[ WP ] A hidden elevator is found behind a fake wall in a basement .

I threw the dart at the board again, this time hitting dead center. I went to pull it from the board, but it was stuck. I pulled the dart again, this time yanking the whole board off the wall, the dart still stuck to it. Of course, I thought as I grabbed a hammer from the nearby toolbox. I lined the hammer up to the nail, and started to pound it in. That ’ s when I heard it, a peculiar sound, not the sound of a nail being nailed into wood, or drywall, but something completely different. The nail pinged when I hammered it, and despite my best efforts continued to clang away, not going any deeper. Finally I pulled the nail from the wall in frustration and peeked through the little hole. I peeked through, and saw a shiny flat metal surface. Jackpot, I thought as I began to pound away at the drywall with the hammer. I bet there ’ s one of those old safes in here, I thought as the drywall flew past me. It didn ’ t take long before I had uncovered several feet of the surface, and discovered that it ran from floor to ceiling. Perhaps some sort of door? I thought, wondering what strange thing I had discovered. A few swings later I had uncovered the buttons, both faintly glowing yellow, as if they ’ d been always waiting to be uncovered.The curiosity was got the better of me and I pressed one of the buttons, and the doors strained for a second, before sliding open shakily. I cautiously stepped inside, and looked around. The elevator was small and circular, as if only designed for one person. The hand rail wrapped around the entirety of the cramped space just in front of the elevator ’ s elegant marble walls. I turned, and gently ran my fingers over the buttons, there had to have been at least fifty of them, jammed into two small panels on each side of the elevator door. My hand shook as I went to press one of them. The button lit up as I did, and the doors closed shakily, as the elevator began to descend.The elevator began to play rise of the Valkyrie and I watched as the floor numbers began to decrease from fifty, displayed on an old split flap display, like the one on old alarm clocks. The elevator began to shake as it lowered itself, more and more as the floors flipped by. Finally I felt the elevator began to slow, and the bell rang out, declaring it had arrived. I glanced up at the floor indicator, floor thirteen. The doors parted to reveal nothing but darkness, the dim light from the elevator told me enough to know that the floor was dirt, I carefully set one foot onto the floor. A smooth dust whipped up from the soft floor as I put my foot down. It seemed solid, I stepped boldly out into the darkness. I looked back, reassured by the elevator ’ s still glowing floor button on the wall, and walked onward into the darkness, glancing back nervously as I went. I was several feet away when the doors began to close, muffling the sound of the music, and sending the room into almost complete darkness. I started to turn back to the waiting elevator button, but that ’ s when my eyes adjusted and I caught glimpse of the light. A thin flame, that called to me in the darkness, and beckoned me towards it. I stepped closer and the air began to get stuffy as I kicked up more dust. As I got closer to the light I saw the hand that held it. “ Hello? ”, I called out. “ Help! ”, the cry was raspy but solid in its request. I stepped within reach of the light, there before me lay a miner, covered in debris. I grabbed his hand, and pulled him from the pile of fallen wooden beams, and dirt. The light went out from his lighter, as he picked himself up off the ground, and again flicked his lighter on and looked me in the eye. There was a lot of dirt on his face, and he looked a little older, but there was no doubt, I was face to face with myself. He looked tired, as if he ’ d been there a while, and he wore a metal mining helmet, and thick cotton clothing, that I could n't quite make out in the darkness. I backed towards the elevator, and back into the darkness. He just stood there dumbfounded, as I hit the elevator button, and the doors slid open. I stepped inside, and rise of the Valkyries again played, as the elevator climbed its way, back to my basement. 

