The Forbidden Fruit

Unexpectedly Wrong

(Toshiba's picture as well. Artist is jay-ennaju.)

Aiden's POV

All of them gone. In the blink of an eye. My entire group wiped out.

For an hour I've been wandering alone looking for my brother and hopefully his group.

This isn't right.

These creatures attacked us. Small, big, medium, strong, weak, average.

They told us this was a training ground transformed for the activity but according to an angel that was on my team she said she helped coordinate this and they never created these monsters. She gave the idea to proceed cause maybe they changed it last minute due to difficulties.

But this- this is no longer a testing ground. It's a labyrinth.

"GRRRR"

I flipped upwards and swung my sword killing the monster. Also, what hell are they? I walked over to the weirdly shaped Minotaur with angel wings and tusks on their heads and in their mouths. Their blood wasn't even red. It was black. Gross and creepy. I need to find Zero and his group. I have no idea what's happening, but this doesn't look like it'll end well.

"Zero!"

I Jogged around calling for him and screaming his name. I ran into a few more of those weird creatures cutting them down fast as I could to find him. I turned a corner and bumped into someone whose ass kissed the ground hard.

"Ah!"

"Ugh!"

"Whoa! Kanji did you hit a wall?"

"No, she hit... AID! ZERO YOU'RE BROTHER WE FOUND HIM!"

"More like his chest found my head... ow."

I held my hand out for her, and she grabbed it.

"Thanks..."

"Don't count on it happening again."

She gave me a rotten glare, but I didn't care. I walked over to Zero and he grabbed my hand and pulled me into a hug.

"Brother. Your team?"

"... Dead... How'd you keep yours?"

"Ah Kanji and I took off together. But Myrio, Toshino and Toshiba went off when everyone else did. After half n hour we ran into them but before that we were on our own."

Toshiba was talking to Kanji about something occasionally shooting us glances.

"Aiden? Toshiba, Myrio, and I killed some weird creatures. Did you have the same run in?"

"I did. About eight of em in total."

"Where did they even come from?"

I shook my head and then turned to glare at Kanji.

"You. This was your friend's idea! What did you two do?!"

"W-what?"

I walked towards her menacingly and grabbed her wrist harshly. For a second, I smelt a sweet scent. Cherry blossoms and coconut. Odd.

"AIDEN!"

"STAY OUT OF THIS ZERO!"

She winced and looked at me in disbelief.

"What. Did. You. Do."

"W-we didn't do anything! I knew we had activities set up, but I never knew she'd do race against time!"

"BULLSHIT."

"IT'S NOT I SWEAR! THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS ARE...."

She whispered the last part making me scowl in disapproval. I lightly shook her and she looked back at me annoyed and scared.