"Who am I? I guess nobody"

It seemed like she didn't want to tell me her name. I decided it would be best to just ask her what she meant when she said one group left.

"What did you mean by one group left?"

"Exactly how it sounds, we're waiting for one more group to come back. It use to be two then it turned into one when you appeared"

Ah that's what she meant. If what she was saying was true then it made sense why there were people here before us. I wondered if what we went through the others did too. I looked at the girl again.

"What happened when you went through the hole?"

She looked at me, this time with a look of confusion.

"What hole?"

What? In my sudden appearance in the place we just were I failed to notice that neither, Colt, Lucas, Alice, or Emma were here. I quickly glanced around and it looked like they were not here at all, neither were most of the people that were with us, I did see some that I was able to recognize but only a handful. What's going on. I needed to find out why this was.

"Where were you before this?"

"Same place as everyone else, the castle with the two guards"

It seemed that we all experienced the same thing. Why was this? Were we being tested. I had so many questions but the one that left my mouth was the one that I was wondering the most.

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"Where's your group?"

"Im not sure, I was brought here by myself and I couldn't find them"

It seemed that the same thing that happened to me happened to her, but why? What was different between me and Colt or anyone from my group that made it where I was brought back here? Was it that I killed the Guard, no that couldn't be since if it was that Emma would be here as well. Then what? That's when it struck me, I looked at the palm of my hand. My bones. It had to be that, whatever had awakened in me must've been what differentiated myself and the rest of the group. Was that the condition in order to be back here? I looked at the girl again, she looked normal besides her red eyes, but so did I on the outside. I needed to confirm this.

"Hey, did something change about you when you were in the castle?"

She looked at me and smiled, then shadows came out of her eyes and enveloped her body. It looked like black colored fog seeping out of her eyes and covering her. I was right, this was what made everyone here different compared to those who weren't.

"So, what about you?"

I looked down at my hand and tried to recall that feeling of the inside of my arm spreading. Then just as the thought began a sharp bone came out of the hole of my palm. This time however I felt the pain it brought with it. Although not unbearable it felt as if ants were crawling inside my arm. I pulled the bone back inside. Just as I was about to say something I heard murmuring. I looked back towards the front and saw that the one was gone. It seemed that the last group was done, I couldn't tell how many people came back, but there was something at the front. I wasn't quite sure what it was but it looked like a large skinny beetle, almost the same size as Colt with its head replaced by a skull and antennas coming out of it which looked like tree branches, the bugs that were forming a number a one were now forming wings on its back.

The guy in front of us looked terrified almost to the point where it looked like he was looking at his death. Then he fell on his knees in a position that looked like he was praying. He opened his mouth and let out a whisper that I was barely able to hear.

"The Insect God"