Tournament of the Unknown

Chapter 13 1/2

It has been a few weeks since we had been attacked by the robot. Things have gone a lot smoother than before. We haven’t been attacked as much since we decided to stay low. I was currently walking behind Elis, his oversized shirt was baggy; he was currently talking with Night about a new plan of attack if we were suddenly attacked again.

“Cantalia, are you okay?” Laru asks worriedly. I shift my gaze toward her.

“Yeah, why?” I ask confused.

“You were zoning off for a few minutes there,” Laru states.

“Was I? I didn’t notice,” I mumble as I kept walking.

“Which way do you guys want to go? Left or right?” Elis asks as we came upon a turn.

“I don’t know, have we even been going the right direction?” Anally states as she glances back. “Maybe Elis should get back up to see if we’re going the right way?”

“No! It would be unsafe and we could run into bigger risk than before,” Night states completely denying the idea.

“You’re too uptight,” Anally states with a huff.

“Why wouldn’t I be? You do realize one wrong slip and we could die, right?” Night states his voice slightly angry. 

“Don’t need to be so rude,” Anally yells back as she slightly glares at him.

“You two need to settle down,” I said as I tried to calm them down.

“He was being mean to me,” Anally states as she pouts. “Are you going to abandon a friend who is being picked on?”

“He isn’t picking on you,” Laru sighs. “He is just stating a fact.”

“He doesn’t need to be so mean at me,” Anally states as she sticks her tongue out at Night. I saw Night massages his forehead.

“Anally has a point though. We don’t know which way we have been going, and if we’re going the wrong way we could end up going in circles without reaching the exit on time,” Elis states his opinion.

“Did you already forget what happened for doing that?” Night practically yells at Elis.

“We’re still alive and we need to get out of here,” Elis retorts.

“We may be alive now but what about the next time someone could die. Don’t you get it? How dangerous this really is. How life threatening this is…” Night’s voice lowers into a whisper.

“I’m sorry,” Elis says sadly.

“How are we going to get out of here?” Laru asks me.

“I don’t know,” What was the point in lying to her? How where we going to get out of here? We are going to need pure luck or something.

I look up to suddenly see a white tiger turning a corner toward us. It didn’t look at us with malice the tiger just had a blank look on its face. Night and Elis grab weapons out. The tiger didn’t feel like a threat. It was too beautiful.

“Hey, I’m here to help you,” A familiar voice spoke from the tiger.

“Why would you help us?” Night asks warily.

“I don’t want you guys to make it out,” the tiger simply responds.

“Who are you?” Laru asks.

“Can’t you recognize my voice, it’s me Rozo,” the voice turned from happy to disappointment.

“Rozo! How did you end up getting permission to use a robot tiger in here?” Night asks. “This isn’t something that will get you in trouble is it?”

“Don’t worry I got permission from the King. Apparently he doesn’t really care if the only outside help participants get is from a little kid,” Rozo states cheerfully.

“How long have you been searching for us?” Night asks him.

“A few minutes after all it wasn’t really that hard to find you guys,” Rozo states as the tiger starts walking away from us. We followed.

“Have we been going the right way?” I ask as I catch up to the tiger.

“No you guys are a little off,” Rozo answers. “You need to take a couple of turns this way.”

He led the way. We ended up taking various turns and it felt like we were going the wrong way even though it really was the right way. It turned to Night in a simple of what felt like a few minutes.

“At the rate we’re going will we get out on time?” Laru asks.

“Don’t worry you guys will make it out,” Rozo states cheerfully.

“I don’t like the idea of you having to be here,” Night said changing the subject.

“I agree you’re so young and yet you have to see something that will leave you restless,” I agreed with Night.

“I have already seen something like that this is nothing,” Rozo’s voice turns softer.

“What happened?”  Laru asks.

“I-I don’t want to speak about it,” Rozo’s voice cracked slightly.

“Forget what she said after all nobody should be forced to speak things they’re not ready to say,” Anally pats the tigers head.                 

‘Thank you,” Rozo mumbles out as the tiger suddenly stopped. “Shouldn’t you guys get rest?”

“We are good, let’s keep walking,” Laru states as she starts running.

“Laru don’t wonder up ahead,” Night yells as he runs after her.

“Why is she so happy?” Anally asks.

“Who knows,” I state puzzled.

“Shouldn’t we catch up to them?” Elis asks. We glance at each other before running after them.

“Laru! Watch out!” I heard Night yell from ahead. I turn a corner and see nothing but smoke.

“What happened here?” I ask as I waited for the smoke to go away.

“I don’t know but I hope they’re okay,” Elis worriedly says. The smoke slowly was going away. I saw a pile of pillars lying on the ground. I didn’t see Night or Laru anywhere.

“Night! Laru!” I yell out worriedly. I didn’t get a reply from the first few times I called their names.

“We are okay,” Night yells out suddenly. I sigh in relief.

“We are going to climb the bushes and meet you guys over their,” Elis states as he walks toward the bushes.

“No don’t we need to stay as safe as possible during this circumstance. You have Rozo he can led you guys in a direction that will get us to meet again,” Night yells.

“That can take weeks,” Anally yells back.

“It doesn’t matter we just need to stay safe,” Night states.

“Fine but you guys can’t die no matter what,” Elis gives in.

“We’ll meet you guys later,” Night yells as I heard his footsteps walking away.

“We should also get moving,” Anally says as we started walking.

“We need to go this way,” Rozo says as he takes a right.

“Are you sure?” I ask warily.

“Absolutly I know where to go, and which turns to turn on,” Rozo says positively.

“That’s good,” I said as I was starting to calm down.

“They’re going to be fine,” Elis says confidently as he pats my head.  I saw Anally smirk.