Chapter 214 - 214. Glaring Daggers

With Asher and Art taking the path that Laura wanted to take there were only logs that she had not jumped on before. This made her worry that she wouldn't be able to lead Jane to the end as well as she thought. "I thought we were going diagonally?" Jane remembered what Laura had said and quickly caught on to the change. 

"Those two completely blocked us. We need to change where we go to get to the end." Since the end was in sight Laura was a little overexcited so she did not hesitate to push the pace a little. This was where things started to fail though. 

Laura's foot came down on one of the least traveled logs making her spin and need to immediately hop again. This action caused the space between her and Jane to become too great. Before they knew it jane and Laura were both stretched out between two logs. Jane was holding herself up with one hand on one log and her feet on the other. 

Laura was less fortunate and was nearly doing a split while trying to gain any momentum possible to push herself to one log or the other completely. Laura was cursing the boys under her breath since they had forced her in to this situation. She knew that if they had not accidentally cut them off that she would still be on the path to victory. 

"And that's it!" The two boys hopped down from the last log and landed easily. They turned around to see that the girls were stuck in their own predicament and had not managed to catch them in the end. "Hey, so what are you two buying us for dinner?" Asher's slight taunt was enough to force Jane and Laura to double their efforts. Both of them didn't want to be stuck the way they were at the moment and could only move forward. 

"I'll show you dinner when I get over there. I'll make you eat your words in the next obstacle." Laira was fuming since she had not been beaten at all in any obstacle. The feeling of not being at the top was eating at her enough to make her even angrier. 

After a slight struggle and some now unimpeded movements, the girls reached the end sending glares at the two boys. "Do you get the feeling that we should have let them win?" Asher whispered to Art making him wrinkle his forehead in worry.

"I didn't think they would be angry having lost. We were having fun...right?" Art was lost top the complicated ways of a girls' heart. This only put the two boys farther in their own grave. 

"Let's just follow them to the next obstacle." Asher didn't feel like pushing the silence and soon found that the next obstacle looked fairly simple. 

"So it's a walk through a field?" Art was equally surprised that it seemed to be a straight sprint through a field to the other side. "This has to be wrong, there's no way something so simple would be an obstacle." Art was refusing to accept it. 

The girls were laughing slightly but quickly hid their faces. It was clear that Laura had told Jane what this was and they were hiding it out of revenge. This was how they were getting back at the boys from beating them in the last obstacle. 

"They know what the secret is and aren't telling us. There is definitely something wrong with this obstacle." Asher was trying to pick out what the trick to this was. He could see only grass but it all seemed too perfect for a naturally growing field. There is also no name or sign for this obstacle making it even more mysterious. 

"I get there is something on the ground that will trip us up. The grass is too perfect." Asher shared his thoughts with Art who had his eyes closed with intense focus. 

"I think I can feel some metal underground. I'm still not used to going this though so it could just be some rocks." Art was offering his best assistance. He had been able to feel metal around him after his change in focus and determination. This alone was a breakthrough in its' own right. 

Asher thought harder and harder about it coming up with a few ideas on what would be trying to slow them down. The fact that the girls were waiting for them to go first made it all the better. It only went to add to the fact that they wanted to mess with the boys. 

"It could be some form of tripwire that springs up. It could be walls like the crawling obstacle, or it could be some sort of pit trap." These ideas that Asher had were the best ones that he felt were the most possible. 

"They wouldn't repeat something with walls like that crawl before. I bet they are tripwires and pits or something similar." Art could tell that they would be something sneaky like that. This entire obstacle was made to be mysterious and tricky. 

"Then we will move ahead slowly and cautiously." Asher turned his head to the girls, "And then we will get across to the other side to beat the girls again." He knew that taunting them was a dangerous move but since they had already hidden the details of the obstacles from them he wanted to get a little even. 

The two boys stepped forward slowly putting weight on their front feet. This strategy kept them in the stances ready to jump back or to the side. This was a safe way to go about things but also a good way to train the muscles that they needed to maintain their stance for longer periods of time. Within a matter of minutes, the two were sweating while they moved across the field. 

They were about to step forward with all their weight when they felt the ground shift and a soft click of metal. Looking at each other they had a feeling that they had definitely discovered the reason that this obstacle was kept mysterious.