CE Exams Team 2. [CE Fall 2012]

The elevator would prove to be one of the strangest devices you had ever been in, not only did it go down, but it also seemed to move sideways and one time it even felt like going diagonally. After a while the voice of the hostess would return on the radio, it's sweetness dripping with enthusiastic sadism. "Welcome my candidates, soon you will be in the first test; might seem to be a bit lost, but luckily you will not be alone. The challenge is simple, from where you'll start you will have to find the exit. Those who do find it will become Chuunin by the grace of your Kage, those who fail will have to leave in shame. With a team it will be easier to find the exit, but can you trust someone you do not know? And then there's this sad little person who is so hurt and in so much pain that walking and fighting is more or less impossible, will you stick up for such a person?."

At this point Amarane would feel something close around the right leg. It looked like a giant beartrap and the fact that it was encircling your leg didn't seem much of a good prospect. Before any reaction was possible it would snap shut unstoppably, unavoidably and crushing whatever defence had been built around Amarante's leg, completely shattering it from the ankle up to the pelvis. Walking like this would be impossible and fighting would be difficult, whilst any form of Taijutsu would be out of the question. It wasn't deadly, but the many shattered bones would make it at least S-ranked for anyone who was intent on healing it. The voice came back from the speaker.

"Ohhoh! Looks like Amarante was the lucky one, picked by the computer to have her leg shattered. How droll! But don't worry Amarante, if you want to give up then that is always possible. You see, the black rod you are holding now, which you took out of the elevator wall, is a transmitter. If you break it in two it will send a unique distress signal, announcing your early termination from the tournament. Watch out for other people breaking it, we will still pick you up if your rod breaks, no if's or but's. Now there's one other thing that you should know... The voice then gave everyone one specific secret instructions before you arrived at your destination.

With a satisfying 'ding'-sound it would arrive at your destination together as the doors slid open, allowing you to walk out, well, except for Amarante, who without help would have to crawl out. Before you would stretch out what seemed to be a gigantic maze, with solid steel, undestroyable walls rising up fifty meters until they touched the roof. They were flawlessly smooth, but didn't seem to reflect anything in their surfaces. Obscured from sight the walls would go down beneath the surface another fifty meters, eventually merging in an impenetrable layer of the same metal that spanned across the entire labyrinth. If one would try to scale them by means of chakra they would find their chakra seeping into the wall, breaking the contact and causing you to fall down immediately. Being four meters wide the paths made out of pounded earth extended into the maze, their ends either unidentifiable, since the dim light made it impossible to see beyond fifty meters. A dark and gloomy maze awaited you, now the Chuunin Exams had truly begun.