Inside the Maze, we will play
He was tired. He didn't know how he got here.
"I wish to play! And you will play with me~!"
That voice... did he know that voice? Did the voice know anything about this place?
"Hello? Where are you? What do you want to play?" Wispy Willow asked the strange voice. "Are you a ghost?"
"Something of the sort, I wish to play a simple game. You must find me in this Maze." The voice said, directing to the maze that... just appeared. "You must find me in under 10 minutes. Otherwise, your time is up, and you lose, with your psyche stuck in mine." That didn't sound good...
"Can I at least see what you look like so I know who I'm looking for?" Wispy asked, and there was a small huff. The mist around the maze converged into one spot just in front of the entrance. What Wispy Willow saw in front of him was pony, standing on his hind legs, with a green aura around his horn. What else he noticed about this Unicorn was that his horn was cracked in the front, and it must have wrapped around to the base of his skull.
"There, you know what you are looking for. Now, before we begin, I have a set of rules. Rule 1: You must find me, and it has to be me. I say this because I will have quite a few Dummies around to confuse you. Rule 2: I will give you four Beacons. They will serve as your checkpoints. And finally Rule 3: This maze has a mind of its own, and if you try to cheat, you will be punished severely."
Willow looked at the four glowstick looking objects and held them tight in his mouth. "Now that that's done, I will introduce myself. I am Straitjacket, and I will be your host tonight. And maybe forever." Straitjacket said with an insane smile and laughed merrily before disappearing in the fog.
"Tick-Tock now! You only have 8 minutes to go before you can find me!" Straitjacket said as he taunted Wispy Willow. Willow already used two of the four checkpoints, and now he was running into dead after dead end. Every dead end there was a Dummy Straitjacket, and every time he find himself lost again and again. Actually, this pony, if he could call him that, was getting on his last nerve.
"Why not come out and face me yourself huh?! Are you scared?" He called out and mist vibrated at his words.
Oh I would love too... but I'm not the one who needs to find you, in fact I can see you just fine from up here!"
Willow looked up to see Straitjacket staring at him from above and he gave Wispy a wink. Wispy, being the athlete he is, jumped high enough to bite the crazed pony's tail, but it disappeared without a trace.
"Oh hahahahaha! I love it when they do that! I always see their see their disappointed looks! Hahahahhaah!!"
He used all of the checkpoints and the maze still kept going. There was no end is there?
"Oh... only 1 minute left... How will you ever find me in time? Oh wait... you wont. Because I'm always one step behind you!"
He was right. Willow couldn't find him in time. He was always one step behind--
"Wait... Behind!" Willow turned on a dime, knowing 100% that this crazed stallion was behind him. He smiled with victory, but his smile turned into a look of confusion, then into one of fear.
Hmmm, that was a nice idea, first one to ever think of that to be honest! Sadly though, I wasn't behind... and your time is up..." Straitjacket said, appearing from around the corner in front of Willow. "Did you even check all the Dummies? I saw you about a minute ago when you turned into this one. I think you stopped checking to be honest."
Willow could only stare as he felt his mind shut down. "Ya'know, I had hopes for ya. You had this... Daring Do vibe, not much anymore huh? Aw who am I kidding, you're a husk by now." He said, picking up Willow and placing him on his shoulder with his magic. "You're mine now, and luckily for you I take care of ALL my toys..."
