About to pierce the tentacle, I remember Regius said not to make any sounds no matter what happened. Abruptly stopping the pipe, I wait. Sliding around my ankle the tentacle finds my other leg. Coiling around it as well it searches around further. Praying for Regius to arrive faster, I start to slightly tremble. Unable to control my body, I keep trembling until another tentacle finds my left calf. Watching as it feels around my calf, my hair sticks up in fear. The second tentacle moves up my leg before reaching the hem of my knee length skirt. Feeling the skirt hem, it moves lower and explores farther, discovering my right thigh. Tearing up, I wait patiently, REgius will come for me.
More and more tentacles start probing the side of my skirt including the convenient pocket. Digging in my pocket, one of the tentacles takes out the bar of chocolate that I have brought. Not able to stop the tears anymore, I watch as the tentacle brings the bar of chocolate to the body. Ignoring the tentacles they found my shirt, I watch as the chocolate bar is brought into the opening between all the tentacles and into the neck. Ignoring the increasingly daring tentacles, I listen as the thing chews my chocolate bar.
Regius will come for me, I comfort myself. When Regius comes, I will beat this thing. It took my candy bar! Suddenly noticing a tentacle touching my cheek right below my teardrop, I forget to breathe. Moving slightly up, it shudders awkwardly. Not just that tentacle, all of them were spasming in place. Checking the main body, I see the hands hold it’s tummy tightly. Retracting all of the tentacles in a panic, It tries to reach inside itself using the opening between its tentacles. First, it’s only one but moments later, several tentacles are writhing inside itself.
Approaching the door in tears, I watch just long enough to see it fall over, making a loud thump on the ground. Opening the door slowly, it creaks loudly as well. Wiping my tears, I peek my head outside to see several people running towards me. Looking closer, I notice none of their eyes had pupils or any color other than white for that matter. Even worse is that they don’t seem to have moisturized in years. Some of their skin and body parts were missing. Some even have bite marks or clearly missing chunks of flesh.
Getting out of the room, I start running the other way. Crying while rounding the corner, I find one of those people ahead of me. Believing Regius will save me, I keep running. Seeing the person trying to hug me, I jab my hand at his chin and shove him away. Turning another corner, I see a staircase. If I go up, there’s a good chance I’ll run into a dead end, it’s best if I can keep running and wait for Regius. Stifling my whimpers, I run down the stairs. Looking back I could see dozens of people coming after me. Running through another hallway, several more of those unmoisturized people come out of the surrounding rooms.
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Unable to keep my cry of shock from spilling out, all of them look at me. Tearing up once again, I run even faster. Why can’t they find their own moisturizing cream? Leading all of them down the hallway, I see two doors. One spills sunlight into the room whereas the other leads to a dark, closed room. Not even waiting for anything to come out of that room, I slam into the doors leading outside and keep running. Running a good distance away, I notice nothing behind me.
Stopping to catch my breath, I notice the door I escaped through as well as the wall surrounding it are bulging out. Hearing a slight thump, I see some of the bricks get knocked out of the wall. Backing up, I watch as the hinges on the door as well as most of the surrounding wall fly away. After a momentary silence, A massive octopus monster starts dragging itself to me. Turning around, I start running again. Regius will come for me, I scream in my head. Running through a jungle of colorful metal, I slide down this small plastic slope.
Continuing to run, I look back to see it easily climb over the metal jungle and run after me. Looking around, I see Yue at the top of the building. I knew I should have gone up! Seeing Yue frantically wave her arms, I give her a thumbs up. She wants me to run to her. Glancing at the tentacle monster, I quickly decide against it. I can’t turn around!
Unable to wipe my tears, I continue to blindly run away from the horrible beast. Suddenly seeing the ground closing in on me, I throw my hands out. I tripped! Turning back to the tentacle monster, I glare. Unable to stay away anymore, I get ready for a fight. I don’t care if you’re the biggest tentacle monster, you don’t mess with a dungeon! Waiting for it to get close, I transform into the biggest slime possible. Or, at least I tried. Looking at my hands and then back at the looming beast above me, I finally let out a whimper. Why can’t I change forms?
Watching as the tentacles surround me and raise me into the air, I wait for my demise. This is my last resort. What do princesses do when in danger? They scream for help! Opening my mouth to scream, I remember that Regius had told me not to make a sound no matter what happened. Believing in him one last time, I close my eyes. Tears spill out at the thought of never retrieving my new pillow from underneath the mattress again.
Waiting for the inevitable, I notice that nothing is happening. Opening my eyes, I suddenly fall out of the tentacles embrace and into someone else's.