At the end of the hole's tunnel was a dungeon. It was dark with just a single torch lighting it. The place looked like it hadn't been cleaned for years. They were trapped.
"What took you guys so long?" Alex asked when Jasmine and Brandon arrived.
At that moment Brandon turned into a mouse and crawled through the bars to outside of the jail cell.
"Jasmine! You let go of him!" Alex said.
"Guys," Jasmine reassured, "He's just going to get the key."
A door flew open and in came the creepy lady at the store. Is it possible to get uglier in just a few hours? For that witch, it was. The Russos and Jasmine hid behind mounds of hay bales that were there for some strange reason.
"Brandon," the witch said. "There you are. Come. The ritual is about to begin."
Brandon and the witch walked out of the dungeon and slammed the door behind them. There was no hope.
"Ritual?" Jasmine asked Justin.
He shrugged. "Witches eat kids to stay younger, but they aren't called rituals."
"What would it be then?" Alex asked.
"A party?" Max asked thinking he had been quiet too long.
"No," Justin said. "They have rituals all the time, but I don't know what this one is."
"We need to get out of here," Jasmine said.
"We know that," Alex said rolling her eyes.
Justin found an old sharp bone on the floor of their cell. "I could use this for a key," he said walking towards the cell door.
"Hurry, Harper is in danger," Alex reminded him.
"I know, I know," Justin said unlocking the door.
"Did it work?" Max asked.
Justin opened the door. "No magic charm? Wow," he said as the others and he sneaked out of their cell and to the door the witch slammed earlier.
"Don't be too loud," Alex whispered.
"I know," Justin said annoyed and slowly unlocked and opened the door. Unfortunately, the door creaked.
"Justin!" Alex whispered loudly.
"It was the door!" he said back frustrated. They slowly sneaked out.
There were symbols on the wall they faced when they walked out.
"What does it say?" Alex asked.
"They're runes," Justin said. "But some of these symbols I don't recognize."
"I do," Jasmine said.
"Well, read it! Hurry!" Alex impatiently said.
"Only a female's intuition can guide the way
through the depths of this never ending maze.
A wrong decision from the wrong gender
will cause you to fail and surrender.
Will you go right or left, up or down?
Or sacrifice a loved one for your way out.
Or maybe you could just hand over your kids
to save yourself from the wrong decisions," Jasmine read.
"I say we sacrifice Max," Alex suggested.
"Yes!" Max said obviously not knowing what sacrifice means.
"No, we aren't going to sacrifice anyone," Justin said.
"Awwww," Alex and Max said in unison.
"Okay, Jasmine," Justin said. "Pick which way we are going to go. Left or right?"
"Hey, why does Jasmine get to pick?" Alex asked.
"Because you usually make wrong decisions," Justin reminded her.
"But a female cannot make a wrong decision. Only a guy can. And you're a guy, I think. And you picked Jasmine to decide the way," Alex said. "Obviously, that's a decision."
"Dang it," Justin said. "You're right."
"Yup," Alex said. "And I choose…" she looked around. "Left."
Alex and Justin walked to the left tunnel with Max and Jasmine fallowing.
"Ugh," Max said, "I'm tired." He put his hand on the wall. The floor under Alex and Justin collapsed.
"Alex! Justin!" Max yelled looking down the hole.
"Max, Jasmine," Justin yelled from a floor under. "Don't come down."
"No, I'm coming down," Max said. "Alex's intuition said to."
Jasmine grabbed his T-shirt. "But that's a male decision."
"Oh, dang it," Max said.
"Justin, this way," they heard Alex say.
"Fallow Jasmine," Justin said and he fallowed Alex.
When they disappeared, Max and Jasmine stood up.
"Don't touch anything," Jasmine said jumping over the hole.
"What about the floor?" Max asked jumping over the hole also.
"Yes," Jasmine said. "But be careful."
"What about the air?" Max asked.
"Yes," Jasmine said starting to get annoyed.
Author's Note:
Hehe. Selena Gomez & The Scene has a song called intuition... I just realized that...
I submitted 2 chapters in 1 day! Yay! I feel so proud. :D
When I started writing this story, I was going to make it a boring story about how Max rejected Jasmine and blah blah blah. But after I wrote Chapter 13, I decided they were going to have an adventure. Yay for adventures! :)
And in Chapter 15, I decided to make a love triangle. Or love line. I don't know. Jasmine likes Max, Max loves his lizard, his lizard loved Brandon in lizard form... lol. And Brandon likes Jasmine? Maybe... Does Jasmine like him too? I don't know... Well, I haven't really decided yet. Haha. I don't plan with this story. I just know SOMEONE is gonna die. I shall tell no one!
Who do you want Jasmine to end up with? Max or Brandon? ;P
Because I still haven't decided if I'm "Team Max" or "Team Brandon". lol.
