Coming off the mountain was a great deal easier, almost like a slide, by the time
they came down it; it was nightfall, so they sat camp and went to sleep. The next
morning they all woke up with the sun. Well Carl did, then he woke up everyone
else up, but with much resistance. "Not yet mommy, just a few more." said
Frances half asleep. "Oh, look." said Matt "Tea and toast." At this Frances jumped
up, "WHERE?" she requested. "Wow that was easier then I thought/" said Matt
now looking at Damian's sword. "When are we getting any swashbuckling
weapons?" asked Matt now swinging the sword around. "I don't know, probably
at the next obstacle." said Carl finally uncertain of something. "Oh, look, the great
leader doesn't know something, what will we do?" asked William scornfully.
"What we will do is keep our negative thoughts and comments to ourselves." said
Frances getting up and looking angry. "Yeah, I haven't heard any good ideas from
you!" said Lyndsey "Leave him alone, if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't be here,
you can go on your own from now on if you truly can not handle someone out
spotlight you!" she added now heated. Carl looked at them both with an inquisitive
face, he thought for a moment 'Lyndsey as getting awfully mad at such a little
thing, why?' "That's enough!" said Frances getting up. "Yeah, Carl would not
want us to fight, especially over him." said Yeliah. "Oh, shut-up you b-" started
William but Damian cut him off "Don't you dare!" He said grabbing his swords
handle. "You're not going to pull that out on me? You don't have it in you!" said
William looking at him pitifully. "Oh don't I?" alleged Damian then pulling it out.
Before this, Carl thought William would go too far and be taken away, but he saw
Damian was very serious.
"Stop! Now, all of you, Damian if you use that sword, you will be taken
away, and kicked out of the group. William if you ever say anything mean or rude
to or behind anyone's back, I don't care if it gets me in trouble you will no longer
play this game." said Carl, now up and ready for a response. "Is that a threat? Is
that a threat! You don't have a violent bone in your body, and even if you did,
you could never take me." William called back at him. Carl then fell on his knees
and started to mutter something under his breath, he got up grabbed Damian's
sword, he twirled it very fast over his head, and then he spun it twice by his side,
then brought it back behind his head, pointing at William in stabbing position. "If I
truly wished to swoop down to your level." he said then gave back the sword to
Damian. Then he added "Let's go." Everyone without argument followed him,
either out of respect or fear.
For long miles, hour after hour, what seemed like ages, they were
walking on the same old rock with very little grass terrain. A long the way they
had conversations, Damian and Yeliah were really hitting it off, William tried to
make more of his moves, but Lyndsey was in deep conversation with Carl.
Mathew talked to Frances about his skateboarding and Frances talked about her
church. Damian told Yeliah of his fear of hamsters. Yeliah then told about her love
for millions of dollars. Carl told Lyndsey about his desire for a Nobel Prize, and
Lyndsey shared her longing for true love.
The journey was long so they had lots of time, to do anything, share their
life stor- ok maybe not that long, but you get the point. So after actual hours of
walking, they reached their destination. The sun was setting, when they got to it,
and when they were in front of it, they had no clue what it was. It was like a
shining crystal, it gave off a reddish-pink glow, and there was a confused hubbub
as the group walked up to it, at about 7 feet away they stopped. Except for
Matthew who kept walking, he went to about 2 feet away and would have kept
going if it wasn't for the fact that it then exploded.
It exploded into every color; this display transformed the crystal like
object into an oval shaped door. The door had no handle; instead the side was like
an electricity bolt circling fast. The interior was all the colors of the rainbow,
being sucked into the middle of the door. Matthew and the others just stood there
in wonder, not only the little show they just saw, but the wonder of where the door
lead. Hypnotized by the object in front of them, Matthew started walking towards
it! Inches away from it he was all of a sudden just sucked in it. Frances ran
towards it, in attempts to save Matthew, but this only caused her to be sucked in
also. Lyndsey ran in after her, which made Carl run in, William also went in after
her. So Yeliah and Damian thought they had no choice but to jump in also, so they
did.
The whole group was then flying down a rainbow florescent tunnel
towards what could be their doom? None of them were sure, but of course when
you're flying down tunnel in a crazy game; you don't really have the time to think.
Going threw the tunnel seemed to last hours, perhaps because they were
disoriented or expected death, but it had only been seconds. Finally they saw the
end, it was not the white light they expected, it was actually it was dark space,
literally, it was space, they flew threw the little door less door, into open space,
they saw only stars and the black of the universe. They all thought 'Oh great we
went to the wrong place!' So they started to turn to go back, at least try, but the
portal was gone.
In its place was a large sphere shining very brightly, surrounding it was
thousands of little spheres only around the side, neither on the top nor bottom. The
big sphere was about the size of the sun, and it had two curved pointed beams of
light coming out of either side. "Wo-o-ow!" said Frances with her jaw dropped.
"Oh man! We are in trouble, where are we?" asked Matthew quite scared, but still
awed. I have no idea, I don't even know if we are in Univista any more." said
Carl, still trying to pull everything in. Then from out of no where, in front of them,
there was a flash of blue, and then some blue sparkles shot down revealing a little,
what appeared to be silver wood, plaque. Here is what said;
GROUP LEADER READ OUTLOUD
(so Carl did)
Dearest game players;
This is the second obstacle, there is no path for you to tread off of, but I
suggest you stay as close as possible to the Shadith Star; it is the only place where
oxygen is available. You must go around the star, while doing so you will face 5
challenges, now pay attention because I'm only going to write this once; #1 The
easy atoms, 2. The Tsnew beam, 3. The Spiral suns, 4. The Tsnea beam, and finally
the black hole. Once you pass all of these you will be back in Univista, good luck.
Hint: Use your head and not your heart.
Cordially, Queen Celestial
When Carl finished this, the plaque burned away with black fire, "Oh,
that's like the one we got for the dreadful forest." said Matt. "Oh yeah!" concurred
Frances. "Well lets get it over with." said Carl, they all started drifting threw space
going around the "Shadith Star" It didn't take long before they already saw
something. It was hundreds of little foot sized balls, from where they were the left
sides were red, and the right blue. Each ball was about 1½' away from the 4 other
balls surrounding it. "I think we have to jump on them to go threw." said Carl,
"No way," said Matt "We've been floating this long, we can keep fl-" As he
started floating over the balls, something struck him down, like gravity. Luckily he
grabbed one of the balls, "Yup these are defiantly the 'easy' atoms." said Carl
jumping on an atom and helping Matt up. They all started jumping threw, a couple
times a person fell, but the worst case was when Frances was competing in a race
against Yeliah, they were jumping on one foot and Frances slipped, but Yeliah
caught her by one hand, her and Damian helped Frances up.
After about 20 minutes, they finally were done with the easy atoms. As
they keep floating, they felt a slight pulling feeling, and then they saw it a huge
curved pointed beam coming out of one side of the sun. "This must be the Tsnew
beam." said Carl now speedily flying towards it, him and every one else. "Oh my
God! It's sucking us in!" shouted Lyndsey. "Thank you Captain Obvious." called
back Matt. Then when they were close enough they heard a choir of people
singing something, it sounded like this;
♫♪Around and around you will go, where you'll stop nobody knows, do
not boast, for you'll see what you fear most, we can say, you just may. ♫♪
They started to spin around it as fast a tornado. It was right they were
going around and around, Carl looked around and saw everyone was dead! He
couldn't believe it, all his truest friends wouldn't be there for him, he couldn't
finish the game without them, it was as he feared. 'Just wait' he thought 'as I
feared' then he remembered the song 'what you fear the most' 'I know this ISN'T
real!' then he was sucked out, he was back outside the beam, he was the only one,
so far, or he hoped so far. Back inside the players were facing there fears as well.
Matthew was in shock as spiders of all sizes were crawling on him, he even
coughed one up. While Frances was in a battle with the devil himself, Damian was
running away from an army of hamsters. Yeliah was also seeing spiders all over
her. William was in a room with homosexual men, and Lyndsey was dying
painfully, very painfully.
Carl was outside still waiting, 'Oh my God! Will they ever figure it out?'
'Umm what can I do?' 'Stars are destroyed when they…. get to big!' 'But how do
I force it to grow?' 'I can't. Maybe I could use telepathy, no that's imposs-, just
wait, being in this game is impossible, obviously nothing here is impossible' He
then concentrated and shouted in his mind; 'GUYS, IT'S AN ILLUSION, GET
OUT OF THERE, DON'T BELIVE IT'S TRUE, IT'S A LIE!' Seconds later
Damian came out, followed by Yeliah, then Lyndsey, then William, then Frances,
and finally Matthew. They all stated how they heard a voice telling them it was lie,
except for William who said he was just smart enough to figure it out.
They then ventured out again, after a while of floating, which was spent
sharing about their recent experiences. They reached the next challenge; this one
wasn't attached to the star. It was a sphere around twice the size of a human,
beside it was another exactly identical. They were joined by a figure 8 ray of light.
At first they were perfectly still, but as they started going by them, they started to
spin, slow at first, then faster and faster and faster. They were spinning so fast
now, waves of heat shot out of them, it was so hot some members got 1st degree
burns.
"Ahh!" shouted Matt as his face on the left side turned florescent pink. Carl
then felt a weird sensation in his stomach a tickling, and then he threw up, him and
3 others. The rest got headaches, but by the time they were surprisingly able to get
out of there, they had all experienced all 3 bad things. Nausea, headaches, and
burns. Matthew got the worst burns, so Damian pulled out some Aura Lafalas
powder and was able to ease the pain. After about 20 minutes of agonizing
floating they reached the next challenge.
It was the second curved beam, "The Tsnea beam," said Carl "careful-"
but it was to late, they were once again being pulled towards it, once beside it,
they once again started spinning around it, so fast it was like they were all in white
rooms. Then they heard that familiar choir;
♫♪ Around and around you go, will you past nobody knows, unless you let
go of hearts desire, you will live forever in the fire. ♫♪
"Oh man, they'll never past this." Carl said, but then a white light hit him.
He then woke up… he was in a hospital bed, Lyndsey was sitting beside him, she
was at least 30, when she saw him she was so happy she told him how the plane
crashed on the way back and for the last 20 years he had been in a coma, and how
he is to receive a noble prize, his most desired gift, he was going to the ceremony
when a sign directing a fork in the road said; presentation hall and friends he
stopped to figure out what it meant, when he saw carved in a tree;
gl jlu
nass qus
a uran
xkw dklt
uoqs
fakmawmi
xkw ari
tqsi
sulv
He read this and said; "She's right" then he turned around and was
back in space again, Frances was already there, she said she saw Jesus, said a
prayer and left. Back in the beam; Matthew was skating as a pro, with other pros.
Lyndsey was having a true love relationship, William was in a hot tub with
Lyndsey, Finally Yeliah had a million dollar cheque. "Shopping!" she shouted,
"Just wait, oh man, this isn't made out to me, it's for a person named CASH. To
bad." she said sighing, and then jumped out into space. William was having a
great time with Lyndsey until he put his arm around her and it went through her.
Damian was next to come out, Carl asked him how he got out, he whispered
something and Carl grinned. Lyndsey finally came out, when she asked, she said,
"The person in there wasn't like the real one."
Then they waiting for Matt, but before he came out the choir started again;
♫♪Your friend Matthew hasn't resisted his heart, he dove right in like a dart, you
will never see him again, until you beat the game, no friend. ♫♪
They all were sad, some didn't show it, but they all were. Despite their
sorrow they kept going, they once again faced the easy atoms, which meant they
had already circled the whole star. They got to the last challenge; A Black Hole!
Carl merely said, "Go behind it." They did and somehow made it, then they
looked ahead and saw it, something they wanted to see more then ever now; the
rainbow portal, they went through, and oddly, they felt excruciating heat.
