Benina was skeptical when I held a pebble unto her hand.
"I don't know, Ami. We might get attentions from the people around," she hissed but then she conceded her self and took the pebbles.
"I can't throw that far, we need to distract those dogs guarding that poisonous tooth necklace," I chided as I placed a dirty white cloth on her arrow.
"And besides, we needed your archery skills." She then took the arrow from my hand to try to divert these dogs' attentions.
"You try shooting your arrow while I will snatch the necklace from its place." She nodded then took her first shot.
It hit the soil near one of the dogs. And as mad as they get, the three dogs attacked the arrow.
Now's the chance, I immediately ran towards the necklace and snatch it away from where it was placed. Benina then threw the pebbles I gave her to give me more time to run away from the post. We then heard gunshots coming from nowhere.
I looked at Benina and saw her signaling me to dock down to the ground. I then crawled towards her fast. But before I could reach towards her, I almost got caught to a trap-a bear trap to be precised.
"Shit!" she muffled her curses and threw more pebbles to know where I should crawl next. We found five more bear traps and three double spider-net traps.
The dogs noticed the rustling sounds of the traps that made me and Benina to start running even there were shooting bullets on us. "Don't stop! Fuck, where are they?!" Benina shouted but I was too doused on my adrenaline that I barely spit out a word.
The rain of bullets were coming unto us! And leaving no choice, I immediately wore the poisonous tooth necklace around my neck so I could not let it slid off my hand. My palms were slippery.
"Fuck!" I stopped running as I heard Benina shouting in pain. She was hit by a needle!
"Ami, dock!" I immediately crouched down fast and with the little strength left of her, she shoot her two arrows towards the two men who were then killed by each arrows. Then her body went limped. She fell to the ground.
I shook her arms to see if she could move but she can't even twitch her fingers. This is bad.
"You go on without me, find the others," she shouted but that's not gonna help her either, so I have no other way, I took out her jacket and tied it on her body.
"What are you doing-"
"I am pulling you, woman," I cutted her words. "I can't carry you since I'm way smaller than your body built. I needed to improvise!"
"Don't you dare use my jacket!"
"I have no other choice! I can't leave you in here!"
"Fool, go find our other mates!"
"Why are you shouting at me!"
"You shouted at me first!"
As our bickering didn't stopped we didn't noticed a deer striding its way towards us.
Shit, it was the deer before!
"Fucking Ami-fuck it, it's a deer, bitch!"
"Stop spitting your curses, Benina! I saw it!"
"Pull me faster! It's running towards us! Fuck, faster!"
"Benina you're heavy! And I am trying!" I hissed but her wail went louder that it reached a hundred yards.
This is totally bad. Her voice would call attention to our enemies!
"I heard Benina's voice what happened-" Keio's voice then stopped when he and Thadd saw our situation.
"Thadd, help me hoist her up! She was laced with paralyzing needles!" I shouted. He then immediately hoisted Benina to his back and they both-or he started to run away. Me and Keio followed suit.
"Where's 006?" I asked keio but the kid shook his head and answered, "He told us he'll wait to the door going to the exit door. And that we needed to fetch you both as he had the necklace in his hands already."
"But, We also had the necklace," I quipped that made the boys stop.
"What?" Thadd asked. I showed the necklace to them.
"That means..."
"One of the necklaces is fake. Now let's go, I still can't move!" Benina chided so we ran again.
As we were running, rains of bullets were following us. I carried Keio on my back for he's the youngest in our team.
Imagine a ten-year-old kid taken by this unknown organization to face such chaos. He must be a genius kind to be in here.
"Ami, your bag had bombs, right?"
"Yes, why? Wait, what are you doing!?" I shouted as he scoured his hands into my bag and took my bombs.
"They are following us, probably to take the necklace that you had in your neck." He then threw the bombs that even I myself didn't know how to use.
"Bloody curses, who threw the bombs!"
I answered Thadd, "Keio took my bombs to throw them against the others, keep on running!"
We were nearing the exit door where 006 was found, he saw us.
"I have the necklace!" He and I said that made both of us get confused.
"What? You have it as well?"
I placed Keio down to the ground as he kept on throwing the bombs everywhere. Benina was still paralyzed, she couldn't move a bit for a while as Thadd was still carrying her on his back. I then took the necklace from my neck and showed it to him. He took it and paired it against the necklace he had.
And they matched. We couldn't tell which one was fake.
I was about to utter a word when the hidden intercom spoke unto us.
"Team D won! They had the poisonous tooth necklace. Oh, we didn't informed everyone that the necklace was cut into identical halves. So we technically had two necklaces. Congratulations team D! You had passed the last test! The other teams unfortunately will be eliminated immediately..."
He was saying more things, but what my mind had only grasped was there was actually two identical poisonous tooth necklaces.
We won.
But why I feel there's something wrong on our winning?
I looked at my mates who also had the same confused look on their faces. They thought the same with me as well. This last phase had me think, if we had finished those test, does it mean we're part of the organization now?
"Yes, we're part of this place now Ami, if that's what you're thinking." I looked at 006. My mouth wants to ask more but he turned around and opened the exit door.
We're in the organization now.
Should I celebrate? I didn't even know what organization this is.