Ok, heres chapter 3 AT LAST. Written entirely by Elena, not me. I'll give her a break and write the next one! It was so late to be posted cuz she e-mailed it while I was in Kentucky, so i couldn't post it off the hotel computer, and by the time i'd gotten home, i'd forgotten all about it :'( till she reminded me!
Elena says her stories will be updated soon, and hugs for everyone!
The-Daughter-of-Evil: you changed your pen-name :O and confused my innermost lack of organization! (however little sense that made...) TVF 2 and Onyx both updated in 1 day! Yeehoo!
Amy-xoxo: Thanks so much! :D we're trying to update quickly, not going so well at the moment :( but keep waiting, theres more to come!! :D xo
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-"The Auquatic Maze is in fact nothing more...than an aquatic maze." Vanez stated. "It's a maze that slowly will be filled with water. In fifteen minutes the water will reach the roof, and then you're dead."
-"So, all I have to do is find the way out before I drown?"
Mika was slightly disappointed. This trial seemed to depend almost entirely on luck, he had no use for his sword skills nor his vampiric strenght. It would only be a matter of what turn he chose.
Vanz saw his student's mood drop.
-"It isn't so hard as it seems, there is a way to do everything. You just have to concentrate and make a virtual map in your head, so you know where you are and where you have to go. Let's go and practice..."
For the next six hours Mika practiced in a little fake maze Vanez set up. He also found out about the rock that he would be dragging around to make the trial even harder. After coming to the same dead end three times in a row the young vampire was close to giving up. This was much harder than it seemed, everytime he tried to make a map such as Vanez told him it just disappeared after two or three corridors.
-"Don't get so depressed, you want to make this trial or what?" Vanez constantly triggered, threatened our encouraged him. "You know you can do it!"
Mika closed his eyes and tried to remember were he was. This corridor was the first turn to the left and then left again. Before him was a dead end, so now he had to go back and go left again at the first split. He turned and hurried back, dragging the heavy stone with him. Time was important. When he came to the split he turned left and soon found another split with three corridors.
He took the one most to the right and continued. After a while he came to a split again, and took right. After one turn he came to a dead end, and when he tried to memorize what turn he needed to take now his brain just went blanco.
Did he have to turn left now, or was it right? And the last threesplit, did he take the corridore to the right or in the middle? Vanez looked expectingly at him, and Mika felt like choking. He would never learn this in time...he would drown and die in his very first trial. How ironic.
Vanez understood his student was lost and sighed.
-"You are going to die at this rate boy. You really need to concentrate..."
Mika suddenly couldn't take anymore.
-"It's not so damm easy!! I do concentrate, but I just can't keep all this in mind! It's impossible!"
Vanez looked at him with his one eye and suddenly his hand hit Mika right in the face. The young vampire almost fell backwards in surprise, and slowly looked up at his tutor.
-"You concentrate or you die. That's the rule, and you will have to follow it. Learn that lesson Mika, and don't start whining like a child again."
Mika felt his face ache where Vanez had hit him, but he ignored the pain and sighed, knowing his tutor was right. He was acting childish, and the world of vampires was no place for children.
Then suddenly the face of Arian Welver came to his mind. The Prince laughed at him, clearly showing his contempt, and Mika felt the strenght return to his legs.
He had made a promise to everyone, and he would not break it by failing his first trial.
-"Let's try again..."
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While the sun rose over the horison and made the sides of the mountain glow in red and gold, slowly lighting the world to a brandnew day, the home of the vampires was darker than ever. Everyone was asleep.
Except for one shadow that hurried through the corridors, towards a hall deep down in the mountain. Tomorrow night, it would be crowded with exited vampires, watching the first trial of young Mika. But if the shadows plan worked out, it would also become his last.
The gate opened without a sound, but the shadow made a halt. Someone was inside, he could hear breathing. Darkness was so compact it was impossible even for a vampire to see anything, but the shadow relaxed. The breathtakes were slow and calm, whoever was inside the hall was sleeping peacefully.
The shadow creeped further into the hall, towards the maze that was constructed for tomorrows trial. The four doors in the corners of the maze were oiled, and didn't make a sound when he opened them. The shadow took a bottle from his clothes, and poured the liquid over the painted crosses that marked the way out. The markings faded away where the liquid touched it, and soon there were no crosses left.
Carefully the shadow painted new crosses, on the exact places were the last ones had been. When he was finished, you could not see any difference. But there was. The markings on the doors had been painted with a colour that didn't react on water, but the paint that the shadow had used were not that safe. At first contact with water, the crosses would disappear. And so would all hope for Mika to find a way out.
The shadow grinned and turned around to leave the hall. He almost fell over the other person that was in the Hall, but regained his balance just in time. The shadow looked down at the sleeping vampire at his feet.
What a coincidence. It was young Mika, curled up beside the heavy stone tied around his waist by a rope. He was deep asleep, not knowing that the person that wished to see him dead stood before him. It seemed like he had been to tired after training to make it back to his room.
The shadow stood like that for a while, staring at the young boy. Then he suddenly turned and hurried away, as if he couldn't bare looking anymore.
Outside the sun rose further on the sky, but inside the mountain there was nothing but shadows.
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Go Mika!! (waves Kurda's pink pom poms)
xoxo, Roxy and Elena!!
