Traveling down a darkened tunnel
Moving slowly
Don’t let them see you
Emerging on the other side
Don’t let them see you
Small creatures
Little legs with furrowed brows
Waiting to run your way
With malicious intent
A spotlight shines down in the center of the arena
You make your way toward it leaping from platform to platform
The small creatures are now fully aware and they swarm below you
Beneath every platform waiting for you to fail
For you to loose your nerve and fall to your doom
You see the prize
The shiny question block hovering in the distance
You twirly your mustache with your left hand
And steel your mind
Suddenly more creatures emerge from hidden places
They throw blunt objects at your from every angle
You leap forward with confidence and dodge them with ease
You leap and back flip from platform to platform like an acrobat
You’re portly body hides great power
You tighten your gloves and spin your way across an enormous cavern
Just as you reach the other side the floor beneath you disappears
Lost as boiling rock emerges from cracks
The earth is bleeding molten lava
And your enemies want to add your blood to this lake of death
The heat and sense of doom is thick and unwavering
Canons emerge from walls
Bullets firing from either side of you
You leap high into the air
And in the cross fire the canons destroy each other
Blood
Explosions
And mayhem erupt below you as you grab hold of a beam
And pull yourself to safety
There it is
Your prize
Your salvation
Hovering at the very center of it all
What mysteries do the question block hold
What power is contained in this geometric treasure
You slam your fist upward with great might and hear a familiar sound
Slam ding!
This pleases you
A round shape emerges from the top of the now darkened block
No longer a question
Now an exclamation point
Not on the block itself
But in your mind
Something screeches at you
Claw like appendages stretch outward
It latches to your head
It never stops screeching
The gelatinous thing pulses and squirms
It begins to drain the life from your body
In your last moments you can see the creature in all it’s devilish glory
Reflected in the golden buttons of your overalls
END
Why do I have a sudden craving for pasta and turtle soup?
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