𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝙴𝚗𝚍

Chapter 1: Alyssa

12:06 am

"My feet huuurrrttt!" Alyssa whined  from the back of the line. "That's impossible, we've only been walking for five minutes." Kami snapped. "Six minutes to be exact." Jackie said, leading the line. Kami rolled her eyes, but Jackie continued to lead the line with pride, despite the situation they were in. "Haven, why so down?" AJ asked her, putting her head on her shoulder. 

"I'm just thinking about my moms. I hope they're okay." Haven said, looking down at her feet. "Oh come on Hav, if you're moms are anything like you, they'll be okay." AJ reassured her.

Suddenly, Jackie stopped in her tracks. Everyone else's stopped behind her. "It's a dead end."  Jackie said, as her arms flopped to her sides. Everyone looked up, to see the tunnel blocked with rocks. "WHAT!?" Alyssa yelled at the top of her lungs. Rocks fell from the roof of the tunnel, falling all around the girls.

 "Shut up AJ, your gonna cause a cave in!" Jackie whisper shouted to Alyssa. "Oops, sorry!" AJ whispered apologetically."Guess we're just gonna have to go back and take another tunnel." Kami said, and sighed. "No, we can't go back, it'll take too long if go through each and every tunnel one by one."Jackie said. 

 "Then we split up." Haven said. Everyone directed their attention towards Haven. "We'll split up in teams of two, and take the other two tunnels, we'll shout when we find the exit." Haven simply stated. "I guess that's pretty smart.." Jackie said. "Okay, Alyssa will go with Haven, and I'll go with Kami." The four girls went their separate ways, down the tunnels. 

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The girls were both quiet, the sound of their echoing footsteps, the only sound heard. Suddenly, Kami stopped walking, which caused Jackie to look behind her. "Something wrong?" Jackie asked, concerned. "Do you hear that?" Kami said, alerted of her surroundings. "Hear what? I don't hear anything." Jackie said, a little confused. 

"Never mind, it's nothing." Kami said, and relaxed a bit. "Let's just keep moving." The girls continued on their walk. Kami was wary, she moved slowly and cautiously, almost sure there was something, or someone, following them. Jackie, completely oblivious to what was happening around her, kept going, unaware of the thing that was close behind them.  

Kami's senses were sharp, her stealth skills through the roof, she knew when someone was sneaking up on her. Her friends were never able to sneak up on her, that's why she was given the nickname KeiKai. She was always alert of her surroundings, like a ninja. Kami let her guard down a little, thinking it was just her ears playing tricks on her, she figured it was nothing. 

The two girls continued on their walk. 

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"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" AJ asked Haven over and over, making haven slowly loose her mind. "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there-" "NO DAMMIT!" Haven yelled.

AJ's eyes went wide. "Okay!" She said happily, unfazed by Haven's harsh words. "Well when we get to the end, I'm gonna sit down because my feet hurt from all this walking. Have you ever walked this much? I haven't, I don't ever ever ever never want to walk this much again, hey are we there yet?" Haven rubbed her temples from how talkative AJ was. 

Haven was stressed from all this walking and talking. She wanted to give up and just let herself die, she knew she couldn't though, for the sake of her friends. Suddenly, the two girls approached a giant stack of rocks, blocking their way. "Dead end." The girls said in unison.