His eyes snap open, the veil of sleep finally leaving him. He slowly gets up from the pet-bed thing™ and surveys his surroundings. Everything is as he left it- wait, no it wasn't.

Upon looking at the doors that were decorated with the sun and moon he discovered there were both... glowing? At the very least there was light coming out of them. Intrigued by the sudden change he slowly walks up to the one decorated with the sun. He looks at it closely and discovers, oh wait a minute. Oh my gosh, he's such an idiot. They weren't even doors, they were stained glass windows. God he couldn't believe he was such an idiot, he was so focused on finding some switch and reading some old diary thing that he hadn't even bothered to look.

Here he thought he found some kind of royal treasure room. He had to admit those were some pretty nice windows though.

"Welp," he thought to himself, "may as well see what else is around this shindig. God did he really just think that, shindig? That was just terrible, how did I visibly make myself cringe from that?"

Well let's move away from that absolutely horrendous thing he thought into his head and get to exploring shall we?

Upon opening back up the secret room and closing it back up again via the chair switch he heads back into a hallway. After a bit of wandering he finds himself in some kind of, uh, throne room? He guesses it did used to be a castle but jeez the age really took its toll on it. The what he assumed used to be red carpet covering the entirety of the floor looked to be old and clearly worn and was kind of damp, ew. There were holes absolutely everywhere, littering the walls and the staircase leading up to the thrones, which were in surprisingly good condition.

Upon closer inspection of the floors there was, go ahead, guess. Another trap door, well, kinda. This one was different, when he attempted to open it it didn't immediately collapse in on itself like they would usually do. Instead one side of the stone raised, as if it was supposed to go up instead? He tried to open it but sadly he only had hooves, hooves that were definitely not slim enough to go between the cracks and lift it up. He guesses that it will have to be another mystery for now.

Upon walking up to the staircase leading to the thrones he discovers there is a little space underneath them. Upon looking under that he sees of what looks to be the outline of a door hidden behind one of the sets of the stairs. Clearly meant to be hidden but the age of the castle made it quite the more obvious. He looked any switches or pressure plates along the wall or floor surrounding it that could've opened it but did not find any, yet another mystery.

When he exists from underneath the stairs and onto the platform where the thrones sat he immediately sits down in both of them, because who wouldn't? Sadly there was no hidden switch from moving the chairs or leaning them back this time. Something he did find interesting though was actually behind them. Behind Celestia's throne he found a tiny little panel at the underside. Anybody who was not looking for something like this would've missed it easily. Upon lifting the panel he looks into it and it seems to be some kind of pressure plate on the wall of the inside of it.

Upon pushing on said pressure plate he hears the sliding and gritting of stone, a telltale sign that you've opened something probably important. When he steps off of the platform he discovers something. You know that outline of a door under the stair? It was open! One point for Twisted, zero for spooky castle.

When he enters the once hidden room, after looking for any tripwires and such first of course, there seems to be a set of spiraling stairs leading downward. Only one way to go he guesses. Treading very carefully down the steps he soon finds himself at a door, one depicting a single bit at the front. Upon opening said door he finds something that almost makes his jaw drop.

There was SO. MUCH. MONEY. Piles upon piles of it littered the room, like we're talking piles you imagined would be in a dragon's lair. Upon looking around at the room some more he sees a few items on the wall, what looks to be some kind of broad or great sword, with a line starting from the bottom of the blade where upon reaching the top, splits into two and goes diagonally. The second item was even cooler, some kind of blade attached to a chain, looked a little something like this:

Looking around the room some more there was a podium on the center of it. Which had a saddlebag? Like it didn't look different or anything it just looked like a plain old saddlebag.

Before entering the room, naturally he picked up a nearby stone and threw it ahead of him. There don't seem to be any traps and he was absolutely anxious to get in there so he winged it. Luckily there didn't seem to be any traps upon entering, so that was a good thing.

Upon entering the room the first thing he approached were the mounted weapons. Naturally he grabbed the thing that was small enough to where he could actually carry it, the CHAINBLADE as he was now calling it. When the blade entered his hooves he immediately wanted to test it out, so naturally he gave it a few test swings. Wow, the thing was absolutely graceful when you swing it, it was a thing of beauty is what it was.

He sets the chainblade ™ aside and looks at the, uh, really big sword. He attempts to take it off of it's place on the wall for shits and giggles.

"What the fuck?"

Um, it wasn't falling. It was actually not that heavy. He was a literal child and he was somehow holding this massive beast. Definitely some kind of enchantment, yet again some more magic bullshit. He gives it a few tests swings and sheesh, this thing shredded. He swung at the wall and now there's just a massive slash where he cut into it. He wishes he could take it with him if it wasn't for the massive size of it.

He puts the sword on top of the chainblade and something, well something outright bizarre happens. The sword well, shrunk into the hilt of the chainblade. He thinks he'll wait to see what the hell just happened so he could mess with some more shit in the room, namely those saddlebags in the center.

Why some ordinary looking saddle bags were in the middle of a room full of riches and mystical weapons he had no idea. He swiped the saddlebags off of the podium and immediately backs away. Luckily there was no pressure sensor thingy under it. He puts the saddlebags on and does the first thing that comes to his mind, he stuffs the with as much coinage as he could.

After of few minutes of that he realizes that the bits didn't seem to be taking up any room in the saddlebags. Looking closer at them he realized when he puts the bits it, he couldn't see them reach the bottom. It was as if it was a black hole. He reaches his hoof into the saddlebags and attempts to grab something, low and behold he comes up with a hoof-full of bits.

"What in the shit."

He does this repeatedly with both sides of the saddlebags and keeps coming up with hoof-fulls upon hoof-fulls of bits. It seemed these saddlebags somehow didn't run out of room. Like a black hole. He thinks this is the coolest thing ever, then immediately gets back to stuffing them.

An hour and a half later...

He's been at this for awhile now judging by the fact that the amount of bits in the room has gone down drastically, but he has certainly made some ground with only a little bit left to gather.

20 minutes later...

There. He had finally cleared out the room of all the lovely coinage it had to offe, as for the remaining items in the room he put the now, uh, chainblade/sword thingy in there too.

Man you know what? He's had it with this castle bullshit, he needs make more ground anyway. If he keeps exploring this place he would be here until he died of starvation. Plus he didn't want to push his luck looking for more treasure and secrets. This castle was pretty dope but he did not want to stay in this forest for the rest of his life. He's wasted enough time, if he stayed in this forsaken forest any longer he was going to go insane. He doesn't know if it's the fact he found a pony-made structure, or the fact he finally found an actual object that this forest hadn't grown but he's now realizing how sick of this place he is.

He thinks it's time to get the heck out of dodge, whatever that meant.

Author's Note

Wealth 100