The crystal was successfully obtained. What was left now was to leave the maze with it in hand, which could prove to be more difficult than getting the crystal was.
"Hand over the crystal and nobody gets hurt." The brown haired kid said. It was clear as day, even though they were somewhat in the dark, his words were a threat. But really, who was he talking to? Neither the twins, Jarett, nor Little flinched.
"Why don't you try and take it?" Kiyan said with flames appearing in his hands, running from his palm up to his elbows.
"I'll take you up on that." The side of his lips went upwards in a smirk as rocks covered his fists against. Along with him, the other participants who had abilities activated them, while the others brought forth their weapons.
"Little you have to..." Raten trailed off in confusion as he looked back and saw the person who was supposed to be behind him was no longer there. "Where did she go?" While they were locked in glares and empty threats, the blindfolded 'Little' moved her legs and ran as fast as she could.
"Get back here!" Someone yelled. Soon every participant present chased after her.
"Move!" The brown haired boy pushed everyone in his way as he sprinted forward lifting the earth under his feet, getting an edge over the others, inching closer to Little. "I've got you!" He said and leapt in her direction aiming to grab onto her, pull her to the ground, and yank the crystal away. It would have hurt the latter to be hit in that manner, but he didn't care.
The smirk he had on got wiped off immediately. Instead of the female directly before him, it was nothing but pure hard earth. Not expecting her to move all of a sudden, he collided face first on the ground. Little didn't have to look back to tell what he was about to do. As soon as he made the jump, she moved to the side and made a turn along a different path.
Spitting the dirt that had gotten into his mouth, and wiping off the sand on his face, the earth kid gritted his teeth in anger and continued the chase. It was getting harder for Little to avoid the attacks at her, the use of magic around her was getting too much for her to see through with her powers. Her only form of vision got blurry from the mana usage, her steps became more cautious which would only result in her losing the crystal.
Noticing an ice formed arrow being shot at her from behind, fire from one side and an actual arrow from the other, she had nowhere to run and could only avoid the one behind her. Her legs spread evenly on the ground as she did the split and bent her head causing the three attacks to collide mid air and cancel out. "That was close." She let out a breath of relief as she hurriedly got up and kept running.
She avoided both harmless and brutal attacks, while trying to escape the maze. Her pace stopped when she got to a familiar place - The fire caused by Kiyan. It had gotten much worse and burnt ferociously. "How on earth am I supposed to get past this?!" She screamed internally, looking for a way through. The smoke in the area made the well sighted feel a bit blind and suffocated as they neared.
A large wolf then appeared, pushing everyone out of the way, it ran towards her with great speed. She was pulled on its back by whomever was already on it. With its powerful legs it lifted itself up in the air, ready to go over the fire.
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"We should be getting close, I can feel it." The ice girl said to her six companions. She tried to stay positive and get to the crystal until she saw a vehemently burning maze in front of her.
"That's it! I give up." The earth boy in her group said.
"After all the creatures we had to face, we also have to get through this?!" Another complained.
"Can you all hear that?" A boy in the group asked making the others go quiet and listen closely.
"Is it just me or everyone can feel that as well?" The girl with the hammer spoke with a hint of fear in her voice. The ground was vibrating in harmony with the heavy rapid footsteps that was been heard.
"What the?" Looking up, a wolf was seen jumping over the fire. It landed behind them raising a large amount of dust and ran off.
"Give me that crystal!" A voice was heard and a body was seen making a flip over the fire and when it seemed like he would fall, the earth lifted and caught him. He kept running after the wolf, using its footsteps to track it no matter what turn it took. Controlling the fire to make a path, a girl ran through the flames, behind her were other participants.
"Crystal? They're after the crystal!" The ice girl yelled and ran with the crowd, so did the others with her. It was now every man for himself, well it had always been. All eyes were on the crystal, meaning all eyes were on Little who was been carried away by Jarett.
"Left! Right! Ahead!" Little kept guiding Jarett on which path to take while the twins would take care of those that tried to stop them from behind. The blindfolded Little also told Jarett when to move, avoiding the stray and purposefully sent strikes at him. Things went smoothly until, Jarett got tired, he maxed out his mana cells and began to revert to his normal size.
"Oh no, oh no, no no." Little kissed her teeth.
"He's done enough." Raten said, while Kiyan grabbed Little and jumped off Jarett's back, as did Raten. They rolled off into the distance, while Jarett reverted to his human self and fell off to the side. He sat breathing heavily watching everyone run past him and straight for those with the crystal.
"Darn, I'm exhausted!" He thought of resting a bit, but the exams were not over yet and he also needed the crystal for himself. So he got up and joined the chase only to realize those being chased had it easy than being in the crowd of chasers. They fought themselves while chasing after the crystal, taking out a good number of themselves, even Blondy was nowhere to be seen. The participants left were himself, the brown haired boy, the hammer girl, the ice girl, the earth kid from the ice girl's group, Kiyan, Raten, Little and three others.
Stomping his foot on the ground, the earth suddenly moved about in ripples at the ones who held the crystal. He had been doing this whilst they were on Jarett's back, but it never had any effect for the wolf was just too fast. This time, it had an effect. The trio ahead tripped over as the ripples went past their feet. Little fell back and lost hold of the crystal. The brown haired boy jumped forward and caught it.
"Aha! I finally got it!" He exclaimed with the crystal in hand. Almost immediately, he lost hold of it. Jarett had hit it out if his arm, kicked him in the face and hurriedly caught it before it fell.
The ice girl then placed her palms on the ground and it lit up. Ice travelled from her palms covering a significant part of the environ freezing everything and everyone it touched. The quick ones to notice had avoided the ice touch. "Give me that crystal!" She shouted and jumped at Jarett who moved to avoid her only to get punched in the face by the blindfolded Little causing his hold on it to loosen. She then yanked the crystal out of his hand.
"Garh! Little, how could you?! I let you ride on my back." Jarett said with head bent and his hands over his nose. He took his head up and wiped off the blood that dripped from his nostrils with the sleeves of his shirt. The bridge of his nose was throbbing with pain, he felt it was broken.
The only ones left in the maze were the twins, Jarett, Little, Ice girl and earth boy . The first to make a move was the Ice girl. She fired an ice blast at Little who quickly moved and avoided it only to get hit by a risen wall of earth blocking her vision. It then cleared and Little got hit by rocks sending her flying off and out of the exams. A lightning bolt hit the boy across the chest taking him out as well and Raten moved to pick up the crystal.
Quickly raising a wall of fire which moved towards Ice girl, Kiyan had blocked her ice attack same time keeping her trapped. Ice girl was surrounded by flames that even with her ice she couldn't fight. The flames then turned into balls of fire that went at her at once, taking her out of the test.
It was down to three, Kiyan, Jarett and he who held the crystal, Raten. They circled off, with Jarett in between the twins ready to attack one another with one thought in mind. "I have to win."
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