He just blankly stared at us with his ocean blue eyes and said nothing at all, he walk towards me and patted my head "duck" he said to me and kept on patting my head. I have a lot of things I want to say to this little boy but I just kept my mouth shut "BROTHER" I heard another voice in front of us and he look exactly like Heroin but his aura is completely different from him.
Heroin aura is like a cold breeze on a winter night or a small wave on the ocean, but his aura is like a steady water or an ice frozen at its place. This boy must be Hero.
Heroin run to him and hide behind his back "ehem, I apologize for my brother's action towards you" he bows down and raise his head again. "Ehem, allow me to introduce ourselves my name is Hero and this is my twin brother Heroin, and welcome to life-or-death game" he wickedly smiled at us.
"Our game is called the flip of fate, it's a simple game my brother will be flipping a coin the coin has two sides. The 1st side has a candle that has a flame while the other side doesn't have a light on them, the candle with flame symbolize life and the other is death.
My brother will be flipping the coin and you all just have to do is guess if it's life or death, if you all guess wrong, we will kill you all but if you guess right then you will live and pass the test, easy right?" he smiled at us.
As soon as he finished the instructions Heroin flip the coin, the coin flip on air and landed on his palm, he quickly covered with his other hand.
"Now we will have 3 minutes to decide wether the coin is facing life or death, make sure to be careful with your decision, this may cost you all your lives" Heroin said with a tone that was soft yet loud enough for us to hear him and he lead in closer to his brothers side.
I look at everyone and saw that Ashir was thinking hardly at this and the other one looking terrified for his own life, I can see the desperation in his eyes to live.
I can feel the tension in the air surrounding us. Zagreus was the one who first broke the silence between us "it's death" is what he said to us "what if it's life?" Ashir asked "what if it isn't?" Zagreus said "come on guys we have to think carefully here, we can lose our lives for this" the boy said that is now sweating so much out of nervousness and he turned to me and said "what do you think?" "I don't care, as long as someone gives an answer to the both of them" I answered "WHAT?!" he grabs me by my neck "OUR LIVES AT ARE STAKES HERE AND YOU TELL ME YOU DON'T CARE" he yelled out and his voice echoed throughout the room.
The edge of Zagreus sword was placed at the side of his neck "if you don't let go of him, you will be the first to die here" he gave him a glare and slowly dug his sword at his neck.
He slowly let go of me while his hands were shaking in fear, I rub my neck due to the pain of his grip "if we choose wrong then we die but if we choose right then we live, whatever we will choose it would be our fate" I said to him "your point is?" he asked "my point is that this game is like life" I said to him.
He doesn't seem to get what I'm saying but I need to stall sometime to find that pearl.
"What if his saying is that if you choose wrong or right the outcome will be our fate, in short if we die we die, if we live we live" Ashir said to him "I know that, that's why we have to be careful of what we choose" he said and I slowly slip away from their conversation and look around the empty room to find the hidden pearl somewhere under the water.
"What are you doing?" Zagreus voice came from behind me "none of your business" I said to him still walking around the room.
I suddenly felt the sharpness of his sword at my back "you have 3 second, I'll kill you" "okay, okay, I'm finding a pearl" I answered him "a pearl?" "yea, yea do I need to repeat myself?" "If you want it, I can give it to you" I heard Heroin's voice from behind me "what's the catch?" I asked him "your soul" he replied shortly.
"No, deal" I answered him and walk back to the group. It would be nice to get that pearl, it would help me to save myself from the ending of this novel. Why on earth did I make it like that, Who the hell even put me in this novel in the first place? No use thinking about this I only have to survive until the end to get out of this novel.
"So, did you guys made a decision yet?" I asked them and crossed my arms "nope" Ashir said "because this idiot are to scared to answer and take risk for it" he said while pouting his face "time is running out boys you only have ten seconds to decide" hero said to us "that's easy for you to say, you can just heal back anytime if you get hurt" one of the boys said to him "5 seconds" he said to us " 5, 4, 3" he started to count down and he started to panicking while Zagreus and Ashir seems to be just chill about the situation.
"2-" "DEATH" I answered him and he gave me a smirk and look at his brother "show it" he commanded and the coin is facing death. "Congratulations, all of you have pass the test" Hero said and a door appeared beside them "you may all exist the battle room" he said to us and one by one of us step out of the room.
I didn't know why but I look back and saw the twins smiling and waving us goodbye. I don't know why but they both seemed please of what just happened. Did they get the entertainment that they wanted? Let's not care about this. Weird.