Minotaur Maze

Once Jayden came back many things had changed, there was a new book sitting on the table. Eliza picked it up and read it.

"Sadly you have lost one of your friends, but you are one lieutenant closer to defeating the sorceress... The next lieutenant is the Minoshroom, a minotaur, just covered in mushrooms, All nine of you must find your way out of the maze that is surrounding the lounge, beware of traps in the maze... the Minoshroom has a way with his puzzles." Everyone went outside and saw that the lounge was in the middle of a huge stone maze, the trophy room right outside of the maze limits.

"So there are traps in the maze?" Veronica asked.

"I guess so," Eliza said.

"Everyone you need to find the way out of the maze," Julia told everyone.

"We all know Aphrodite is going to be the first one out of the maze..." Thiago said.

"Mhmm I am the maze master!" Aph responded. Julia pointed a gun at the sky.

"Everyone stand at the entrance to the maze," She said. Everyone lined up at the entrance of the maze. Julia fired the gun, everyone took off into the maze, Jayden took a left immediately Aria, Thiago, and Moira followed Veronica, Aph, Eliza, Carlos, and Indah went right. Eliza screamed. A cage trap came from one of the trees and trapped her. Aria and Jayden were almost out of the maze when Aph came from the other side and beat them to it, Jay and Aria went running out of the maze in second, Thiago and Carlos came third. Indah was with Veronica trying to figure out the way Indah saw the exit.

"Veronica look... it's right there!" Veronica ran forward... and stabbed on a trap it came out of the ground and trapped her. "Veronica! I am so sorry!"

"Use the cage to climb to the exit," Veronica told Indah. Indah climbed onto the cage and over it, Indah came out of the maze fifth, and Moira made it out fourth.

"Wait... we are missing two," Jay said.

"Yeah... where are Eliza and Veronica?" Aria asked.

"Veronica stepped on a trap and one wrapped up around her," Indah told them.

"And Eliza also stepped on a trap and one fell from one of the trees," Aph said.

"The minotaurs will take them to their maze... the Minoshroom will guard them, the code to the Minotaur maze is scattered among the forest... and since Aphrodite made it out first she can't be voted into the death challenge, the code is split into two," Julia said.

"So then should we split into two groups?" Carlos asked.

"I think that would work best," Thiago responded. Aph, Jay, Moira, and Indah went to find the first part of the code. Aria, Thiago, and Carlos went to search for the second part.

Aphrodite's POV: Jay and Moira climbed up on top of the maze, and Indah and I were looking around the base of the maze, Jay then climbed onto the top of the lounge.

"Jay, have you found anything?" I heard Moira ask.

"No, not yet!" Jay responded.

"Indah have you found anything over there?" I asked.

"No! How about you?" She asked me.

"No... nothing either!" I said. I then heard a crunch and I thought Jay broke his ankle.

"You guys!! I found a note!" He yelled. Indah and I climbed up to the top of the maze and went over to the lounge. Jay then read the note. "X marks the spot... Does it mean like my ex or just a normal x?"

"Well is your ex buried somewhere in this forest?" Indah asked.

"I don't think he's dead so probably not," Jay said.

"Wait there is a map on the back," I said. Jay flipped it over and there was a giant red X on top of the mountain.

"Of course we have to climb the fricken mountain," Indah complained.

"Don't complain... you want to escape this damn forest right!?" I asked annoyed with how Indah was reacting. We all climbed up the mountain, and we were trying to find where the X was I noticed that it was in the same spot as the maze that I completed earlier tonight. "Wait Jay, there are shovels leaned up against that tree and the X should be right here... Indah stand here." Jay, Moira, and I grabbed shovels and started digging around Indah. Indah then pointed something out in one of Moira's scoops. I picked it up and read the three numbers, "1, 8, and 4."

"That has to be the first part of the code," Indah said.

"We need to vote her... she is getting really annoying," I whispered to Jay. He nodded. we climbed back down the mountain and went back into the lounge.

Meanwhile... (Carlos's POV) Aria, Thiago, and I went to the trophy room to see if anything was there and there was a picture above the Questing Ram trophy... it was Odette. We climbed up a ladder to get to the attic, there was a chest that needed a key at the edge of the room, the three of us were looking through the boxes in the room.

"I'm going to go look outside," Aria said. she then climbed down the ladder and went outside and searched through the grass for the key, then out of nowhere the bottom floor of the trophy room, filled with fog, Thiago and I climbed down the ladder, and we came face to face with the Sorceress, she was holding Aria by the neck and had a knife to her throat.

"I need you to find my ruby... I will give you five minutes or I will slit her throat," The sorceress said.

"If we find your ruby will you give us the key to the chest?" Thiago asked.

"Fine... just find my ruby!" she screamed. Thiago and I climbed up the ladder as fast as humanly possible, we were searching everywhere, and then I realized there was a glinting red gem in the corner of a box. "One more minute!" I grabbed the ruby tossed it to Thiago and he climbed down the ladder and handed her the ruby.

"Here you go..." Thiago handed the ruby to the Sorceress, she gave Aria the key, cut her wrist a little, and shoved her away. Tears were welling in Aria's eyes, she gave Thiago the key he came upstairs tossed it to me and I opened the chest, inside were the numbers 9, 0, and 2. We then ran back to the exit of the maze.

"Aria! What happened?" Jay asked.

No POV: "We had an encounter with the sorceress, she grabbed me while I was searching outside and she brought me inside to get a ruby... but Thiago gave the sorceress the ruby and she gave him a key and cut my wrist," She said.

"We did get the second part of the code... we got nine-o-two," Carlos said.

"And we got one-eighty-four," Aph said.

"So the code should be one-eight-four-nine-zero-two," Indah said. Jay put in the code and the door opened.

"Well... it is time to vote again, discuss amongst yourselves... and the two selected by vote will go into the maze and save the two who were trapped," Julia said.

Moira, Indah, Carlos, and Thiago went to talk and Aph, Aria, and Jay went to talk too.

"Ok we cant vote Aria she got her wrist cut there is no way that she would survive this challenge," Thiago said.

"I agree... we also can't vote Jay he was just in a challenge," Carlos said,

"So then the only one in that group is Aph... but we need her to escape this place," Moira said.

"Then should we just put our own names in?" Thiago asked.

"Fine with me," Indah said.

in the meantime, the others were talking about,

"We need to vote Indah... she was being really rude and very annoying tonight,"

"Yeah, she really was... Aria you sure you don't need a bandage of some sort for your hand?" Jay said.

"Fine ill take a bandage... but yes we need to vote Indah," She said. Jay ripped off a bit of his shirt and wrapped Aria's wrist with it. "Jay you didn't need to rip your favorite crop top for me."

"Yes I do, I am your friend, friends sacrifice the things we love for each other," Jay responded.

"Is that why you dumbed your boyfriend... because he didn't like me?" Aria asked.

"Yes, that is exactly why," Jay said.

"Everyone it is not time to vote!" Julia said. Everyone went over to Julia. "Jay you get to go first." He voted Indah. "Moira." She voted herself, "Indah," She also voted herself, "Aphrodite." She voted Indah, "Aria." She voted Indah, "Thiago," He voted Moira, "And Carlos," He voted himself. "I will now shuffle and draw two... The first one going into the challenge is... Moira." She gasped.

"I guess that voting for myself didn't go so well," She said.

"You voted for yourself?" Jay asked.

"Yeah, we all did, Aria you got hurt so we couldn't vote for you," Moira told everyone.

"Thanks, Moira," Aria said.

"And Jay... we couldn't vote you since you just came out of a challenge,"

"Really? Aww thanks, guys," Jay said.

"And of course Aph we decided we need you to escape this forest."

"Oh... Thank you, guys."

"The second one in this challenge is... Indah."

"I... ok then," Indah said.

"Ladies... please follow me." Moira and Indah followed Julia to a stone maze. "Please read that note there." Moira read it.

"Us minotaurs will not kill you instead we will kill one of the trapped ones, find your way to the center of the maze to save one of your friends the maze has many dead ends and many secrets."

"Ok so neither of us are going to die... but one of them are?" Indah asked.

"I guess... we have to make it to the middle of the maze and choose who we want to save," Moira said.

"And there are secrets everywhere," Indah added.

Moira's POV: Oh and I didn't mention minotaurs are roaming the maze! and if they get ahold of us we are out of the challenge for 10 seconds and they bring us back to the beginning of the maze. Julia looked at us.

"Your time starts now!!" She yelled. Indah and I took off, I heard hooves clomping on the stone floor near me, fortunately for me there was an indent in the wall that I could hide in, I became one with the wall, once the minotaur got past where I was I bolted down the hall, it didn't help that Don't be suspicious was stuck in my head so while I was running around all I could think of was. "Don't be suspicious, no don't be suspicious, no don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious don't be suspicious uh-don't be suspicious." I ran into a minotaur I screamed and ran the other way, I heard Indah scream from wherever she was and I heard her curse... she must have gotten grabbed. There was a painting hanging on a wall I pulled it down and climbed inside, and to my surprise, there was more maze but it was a secret passage. I then ran over to another painting and I realized I ran over something that didn't sound like stone, I saw a latch on the ground I climbed into it, and just in time too... a minotaur walked right over it. I followed the lanterns on the walls and I came to the end of a dark dimly lit tunnel I grabbed the nearest lantern and held it up to a door, it needed a damn key, I threw my lantern onto the ground in rage. A key popped out.

"What the hell!? How many secrets are in this maze!?" I said very confusedly. I then ran over to the door and put the key in it unlocked and I ran through the door, behind the door was a minotaur he grabbed me and brought me back to the beginning of the maze, lucky for me I knew how I got to that door, but I have a feeling that door just had a dead-end behind it. I waited 10 seconds and then went back to the maze. I ran to the trapdoor and when right over it and thank god I did that because I found the middle of the maze... but it was encased in glass I didn't know how to get to Elizabeth or Veronica.

Indah's POV: When Julia yelled at Moira and me to go I ran into the maze, there were no minotaurs on the side of the maze I am on. I was searching for a secret in the maze and I heard Moira scream, then I bumped into a minotaur... I also screamed.

"Damnit," I said under my breath. Once I got brought back to the beginning of the maze I waited 10 seconds and then ran right back into the maze, I then realized there are a lot of paintings on the wall every single one that I passed I pulled it off the maze wall until one of them had a passage behind it, I climbed in and went through it I was searching everywhere for something that would get me ahead of Moira until I then heard a trapdoor slam and I then realized Moira must have gotten grabbed by one of the minotaurs. I darted one way... dead end, I ran another way... another dead end, it was like this maze was full of dead ends and it was changing with every minute that passed. I ran into an area that I haven't been to before Moira was on the other side searching for a way to get in a glass casing... Veronica and Eliza were in the casing and so was the Minoshroom.

NO POV: Moira was searching around the glass casing she looked up and realized that Indah was there too.

"What are you doing here!?" She asked shocked to see her.

"I am here to save Veronica!" Indah Hollard.

"Yeah well, I am going to save Elizabeth first!" Moira yelled.

"Not if I can find the key first!!" Indah screamed. Moira then noticed there was a hammer sitting on top of the maze, and she realized she didn't need to find a key she needed to grab that hammer and smash the glass. Moira climbed on top of the maze and grabbed the hammer she jumped down and smashed the glass. Indah stared at the broken glass shocked. The minoshroom grunted, he nodded towards a note and Moira read it.

"Who do you save?" The note read. "Elizabeth!" Moira yelled.

The minoshroom pushed Elizabeth towards Moira. Then he bellowed, all the minotaurs from the maze came to the glass casing.

"Veronica NO!!!" Indah screeched. Veronica Screamed as the minotaurs pulled her arguing about who got to kill her. Eliza and Moira ran out of the glass casing. One of the minotaurs pulled a little too hard and yanked Veronica's arm clean off. Veronica let out a scream of agony just before she died. The minoshroom walked over to Eliza and handed her his trophy.

"Thank you," Eliza said and the minoshroom grunted. The minotaurs melted out of existence and Indah, Eliza, and Moira walked back to the lounge going the way that Moira came. Aphrodite gasped when they returned.

"Where is Veronica!?" Aria asked.

"And why are both of you still alive?" Jay added.

"Before we entered the maze it said that the minotaurs like to kill the people they trapped, I got to the glass casing first and I saved Eliza, the minotaurs ripped Veronica apart," Moira said.