The Eighth Hero

Chapter 19

Btw I'm trying new writing styles. So if this chapter's all over the place you know why.

Aphmau's pov

"Ow" I yelled, flinching. "Hold still and it won't hurt as much" Stacy mumbled. We were in the living room, at the dinning table. Stacy was stitching up my arm, since she was the only one smart enough to know how. I had to look a different way. Something about seeing the needle going into my skin made the pain worse.

I looked over at her, smiling. Or at least as much of a smile that was possible when your arm is in excruciating pain. "Thank you Stacy." She partially looked up at me, with a faint smile. "It's no problem Aph, it's the least I could do."
She looked back down, the smile disappeared. A frown replaced it, not like a concentrated frown, but something else.

For some reason she sounded...guilty? Why? What could she possibly be guilty about? "Stacy, are you okay" I asked, concerned for her. "Is something wro-"

"I'm fine" she said, interrupting me. She took out the needle and laid it on the table. "Done" she said. Her voice sounded so cold, but her eyes just looked sad. Definitely not fine, and I'm gonna find out why.

She abruptly stood up and walked out of the living room, going into the kitchen where everyone was supposed to be getting ready to go into the tunnel. I ran over, excited to actually explore what I'd found. But when I got there, they were far from ready.

"THIS GAME RUINS FRIENDSHIPS" Sky screamed, slamming his Uno cards down and stomping on them (I know from personal experiences x3). He looked as if he had fifty, and mind you, at the beginning you get seven.

"Hey, don't ruin my cards" Tiffany yelled at him. Max was sitting perfectly content with his two cards, while Nick was staring at them like they'd all sprouted two hydra heads. "I'm starting to wish I hadn't been found" he mumbled. Stacy uncrossed her arms and tilted her head.

"Speaking of being found, where did Stampy go" she asked. Max shrugged. "He hasn't been here all day" he said, looking back at his cards. "Uno" he said, putting one on the top of the deck.

I looked back at Tiffany and Sky to see them wrestling on the floor for the cards. "Sky, can you please stop acting like you're high and float us into the hole" Stacy asked, walking briskly toward them. Sky got up with a huff and went near the hole.

We were finally going in

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We'd been walking through these stupid corridors for what seemed like forever. Nothing ever changed! No matter where you looked there was dirt and torches. The only eventful thing that happened was when Sky fell into the hole and knocked down one of the torches.

I guess he could lift us into the hole, but not himself. Poor guy. Once he actually got up, we started walking who knows where

I was walking in the middle of the group, looking around. There could be anything in here. We all had to keep an eye out. I was still looking when I felt a hand on my shoulder.

I whipped around and almost slapped Nick. "Oh my gosh Nick, you scared me" I yelled, hitting him over the head. "Sorry" he chuckled. Then, his face turned very serious. "Can we go to the back, I need to talk to you about something."

"Oh, okay sure" I said, a little worried. We let everyone behind us go while we stayed in the same spot. Once they were far away enough we started talking. "Remember when you were panicking before I came up to you" he asked. I nodded, not really wanting to say anything about the whole ordeal.

"Well, you said 'I'm going to die, just like' and you were going to say a name. If you don't mind me asking, who was it?"

I twiddled my thumbs and looked down. "I guess I should tell someone from the group" I mumbled. I looked over at him and sighed sadly. "I was going to say Aaron." Even saying his name made me want to cry.

"He was my boy friend. We had been dating for a year or so, everything was going great. I loved him so much." I started to tear up. "We were walking on the side walk, when two cars c-crashed into each other. The one b-behind them swerved to avoid it and hit hi-him" I wiped a few tears of my face.

"We were on Maple road. It's said that whoever walks to the park there will have a life changing experience. Later, when he was in the hospital, I was sitting with his shirt and jacket in the waiting room. T-t-they had to take it of to try to revive him. Then, something fell out of his jacket pocket. I p-picked it up and I-it was a ri-ring. He was going to pro-propose at the p-park."

I looked down, trying not to full on bawl. Nick had a hand and my shoulder, his face showed so much pity and sadness. "I'm so sorry" I was about to say something when I heard Sky yell up ahead

"I found a door!"

Oh my gosh, I just saw that my book has 1k reads! I'm so happy! Thanks to all of you that read and enjoy this book. As Max would say, I appreciate your existence. Again thank you so much, you guys really do rock!!