Chapter 29: Labyrinth, III

Author's Note: There are some disturbing scenes in this chapter, don't say I didn't warn you :P!

Mai Sakaguchi POV:

The black-haired boy, pointing up to the sky, said quietly, "There are two suns in the sky."

Sudden gasps of people were heard, including mine. How could there be two suns in the sky?!

"Let's turn back for now," the black-haired boy called Elias continued, "We currently have no idea for our situation--" soon after, his dark-blue-haired friend, Sean's voice was heard.

"Um, I think I've got some bad news… The door has disappeared, like totally, there's no clue of it ever existing here…" He trailed off.

The participants got shocked, and again so did I.

I started to panic, but that's not the right way to take in our current situation, right, Mai, breathe, take deep breaths.

Suddenly,

Kcha-schlap-plap

A noise was heard, something being cut, and something being spilled…

As soon as that realization hit me, I looked behind to see Michael's neck gushing out crimson liquid, and behind him, was Elijah Langston, the particular gloomy guy that had a dagger and a set of screwdrivers.

"K-kyaaa!?"

A scream was heard, from the Korean group's women.

Because of the fear, I already found myself panting.

"Hah, hah, hah…" I can't breathe properly, I can't hear anything, i-is my heart beating this loud?

"Fuck, why did you do this?!" I heard Aoi's questioning scream as he rushed towards him, evading his dagger swing and pushing Elijah down to the ground, now on top of him.

"We're in a desert here, aren't we?" He said so quietly and then continued, "Wasn't my choice the better one, we don't have enough food here, neither do we have water, so, what's the better choice?" He finished in a crackling voice.

"Wha- no that's… not…" Aoi on top of him seemed to be lost for words.

Soon after I heard some voices saying 'Isn't he right?' or something akin to that, then Elijah spoke again.

"Am I not correct? Fewer mouths to feed, more food for us, so obviously we gotta get rid of the useless ones!" He grinned.

"Kghu-" Aoi looked down to his stomach, blood trickling down his mouth, his eyes widened with shock, or should I say anger too.

"Haha, you dumb idiot, did you forget I have the screwdrivers too?" Elijah pushed Aoi, now weak from the wound on his liver, and got on top of him, stabbing him mercilessly on his body, face, chest, brain, and arms.

Terrific screams were heard at the beginning coming from Aoi, but soon after his body went limp and the only noises left being heard were the ones from the screwdriver still stabbing him.

"You fucking monster!" I heard Valen's howl as he punched Elijah in the face. Blowing him away around five to six meters.

"Oh wow, Mr. Valen, you sure packed a punch there," Elijah picked himself up, not even a scrape visible on his face. Soon after he sprinted towards Valen, like a black panther, with the dagger he picked back up.

Valen swung his fist towards him, but Elijah swirled around his body somehow that I couldn't grasp it with my untrained eyes, soon after he jumped away from Valen's body, and a second later blood came gushing out all over his arm, only for it to fall piece by piece like the cut meat of a cow.

"Kgggghhaaa-!!" an intense screech was heard, slowly, Elijah made his way back in front of Valen.

A smirk was visible on his face as he started to talk with a voice full of excitement, shivering even, "Ah, Valen, how exciting this is, to the point that it's turning me on, ahh, but well I must say…"

He grabbed Valen's hair and pulled it close to his face, eyes of a psychopath in his face, panting as he said, "May this chaos never stop."

And then a 'Schlack' noise was heard as he severed Valen's head.

Soon after, chaos was brimming all over the people around me, comrade killing comrade, unknown attacking unknown. The slaughter was unstoppable.

What is this hell, why am I here?

Fuck I don't wanna die, I wanna go home.

But there's no time for that, quick I must withdraw from here! My body was already moving backward thoughtlessly, so I was quite close to a dune's downhill, I quickly ran and jumped there.

Bluerghhhh--

I puked and I puked, after seeing all that gore, smelling all that blood, how could anyone not barf out everything they've eaten?

"Kha-Calm down, Mai, think rationally," I muttered quietly to myself.

What's the best choice here? Should I wait until they all kill each other? No, I shouldn't do that. Do I run away? No, I shouldn't run away, I don't know what things exist here.

Aghh, I am not good at thinking stuff like this, let's just go out there, if someone attacks me, I'll attack back, I have my katana on me.

Soon after I got up in the dune, after gazing at the bloodied scene, I could see three boys standing.

They seemed to be together the whole time, and trusted each other, compared to the Korean group that slaughtered one another, I noticed a silhouette hiding behind them.

I squinted my eyes, ah, it's Maki! I couldn't contain how happy I was… "Maki, Maki, thank god, thank god you're alive and well." I ran towards her, tears streaming down my face.

When she heard my voice, she sprinted towards me as well, I hugged her, I cried, and I bawled in her hold.

"Thank you, guys, for protecting my dear friend! Bwaaa!" I said with snot coming out of my nose, another wave of crying washed over me again.

The trio seemed relieved.

"Okay, now grab and do first-aid on the wounded people," I heard the black-haired, Elias, whom I called dead weight earlier, giving orders to his friends.

Schwamp

The noise of someone kicking off from the sand was heard, and the next instant, Elias pushed me out of the way.

"Ouch, what was that f—" I was about to complain, but I couldn't form any more words as I saw Elias being stabbed by Elijah, whose face and body were already distorted by cuts, stabs, and more wounds.

"Hmph!" Sean kicked him, sending him tumbling somewhere. His body went limp.

Was that his last effort to kill someone? The drive he had to kill people was what kept him alive until now, it seems.

Soon after Elias started to fall, I went under him and got a hold of him.

He was panting… "Q-quick someone, the b-bleeding, someone hurry up!" I started to panic yet again, and this guy put his life on the line for me.

"Kgh-hah," He brought his hand to my face and caressed my cheek, as his eyes already seemed to blur, he said, "I already lost you before, I couldn't risk losing you again, Layl-…"