"Exactly what is this Maze Card?" Zed demanded of Sakura.
"It's pretty much what it sounds like," Sakura murmured as she anxiously looked around. She had needed Ms. Mackenzie to escape the card before. What was she going to do now? "It forms a maze that traps people inside. We need to try to find the exit. I can't capture it until we get out." Just then she noticed that someone was missing. "Where's Kero?"
"If you mean the flying teddy bear, it took off a little while ago. Looked like it was heading towards the kitchen," X said as he looked anxiously around the hall. Was it just him or did it seem like the walls were getting closer together?
"He picks the worst times to get hungry," Sakura muttered. If Kero had been there, maybe he would have known a way to escape the card. She already knew that the Sword Card and the Fly Card were basically useless. She looked up to find everyone's eyes on her. They were all waiting for her to tell them what to do. Little did they know that she had no idea how to handle the situation.
"Okay," she said after a minute. "We need to spread out and check the walls and see if we can find anything different about them anywhere. Just stay close together. The Maze Card always does the unexpected."
The group spread out, only a arm's reach away from each other, feeling the walls for any differences that might signal something, possibly a hidden opening or a weakness, Sakura by Zed, Jay and Kay next to Madison and Elle and X at the rear of the group.
"These walls really do seem to be getting closer together," X murmured to Elle as he ran his hands along the walls.
"X, walls don't..." Elle started to say just as the wall suddenly shuddered and a section of it shot out, knocking her off of her feet.
"Look out! The card's shifting!" Sakura cried as she dodged the rapidly moving walls with Zed following the girl.
The ground beneath Madison's feet trembled and suddenly the floor shot up, sending her into the air. Before she could get out of their reach, Kay jumped up, catching the edge of the section that she was on and pulled himself up. He grabbed Madison and dropped back to the ground again, using his body to keep her safe as they landed.
A moment later, things stopped shifting as the Maze finished reconfiguring itself into its three dimensional form. "Is everyone okay?" Sakura asked anxiously.
"Help! Get me down from here!" Elle cried causing everyone to look up. She was standing on a section of the ceiling high above their head, suspended there in defiance of the laws of gravity. She grabbed at her skirt, frantically trying to keep it from flipping over her head again.
"There's that mark again," X noted with a chuckle. "Have you ever thought about having that surgically removed?"
"Pipe down and get me down from here! I'm going to fall and break my neck!" Elle cried as she glared at her partner.
"Don't worry. You won't fall. We'll figure a way to get you down from there in just a minute." Sakura reassured her. She didn't know how they would do that though. Ms. Mackenzie had been the one to rescue Meilin from a similar situation. Just then she noticed something. "Where's Madison?"
"Come to think about it, where's Kay?" Jay said as he looked around and saw that his partner wasn't with them anymore. When the card had shifted, the two had vanished.