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we arrive at the end of the tunnel.

it was a glass door that lead to some sort of landscape, a garden with tall hedges.

"what is this place?"

i make my way to the front of the crowd and open the door. i step out onto the grass and observe the scenery.

it was... familiar.

"this is amazing." jeno whispers out.

"but what is it for?" min asks.

"its a maze." i say. "this was part of his plan."

as if on cue, the glass door we came out of slammed shut and the ground started to rumble.

"jani?" renjun shouts. "whats going on?" i latch onto him, trying to find to balance.

with a huge stop, we fall onto the floor due to the impact. i look up and see at least a thousand people looking down at us as if they were watching a game. the rumbling was coming from the bleachers, the arena was opening.
the maze was a stadium and we were the players.

suddenly hyuck stands up and grabs me by the collar.

"i told you jani!" he screams. "i told you we shouldnt have trusted him!" the others pull him off while jisung and jaemin come to my aid.

"i-im sorry i thought-"

"thought that he was trying to make amends? jani he turned his back on us!" he shouts while fighting back jun and taejin.

"hyuck, jani," we look at renjun who was confused like the others. "mark led us here? and you knew?"

"in the lab, before we went down the trap door he told me to come here."

"it wouldve been better if you told us." kenny mumbles.

"i know, im sorry."

"we wouldve been put in here anyways, they wouldve either captured us or killed us." jeno speaks up.

he had a point, maybe this was the best way, maybe mark was leading us to the safest way out.

or maybe, he did betray us.

"it still doesnt change the fact that mark led us to a- a fucking arena!" hyuck stammers. "hell, we're being watched by thousands. theyre being entertained over our- our yelling!"

"hyuck-" chenle reaches out but hyuck swats his hand away and crouches down in a sob.

"i cant run away anymore." he chokes out. "this lifestyle is too hard for me." he looks up at us and we meet eye to eye.

"please jani, just forget about freedom and just do whatever jinyoung wants."

"are you kidding?" jaemin was the next one to scream. "did you forget the horrible things he did to us during the times we were in the labs?"

the crowd murmurs and whispers loudly.
were they not aware?

"hyuck, D8 is fresh out of the lab, maybe they can tell you some reminders of what happens there." jaemin says sharply.

we look over at them and they start all talking at once.

"uh well," minho starts. "they didn't feed us for days, over trained us, nothing you already experienced."

"but you got the worse treatment." jongin says.

"what do you mean?" i say.

"well, its just that i remember seeing you in the radioactive chamber and-"

"stop." i cut him off and put out my hand as a signal.

"jani you were in the radioactive quarantine? what the hell!" renjun yells.

"it didn't affect me as much dont worry."

"you couldve died!"

"i know, renjun." i look at him and smile. "but i did have enough strength to get out of there, didnt i?"

"renjun i barely felt any pain."

he furrows his eyebrows.

"now hyuck, im sure youre just bluffing and you do not want to die." i walk up to him and take his hand. "lets please be strong together and get out together."

"no."

"hyuck-"

"this is a competition." he quickly stands up and takes out a glass shard from his coat pocket and stabs my side before running off into the maze.

"fuck," i cry out. "donghyuck!" i try to run after him but the pain was so unbearable i couldn't even stand.

"jani stay still." renjun takes my hand and rest his other on my shoulder. he looks at me straight in the eyes and i could see pure fear.

"listen," he whispers. "youre going to be okay, hm?"

"of course i am renjun, its just a little-" i look down towards my wound and i havent noticed how much blood i was losing.

my pain.

it felt numb.

"oh shit." i mumble.

"we're going to find hyuck and youre going to be fine okay?" jeno says softly next to me, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"no why is everyone crying, im not dying."

"jani." it was renjun again. "please notice how much blood you are losing, are you in pain?"

"no, renjun i dont feel anything."

"how is this possible?" and then i remember to a certain memory in my head. i look over at chenle who was hunched over, head hung.

i quickly crawl over to chenle, my wound still bleeding.

"chenle stop." i say.

"what's happening?" jisung asks.

"hes absorbing my pain, thats his strength." i look at the younger boy whos been secretly doing this for awhile, from my bruises to my small cuts. even the time in quarantine.

i sob as i hold onto his shoulder gently.

"chenle," i whisper. "its okay to stop!"

he looks up at me and smiles.

"he really cut you deep, huh?"

a/n
omg chenle's strength revealed !!
next jisung's weakness :0 what do you guys think it is?

also sorry for the late update, this chapter was rushed <//3