Lost In Time

The death and the maze.

For the past few days they were in testing, one night the shadow took out Alva and Ghost, he set them in a room.

Tamashī walked into the room and closed the door, "Welcome 5 and 6, it has come to my master's attention that you want to leave this place, now normally I would kill the rebellion in you but my master wants to test you." He paused to step closer to them.

"This is a little game my master likes to call the maze." Tamashī said, he reached out and took off Ghost's and Alva's collars, they were free to turn into a human if they wanted to.

"Let me explain the rules." He paused, then he let the collars fall to the floor from his hands.

"You have to find your way out of this room, then you will be in a maze, if you make it out under the time limit then your free to go, but if you don't make it out in time then you stay here, forever. You have two lifelines each, you can use them if you need help, a lifeline is when you call on 1,2,or 4 to help you, you can call on any of us, we will be there to serve you, if you look on your collar then you can push a gray button on it, that will summon 1, the blue button is for 2, the orange button is for 4 and the black button is broken, don't push that one." Tamashī explained, then he looked down at the collars, "But be warned, my master likes to play tricks on those in the maze, just remember, what you hear or see might be false." Tamashī explained, then he looked back at them.

"And with that I'll take my leave, you have 15 hours." Tamashī said, then he walked to the door, "Good luck." He whispered, then he left.

They had 15 hours to escape.

Ghost immediately started to look for clues, but the room was empty, the walls were blank, and the floor was hard stone.

"Alva, come help me." Ghost said, he looked over at Avla, he was sitting.

Ghost turned into his human form, then Alva started to look with him, after a few minutes of walking around in circles Alva remembered the collars.

Tamashī seemed like a neat wolf, why would he leave the collars on the floor. Was it on purpose?

Alva walked over to the collars, Ghost followed him.

Their collars looked different, like Tamashī or someone used magic to switch them, when Alva picked them up a door appeared on the wall.

Alva handed Ghost his collar, he had his own.

When they opened the door there was a 20 foot wall there, it was a black wall, the floor was black, the ceiling was made from glass, making the clouds visible.

Ghost took a step forward, "I'll go first, ok?" He said, he looked back to make sure Alva was listening.

"Ok." Alva replied, he was looking at the sky, the clouds weren't moving.

Ghost took a few steps forward, there was a left or right choice.

Ghost looked at Alva, "Left or right?" He asked, he sounded nervous.

"Left." Alva said without hesitating, he pointed to the left.

"Left it is then." Ghost said, in a way he looked relieved that he didn't have to make the decision. Ghost and Alva kept on walking.

Then they heard a voice over a loud entercom, "In 5 hours the monster is let loose." It sounded like Tamashī.

"Monster?" Ghost asked, he looked at Alva with a worried look.

"That's what he said." Alva replied with no reaction.

They kept walking for awhile, then they got to a door, it said- "Test 1."