"So how are we gonna do this guys?" Joey asks.
"Why don't we just walk and hope we get lucky?" Alison replies and starts walking down the path in front of us.
"Can you guys use your telekinesis to scan the area in front of us for traps? I don't have it yet so I'm not sure how it works." I lokk hopefully at Joey and Alison.\
"Yeah. I got it covered."
"Joey doesn't even have to concentrate to do it. He must be strong for his age." I think to myself.
We make a right turn and then a left before Joey stops us,"Hey, there is something up ahead. I'm not sure what it is. Every time I try and focus on it I get a pain in my head."
A screeching sound suddenly stars from nowhere and we try to cover our ears to stop it.
"It feels like my fucking eardrums are going to burst!" Screams Alison.
Joey's face is all screwed up in concentration. The sound slowly quiets and the wall besides us explodes.
"Got it!" He smiles and chuckles.
"What did you do?" I ask.
"Used my sound manipulation to cause the screech to turn inwards on the speaker in the wall. It won't bother us anymore." He smirks proudly,"I always thought it was a useless legacy, but I guess not."
"Let's just try to find the next level." Alison wipes tears from her eyes.
It doesn't take long before we manage to find the stairs. Hopefully that means we are just lucky, or it could mean that we are close to meeting the other if they moved just as fast.
"Awesome! That was too easy. Let's go guys!" Joey shouts as he runs up the stairs.
"Hey man... Be careful. What if they hear us?" It is a definite possibility.
"They won't Adam. Calm down. If they had heard us the-" He is cut off as he goes flying down the stairs. He lands on his back between us with a dazed complexion.
"I think I found them guys." He rasps out. His nose looks broken. I kneel down and place the healing stone on it. The blood quickly stops as his breathing speeds up. I can see the cartilage in his nose readjusting itself and moving back into place. He opens his eyes and stands up.
"Those fuckers are done for!" He charges back up the stairs and we follow him. We see Belle in the hallway at the top of the stairs. She teleports right before Joey hits her and he runs into the metal fist of the spiky haired boy.
The boy laughs. "The idiot broke his nose the same way.
The wall to my right starts to melt and a hole opens up and I can see the 17 year old girl with a ball of liquid metal in her hand. She solidifies it and chucks it at my head. It is stopped before it makes contact and goes flying at the spiky haired boy, to his surprise, hits him in the gut with a clang, and goes flying into the wall behind him. I look behind me and see Alison slugging it out with Belle and I charge them with as much force as I can. I knock Belle to the ground with a bang, and she appears to confused to react as I punch her right in the face. She is out for the count. Joey having recovered by now, is in combat with the 17 year old girl. The temperature around her is so hot that heat ways can be visibly seen. Joey is sweating up a storm and is looking tired and confused. The spiky haired boy is no longer in the wall down the hall, he sends an electrical surge down the hallway straight for Joey. He is stopped mid-swing and starts to convulse. The girl he was fighting turns and runs. She and the boy disappear around the corner. We rush towards Joey who is laying on the ground unconscious.
"Joey... Joey! Are you okay man?" I slap him but he doesn't respond. The voice comes on over the intercom.
"Leave Joey and Belle behind. They are incapacitated and will be recovered by me. Continue with your task Garde." Then silence.
"What legacies did those two have?" I ask since I walked away before they told them.
"The boy, Bryce, has telekinesis, enhancement, externa, whatever he touches he can take on it's properties, and elecomun, the control of electricity and the ability to be shocked by infinite amounts of it and feel nothing." She continues," And the girl, Talea, has telekinesis, enhancement, hydrojun, the control of water, Aquatic respiration, otherwise known as water breathing, thermokinesis, she can control the temperature of the area around her and whatever she touches, and magnokinesis, the ability to manipulate metals at all states. She is a very powerful garde to say the least."
"Jeez, we are kinda out-legacied aren't we?" I laugh nervously.
"Yeah, we're probably fucked. Joey wasn't thinking when he was fighting and got himself knocked out. He had a lot of legacies. Oh well." She sighs and starts to jog the same way the other two ran.I follow and try to pick up signals of their thoughts.
"So far you can only change the matter of rubber balls, but you have only learned how to make them disintegrate?" I ask as we make a right turn.
"Yeah, with enough practice I'm hoping to make them into rubber cubes. I only just developed it a week ago. Then My telekinesis came the next day. It was super surprising." We speed down a corridor and see an odd cobalt-blue ball floating in front of us.
"Can you use your matter legacy to detect what type of matter you are trying to manipulate?" We stop in front of it and she gets an excited expression.
"I don't need to for this stuff. It's loralite... This piece is imbued with some sort of power." She reaches out to touch it and disappears before my very eyes.
"What the fuck!?" I jump back and run into a wall that wasn't their before. I realize while we were looking at the loralite, we were sealed into a small area and can only touch the loralite to leave. Alison reappears in front of me and smiles.
"It's a teleporting crystal, it took me to the third level. I've never seen anything like it." She grabs my hand and then touches the crystal and we reappear in a small room with an entrance to the third level of the maze.
"Holy shit! That is awesome!" I yell as we run through the door.
We see the flag right in front of us and Alison grabs it then we look for a way out. To our left a wall melts and Bryce and Talea walk though the hole.
"You wanna just hand that flag to us? Or are you gonna make it hard on yourselves?" Talea sneers.
"I'll throw the metal spike at him and then Bryce can take down little girl." I hear Talea thinking to herself.
I smile and start forward," How about you guys give up and just walk away without getting hurt?"
"You think you can take me kid? I've fought stronger and bigger garde than you." She launches the spike with her telekinesis, but I'm ready. I roll under the spike and take out her legs. While she is down I jump up and smash my foot into her face. She shoots her hand out and I go flying against the ceiling and am stuck there. I see the spike lodge itself in Bryce's side. Alison must have thrown it at him with telekinesis. He falls over screaming which distracts Talea.
"Alison! Run for it! Get to the instructor!" She makes a run for the teleportation crystal and is gone before Talea can react.
Talea smiles up at me, then drops me and punches me into a wall in mid-flight. I hear her laugh as she approaches. I feel as though I had the wind beat out of me because I'm having trouble breathing. The last thing I see is Talea whip her hair out of her eyes as she knocks me out.