So I just wanna make this clear I AM NOT trying to make this chapter scary it's a fun little chapter.
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Secrets chapter 9
Walking into the maze was fine at first it was dead silent and no one else around it was Kinda of an eerily setting the wind moving the corn stalks around screams could be heard from further ahead. Walking a little further they hit a cross road.
"Which one should we take?" Hilde asked
"Wanna make it more fun?" Duo suggested
"How?" questioned the others
"Split up into teams" the Burnette supplied "the first group to hit the end wins."
"The actually sound like fun." The Sandrock pilot looked excited "So what does the winner get."
"Nice pun Q-ball but I don't know…anything from the concession tent?"
"Why don't we figure that out later?" the wing pilot said "Teams are… Sally, Duo and Hilde, Trowa and Quatre and Wufei and I sound good?"
"Going leader eh Hee-chan?" the Burnette teased as everyone got into their groups
"Why are the girls all together?" Questioned Trowa
"Duo is better at navigating then us and having the other 2 on her side would give her a bit of a challenge that and if something happens Sally is right there."
"The girls already took off Heero" The blonde supplied helpfully
Doing a double take Heero indeed noticed that the girls had already took off much to the boys chagrin. "Let's get going then."
Wufei and Heero took the right path while Trowa and Quatre took the one straight ahead.
Down the left path
"Hey Duo are you sure were going the right way?" The raven haired girl asked shakily
"I'm pretty sure…"
"Did you guys hear that?" the blonde asked
It was dead silent you couldn't even hear the crickets in the corn stalks.
"No what was it?"
"It sounded like footsteps."
"I bet it was nothing come on we have to beat the guys."
"No I really heard something."
"Your being a chicken shit Sally come on."
"Duo I,-I hear it too" Whispered Hilde
"You both are being wusses. You fought in a war for shit-"
on to Heero and Wufei
An ear piercing shriek sounded throughout the maze
"Did you hear that? It sounded rather close" Wufei asked
"Probably someone got scared. There are supposed to be people running along pranking you"
So far the 2 hadn't run into anyone pranksters or not, it was rather quite dead. Walking further down the path they hit another cross rode this time there were only 2 ways to go.
"Left or straight?"
"let's go straight it would be more challenging to keep the end in one direction that way no one would get lost and people would over think it."
"Hn."
They continued on in silence going deeper into the maze when a sudden nauseating voice hollered
"HEEEERRRRROOOOO!"
On with Trowa and Quatre
"This is fun isn't it Trowa?" Quatre could feel the adrenalin running through his veins exciting him further.
Chuckling at his angels antics he nodded his head. Suddenly a scream came from in front of them And the next thing they knew they were being bowled over by a bunch of teenage girls being chased by a man in a clown mask who was laughing manically .
The Clown suddenly stopped and looked over the tall Burnette "Trowa!?"
Trowa studied the clown for a moment before recognition struck "Cameron?"
"Hey buddy long time no see"
"Yes I agree I haven't seen you since you left preventers."
"Yeah I've been doing just the odd jobs. Hey-lo Q-man how's it going?" The clown said greeting the small blonde.
"I've been doing good. What about you? Is Amanda doing good?" The blonde asked ever so polite
"Yup were both doing great" he paused looking around "but I gotta go so I guess I'll talk to you to later. We should go get some drinks later or something"
"Yes diffidently" the blonde smiled
"Have fun Cameron" Trowa called after the clown as we ran between the cornstalks.
on with the girls.
"AHHHHHHH" Shrieked Duo before bolting down the path closely followed by Sally and Hilde.
Once they were a safe distance away they stopped gasping for air and holding their chests in hopes of calming their heart rate down.
"Holy shit on a goddam popsicle stick" Hilde swore shakily "What just happened?"
"I don't know! Someone just grabbed me!" wailed Duo
"DAMMIT DUO WHY'D YOU DRAG US OUT HERE?" The raven haired girl asked with tears in her eyes
"I thought it would be fun!" The Burnette argued back "Hey wait...Where's Sally?"
"OH GOD WE LOST SALLY!"
The two looked around for the blonde doctor for a good 10 minutes and ended up getting chased by 2 clowns and a guy who looked like jig saw from saw and still found no one resembling their blonde friend.
Quatre and Trowa
The blonde and auburn haired men were pretty deep in the maze at this point there were no lights to light their way but took this as a good sign (which really it wasn't). When two figures suddenly collided with them, Knocking them down to the ground.
Groaning Quatre looked over to see what or who had hit him. Over to his left he saw Wufei sprawled out on the ground holding his head looking extremely pale.
"Wufei? But that must mean" the blonde trailed off "What happened you look as if saw Duo in one of her god of death moods."
"No time to explain got to run" Heero responded for the Chinese man while getting up and looking for more escape routes.
"From what or who?" the tall Latin asked
"Re-" Wufei began before getting interrupted by a shrill voice yelling
"HEERRO! WHERE ARE YOU!" The voice yelled "I NEED YOU TO PROTECT ME FROM THE SCARY PEOPLE! HEEERRROOOOOO"
The 2 pilots needed no other explanation. Jumping to their feet they all booked it running as fast as they could from the pink menace known as Relena Darlin Peacecraft.
with Sally
Sally was pissed. Not only was she lost but she was lost and alone. Because those dolts she was with had left her in the dust and gone a different way at a four way stop (Yes I'm using driving terms for this).
Walking further down the pathway she heard something like a chain saw. Dismissing it for a trick of the mind she continued on unaware of something following her.
END
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Arriving at a fork she decided to take the left path and continued on for a little while before realizing she was going in circles. Getting frustrated the blonde doctor stopped and looked around for anymore paths to follow. Sighing she went to take the right pathway when a hand grabbed her. Jumping a little she turned to see who had stopped her and shrieked.
Behind the blonde was a guy in a ripped black cloak, 'blood' running down his face in thick rivulets. His hands were covered in black stitches.
Shaking Sally fell to her knees while the man let go of her hand. He was shaking slightly before bursting out into laughter.
"Oh my god I don't think I've ever had that kind of reaction before…Jeeze lady did you forget that you were in a "Haunted" corn maze?" the man questioned between gasps for air.
"S-s-shut up!" she yelled unshed tears pooling in her eyes.
Once the man in front of her calmed down, he offered her a hand up. Gladly taking it she dusted herself off.
"Did you get lost?" he questioned
Blushing to the tips of her roots the blue eyed doctor nodded her head "I lost my friends when we got chased."
The man pulled off his mask and smiled at the doctor "Take the right path and keep straight that will lead you to the main part of the maze alright?"
Smiling sally nodded and said a quick thank you before turning to take the indicated path but before she could walk away his hand stopped her.
"What's your name? Mines Kyle, Kyle Simmons" he questioned
"It's Sally, Sally Po" she answered back before ducking under his arm and following the path.
girls
"I don't think were gonna find Sally, Duo" Hilde whispered in fear of someone hearing her
"Well we can't just ditch her!" argued the long haired Burnette loudly
"Shhhhhhh Duo someone will hear us" the ravenette panicked looking around frantically.
"Hilde…shut up" The Burnette nonchalantly said
"Your mean Duo" Pouted Hilde
"Ya, ya, ya come on lets go" Tugging the Ravenette along.
They walked for a few minutes before the rustlingof corn stopped them. Hilde ran up to Duo hiding her face in the smaller girls back "You heard that to right?" The two continued hopeing that it was just their imagination
"Ya" The lithe girl answered back quietly "Let's hurry up"
Quickly the two girls walked down the path side by side when Duo started feeling a bit dizzy slowing down and walking behind Hilde.
As soon as they hit a three way path a figure jumped out of the corn. A hockey mask on her face and a chainsaw all revved up in an imitation Jason from Friday the 13th.
Blood drained from Duo's face as the dizziness hit her harder. Hilde screamed unaware of her friend's situation. A tug on her arm caused her to look down. Duo was sitting on the ground with her head between her raised knees.
"DUO! Shit are you okay?" She asked kneeling down and rubbing the youth's back
Shocked the Girl in front of them dropped her chainsaw and ran up to them pulling up her mask "IS SHE OKAY?"
"Y-yeah I'm fine j-just dizzy" Came the breathless reply
Hilde looked up at the youth above them and nodded her head "Yeah she'll be fine in a minute"
The young girl sighed with relief before crouching down "That's good. Do you need a hand out of here? Your friend doesn't look like she can make the rest of the maze"
Hilde thought for minute before deciding to ask the lightheaded girl "What do you think D do you want to continue or get out?"
"Out" was the whispered response she got before relaying it to the young girl crouching down before them.
"Okay" The girl let her hood fall back reveling long dark brown hair with light purple tips "Do you need a hand getting her up?"
"Yes please the sooner we get her out of here the better" smiled Hilde before holding out her hand "I'm Hilde and this is Duo"
"Brittany" The young girl said accepting the hand before her and giving it a quick shake.
Getting Duo on her feet proved to be a challenge but together they had managed it. Brittany quickly ran up to her chainsaw and grabbed it before leading the two young adults out of the maze.
"Are you doing okay back there?" She questioned
By now Duo was able to stand dizziness gone and replaced with a want to sleep "Yeah it's all good"
"That's good you gave me a little bit of a scare." The purple tipped girl said turning to look back at them "I THOUGHT I MADE YOU DROP" She joked
"Yeah I guess not eating does that to you"
Hilde stopped walking at her admission and glared at the braided one "You didn't eat before we left!"
Blushing Duo stumbled out her reasons "I was just excited that everyone was coming and I guess I just forgot to eat" She paused before adding a quick "Sorry"
"Sorry doesn't cut it Duo your pregnant you just can't go on forgetting about that kind of stuff" realizing she was yelling Hilde took a deep breath before continuing in a softer tone "You got to think about the baby now"
"I know" the young adult grumbled
A cough reminded them of the teenager leading them out. "Not to be rude but you shouldn't be in here if you're pregnant. If you or your baby got hurt while in here you could sue the owners of the ranch and so we discourage anyone with health problems or are pregnant to avoid entering the maze"
"Yeah I know I just wanted to have some fun." Pouted Duo before they continued on and surprisingly no one came after them.
As if reading their minds Brittany quietly informed them "The pranksters know me by my chainsaw so they won't be coming after us any time soon"
"Oh okay" they said in unison
"Jinx you owe me a pop" Squealed Duo
"NO FAIR DUO!" Screeched Hilde causing the prankster to laugh.
"Oh god you remind me of my sister and me" The girl laughed
"You have a sister?" the ravenette questioned
"Yeah a twin sister. She's working out in the concession tonight"
"Is it cool having a twin?" former street rat spoke up this time
"Sometimes but most of the time she's a pain in the ass" Huffed the brunette
"Really I always thought it would be so cool having a twin" Hilde giggled "What's her name?"
"Crystal"
"Cool… Hey random question!" Duo shouted excitedly "Do you feel each other's pain?"
Sighing Brittany turned around "No we do not and before you ask we cannot read each other's thoughts either."
"Well that sucks"
Guys
"I think we lost her" Panted the blond
"Are you sure Quatre?" The Nataku pilot asked
"No?" It was more of a question then an answer.
The four of them had run a good 5 minutes before stopping to catch their breath.
"Come on let's get going…I wonder how the girls are doing" The blonde said absentmindedly before following the others.
"Right or left" called the tall Latin to on one in particular.
"hmmm lets go right this time" the Chinese man decided
They all agreed and walk towards the right path. The silence surrounding the 4 men was an slightly uncomfortable one which lasted for a good few minutes.
"One, two Freddy's coming for you. Three, four better lock your door." The ex-pilots stopped in their tracks once the song began" Five, Six grab your crucifix. Seven, Eight better stay up late. Nine, ten never sleep again!" A teenage girl with a clawed hand, fedora hat, Red and green stripped hoodie and "burnt" skin jumped out of the corn straight at Quatre successfully scaring the blonde CEO.
The Sandrock pilot took off running only to trip on someone's shoe sending him tumbling to the ground.
Seeing the blonds decent to the floor the young girl with the claw laughed…really hard.
"Oh man that was great I have never gotten a response like that before" the girl said between laughs her short brown hair falling into her face as she bent down trying to catch her breath "I SO WISH I RECORDED THAT!"
"Ummm who are you?" the blonde on the floor asked
"A prankster my good man" the girl replied joyously. "Who else?"
"I am so gonna kill Maxwell" The black haired man said holding a hand to his chest feeling his heart beat wildly in it.
"Don't even try it Chang" Yuy deadpanned
"I'm pretty sure that she can still kick your ass Wufei" Trowa was helping Quatre up off the ground
"Sounds like quite the person" commented the imitation Freddy Kruger.
Wufei turned to look at the small girl before glaring "Why are you still here?"
The girl gapped "RUDE MUCH!"
"WUFEI!" scolded Quatre before turning to the girl "Sorry about him miss…"
"Oh it's Crystal and don't worry about it" smiled teen. "He looks like he has a stick up his ass anyway."
"BRAT!" Yelled Wufei at the Burnette as she ran back into the corn.
"Have fun" was the last thing they heard from her.
Silence was back again before Heero broke it "Well that was interesting"
"Interesting Yuy, more like stupid" Grumbling quietly "Just like Maxwell"
"You don't have to be such a spoil sport Wufei"
They continued on for a little bit before they suddenly got trampled by a group of teenagers screaming bloody murder being chased by the same girl that had scared them a few minutes ago.
Sally
Walking the dark path in front of her sally kept an eye out for her friends and pranksters. Feeling quite miserable she just walked on.
/I'm defiantly going to kill those two especially Duo for dragging me out here/ though the young doctor. A rustling of corn had her stopping in her tracks. Frustration and a want to get out of the maze had Sally yelling "IF YOUR COMING TO SCARE ME TURN RIGHT AROUND BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE SCARED ANYMORE I AM SICK AND TIERD OF THIS FUCKING MAZE!" (1)
Hearing the foot prints get a distance away she continued on with a smile.
It took sally about 15 minutes of dogging screaming people and pranksters before getting back into the more lighten paths. Smiling to herself she followed her ears listening to the screams ahead of her. After about 7 minutes and 2 more pranksters she reached the end. Chuckling she headed over to the fire pits and concession stand to wait for the others.
girls
"Are we there yet?" Questioned the pregnant Burnette
"GOD DUO SHUT UP!" screeched Hilde.
In the five minutes they had been walking Duo had probably asked that question around 12 times and it had begun to get on Hilde and Brittany's nerves.
"Were almost there so it shouldn't be much longer" Grimaced the teen.
"Good because I'm hungry"
"Your always hungry Duo"
"Ya so?"
"How do you never get fat?!"
"hyper-insulinism and a fast metabolism"
There was a pregnant pause before the prankster spoke up "Hyper wha?"
"It's a medical condition that's kinda the opposite of diabetes. Instead of not enough insulin I have too much so I have to eat a lot to help it."
"That is really weird D"
"HEY is not Hilde!"
"IS to"
"Not"
"TO"
"And look were here" the girl interrupted the two friends in their squabbling.
"Oh already well thank ya Miss Britt" The long haired Burnette smiled.
"Yes thank you Brittany"
"Your welcome" The teen replied before towards the concession.
"Shall we go to the fires?" suggested the raven haired girl.
"Ya I'm a bit cold so why not but first to the concession!"
As the two sat at the pits reclaiming their lost warmth a thought popped into Duo's head that she decided to speak aloud.
"Hey Hil does this mean we've won?"
Hilde sat there contemplating "Well" she started off slowly "There wasn't any rules about getting help so yup we won."
The two friends shared a devious smile the fell into a compatible silence as they watched the flames of the fire burn and dance when a hand clamped down on their shoulders and a voice whispered in their ears.
"Why fancy meeting you two out here I thought I had lost you two."
Hilde and Duo both turned around to see Sally in all her furry.
"Hey Sal we're really sorry"
"Ya Sally we're sorry"
There was a hellish glint in her eyes that withheld a promise of pain later.
GUYS
"Left"
"Right"
"NO were going Left!"
"So who do you thinks gonna win?" The tall Latin questioned the Japanese man beside him.
"Hn"
The former Sandrock and Nataku pilots were arguing about which direction they were gonna go while the other two sat back and watched. Having enough of the argument Trowa started walking towards the path leading right. Heero right behind him.
The lithe blond gapped at the expilot of the heavy arms. "Trowa you traitor" he huffed as he followed the man.
With a few more turns, pranksters, screaming people and one missing shoe the four men finally found themselves at the end of the maze.
"Finally" the Chinese man exhaled
"Hn. Do you think the girls are out yet?" the four looked around before deciding to go hit the pits.
"Well we never decided on a meet place" Murmured the emerald eyed man.
"True" hopped Quatre (He's the one with the missing shoe) "Well hopefully their at the fires."
As they walked on they passed the concession where they saw the girl dressed as Freddy Kruger getting yelled at by some other girl dressed as Jason the people around them seemed to be getting a kick out of the Freddy's misfortune. Nearing the pits Quatre and Heero spotted the familiar braid and blond sitting by the fires. Smirking devilishly Quatre slowly and silently walked crept up towards them. When he was barely a foot and a half away Hilde grabbed him from behind and yelled "BOO!" causing the three young adults to jump.
"Holy shit Hilde didja have to do that?" Yelled the braided Burnette putting a hand against her chest feeling the erratic heartbeat. "I think you just killed Quat"
It was true Quatre was just vibrating, eyes wide and then he fell down. After a second he shouted "Why does everyone do that to me"
Hilde, Duo and Sally just laughed
"You're an easy target Q-man" Duo choked out." And never sneak up on an L2 street rat"
"Sorry Quatre but you know their right" Trowa came up behind his blond and helped him up, Heero went beside Duo and gave her a quick kiss while Wufei just stood beside the fire.
"So didja have fun guys?"
There was various responses to the innocent question some good, others bad and one just sexist.
"Good to know because I was thinking if you guys want we could hit the haunted house…After us girls collect our prizes of course" Hilde coursed cheekily
"Right" Heero sighed remembering their bet "So what do you guys want?"
The girls looked at each other "pie?"
"sounds good to me"
"Me to"
"Alrighty lets go get some pie"
The group of seven walked away from the fires and to the concession they were glad that there wasn't many people in the line ups so it wasn't long before they were at the front.
"hey o what can I getch ya?" smiled the freddy kurger girl before yelling and pointing at Wufei. "AHH it's the guy who has a stick up his ass"
At the young girls admission the three girls laughed and someone came up behind her hitting her on the head. "Owww what the hell" she whined looking behind her.
"You do not say things like that to our costumers" Growled the young women. "Its bad enough that your sister chewed me out for you going in the maze tonight"
"Fine okay I'm sorry now what can I get you?"
"3 slices of pumpkin pie please" Quatre smiled
"Okay so 4.50 please"
The guys handed over 1.50 each and gave it to the lady who yelled out their order and not even a minute later the three women got their pie. They were turning to leave when a familiar voice stopped Hilde and Duo in their tracks.
"Ms. D I'm done my break. Oh hi Duo, hi Hilde did you find your friend alright?"
"Oh ya hi Brittany yes we did thank you." Hilde laughed as Sally glared at her and Duo.
"Hehe ya…Hey is that your sister you were telling us about?" Duo quickly changed the subject .
"Yup this is the trouble maker" the female "Jason" pulled the "Freddy" over to her "This is crystal"
"Hiya sis so did ya meet some new friends?" The younger girl laughed shakily before trying to sneak away "Why don't you stay here and chat with them while I go back into the maze"
Brittany grabbed her twins arm and glared "No"
"Awww why not." The younger whined
"You started a fight yesterday with three military men. We don't need you getting hurt again. So you're staying here."
Crystal glared back eyes full of fire and rage "THAT WASN'T MY FULT. Fuckin bitch" She yanked her arm back then stomped away yelling "IM TAKIN MY BREAK"
The group watched the sisters amused at the younger ones actions. Brittany turned back towards them with a sigh "Sorry about that. She just Kinda pissed at me right now."
"Nah it's okay but we better go so I guess we'll see you around"
"Ya sure"
Conversation ended the group left the tent and walked towards the lighted path towards the haunted house in silence.
The house wasn't that bad not as good as the Corn maze though a prankster got Sally pretty good. The house was an old Victorian style ranch house that had broken windows and creaky wooden floors and doors. The people running it would let one group in then 2 minutes later let another group go so you knew where the people were coming from the scare you but all in all the pilots, Hilde and Sally had a great time.
By the time they got back to the SUV Hilde, Duo and Quatre were exhausted. Heero got the role of driving while Wufei sat up front. Three girls claimed the middle seats Leaving Trowa and Quatre with the back.
They got half way back to the city by the time Hilde and Duo crashed leaning up against one another, Sally was looking at the book Quatre was reading on the way down, Quatre was fighting to stay awake and Heero and Trowa were as quiet as ever. Wufei was finally happy that he got some peace and quiet.
TBC…
Well another chapter is done please tell me what you think. A review helps fuel the inspiration for the story just remember that.
I talked to my friends about their experience in the maze and well their mom did this once.
