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What happened afterwards was blurry, I lay on the floor half conscious and as I tried to lift my arm it twitched inch above the floor and then dropped down. My body was aching as I felt millions of thorns pierce through my body and the pain was so unbearable that I would have cried my lungs out if only I could.

I jerked my head back sharply and clenched my teeth, as the pain was slowly fading away I hopelessly gasped for air and my lungs burned as if they were on fire. I slid my fingers on the burning floor, in hope to clench my fists and felt the ash underneath my nails as I dug them in the ground.

Sharply I opened my eyes and saw the horrified faces of the people I met not long ago, Azriel was standing in the front and looked like he would faint any moment. I would have laughed if I could, but every small intake of air hurt me, I felt like I was thrown into a huge burning oven and was being fried alive. Is it my end? Will I be able to meet Anna finally.. the thoughts swirled as I felt the flowing blood boil on the ground by my motionless body.

***

As they looked at the horrifying scene in front of them, Denise yelled for them to save him. but as minutes passed nobody dared to go closer.

James was found laying on the ground surrounded by flames, for a second they thought he was dead but Azriel pointed at Jame's twitching arm that dug the ground hopelessly and the quiet gasps for air that got blend in the cracking sounds of the burning ground.

The flames were not ordinary, they were crimson red and sometimes yellow strikes flew through it, and looked like a lightning. What surprised the small group wasn't the fire but the burning skeleton that lay few feet away from James, if it was the Labyrinth monster then what in hell happened here and who set the place on fire?

'Quick! Get him out of there.' cried Denise hopelessly as the tears ran down her cheeks. Connor hugged her tightly from behind so she won't jump right into the fire.

'It's suicide! do you want us to die that badly? better to sacrifice one, than everyone.' shouted the blonde haired guy at Denise, he looked flustered, unable to make the right decision and confused by the view in front of him. He always thought that he could lead a group, and that leadership was flowing in his veins, but he truly could not save every person that got in this mess of a world.

Denise slipped off Connor's arms after wriggling and kicking him and ran towards the fire. She entered the blazing fire and as Connor followed her the last people that left in the group were unable to look at the pained sight.

Azriel's cries echoed off the labyrinth walls as he was banging his fists on the ground, 'useless, you are useless Azriel, you couldn't even save the person who gave you the courage to stand up and fight for people, even now instead of saving him you mourn his death, as well as your friends'.' he mumbled as his fists bleed of the impact with the floor.

A hand lay on his shoulder and pulled him backwards and Azriel sat and looked at the person behind him questiongly, the blonde guy didn't even look at him as he pointed at the three figures that were leaving the deadly fire. James hang lifelessly between Denise and Connor as they were holding onto his arms and dragged him through the blazing electrical fire.

'Is he alive?' cried Azriel as he rushed towards them to help.

'He is, but his breathing is weakening.' said Connor calmly as he lay James on the cool ground far from the fire.

A weak breathing was indeed heard from James' trembling mouth, and every time he breathed in air he cringed in pain.

'Does someone have water? His skin is burning hot." said Denise worryingly as she towered above James.

' Let me do it, I have some water.' the blonde guy said as he sat by James and spilled some cool water on his face and then lifted his head and made James drink some water.

It was only a hopeless try, but it did seem to calm him down, and strangely enough the fire started to calm down as well and was now half the size it was a minute ago.

***

As I gained consciousness I saw blurry a face of a woman above me, I reached my hand up and put my palm against her cheek, "Anna.." a quiet, rough voice escaped my mouth and hurt my throat. The woman did not reply, she only grabbed my hand and put it down on my chest and then faced the other way and said something. I could not hear what she said, but I saw her lips moving. who was she talking to. Anna please, please don't leave me again. I shut close my eyes and felt a tear sliding down my cheek, and a few more cool drops against my skin.

I opened my eyes once again, and instead of Anna's face there was some ugly face that dropped tears and snot down on me. The view grossed me out and I managed to push myself upward in order to avoid more snot dripping down on me. A sharp pain shuddered my body and I groaned.

"What the hell man? what's wrong with you? why are you letting your gross snot touch my face. For god's sake, that's the worst way to wake up!" James yelled at Azriel as the poor guy was wiping down tears mixed with snot with his sleeve.

"I'm so happy you are alright, I worried so much." Azriel's voice trembled, he was about to hug James but James was hopelessly pushing him away.

James caught the blonde guy watching them from afar and looked at him hopefully so the guy will come and save him. The guy sighted and pulled Azriel away from James as he pulled on his shirt. "Do you want his to die after he miraculously survived?" the guy stared at Azriel with a look that said 'watch what you are doing if you don't want to be beaten'.

"I don't remember introducing myself, I'm Griffin park." he stretched his arm forward for a hand shake, but James only stared at him blankly.

"I'm sorry, but what exactly is your name?" James asked with a serious tone and a laughter was heard from Azriel's direction, "I'm sorry! BUT IT'S SO HILARIOUS! 'what exactly is your name?' Azriel fell in hysteric laugh as he was repeating Jame's words. A coldblooded aura made him stop and glance up at Griffin who was clenching his fist, ready to beat Azriel to death.

"What do you think you are doing by an injured person?" A stern woman's voice echoed as she walked towards the group.

"Luna!" James called her happily, and even though she looked mad her tail still wagged in excitement.

"How are you feeling now? Your body still hurts? I worried so much about you, are you really ok?" She snuggled by James as she hurriedly was spilling all the questions that passed through her mind. Luna kept on clinging onto him, as her tail was impatiently brushing the cold ground.

"I think your snuggling will kill him faster than the fire he was in." said Azriel with a slight touch of sarcasm as he was struggling in holding onto Griffin's clenched fists in order to avoid a painful punch to the face.

"Oh, it reminds me. There were few objects underneath the skeletons in the fire, we found them there after Azriel ran to us for help." Said Luna as she was wondering what the objects were exactly.

The objects weren't what interested James, he was more curious about the fire and skeleton they were talking about.

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