Second Generation [Currently: 2nd Floor]

[elveraeris]

Zephire Aleera - MarZepCyan

Zephire was waiting fo the minutes to pass. She was a bit desesperate at that moment because the time was running and he had nothing to do with it. Suddenly, she realized that some kind of orb was giving circles around her.
"Hey! What is that? And more important, what are you doing?" Said Zeph as she stood up.
A few moments later she had the though that it could be an observer, so she started looking at it in a different way, and for how it was behaving, she guessed perfectly that it was the observer from Mars.
"Hello Mars! Is it you? I don't know if you can hear to me but I have walked all the ways that I found and all of them are dead ends... So we must wait for the ten minutes to pass..." Said Zephire, hoping that it was an observer, hoping that Mars was on the other side and that she could hear her.

[Lumière]

Light-Bearer Instructor and Test Administrator,
Lumière

Another 10 minutes had passed, the walls moved again. For the regulars inside it must feel like they have no time... To me however it feels like forever! "Good job at finding your teammates. To be honest, I was a little bit worried nobody would pass the test". In fact, I am not sure what excuse I should give Mr. Evankhell if he finds out my new test is killing so many regulars... Maybe he likes that... I hope. "hummm... It seems she's trying to say something. I guess I didn't tell you before, but pockets won't send information when they're inside the maze. They can only translate and perform basic functions." Lumiere picked up the knife thrown to Mars and gave it back to it's owner. Then, she turned off the screen the regular was looking at. "Your team is dead, you have failed".

[upm]

Cyan Chlor Team MarZepCyan

Cyan was having a hard time fighting the caped man. If he was fighting in the light he would have won in a second, but his current situation made him weak so it was no surprise when the man hit his leg. This made it very hard to Cyan to move around. The odds were in the man's favor when the walls began moving. The man's cape got stuck by a moving wall, dragging him across the floor away from Cyan until he could no longer be seen. Cyan collapsed on the floor. He needed to rest for his wound on his leg to heal.

[29]

Mars Phi Team MarZepCyan

Mars though it could have gone better when the walls began moving. Now the observer was kind of useless.

'Oh this is the life. Now let's see what are we supposed to do.' Then it was a short pause of deep thinking. ' Luck it is then.'

"Let's find greeny first." She said out loud. She moved the observer around Zephire to grab her attention and then she began singing Mamaia's chant.

[Arianna]

Arianna Nil'Torch Ikard, Team ReinAriIan


After walking several minutes around in the death-maze, she started lagging behind Rein and the still unconscious squid. Ian still being carried like a sack.
They hadn't talked at all during this time, and she was unsure if she would have been able to hold a conversation at all. But she were in her own world right now, thinking about what to  do, and not to do. Thoughts such as leaving the two, and just give up, did cross her mind, but was swiftly shaken away. 

A familiar and unwanted sound interrupted her silent thinking. As the walls started moving once more. Snapping out of her own mind, she became confused and disoriented. The movement of the maze seemed to close in on her, and she looked around in desperation. She dashed for what she thought were an opening, and she was right. The walls crashed together around her and left a deafening silence and ringing in her. When she looked for her teammates, it was already too late, the walls had separated them. A few feet away, where she had been standing just seconds ago, were now a solid, impenetrable wall.

Arianna stretched out her hands to touch the surface, feeling the roughness of the barrier. She then began to feel around on the wall to see if there was anything she couldn't detect, or figure out. It left her clueless, however. When the more gentle approach didn't work, she began to hit it, "HEY!" she shouted, "Can you hear me?". She waited in anticipation, for what seemed like an eternity. Then she became scared, and started hammering on the wall, yelling with the full strength of her lungs. "Say something! Hello! Please! Say something! Anything?!"

It went on until her voice became hoarse. Then she let out a big sigh, and rubbed her aching hands. The wall wasn't moving anytime soon, and she had no time to wait that long. Thus, she turned around and looked at the options at hand. Not overwhelmed, she started walking in a random direction she assumed she hadn't been coming from. She wetn into the darkness, with her baang in front of her like a lantern. She knew she was lost, and had no idea where she was heading, for all her knowledge, she could be walking in circles. But it was highly unlikely, as she turned right and left in various intervals. Hope was all that kept her going, as the loneliness started looming. 

[elveraeris]

Zephire Aleera Team ZepMarCyan

Just when she had stood up, fhe walls began to move. The X she had marked on the wall suddenly desappeared and a new way opened in fron of her.
"Oh maan! Now your observer is useless Mars..."
As soon as she said thos words the observer started to move around her taking her attention.
"Ok, I'll.follow you" Said Zephire looking at the observer as if it could understand her.
She was staring at the observer waiting for it to move.

[29]

Mars Phi Team MarZepCyan

Mars thanked every god she believed in that Zephire was willing to follow her.

'Let's see now. The *eye* was third left in the chant, so it's NE we need to go S to find Cyan.'

And she was right after taking right and right and then left, ignoring the dead end and man with the cape on the floor she found Cyan. The poor guy was on the floor looking more dead than alive.

'Now I only need to get Zephire to help him.' She thought considering at the same time her incapacity to talk to Zephire through the observer.

[Rein]

Rein, Team ReinAriIan

Rein trudged ever forward. Having not eaten for a while, and with the monotony of the maze, the weight of the cephalapodian seemed to grow and grow. When the rumbling came again, and the light seemed to dim, it barely registered. (And...was that a voice...? Uncertain.) The brawler simply moved ever forward. Ever forward... ever for...ward...

It felt like hours, even days, but it couldn't have been. There seemed to be a light up ahead. It turned into an opening. It drew closer and closer as Rein's legs moved automatically. Finally, out in the open. But are we sure? It feels like it might be a delusion. But...too tired to think.

Rein fell down, partly covered by the octopus ally, and fell asleep.

[Arianna]

Arianna Nil'Torch Ikard, Team ReinAriIan

Arianna liked the simple pleasure of solitude, not having to deal with people and her strangely bad social skills. Even tho she enjoyed it, there was limits; the dark and lonely maze, was one one thing she liked less than socializing. She walked to the rhythm of her own footsteps, and the sound of her own breathing. She was fairly certain that she could hear her own heartbeat every now and then as well.

Further challenges was the endless twists and turns, in and seemingly endless pattern, or as she came to believe, lots of loops. The most obvious annoyance, were the looming darkness, that seemed to ignore whatever laws that kept them at bay. to her, the darkness seemed to close in, despite the light sources she used.

Already having retreated to a happy-place inside her mind, the little girl were now walking on autopilot and instinct. She was gone for a good while, or as it seemed to her, hours. But eventually, she was taken back to the real world. When she looked around, she became blinded by a bright light. It wouldn't have needed to be a particularly bright light, as her eyes had adopted to the low light level of the maze, yet, the sudden flash of light blinded her as she kept on walking towards it. Unable see where she was going, her feet could on something, and she fell down, this time she didn't even scream, just dazzled and mentally prepared for a rough landing.

When she landed, she realized that she had landed on something soft. Pushing herself up, she felt the leathery, dry, yet smooth skin of some creature against the palm of her hand. While doing this, her sight slowly returned, adjusting to the light of day again. She was able to see, still a little hazy, that what she had landed on, were her two, presumed dead, teammates, Rain and a squid she still didn't remember the name of. Arianna let out a sigh of relief, finally having met them again. But her instincts stepped up when she noticed the terrible condition of Rein, apparently knocked out, and that the octopus was still unconscious. "Why else would they be lying about?" she thought. Then she got back on her feet, nimbly jumped over them and grabbed Rein's hands, trying to drag them both along. Unfortunately for her, they were too heavy to haul, she was simply not strong enough. So she had to borrow strength from somewhere.

She focused all she could while giving her all to pull them after her towards the light. The baang she had kept with her began to flicker, before getting unstable and dispersing into the air. Then she took a step, then another. She hadn't gotten very far when she felt the tiring work affect her legs. By using shinsoo to increase her strength, she might be able to pull them, but it was excruciating work. None the less, she continued. Step after step, step after step, she huffed and puffed, feeling the blood pump though her veins, feeling the taste in her mouth. She could see the exit now, and it was not far, she had made it, they had made it through the deathtrap of a test. And after several exhausting seconds, she emerged from the exit, into the fresh air if the outside. Once outside, she saw the other participants who had already made it, she saw the test administrator, and then she saw shades of grey, as the colors of the world faded away. After giving more than she was able to, she plummeted into darkness again as she hit the ground with a smile on her face.

[Lumière]

Light-Bearer Instructor and Test Administrator,
Lumière

Lumiere saw Rein and Ian unconscious on the ground close to the exit of the maze. She was about to get closer when, all of the sudden, Arianna came out and pull them both closer to the exit. It seemed Arianna couldn't see anything at first, obviously her eyes were not well trained for the change in brightness she was experiencing. As the regular got both of his teammates completely and officially out of the maze, she glanced at Lumiere before plummeting to the ground. Sweet, this scene is worthy of a movie scene. She thought. "Look at that! We have an entire team come out together... sort of." The other 3 regulars saw them in owe, but their facial expression changed rapidly as soon as they heard Lumiere's next words. "So, now that we have a winner, the race is over. I guess I should have mentioned before... Everyone who's still alive will pass the test as soon as the first team wins the race." Lumiere walked towards her light-house and touched something on the screen. The maze walls moved underground, except for a few of them required to support the ceiling. Dozens of observers moved towards the exit and shinned to call everyone's attention. "Now, all regulars come to the exit, the test is over. You have passed."

[elveraeris]

Zephire Aleera Team MarZepCyan

The observer started to move and Zephire followed it. They found a corpse but the observer didn't stop and neither did Zeph.
Suddenly, they found Cyan on the floor he was bleeding from a cut at his leg. He looked extremly pale. At first, Zephire was shocked but then reacted and tried to stop te bleeding, she shred a strip of her dress with her knife and tied it around his leg after cleaning the blood with her clothes. She was trying to her best, which was more or least like doing nothing because she barely had knowledge about medicine...
After treating Cyan's injure she grabbed his arm and put it around her neck and dragged him to follow the observer.
As soon as she ended doing it, she heard the voice of the administrator and dozens of observers started to group in a certain place, the end. She started walking in that direction, it seemed like it would take a hundred years to get there at that speed.

When she get there she was exhausted and as soon as she traspassed the end she found Mars and before she could say or do anything Zeph said:
"He's injured, we need to help him!"

[29]

Mars Phi Team MarZepCyan

Soon after the test ended, Zephire arrived with an injured Cyan. From the looks of it Zephire wasn't an expert when it came to wounds and nether was Mars. Firstly she went to see Cyan, to make sure his injury wasn't life threatening. She looked at him and realized he was human so her little medical knowledge was useless. So she immediately went to the ranker.

"Excuse me, miss, but my amazingly hip rival needs medical attention. Could you pretty please help him, with the cherry on top."

[Lumière]

Light-Bearer Instructor and Test Administrator,
Lumière


Lumiere looked at Mars Phi intensely for a second. "No problem." A Light-House flew closer to Cyan. It grew larger and 'swallowed' him. You could still see him through the Light-House walls. The Light-House took off so quick it was lost within a fraction of a second. She had to repeat the process with a few other Regulars who reached the exit. "Are you ok Zephire? Should I send you to the infirmary too?"

[elveraeris]

Zephire Aleera Team MarZepCyan

Mars asked the administrator for help and she sent a Light-House to him. When Zephire saw the Light-House flew away in less than a second she sat down and lied on the floor she saw how they were being taken with blurred eyes. Then the ranker asked her if she needed to go to the infirmary too.
"No, I think... I'm just a little bit tired..."
And then, she passed away.

[Arianna]

Arianna Nil'Torch Ikard, Team ReinAriIan

Arianna woke up face down on the floor. She rolled around and looked up at the sky with a hazy stare. Blood dripped from a cut on the side of her forehead, caused by her violent hug with the ground moments before. Her head was aching as she touched her face with her hand, and smeared blood around, but she didn't care much for it. She was relieved, finally escaping the test. 

She tried to sit up, but a slight concussion and an aching, exhausted, and sore body failed her, and she back again. There she kept still, trying not to fall asleep. Listening to the other regulars and the administrator. She wasn't in any shape to look after her two teammates, both being unconscious, yet, in a far better condition than herself. "WHOoo..." She let out a slight cheer, followed by a groan.