Ch:51 – Magi the Labyrinth of Magic – 4-2

2 hours.... it took 2 hours just to climb the stares, though physically I and May were fine we were mentally exhausted so we took a 30-minute break. After our break, we walked down the hall that lead to the treasure vault. At the end of the hall was a big Golding door with a pare of hand prints on it.

Chris:''To open the door two people need to put one of there hands on the prints.''

I place my left hand on the left-hand print. Looking back Jess was the first to move so she put her right hand on the right-hand print, as soon as both prints have touched the door started to glow. As the glow got brighter the door slowly started to open. There was a blinding flash of light that engulfed us all and I felt a similar sensation to when God sends us to a mission world, but much softer.

When I was able to open my eye's and take a look around I was dome fawned for a bit, I read the manga and watched the anime but both failed to do the treasure room justice. Mountings of gold, gems and other things of value were scattered all around, there were even different weapons and armour in some of the piles.

Reaper:''How do we get out?''

Chris:''There's a magic circle in the center of this room, but that is where Amon is likely to be.''

The others could heir how nerves I was, and if they were honest with themselves, they were too. Would it be like to anime/magna or would they need to fight a Djinn.

Jade:''If we have to fight him, does he....it have any weaknesses?''

Chris:''He is a being of pure mana, I don't even know if we can hurt him. Tama?''

Tama had kept quiet ever since the incident with Jacob and I was starting to worry about her. With her past, and how he treated her, it more than likely brought back some bad memories.

Tama:''Djinn in a way are a lot like a ghost, their bodies are made of energy and they are attached to something. As for how to kill one, it cant be done. You can only defeat them in one of two ways. The first is to attack the body and damage it so much it would need to spend too much mana to keep it up, the other is to find it's core and damage it. But Tama does not know where it is, in the body or hidden some were.''

In the end, we all hoped we would not need to fight Amon at all, but worst case we would have to go all out and hope we can do enough damage to his body. Getting our head in the game we start moving closer to the center of the room, but nun of us notice we were being followed.

….............

The room was so big it took us over three hours to find the center and it was a shocker, there was a giant magic circle on the ground, but even Jess could see there was no power in it. I was about to put my hand on the circle when a fire burst to life above it.

Amon:''So, you are the ones that made it here.''

The fire grows and grows in till it was 20 meters tall, the flame then burst open revealing a humanoid form. From the waist down was blue smoke, but from the waist up was a fat old man. He was bald with a blue beard halfway down his belly, he had a 3rd eye between his eyebrows and his earlobes were stretchered down to his shoulders. As he looked down on us we could feel a tremendous preacher on our body's, it was even hard to breathe.

Amon:''The 7 of you have made it here, you may all take one item and leave. BUT ONLY ONE!''

After he said that the magic circle instantly came to life, it got brighter and brighter in till a pillar of light was in the middle of the room. After that Amon moved next to the magic circle and watched us, waiting for us to make our chose.

Chris:''Jade, what do you think?''

Jade looked at Amon and then around the treasure vault. Potting her hand on her chin for a moment she started to think. She was deep in thought for 15 minutes before telling us he thoughts.

Jade:''From what Chris told us, in the anime/manga when we got here we were supposed to get all the treasure here. But now we can all only take one. On top of that, there's Amon. He was supposed to be smart but goofy, but this guy is cold and very serious. If we try to take more then one item he will attack us.''

Reaper:''Then what do you sagest we do?''

Jade:''We do as he said. Out of the 7 of us, only Chris has armour, so the rest of us should look for some for ourselves. As for Chris, he should get whatever he is drawn to.''

Jade gave us some ideas on what to look for, then we separated to look around.

???:''STOP RIGHT THERE!!!!''

Before we could even separate from each other someone came out from behind one of the mountings of treasure, he was a mess. He was missing his right arm, was burnt black from head to toe and was limping, it was shin.

Shin PoV

Shin:[IT'S ALL THERE FAULT! IT'S ALL THERE FAULT!]

He was mad to the point of insanity. When the mission started he had refused to listen to Chris and stayed where he was in the pool, then when the pool was set ablaze he was sitting right in the middle of it.

He was thrown into a hell of pain and fire. The pain was so intense he couldn't even scream. He didn't know how but somehow he was able to crawl out of the fire pool, but it came at a price. All his skill was burnt black and he was living in eternal pain. All the nerves in his body were on fire, screaming for him. Then he blacked out.

He woke up a little bit later not knowing how much time had passed. Dragging his pain riding body up he started following Chris and the others trail, as he moved through the tunnels he kept cursing them, he kept saying to himself ''It's your fault I was hurt'' or ''I should be in charge, not you! I'm the more important one!!''. He was unable to see the truth.

He stumbled onto the others after look for over an hour, he stayed in the shadows mostly, watching, listening, plotting. As Chris and the others traveled more than ones Shin tried to stir up trouble for them, but half the time he got himself injured, and when the others lost Jill and Jacob(he didn't know what really happened) he tried again but this time instead of getting hurt he lost an arm, almost his lag too. Even after all that he still blamed the others.

Shin:[I'm like this because they didn't know their place! When I get back I'll get some of the things the Shadow king suggested, then I'll make you all lick my feet!!!]

After his failed attempt to bring trouble to the others Shin could no longer afford to so much as trying again, with his busted lad he could barely stay close enough to keep safe.

He was relieved when they got to the dead city, he was finally able to breathe and rest without worry. Since Chris and the others had their guards down he was able to stay a lot closer than before, but there were moving faster as well. It got to the point he had to run even with his bad leg, he even almost mist the treasure vault door closing on him.

He hid behind one of the mountings of gold and listened to their conversation. When he heard the bit on Amon he started to make a plan to make them pay. When they got to the center of the room he was still trying to catch up to them they were about to split up, but there was no way he was going to let that happen.

Shin:''STOP RIGHT THERE!!!!''

Chris Pov

For a second we were all dumbfounded. Whether it was Shin's appearance or the fact that Shin was alive I couldn't say, but the thing that scared me right at that moment was the look of madness in his eye's.

Shin:''AMON!''

Shin yelled at Amon to make him look at him. When he did we could see Shin's eye's flash, in that instant we could tell what his plan was, he was going to use Amon to kill us.

Shin:''HAHAHA!! IT WORKED, IT WORKED HAHAHA!!! AMON IS NOW MINE!!!!''

Shin looked at us with his mad eyes and an even madder smile. He then pointed at us and yelled.

Shin:''NOW AMON I ORDER YOU TO...''

BANG!!!!!

Amon had thrown at a massive ball of fire at Shin, who was so pleased with himself he failed to see it coming in time to get away. And like that Shin was gone(again). The others started to come down but for some reason, I was more scared than before, I slowly turn to look at Amon, and what I see confirms my feelings of fear. His face was twisted with rage.

Amon:''YOU WORMS DARE TRY AND CONTROL ME, A DJINN. PREPARE TO DIE!!!''