𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗗✓ - 𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗠𝗦𝗠𝗣 𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗧𝗦

[This is a party!]--Dream.

Y/n scrambled through the darkness armed with a shovel and using the cold, stone walls as a guide. Each step was a challenge to her balance and senses. She stumbled over jagged rocks and accidentally kicked over a abandoned tool, sending a clanging echo off the tunnel walls. Whatever was waiting for her in the labyrinth knew she was coming now . Unfortunately, she couldn't turn back. Her family was somewhere in the twisting maze and no one else could help them. Y/n prayed they were all still alive.
   The tunnel made a sharp turn, and around the corner Y/n spotted a distant, flickering light. She quickened her pace, and soon the tunnel opened to an enormous cave, carved out of the bedrock in L'manburg. Torches mounted on the cave gave the room a dull light, not strong enough to dissolve the black shadows in every corner.
  Y/n scanned the cave. A few old buckets and a couple of shovels leaned against a crumbling wall. She started to retrace her steps when something hit her squarely in the back. She fell hard on her shoulder, dropping her shovel. Searing pain swam through her veins, followed by a throbbing ache. She could still move her fingers, but Y/n knew her arm was broken. She screamed, but her cries were drowned by an off clicking and hissing sound.
  As she crawled to her feet, Y/n grabbed the shovel and swung it around threateningly, searching the room for her attacker.
"I've come for my family," she shouted into the darkness. Her voice bounced back at her from all the sides of the rocky room.
   Again, she heard clicking and hissing, followed by a cold, arrogant chuckle. A long, spindly leg struck out from the shadows, narrowly missing Y/n's head. It slammed against the wall behind the girl, pulverizing stone into dust. Y/n lifted the the heavy shovel and swung wildly at the leg, sinking the sharp edge deep into the monster's flesh. Shrieks of agony echoed through the cavern.
"I'm not going to be easy to kill," Y/n said, hoping her voice sounded more confident to the monster than it did to her own ears.
  "Kill you? This is a party!" a voice replied. "And you're the guest of honor."