The Torture Room

Once, there was a wolf named Hepia McFlora. Hepia, while exploring the Temple of Zios one day, found herself staring down at the trapdoor in the temple-like structure and wondering what lay beyond it. Brush it off, Hepia thought. ''Everyone knows there's an impenatreble lock on there. ''Shrugging it off, she left to play with her friends. She told them how it suddenly came to her, even though she knew the lock on there was impossible to break or lockpick. Dipsy, a teal fox, told her that she didn't need to worry about it. Dipsy's advice was impossible to follow, as it continued for 3 weeks. Finally, she felt that the lock indeed couldn't be broken, but the actual trapdoor wood could be bypassed. Just in case she died down there, she left Dipsy and her friends her will. The will said, ''If I be gone for 12 months, I leave my 30 diamonds, my pet fox, and all my belongings to Mexie, my dear rabbit friend. However, Dipsy may have my pet fox for it is one of his own kind. I am sorry to Mexie, Dipsy, and Liolana, my dearest deer friend. For I should've made my way out in about 5 months or more, but if my own corpse is found, this will's wishes may be activated. ''McFlora took her sword and slashed at the wood to weaken it, and then hopped on it so that it broke by splintering apart. The splinters tumbled down what seemed like endless stairs, though Hepia could just about barely see the end of the staircase and the start of a stone floor. She ran down the stairs quickly and within about 1 minute, she swiftly landed on the floor. Looking around, she noticed a big pile of rare and hard-to-come-by items. "My friends would be so happy to have one of these!" she said to herself. McFlora grabbed a long spike, a non-rare head feather, a rare headdress, and a rare bow for herself. She happily rushed towards the exit, when suddenly the trapdoor repaired itself so she couldn't get out. In shock, she let go of the free items, sure that this meant certain death. Quickly stopping to write a note which read, Don't take these awesome items, it will sure lead to danger, she stuck it on the bottom of one side of the trapdoor. She was thrust back down by a strong gust of wind, even though the room was almost airtight and a gust of wind couldn't have come like that. Then Hepia saw what had made that gust of wind. A small, yet powerful, air jet. She looked around and the rare items were no longer there, but they had been replaced with medieval-looking instruments of torture. However, there were a few modern-looking items of torture. "Who's there?" McFlora said shakily. A feminine and masculine voice said at the same time, "The Gods of Jamaa." A horrible thought came into mind. ''Mira and Zios? No way, they would never hurt anyone! ''Zios appeared, he looked exactly like Mira except he had the Zios mask on with his beak poking through, and his feathers were brown. "Welcome to reality!" he said in a cheerful yet sarcastic voice. "Why - Why do you lurk down here?" Hepia asked. "I have made my friends aware of my possible death, so it's not like you could get away with it!" Mira appeared. "We WILL," Mira said. "We have fooled EVERYONE, even the Alphas themselves. We have fooled everyone into thinking we protect the animals. That, as you're about to realize, is WRONG!" Zios flicked on a switch, and suddenly the light came on, revealing what seemed to be endless piles of corpses.