School Shock
Second last chapter. And it's not even that good in my opinion. I mean, it's not flowing that smoothly. Like Misery tumbling down the stairs. That's how bad it is. :C
But we get the story going! :D
So review and help me improve!
Everybody held their breath, waiting for the disaster about to happen when they heard an announcement blasting from the speakers,
"You are correct! Congratulations! Here's the map of the maze!"
"Yes!" Everyone cheered. The door swung open and Ruby immediately wrapped her arms around Iris,
"I knew you could do it!" She squealed.
"You did? Huh, no wonder why the sound of slaps was slightly softer than I had expected it to be."
"Yes, we did doubt you and we're sorry." Frank admitted ruefully.
"But we won't anymore!" Len added.
"Never again, no, no, no!" Skull Boy chuckled.
"As true as the fact that my ancestors did not cause the Ice Age." Misery nodded.
...
"Now, here's your map!"
Suddenly, a scroll dropped out of nowhere, and landed on Misery's bruised head.
"Ow. We have it." Misery sullenly announced, passing it over to Ruby. Ruby unrolled it and everybody gathered around her.
"This is great! They said that we are just near the exit! All we have to do is turn right!"
Exuberant whoops and cheers were heard as they sprinted to their path.
One moment, the sky was dark red, burning. The next, like passing through a curtain, they entered the teeth if a storm. It unleashed itself with terrifying violence. Sweet success was blinding them however, until Ruby suddenly gasped, looking at their surroundings.
She stopped running.
Nobody paid attention to where they were going and everyone bumped against the perky goth. After regaining their balance (and bones), realization came to them.
Faintly at first, then louder with every faltering step, they heard the crash of waves and the roar of angry surf on rocks.
The ocean.
"Wait a minute, I checked the map, we are right at the exit, so where is it?" Ruby wondered aloud. Her hair was plastered to her scalp. She clutched the map before handing it to Iris.
"Yeah, I don't understand! And I have held plenty of maps before!"
"I have been injured by many storms before! And this is a five upon ten. Usually, well in Gloomsville at least, it's 4 and a half upon ten." Misery admitted, looking at how the rain lashed down. Wind howled out of the darkness and would have probably blown Ruby away if she wasn't planting her feet firmly to the ground. It also helped that everyone had decided to link arms at that time. Beside Iris, Skull Boy asked,
"Should we go on?"
Ruby turned to face the unknown then a determined Iris before giving him a sweet smile,
"You betcha."
She had a way too-short designer skirt and blouse, exposing her putrid colored scales. About a pound of lip gloss was slathered over her pouting lips, and she wore smelly perfume that made anyone want to clog their nostrils with pencil erasers.
And she was the only adult Terra could see right now.
"Please! You gotta help me! My schoolmates are trapped in a maze!"
"Par-don?" She asked in a thick accent.
"Oh, you speak something else, er, ..."
"Do not worry, if you need ze help, you can call ze... MONSTER! HELPZ!" She suddenly shrieked, her eyes suddenly as wide as saucers and diluted with something... fear, maybe?
"Monster helpz? Wha..?" Terra blinked, turning to face the creature the weird French woman was facing, only to yelp and as he panicked, mud was flung everywhere and brown sploshes decorated the white floor.
There was a gargantuan monster alright. A purple Venus flytrap-looking monster!
"Huh?! Who is...?" He managed to get out before he felt a tight tug on one of his twigs.
"Excuse me, do you know this one-eyed girl, name is Iris? She loves moving around, and outside is her plant, Venus. I need Iris to stop Venus!" Someone squawked.
Terra looked down to see Poe, with slightly less ruffled feathers, but he was still panting with exhaustion.
"She entered a maze just a few minutes ago and she's trapped! Her friends went to get her!"
"What?! Well, they should be out by now." Poe said, looking at his pocket watch.
"Really?"
"If I know anything, which is quite a lot thanks to my many years at Oxford and my ancestor, Paco, THE pet budgie of Edgar Allan Poe..." The crow would have gone on and on about himself if it weren't for Terra grabbing the upper-class crow with his muddy hand,
"Perfect! Come on, to the janitor's closet!
Sneak peek of 'Doll Face', an upcoming story! (I was bored)
Misery's lips twitched to form a small smile as she rearranged her collection. Her drab purple dress dragged along the cold ground as she moved Dr Dreary to the top shelf. Until her toe was caught in a hole on the floor and she fell forward along with the doll, smashing the porcelain toy into smithereens. Misery's smile fell along with the doll.
"Expected that from Dr Dreary. At least he can fix his eyes later. Typical boy. Always the eye-fixer." Misery sighed.
"Speaking of boys, where are Skull Boy, Frank and Len?" Iris asked.
