Chapter 5: Leopold

“Great.” I say in my mind. “Just great. I’m stuck with a bunch of newbies, the weird trio, and Cameron who can’t shut up for the life of him.” I glanced at Cameron, who was yapping away to the newbies. I Shake my head. “What’s the matter?” I turn to see Lazare looking up at me. He’s a good code master, but recently hit a setback when he rescued an injured code master escape by throwing him through the doors just before they shut, locking him in for the night. It was no surprise that he survived without being killed. But he did have to suffer by spending a week unconsious  geting his memories back. “I don’t normally go with others. And Cameron tends to annoy me.” I growl. The boy nods. “He seems to like you.” I stop for a moment, then speed up. “Don’t ever say that again, Lazare.” I say, running past him. 

By the time I finally stopped running, I realized that I left the others in my dust, and that I couldn’t see them. “Maybe they entered a room…” Suddenly, the hallway disappears and a small room is created. A piece of paper lays on the table. In the usual messing handwriting, it says: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? I stop and think. “Don’t overthink this.” I pick up the pencil and write; a river. I put the paper back on the table. I wait a second, then hear a ding, and the hallways appear again, as if the room was never there to begin with.

I continue to walk down the endless series of hallways, where I hear a scream. I sigh, and begin to run off towards the sound’s origin. I turn the corner to see Cameron standing in front of a girl who is shrieking in terror, with his knife drawn. In front of him is one of the demonic monsters. It has the appeareance of a tiger, but it has wings of a dragon, and the ability to breathe fire, with steel claws and red glowing eyes. I call those types of monsters daemons, for their spirits always remember those who destroyed their body. I slowly creep up behind it. I leap and stick it behind the neck with my blade, which causes it to collapse onto the ground and blue blood leaks from the wound. “Each monster has a weak spot. The back of this type's neck is an instant kill.” I say, removing the blade. Cameron grins. “You got blood all over you.” His smile gets bigger. I look down to see my clothes covered in the daemon’s blood. “Where’s the newbies?” Cameron frowns. “I may have ran ahead when I saw this girl being cornered by the monster, and left them with Laz, and his buddies.” I sigh. “You really are hopeless. You left the newbies for a girl that is a code master and can defend herself.” He shrugs. “She seemed pretty helpless.” The girl looks at him. “Thank you, for helping me…” I notice she slowly puts her hand in her pocket. “I shall take your life from you!” 

She runs at Cameron, who is shocked by her charge, and was a little slow to react to her running at him with a knife, and the knife grazed the side of him. That seemed to snap him back to reality, and he began to fight her back. I watch the two of them thrass around. I begin to get annoyed, so I help him by stabbing her in the back. I watch how the girl turns into a weird looking creature. “Those are shapeshifters.” Cameron, who's trying to stop the bleeding from the cut on his side, looks up. “Are those new?” I nod. “Just arrived a few weeks ago. Now you have to ask them what our daily question is, and if they know it, they're normal. Now let's go find the others."