The Beginning

The First Division

I realized; I'm standing on quicksand.

[Phyro's POV]

When I regain my sight, I see everyone upright. Except for... Ciello.

Where is he?

"Ciello!" I scream.

"H-help-p-p-p m-m-m-me!!!" He screamed back, struggling on the quicksand.

"Push your feet upward!" I scream

He tries but fails. "Its not working!"

"Stop! Stop! Don't move. Moving makes it even worse!" Abyss screams from behind us.

"He's going to be sucked up in there!" Golumn adds.

"No. He will not. That is just a Hollywood Myth" Abyss answered.

"Uhm... So... How does he escape?" I asked.

"You wiggle your feet. Slow movements. Don't PANIC. More movements will destabilize the sand... You try to getvas horizontal as possible."

"Won't he sink or something?" I ask.

"No. The sand will reach to his armpits. So he'll be safe."

Ciell tries doing as Abyss tells him to do, but it doesn't work.

"We need a flat thing or something. A pole. I guess" Abyss suggests and Golumn makes an Earth Pole.

"That'll do! Now hold on!"

I grab the pole as Ciell try to grab. When he does, we pull as hard as we can.

"It's no use!" Emily screamed. Oh yeah. I forgot. They're here too.

Then, Ciell started to sink even more. And...

*Woosh*

We're pulled into the sinking sand. And it starts sucking us. And without further or do , we sunk and my sight darkens.

...

I wake up in a cold room full of cobwebs and spiders. Where are we?

I face my comrades and then glared at Abyss.

"We won't sink, ey?" I mimick his smarty stuff with hand movement. "It's a Hollywood myth. Blah blah blah. All lies!"

"You dumfuck" Golumn added.

"Amen brother" Ciell says

"Shut up guys! This must be a multi-dimensional transportation mechanism. I measured the distance of the quicksand and to the floorbed. It's aproximately .5 metres before it reaches the bottom. So... The quicksand doesn't take us to an underground tavern of such. It transported us to an intact box full of live insectoids that might contain radioactive uranium that may internally damage our humane outer cover."

Everyone stays silent. What the fuck is he saying!

"English please" I smirk.

He sighs and answers "We we're not on quicksand. We we're on a hopper connected to transportational device. And got transported here."

"Transport? You mean like a car?" Ciello asks.

"No" Nerdy Abyss answers.

"Bus?" Golumn asks.

"Nope"

"Urrrggghhh... Fine. It teleported-" He says with shaking hands by his head "-it teleported us here."

"Oh... I see" All three of us except Abyss exclaimed.

He stands up and scans the surroundings. He thinks for a moment and screamed. "I remember!"

"We're in Frisco!" He exclaims.

"What?"

"Frisco is a conventional aparatus used in enclosure of specimens." He sees our blank responses and continues "It's a trap."

"Brilliant." A voice from somewhere roared the room. "I knew you would'nt be a bore. Genius. You are extremely tremendous!"

"Who the fuck are you!" Ciello screamed.

"You know not of who I am. But my identity will be revealed sooner or later."

"Are you... death?" Golumn asks, frightenly

"No. I am Me. And I have trapped you in this box of which you speak."

"Asshole!" I screamed at him but he just laughs.

"This is a test of your Survival Tactics. If you survive, you pass. If you don't, you don't, you fail and your die. As easy as that." He stops for a moment and continues.  "This box encloses and crushes any intruders who-" Then the floors, walls and ceilings shakes and starts going nearer. It's starting to move closer. "-who distrubs it's peace. You have 5 minutes to solve my riddle.

T'was a day after midnight,

Where the light and darkness meet.

It is not a wonderful sight,

For it owns more secrets to greet.

The walls of light may fade,

and the darkness evade.

A secret to the past,

is a key to your bust.

A bust to escape and unravel,

an exit that you will travel.

- Homer

Good day" He laughs and then his voice disappears.

I can't believe It... We are doomed.