The Labyrinth

A man opens his eyes only to find that it was all dark in his surroundings which was also filled with a foul smell that was unbearable under any circumstances which gave him the indication as to if tons of dead rats were dumped near him which almost made him breathless as he was unable to hold his breathe anymore

Which left only one option for him to survive which was to try and gulp some fresh air that was most probably possible to get from an egg-shaped hole which he was able to see right before him on the opposite side after he opened his eyes and thus he decides to reach the hole and gulp some fresh air from the hole or else he would die in no time due to unbearable and foul smell which kind of entered in his soul with passing time as along with the hope of some fresh air, the hole was also the only source of light through which a ray of light was entering in filled with infinite space particles floating in it

Only for him to realize that one of his legs was tied to a chain as he felt like someone was trying to pull him back when he tried to reach near the hole that could have been easily reachable due to his height because the location of the hole was exactly near his mouth if he would stand tall at his feet

But his reach was not possible near the hole because even after many trials, he was unable to get rid of the chains to which he was tied as he was also unable to figure out anything due to complete darkness in his vicinity, and thus he decides to again take his earlier position and try to understand the situation near him as he was unable to see anything due to the dark and gloomy environment near him

In which the foul smell was adding more disgust and disturbing element as he was constantly struggling to breathe right after he opened his eyes and his only hope was also a failure as he was unable to reach the only source of light and air due to chains in his leg

And while he was still trying to calm himself to reach some conclusion, Suddenly for him to hear a cell phone ring which made him realize the presence of someone else rather than him

Upon which he ended up uttering in mixed emotions, "Is there anyone present here?"

To which he didn't get any response and while the phone was still ringing which indicated the fact that the one who was the owner of the phone wasn't picking up the call

Upon which he asked the same question once again as he was clueless and helpless as no one responded to his queries

But before he could carry out any further actions, the whole place gets filled with the noise of cell phones ringing as if everyone was getting calls at the same time which soon turned into ear-piercing chaos, because of which he tried to protect his ears in which he failed as even after keeping hands on his ears, he was unable to barricade the noise from entering in it

In response to which he again asked the same question, but as usual, he wasn't given any response from anyone, but one more fact which was rendered before him due to the incident was that more than one person was present in the room as even though the ringtones of all the phone were same

But still, he was able to locate them from different directions and places as one more fact which he realized were that he was present in a compact space as he was also able to hear the echo after completion of one cycle of ringtone

But the deadly noise of the ringtones wasn't normal at all because it felt like he was watching a horror movie with video, as surprisingly even the ringtones of each call were the same which was the background score of the famous yet controversial cult classic horror movie "THE EXORCIST"

Which was more of a mysterious nature rather than scary or frightening as if the score was trying to warn the man about his future and the mysteries that will be embedded in each moment that will come before him from now onwards in his life

And while he was still trying to control the noise flow in his ears by covering it, suddenly the ringtone of every cell phone halted at once as if the callers disconnected the call at once from another side just like they all called at the very same point of time

After which he takes his hands away from his ears as he felt like rain after the heart-wrenching and soul-sucking summer because the whole place once again had the pin-drop silence as if nothing ever happened there except the fact that the mind-boggling foul smell was still present in that place

That was still a kind of fork in the throat when someone gulp the whole fish instead of taking care of it and eating carefully

While the noise cancellation calms down his heartbeats which soared all of a sudden due to the scary and mysterious score in his vicinity, and while he was still trying to gulp the reality, he sees something being splashed from the other side of the egg-shaped hole present there and the splashing continued for further few minutes as if someone was spraying something

And after the splashing process halted, all of a sudden a strong breeze of fresh air hits his nose which felt like the fragrance of Jasmine that sprouted the flowers of peace in his mind in no later than a few milliseconds and he felt like he was again brought back to life while being on the brink of death due to foul smell

In process of which he completely forgot to make noise to make the person realize that he was inside the room or whatever as he, himself wasn't aware of his surroundings