The Warrior of the Friend Zone and the Oblivious Huntress

Lured into the Maze of the Minotaur

After a few other adventures had come and gone, my next most memorable adventure with the rest of the team had to be when the underground tunnel tours were being attacked by a beast of strange origin.

Atlanta, Theresa and I were practicing our punches on a punching bag that Herry happened to be leaning against at the time, but we wanted to prove we could still beat up, punch and kick at it. Atlanta gave a swing at it. Then, Theresa punched it twice. I lifted my whole body and kicked it.

Atlanta rushed at it and once again punched it... repeatedly, that time, and at her usual top speed, too. Then, Theresa got a few kicks at it. I took a swing at punching the punching bag that time.

Then, we all concluded that we stood a better chance of bringing it down as a team. I started to count.

Yours Truly: One, two...

Then, the girls joined in my counting up to the perfect number to try bringing the punching bag down.

Atlanta, Theresa, and Yours Truly: Three!

On the three, the girls and I all rushed towards the punching bag. When we all rushed into the punching bag at the time, however, we also fell to the floor and groaned in pain. On the other side of the punching bag, Herry looked like he was reading the newspaper.

Herry: Get this. 'Mystery Monster Terrorizes Tunnel Tour'.

Atlanta just groaned further at Herry for being in the way of all three of us when we rushed the punching bag.

Atlanta: Yeah, right. And Elvis married my alien stepmother.

I got it. Theresa, Atlanta and I were all in pain from trying to rush the punching bag while Herry was leaning against it. She did not have to bring up that Canadian stepmother of hers she did not even like. Then, we suddenly heard Odie's own, far more cheerful opinion.

Odie: It's true! Two tourists went missing this week. I read it on the Internet.

I picked myself up and tried to get my spinal column back into alignment while commenting on Odie's input of what Herry had been reading from the newspaper.

Yours Truly: And we all know that Internet rumors are way more reliable than the tabloids.

Theresa just grew slightly nervous at what they said.

Theresa: Monsters in the sewers?

Then, the drama queen sighed in annoyance.

Theresa (continued): That's just an old urban myth.

She then blew her bangs out of her face. Jay stepped into the gym and snatched the newspaper out of Herry's hands only to get a better look at the story the brawn of our ragtag team of heroes' descendants was reading.

Herry: Hey!

Needless to say, Herry was not very pleased by the theft of his newspaper.

Jay: Around here, myths have a weird way of turning into reality.

Then, Jay asked the rest of us about volunteering for an investigation mission.