Phantom Of The Labyrinth (the World Below)

the explorer

James slowly became conscious again, his eyes slowly opened, he felt a small blanket. He looked up to see someone beside him. They had the same cap, they seemed taller than James and had black gloves on their hands.

They wore a chocolate brown jacket, dark brown trousers, their sleeves were tucked up revealing black and white sleeves, they had black boots. The person appeared to be a man. He had a dark skin tone, his hair was black, his eyebrows were white for a reason and he looked pretty tired. Beside them was a messenger bag.

James sat up. He gently poked the man's shoulder. He snapped out of his tired state and started to get scared. "Wer zum Teufel bist du?!" He shouted back away. "Bist du sicher, dass du nicht versuchst, mich unter Drogen zu setzen oder zu töten!" He looked at the man's pockets. "Sind Sie sicher, dass Sie nicht vom Schwarzmarkt stammen und versuchen, mir die Eingeweide zu stehlen?!"

The guy stayed silent, he just looked at James his eyebrows raised.

James stopped. 'Why is he being so quiet?' He grabbed one of the man's pockets. "Sind Sie sicher, dass Ihr Bot Organe in diesen Taschen transportiert?!"

He still stayed silent. He then proceeded to make gestures with his hands.

"What?" James stared at his hands.

He once again gestured, he seemed to be speaking in sign language.

"I don't know sign language."

He seemed to then change the way he was doing it.

James tilted his head. "Um if possible, what's your name."

He nodded before signing something, his hands formed the shape of a B.

"Does that mean your name is just B?"

He nodded

"Bit stupid." James sighed. His leg felt a lot better now and he felt like he could walk. "Anyways the name is James." He said while handing the blanket back to B.

B took it and packed it away before standing up.

B just stood there blankly looking at James before walking away slightly offended. He continued to walk until he looked towards the corner.

He saw a figure charging towards him. He quickly got into position, pulling out a knife.

It growled at him as it slowly crept forwards, it's body close to the floor. It was trying to intimidate B. A trick B has seen various times before.

B slowly backed away. It edged closer. B was going to try to find a corner or something to hide in, so he could wait for it to pass.

Unfortunately it ran at him, it's jaws open wide as it charged into Bs side. It knocked B down, knocking the knife briefly out of his hand. B quickly grabbed the knife again, pointing it at the creatures throat as he tried to crawl away. B was in a rather vulnerable position, he was open for the creature to rip into if he didn't put up much of a fight.

It seemed to notice this and it took the moment to try to strike.
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James heard a low grunt of pain, he looked into the corner and saw B on the floor being attacked. B was using all of his power to try to keep its jaws away from him. He was pushing against it's neck, using his legs to push it's body up. He just stood there in shock as fear paralyzed him.

B looked at the floor as he tried to escape before... He sees a small handgun. He instantly tries to grab it to no avail. He just looks up at the creature just waiting for it to be over as pain fills his body. He sees James, this gives him hope and so he kicked the gun over to James and just nods at him as if to tell him what he needs to do.

James picks up the gun and knows exactly what B was implying. He gulped and brought his forefinger towards the trigger and held it down he shut his eyes tightly as his hand grew sweaty and shook.
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BANG

The creature fell limp. B sighed until the creature got up and started to attack B again. James gulped and held on the gun tightly onto the gun this time his eyes wide open to see if he manages to end this situation.

The creature then suddenly turned to James and ran at James as it growled loudly. It suddenly tried to bite James. James grabbed the creature's face and tried to push it back, but there was only little James' tubby body can handle and the creature pushed him into a wall, the gun fell out of James' hand and rolled far away. James started to kick and punch the creature trying to push it away but nothing worked. The creature's jaw was wide and it was aiming for James' neck, a lust for blood shun in its eyes as it edged its jaw closer.
James was panicking now, he started to scream and shout at it as tears welled up in his eyes. James looked at B and noticed that B looked very disoriented and was clutching his shoulder.
James started to get overstimulated, the pressure from the creature holding him against the wall, the fact that his efforts proved futile, the fact that the only person who could prevent his impending doom was literally on the floor obviously in pain, the lights were to bright, the thought of the texture of the carpet was too much for him and the fact he could literally die in the matter of minutes. He started to feel his breath get heavier, His breath soon only coming out as a quiet whimper. He started to tear up and felt his vision starting to blur. He started to try to thrash about.

Out of the corner of his eye he could see B getting up, he seemed to have noticed something.

'He's leaving me?! That cunt.' He stared back at the creature, starting to give up.

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CRASH
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The creature fell limp and its blood slipped everywhere. James looked up and saw B with a pipe in his hands as he breathed heavily. B just stood there looking into James' eyes, trying to think of something to say.

James was slightly confused why B just stood there staring at him but something inside him made him enjoy it slightly looking at him. He never liked eye contact but this time just felt different he couldn't figure out what it was, he tried to look away but then noticed something...
There was a big slash on Bs shoulder, blood trickled out of it. "Erm... B? T.theres b.lood o.n your shoulder" he started to feel nervous and nauseous at the amount of blood.

B looked at his shoulder and his eyes instantly widened. He brought his hand towards his shoulder and held it down before he pulled it away, he looked at his hand and noticed the amount of blood on it. He quickly dropped his backpack and opened it in a hurry before picking up a bandage and laying it over his shoulder and wrapping it around before securing it. B sighed before looking at James again as he smiled softly at him. He then stepped closer to him and opened his arms as he got closer and then he...
Embraced him.

James reluctantly hugged him back. He didn't exactly like B that much. But he decided he should be nicer to him, he saved his life back there.

They soon pulled away from the embrace. B looked down at James. He then stood away a little, before signalling for James to follow him.

B started to walk away. James soon tagged along.

James knew it was going to be a little hard to understand B, especially since he's never really dealt with someone who uses sign language and seems like they can only speak in just sign language.

As they walked B then signed something to James

"I... I don't understand sign language." James looked up at B, he frowned a bit. There was a language barrier between them.

B paused for a moment. He seemed to try to find a solution to the problem. He didn't have any paper on him, so passing notes won't work, infact he doesn't have anything to write something on, he's just going to have to do simple gestures.