The Five Kings: First Step

Hopian 9 - Desperate Escape

A/N: Hey! Before the chapter, I just wanted to thank all of you so much for getting the Five Kings over 1000 reads, and 49 votes! It makes me so happy to see my story gaining more readers, and I hope you all will stay with me on this journey! Also, you guys may be wondering why the chapters are now called Hopian. I decided to change this so that the Chapters cooreleate with where the characters are in the story, which as of now is in the Hopian Territory.

Last chapter, after some bickering
Seric and Karia received the rewards of the trial being the pure white boat that disappeared, and the blue cube which Seric had beforehand which he absorbed. With nothing left to do they head to the exit of the trial, however it turns out to be a trap with the ceilings slamming shut behind them. Karia being tired out and injured from falling in the well can't afford to carry Seric anymore, and so she drops him, leaving him helpless as his body is too injured to move.

Seric's P.O.V.

"Damn it... She promised that she could carry me, and then she does this!"

I think angrily to myself as I try to crawl on the floor achieving some movement, but not nearly enough to escape.

I light up for a second, thinking that I could use the boat to escape again, however the more I look around me I see that the room is far too small for the boat to fit in, and even if it wasn't I had no clue how to summon it.

Now I return to despair, with absolutely no way to get out of this.

At this point, Karia only has about a quarter left to go to the open exit door from where we started off, while I'm about to be flattened in a few seconds.

"A bit down under life I see."

Once again, I hear yet another undeniable distinct voice in my mind. This one sounds much different though, but for some reason I can't even describe it.

I'm about to respond to it, but before I have time to think I suddenly get hit by an unknown force of what felt like high pressure air, which launched me only a few metres from the exit.

The ungraceful landing and blast that launched me injured me even further, and I can now barely move an inch.

"Seric!"

I hear Karia yell from behind me. Now she FINALLY starts to help me, slowly dragging me by my right arm towards the exit.

With only 3 seconds left on the last closing ceiling, me and Karia both barely make it out of the trial and finally return to the sand of the tiny island, with the sun shining over us.

We both lay on the ground for a bit, until Karia breaks the silence.

"Oh *pant* my *pant* God that was *pant* close." She laughs between her breathes.

"Yeah, for one of us."

I respond, gritting my teeth with tears still coming out of my eyes.

"Hahahaha, how the hell did you get out anyways?" Karia asks like nothing happened.

"Karia! You promised to protect me, didn't you! Then what the hell was that back there huh!?" I yell shakily.