as they entered, they all had the same thought.
what the hell was a maze doing in the middle of nowhere.
"wait a minute"said lyra "somethings not right"she said but it was to late,just as she said this julia had stepped on a odd looking bit of grass and then suddenly the walls closed on all of them.
"what the...oh just great"said amy "how the hell,arghhhh!"shouted amy angryly
"no point complaining"said laura looking around them"the only thing we can do is find the middle"
so they walked on
"well there's only one way to go and thats foward"said anthony
"well that's obivious,lets get going"said richard as they walked down the next passage.
"well what do we do now?"said natalie
"well we can only go foward we can't exactly go back it's sealed off"said lauren
so they walked down the passage.
marios:as you can see things are going to well for are heroes but it's about to get alot worse.
"richard,would you please slow down"said julia
"yeah richard,i know we all want to get to the middle, but theres not much point hurrying we don't even know where we are going"said anthony
"you two are starting to get on my nerv..arghh!" said richard
as the wall he was leaning against had done a sudden turn taking richard with it and the wall as suddenly as it had turned went back to the way it was
"richard?"said julia
"where did he go?" said anthony
as they both shrugged they walked on.
"i think were lost"said natalie
"well thats obvious"said lauren sarcasticly
"do you hear growling"said natalie
"oh come on, don't be stupid why would there be growling in a maze not unless the maze has suddenly turned into dogs or wolves"said lauren
as she said this natalie tapped lauren on the shoulder
"what?"said lauren
and lauren could quite planely see what a pack of hungry and vicious looking wolves
"RUN!"said lauren
lauren and natalie ran for the lives natalie to a stumble over log and a wolf caught her by the leg but she punched it in the head and got her leg loose and they ran on.
"do you hear shouting?"said amy
laura stood for a minute listening infact she could here shouting, and it was wasn't very far off
"i think its close, we must be getting closer to the middle"said laura
"lets go find out"said amy leading the way then there was a sudden woosh! and something took amy higher and higher into the air
"amy?"said laura then she looked up
"what the fuck?"said laura then she to was taken.
laura woke up a few minutes later
"amy,amy wake up!"said laura
"huh, ah! oh holy cow how the hell did we get up here?"said amy
"these things, whatever they are?"said laura
"we take you, take to leader"said the bird like thing
"you can speak"said laura
"what the hell are you?"said amy
"we harpies,servant of are master"said harpy who was holding laura
"we here, see you ha ha ha!"said both harpies and they let go.
"charles, do you think we are anywhere near the middle"said lyra
"how the hell am i supposed to know, it not like i have a map is it"said charles
"alright,no need to lose your head"said lyra back
"you hestiated coming in here why?"said charles
"i think i've heard of this place"said lyra
"it's not one of your people come in but don't come back nonce is it"said charles sarcasticly
"no,this place is full of monsters"said lyra
"oh even better"said charles
"look theres the middle lets go"said charles
laura woke with a start
"amy you ok?"she said sitting up
"no,i think i broke my wrist"said amy
laura fully opened her eyes to see that amy was sitting upright cradling her wrist but perfectly fine
"im all right i'll be fine, nothing a bandage will cure"said amy
then they suddenly a noise and ran to the middle
there was a bang, a loud thud and an ouch from julia and the gang were reunited.
"well that was fun"said lauren
"well if you ask me i've had enough running around to last a lifetime"said anthony rubbing his feet chipper his daemon on his shoulder as a mouse grooming her whiskers
"everyone ok"said julia
"well i've got a nasty bite from a bloody nasty wolf that nearly killed me and lauren with a whole lot of other wolves anyone else?"said natalie
"touchy or what well i have a broken wrist, because two of those bloody bird things attacked us and dropped us about twenty bloody feet"said amy
"nows whos touchy"said lyra looking around
"the weird thing is that the bird things told us they had a master"said laura korin her daemon scanning the horizon "somethings comming, and i've got a bad feeling" he said taking his usual perch on lauras shoulder.
every daemon bristled and twitched with nerves
"i'm not liking this, not at all can we go" said liadros julias daemon
"oh no. no it's zalmire"said laurens daemon maridino nudging laurens legs with a dogs nose
"who is this zalmire dino"said lauren comming to maridinos level
"I am" said a voice