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Chapter 10

"Maya!? Where did she go?! If we don't find her, Aiden's gonna freak out!" said Gill.

"Now we have to find two friends of ours..." T.T. said with a sigh.

"Will you two stop complaining!? We have to find them before something bad happens to them!" Isa snapped at them.

"Sorry..." said Gill and T.T. at the same time.

Milo pulled out a torch so that the group could keep going forward. The hallway was long and there were lots of shut doors.

"Why are there so many doors?" he said with a sigh.

"We're NOT splitting up, so does anyone got something they can use to mark the doors that we already checked?" said Isa.

T.T. pulled out redstone torches. "We can use these," she said.

"Those will work," said Isa.

The group walked up to the first door. Isa opened it, but there was nothing but a small empty room. With there being nothing in there, T.T. put a torch above the doorway to signify that they already checked the room.

For a few moments, about six doors later, things were running smoothly, except that each door they went down was just a dead end. No sign of Maya or Aiden. But after checking door number seven, Gill noticed something.

"Hey, the redstone torches are gone!" he said.

The group turned back. Every door looked the same now. No redstone torches were up. Which meant only one thing: someone took them down when they had their backs turned.

"We're not alone..." said Isa. She pulled out her two iron swords.

"M-maybe Maya's just scaring us..." Gill said, shrugging his shoulders nervously.

"Like she'd do that!" Milo said sarcastically. "She's worried about Aiden! Why would she prank us! Besides, we heard someone sobbing earlier to! She couldn't have pretended that she heard someone!"

"I'm scared, T.T.!" Gill said.

He hugged her for comfort. Normally, T.T. would blush and not hug him back, but this time, she did hug him back. She wanted to comfort him, and frankly, she was getting slightly spooked to.

Suddenly, the group heard a noise from down the hallway. It only lasted for a second, and it didn't sound like the sobbing their heard earlier.

"Aiden? Maya?" Isa called out.

She looked nervous as she called out their names. Milo grabbed her hand and gently squeezed it to comfort her.

There was no response. All that came out was silence. The group was feeling scared now.

"I hope they're okay..." Isa whispered.

Despite being scared, the four friends continued down the hallway, hoping to find Aiden and Maya.

They headed into another room, but it was dark, and Milo's torch went out.

"Dang it! Hold on, I got some sticks and coal in my inventory..." the rebel said.

The group was quiet as they waited for Milo to light up a new torch for them to be able to see in the dark room.

"Gill, did you just poke me on my back?" T.T. said, sounding annoyed.

"What? No I didn't!" he said.

"But you just poked me..." said T.T.

"Just be quiet you two! Milo, don't let go of my hand!" said Isa.