Sintra gasped for air on the ground, her chest heaving violently as she tried to replace the oxygen her body had forsaken for her sprint. Her heartbeat felt as if it had become cephalic as she hopelessly grabbed at the sand beneath her palms while heaving great breaths of air that seemed to not be enough.

"What— the," Vante tried to say but failed as he too laid panting, his eyes squeezing shut as he clutched his chest.

"Mongolian—death—worm," Sintra heard Felix say between breaths but she wasn't sure. She was too busy trying to blink away the phosphenes that had placated her vision.

It took a while before their breathing had returned to somewhat normal but Felix was the one that broke their silence.

"It's suppose to be a myth though," he continued. "They say it has skin so poisonous it kills anything that touches it. I think they say it also gives off electric discharge and shoots venom that can corrode metal," Felix told them. 

"Jesus Christ," Sintra muttered.

"How do you know this?" Vante asked him. "Or better yet, when did you get the chance to look behind you?" 

"My mom was a paleontologist. I had nothing to do but read her notes when I was being homeschooled," Felix explained.

When Sintra's breathing finally leveled, she tried to stand, grabbing at the walls of the small cavern as she examined the inside. 

A craggy wall behind them confirmed that it was dead ended and only the sun outside took governance as the cavern's only source of light, making it a bit hard to see the faces of everyone inside.

The ceiling of the cavern had sharp rocks resembling stalactites extended from it and the sand below her feet crunched with every step, a harder consistency than that of outside.

"I don't even want think about what would have happened if we hadn't found this place," Felix said, his breath still uneven from escaping death.

"Uhm, I know we're called team 5 but there's suppose to be 4 of us so who the hell is that?" Jesse asked and soon all their attention fell on a young, blonde girl curled into a ball while crying hysterically near the entrance of the cavern