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The firs thing that popped into my mind was a giant twisted funhouse.We could take turns picking the next obstacles. That was just a random idea though. Do you have any more ideas?

Gwendolyn

“One point for each. One more strike and we’ll see who lives.” The castle announced.

“WHAT?!” I roar. Who lives? One of us has to die?! This is not what I thought it was. I feel myself grow hot with anger at the castle, then cold with fear at the idea of death, mine or Liorah’s, then flat out furious.

“How dare you?” Liorah snarls Two can play at this game,”

She leaps forward at me, hand outstretched. Is she giving A final desperate push to win? Lunging forward to finish me off?

She grabs my sword and I instinctively yank it back, trying to raise it to block a blow I know is coming. But instead of raising her own sword, Liorah spins toward the corner where the voice came from and raises her now-bloody hand.

“Look!” She cries, “Gwen won. She wounded me twice. She gets to live.”

My eyes widen, “what? No!”. Guilt sweeps through my mind, first for thinking she was trying to kill me when she was trying to save me, then for actually letting her save me by sacrificing herself. She waits a moment, and I rake my mind for a way out, A way to save her.

The castle pauses, “First of all,” it says in its gravely metallic voice, “I didn’t say the winner got to live.”

I freeze, too many emotions roaring through my mind to figure out.

“Second of all,” the evil castle continues, “yes, you found a loophole, but I don’t count loopholes.”

All I want to do right now is tear this place to shreds and wake up from what feels like a dream.

“Get to the point.” I mutter, too angry to say much more.

“Aww, that’s cute,” the castle says, “your trying to tell me what to do. Anyway, as interesting as this is, I’m ready to move on to the next game.”

“game?! You call this nightmare a game?!” I ask, almost unbelieving.

I hear a grinding noise and raise my sword to defend myself, spinning to face the sound. A wall lifts up across the room.