"Fast it is getting louder" Aarav shouted.
"Wait! I am still tired from the previous chase of the hyena and robot army!" Sameer coplained.
"Stop complaining and come faster!" Aarav shouted.
Kabir who was almost out of breath austonished by the two said. "I still don't get... how you two can run even... after that chase... and have the energy... to shout at eachother..."
"STOP talking and follow me!" Aarav said.
Then in front of them the path divided into two.
"Now what?" Sameer asked.
Aarav went near the left path and showed his left hear in that direction and steped inside the path a little.
"Help!"
'The sound become a little weak. They probably don't have much more energy.'
Now he did the same in the right side as well.
No sound came.
'Ho no! Did they ran out of energy from shouting for help?'
"I think the person ran out of energy from shouting for help."
Aarav reviled.
"Now what how are we going to find out which path to go?" Sameer asked.
"We split up" Kabir suggested
"Split up! But we don't know what is lurking in this cave and one of us should explore thus cave alone." Sameer pointed out.
"Don't worry you will have someone go with you, you scardycat." Aarav joked at Sameer.
"Alright I accept that." Sameer agreed.
"What you accept that you are a scaredycat?" Kabir asked.
Sameer defended himself "Wait I did not accept that! I..." And got cute off by Aarav.
"Stop! Yapping and let's go. Kabir will you go along with Sameer?"
"This guy?! Alright I will." Kabri agreed rolling his eyes. "We will take the left path."
Aarav agreed "Alright I will take the right path." And added. "If you don't find the person or the source of the sound meet me back at this cross section."
After that they split up, Sameer and Kabir took the left path. While Aarav took the right path.
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Aarav's pov
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"Come on where are you man?!" Aarav shouted as he ran deeper into the cave.
"Hey! Is someone there?! If you can here me plece answer!" He shouted as he ran.
Then in forunt to off him he saw the same kind of rubble which he saw around the lift crashed area.
Broken tiles, cement rubble and when he looked up the basement ceiling was visible.
But it was not the place he, Sameer and Kabir had crashed into.
It was different, 'So there is more than one way to enter this cave after all.'
He went more deeper into the cave and saw a similar sight to the lift crash he saw when he entered the cave.
The lift was covered by huge Rocks and lift's boor seemed to be jammed as well.
He went closer to the lift. It's door had a small gap through which air can go in.
'So they must be alive just unconscious from yelling for help too much.'
'But couldn't they just kick the door open?'
"Hello! Is someone here?!" He shouted.
"Hey! Can you here me I am stuck in this lift!" The person shouted from the lift. "I can not open this door what ever I try it is jammed very well!"
'A girl's voice?'
"Hey! Is there someone else inside with you!" He asked.
"No! I am alone and stuck in this metal box or else I would have not needed to shout for help."
"So that's why she was nit able to kick her way out. Any way it took both me and Kabir to kick the door open.'
"Don't worry I will pull ot the door from outside." He said. "Just move to the back of the lift for safty."
And he grabbed the door through the small gap and tried to open the door by force. It opened a little and got stuck.
"Ho! Come on you piece of metal!" He shouted and screamed to apply every single strength left in his body.
"Aaaaaaa!"
The door clicked and one side opened fully.
'The boor must have allied well and opened, it is a little sad as I could not open both doors like I aimed for.'
The gir rushed out and hugged Aarav and said "Thank you! Thanks a lot!" Then cried "I thought I was going to die in that piece of metal!"
Aarav understanding her fear pated her head and said "Alright, alright, now could you get off me now plece?"
The girl noticed she was hugging a stranger, let go of Aarav and apologised. "Ho! Sorry!"
The girl was wearing some kind of kurti style white shirt, its sleeves folded showing her elbows and a indigo blue straight fit pants suitable fir women.
She wore a pair of bangles, one on both hands, the bangles had a purple linings and intrugate design.
He said "It's ok" and asked her "Do you know how you got here?" Aarav asked hopefully.
"No," she replied.
'Yep a big fat no',
And she continued "All I remember is that I woke up on a pedestal which was covered in cold water, I almost freezed to death!"
'It seems no one knows how we got here. Just wlking up on a pedestal covered in cold water probably the ice melted into the cold water...'
'Wait! if we die can we be revived?!' Aarav recalled what all happened to him. 'When I woke up every ice blocks was cuted in half and the person inside was was also sliced, and dead before I woke up...'
"When I was looking around I fount this metal looking thing and got in it. I pressed some button and it started going down, at first slow but suddenly it picked up speed and feel here and I got traped inside that thing and also i sprained my ankle. I screamed for help and you appered when was finally about to loose hope."
Aarav holder his hair ruffled his hair. "Aaaa! I cannot understand what is going on, that beast, waking up from ice, that wieard dimension, that giant statue of that headless man! I feel life I might frie my Brian by thinking too much.'
"Hmm... are you alright." The girl asked "And who are you? Do you know a way out?"
Aarav stoped his line of thought and answered her "No! I don't know a way out. And I am Aarav, I also got traped here and there are two other like me, traped here, they went in a different direction looking for you."
"Ho! Thank you very much and my name is Riya." The girl said.
"Alright, we should go and meat up with the others as." Aarav suggested and gave a small smile to comfort her.
As Riya saw Aarav's smile she got a sharp headach for a second and a vision appered before her.
In it she saw Aarav but with longer hair tied into a ponytail like a saint. His cloths in the vision was rugged, old and loose fit. He gave the same small smile he had give just now.
"Hey! Are you alright?" Aarav asked out of concern. "You look like you have seen a ghost."
She replied "No, no, its nothing. I am alright, I think I am just tired from screaming a lot. That's all."
"If you want you can rest here for a bit, I will go in front and met my friends to see if they manage to find a way out." He suggested.
"No, I am alright, I can continue, let's go now." Riya said.
"What about your ankle?" He asked.
"Ho! That I can walk it does not heart that much but I probably could not run fast tho." She replied.
"Do you need my help?" He asked.
"No, no, I am fine let's move."
"Alright then follow me."
And Aarav walked forward while Riya followed him behind.
"Hey! How did you got here?" Riya asked him.
Aarav told her "I had similar experience like you what I also died ones and also saw you three killed or eaten by a giant hyena."
"What?! You died?! And I was eaten by an hyena?!" She exclaimed.
Aarav said "It I'd something that even I don't understand."
At that movement they both heard a sound
"Aarav!"
"Did you hear that?" Riya asked.
"Yeah, someone just shouted my name." He replied calmly "I think it must be my friends. They must have found a way out or something must have found them and is chasing them."
"What?!" Riya.
Aarav said "It's just a gut feeling."
Kabir and Sameer ran to Aarav.
"Aarav! You.. you won't...!" Sameer tried to tell something.
"You won't belive what we had found." Kabir finished for Sameer.
"Hey! Now, wait a bit, take a deep breath..." Aarav said and the two took a deep breath.
"And now breath out slowly." And the two slowly exhaled. "Now tell me what happened? Did you two find a way out?"
Sameer now calmer said "Maybe, we don't know, but still what we was unbelievable!"
Kabir continued for Sameer "I could not pit it into words of even explain what that was, it was truely..."
"Divine!" Sameer finished.
"What are you two talking about? Undelivable? Divine? What nonsense are you two talking about?" Riya asked them.
Sameer just noticing the girl next to Aarav asked "Who is that girl?"
"Yeah! I just noticed her as well." Kabir said.
Aarav answered "Ho! She is Riya. She was the one who asked..." got intrupted by Rita.
"You did not even notice that there was a girl in front of you?!" She exclaimed.
"Ahem! Any this is Riya the one who was shouting for help." Aarav continued.
"Sorry about that, we were just more worried about what we had found." Kabir replied her.
Aarav now curious asked them "What did you you two find that made you so worried?"
Kabir said "Then follow us!" And ran in the direction they came from.
Aarav and Sameer followed behind him.
"Hey! Wait I can't rut to fast!" Riya exclaimed.
"Why? What happened?!" Sameer asked her.
"When the lift fell I injured my leg and sprained my ankle." She reviled.
"Now what?!" Kabir asked irritated.
"I will carry her!" Aarav volunteered, "You just hop on my back." He said showed his back and lowered his hight so as Riya can climb on him.
"What?!" She exclaimed in shock.
"Just get on me we will get there in no time." He assured her.
"But still..." her cheeks turned a light pink not visible much in the dark cave.
"Don't worry. It won't be a burden to me." Aarav said and she hopped on his back, interlocked her hands around his neck to hold on as a support.
"Alright! Are you okay!" Aarav asked her.
She blushed out of embarrassment and wispered "yes..."
Aarav understanding her discomfort said "We should get going soon."
"Alright I will lead the way!" Kabri announced and ran in front.
Sameer and aarav carring Riya followed behind him.