Desert - P

"What are we waiting for?" Roo asked while looking towards his teammates who were standing in a straight line. The five of them were looking towards a large yellowish stone door that was standing almost ten meters tall.

The door was covered in many symbols and drawings of various mythical animals that were painted in pastel colors. Roo continued to stare towards his teammates that were slowly examining the doors "I really like the colors that they use."

Crow suddenly turned her head towards Bunny who was smiling widely while examining the door and nodded "I agree! I just remember a store on the fashion street that only sold clothes in pastel colors! We should go there together!"

"Ow! Okay! Let's go there after the game!" Bunny smiled towards Crow who nodded.

"Come on! Let's get out of here! All of you have been staring at this door for fifteen minutes! I think that's enough!" Roo angrily shouted and walked towards the doors while his teammates looked towards each other.

"He finally snapped after fifteen minutes. Who bet lower than fifteen minutes?" Bunny asked while looking towards her watch. Crow and Bull raised their hands while Adam crossed his hands and smiled widely.

"I'll send you your winning after the game Lion." Bunny looked towards Adam who nodded as he walked forwards with Bull beside him. Bunny looked towards Crow and holds her hand as both of them followed their teammates.

"Let's see how heavy are these doors! HRGHHH!" GRRRRRRR! Roo puts both of his hands right in the middle of the doors and quickly pushed it as hard as he can. After a couple of seconds, the door suddenly shakes and swung open while a bright golden light shines through the opening as it gradually gets bigger.

"WOW! I have never seen this much gold in my life!" Bunny shouted and smiled widely while her teammates were stunned with their mouths wide open.

"Look at those large gems! I don't think I have seen gems that size!" Roo shouted and pointed towards a large shiny red gem that was a couple of meters ahead of him, which was at the very top of a pile of shiny gems. In front of them, the room was as large as an opera hall and was littered with gold, gems, and many more forms of treasures.

Adam looked down the long staircase that was right in front of him, which has gigantic statues on its sides that were made out of marble, and saw a large circular platform at the end of the staircase, which was made out of various gigantic colorful gems. A large coffin that was made out of gold and was covered in colorful gems was resting right in the middle of it, slowly spinning around and bouncing every light to the corners of the room.

Pring! Crow squints her eyes as a bright light bounced to her eyes and looked towards the coffin while her teammates looked towards the edges of the room. Crow noticed a pathway behind the coffin that leads into a dark opening at the end of the room and quickly pointed towards it "Hey look! There's an opening over there!"

"I didn't see that! My eyes were blinded by all of these treasures!" Bunny smiled towards Crow who also smiled and the two of them suddenly laughed.

"Can we take as much gold as we want?" Roo asked and looked towards Adam and Bull who raised their shoulders. Bull looked around the room and noticed a body on one of the mountains of treasures.

He squints his eyes and saw a body of a contestant who has a deer mask on, he took a step forwards and noticed that the hands on the contestant have turned purple and withered.

Bull quickly turned his head around and saw Roo who was crouching on the edge of the staircase, while reaching his hand towards a golden chalice that was covered in gems. Bull quickly grabbed Roo's right hand as he was about to grab it "Don't touch anything in here."

"Why?" Roo asked as Bull let go of his hand and he slowly stands up. Adam, Bunny, Roo, and Crow looked towards Bull who instantly pointed towards the corpse of the deer contestant.

"Oh wow! Luckily you saw that! If not I would've died here! Thank you, Bull." Roo smiled towards Bull who smiled back towards him.

"Well, let's not waste our time here. We have a long staircase to go down." Adam took a step forwards and went down the staircase with his teammates behind him. The five of them continues to look around the room and Adam looked towards one of the dozens of statues.

The statue was roughly ten meters tall and it was chiseled after a herculean warrior holding a large war axe right in front of him and has a canine head. Adam continues to look towards the statues as he went down, and noticed that all of it was of warriors and warrioress that has different kinds of animal heads.

"What was in those syringes that can turn them into those hideous monsters?" Bunny asked while looking towards her teammates.

"Who knows... But it has the Bangarang logo on it. They got those syringes through a package, and if you remember The Rat Pack is some sort of an assassin group that got paid to kill specific contestants here. The Bangarang must have sent them when they attacked us on the third game and now they gave them those syringes." Adam surmise.

The five of them reached the end of the staircase after roughly ten minutes of walking down and slowly walked around the spinning coffin. Crow looked towards the coffin and examined it for a couple of seconds looking towards each of the large gems that covered it.

"Hey, Crow. What are you doing there?" Bunny asked while looking towards Crow who was standing at the beginning of the path towards the dark opening. Crow shook her head and quickly ran towards Bunny.

The five of them walked along the small path while looking towards the tall piles of gold that were on the sides of it. Adam suddenly stopped as he reached the pitch-black opening with his teammates right behind him.

VWOOOOOSH! The five of them suddenly raised their hands right in front of their faces and covered their faces from the strong and cold wind, that suddenly bursts out from the opening.

Roo looked towards the header of the opening and saw a large golden shield that has an axe, a long sword, and a spear right behind it. Adam turned his head around and looked towards his teammates who nodded towards him "Okay, let's go in."

Vroooom! Vroooom! Vrooooom! Vroooom! Vrooooom! Adam entered the opening and was quickly followed by his teammates behind him, as he entered he felt as if he went through a curtain of jelly and his eyes were suddenly closed shut. He opened his eyes after taking a couple of steps forwards while his teammates followed him.

They entered a wide and long room that has a very long path ahead of them which connected to a pair of large doors that were made out of yellowish stone. On the sides of the path, there were rows of large glass tubes that were glowing warm orange with tall walls right behind it that has a calm waterfall.

Crow looked towards the waterfall and looked down towards the base of the glass tubes that were slightly submerged into water. She noticed a couple of colorful glowing fishes were swimming around it and quickly followed her teammates.

"Hey look a couple of these tubes have weapons inside of them-" BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Adam, Bull, Bunny, Roo, and Crow quickly looked towards their watches which were flashing bright green, and quickly took a closer look at them.

"Congratulations on finding the King's secret armory! Please return the King's Twin Cobra staff into the right tube and the exit door will open!" Clunk! Pssssh! Adam read what was written in his watch out loud and suddenly turned his head forwards as one of the tubes opened on its own.

PRING! A soft cloud of smoke flows out from the tube while the staff that was stuck on Bunny's bag suddenly shines brightly. Bunny reached to the staff and pulls it forwards off her bag while everyone was looking towards her "This thing is really bright!"

"Here take it, Lion." Bunny extended her hand forwards and gave it to Adam. He grabbed the staff with his right hand and continues walking forwards towards the glass tube that was opened.

Swiiiish! Swiiiish! Adam stopped right in front of the tube and a couple of yellow bricks slowly float creating a path. Adam carefully walked on the small bricks and stopped right in front of the tube, he reached his hand out and inserted the staff into the tube.

Wring! Wring! Wring! Adam lets go of the staff and it instantly floats right in the middle of the tube while he walked back to his teammates. The tube closed itself on its own and the yellow brick path sunk itself.

GRRRRRRR! GRRRRRRRR! The five of them turned their heads and saw the large stone door suddenly opened on its own revealing a bright hallway behind it "Well, let's get out from here then."

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