Bounty Hunter Bash Labyrinth Lock Part Six

 The Test


They walked on and on and came to what looked like an opening. Only to be met by five single file rosebushes.

“Shouod we go through there?”

Then the rosebush behind them sealed completely shut.

“Well looks like you have no answer!” Chashathrophogh said with a yawn.

“Do you think that we’re getting to the end?”

“I don’t know, but it seems like we’re at the end of one part.”

“Do you think this is-”

That was when the ends of the single rosebushes shot in between them all, causing them all to be divided. 

Bash looked shocked as she looked at the bush.

“Chashathrophogh?”

“Master Zaryb!”

“Here!”

“Are you alright?”

“Yes!”

“I suppose that this is the part that we all have to do this all on our lonesome!” Moaned Cerpheres, dismayed.

“Right, see you on the other end!”

“And do please remember to take care of yourselves beauties!” 

“I swear to Strena of the Hunt, I will punch you!”

“Please do!”

“We really need to stop doing that!”

“Agreed!”

She then walked on. She kept her guard up as much as she could. She also did her best to keep her flesh away from the thorns. Then she noticed that the pathway became narrower and narrower. Soon she had to turn her body and walk like a crab. Yet, as she did, she knew that she had to check both behind and in front of her. Then she had to took her hair into her clothes so that it would not get caught. She could feel herself sweating as she walked on and on. Yet, to her relief, it did not get any narrower. Then there was an opening. Soon she was able to walk normally and ahead of her was a tunnel with the rosebush at the top.

She looked around and saw no other option. So she walked in. She walked and walked amd walked. Soon the tunnel became darker and darker and darker. Remembering that the maze was inflammable like normal rosebushes, she lit a ball of fire in her hand. She then walked on and on. That was when she noticed the top of the rosebush getting lower and lower and lower. Soon she was bending over. Yet, as she continued, she had to crawl. Then it became so low that she had to commando crawl. 

As she did, she noticed that it had stopped getting lower as she could feel her body shaking slightly. So she crawled on and on and on. She could not see the end, but she still had to continue. She could feel her heart pounding as she made her progress. She started to pant and became drenched in sweat and she went on and on and on. Then she started to lose track of time. She even lost track of how much progress she had made since entering the tunnel. 

She still continued, but she could feel her legs start to ache yet she had to push herself on and on. She could not afford to stop. So as she did she had to put up with the ache. She went on and on and on and soon even her arms started to ache. Yet she had to push herself on and on and on and the ache built and built and built. But she knew that she had to go on and on and on. She looked on ahead to see that she still was not anywhere close to the end!

Is there an end to this? Did this Grasharlo really send us in here just to kill us? Or did she want us to believe we had the chance to escape just to break us when we realized that there was no way out? She thought, going on and on.

She knew that the only thing that kept her going was her will to live. Then she felt her tiredness build along with her ache. She could feel her legs and arms pounding. Yet it was her will to live that kept her going. Then she saw the light. Suddenly her mind became alert and her body felt a new energy had just entered it. So she crawled on and on and on and faster and faster until everything opened up.

She was able to get up only to be greeted by a flight of stairs. She knew that she had to take a break, but she knew that every moment that she was away from Chashathrophogh would decrease her strength. So she climbed them. She climbed and climbed and climbed. Yet she was surprised to get to the top to see that Chashathrophogh was there, along with Zaryb.

They too were tired as she walked up to them. She then saw Strena arrive from a different set of stairs then Cerpheres.

“Now wh hat?”

“Here.”

Chashathrophogh showed them a note.

“It was in the rosebush ahead.”


Your team mate is trapped in a cage,

Should you leave my creature at night 

will change and in sleep’s bliss.

Will give death’s kiss


Her eyes widened.

So she’s replaced one of us with an imposter and if we don’t figure out who it is, they will kill us in our sleep?

She looked up and then at all the others. She could see that there were no changes. Yet she looked at Cerpheres, she saw it. 

She ran up to him and punched him. Then he chuckled and he looked up. His chin had turned green and his face blowed up.

“How could you tell?” He asked in a voice that made him sound that he was being constantly strangled.

She let out a sigh.

“Simple. You don’t have a come hither look on your face.”

He smiled as warts appeared on his nose.

“Oh? And what has that got to do with anything?”

“Cerpheres always has a come hither look on his face!” Chashathrophogh snapped. “Honestly, it makes me want to kill him more than I already do. If I did not know that’s exactly what he wants. Yet I can not help but feel curious.”

“About what?” he said as his clothes turned into brown and green rags. Soon they all could see that they were all now coated in moss and rolls.

“Why he sees mortal threats as a joke!” He called pulling out a dagger. “Now, how do we get him back?”

He laughed.

“You must really care about him.”

Bash and Chashathrophogh cringed.

“No. He is mine to kill.”

“Also if he wasn’t the only one who knew healing magic, he would have killed him ages ago.”

“Oh.”

“And knowing what you are, I know exactly to do it. After all, it won’t earn me any favours among the fair folk but I don’t care about those things. So I will just have to kill you right here and now.”

He threw the knife into his arm. This caused him to hit the ground. He then threw another knife at his shoulder, pinning him to the ground. He then threw a fireball at him and he closed his eyes. Then he lit up and the bush on the left fell and Cerpheres walked out.

“Well, that was a bit extreme. I thought you would at least ask him first!”

“Oh please, you should know better than that. Not yet healing! That is what you’re allowed to live for.”

“Alright!”

He soon healed them all and looked down.

“That note, did it always say that?” he asked.


Congratulations Chashathrophogh,

I am so glad that you have not lost

your cruel touch!


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