessed stone angel shrieks and screams, thrashing in the air, left and right, right and left, up and down, trying to shake you off.
...Wall...
THLUD! You groan and get peeled off the stone wall just as quickly as it happened. The angel shrieking horribly loud and, suddenly, halting in the air and glare down at you.
You blink, and stare back.
The angel's eyes light up red and beams blast out, snapping the whip you clutch in two. And you fall.
You scream. Like a sissy.
Luckily for you, at one point recently within the past one hundred years the attendants of the maze garden raked up the leaves and you fall softly onto the pile of crunchy, itchy vegetation. Yay you!
Soon, you get up and take a look around at the walls of bushes and trees, sections of stone wall, that appear to be covered in more mold than the part of the maze you were in before and smells almost rank. But you can actually hear some birds and various ominous roaring in the distance.
Nothing left for you to do, you hobble off, lost and trying to find...anything, basically as you are now
trapped deep inside this endless mythical maze.
Where had you heard of this place before? Hmm...When you were a child, not too long ago, your parents and friends would tell you stories of the place, stories told towards dusk or at night, anytime the day was gloomy and creepy. Although most stories were made up.
You make a right...left...left, right, follow a partially beaten trail up right...
You can humorously remember one of a boy getting lost in here, vanishing only to come back 19 years later as a man and a hero. The man was like the perfect hero, except he soon became bored and driven insane by normal monotonous life. The man tried becoming a hero and began saving travelers and caravans from raids.
But, soon, even that life was too mundane for him. The people were in awe at him, even as he stayed up for days at a time and worked odd jobs at the town restlessly. One night, it's said, the man dug ditches all throughout the town because there was a small flooding problem. About a week later, after the man marched around the town for four days straight, he packed up his things, supplies and weapons, and wordlessly left town.
Right...right...left...back track from a dead-end...hang a new left...right...right...
People said he headed back to the garden maze, to Obslite Forrest, and to run off with a faraway princess to Fabula Kingdom. But the story changed depending on who told it to you, where, why, how.
You walk still. A right, a left, right, left, left, left, left, right, right, long tunnel-like passages in the bushes, a shortcut through a gap in the thick bushes---
CRACK!...right into another huge stone wall. Ouch. But, hey. This looks different. The stone is more...building structure-like, not wall structure-like. You see, an observant eye would notice
this wall is much more decorative, the stone almost shiny and a striking green color.
You feel around the wall and sidle along between it and the bushes, branches scratching and scraping into your back and clothes. After the small torture, you get to the side and follow around the building like structure, old but extremely gorgeous and mythical.
In front, stand worn statues of cherubs and gods, with a near dried up fountain of thick brown...stuff. Stuff that doesn't deserve to be called water.
You look at the beautiful building structure that opens up like a giant gazebo. An altar is inside. So, curious and enjoying all the shiny things, you slowly step up the few ornamental green stairs. A little trail of smoke rises out of the gleaming black cauldron that is an altar. You look inside...
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GAG! PEE-UUUWWW!!!! That stuff WREAKS!
BLEH!...
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"WHO ARE YOU?"
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"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"
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"RWWAARRRRYARRRRHHHAOOOWW!!!"
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EEK!
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