After he said that, everyone stood up and ran to find our third turn. We are running to turn left. While running, Seventh was so close to the side that I turned my back on him.
"What's the problem?" I asked.
His eyes narrowed and he grabbed his butt. "There's something on my ass," He frowned like he was in pain or what. His butt must have been hurting from the fell a while ago.
"Here," I held out my hand to him.
"It's okay, it'll go away too." He smiled at me, then he started walking and running.
At first, we all stopped running because of fatigue. It looks like we ran longer now than before. I bent down and got on my knees, catching my breath. I felt someone approaching me, it's First by the way. He was also panting, and I could even see a drop of sweat dripping down his forehead.
Third's tone of voice grew louder. We turned to where his index finger was pointing and saw a lot of black dots flying. Wait, black dots? Then we saw Seventh running, about 5 meters away from us. He ran with us a bit late maybe because his butt is still in pain.
"Run! They're bees!" he shouted while running towards us.
"Run!" they shouted.
I know that bees are scary, especially if they are in full force. There are many of them and they are in clusters when they attack but why would they attack us? Then it entered my mind that Seventh might have broken or disturbed their hives.
"Run!" only then did I shout when we were already running. My brain processed slowly.
*bbbbzzz*
"Duck!" Third ordered us. We bent down, covering our ears. It's a trend in our school that it is said that when there is a bee, cover your ears to prevent it from entering your ears.
"Ahhh!" Fourth screamed, and Aeith held her.
After a few second, we could no longer hear bees, we removed our hands and stood up.
"N-No more bees?" Fourth double-checked. Third nodded in response.
"Hey! What are you doing there? Why did the bees attack us?!" Aeith scolded her classmate, Seventh.
"When my ass ached, I clung to the beehive..." He admitted shyly.
So, that's the story behind the attack. He took something from the pocket of his tracksuit. "Here, the third card." Seventh handed it to Third.
Third took the third card. After everyone read it, he hid it for safety.
"I saw that card glued to the beehive," Seventh reported.
"Good one. Let's proceed to the next," Ninth cut the conversation out with a serious but determined face.
***
We continued walking until we turned left. With each turn we made, I am curious what will happen if we turned in the other direction and disobeyed what was written on the map.
"Be alert," the leader warned us, so we all watched every step we took.
It's just amazing but confusing at the same time because nothing bad happened to us after the bee attack incident We continued to run-walk-rest but nothing, really. This is our fourth turn. While looking around, something caught my eye that was something glowing glued to the top of the wall. I called them and pointed out the thing. And that confirmed the 4th card.
"How are we going to get that?" Fifth pondered pointing the card he was referring to.
The wall is also about 5 meters high, and the card is about 2.5 to 3 meters high, which means that two people need to climb on top of each other to get the card.
"Who is the tallest of you?" I inquired, so they all looked at me and themselves.
They lined up and we looked at them.
"It's Ninth," Sixth confirmed that Ninth is the tallest among us.
Ninth is the tallest, followed by First, Seventh, Fifth, and Third. Their height difference only matters about 2-3 centimeters.
The next thing I did was ask First and Ninth "What is the weight of you two?"
"Not fully accurate. Probably uh… 59-60 kilograms," Ninth replied first.
"63" First answered.
I don't know how they found out that, maybe some of their memories came back as well. And since they already knew why I even asked, First sat up and bent forward. Ninth sat on First's shoulder. Ninth immediately removed the adhesive card from the wall. The leader took it and showed it to us, then hid it again.
"Come on, we still have to find the 5th card," Third authoritatively commanded us. We obeyed his command and continued walking fast.
"Argh" I saw Ninth holding his right hand.
Seventh and I approached him. "What happened?"
"Stop!" He suddenly prevented us from approaching him as he blocked his left hand. "Everyone, stop walking." Everyone was stunned because of what he said.
He took a piece of a branch that he had just found at his feet and seemed to be stabbing the one in front of him that we could not see. In an instant, the end of the branch was cut off, turned black, and smoky.
"What is that?" Sixth's eyebrows furrowed.
"There's an invisible barrier that can burn an object that touches it." I frowned at what Ninth discovered.
He pierced the barrier again, and within two seconds it became visible, silver as steel. It immediately became invisible after two seconds. That's why his right hand was red. He was burned.
"How the heck?!" Seventh's hysterical question.
"My hand penetrated the barrier, and then I got burned. I think there's a time pattern when this barrier disappears." Ninth reckoned.
"Let's observe and distinguish its time pattern." Third suggested.
Because of the invisible barrier that becomes visible at a certain time, we first sat on the maze's ground to rest and waited for the result of the time pattern when we could penetrate that barrier. Ninth and First were assigned by Third to figure out that time pattern. Third will be the one to carry orders. The remaining members will be responsible for answering the riddles. Third took the cards out of his pocket and laid them on the floor.
Death throe - 2 syllables
What are the first 2 letters of the words when pronounced?
Hay - a word of greetings or expression.
Remove the H, you will get the missing letter.
Carbon and Oxygen Chromatic color that produces a pleasant harmony to a chromatic painting.
Amond is the world where amond lies.
When you touch it once again, you'll die.
Hopefully we can answer all these riddles on time.