10-23-2014, 10:59 AM
I was just wondering because I see a lot of writers here and were wondering if they wrote their own original stories or fanfictions and if would share it.Â
I am writing a story on another forum (story gets a lot of attention surprisingly) and just thought id share a excerpt from it. It's written in first person and is about a group of elemental users trying to stop the revival of the king of Gods named Desaraggon. Think like Bahamut basically except this god controls all elements. Here's a excerpt in the middle of the story where they were invading a mine to get currency to escape easy from the continent of Black Fire.Â
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Me and Zachary crouch behind a rectangular mid height steel and iron crate full of gems of every shade of red and blue as we watched a couple soldiers similar to the ones that we met back at the refugee camp walk ahead of us. A dim torch engulfed in bright blue flames flicker on and off above us tinting everything within its light its shade. I rest my back against the crate breathing heavily but quietly..
"Drake, what now?" Zachary whispers so low I almost didn't hear him. I glanced at his tinted blue hair from the overhanging torch. A sense of unrest and paranoia emanated from his gaze as we looked at each other. I peek back over the crate and look at the soldiers to see if they had left. They seemed to have disappeared as quick as they came.
"They're gone Zach. . . come on we got a little ways more to go." I whisper quietly leaping over the crate silently and landing on the metal grated flooring. I looked up at the huge smoke stacks in the room pluming out thick black clouds of poisonous gas and toxins as the heavy rusty and corroded drills pummeled the bedrock with the fury of a titan. The dim lights on the overhanging areas illuminated everything along with the bluish torches dotting here and there over the intricate maze of grates and pathways along with factory stations and mining gear.Â
"No wonder it took us over 10 minutes to get through that entry tunnel, we must be at least several miles under the ground. If it wasn't for that slope it probably would have took us longer to get here." I say looking around again before closing my eyes and feeling out the area around me. I could feel the energy levels of everyone near me. Some were average, some a bit weaker and some stronger than normal. The diversity of the soldiers down here must have been intense. Flexing my fingers I motion for Zachary to follow me. He simply nods and emerges from his hiding spot.
The cranking and battering of gears along with the whirring of machines everywhere was a thing to experience. Everywhere I looked I was greeted with hundreds of holes blown into the sides of the bedrock where one could see the feint glimmer of gold and silver along with the odd gem or two. I wondered who was in charge of this place.
"Wonder how everyone else is doing. . ." Zachary mumbles following closely behind me as I led the way. Our feet barely making a noise as we creeped along the metal walkways and periodically looked around for guards. All while sneaking around I couldn't help but feel uneasy about this all.
"Zach. . . I don't feel to safe about this whole thing." I mutter looking to my left and feeling out a couple more soldiers coming our way. Before Zach could reply I pointed to some overhanging wiring and poles and immediately ran over to them. With a swift pounce onto the smooth round railing I leaped up quietly and with one hand grabbed a thick black cable dangling from above me before climbing up higher and hanging above the area the soldiers walked onto. Zachary however didn't move in time for the jump and was stuck crammed in between to crates with a thick tarp over it.
"Hey when do we get our lunch break? I'm starving like a horse." One of the soldiers said, a older looking male probably a bit taller than me with a shaggy black goatee and a skull cap. His partner was fit athletic woman with dark red hair and peach colored skin. My heart nearly stopped when I saw them stop right by the crates Zachary was hiding under.
"I don't know, we probably got another hour. You know this stuffs expensive. You signed up for this all so don't go complaining." The female chuckled resting her arm wrapped in some black stretchy material on the side of the crate. I dangled from the cable above them.
"Don't look up. Don't look up." I pray to myself as I stared down at them. "And please don't look under that tarp."
"Man whatever I'm starving for real, I could eat anything right now." He groans before his stomach started to rumble aloud. His female friend scratches her head before looking at the tarp and feeling out the crates from the material. My eyes widen.
"Maybe there's some food in these crates. Come on lets check I'm kind of hungry to." She mumbles placing her other hand on the tarp, her fingers enclosed around the black material before she began pulling it away.Â
"Shit. . ." I curse under my breath frantically. This was bad. This was bad. The tarp finally came off and the two soldiers looked down and saw Zachary nestled between the crates.Â
Damn. . .
"What the fu-?" The man started to say as he picked Zachary up by his throat and started to choke him. The young Infernic frantically claws at his hands trying to release his grip.Â
"We got a trespasser? Finally something to do." The female says taking out a sharpened dagger from her pocket and twirling it in her hands. Zach was gasping loudly, he was unable to do anything as the mans powerful vice-like grip wrapped around his throat even tighter. He was gonna pass out soon.
"Now we gotta kill you, all trespassers on military and federal property must be executed. Sorry kid, but I'm not losing this job for you. Rest in peace." She sighs lifting her blade about to plunge it in his abdomen. I swing off the cable down at them. My sword already halfway out its sheathe ready to slash flesh and sinew.
"NOOO!" I yell loudly briefly catching their attention before all the lights went out in the facility, followed by a huge crackling sound as machinery short circuited out. The noises were immediately followed by the sound of punching and flesh being cut from bone followed by a muffled scream and bodies dropping with a thud on the walkway. Everything is quiet afterwards. . . no alarms, no yelling, no anything. A lone flickering flame plumes from the black blanket of darkness illuminating Zach's face as he glared across the walkway.
"Drake? Drake are you there?" He whispers softly moving his engulfed hand around the air over the flooring. The flame soon meets the bodies of the two soldiers about to kill him. The mans head dangled off the edge of the walkway only being held to the body by the spinal column and a bit of muscle. There were no other wounds on his body. Zachary nearly gagged at the sight before spotting the feminine soldier to the right of the mans corpse. Torn into her chest was a huge gash so deep it cut through her sternum into her spine. The young Infernic looks in horror and surprise before hearing a sword clanging on the ground as if it were dropped from behind him.
"Drake. . .?" Zach mumbles a bit uneasy as he turned around and waved his light source over my body. I was on my knees just staring at the grating, eyes wide with shock and my entire left arm and neck covered in the blood of the soldiers. My sword resting halfway on my lap as I was frozen in place. Zachary runs over to me and crouches by my side.
"Damn Drake you are brutal, those kills were worse than what Nick did to Raven. . . I thought you weren't really a killer?" He chuckles a bit darkly. I continue to stare at the ground for a moment before my lips finally moved and formed words.
"I. . . I didn't kill them. . . it wasn't me. . ." I mutter choking out the words as I remembered the exact moments before the lights went out. As I lunged at the soldiers about to kill Zachary a huge aura had appeared. . . a massive one. . . probably even greater than Ryvans. .. then the second before everything went dark I had seen a vague shadow appear behind them both. Zachary looks at me shocked and confused, he could tell I wasn't joking but dead serious. It wasn't Ryvans. . . but I could have sworn I had felt it before.
"I didn't feel it, but I guess it must have been pretty strong if it made you lock up like that. Maybe it just surprised you?" He ponders trying to find a solution. "But regardless how did your sword and you get blood covering you then?" He asks another question as he helps me to my feet. I shake my head trying to regain my composure and reach down to pick up my sword and flick the blood off it.
"It splattered on me. . . I didn't kill them. I don't want to talk about it. . ." I mutter again still shaking a bit. What if the things target was me but it missed at the last second and hit the soldiers? What if it were coming back? I quickly try to kick the thought from my mind. I was still alive and the energy had vanished so it wasn't here anymore. I focus back on the mission lighting my right hand up in flames.
"I guess Dave took out the security system and the lights along with the main terminal operating the machinery at least in this area." I speak a bit more calm.
"And judging from the lack of any noise two things happened, either Aleria and Aeris took out a shit ton of soldiers by surprise, or the soldiers were trained for something like this and thus are keeping quiet and biding their time." Zach adds in. I nod and continue.
"Then that means we gotta move, we're the only ones lighting up like christmas trees with our hands on fire, if we wait here they will probably sneak up on us, if their are any still in this area and not either looking for the machines that went out or searching for the Break and Pick team faking a robbery of the lower levels. Come on Zach we have shit to destroy." I say pulling back out my sword in the standard grip in my left hand. I charge the blade with energy until it turns a bright bluish white and then with a slashing motion launch a powerful and dense crescent of blue damnation at a bunch of overhanging cables and wires. The fiery attack chars through them all before exploding violently as it hits the above walkway and raining down fiery embers.
"Drake you gotta teach me how to do that, what's that attack called?" Zach chuckles taking out his kukri machete from his back and stabbing into a bunch of wires and pipes below and beside us. The sound of metal being cut and wires whipping and cracking before falling down echoes throughout the large couple miles tall and many miles wide underground cavern.
"I don't know, I don't really name my attacks." I mutter leaping in the air and with a spiral downwards cut through the supporting pipes of the walkway above me causing it to collapse on itself and get entangled in more wires.
"Well if you did it'd make our sync fighting more intact, by yelling an attack I'd know what it is and how to add to it but the enemy wouldn't." He yells as he plunges his angled kukri into a vessel causing oil and water to spill out onto the ground. I think about his comment for a minute.
"Yea, you're right it would help wouldn't it? Very well I'll call it Dragons Bane." I mumble to him vaulting off a overhead pipe back down to him. Zachary looks at me, his flickering flames blue hue coloring us both.
"Dragons Bane? The chain of tunnels leading to the mountain where Deraga supposedly sleeps?" He says curious. I nod in agreement.
"We after all got our pyromancing from him, might as well dedicate an attack to him." I chuckle sheathing my sword.
"But I thought you hated being a Infernic?" He rebuts.
"I do, but I like large black winged dragons." I chuckle patting him on the head. "Our conversation is interrupted by a cackle coming in off my earpiece.
"Drake. . . Zachary? It's been long enough I'm checking in. Everything ok?" Dave statics through the microphone. I put my hand up to my left ear on the piece and reply.
"Yea, everythings good. Zachary almost got killed but your clones did their job right on cue. Hows the others?" I speak into my mic.Â
"Aleria and Aeris did pretty good, they managed to take out a bunch of soldiers easy and draw a bit of attention, Nick and his group also did their job. I heard the lower levels are swarming with soldiers." Dave gives me the good news. A smile etches itself across my face as I laugh.
"That's good, we're on our way to the main chamber now. We should be able to just drop and parkour our way down, the rest of the soldeirs will be here any minute after the commotion we made." I reply extinguishing my flame and rubbing my black hair in the darkness.
"Yea we got em all over the place, strange. . . I thought this would be a lot harder than I thought. These soldiers are a let down." Zach says cockily. A brief silence ensues before Dave speaks in the mic again, his voice assuming a darker tone.
"That's what I thought. . . until Aleria told me about a anamoly they came upon after the lights went out." He says quietly. Me and Zach tense up and listen eagerly.
"What? What are you talking about?" Zach says into his earpiece as he strapped his sword back to his back. A deep bad feeling welled up in me as I looked over at the corpses of the two soldiers a bit to my right. Dave clears his throat and begins.
"Well Aleria said that even though they didn't take out anyone lethaly, they found bodies. . . lots of bodies strewn out all over their area, each corpse they inspected had brutal wounds inflicted on them." He says pausing. My eyes widened.
"How brutal were they?" I mutter back as the air around me felt heavier and my fingers started getting clammy. A sense of uneasiness tackled me and Zachary. Dave speaks again.
"Very. . . some were decapitated or nearly decapitated. . . others were basically sliced in half, and some were. . ." He trails off.
"Some were what?!" I yell nearly into the mic.
"Eaten. . ." he whispers. I nearly froze up like a ice cube. Eaten? What the hell was going on? What the fuck were we getting into? I wanted to leave this place more than ever now. I turn my gaze to Zachs flame, his eyes were wide with shock and fear. I briefly remember the experience I had when the lights went out.
"Nick also said the same thing was near him, he and James would hear screaming, groaning and then the sound of scuttling and running." Dave sighs a bit queasy himself. This was an unexpected low blow to us.
"No wonder this felt so easy, and we didn't see many soldiers. . . they were being killed. . . but who or what would kill so fast and brutally in the short amount of time we've been here?" I mumble.
"I don't know. . . but that's not the point at least you all are alive. Now make your way down to the heart of the mine. It shoud be ground level, the stealth and breaking groups are already on their way. You should get a move on." He utters aloud. I nod to Zach and we both prepared to parkour down the walkways and wires.
"And Drake. . ." Dave catches me just as I was about to leap off the railing. My feet balance on the smooth cold steel of the cylindrical railing as I stood upright and talked in my earpiece.
"Yes Dave?" I whisper the words in a serious tone. A long pause ensues as if time had frozen us all in place before Daves next words broke the silence.
"Be careful dude. . . we need this to go smooth if we want the riches and the ship." He says before cutting off his master earpiece. Me and Zach look at each others general directions in the darkness.
"Lets go Zach. Follow my aura signature through the darkness." I say stepping off the railing and free falling a bit towards the next platform with him hot on my heels. Everything was getting weird. Probably over a hundred soldiers or more brutally evicerated without anyone knowing? The shadow I saw just as the lights went out. The powerful aura I felt. The fuck was going on? After about ten minutes of nothing but the sound of me and Zach descending to the ground we finally saw the light of Alerias flame on the ground. She was surrounded by the rest of the group save for Dave. Me and Zach hit the ground a couple meters from them in a roll.
"Took you long enough. . ." James says chuckling darkly. He had the nerve to be so quaint in all this dark atmosphere. I ignore his comment and walk towards the group. We stood before a massive spherical safe like building with a small double doored thick metal entrance way with a self generating control panel still in function.
"So how do we get in?" I question everyone. Orin quietly walks over to the panel and rests his hand on the transparent pad. Everyone watches quietly.
"Like this." He says coursing his electricity throughout the pad overcharging and then destroying it. The steel doors flash lights at their tops and then slide open knocking dirt and dust from the cracks and crevices and revealing a large room.
To be continued. . .
I am writing a story on another forum (story gets a lot of attention surprisingly) and just thought id share a excerpt from it. It's written in first person and is about a group of elemental users trying to stop the revival of the king of Gods named Desaraggon. Think like Bahamut basically except this god controls all elements. Here's a excerpt in the middle of the story where they were invading a mine to get currency to escape easy from the continent of Black Fire.Â
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Me and Zachary crouch behind a rectangular mid height steel and iron crate full of gems of every shade of red and blue as we watched a couple soldiers similar to the ones that we met back at the refugee camp walk ahead of us. A dim torch engulfed in bright blue flames flicker on and off above us tinting everything within its light its shade. I rest my back against the crate breathing heavily but quietly..
"Drake, what now?" Zachary whispers so low I almost didn't hear him. I glanced at his tinted blue hair from the overhanging torch. A sense of unrest and paranoia emanated from his gaze as we looked at each other. I peek back over the crate and look at the soldiers to see if they had left. They seemed to have disappeared as quick as they came.
"They're gone Zach. . . come on we got a little ways more to go." I whisper quietly leaping over the crate silently and landing on the metal grated flooring. I looked up at the huge smoke stacks in the room pluming out thick black clouds of poisonous gas and toxins as the heavy rusty and corroded drills pummeled the bedrock with the fury of a titan. The dim lights on the overhanging areas illuminated everything along with the bluish torches dotting here and there over the intricate maze of grates and pathways along with factory stations and mining gear.Â
"No wonder it took us over 10 minutes to get through that entry tunnel, we must be at least several miles under the ground. If it wasn't for that slope it probably would have took us longer to get here." I say looking around again before closing my eyes and feeling out the area around me. I could feel the energy levels of everyone near me. Some were average, some a bit weaker and some stronger than normal. The diversity of the soldiers down here must have been intense. Flexing my fingers I motion for Zachary to follow me. He simply nods and emerges from his hiding spot.
The cranking and battering of gears along with the whirring of machines everywhere was a thing to experience. Everywhere I looked I was greeted with hundreds of holes blown into the sides of the bedrock where one could see the feint glimmer of gold and silver along with the odd gem or two. I wondered who was in charge of this place.
"Wonder how everyone else is doing. . ." Zachary mumbles following closely behind me as I led the way. Our feet barely making a noise as we creeped along the metal walkways and periodically looked around for guards. All while sneaking around I couldn't help but feel uneasy about this all.
"Zach. . . I don't feel to safe about this whole thing." I mutter looking to my left and feeling out a couple more soldiers coming our way. Before Zach could reply I pointed to some overhanging wiring and poles and immediately ran over to them. With a swift pounce onto the smooth round railing I leaped up quietly and with one hand grabbed a thick black cable dangling from above me before climbing up higher and hanging above the area the soldiers walked onto. Zachary however didn't move in time for the jump and was stuck crammed in between to crates with a thick tarp over it.
"Hey when do we get our lunch break? I'm starving like a horse." One of the soldiers said, a older looking male probably a bit taller than me with a shaggy black goatee and a skull cap. His partner was fit athletic woman with dark red hair and peach colored skin. My heart nearly stopped when I saw them stop right by the crates Zachary was hiding under.
"I don't know, we probably got another hour. You know this stuffs expensive. You signed up for this all so don't go complaining." The female chuckled resting her arm wrapped in some black stretchy material on the side of the crate. I dangled from the cable above them.
"Don't look up. Don't look up." I pray to myself as I stared down at them. "And please don't look under that tarp."
"Man whatever I'm starving for real, I could eat anything right now." He groans before his stomach started to rumble aloud. His female friend scratches her head before looking at the tarp and feeling out the crates from the material. My eyes widen.
"Maybe there's some food in these crates. Come on lets check I'm kind of hungry to." She mumbles placing her other hand on the tarp, her fingers enclosed around the black material before she began pulling it away.Â
"Shit. . ." I curse under my breath frantically. This was bad. This was bad. The tarp finally came off and the two soldiers looked down and saw Zachary nestled between the crates.Â
Damn. . .
"What the fu-?" The man started to say as he picked Zachary up by his throat and started to choke him. The young Infernic frantically claws at his hands trying to release his grip.Â
"We got a trespasser? Finally something to do." The female says taking out a sharpened dagger from her pocket and twirling it in her hands. Zach was gasping loudly, he was unable to do anything as the mans powerful vice-like grip wrapped around his throat even tighter. He was gonna pass out soon.
"Now we gotta kill you, all trespassers on military and federal property must be executed. Sorry kid, but I'm not losing this job for you. Rest in peace." She sighs lifting her blade about to plunge it in his abdomen. I swing off the cable down at them. My sword already halfway out its sheathe ready to slash flesh and sinew.
"NOOO!" I yell loudly briefly catching their attention before all the lights went out in the facility, followed by a huge crackling sound as machinery short circuited out. The noises were immediately followed by the sound of punching and flesh being cut from bone followed by a muffled scream and bodies dropping with a thud on the walkway. Everything is quiet afterwards. . . no alarms, no yelling, no anything. A lone flickering flame plumes from the black blanket of darkness illuminating Zach's face as he glared across the walkway.
"Drake? Drake are you there?" He whispers softly moving his engulfed hand around the air over the flooring. The flame soon meets the bodies of the two soldiers about to kill him. The mans head dangled off the edge of the walkway only being held to the body by the spinal column and a bit of muscle. There were no other wounds on his body. Zachary nearly gagged at the sight before spotting the feminine soldier to the right of the mans corpse. Torn into her chest was a huge gash so deep it cut through her sternum into her spine. The young Infernic looks in horror and surprise before hearing a sword clanging on the ground as if it were dropped from behind him.
"Drake. . .?" Zach mumbles a bit uneasy as he turned around and waved his light source over my body. I was on my knees just staring at the grating, eyes wide with shock and my entire left arm and neck covered in the blood of the soldiers. My sword resting halfway on my lap as I was frozen in place. Zachary runs over to me and crouches by my side.
"Damn Drake you are brutal, those kills were worse than what Nick did to Raven. . . I thought you weren't really a killer?" He chuckles a bit darkly. I continue to stare at the ground for a moment before my lips finally moved and formed words.
"I. . . I didn't kill them. . . it wasn't me. . ." I mutter choking out the words as I remembered the exact moments before the lights went out. As I lunged at the soldiers about to kill Zachary a huge aura had appeared. . . a massive one. . . probably even greater than Ryvans. .. then the second before everything went dark I had seen a vague shadow appear behind them both. Zachary looks at me shocked and confused, he could tell I wasn't joking but dead serious. It wasn't Ryvans. . . but I could have sworn I had felt it before.
"I didn't feel it, but I guess it must have been pretty strong if it made you lock up like that. Maybe it just surprised you?" He ponders trying to find a solution. "But regardless how did your sword and you get blood covering you then?" He asks another question as he helps me to my feet. I shake my head trying to regain my composure and reach down to pick up my sword and flick the blood off it.
"It splattered on me. . . I didn't kill them. I don't want to talk about it. . ." I mutter again still shaking a bit. What if the things target was me but it missed at the last second and hit the soldiers? What if it were coming back? I quickly try to kick the thought from my mind. I was still alive and the energy had vanished so it wasn't here anymore. I focus back on the mission lighting my right hand up in flames.
"I guess Dave took out the security system and the lights along with the main terminal operating the machinery at least in this area." I speak a bit more calm.
"And judging from the lack of any noise two things happened, either Aleria and Aeris took out a shit ton of soldiers by surprise, or the soldiers were trained for something like this and thus are keeping quiet and biding their time." Zach adds in. I nod and continue.
"Then that means we gotta move, we're the only ones lighting up like christmas trees with our hands on fire, if we wait here they will probably sneak up on us, if their are any still in this area and not either looking for the machines that went out or searching for the Break and Pick team faking a robbery of the lower levels. Come on Zach we have shit to destroy." I say pulling back out my sword in the standard grip in my left hand. I charge the blade with energy until it turns a bright bluish white and then with a slashing motion launch a powerful and dense crescent of blue damnation at a bunch of overhanging cables and wires. The fiery attack chars through them all before exploding violently as it hits the above walkway and raining down fiery embers.
"Drake you gotta teach me how to do that, what's that attack called?" Zach chuckles taking out his kukri machete from his back and stabbing into a bunch of wires and pipes below and beside us. The sound of metal being cut and wires whipping and cracking before falling down echoes throughout the large couple miles tall and many miles wide underground cavern.
"I don't know, I don't really name my attacks." I mutter leaping in the air and with a spiral downwards cut through the supporting pipes of the walkway above me causing it to collapse on itself and get entangled in more wires.
"Well if you did it'd make our sync fighting more intact, by yelling an attack I'd know what it is and how to add to it but the enemy wouldn't." He yells as he plunges his angled kukri into a vessel causing oil and water to spill out onto the ground. I think about his comment for a minute.
"Yea, you're right it would help wouldn't it? Very well I'll call it Dragons Bane." I mumble to him vaulting off a overhead pipe back down to him. Zachary looks at me, his flickering flames blue hue coloring us both.
"Dragons Bane? The chain of tunnels leading to the mountain where Deraga supposedly sleeps?" He says curious. I nod in agreement.
"We after all got our pyromancing from him, might as well dedicate an attack to him." I chuckle sheathing my sword.
"But I thought you hated being a Infernic?" He rebuts.
"I do, but I like large black winged dragons." I chuckle patting him on the head. "Our conversation is interrupted by a cackle coming in off my earpiece.
"Drake. . . Zachary? It's been long enough I'm checking in. Everything ok?" Dave statics through the microphone. I put my hand up to my left ear on the piece and reply.
"Yea, everythings good. Zachary almost got killed but your clones did their job right on cue. Hows the others?" I speak into my mic.Â
"Aleria and Aeris did pretty good, they managed to take out a bunch of soldiers easy and draw a bit of attention, Nick and his group also did their job. I heard the lower levels are swarming with soldiers." Dave gives me the good news. A smile etches itself across my face as I laugh.
"That's good, we're on our way to the main chamber now. We should be able to just drop and parkour our way down, the rest of the soldeirs will be here any minute after the commotion we made." I reply extinguishing my flame and rubbing my black hair in the darkness.
"Yea we got em all over the place, strange. . . I thought this would be a lot harder than I thought. These soldiers are a let down." Zach says cockily. A brief silence ensues before Dave speaks in the mic again, his voice assuming a darker tone.
"That's what I thought. . . until Aleria told me about a anamoly they came upon after the lights went out." He says quietly. Me and Zach tense up and listen eagerly.
"What? What are you talking about?" Zach says into his earpiece as he strapped his sword back to his back. A deep bad feeling welled up in me as I looked over at the corpses of the two soldiers a bit to my right. Dave clears his throat and begins.
"Well Aleria said that even though they didn't take out anyone lethaly, they found bodies. . . lots of bodies strewn out all over their area, each corpse they inspected had brutal wounds inflicted on them." He says pausing. My eyes widened.
"How brutal were they?" I mutter back as the air around me felt heavier and my fingers started getting clammy. A sense of uneasiness tackled me and Zachary. Dave speaks again.
"Very. . . some were decapitated or nearly decapitated. . . others were basically sliced in half, and some were. . ." He trails off.
"Some were what?!" I yell nearly into the mic.
"Eaten. . ." he whispers. I nearly froze up like a ice cube. Eaten? What the hell was going on? What the fuck were we getting into? I wanted to leave this place more than ever now. I turn my gaze to Zachs flame, his eyes were wide with shock and fear. I briefly remember the experience I had when the lights went out.
"Nick also said the same thing was near him, he and James would hear screaming, groaning and then the sound of scuttling and running." Dave sighs a bit queasy himself. This was an unexpected low blow to us.
"No wonder this felt so easy, and we didn't see many soldiers. . . they were being killed. . . but who or what would kill so fast and brutally in the short amount of time we've been here?" I mumble.
"I don't know. . . but that's not the point at least you all are alive. Now make your way down to the heart of the mine. It shoud be ground level, the stealth and breaking groups are already on their way. You should get a move on." He utters aloud. I nod to Zach and we both prepared to parkour down the walkways and wires.
"And Drake. . ." Dave catches me just as I was about to leap off the railing. My feet balance on the smooth cold steel of the cylindrical railing as I stood upright and talked in my earpiece.
"Yes Dave?" I whisper the words in a serious tone. A long pause ensues as if time had frozen us all in place before Daves next words broke the silence.
"Be careful dude. . . we need this to go smooth if we want the riches and the ship." He says before cutting off his master earpiece. Me and Zach look at each others general directions in the darkness.
"Lets go Zach. Follow my aura signature through the darkness." I say stepping off the railing and free falling a bit towards the next platform with him hot on my heels. Everything was getting weird. Probably over a hundred soldiers or more brutally evicerated without anyone knowing? The shadow I saw just as the lights went out. The powerful aura I felt. The fuck was going on? After about ten minutes of nothing but the sound of me and Zach descending to the ground we finally saw the light of Alerias flame on the ground. She was surrounded by the rest of the group save for Dave. Me and Zach hit the ground a couple meters from them in a roll.
"Took you long enough. . ." James says chuckling darkly. He had the nerve to be so quaint in all this dark atmosphere. I ignore his comment and walk towards the group. We stood before a massive spherical safe like building with a small double doored thick metal entrance way with a self generating control panel still in function.
"So how do we get in?" I question everyone. Orin quietly walks over to the panel and rests his hand on the transparent pad. Everyone watches quietly.
"Like this." He says coursing his electricity throughout the pad overcharging and then destroying it. The steel doors flash lights at their tops and then slide open knocking dirt and dust from the cracks and crevices and revealing a large room.
To be continued. . .
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