The Maze

Darkness

Denis PoV

I woke up... It was dark all around, I could hear an engine whirring, and chains, groaning. I was on a rough metal platform, with chains at the four corners leading upwards. I looked around, and there were walls on the moving platform. Around me was 7 people, they woke up, we were all way to scared to talk though Through the movement of the air on my body I could tell that I was moving upwards. Shit I thought, I couldn't remember who brought me here and why...

I sat down, tucked my legs into my chest, and wrapped my arms around them. This was my thinking position, if I was going to get a memory, or formulate an idea that's the only thing that will help me accomplish that. I sat still for a while and I realized, that waiting for my memories at that moment, would be no use, so I put together some logical reasoning. If this elevator thing is going up, then it must lead somewhere, because, an elevator from the bottom of a building to the top, takes about 5 minutes at most. For extreme conditions, this could be about a mile or two underground, all the way up to the tallest building in the world, which I doubt is the case, and that would take about forty five minutes to an hour at this speed. Meaning I had to wait, so I did, and while I waited, I worked on what I always did best, theorize.
I came up with a couple of theories that best seemed to fit: That I agreed to a science experiment and that I had to get brainwashed, so I could, take a test, and then they would give me all my memories back after i'm done, so they can prove one of their theories. They probably just needed the elevator, to get me up to the lab, or for fear factor. Another one is that I was part of a mental hospital and that I had done something that scarred me, so i agreed to them having to erase my memories so I could go back to my normal life. My final fitting theory was, that some psycho lunatic person, was taking me far away from society into his/her secret, human hide away, just an evil way to make money, so he can get a sum of money in my and possibly others names. The elevator and the landing, are just waiting rooms.

Geez I thought, am I paranoid for what's up next

I waited out a couple of minutes, it felt like hours, but for some reason I could tell that it took about 15-20 minutes, after I woke up.

Suddenly, the elevator, slowed, and came to a sharp stop. I heard hollow knocks on the ceiling I had approached, and then it opened.