Deadly Path

"You've been staring at that map for ten minutes now, what are you looking for?", Asked Mike

"According to the map, the first part is supposed to be here under water and all I see is lava and cannibalistic hands." Said Aisha with a hint of frustration in her voice.

"Maybe it's under the lava but it would have melted already, or in that clenched fist at the end of the lava river."

"What clenched fist?"

"You didn't notice it, all the hands are open except it."

Aisha checked to see if what he was saying was true and it was.

"Wow you really are useful." Said Aisha.

"Thanks..... I think. Now how are we going to get there?"

"Maybe we can climb on top of them."

" But we'll be shredded to pieces"

Then Aisha picked up a weak tree that had fallen and threw it on top of the hands. It took time for them to fully shred it to pieces.

"We can pick up these dead trees and throw them on top of the hands and while they are busy trying to shred it, we will be running across them."

"Okay sounds doable"

So Mike and Aisha picked up all the trees that had fallen and threw them on top off the hands as fast as they could and as soon as they were done, they began to run across it, with Mike behind her. Aisha had picked up another branch but a harder one to open the clenched fist. When they had reached the end Mike jumped on the other side, while Aisha struggled to open up the fist.

"AISHA!, HURRY UP THEY ARE ALMOST DONE SHREDDING THAT BRANCH!!"

"WAIT!, IM ALMOST DONE OPENING IT."

They were almost done Shredding but Aisha had not opened it yet. So Mike went back to help her. He jumped on one of the hands, pushed Aisha away, opened the fist using the Same branch, got the last piece and jumped off falling to the ground.

Aisha stood up to check if he was okay but before she could even get close to him Mike started screaming in pain and she noticed his arm was missing while the other was holding the first part.

"MIKE!, I AM SO SO SORRY." Aisha cried as she held him. Mike was still screaming in pain.

"I never should have let you help me this is all my fault, i'm..... Wait." Aisha said while catching her breath, "why arent you bleeding."

As soon as Aisha said that Mike removed his hand which he hid in his shirt and started laughing.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaa, I got you real good huh", Mike said while laughing.

"You IDIOT!!" She said then slapped him.

"Owwww! that hurt."

"Do you know how scared you made me."

"I was just joking and besides we have the first piece."

"Yeah so one down six to....., Did you hear that?"

"What?"

"I was wondering when lunch was going to come and finally it's here." Said the first version of the ball as it rolled on top of the hands squashing them.

"HOW?!, HOW DID IT GET HERE AND HOW DID IT GET SO BIG." asked Mike in fear.

"Oh I forgot to tell you there are actually two balls. The larger one is the first version and the smaller one that is still on your planet is the second one." Said Aisha who was also afraid.

"You must be my creator's daughter, you look so much alike." It said

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FATHER?!" Aisha said with rising anger.

"Don't worry his still alive for now, my minions have been looking for him for years and now that I have his daughter he'll finally be found and we can have a feast with you as the fo..."

Aisha interrupted it by throwing a large rock at it which just bounced off.

"RUNNNN!!!" Aisha screamed seeing that her action failed and they both started to run while it was chasing them. It wasn't very fast in the virtual world which gave them time to run. They reached a maze and at the entrance there were two ways left and right.

"I'll go left and you right." Aisha said while still running.

"Okay!"

They both parted ways but the ball didn't pursue them into the maze.

"Mmmh they're dead anyway, it's such a shame I was looking forward to eating a human being". It said then bounced over the maze.