Grand Magic Games X800: Warrior Angel and the Maze of the Demons

After the announcements of the opening ceremony, the participating teams are transported to a new location that is unknown to them. It appears to be some sort of corridor plagued with stone slabs that stack high above them. A Milky Way blanket paints the sky above the stone walls, as torches illuminate most of the path before them. A booming voice comes over the area to instruct the players. "Welcome to the first day of the Grand Magic Games!" Mato shouts. "You may have noticed that you aren't in the arena anymore. You now find yourself in a maze of traps and trials to test you as a team. Make your way through this labyrinth and you will earn points for your team! Simple enough right? Just beware, things are bound to happen around every corner!" The mic cuts out and leaves the teams to decide what to do next.

"So its some sort of a maze race hu? This ought to be fun." Esca said confidently.

"I wonder how the points will be sparked. How does this work?" Reed wondered, crossing his arms to think.

"It doesn't matter all we gotta do is solve the maze. Common guys lets try to solve this before the teams do, we're gonna be the first ones to finish!" Kana shouted to inspire the others.

Zora stood there and looked around. "Wait aren't we missing something?"

Everyone stood there wondering what Zora meant until they noticed Hino was missing from their group. "That damn moron! Where the hell did that idiot run off to!" Kana shouted in anger.

"Typical. We've been here for 3 burning minutes and he's already running ahead without thinking." Reed commented as he faced palmed.

"Well enough chatting lets try to catch up to the fool! Move it!" Esca called and started running leading the way with the others following.

"Right!" Kana and Reed called back.

Some where into the maze Hino is running through the maze as fast as he can. "This is some weird cave. I wonder if this is going to be the battle field?" Hino notices a another path way and stops in front of it. "Hey yea i bet that's where one of the Doggy Whoknows members come out of and we fight. Well then bring it on!" He calls out ready to fight.

after a few minutes of waiting Hino grew impatient. "Grrr Whats taking so long! Alright if you don't want to come out to fight me then ill just go to you!" He yelled angrily as he stomp around in frustration and ran into the other path.

Not to long after he ran in the others came running after him but ran passed the path way Hino took. "Damn where the hell is that moron!"

After running around for awhile the 4 decided to take a break and have a look around. "This place is pretty roomy for a maze, its not what i expected." Kana mentioned while looking around.

"It may have more space but that doesn't mean it'll be easy to navigate through here. I mean just look at all these turns we can take, just one wrong move and we could get lost in here. We'll need to be careful from here on out." Esca explained.

"Someone should've told Hino that before he ran off." Kana mumbled in annoyance.

"Alright so what heated path should we take then?" Reed asked looking around as well.

Esca looked around carefully, wondering what would be a good path to take. Once she figured she found one she pointed in that direction. "That way common!" She told them and the 3 started running while Zora didn't noticed cause he was busy observing the area.

"Zora what are you waiting for lets go" Kana called to him. Zora waited for a moment and ran after them.

They began running through the halls taking many turns and so far have yet to find a dead end. As they were running they approached a fork way. "Damn its fork way what now?" Kana asked while running.

"Right, lets go right." Reed managed to say in time and every one turned right but it turned out to be a dead end.

"Oh great and i got a feeling we'll be seeing this a lot." Kana complained.

"Alright lets go the other way then." Esca informed them and began running in the other way.

Zora stayed and observed the area. He glanced over at the path way they were gonna take. His eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Wait a minute" He said to them and they stopped running but when Kana put her foot down she accidentally stepped on some sort of switch.

Everyone looked at her in worry. "Uh oh." She said worriedly. A sound echoed through the halls of the maze, the sound coming from up ahead where they were heading to and looked over to wonder what was coming.

Hino stood there getting angry as his paitence grew more and more thin. "Grrrr common how many of these dead ends does this stinken cave have? This is like the 8th dead end i came across!" Hino shouted in frustration. Hino ran back. "Alright lets try this way." He said to himself and ran in that direction. "Ahhhh not another one! Ok how about here!" He went in another direction. "Common!" He shouted and complained and kept running in different directions and each time he kept meeting dead ends. "DAMN IT WHAT KIND OF STUPID CAVE IS THIS!?" He yelled at the top of his lungs

Everyone looked towards the hall way in wonder. They could here the sound of something coming and could feel the ground vibrating. "Hear that? What is that? Kana whispered. Everyone stayed quite so they could hear it as the sound grew louder and more clearer. It sounded like something was rumbling the ground as it charged towards them. Everyone looked closer through the halls as it finally grew close enough to be in sight. It was a giant stone boulder rolling right towards them.

"Oh Crap!" Kana and Reed shouted and everyone ran down the path they came from.

As they were running Esca looked behind and noticed boulder turned into their path instead of rolling into the hall way across from it. "Be careful i don't know how but that boulder seems to be chasing us." She mentioned to the others while running.

"What? Thats impossible!" Kana replied and everyone kept running.

"I've got this!" Reed said confidently and turned around facing the boulder. "Now BURN! '''Fire-Make Scattered Arrows!" '''A large number of arrows made of fire was fired out of his hands towards the boulder and clashed with it causing a huge explosion, however it did little to stop it as it rolled through the smoke continuing its corse. "Well that did little good." He said after pausing for a moment and everyone continued running

They took several turns and path ways but the boulder kept following and wouldn't stop. "Damn it we can't shake it what do we do?" Kana worried. As they were running they started to approach the end of the path with a left turn and had to take it, however it turned out to be a dead end.

"Ah a blazing wall! Now what?" Reed asked worriedly.

Before anyone could do anything the boulder appeared behind and was about run them over. Before it did Esca and Zora jumped towards it. "Chaos Fist!" Esca called as dark red flames appeared on her fist and she and Zora both punched the boulder as hard as they could causing it to crumble.

Kana dropped to her knees. "Whoa that was way to close." She said in relief.

Everyone decided to sit down as well to take a break and discuss the situation. "This proves that this maze is full of traps. That will make navigating even more difficult." Esca informed.

"With all these traps around we can't just walk around like nothing is going to happen. We have to be cautious from now on." Kana replied. She turned towards Zora. "But Zora was able to see it isn't that right?"

Zora shook his head yes. "But this doesn't mean we should let our guard down." He mentioned.

"In any case we won't get anywhere just sitting here i say we get heated up and keep going." Reed said getting up.

Esca got up followed by everyone else. "Heh you got a point alright guys lets find that little idiot and get out of here." She declared with a grin.

"Yea!" Reed and Kana shouted and everyone continued through the maze.

Hino continued running through the maze and took a left turn only to encounter another dead end. Tired and exhausted from running he stood there shocked as tries to catch his breath. "Not another one. What is with this cave? why are there so many dead ends?" He says as he sits down to take a break. "It seems like no matter where i go i keep finding them its so weird." He closes his eyes to help him think of a plan. He then open them in shock as he realized something. "Wait a minutes, where did the others go? Heh must of gotten lost hahahaha there such losers." He said laughing hard.

He gets up and pats his lap to get the dust off. "Well in any case i guess its my job to find them and get us out of this stupid cave. LETS GOOOOOO!" He shouted as he ran with his arms in the air and charged to another turn only encounter another dead end. "Grrr OH COMMON NOT AGAIN!" He shouted in anger.

Moments later Hino was running through the halls. "Alright i think I'm starting to get the hang of this stupid cave." He claimed. He began to take another turn when all of a sudden he tripped over a wire. "AH...uh. What the heck?" He examined what tripped him. "A string?" He wondered in confusion. All of a sudden Hino heard the sound of buzzing. "hm? whats that strange buzzing sound?" The sound kept getting louder and louder when it sounded like it was above him. Hino looked up and noticed a giant swarm of wasps and bees. "AHHHHH ITS A SWARM OF BEES!" He screamed and started running away with the insects chasing him. "OW....OW....OW" He screamed as he ran, he kept getting stung no matter how fast he ran.

Everyone is walking through the hall and looking around, being careful not to step on any traps. "You know i can't help but admire the layout of the maze. how much magic power does it take to make it like this." Esca said, fascinated by it.

"I can't believe they conjured it in the center of that tiny arena." Kana mentioned while keeping an eye out.

"We've been in here for a heated while i wonder if any of the other teams finished their maze yet." Reed brought an interesting fact.

"Now that you mention it we've been here for quite awhile, i practically lost tract of time down here." Kana said.

As they were walking Kana placed her foot down and accidentally pressed down on a brick stone causing her to trip. "WHOA! Uh."

"Ah hell another trap!" Reed panicked.

"What but how? I didn't even notice." Zora wondered.

Through the halls they could hear the sounds of rumbling and some sort of animal cry approaching. Everyone looks toward the sound cautiously, wondering whats approaching next.

"Great so whats coming this time?" Esca wondered worriedly.

"Whatever it is it doesn't sound friendly!" Kana mentioned.

They listened carefully and looked over to see what was coming until suddenly a giant boar like creature burst through the wall beside them and about to stomp on them. Zora managed to jump towards them and pushed them away from the creature. He got between the boar and his friends to protect them. "Get moving, now!" He called to them.

Everyone quickly got up and started running with Zora following. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!?" Kana shouted while running.

"Heck if i know just keep running!" Reed said worriedly.

"He must be some sort of guardian for the exist or something like that!" Essa mentioned.

While running Zora looked back and watched as the boar creature chased them down. "This isn't good, with this creature following us its likely to spring some of the traps!" He warned them

"Ugh just are luck!" Kana complained.

As they were running the boar sprang one of the traps and up ahead of the 4 a long trapped door fell below the ground. "A spike pit!" Esca yelled to the others to warn them.

"I got it!" Reed said and ran in front of the others. He clapped his hands together and slammed it on the floor creating a floor covering the pit made out of fire. "Now go!" He said and continued running. After they crossed Reed neutralized his spell so the boar won't follow. "That'll take care of him" He said confidently.

As the boar approached the pit it showed no signs in stopping. When it got to the edge it leaped over the entire pit and continued its corse. "AHHHHHHHHH!" Reed and Kana screamed. "Amazing" Esca said in surprised and everyone continued running.

"WHAT KIND OF FREAKISH MONSTER IS THIS!?" She yelled in surprised. Kana became exhausted from the running and kept pushing herself to go further. She closed her eyes because of the effort and didn't see where she was going. Up ahead was a right turn and Hino appeared from it also running. "UHHHHH!" They both collided into each other and fell to down.

"Hey its Hino" Esca said.

Hino and Kana quickly got up and glared at each other. "So we're pulling sneak attacks are we?" Hino shouted at her

"I don't need a cowardly move! if i wanted to ill take you head on!" Kana shouted back.

"Then enough waiting lets settle this here and now!" Hino shouted in response.

Kana and the others noticed Hino was covered in sting marks. She tried to hold back her laugh. "puff HAHAHAHAHAHA MAN YOU LOOK SUPID!" She laughed and pointed at him.

Hino grew irritated "Grrrr SHUT UP!" He shouted back. He calmed down when he realized something. "Oh hey so here you guys are. What's wrong with you guys? How could you get lost so fast in this contest?" He said glaring at them and giving them a pouty face.

Kana and Reed pounded Hino into the ground. "Your the one who got lost you moron!" They both shouted at the same time.

"Anyways!" Esca interrupted. "We found you but try not to run off again got it?" She informed him.

Distracted by the commotion the others were making Zora forgot about the boar creature behind them as it appeared behind them rampaging. "Quick get moving!"

"AHHHHHHHH!" They shouted as they ran. "WHAT IS THAT THING?" Hino shouted wondering what it was.

"We think its some sort guardian of this maze. Its preventing us from reaching the goal." Essa informed him as they ran.

"What do we do?" Hino wondered.

As they were running the boar creature triggered another trap. "Uh! Look out its another trap." Zora informed them.

Then suddenly a brick wall fell in front of them blocking their path. "This isn't good." Essa said.

"Alright if we can't go ford then we're gonna have to fight our way back are you ready guys?" Gino said to others readying them to fight.

"Right!" They said together. Once they said that Hino, Kana and Reed turned around and leaped towards the boar.

"Lightning Dragon!" Hino called with lightning being released from his hand.

'''"Requip!" '''Kana called as a bright glow appeared near her hands.

'''"Fire-Make!" '''Reed called with fire being released from his hands.

At the same time they both attacked the boar creature as hard as they could. '''"Lightning Fist" "Black Star Mace!" "Battle Ax!" '''They all shouted with their spells colliding with the creature causing an explosion and knocking it back. The boar looked at them in fear and ran away.

"Hahaha alright!" Hino cheered.

Kana looked at him in annoyance. "Why are you getting all cheerful about beating a boar?" She said to him

"Guh shut up." He responded.

After everyone calmed down Hino took a look around. "Man what is with this cave? Theres giant pigs, swarm of bugs, and dead ends everywhere you go."

"We're not in a cave we're in a maze. Which explains the many dead ends you ran into. Kana informed him "Though with your brilliant intellect I'm surprised you managed to get this far." She mocked him.

"Huh? A daze? Yea i guess i am feeling a little tired. I'm going for a nap" Hino said and made a big grin, imagining being in a comfy bed

"I said maze not daze you moron! Its a trail people can take with so many turns that if you enter and take a wrong move you can end up being lost in it for days, months or even years" Kana informed him. "Geez your so stupid." Kana complained

"What'd you called me blonde?" Hino glared at her

"What are you having a hard time hear?" She glared back

As the 2 continued to trade insults with each other Reed glanced over at Zora who was looking around the maze again. "Zora you've been really quite since we entered this heated maze. Whats up?"

"Yea come to think of you've been in deep thought for awhile." Esca said glancing over at him.

"Damn it Zora here we are trying to get out of this stupid faze and your doing nothing I ought kick your ass!" Hino shouted threatening him and getting ready to fight.

"Oh please don't make me laugh." Kana said catching his bluff.

Zora glanced over at them and then back to look around. "There are 3 types of traps." He mentioned in a calm tone.

"Hu?" Hino stopped to wonder what he was talking about.

"What do you mean?" Esca asked in curiosity.

"From what i've noticed since being in the maze there are 3 types of traps we came up against." He informed them.

"Care to elaborate?" Kana brought up. She quickly became curious to what he was talking about.

"Retreat traps, delay traps and guardian traps. So far that's all we encountered since we've been here." Zora informed them glancing over at them.

"Oh yea like that rolling boulder that made us run back to where we started." Kana remembered.

"Also the inferno spiky pit and the fiery drop wall." Reed mentioned.

"Not to mentioned that boar creature and the swarm of bees Hino encountered." Esca mentioned as well. "But wait what does this have to do with getting out of here?" She wondered looking at Zora expecting an answer.

Hino stood there completely clueless as to what their talking about.

"With every trap we encountered I've noticed we never taken that path the traps appeared at and when we do we just face an even more difficult trap like this drop wall behind us." Zora informed pointing at the trap.

"Why? Whats so important about that?" Kana asked

Zora turned towards them and gave them a calm yet serious look. "Tell me, what are the purpose for setting traps?" He questioned them.

Reed thought about it for a moment. "Umm? to keep intruders from... from find the treasure!" Reed's tone changed from wondering to amazement when he realized where Zora was going with this. "No way."

"I get it now, we weren't supposed to avoid the traps we had to face them when we fall for them. If we don't then we just get ourselves running around in circles and finding dead ends." Kana thought out loud.

Esca stared at Zora. "Amazing! Even in this maze and all the commotion going on inside it, he was able to evaluate the traps and learned the secrets to this maze. He's truly an amazing wizard." She thought in her head.

Hino walked up and smacked his fist on his hand and cracked his knuckles. "Alright guys now that we got our game plan lets get to work." Hino said with a grin on his face and confidence in his eyes as the other walked up behind ready to go as well.

"Right!" Everyone but Zora said at once and Zora just grind.

"LETS GO!" Hino shouted and lead the way with others following.

As they were running through the maze they caused numerous explosions as they progress through the maze. They were fighting against giant creatures bigger then boar they faced before. "Lightning Dragon Wing Attack!" Hino attacked with his hands engulfed by lightning and smacked it on the creatures. '''"Fire-Make Scattered Arrows!" '''Reed called and launched numerous arrows of fire and struck a different pair of creatures. "Open Gate of the Golden Bull! Taurus" A human bull appeared in front of Kana. "MOOOOOOO!" Taurus shouted as he chopped at the creatures with his ax. Esca leaped towards the creatures, attacking them with black, red flames every time she collided with one of them. Zora stood there as he was surrounded by a bunch of them, He stood there as a magical aura flowed out of his body. "Shock Wave" An explosion of magic energy erupted and blew the creatures away.

Hino stood on top of a pill of the creatures he defeated. "Hahahaha is that the best they got? I can take on a hundred of those thing!" He said confidently.

Esca looked over. "Enough yapping. Lets move!" She said and starting running ahead with everyone following.

As they were running they approached the end of the hall with a right turn. As the were running Reed accidentally stepped on a trigger. "Alright lets blaze." He said looking at the trigger he stepped on.

The others prepared themselves and heard something click. The wall at the turn they were approaching opened up revealing several holes in the wall. Everyone glared at it, ready to face whatever it is. The holes started to charge until suddenly a huge guest of wind blasted the 5 which caused them to fling backwards.

Hino quickly grabbed the ground and held on so he wouldn't be blown away. "Whoa what is this trap?" He wondered in amazement.

"Ugh its a typhoon gate! Its trying to blow us away!" Kana had to yellow for the wind was blowing too loudly.

Hino tried to get on arm forward and grabbed the ground once he did. "If you think I'm going to let a little gust of wind stop me then you got another thing coming pale!" He began crawling on the ground as if climbing up a cliff. Everyone watched and did the same.

Their struggle to crawl out of the wind blast grew more difficult as the wind started to blow stronger and stronger. "Man this wind is intense!" Hino said.

"We're not getting any further." Kana stated. "Someone do something!"

Esca glanced over at the typhoon wall. "Hey Zora wanna give me a hand?" She called to him behind her.

Zora shook his head and prepared himself. Esca released the ground and was blown towards Zora. Zora quickly stood up crossing his arms giving her stepping stool. Esca landed on his crossed arms and once she did Zora launched her towards the wall. She was shot towards it like a rocket, going faster then the wind can blow her away and when she approached the wall her arm released black, red fire. "Alright here goes! '''Reaper Blade!" '''She called and a giant scythe of black, red flames appeared on his arm and stabbed through the wall. With the tip of the blade still in the wall, black, red flames burst out of parts of the wall until it soon exploded. She walked out of the smoke with a with a cool yet confident look on her face. "Ladies and gentle i've found our exit" She said presenting the path way behind the wall she destroyed.

"Whoa awesome!" Hino said in amazement.

Everyone went through the destroyed wall and ran through that given path way.

Not long after that they wondered through the maze and stopped when they came across a straight path that is decorated differently then what they've seen the entire time. The walls were decorated white and the floor was replaces with light brown tiles. The hall way covered in polka dots on the floor and wall.

Everyone looked on in wonder. "What is this?" Hino looked at as if it was some weird hallway.

"This has got to be the most obvious trap set for us." Kana said.

"Yea." Reed said.

"Alright guys lets not let this weirdo hallway stop us from reaching out goal! Lets go!" Hino shouted and ran forward, ignoring the trap.

"Uh Hino wait what are you doing!" She shouted at him.

Hino didn't listen and stepped on one of the dots on the floor. Zora quickly ran up to him and grabbed Hino by the collar and threw him away from the dots. A dart a released from both walls and was about to strike Zora, however Zora manged to lean backwards allowing the dart to fly past him. Once they past Zora got from the dots.

"I get it." Esca said. "Its pressure sensitive. Stepping on the dots on the floor is what triggers the darts to shoot." She got close to observe the darts. "It looks like their poison darts as well." She informed

"I estimate a 3 second gap between stepping on the dot and the fire of the dart." Zora mentioned.

"So how are we going to get past this fire wall?" Reed wondered.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" Hino shouted behind everyone. They glanced over and noticed Hino running towards it again.

"Hino! What the hell are you doing!" Kana shouted.

Once Hino reached the dots he jumped as far as he could. "What the! Is he insane?" Reed said in shock."

"No Hino!" Esca said in worry.

Once he landed on the dots he dashed by with the appearance of a lightning bolt, He ran through it faster then the darts could fire. '''"Lightning Dragon Rushing Current!" '''He called once he made it across. The dots were fired seconds after.

Everyone looked on in relief. "The reckless fool nearly gave me a heart attack." Kana said in relief.

"Alright my turn." Reed said adjusting his toque.

"Are you serious?" Kana wondered in shock.

"All i got is 2 seconds to avoid the darts right?" Reed asked Zora who shook his head yes. "Heh." He began running. When he reached the dots he jumped as well. "Heh" While in the air he clapped his hands. '''"Fire-Make!" '''As he got closer to the ground fire was released from his hands. '''"Chain!" '''He waved one hand back and a chain of fire emerged. He waved it around like a whip and threw it towards where Hino is. It attached itself to the ground and Reed tugged on it bringing himself closer to the end. Unfortunately he was unable to make it all the way. He hit the ground and quickly got up but was unable to make it in time as the darts were fired once he got one foot up. "Oh no!" He said as the dart came closer.

"REED!" Everyone but Zora shouted in worry.

Before the dart could reach him a trapped door opened underneath him, making him fall avoiding the dart as flew by. "Oh no Reed!" Kana shouted in worry.

"Don't worry i'm still fired up!" He said, his voiced echoed when he called out.

Everyone wondered what happened. Reed had fell in the pitfall trap but managed to catch himself before he hit the bottom. "Hehehe" He was able to climb out and leap the rest of the way to each the end. "Alright now im burning up." He said cheerfully.

Kana was relieved. "So some of the are pitfall traps as well hu?" looked back at the others. "Ok who's next?" She wondered.

"Why don't you go Kana?" Esca offered.

"Ok" She said, not even hesitating.

She held out her arm and a glow appeared on here wrist and Requip of a golden bracelet with golden keys attached to it appeared. She grabbed on of the keys. '''"Open gate of the Lion! Leo!" '''A man in a tuxedo with bushy orange hair and shaded glasses appeared.

"You shining prince has arrived madam." Leo said.

"Leo think you can get me to other side of this hall way?" She asked

Leo observed to the polka dot trap. "Yea no problem." He said pushing his glasses up.

"Be careful of the dots on the floor they release poison darts." She warned him.

"Don't worry you'r pretty little face. I'll get you over there no matter what." He said confidently and picked up Kana. Leo leaped towards the dots and began running. As he ran he evaded the darts that were fired towards him. Some were fired when he was focusing on others and was about to strike Kana. "I don't think so." He said. His hand glowed and punched the darts away. "You can fire a million darts, i won't let any of them touch her." He said and continued to run. As he ran he stepped on one of the dots and a another trap door opened under his leg, catching him off balance. "Oh crap."

"Oh no Leo!" Kana shouted in worry.

Leo leaped away to safety but kept running with the darts mere inches from scratching him. "GAHHHHHHHHH!" He shouted as he approached the end until suddenly. "Ugh!" A dart stuck his leg causing him to slow down making more darts strike him.

"LEO!" Kana screamed in worry.

"I won't... let you.... get hurt Kana!" He said and held Kana back. "Alright you guys! CATCH!" He threw Kana at Reed and Hino so they can catch her.

Reed and Hino got to where she was thrown at and both caught her before she could hit the ground and set her down. Kana quickly got up. "Leo!" She said in worry.

Leo was fatigued by the poison. "Hey don't worry ill be fine, so long as your alright then..." He tried to say but was forced back to the Celestial Spirit World before he could finish talking.

Kana was still worried but knew that he could get help back home.

Everyone else was relieved she was ok. "Alright who's next?" Reed shouted to the others.

Esca walked up. "Well then i guess ill go." She said confidently excited. She approached the edge of the dots like shes about to start some sort of race. She took one step forward and dashed past the dots. Her speed was so fast everyone could see her in multiple places at once, all they can tell is the sound of the switches she steps on. One of the switches was another trap door that opened up, however she was to fast to fall in it. She finally reappeared beside Hino and the others kneeling on one leg.

Everyone looked at her as finished. "Amazing, she's so fast." Kana said in amazement.

Esca got up and waved towards Zora. "Alright Zora your turn." She shouted cheerfully

Everyone kept quite and watched Zora take his turn. Zora looked on and then put his hands in his pocket, closed his eyes as he walked towards the dots. Kana, Reed and Hino grew nervous and excited wondering how he'll get past it. Zora grew closer to the dots with each step not increasing his speed or anything. He got to the edge and was about to put one foot on one and everyone watching stared with such intensity until they heard footsteps coming from behind. They looked behind them only to find Zora there walking ahead the same as he was before. Everyone was surprised and looked back at the dot trap only to gaze upon an empty hall with no one there.

"No way!" Hino said surprised.

Esca looked at Zora with a sweat rolling down her forehead. "Incredible. he is speed is astounding not even i could see him get by me." She thought in her.

Zora kept walking and everyone ran up to catch up to him.