Quiet Burdens 

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Start!

Cole found himself in a puddle of water.

Happily, his stuff wasn't wet.

"I love magic water" he smiled getting up.

Looking around, the walls where tall and a dark blue, with lanterns that shined with a blue flame. A small river of water sat between the floor and wall, like a mote.

When he found a mirror he looked at it.

The teen sighed, looking at himself, he was a lady.

With long hair and everything.

After drawing himself like Tabitha asked him to do, the teen started to make his way through the maze.

The dark corridors where wide, and quiet.

But he followed quickly, not wanting to be here alone for long.

...

As he walked, a scream could be heard, and Cole turned fast, seeing a shadow fly towards him, knocking him over, he noticed it was a small child, with white hair and red eyes.

"Hector?" Cole's higher voice squeaked out.

The small child looked up, fear in his eyes, but they locked, "Who are –wait. Blonde. -Cole?" the child said confused.

"Saddle yes" the teen helped the small kid up, "What are you running from?"

Hector turned to look behind him, then at Lady Cole, "Well, there may or may not be monsters here, and I may or may not be freaking out without Jaylen" he shrugged.

A monsters rawer was hear, and the two turned.

A being that looked to walk on two legs and one arm, walked around the corner, it dripped with a green mossy oil, its eyes glow, and popped out like pimples. It had rags, and its mouth dripped red, like it found another monster, and had eaten it, then saw small Hector, and though he was Dissert.

"What Is That!?" Cole stepped back, only to find Hector hiding behind him.

The teen's mind was a mess, "Should we run? Should we fight? Can we fight?"

Cole held up his hands, trying to form something, but ended up grabbing his gun from his bag, and shooting at the beast.

Gun fire could be heard throughout the maze.

The beast looked upon them, barley flinching from the ammo.

"Hector!" Cole turned to the small boy, already building a small bomb. "Got it!" he yelled back, and through the explosive, the sound shook the maze. Cole grabbed Hector and whipped him onto his back, and started running.

The monster was stunned, and when it came too, its hunt was long gone.

~

Daisy looked around, the place she fell into was at a high point, it was like looking over the maze, but there was more than one level.

Next to her where three slides.

One leading to the misty area, its walls where high and it glow blue.

The next was more open, like small battle fields.

The last was more like waterfalls, it seemed to be more drowning.

A gigantic flame came from the battle field area. Daisy stepped forward, looking at it.

Then the sounds of gun fire echoed from the Misty area, along with an explosion.

"Cole's over there... and Rita or Gil are in the middle..." she thought.

"That explosion near him... most likely Jaylen and Hector... they found Cole at least... they should be fine, but then whoever is in the middle is all alone!" She dove down the middle slide, and launched herself into the field.

Finding a very firey person, they were just a big fire ball.

"All Right!? Whose Next!?" A boys voice echoed through the flames.

But then they started to settle, and Daisy recognized who it was, it was a very orange and burning Gil.

"Daisy?"

"Hi Gil" she said.

"You're so old"

"Shut up"

"Okay"

The two teamed up, but this area, it really was a battle field, each room had monsters, and beasts, and you had to kill them to get to the next room.

This was going to take some time...

~

Silvia Sprang down into the ruins maze.

She had popped out in a area with light waterfalls, she knew she had to find her friends to get out of here, so she took it upon herself to hunt everyone down.

She zipped around, only to find a girlish scream, and a splash of water.

Then another scream, it was slightly distorted.

She zipped over, only to see a scarecrow, and a watery looking Ryan.

She recognized Ralph right away, he was like a walking corpse.

"Boys!" she yelled "Stop Fighting!"

She broke up the fear fight, and with the three, they all teamed up, to go find everyone else.

~

Jaylen walked, scared to be... Alone.

He was in the misty area, kind of freaking out.

He walked, arms around himself, muttering to himself. Small things like "Come on Jaylen, you can do this, Hector did this... Before... I think..."

Until a red head tackled him.

"Ah!" Jaylen screamed, jumping back only to see a young Rita laughing.

"Not Funny!"

"It Totally was!"

The two small children giggled to themselves.

Then a rawer stopped their laughter.

"We should... Go" Jaylen looked at Rita.

"Yeah, we should"

And the two started walking, trying to stay away from the Beasts.

~

Emmy looked around.

She, was a large man. A large, scary man.

She walked in the maze, then into a big room.

The door slammed shut.

"Well great..." she sighed, only to turn to see a fight coming.

"Just like the Iron Forge Mines..." she pulled out a sword, and throwing stars.

"This should be fun"

The light of darkness shadowed the battle field.

And a smile graced Emmy's manly fetors.

~

Cole and Hector – Misty Area (West)

Rita and Jaylen – Misty Area (East)

Emmy – Misty Area (East) / Battle Fields (West)

Gil and Daisy – Battle Fields (South)

Silvia, Ryan and Ralph – Waterfalls (South East)

Chapter End!