The 12 Trials (Book One of The 12 Trilogy)

Chapter 7 ~The Maze

---Jack's POV---

I woke up to be sleeping in a cot again. Except when I looked around I was surounded by bricks. I heard the speaker say, "Morning! Today, we will be doing a maze! Good Luck!" There was a click and a few bricks moved to see the start of the maze. I ran out of the brick room and the maze was suprisingly easy. I did my stratagy (first go left then once you turn a corner, go the opposite side= Left>Corner>Switch to Right) and I sure enough found...

---Charlie's POV---

I turned a corner and I saw Jack. "Jesus man, you scared me." He said. "Sorry, have you seen others." I asked. "Why? he said. "Just curious." I said. "No, did you?" I shook my head. I was getting slightly worried about our little team of four. (Tim, Tom, Kai, and I) I walked around with Jack for a while until we hit an intersection. "I go left, you go right?" Jack asked. I nodded. I walked going this way and that to hear a scream. It wasn't a girls. No it sounded like. "Tom! Where are you?" I shouted out. "Charlie! God man, I tripped over something and I got my leg caught. I got it free but, oh jesus, it started bleeding and now I can't stop it." I ran towards Tom's voice. I looked down at the bleeding gash in his leg. "Charlie man, you can't save me. I... I will be ok." He said. "Ok. Jesus man. I know that your leg is torn but I can't... You can move. I have to try to-" "Charlie. Don't freak out man." Tom said to me. I didn't know what to do. I picked him up and walked to what I think was the way out.

---Dean's POV---

I think I am going insane. I thought I saw Nate right there. I ran to him, but he vanished. I walked further down the alleyway. "Anyone here? I have injured!" I hear a voice say. "Someone help!" I heard a voice that sounded like Kai say. "I am here! It's Dean!" I yell. "Dean!" I hear a few voices say. "I'm here!" I yell. I don't know if they heard me. I turned a corner and someone hugged me. "Dean. I didn't know if they got you." Kai said. Still hugging me. Charlie smiled and said something to Tom. "Guys your still here!" I said. A few others turned the corner. I looked and saw it was Jack and Felix. "Hey" Felix said. Jack nodded. "Hey, you ok Jack? You don't look to good." I said. " I'm ok." He said. Reassuring me with a smile. I smiled back and looked back. Then I realized something. "Oh Jesus. TIM!" I yelled running corner through corner. "DEAN! TOM! KAI! FELIX! CHARLIE! JACK! HELP ME SOMEBODY!" I ran towards the sound. "Tim!" I said running towards the person on the ground. "Crap man. I saw the dead bro. I saw the (insert bad word here) DEAD!" He said. "Tim. Calm down. I saw Nate. He didn't have a scratch on him. Not even the punctured flesh where the arrow was." "Dean man, are we going insane?" He asked me. "No man, NO." I said. I life's him off the ground. I saw his hand. "Uhh, dude. Your kinda missing some skin on your hand." I said as calmly as I could. I saw his hand, a bleeding gashe was there. Covered in blood. I saw a few scratches on his arm. I looked at him again. He was as surprised as I was. We walked in silence for a little while until Tim said, "If you where the only one with Kai, would you make sure she is ok before yourself?" "Yeah man. She always has those pleading eyes. I would throw myself in front of a car if it was going for her." I said. I meant all of it too. If Tim didn't have her, I would take a shot. We returned to where the others where. I set Tim down beside Tom. "We have two wounded." Jack said.

---Kai's POV---

"Kai." I heard someone say. "Who is there!?" I questioned. "No one except us, Kai." Jack said. "You... You heard something?" Tom said. I got off of the ground and walked towards the voice. I saw Shane standing in front of me. "Sh.. Shane!?" I stuttered holding back tears. "Kai!" Shanes voice said. He walked towards me. As if he was still alive he brushed his hand on my cheek. I went to hug him but he faded. "Shane! NO! Don't leave again!" Tim ran from behind a bush and hugged me while I started crying. We walked back to the camp in silence.

---Tim's POV---

Kai told me what she saw and I frowned. Dean saw Nate, I saw Tyler, and Kai saw Shane. Kai put her head in my lap and dosed off. "Has anyone seen the dead?" Everyone at the camp put their hand up. Charlie said "I saw Ian" Tom said "I saw Anthony" Dean said "I saw Nate." Jack said "I saw Anthony" Felix looked at Jack and said "Same." I looked at the group. "There is something going on." I said. Kai shuffled. "Kat nap?" I asked she stretched. "Yeah." She smiled. "How about we find a mirror. That will tell us everything." Everyone looked at her with questioning look. "If you look in a mirror and see no reflection," She said "You are the reflection. A mere image." "So do you mean, if we are a reflection, seeing the dead is a glitch?" Felix said perking up from his slumped position. "Percisely." Kai smiled. Everyone stood up to go and find the end of the maze. When Jack stood up Dean fainted. "Dean!" Tom limped over but fell on his face. Kai and I rushed to his aid as Charlie walked over to Dean and picked him up.

---Dean's POV---

I fainted. I don't know why but when I woke up I looked around. I looked up and I saw a knife. I scramed. "He's awake." I hear someone say. The black orb was lifed and I was sitting in a chair. In front of me, I saw Ian, Anthony, Nate, Tyler,and Shane. "Am I dead?" I said to them. "Nope, but not far from it." Nate said. I got up from my chair to see Kai, Charlie, Tim, Tom, Jack, and Felix. All sitting in chairs like I was with big Orbs over their head. "Kai! We have to wake her!" I cried. "Listen to their converstions." Ian said. "Listen, no one has to die." Kai said. "Kai!  listen to yourself! Dean is dead! All because of Tom!" Jack said. "No I'm here!" I cried. Tom gasped. "Whoa, Jack, put the knife down." Felix said. I split Jacks orb hoping that will do good. "Dean?" He said. "Dean! Guys It's De-" He stopped short when he saw he others I was with. "Is this what the underworld looks like?" "No." Tyler said to him. We helped him break the rest of the orbs. When they got to Kai's (just before Tim's) Dean said "She was right." "About what?" Anthony said. Dean looked down. "Everything."