Cold bony hands grabbed my wrist as I jumped in fright. I looked around with bewilderment as I was dragged across the wooden floor. I caught a brief glimpse of who was holding me. I didn’t believe it, it was Rumpy! Suddenly a wicked idea popped into my he

Cold bony hands grabbed my wrist as I jumped in fright. I looked around with bewilderment as I was dragged across the wooden floor. I caught a brief glimpse of who was holding me. I didn’t believe it, it was Rumpy! Suddenly a wicked idea popped into my head! I could bargain with him! “Rumpy . . . “ I began to say but my words were drowned by distant chattering. Ahead of us was a large metal door that looked like a big boulder loomed in front of us. Then I started again “ Rumpy, please why are you doing this!?” “It’s worth it, you have no respect for me so why should I keep you alive? “ Rumpy replied “ But I didn’t do anything! “ I desperately snapped back. “ I will keep you rotting in my dungeon “ boomed Rumpy. I was speechless as my mind searched for words to keep from being thrown into the dungeon. Questions started to bubble up in my head but I was thrown down onto the hard tiles. The door slammed shut. I felt around blindly and felt something was weird. There was a little crack in between the tiles and slowly I lifted it up. I gasped as a long spiral staircase led down, down, down. The rails had specks of dust on them and the stairs were crumpled, the walls were made of sandstone and there were cobwebs everywhere. It started to smell like an antique shop as I stepped carefully onto one of the steps. As small chunks of sand dropped onto the steps below me as I stepped lightly onto each step descending deeper and deeper underground. There! I had to stop myself from screaming with delight as I saw light streaming in I flew down the steps towards a bright light that seemed to be sunlight streaming in. As I neared the end of the steps, I saw it was a nut. There was a little sheet of crumbled paper but it was still readable from an appropriate distance. I carefully slipped the paper out of its place and began to read.

To whom It may concern,

Using this very nut you can defeat Rumpy, I once knew him very well but he betrayed me for a nut, his Favorited thing. Sooooooo I kinda invented a nut to defeat him and I am writing this right now because I am in Rumpy's dungeon and am about to die so now I will get on with it. Put this nut in a tissue and give it to Rumpy to ea . . . **********. Oh no I thought desperately I took off the lid and grabbed the nut she reached into he pocket rummaging through her stuff. Ah! that's it! A Napkin I put the nut in and ran back up the stairs and back into the dim light of the dungeon just as Rumpy opened the door "Nuts" He growled and said "give em to me" "OK" I snapped, He snatched it out of my hand and shoved it into his drooling mouth. "I feeel . . sooo . . . sleeeppy" and he vanished into thin air. . . . TO BE CONTINUED . . . .