The Keys: A Tale of a Beginning and End

Chapter thirty

Slowly scooting my way around the dead guard, making sure not to look at the blood or ... those eyes. I shuddered nearly stepping on a hand, this poor guard was only ever doing his job, its not his fault the king's a royal..."AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"damnit I thought I'd have more time before the griffin started trouble. Running through the halls was easier than I thought, NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE EVEN LOOKED AT ME! They were all to busy looking, and wondering, what was rampaging around.

The best part about this was that I didn't even need the keys anymore, the griffin ( WHO'S NAME IS NOW VINCENT TRY AND CHANGE MY MIND) broke through every door weather it was unlocked or not. I could escape now but if I did, there would be even more pointless deaths and I don't want that on my mind. So I continued after Vincent, following the griffin shaped exits.

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Cress P.O.V.

Rosalind's only been missing for a few days ( she's not really missing since we know where to find her ) and it already feels strange not having her around. When I have something to tell her, be it a crazy idea or a complaint about someone or something, I turn around and she's not there. I mean sure Rosalind's weird and all but she's a good person, plus she's also fun to have around. It's funny, I just met her and she's basically a stranger but Rosalind's my friend, no... she's my sister. I've never been closer to anyone, not even before all this happened, sure I had acquaintances and all but none that I would call friend.

Zander and I continue to walk until he stops abruptly, making me bump into him snapping me out of my kinda sad thoughts (Sad because now I realize I REALLY had no friends. I'm disappointed in myself, really.) We stand there looking like idiots for a minute, but it felt longer than that, mainly because it was very weird, he was just staring into space. I was about to ask what we stopped for and if he was okay when I heard yelling. Turns out he was looking at something not staring, I turned in the direction of the commotion and even though they were yelling it was difficult to hear what they were saying. After several minutes of straining my ears I was going to give up when I distinctly heard someone scream "GRIFFIN".

It took me like 2 minutes to basically fall through the forest, never and I mean NEVER let me run through a forest, jungle, ANYWHERE WHEN I'M WORRIED FOR A FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER I WILL PUSH AND THROW PEOPLE OUT OF MY WAY TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE FINE!

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Rosalind's P.O.V.

I run out the last Vincent shaped door to find Cress, and she's not running towards me or fighting guards, no Cress is on Vincent and is riding on the Griffin like he's a wild horse. She looks over her face just said pure murder but then, she notices me, smiles, and waves. This CRAZY AWESOME LUNATIC FRIEND OF MINE!