A group of teenagers walking inside an dark cave with having simple fire spell on their hands and moving carefully in a narrow line for not getting seperated from others and watch each other's back. It's size enormous tunnel shaped with sky-blue crystals in shape of spikes on the roof.
Two boys at front, two girls behind them and lastly one boy with spectacles. The boys at the front walked casually but their eyes keep scanning the path ahead and sides caution. Their appearance might not look like strong warriors with muscles, but they walked confidence that they can face anything.
The girl walking behind the two boys asked them," Can't you guys walk little more faster?"
The boys turned around at the same time with annoyed look on their face and studied the girl's face who asked the question. She is sandal colour skin with pony, who's wearing an black mage robe with annoyed look on her face.
She continued "You do know our situation. Right?Noan,Ryan. My parents gonna be worried sick that i got stuck here for more than 6 hours now". The girl next to her who has been walking silent is surprised at her friend's sudden outburst of Complaints and tried calm her down.
The girl with pony tail turned towards her and asked,"you don't want to return to your parents as soon as possible.Lucia?". Lucia was also sandal coloured skin but she was wearing little expensive and green colour robe. She stopped trying to calm her friend down and slowly reached for her robe's hode with her left hand and hided her face from her friends. Small droplets of water flowed under the hode and touched the ground.The boy who was following at rear looked at the ground where the droplet fell only for an instant and adjusted his specs and he turned back to survey the rear as before.
The boys at the front saw this situation and now wearing sinister smile replied the pony tail girl,"Sorry for the inconvenience ,your highness masha . You can lead us from front if you want to walk quickly, at least maybe, who knows we may find ourselves from this labrynth".
Masha was taken back from their reply and saw the path ahead of them which looked like dark void and completely unknown what is waiting for her and felt chill run down on her spine. Masha took one step behind. she was wearing fake smile with sweats dropped like rain on her face and exclaimed with shaky voice," W- wait W-w-what?! M- me? Lead from the front?"
Noan and Ryan looked at each other's face and formed an knowing smile. Masha saw their smile and read their thoughts would be like ' we know she can't do it,no one can blame her though for fearing'.Then something turned on inside her. Suddenly ,she walked fastly past the boys into complete void with unknown face. The boys surprised by the unfolding events but it soon returned their serious face.
They watched masha who's walking towards dark tunnel like robot with shaky legs. "Pfft.." Ryan blocked the noan's mouth with his single hand who was about to laugh and he's also trying hard to suppress his urge to laugh. Lucia and the boy at the rear also watched the unfolding events with blank eyes.
One who broke the ice was lucia who was covering her face with hode ,took off her hode and said with shaky voice " Guys , she already went too far ahead of us. Let's follow her or else she may find herself in trouble". Noan sighed at lucia's words and ran towards masha. Soon everyone else followed after him.
Masha still walked like robot in a dark tunnel with her small fire spell which showed the path only upto 5 to 6 meters only and not realised her companions not following behind her .
She thought to herself as moved forward,' me? Scared? Of the dark? No way. I'll show them what I'm made of'. Then she felt an unease of silence and turned around to look her companions . But what awaited for her was only cold breeze .
Masha couldn't keep her fear in control anymore and shouted at loud,"H-hey guys? , sorry for acting like that before. Please come to me if you all are hiding and thinking of scaring me, it's not funny. I'm already scared. Ok?". All she could hear as replay was cold breeze as before. Then she suddenly heard unusual sound that she never heard before. Masha's hands starting to shake even more than before and raised her voice " I said it's not funny, guys. Come out".
At the moment, she saw several figures running towards her ,scared and started to threw multiple fire balls at every direction with eyes closed. The fire balls are stronger than basic fire spell used for light. When the first fire ball about reach her target , she saw that figures were actually her Friends. The boy at the front was noan ,who couldn't counter the unexpected barrage of fire spell in time and closed his eyes.
Then he heard loud explosion sound ,but it didn't even hurt. Surprised noan opened his eyes only to find the boy with specs using protection shield spell infront of him. Naon said with somewhat relieved sound,"Thanks for the help, levin."
Lewin adjusted his specs straight and spoke sarcastically," We are in this together afterall". Lucia and Ryan arrived after that and felt relieved by seeing everyone doing good. Masha dropped to the ground and saw her trembling hands and tears ran down her robe and raised her trembled voice " s-sorry sorry , it's my fault. It's all my fault.So S-s-orry noan".
Everyone became silent for who-knows-long
Minutes has passed. After Masha calmed downed a bit,noan came near her and stood infront of her . Masha was ready face her friend's mocking. But to her surprise, noan just gave his right hand and said," we're not going to get out of here by just sitting here", And we're also partly responsible for this situation by sending you alone at the front. I'm sorry ". She studied her all of her companions not getting mad at her but care for her well-being. She rubbed the tears on her cheeks and reached noan's hand to get up.
Suddenly all of them heard the trembling sound from above. One of the giant crystal from the ceiling fell straight on masha's head.
Next moment, Noan's head to toe splashed with blood and saw his hand holding an hand separated from masha's body which was crushed under the crystal.soon many crystals started falling randomly.
His head started to feel dizzy and passed out. Last thing he was saw his companions dragging away from Masha's body and he's holding her hand.Then everything went blank.
'How did this happen? We- we were supposed to be face anything together. How we end up in this situation' thought while his consciousness drifted away. 'Yeah, it was all started because of my stupidness'.