11 The Hidden Room

I opened my eyes to darkness. I look around, confused. I continued to look around to try and find a light source or at least to let my eyes ajust to the darkness. But my eyesight doesn't get any better so I start feeling around for the wall. I make a full circle before I realize there's no door.

Um ok maybe there's a break in the wall lower down I think as I get to my knees, careful of my leg. Making my way around the room again took longer this time but I found a small crawl hole. I shiver and start to crawl thru the small space. After awhile I start to see a faint light and I crawl out into the normal stone hallway that I'm use to seeing. I stand and look both ways, they look exactly the same.

A mournful moan suddenly came from the right hallway. I quickly looked at the right hallway, yeah ok I wanted to down the left one anyway, I thought going quickly down the left hallway. God that's what, ten rooms I've found now including the two secret ones? how meny rooms are on this floor? I make a right turn after awhile, wait where is this? I don't remember stopping by that secret room? is it just random where I end up?

None of these questions are answered as I hear breathing behind me and feel it on my shoulder. I freeze. Shit, I don't know if I'll be able to run with this leg! I slowly turn my head around, but whatever it is is faster and lands a blow across my back, throwing me into the wall. I cry out in pain and look up quickly to see my attacker, but see nothing. My eyes widen in fear, it's the first creature I ran into when I first came to this horrible place! It huffs again and it's breath can be seen about two feet taller then I am. No no no no I think starting to panic and tremble.

It starts to come closer and I hear cloping noises like the creature has hoofs. Then the creature's invisibility starts to fade away and I see what it is, a giant black Minotaur with burning yellow eyes that are filled with hate and anger. It leans down and picks me up by my neck, holds me two feet off the ground and slams me into the wall. I think I hear something break as it does that, but I'm not sure what as it raises it's fist to punch me.....

I jump myself awake and hear worried voices above me, but I can't see very well, everything is blurry and feels like the world spinning. Someone turns my face toward them and tries to speak to me, but it's hard to hear them over the loud ringing in my ears.

" Sap... hear..."

Then something really bright shines in my eyes making me squint my eyes. ow.... that hurts..... " Sapphire! .....hear ....me?"

The ringing was starting to get quieter. It was a guy, he sounded familiar....

"Sapphire! Hey, can you hear me?" he said again. He was starting to come into focus now as I kept blinking. He looks worried, am I the focus of that? " Sapphire?" He lets go of my chin and looks at the monitor worriedly.

"yea...." I whisper feeling extremely exhausted.

He looks over in relief. " Sapphire how do you feel?" He asked, beautiful blue eyes searching mine.

"My head hurts and I'm.....I'm so tired...." I mumbled sleepily, eye lids drooping.

"No no don't go back to sleep," he said checking my head," I think you just had another concussion, you're bleeding pretty bad." As he's saying this he presses a button on the wall and gets something to stop the blood with. " You were twitching weird in your sleep when I came in to check on you, so I tried to wake you up. It scared me a bit when you didn't wake up until I turned your head. Can you sit up so I can get a better look at your head?" He asked. I moved to sit up but I got dizzy again and couldn't get up, so he helped me up. he confirmed that I had a concussion and also found out that my leg had bled again and tore some of the stitches. this went by in a blur as the nurse that had been called came in and talked to the man and left. " Hey....." he said softly startling me out of my daze. I looked at him.

"You still there?" He asked.

" I think so..." I replied quietly. He tilted his head to the side a bit and his long brown hair with blonde streaks in it fell into his eyes a little. " How did you get hurt? did you fall down while you were on your way back from the bathroom?" he asked. I shook my head no slowly so as not to hurt my head further.

Just then the door opened again and another man came in.

" How's my little pumpkin doing?" He asked " I heard she just...." He stopped when he realized my head was bleeding. He was next to me in seconds. " What happened?" he asked examining my head worriedly. I tilted my head at him. "Dad?" I asked a bit confused.

" it's ok honey, I'm on my break." he replied thinking I was worried about him getting in trouble. His break? I thought, what's he breaking? When I voiced that out loud dad laughed. "Well glad you don't seem to be feeling too bad or you wouldn't be making jokes." he said still laughing, but he stopped once he realized I was still looking at him all confused.

"Sapphire?" he said now confused himself.

Then worry flashed across his face. " Sapphire, you know who I am, right?"

" yea. Dad." I said. dad relaxed a bit then asked. " do you know where you are and who you are?"

" um.." I look around at all the whiteness around me .

" the hospital and I'm ... I'm Sapphire ... um Sapphire Spade." I said struggling to think straight. Dad and the man who woke me up looked at each other like they were thinking the same thing. I could swear I've seen him somewhere, but where? I think. ugh thinking felt like trekking through thick sloppy mud right now, I didn't like it. Dad noticed I was staring at the man. "Sapphire?" he asked.

"Dad who is that?"

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