Jewel POV:
Jewel couldn't believe her eyes, just a little bit ago she could've sworn there wasn't anything, but once Peter and Eric had started talking about it, she blinked and there it was. A door. An odd white door. In the middle of the deepest part of the spooky old woods outside her backyard.
See, her family and peter's had lived next to each other for as long as she could remember, and there had always been a dark and spooky forest behind their neighborhood, they used to only play in the outskirts but today they determined to travel deep inside the forest. to commemorate their last day together.
However suddenly Eric took off running with Peter following in quick pursuit. She had never thought her hearing was worse than theirs, so how did they hear something so clearly that she hadn't heard at all?
But now they stood in front of a door, and she could hear Eric whispering his stupid little phrase.
he needs to grow a pair and stop needing a pep talk for everything, crybaby... She thought to herself.
As she was lost in thought and a bit scared of the seemingly normal yet old white door, a cry from peter brought her out of her ponderings
"STOP ERIC!!" Peter cried in dismay.
However, it was too late, Eric had already ran forwards and grabbing the handle, swung the door open wide. Only to reveal a cold darkness.
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She screamed, not because of something scary, but because she felt a primal, unadulterated fear of that darkness. seemingly subconscious, As if a terrifying truth was hidden in it. As if every fiber of her being detested it. As if the world itself was adverse to its existence.
It was too late however, the darkness reached out, and spiralling tendrils speedily started binding the poor children in cords of darkness before dragging them into the door.
It happened so fast Jewel couldn't even blink.
???? POV:
"So it seems three children have fallen into the labyrinth..." Says a mysterious yet ancient voice.
"Hm? that’s not very new, it shouldn't even get your attention." says a younger male voice.
"well normally I wouldn't care even if an entire reality fell in, which happens sometimes and is a royal pain in this old one's ass to clean up... However, back to the subject on hand, these kids are special." The first voice chuckled softly when he finished speaking.
"How so Ancient One?" was the reply from the younger voice.
"Well," The one called 'The Ancient One' muttered. "If my eyes don't deceive me, which they haven't yet, these children are extraordinary anomaly class individuals..."
There was a stunned silence from the younger man.
"Yes, I know what you are thinking, an anomaly is already an existence that only ever happens once every few eternities in all the realities of this section of their game... and they only exist because of the labyrinth.... the one piece of their past they can't erase… And now three defiants have shown up… extraordinary ones at that..."
"What did you mean by extraordinary?....." The young man replied.
"Well, just that these are the ones we have been waiting for, the eyes, the heart, and the mind... the prophecy will be fulfilled..." The Ancient One spoke with a nonchalant attitude, while his were gleaming with delight.