A/N: Sorry I haven't posted in over 20 days. I've been busy with homework, music, and stalking boys! ;P
Justin POV
I didn't know how long we've been down there for, but it felt like forever. Every direction Alex took, I felt like she was going the wrong way. The riddle must have been a trick. I should've been leading the way. I could use the patterns of the wind velocity and temperature to figure out where we were. If I learned anything from the magical world, I've learned to never trust riddles.
Suddenly, Alex stopped and put her arm out in front of my chest to stop me.
"Don't move," Alex said.
I looked down and from the little light there was in the tunnels, I saw that we arrived into a larger room with a huge chasm in the middle. I looked down and saw a bottomless pit. I looked to both sides and saw no way around it. We were going to have to jump over it. It was a good five feet wide.
"Do you want to jump first?" I asked.
Alex looked down the chasm. "We are supposed to jump in it."
"In it? Are you crazy?" I asked. There was no way I was going to kill myself. Especially when there was going to be a Captain Jim Bob Sherwood marathon on TV later that night.
"Trust me, Justin," Alex said. She was about to jump in before I put my arm in front of her.
"Don't," I said.
Alex grabbed my arm and pushed it away from her. She looked at me, and I could tell that she wanted me to trust her.
Alex took a deep breath and jumped in without hesitation. I looked down, and she was gone. She was probably dead. I took a seat on the ground and put my arms around my knees. She was gone. Max was probably gone. And I was going to miss the marathon on TV. All hope was lost.
Suddenly, WOOSH! A wave of what looked like Alex went straight into the ceiling of the room.
"What just happened?" I asked myself in shock as I stood up and looked down into the chasm. I knew I had to jump.
I took a deep breath, just like Alex just had, closed my eyes and jumped.
A few seconds later, I opened my eyes. I was still falling. And falling. And falling! I looked up; I couldn't see where I jumped. I looked down; I couldn't see the bottom. I might have been falling head first for all I knew. I felt my cheeks. They were going in an upward direction. Meaning, I was falling feet first. Man, my jaw really hurt.
…Okay. This was taking way too long. Dang gravity.
Suddenly, I stopped falling. I landed in a trampoline like thing. And it sent me flying strait back up, but way faster than when I was falling. Dang magic.
Now, my cheeks were really hurting. I always hated the Gravitron rides at carnivals.
Then I finally saw the ceiling. I was going to go straight through it. Hoping not to break my head open, I put my arms over my head for a protective covering. I closed my eyes out of instinct. I was about to crash into the ceiling.
…but I didn't. I was holding onto something. I opened my eyes and looked up. It was a metal bar. And then I saw another. And another. And another. Just in grabbing distance.
"There you are," Alex said a few bars away from me, "my arms are starting to hurt." And then she swung from bar to bar through the tunnel.
I looked down and saw a normal looking ground. I wanted to jump down and just walk, but I knew I had to trust Alex. The riddle must have been true. Any normal person with a high logic skill, like myself, would've jumped over the chasm.
"Don't jump down," Alex said a little while a head of me.
"I won't," I yelled back and fallowed her. I haven't been on monkey bars since I was 7.