If none of us survived.. I don’t know how this would have ended.. but at least ONE of us did…..

As we all stared into the endless maze of regret, we saw something run across the shadows. “What was that?!” and as that remark echoed louder than any echo humanly heard, at once we knew it was after us. 

                               Chapter One 

                                 Night Shift

It was night before we finished observing almost everything in the maze, but we could have spent more time on it.

“Come on guys! It's time to go, I don’t want to miss an opportunity for a cool adventure.” Little did she know what would happen during the ‘cool adventure’ that was about to take place.

“It’s so foggy,” muttered Alice in the depths of the fog. This was a big sign not to keep going, with engravings of the words “do not go any further” in an ancient language none of us could understand. Mya took notes in her soggy notebook that tore a little bit each time her pen touched it.

As she was trying to attack the barrier… the pounding in our hearts got louder because at the moment before she struck, we knew the barrier couldn’t hold.

                          Chapter Two

              Sunrise, Sunset, All the Same

In the distant sky, far beyond where we could see, the sun was rising. Alice was gone. At least we thought she was. We barely had time to think of what to do next because the barrier was broken, and at that moment came the sound of running footsteps. 

“Run!” screamed Mya while we were trying to find the way we came, we almost ran into a wall. Not long before, Alice had gotten dragged away and tossed aside, but now it was after us. Could this be the thing we saw?

Mya and I, we were still running. One fall and we were done for.

After a while the footsteps seemed far enough away that we didn’t have to run anymore. If you tried to look in front of you, it was impossible because of the morning dew mixing with the dense fog that was in our way. In no time we were lost once again after walking for about two seconds. The labyrinth was changing paths, no wonder we couldn’t go back the way we came. It was blocked!

Then I saw a sign next to me. It wasn’t in that ancient language like before, so Mya was able to translate it. 

“What the heck does that mean?! ‘Its up ahead’?”

All I could do was shrug, sweat dripping down my face. As we trekked our way through the Labyrinth, I couldn’t believe how long we had actually been in this place. I glanced up and saw the sun slightly moving towards the horizon through a tiny crack in the fog. It had been a whole day already.

After a few more minutes we found a cage. The sign said “minotaur”. But… the cage was empty! The bars were bent with scratches along each of them. Then came the sound of heavy breathing from behind us. I was too scared to turn around, but Mya wasn’t. She boldly shouted, “Whatever you are, wherever you came from-” but she was cut off from the voice of.. her father?

“Mya! Is that you?” it came from within the foggy air, and since it was night it was pitch black once again.

“D-dad? Is that you? Dad it’s me Mya!”

“Oh it really is you! Mya I have been lost in this maze for so long…” and then, in a distorted voice, her dad said “And I see you have too.”

After a series of laughter, Mya was thrown in the air and landed with a thump on the cold, stone floor.

                     Chapter 3

               The drastic night

I was next… and as he was about to drop me out of the air, my vision went black.

I woke up just in time to see Mya getting smashed into one of the walls, creating an escape. But something seemed off, almost like it was quiet. The stirring creatures were nearby and the minotaur was one of the smallest. The air was tense, and the fog was cleared in the area for now. I quickly realized the minotaur was one of the defeated. There was blood splatter everywhere. I looked around trying to sit up, and a sharp pain quickly spread up my arm. I shifted a little and then I heard a roar as the minotaur came running at me. Nothing was going to stop him. I was sure of it.

“Arghhhhh!” Mya yelled as she killed him with a metal bar lying on the ground. Realizing the cage was broken, Mya must have crawled out of the rubble and snatched it from the broken heap of scraps from the cage. The minotaur roared in pain as it dropped to the ground again. Was it finally defeated? We weren’t sure. One last blow and Mya was collapsing on the ground. I had gotten up just in time to catch her.

We both fell into blackness, a blackness we had never seen before. As there were piles and piles of what felt like bones… we both knew there was a slim chance of ever getting out.