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Raven
Ahead,I saw a crack of light as if there was a door in the distance. I’d been walking around here for what felt like hours, desperately trying to find my mates and avoid the monsters.
I was sure I’d walked past here before and I’d never seen a light. But then again, in the dark everything sort of looked the same. For all I knew, I’d been circling the same little area and finally turned a different direction.
Moving slowly, I walked toward the light. Hopefully, that meant someone got out. I wanted to know that Ben, Luka, Matt, and Zach were all safe. For a while now, I’d started telling myself that maybe they’d listened to me. Maybe they were all out of here already and that’s why I couldn’t sense them.
Maybe they were beyond that door, waiting for me to get through and join them. The thought motivated me enough for me to pick up the pace.
I moved faster, desperate to reach the light.
The closer I got, the more hopeful I felt. My chest filled with flutters of anticipation as I realized it was actually a door ahead of me. An actual way out.
This was it, I was almost done. Was I really going to finish the trials? It seemed too easy, but I didn’t want to complain. I just wanted to get out of here.
The gym was scary as hell in the dark.
Reaching ahead, I felt a doorknob. Tears stung the back of my eyes. I’d never been so emotional about a door before in my life. Being alone in the dark with just the sound of monsters screaming was enough to break anyone.
I paused, my hand on the doorknob. Suddenly, I wasn’t sure I should open it. What if it was a trap? What if it released more monsters? In all this darkness, there was only this one door.
A monster screeched again, the sounds making me wince in pain. It was worse than nails on a chalkboard. Whatever that thing was, it was terrible. I did not want to come face to face with it. Especially in the dark. Especially when all the magic I had tried didn’t work.
We were defenseless in here. And I had a feeling that those monsters wouldn’t be willing to turn on the light so I could at least know where to try to land a kick. Cause that was the only weapon I had. I could try to claw it to death, but something told me it probably had worse claws than I did.
The door was my only chance.
Holding my breath, I turned the doorknob.
A rush of air blew past me, sending my hair whipping around my face. I had to close my eyes against the bright light for a moment, then had to squint to try to make out what was beyond the door.
The wind pulled me away from the darkness of the gym, through the open door. I fought to hold on to the door handle. I needed to keep this door open, just in case the others were still in there. If I could prop it open, they could see the light.
The wind grew stronger and I lost my grip as I was dragged away from the gym and thrown to the ground.
As soon as I was on my feet, I ran back to the door, desperate to get it open. I couldn’t feel any of them. None of their magic signatures, none of their emotions. Which meant they were still in there with the monster.
I tugged on the door handle, kicked the door, pounded on it. Screaming in frustration, I shook the handle again. Nothing. It wasn’t going to budge.
There had to be another way in. I raced down the hall, hoping to find one of the other entrances to the gym. I wasn’t sure what I’d do if I got back in, I just knew I had to get to them.
I couldn’t feel any of them, but that didn’t mean they weren’t in trouble. In fact, it made me worry even more. My heart pounded and awful thoughts flooded in. What if they were already dead? What if they were hurt and couldn’t get out?
What the hell was Coach Miller Playing at by having a monster like that in there? And what was with the dark room? You’d think there’d be some obstacles and some things we could do to show the skills we’d gained here. Instead, we’d been left as monster food.
Fueled by my anger, I ran faster down the hall, stopping at any door I found that might lead to a back entrance to the gym. None of them opened except for one that was filled with cleaning supplies.
I skidded to a halt at the end of the hallway, peering out to where my classmates were moving around the school. Maybe someone out there had an answer. An idea of how to get in or a weapon I could borrow.
As I stared at the hallway, I realized something wasn’t right.
Narrowing my eyes, I studied the figures in the hall.No.No, no, no. This wasn’t right. This couldn’t be.
None of my classmates were moving. All of them were frozen in place, mid step, mid conversation, even one mid-jump. Someone had stopped time.
Like the time it happened while I was in Dr. Green’s office, I knew it wasn’t my doing. There was someone else here using time magic. Last time, Officer M had told me it was someone outside the school. Was that still the case or had someone found their way in?
