A flash of pink came out of nowhere, and I felt a whack against my already hurt arm. -Remember the spiders-

It knocked me onto my stomach, but I did a somersault and I was on my feet again.

I stood up to see what hit me, and it was a girl.

She was maybe a year or so older than me, I'm guessing 15.

The girl was wearing a pink challenger shirt, so she wasn't some monster.

And she was holding the weapon in a bad battle stance, so I could guess she didn't fight much.

I reached over and picked up a long sturdy stick, and braced myself.

She ran at me, and swung the branch she had at me.

I knocked the stick from her hand, but when I decided to whack her, she side stepped and decided to punch me in the face.

When I landed, I fell onto my back.

Then I swung my legs up, and it kicked her off balance, and when she fell over, I stood up.

I looked down at her, then I started to walk away.

But before i could get far, I heard her yell, "Hey! You can't just leave me here."

It made me turn around.

"Yes I can. I don't want to fight you."

She stood up, then walked over to me. "Good. I won't fight either."

"Umm. Cool," I said, then kept walking.

"Wait, we can't split up, if we do, then we'll get lost. It's best to stay together," she said, almost as if she had experience of this.

I looked back at her, "Okay then. I'm Mark."

"I'm Natalie," she said, "Challenger Pink."

"Silver."

So we began walking along paths, and every now and then, we'd decide on the right paths to take.

Natalie had dark brown hair, and brown eyes.

She wore the pink shirt of a Challenger, so she looked friendly enough.

We got to a three-way crossroad, four ways, if you count where we came from.

One way, to the left, lead down, into a thick forest of trees.

The second way, to the right, had too many spikes on the path to catch our interest.

The middle, straight ahead, way, lead up a simple slope.

So, obviously, we too the third option, but the second we walked onto that path, a metal gate shot up from the ground, blocking off the walk way.

Apparently we had to more forward only forward.

Again.

'Uh oh," Natalie said. "I guess we'd better see what's ahead."

"Yeah, but it probably won't be good, considering they don't want us to leave," I answered.

She agreed, and we walked up the hill, but what we saw was almost as far from good as possible.

There was no more land, only where the pathway hit a cliff.

Maybe sixty yards across from the cliff we were on, was the other cliff.

The catch: There were floating circular disks of ground, hovering over the gorge.

Yes, floating.

I was guessing we had to jump from disk to disk until we got to the other side.

To make it worse, there was already a Challenger on the disks, and he didn't look peaceful.

He was a large, over-muscular, guy, wearing a green sleeveless Challenger shirt.

"And so we go," I sighed.

Natalie agreed, "Yep."

So, I jumped first, onto the disk closest to me, being the brave soul I was.

Then as I switched to another one, Natalie jumped onto the one I was on, moments ago.

It cointinued like that, for a couple minutes, until he saw us.

I looked into Mr. Green's eyes.

They were fierce, and angry.

He looked like he was jumping for his life, which he undoubtedly was.

Me and Natalie jumped to another pair on disks, even closer to him.

Then the Green guy stopped, and reached down to grab a disk, and picked it up.

I instantly understood what he planned to do.

"Natalie, move!" Me and her both jumped in opposite directions as the disk soared through the air where we were moments ago.

We each landed on disks, not too far away from each other's.

The guy came me, holding a knife in his hand, that he had just recently drawn, leaping from disk to disk.

Once he got to a disk next to mine, he swung the knife at me, but I ducked.

Then he followed through with a knee to the face...

Except...

Out of nowhere, Natalie soared in, slamming him square in the face as he looked over at her, with her foot.

The hit sent him sprawling across a disk.

But that didn't stop him for long.

By now, we were almost to the edge.

He stood up, then leaped onto my disk.

I was on the edge of it, so as he landed, directly on the center on the disk, I jumped up, placed my hands on his head, then flipped myself over, on the other side of the disk.

Oops.

I was too close to the edge, and it began crumbling.

I slipped and began falling into the gorge.

As I fell, I saw the disk he had thrown with such force, earlier, come soaring back to it's origional position.

It gave me an idea.

As I soared downward, hearing the yells of Natalie, "Mark! Mark," I caught onto the edge of one of the disks, that was father below the other ones, but it kept pulling me down.

I grinned.

All part of my plan.

I kept going down quickly, but soon I began to slow...

"Mark! No... not Mark," Natalie cried, as she gripped the edge of her platform, and looked down into the depths of the gorge.

There was no bottom.

He couldn't survive, she thought.

Not possible.

She looked up, and saw Mr. Green recovering from his stunned experience.

He shook his head, then looked over at her.

The guy ripped part of his disk out, making it unbalanced, but it didn't bother him.

He threw the piece of disk through the air at Natalie...

Or her disk.

It hit the edge of her disk, throwing it off balance, and she fell, hitting her head on another disk, which knocked her unconscious.

As she fell, something caught her and began dragging her upward.

I shot upwards, holding the scruff of Natalie's pink Challenger shirt, being propelled by the disk, that was returning to it's original place.

"Heh, perfect," I said.

The disk abruptly came to stop where it originally was, which flinged me into the air.

I soared up, and rammed into the unexpecting Challenger's back.

The impact sent him up into the air, towards the destination cliff.

I grabbed his shirt, so he could pull me, still holding Natalie.

When we landed, thirty seconds or so later, we all crashed into the ground.

We all scattered around, Natalie and Green still unconscious.

I propped her up against a rock, then I went over to Green. I took him, and pinned him under the root of one of those monster sized trees, where he wouldn't move for a while.

Then, I went over, and lied against the other side of the rock Nat was on, and rested...

To Be Continued