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Chapter 2 - Chapter 1: The Nest | Act 2: 18 Floor’s!!!

After seeing the enormous door 18 feet tall. She lowered her head to look at the Gnomes with a worried expression, and she was sweating cool with an award smile.

Five:eh… What are we doing here???

Gnome 1: {points at the door handle}

The rest of the gnomes point at the door handle, even the Gnome 7 that is hurt, but still point at the door.

Five:You Guys Want me to open the door???????

All The Gnomes, They Nods with their head, and Five saw how big the door was once again and her legs gave up.

Five:But, how am I going to open the door!?

The Gnomes with no answers or gestures start to make a ladder of themself.

Five: You guys want me to climb y'all.

The Gnomes nods once again.

Five: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I can't do that, I don't want to hurt y'all.

The Gnomes are just waiting for her to climb.

Five: I- I Don't Want too!

The Gnomes don't move, that means insisting that she climb them. She reluctantly agreed.

Five: I Really don't want to,...but ok.

The Gnomes happily smile, so Five in this cold attic, start to climb one by one of the Gnomes, While she is climbing with care, she is saying "I am sorry" the Gnomes just continue to together so Five doesn't fall, until a couple of minutes had passed she reached the door handle.

She slowly tries to twist the door handle, so it can be open.

Five:is…opening.

Five makes the door move and the door makes the Gnomes fall and leave Five in trouble.

Five is holding with her small amount of strength the door handle, so she doesn't fall and get hurt more than she already is.

Five: Help!

The Gnomes try to regroup themselves, even the Gnome that is hurt, so they can save Five from falling on the floor and hurting herself.

Five Is Hanging with her life on the line so she doesn't fall, while she does that, the Gnomes are re- grouping and leave for a sec Five Alone by herself hanging crying for help, the Gnomes are getting back with a bed pillow that is big enough to be a bed, so the Gnomes with effort moving the pillow while Five is losing her grip slowly.

Five: Help! Please!

Five losing her grip even faster and the Gnomes notice it and try to pull the pillow close to the door, so Five can fall on it. Five is holding with whatever strength she has left, and the Gnomes are going as fast as they can to put the pillow in place. 

(Five open her eyes and is on shock that her hands are about to give up)

Five:HELP!

Five loses her grip and starts falling and the gnomes see it and they launch a Gnome with the Pillow and the Gnome makes it, he puts the pillow and Five Fall On the pillow.

Five land on the Pillow. The Gnomes arrive with worried expressions on their faces to where she lands and Five tries to get up but falls and the Gnomes give her the stick that she was using as a cane, and Five uses that as support, to get up and clings to the edge of the pillow, and slips and falls on the floor. The Gnomes see her and try to help her get up, and she gets up with difficulty.

Five: Thanks…

Thanks to the motion Five did while she was holding the door, it opened, and it was a dark room that looked empty, but it had a bunch of boxes around.

Now that the gnomes help her get the door open they wave their small hands and start leaving Five by herself, so she can go into the dark room.

Five see then go and she can just watch, while holding her improvised cane. Five stayed very still while seeing them go, and then she turned to the dark room, and she turned on the Flashlight, so she could see through the dark.

Five sees the boxes and they are blocking the way she needs to take.

Five:These…are…big boxes.

Five begins to move slowly through the dark room, 20 feet high, and with her flashlight, she moves through the room and her flashlight goes out and she collides with a wall, the flashlight light comes back on and she realizes it is one of the huge boxes.

Five continues to walk around the darkness with her small flashlight, and she sees a vent in the top of the wall with her flashlight and sees a bunch of boxes, so she starts to climb the boxes, but it is hard to climb the boxes because they are too tall to climb.

Five:now…How do I climb this?

Five sees another stick that is a little smaller than the stick she is using like a cane. She thinks a little, and comes to the conclusion of using both sticks to make holes in the boxes so she can climb by making holes.

Five:Here it goes or nothing,

Five Start climbing by making holes in the box first left then right and like that until the top.

Five:huh? 3 more boxes!?

That's what Five saw when she got to the top of the box, she saw more boxes before seeing it that the vent was still afar, So Five decided to continue climbing the other boxes that are left.

After 2 Hours of Climbing.

Five Was resting in the Third box before starting to climb the last box.

Her legs were feeling a little better, to the point that she can walk without effort, but she cannot jump high enough without hurting herself. 

After sitting for a while resting, she stood up, and got close to the 4 box, so she started climbing again.

While climbing she heard a small crack, and she saw the two sticks and the big one was starting to break, so she sped up to climb and when it was the last meter, the long stick broke and fell. Leaving her with only the small stick in the last meter, while hanging, she try to climb the small stick but she doesn't have the strength and scare that the stick will break, so even If her legs are in bad shape, she is going to do gymnastics, so she start to swing from left to right until she begins to turn and lets go when she is going up and begins to do some pirouettes and falls onto box 4, and faints. At the top she faints from the impact.

After a while of being unconscious, Five gets up with strange ease. She tries to jump, and her legs don't hurt anymore.

Five:(Thinking) It… doesn't hurt anymore.

She starts walking towards the vent, and when she opens the vent and sees how big it is, as big as a cave, Five gets inside and sees that there is a long corridor.

So she starts walking one step by the time into the big and dark corridor, with nothing but just her flashback.

She sees in the distance a Gnome that looks like it is not moving.

Five: (Thinking) What… is that?

She gets closer slowly and slowly she realizes what she is looking at.

Because of the shock Five covers her mouth, and drops a small tear of sorrow, for the little creature that looks like it died of starvation.

And Is A Dead Gnome That only bones are remaining, with his big hat, and a small piece of paper.

After FIve Gives a condolences for the Dead Gnome, She takes the piece of paper and examines it thoroughly and finds out that they are more than one page, to be exact 18 pages and it looks like a map of each floor.

Five: 18 Floor's!!! You got to be kidding me, how I am going to leave this place!

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