The 7th Warrior Trilogy - Chapter 13 The 7th Warrior Trilogy
The Beginning
Chapter 13

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" Come closer, children. Your destiny is through me." The mirror echoed.

Sakura and Syaoran edged towards the mirror slowly. There was no face, no features to even glimpse signs of betrayal.

" What was that sound we heard? That scream?"
" Come closer, children. Your destiny is through me."
" Will you quit saying that?!! Answer our questions, already!"
" If I were fully able to answer your questions, I would. However I am not fully equipped to answer the questions you ask, therefore I will be of no help to you. There is only one piece of information I can tell you: you have a choice. Choose to find another path, or choose the path I've set before you."
" Can you lie?"
" If that is your concern, then you will have to answer that on your own. I am merely here. I do not control what happens around me. My only task is to stand here as the gateway to your test. If I lie, can only be determined by my creator. If he is evil, then my purpose is for evil..."
" Makes sense..." Eriol shrugged.

Syaoran still wasn't convinced. There was something he just didn't trust about this mirror, maybe it was the fact that since it had no face, there was no way to determine whether or not it was deceiving them. Or maybe it was the way it seemed to be the only reassuring item in this room of forbidding darkness. He didn't know. But, one thing was for sure, that mirror was really creeping him out.

" I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather find another way."

Syaoran looked at Sakura in surprise.

[ Sakura, if you're saying that on my behalf, don't worry about it. I can handle...]
[ No, I'm saying it on my behalf. That mirror freaks me out, and I don't like it...]
[ Really?]
[ Syaoran, look at my face and tell me I'm lying.]

Syaoran glanced. Sakura had turned herself into a pitiful looking little kitten, and was mewing up at Syaoran. He picked her up, not exactly sure what to do. Meanwhile, the group had decided...

" We'll try to find another way."
" As you wish."

Suddenly, the mirror disappeared. Everyone looked around, as the blackness began to recede, and found to their surprise a room. To their left, in front of them, and to their right, were doors - altogether a total of 3. A voice ominous and omnipotent echoed from the rafters.

" Choose your path, continue your way. You are allowed any door, but the one behind you."
" Why can't we choose that one?"
" That will only take you one step back. The tested are not allowed a second chance. Mistakes are a part of learning."

Everyone was silent.

" Why don't we split up. There's 3 pairs of doors here, and three pairs of us. Each of us takes a different door."
" But, how would we keep in contact? We can only talk to our partners. That could only mean..."

They all came to the same conclusion at once. Splitting up, but not with their partners...

" Once we take a door, we can't go back. If we go with partners we won't be able to stay in contact with the others..."
" I say we take just one door."
" Yeah, I'd rather leave two areas unexplored then have to worry about leaving Cameron." Bert said.

Sakura opened the first door, and stepped in first, followed by Eriol. Suddenly, as Syaoran tried to enter, the door swung shut, sealing the other 4 out of new portal.

[Sakura!]
[Syaoran!]

Syaoran frantically drew his sword, and tried to flame the wood, but it was no use.

[Sakura, don't worry! I'll find you again! We'll probably meet up at the end of the course, in the meantime, keep on thinking to me!]
[ All right.] Syaoran could sense her fear.

" All right. Since two pairs are already split up, we'll split the other one up as well. This'll make sure that we're all in contact with one another. Bert goes with me, Tomoyo goes with Cameron. Got it? Now choose a door."
" K. See you on the other side."

The second and third pairings split up and took the last two doors. Syaoran felt like he had just walked through a wall of spiders, his skin felt tingly. As he exited, he found himself someplace new, a long hallway with very little light. He could solve that. Carrying his sword like a torch, Syaoran cautiously walked down his hallway, Bert following close behind.

" Cameron says he and Tomoyo are in a meadow..."

[ Sakura, where are you?]
[...]
[ Sakura?!]
[ A volcano.]

Syaoran tried not to yell. A volcano? Her powers wouldn't work well in that environment.

" Bert, get a message through to Tomoyo... to tell Eriol, that it'll be up to him to watch Sakura, because if he comes out and she doesn't..."
" I know the rest."

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Just a little short. ^^