Sinking Slow

A killer

I woke up on my own. I wasn't able to completely pass out that night. I awoke before any of the others did. So I went to the back pack and got out some of the food Rina had hunted and cooked. I started to eat silently staring at the blank wall. Then my eyes drifted over to the mark on the wall. It looked different I started to look at it closer. I started to get up to look at it but then I heard Draigon wake up. It caught my attention away from the wall. "Morning" I said taking another bite. He just looked at me and gave a sleepy smirk. I watched him sit up and stretch. "You know Draigon, out of all things I think there is one thing I wonder about most." "What's that?" He said stretching. "How we all entered the maze the same, besides Gracin. "What do you mean?" He asked me. "Well we all sunk in tar, Gracin burned in fire." "So did I." "What?" I asked him. "I never sank in tar." "Are you telling me that you fell in fire and never told any of us about it?" "I thought you all did too." "No Draigon, your sister, brother, and I, sunk in tar. Your sister and brother were with you when it happened." "Well I guess they saw something different, weren't you guys lucky then! That was the most painful thing ever. I was hoping I would just burn and die already It was horrible suffering." "I'm sorry Draigon, Gracin had to go through it too." "You're right Morgan,...that's strange." We looked off into the distance for a moment, just pondering. I couldn't believe after all that time, none of us had known. Tar, and fire, what does it mean? I wondered to myself. That's what confused me. In the middle of our pondering, Gracin and Rina, woke up. Then Rina tapped on brus's shoulder to get up. "Hey you guys, Driagon told me something and we haven't known it this whole time." They all waited for a response. I looked at Gracin "he burned in fire too." "You never told me??" Rina looked at him. "I thought you all did." She rolled her eyes. "Isn't that peculiar though?" I asked them. They all pretty much shrugged as if it was nothing. "Gracin and Driagon burned in fire, Rina, Brus, and I sunk in tar. Does that not make you wonder..what the maze is trying to tell us?" They all thought about it with me in silence until...something broke the silence. I heard very loud stomping from the other turn of the maze. It was louder stomping than I had ever heard in the maze. It was so loud that..the floors, the hard brick floors, shook a little. I was scared for a moment, because none of us were ready. The stomping stopped after a moment. I realized though that we weren't safe. "You guys we need to clean this up now." We all got up and started packing up all the stuff. Once we were done we heard the stomping again. As soon as I did, I heard it get closer and we all got our weapons. I was frightened, but I wasn't as frightened as I should've been. What awaited there was the worst. As soon as I got a hold of my weapon, I saw a figure out of the corner of my eye. It was coming really fast. I quickly turned in glance of it and it was horrible. It was worse then I had ever imagined. It's head was higher than the maze ceiling itself and it had to dip to fit in the maze. It's tail stretched along several hall ways, and the stomping I heard was just the thump of every move it made hitting against the wall and barley squeezing through. It had huge blue scales that were so big that they pushed up past the top of its head to make it seem bigger. It had tiny white devilish eyes, and what seemed like a million tiny teeth inside a mouth that could probably just hold two adults sitting in its jaw. It was coming towards us at a horribly fast speed, unlike all the other monsters, it didn't come after me. It came towards Gracin and he held his weapon tight. It stopped right at him. It roared a hideous screech at Gracin, and didn't attack until Gracin said something. "Bashe!" It roared back again and Gracin screamed back. Gracin charged at it and the sword stuck in one of his scales. It's deathly blood colored tounge flickered and it smacked Gracin in the face with it. It was just enough to get him off. Bashe screamed the roar again and this time Gracin went even harsher into him. This time it actually hurt the creature. It stuck through the scale. Rina and the boys all did the same thing then. Even though they all stuck through the scales it didn't hurt the Bashe that bad. It just made him more furious. He shook himself and it shook them all off. It also shook the floor so I fell and wasn't able to stab him next. We all fell and Bashe looked down at Gracin with furious purple eyes now. Gracin's eyes were purple now too. He was angry, they both were, but..Gracin didn't attack him. His head slowly turned to me and so did the Bashe's. Gracin screamed showing his fangs and ran after me to attack. He pounced on top of me to attack me, and was about to bite me. I refused to kill him, I was in the position were it was possible. It was possible to stab him from the back. The last thing I wanted to do was kill Gracin for what this creature has done for him. Rina, Brus, and Driagon were all pinned against the wall and couldn't get to me. I just begged and cried out to Gracin. I pleaded but I knew, I was going to die right there. Next thing I know, Gracin's fangs were flared. He went to bite and...fell off of me. He was screaming in excruciating pain. I looked over at him and his leg was cut off. I stared in blank horror and looked over to see.. Driagon had cut off his leg and he was in the same state of horror as I was. He escaped and quickly reacted. "Morgan i'm so sorry, I had to save you! I.." Bashe interrupted with a huge roar. I looked at Gracin who was bleeding non-stop out of his leg. Rina rushed to him and got bandages out of the back pack that were made of silk. She rapped it and aided him. I don't think he was possessed by the creature any more. Bashe looked at Driagon and was ready to pounce in him..like he was mad that Driagon hurt Gracin. At that time I thought nothing of that. All I thought about was that it was Bashe's fault this had happened. I screamed and I picked up my sword. The scene that happened then, I never in my life would've believed I would be capable of something like it. I leaped at him and stuck my sword deep into a scale, but I let go quick and stabbed another even harder. It let out shrieks and I grabbed a hold of a scale, pulled my self on it and stabbed him as hard as I could as many times as I could. I swung down after I knew he was weak. Then I held my sword in the soft spot that had no scale in his chest. I plunged it in and I could see the life just fade from it. Though as I watched its sorrowful eyes I felt awful. I felt almost like I was dying too. Completely out of breath, I stumbled backwards and fell on the floor. I had killed the most furious and horrible creature in the maze. I saw something though, I looked up and I saw something coming from the Bashe. There was still a light in his heart. It was the same color that my sword glowed. I saw the light drift from his heart into a sort of smoke. It made an image it made.. a person. I saw a person. I saw a strong, muscular man, and he looked at me. He just shook his head in disappointment, and faded away. I sat still breathing heavily and in confusion. I looked back to see that all of them, even Gracin watched me. I guess he was feeling better now, more aided. Rina ran to me. "Morgan that was amazing you saved him!" I looked up at her. I surely was not as exited as her. "No I didn't." I said firmly and stood up. "I didn't save him." She looked confused at me. "I killed, an innocent soul, Rina!" I hollered now trying to get her to comprehend. But she didn't see what I saw so she didn't know. Almost in tears now I went over to Gracin and hugged him. He gave me a tight hug back. "I'm sorry" "why are you sorry? You killed that thing for me and saved me." "No I didn't Gracin, that thing didn't deserve to die. I don't care if it sounds crazy, it's true. I feel like.." I paused for a moment trying to word it right. "I feel like none of them deserved to die." "What do you mean?" Gracin asked really confused now. "I don't know I just, know that what I did.....I shouldn't have done that." "I'm so sorry Morgan, for what I did, and how I attacked you like that. If it weren't for Draigon, I would've killed you." "But Gracin your leg, what are you going to do now?" "You think this thing will stop me? It's not my legs that take me places. It's my heart, my strong mindset,... and my soul." I smiled at him by his true beautiful words of wisdom. He looked at me. Rina and the boys looked at us, and this time when Gracin leaned in. There wasn't an awkward interruption. He leaned in close, and he kissed me. When I was younger I always imagined it to be a normal sweet little kiss on a beautiful day having a picnic. It wasn't sweet and little in was fantastic and..it was full of energy. It was like energy pulsed through us like we were one whole. Well that part was normal, for your first kiss not to be expected, but i never thought my first kiss would be in a hell like maze after just killing the most furious beast and kissing a one legged person. When I pulled back from the kiss I smiled. Partly at the kiss, but partly at the thought I just thought of. He smiled too then. My smile faded a little because all I could really think about was that I was a killer. He didn't notice though. He came back towards me to kiss again but Rina interrupted. "Alright well, lots of love now let's get searching again." Rina turned around and started to walk around the hall. "Rina!" I called still sitting there. She turned around. "What?" "Are you okay?" She laughed a little but I could tell she was angry. "yes now come on." "Rina, I know that you hate the idea of me and Gracin so why don't you just tell me your problem and stop being so awkward about the situation!" "Because it's not like what you think Morgan!" She hollered back at me. "Oh really then how?" "Morgan you don't get it!!! He's wrong for you! And he's wrong for me! He's wrong for anybody Morgan! He can't love!" I didn't understand. "What are you talking about?" She lowered her voice a little more now. "Lover boy over there can't kiss anyone. Too much anger, or too much passion takes over inside him. He can't love anyone. He'll kill you. He can't love you." She paused sadly and looked at the ground. Then she looked at him with the sad puppy eyes that she had made to him a long time ago. "He can't love me." I Looked back at him. I looked at him in such disappointment. He felt horrible I could see. We all looked at Gracin in shame and Rina looked at him with hopeless loving eyes, that had sadness too. After a moment I spoke. I looked down out of my trance. "Alright, come on guys." Rina and I started to walk ahead, and then the boys let Gracin put his arm around them to carry him forward. I stopped at the mark on the wall. I almost completely forgot. I measured it, and the mark on the wall..wasn't in the same position. "Guys come look over here!" I said forgetting about Gracin for just a moment. The mark was up higher on the wall. I realized something. I looked back over the note and it clicked in my head. I handed the note to them, and let them read. I realized now. "Guys..the maze is sinking. It may be sinking slowly, but it's sinking, and if we don't hurry it will be too late to escape. They all realized. We started to walk down the hall and I spotted a camera in the corner and. I went to it and I looked up at it. I looked right in the lens then..I saw it point towards me. This person could see us and was watching us now. I looked past the camera, and I saw a figure standing there. I saw a little boy standing in the hall of the maze. The little boy was just staring, not pleasantly or unpleasantly just..staring. He didn't look frightened at all, and his clothes weren't dirty either. He looked clean. "Are you okay?" I hollered to him. He started to slowly walk to me. "Are you okay?" I kept hollering and repeating but he didn't answer. He walked until he was very close to me. I kneeled down. "Are you okay?" I repeated. He put his hands on my shoulders and his his face slowly..changed. His face turned from flesh colored to white. Rina realized what this was. "Morgan No!" His eyes turned black. His mouth opened wide and inside was a big black hole with sharp horrible teeth. His face changed until it wasn't a boy's anymore. His whole body was naked and white. He screamed a loud horrific scream. I was in his tight grasp now I couldn't escape. The group came after me to help but...they didn't need to. I realized the thing had just died on me. I saw an arrow sticking out of its back. I looked up and saw a woman holding a bow up.✔️