Sinking Slow

The Note writer

She had a bow and arrow in her hands and a baby holder around her. She had a baby boy in her front. She had dark brown curly hair, not like mine though. Her hair had way more curls and was more tattered up, along with her clothing. Her clothes weren't completely worn, but they were very dirty and had a couple faint rips. She had a softer jaw line but a serious face. At least at this moment. Her and her baby both had darker skin and big brown eyes. She had a small pack on her back which had arrows in it. I was more careful this time I slowly walked towards her. "Are..you the note writer?..." she stood up straight now pointing the arrow down. "I am," she answered. She walked towards me now comforting her baby with her hand. "My name is Jada. This is Jillian. He's five months." "And how old are you?" "I'm twenty three." She stood there. "I'm glad you found me. I need you." "Oh Jada," I looked back at the frightened group. " I think we need you more." She looked behind at them. "Come with me." She said and we followed her. She must have always dealt with magic because when we went through another wall the room was amazing. She had made her own living space but it looked way more advanced then the room we had. We walked in and she had some technology going on. Instead of torches she had a light source coming from the walls. It wasn't electricity I knew it was magic. The walls were actually a pretty color. They were a light shade of green. Just a faint, pale touch of it. There was a comfy looking sofa in the corner rather than kind of worn down like the one we had. She even had what looked like a tv screen on the wall. She also had a small crib in the corner, and handmade baby toys. She went in and set down her weapons. She unstrapped the baby and laid him down. "See, this is what's capable with magic." She motioned to the tv screen. With a motion of her hand it flashed on. It started to play a video of Jada, and more videos of Jada. They were just brief ones though. She smiled and sat down watching the screen. I sat down beside her. "What is this?" I asked. "It's what my head is thinking about. These are my memories." She told me without taking her eyes off. "This screen reads what is going on in your mind. It puts it in images on the screen." She looked at me now. "Do you have that magic I gave you?" "Yes but, I never used it." "It's pretty good protection. it's not the best I have either. It will turn to stone. So you won't feel a thing. Magic isn't the only thing you all need to know about. They all walked in and examined the room. Driagon and Bruscular were poking around at things and looking. Rina came to sit by me. Gracin was set down to rest on the couch. Well I guess I'll start.." she looked over at the boys and Rina snapped at them. They came to sit down and listen. "I don't know a lot, but I have a very good theory. The way we all came in determines our faith. I heard a whisper from a siren when I came into the maze did you all?" We shook our heads. "Well I did. I heard a faint whisper about faith but I can't really remember a lot of it. How did you all come in?" "I sank in tar, along with Brus and Rina. Gracin and Driagon fell in fire." "Well those are interesting. I fell in a tree. At least that's what I thought it was. The little door, when I fell in I fell on a tree branch. I looked around but all I could see was leaves. The branch snapped and I fell with all the leaves whipping in my face as I did. I made sure to protect my baby though. I fell more and more until I just dropped in water. I sank down but surprisingly I could breath. I looked down at Jillian to make sure he could too. He could and he was grabbing at the bubbles that formed and poking them with his chubby little hands." We smiled at the thought. We were real into the story she was telling us. "The screaming sirens came after us. I swam to the ball and Jillian was crying so much that I was about to. We made it into the maze and we started to walk forward. He calmed down after a few steps. I had a knife in my pocket and I heard a noise. I slowly started to walk forward, as I held up my knife now. With out another sound, a zombie came hurtling after us. It was wildly making its way towards us." "A zombie came after me too." I told her. "I stabbed the zombie a bunch of times with the knife, one handed because I held Jillian with the other. I found a pouch of magic around the zombie. I bet you didn't check the zombie after you killed it." I realized and I thought about if he had anything. I came to realize I honestly didn't notice if he did or didn't. She smirked. "I found the pouch that you guys did and made a wall." She held up her hand with a bandage around it, then Rina did after. "I fought off monsters and this whole time I've been thinking about how to get out of here. Until I found out about more people in the maze, I decided to wait till I found you. I do hope that this is all of you." We all nodded our heads. "From what we know of." Gracin told her. "You guys have been a strong group, i'm sorry about your incident you had earlier." "We'll be fine." I told her right away. She looked into my eyes and I could see her just slightly shake her head. "Well we need to get out of here." I told her. "You know how to do that Morgan?" I stood up. "I need to go back there." Then Jada stood too. "I don't think that's the best idea." "Why not? We have to get out of this place some how. I volunteer to go back to the entrance and find out how." I told her. "But..." she started. I could see her thinking either on how to word it, or how to come up with an excuse. Knowing that I put my hand on my hip siting and waiting for her response. "I should come with you, you may need help." "I'm strong and smart and I don't want the chance of losing anyone." She walked to me and her voice became lower. "Morgan, you're safer there then you are here." I gave her a questioning look but she didn't mis say it. She meant what she said. "I don't get what you mean Jada." "Well...I do and.." "if it's safer there then obviously you're being selfish because that would mean you're trying to leave them behind and follow me and!..." I didn't even realize my point I just realized I was getting angry because she was trying to argue with me when I knew nothing was going to change my mind from going alone. "I don't even get it Jada, I've seen these creatures and I know the stuff they can do I can handle it." She looked into my eyes now with fear. She just looked down realizing she should give up. "Ok Morgan, you can go." I held her shoulder lightly with my hand. "Thank you, but I don't want to lose you all." They all stared at me and I came to hug them. Before I went to them Jada grabbed my shoulder stopping me when I tried to walk by. She whispered in my ear. "Hug them tightly." I looked at her and she just slightly nodded at me. I walked to Rina and gave her a very tight hug and exchanged "I love yous" and everything else. I walked to Gracin and we looked at each other for a moment. Who was I kidding I couldn't stay mad at him, I had a love for him that I couldn't let go of. I hugged him tight and his hand slowly stroked the back of my head. I came back and gave him a kiss on the cheek. I let go of him and walked to Bruscular and Driagon. They both gave me a big tight hug and picked me up while at it. "Morgan, we found that you're, well you're kind of like a sister to us." Driagon told me and Brus nodded with him. I looked into their sweet caring eyes and hugged them once more. I leaned back and let go of them as well. I went over to Jada and gave her a good hug. Once I pulled back I told her. "Watch over them okay?" She nodded. "I'll try, and I don't know what you believe but I pray that an angel from heaven will some how find us out of this hell and watch over you. We may be able to leave." I nodded too. I started to walk out of the room but then I heard. "Wait!" Driagon came running to me with my sword in his hand. "Oh yeah! I can't forget that" I chuckled. As soon as I grabbed it it glowed. It only glowed though when Driagon and I touched it at the same time. I looked up at him. I knew that the sword was magic, it was giving me some sort of sign. I didn't know what though. We stared for a moment at each other then I spoke. "Driagon?" "Yes?" "I love you" he looked a little shy down then up at me. " I love you too" he said. I smiled and left out the door. I looked over and it didn't surprise me. I saw a zombie hurdling my way. I ran after it. I stabbed it right through the center killing it instantly. Showing off a little I guess, I swung my sword and started to walk down the path I knew well now. I was walking back to the entrance. I waved bye to the camera. Just walking and walking. I realized it was taking a while. I started to run. I ran and ran pretty fast. It made me feel great to run again, besides the brief moments of killing creatures. I ran to my heart's content and I started to laugh. I laughed and ran down the halls with ease of direction and out of all that mess I finally felt happy for a small period of time. I ran and ran until I stopped. I heard something. I heard a small, suttle growl. It was almost like what a dog would make, but a hint of feline lingered with it. I inched closely and turned my head barley around the corner. All I saw was a big hairy back turned the other way. Whatever it was it was as big as that rat creature. It had not cat or dog ears, more like devilish ears and tail, but it was covered in cat or dog fur. I didn't get to see the face but whenever I peered over I saw its tail repeatedly wacking back and fourth as it devoured what ever it was eating. I started to ease more and more away from the wall. I slowly made my way more and more towards the creature and then... the small slip of my foot made a tap on the ground. It's ears flickered and it turned around. It's face looked like a cats but when it growled its teeth bared into a hideous sharpness. It looked almost sharper than the blade in my sword. It had the thin cat eyes staring down at me and it was eating one of the small maze creatures. It slowly put down its food and made its way towards me it pounced! Once it pounced I rolled out of the way so it got the wall. I jumped up when it did, just barley scratching its face with my sword. It did cut off a few whiskers. I tried stabbing at the cat like creature but I kept missing. It seems like the more frustrated I got, the harder it was. I just started to run from the cat. Just to give my arms a break I just ran down some turns. It ran fast after me but I only heard it's foot steps. I ran and ran and I only looked back once. I ran until I eventually for a moment forgot why. I didn't hear the steps any more. Once I remembered I looked back. It was gone, I had out run it. I smiled and stopped to take a couple of big breaths. I really could run fast couldn't I? I smiled and started to chuckle. The chuckle started to turn into a laugh. I laughed at the fact of how I ran. I laughed at how I out ran it. I laughed because for the first time in a while I felt joy and happy for not any good reason. It seemed now that...I couldn't stop laughing. I laughed and laughed until..it didn't even sound like me that much any more. I laughed and.. I forgot how much I laughed, I forgot why I laughed. I just...laughed. I was tired but, I didn't stop laughing. I laid down on the ground to sleep but continued to laugh. I laughed and I saw some figures around me become in sight and then disappear. I laughed at the fact I saw it... was I going mad? What has the maze done to me? I laughed until it slowly faded as I drifted to sleep. I started to dream. I dreamt something in my head. I saw that...I saw me laughing in my head. I saw what I looked like. I saw that my life not only sounded like me, it sounded evil. Even worse happened after. My face slowly changed in the dream. My face turned into Jada's. It was Jada now that was laughing evil. It got louder and louder and I gasped for air as I woke up. I was trembling with such fright over the life like dream. I felt a single drop of sweat fall off my forehead. That's when I realized how scared I actually was after something...something like that. It felt so real. After taking a few breathes I looked over and saw my sword glowing again. I had a feeling it was glowing because of my dream.✔️