The Game of Death (Part 1 in A Life Of Hell series)

Chapter 16

CIEL'S POINT OF VIEW:

We had no weapons. They weren't allowed in this maze. We have to fight these things without help, weapons, and can't cheat our way out of this. We were screwed. At the moment I was frozen in place. I had caught the flashlight from Sebastian. When I turned around there was a giant beast right in front of my face. I couldn't move. I was frozen with fear.

"Ciel!" Sebastian yelled. He ran up to me and hit the beast in the mouth. The thing fell to the floor and growled in pain. Without hesitating we took off running, checking every which way to make sure we didn't set off any land mines or get skewered by the spinning spikes.

I will be honest, I was absolutely terrified about everything that was going on around me. I looked around and was nervous. Then we weren't in that vast open space anymore. We were standing inside of a dark place. It started burning up around me. Memories of my parents death flooded my head. I began freaking out even more.

I sat down and began crying. I couldn't take it. This was hitting too close to home. Sebastian knelt down next to me. He turned my face toward him and tears ran down my face. "Hey... Ciel... stop crying. We are going to make it through this. We are going to okay." he said quietly.

I nodded and he helped me up. He pulled me close to me and hugged me. We began running towards the end of the hallway. I opened the door and began to cry again. It looked exactly like my father's study. The only difference was my father wasn't sitting dead in the chair. The roof collapsed in front of us and Sebastian grabbed my hand and tugged me toward the exit.

We ran out of the fake hallway and into the maze outside. It was starting to get dark. I looked at my watch and realized that it was only six. We only had six hours to find our way out of the maze. "Hey what happened to make you so upset back there?" he asked. "Nothing. I'll tell you about it someday. I just can't right now." I said. "Okay." he said.

"I have been meaning to ask you... why did you look so scared about the way we got here?" I asked. "I'll tell you about it someday." he promised. "Okay." I said. We continued walking. We tripped a tripwire which activated a ton of laser beams. I realized that Sebastian was beaten up badly and couldn't take anymore pain.

There was no possible way to cross the laser beams safely. I walked forward. "Are you stupid or something? Ciel you are going to get hurt." he yelled. I walked in front of a beam. It burned across my back and I could tell that I started bleeding. "Go... I can hold it off but you need to go." I said through our link.

"Ciel no... I can't. Please stop or you are going to hurt yourself." he said. "P-Please. S-Sebastian... just go. It hurts just go before I do die." I pleaded. "Okay..." he said. He ran through my body barrier. I left that beam and got in front of the next. By the last on there was a note. It read: This last one is going to hurt like hell. One of you have to sacrifice yourself to save the other. -Viscount.

"I'll do it." Sebastian said. "N-no." I started. I fell forward. "Ciel... you can't do it... your practically dead already." he said. "Exactly. Better to sacrifice myself to save you. You have a full life ahead of you." I said. "No you do Ciel." he said. I got up and got in front of the other laser beam. "I'm already dead. I owe you my soul remember. Now you get to eat it." I said. "But the thing is... I don't want to eat it." he said.

I was already standing in front of the beam and I was barely standing. I felt like death was approaching. Which it probably was. "A-and why is th-that?" I asked. "Be-because I love you." he said. He walked across the beam and I fell forward. I had used all of my remaining strength to talk to him through our link. I grunted when I hit the floor. My breathing shallowed and it hurt to breathe.

He sat down next to me. "No... Ciel please don't die... I need you... I can't lose you too. I can't lose you like I lost my family." he said. He began to cry. I have never seen him cry before. "Sebastian just go. I won't make it to the end because I am practically already dead." I mumbled. "No... I can't." he said. He picked me up and carried along with him. "Sebastian. We won't make it if you carry me. Just go please." I begged. I began to cry. "Just go." I sobbed.

He just ran. He kept running shielding me from the remaining laser beams. I don't know how he did it. It must have been a lot of work to carry me around like that. No matter how much I begged, he refused to leave me behind to save his own but. In the end we made it to the gate. We still had fifteen minutes left before we would die. "We made it." he said. "Yeah... we did." I said.

"Not quite." the Viscount said. "What now?" Sebastian asked. "Well you have to confess to something about yourselves that I don't know." he said. "Sebastian you first." the Viscount said. "Okay... Claude is my brother." he said. "Ciel your turn." the Viscount said. I thought about what I was going to say before I finally settled on it. "I was Robin at your ball. In the pink dress with the pigtails, the night Sebastian put on the magic show." I said weakly.

Sebastian chuckled. I smiled at his chuckle. I looked up and saw that Lord Druid's face was super pale. I began laughing even though it hurt. "I really liked that girl and tried to find her after that night. Are you seriously telling me that she was you?" he asked disappointed. "Yeah." I replied. The gate swung open and Sebastian picked me up and rushed me to the hospital to save my life.

We were finally done with that hellhole of a place. Thank goodness. Now we should be good and be done with being kidnapped or constantly in trouble for a while.

Boy was I wrong.