"GO!" Ape shouts, and everyone begins to rush across an open field about 300 meters long with ten large open tunnels at the end. Aio with a determined face runs out. His legs strengthened with the power of force fields allows him to easily get to the head of the pack.
Examinees begin dropping left and right, then a shadow covers them. The swarm appears. Aio jumps high into the air and takes out two drones with one punch using the full limb style. He lands with a roll, and smirks as he thinks he is ahead of everyone. Then a kid with Ostrich legs leap frogs over his head and yells "see you inside blue man" as he laughs childishly. Aio with a confused face stand stunned for a couple seconds before glimpsing back at a dark figure with a black mask and long hair. Aio then entered the tunnels.
The dark figure, Dark Void, walks across the field seemingly without a care. As each blast hits him he doesn't even flinch. A drone try's to block his path. Dark Void grabs it and moves it out of his way. When he let's go of the drone It drops to the ground lifeless. Before he enters the tunnels, another examinee falls unconscious at his feet. Dark Void grabs him and then throws him out of the way as he enters the tunnels.
BOOM! Ros races across the field aided with sound waves. As he passes drones they pause for a second then dropped to the ground destroyed. As large a group floods infront of him blocking his path to the tunnels, he stretches out his hand and emits a sound wave at them tearing a whole in the group. He then passes through the whole into the tunnels.
Jake is walking through the chaos aided and shielded by his Earth dome structure that he created. He easily makes it to the tunnels. Aimi is darting through the crowd of drones and kids slashing all drones in her way with her katana. She stops at the entrance to the tunnel and looks in. A drone try's to sneak up behind her but is stabbed. She enters the tunnels. Chase in his metal beast form. Runs on all four limbs like a lizard. Then grabs a drone in each hand, and in this tail. And crushes them. He then slashed any drone in his path. He then eats the remains of the drones. He stops when he feels a girl runs on his back. The girls laughing like a maniac with a large smile on her face is jumping around and smashing whatever drone is in her path with one punch.
Running through the dark, Aio sees a light and begins to run faster towards and enters a large dimly lit room with a large maze. Aio jumps up on top of the walls and begins to run towards the end of the maze. He hears laughing again and looks over to where it was coming from. He sees the ostrich legged boy running around hitting dead end after dead end.
"Not another dead end, well time to try some..." The ostrich legged boy falls over unconscious not able to finish his sentence, as a shadow passes by him.
"Looks like someone finally shut you up." Aio thinks to himself. He then uses the full limb style to illuminate the darkness around him, and continue to run on top of the walls to the other side. He was cautious of the space around him, was determined not to get ambushed by one of those shadows. He finally makes it the other side and hops down entering the tunnels again. As he is running through the tunnels he is thinking how he is easily going to get first place.
Chase with the girl that laughed like a maniac riding on his back enter the maze room. The girl hops off and runs towards the walls of the maze.
"Race you to the other side beastie!" She yells and starts to punch through walls. Chase, close behind, follows suit. They soon make a path straight through the maze, with the maze walls repairing themselves quickly behind them.
Dark Void runs on one of the walls of the room and drops down on the other side of the maze and enters the tunnels. Another kid, with quite odd features of a lizard, also runs across the rooms on the walls to the other side.
"This maze was meant for me!" The kid shouts entering the tunnels.
"That was a weird sight." Jake says out loud as he begins to enter the maze. As he was walking through the maze a wall shifts in front of him.
"Come on a moving maze that's just cheap!" Jake thinks as he continues to walk around. As he goes deeper into the maze he starts to see unconscious kids all around the paths.
"Oh crap this just keeps on getting better and better doesn't it Jake. I wish Aio was here." He says to himself. "Come on remember your training. What did Armed teach you?" He thinks to himself trying to think back to his lessons.
"Remember Jake you have a connection with the Earth. You can't just create things you can feel the Earth. I want you to touch the Earth sense your surroundings." Armed tells Jake trying to make him understand what he can do. Jake opens his eyes snapping him back to the present.
"Okay Jake don't mess this up." He tells himself as he crouches down and puts his hands on the ground he focuses on the Earth feeling his surroundings and sensing the path through the maze. Once he had the path in his head he proceeded forward to the end and finishing the maze. "Thanks Armed"
Another girl enters the room and shoots crystals up a wall to make a ladder and then shoots them across the room to make steps. She then climbs up her makeshift ladder and runs across the wall using her crystals as footholds. she then hops down then retracts the crystals so other students can't use her same path. She then walks into the exit tunnels with style.
Aio enters the last room ready for a fight but it's empty except for a clocked figure standing on a ledge about 30 feet up. He looked at the figure, he could tell it was a woman by her figure but couldn't tell much else. Her hood was pulled over much of her face.
"Come down and fight me!" Aio yells at her, but he gets no response. Instead, he all of the sudden is back in his childhood orphanage, he sees everyone there his brothers and sisters and Miss Laura. Then he sees their bodies piled up and his home burning around him. He starts to scream and yell.
"Where are you, Coward!" He shouts his face contorted with grief and deep hatred. Then the room and bodies disappear and the smoke and flames made a faceless being, the one that destroyed his home and family. Aio get his full limb style ready and runs forward to obliterate the being. As his fist passes through the head of the being, it touches nothing but air. He then turns his head and comes face to face with the being and it screams. Aio feels the heat of the fire and the being passes through him suffocating. Making Aio pass out. A hooded cloaked figure with a mask and fifteen small projectiles surround him. He then walks up to Aio and picks him up and walks him out of the room.
Jake walks into the last room and sees the woman. He is suddenly he's back home the other kids and Miss Laura. He runs and places himself between his family and the fire as the place turns ablaze. He then turns around at his family is no longer there. They've all been piled up and their bodies are burning. The flames burn away everything and turn into the faceless being. Jake looks up with resolve and prepares to fight the being. He makes a bunch of sharp projectiles and fires them at the being. They pass right through it, and the being moves towards Jake. Jake rolls away and continues to fire at the being and they continued to pass through the being. Jake continues to fire and dodge for awhile while moving around the room. He the begins to rethink his strategy. He waits for the being to move into position then creates a coffin and throws it at the being and seals it inside.
"Good, you have passed." The woman says to Jake. Jake composes himself and shakes off the shock and exits the room.
A girl enters the room she had a black haze that covered and outlined her body. The lady in the cloak looked at the girl. Nothing happened the lady continues to stare and nothing happens still
"You may leave" the woman tells the girl. The girl then exits the room. The woman is somewhat confused.
Dark Void enters the room and quietly looks at the woman. The woman stares at him. A large creature appears in front of Dark Void.
"This is beneath me. Your fake monsters don't scare me" Dark Void says as he walks away and the creature disappears. The woman looks towards him with interest as he walks away.
Next Time... Chapter 10, The last Exam