//------------------------------// // Chapter 19: The Maze, Part 2 // Story: The Legend of Sunrise Freezer, First Arc: Make peace with the past // by Justafanfictioner //------------------------------// Sunset was walking for hours and hours among the walls of this infernal maze. After her encounter with the Minotaur, she was terrified to see that he was just one of the multiples other who were guarding the paths of the maze. ”I was lucky that this Minotaur was horny, she thought. But i am pretty sure he is not the only one who guard a maze that big. And even if they were all horny, i refuse to fuck with one of them again.” She arrive at a room of the maze, made especially for her to take a breath and chill out. Sunrise was waiting for her at the middle. When Sunset jump on in, she pass through him and fall on the ground. “What? She said. Oh, i get it, he is a sort of illusion” “Yes, i am, he said. If i show up to you, this is because you reached a checkpoint. If you die, you will reappear at this point.” “Thank god, she said. I don’t want to be ride by a Minotaur again...” “Don’t talk of that, said Sunrise. I can’t believe you actually did that...But there is not the important stuff i want to told you” “I have no choice, you know, she said. I didn’t have any item useful against him...” “I will told you something to motivate you, he said. I actually hide 3 useful items in the maze: The Lullaby Bell, a map of the whole maze and the Goggles of Foresight. The bell can make any creature sleep deeply for hours and the goggles will help you see through the hidden paths of this maze and the weaknesses of any creature. Oh, one last thing: You can only get one of the three” Sunrise make a flask appear, filled with a golden fluid inside. “This is a potion that will bring you back to the real world” he said. “You mean, in our world? She asked. Is this a sort of trap?” “No, he answered. Drink it and this training will stop immediately.” She take the flask in her hands. “The choice is your, Sunset. I will not be mad at you if you drink it.” Sunset is tempted to drink it, that horrible experience could end quickly if she do it. But her fighting spirit finally speak for her; She break the flask by throwing it on the ground and stomp over. “I will not give up, she said. That would be stupid and i will never forgive myself for that.” Sunrise have a little grin on his face. “This is what i expected from you, he said. I guess this is farewell, Sunset, good luck with what will come next.” He disappear, letting Sunset alone in this maze chamber. “Alright, i can do it!!!” she said to herself out loud to boost her courage Sunset pass through the next passage, more confident than before. She walk by accident on a trap who active mortal darts who kill her instantly and she reappear at the checkpoint. “Alright, another puzzle to solve...” said the girl. She return in front of the deadly walls but this time look around and discover on the ground tiles with symbols. The sames symbols were also present on the walls. “Hum, she said. I suppose these tiles have a connection with these darts throwers.” She throw a rock on the first tile in front of her who cause a flurry of darts flying in front of her. She examine carefully the symbol and discover than on a tile a symbol who wasn’t present on the walls. “That’s it!! She said. I have to step on the tiles with this symbol if i want to continue my way” She search for this symbol on other tiles and counted 15 in total. (The total number of tiles were 120) But when she also see their configurations, she knew that would not be easy. “I can do it!!” said Sunset. She succeed to cross 3 tiles before she lose her balance and fall on the tiles. The girl reappear once again at the checkpoint. She make a second attempt who end the same way, then a third, a fourth and a fifth. But she don’t give up and try and try again. “The Fiftieth time’s the charm” she said to herself. She notice that her corpses were making a sort of gate that she use to cross the tiles in no time. “I did it, she said. That took me almost fifty attempts, but i get through it!” She is able to make a few hundreds of meters before another surprise show up: at almost 20 meters in front of her was standing a luxurious chest. ”Chests like that habitually contain something very rare, she thought. Maybe one of the 3 item Sunrise told me about...” She proceed to open the chest, but at 15 meters from it, the ground start to shake. “That’s not good, she said. I have a very bad feeling about what is about to come” She have reasons to be worried, because from the ground appear a giant scorpion, of the size of a minivan. ”Oh, crap...” she thought, before the monster charge in her direction. She attempt to search in her bag an item useful against the creature and choose to use the remote bomb. She don’t waste a second and avoid the monster clamps to get under his abdomen. Then she place the bomb on it and get out, being careful to avoid his sting in the way. “Game over, motherfucker!!!” she said to the giant Scorpion before detonating the bomb. The explosion blow up the creature to pieces, covering Sunset of a huge amount of the scorpion’s body fluids. His huge clamps were inlaid in the walls and his sting, laying 40 meter behind his dismembered body. “Phew, that was close, she said. Now, let’s open that chest...” She open the chest and see it contain a pair of goggles, a bell and a map with a scroll beside it. “«Make your choice, Sunset, you can only get one of them»” she read out loud. She take a long moment to think about her choice... ”The 3 of them are in their own way useful, she thought. The bell will be useful against the monsters, the goggles will help me to foresee the traps and secret paths and the map will prevent me to get lost...Damn it, Sunrise, why do you oblige me to choose?” She decide to go with the map and short after, the wall in front of her disappear to reveal a path. She give a look at the item and see an arrow pointing on the north of the map. “The arrow must indicate me the direction to take, like a sort of G.P.S!! She said. I hope i will not regret my choice” She follow the arrow who after 100 meters, point this time at the west, then after 400 other meters, point the east. After half a day, she arrive at the second checkpoint and see an illusion of Sunrise. “You are doing great, Sunset Shimmer, he said. Continue like that and i you will reach the center in a week!” “I really need a hug from you, right now, she said. I begin to feel depressed of the loneliness...” “I am sorry Sunset, he said. You have to do it alone and you kinda smell scorpion blood. Also, this is the last time you will see me until you reach the center of the maze.” Sunrise’s image disappear and let Sunset more troubled than ever before. ”How many time i will have to pass in this horrible place? She thought. If i get out of her, i swear to never play video games again..” She continue her way in the maze, and a 4 hours later, arrive face to 3 Minotaur blocking the path. ”Oh shit, there is 3 of them, she thought. I should have took the bell or the googles instead of the map” She suddenly remember the talisman took from the Minotaur she fucked. She put it on her neck and walk in direction of the 3 monsters. They stop talking and look at her and see she was wearing the necklace of one of them. “This talisman belong to Ikor, my brother, said one of the 3 humanoids. How did you get it?” “She probably stole it from him, Igor” said another one. “But how, Gorg? Have you see her size? Said the last of the trio. She is thin and weak!” “Weak? I killed a giant scorpion and bathed in his blood!!” she said. The Minotaur in the center of the trio, smell her. “You indeed smell the scorpion and have his blood on your clothes, he said. You really killed one by yourself?” “Yes, she answered. You seem surprised by that, why?” “Normally, we need to be 4 to defeat one of them, said the Minotaur at the left. If you really killed one, that prove you are one of us.” “But that don’t answer to the question of how you get Ikor’s talisman” said the one at the right. “Oh, said Sunset. He actually gave it to me after i...Hum...” “Gave it to you? He said. This talisman was what he had of most precious and he gave it to you? What did you do?” “Let’s just said i’ve done him a favor... She said. He was really grateful for it and give me that as a gift.” “What kind of favor?” asked the Minotaur. “Well...This is awkward to say..., said Sunset. We actually mated...” He don’t have any reaction, but the two other were laughing hard. “He...what?!! Said the humanoid. Of course, he would do anything to have sex with a female human” “Is that something bad in your culture?” she asked. “No, said the Minotaur. We don’t have female of our race, so we have to do it with animals or women.” “I prefer the big cows, said the Minotaur at the center. Gorg, this is the guy you see at my left, prefer the goats and Igor, the one at my right, the sows. My name is Kregg, what is your?” “Sunset Shimmer” she answered. “This is a pretty name, said Kregg. Nice to meet you!” “Can you let me pass? She asked. I have to get to the center of the maze if i want to leave that place” “Meh, You killed a giant scorpion on your own, i am pretty sure you will be fine” said Igor “You want to get at the center of this maze? He said. We know a way to get you directly to it, but you will have to give us a favor.” “Oh shit, she said, fearing what will come next. I don’t know if i can handle you 3!” “I am sure you can” said Igor. “Guess i have no choice, said Sunset, just do it!” Suddenly, a rift open in front of Sunset Shimmer; That was Sunrise, who didn’t seem happy. “Sunrise? She said. What are you doing here?” “That’s enough” he said. He make the maze disappear and give Sunset her geode. “What the? Why did you do that?” she asked. “Enough is enough, he said. Fuck with one Minotaur, i can let that pass, but 3? What are you gonna do after? Fuck them all? No fucking way! There is your geode, i already awakened it. This is time for you to return in your home.” “Were you jealous?” she said with a little grin. “No, just disgusted” he answered. He reopen a rift and bring her with him. When they arrive in Sunset chamber, this one hug Sunrise. “Stop, I will let you hug me as long as you want, but please take a shower!! You smell very bad!!” said Sunrise. “How long i stayed in the maze?” she asked. “For me, not even 2 minutes, for you, almost 120 hours...” he answered “I hate you, she said.How can i hate and also like you at the same time?” “Maybe because i am a jerk, a beautiful and sexy jerk...” he said. Sunset don’t answer to that and enter in her bathroom. “Good, now let’s pass to Fluttershy, said Sunrise. He he he, that promise to be fun...”