Leaping away and from the demon and turning in midair, Lora drew both her .45 caliber pistols and fired simultaneously. Black blood sprayed from the shoulder of the demon at the same time as its head rocked backwards as the two lead bullets struck home.
Hitting the ground on her back, Lora pulled her knees up and her momentum rolled her over her shoulder and onto one knee and both guns spit lead again, this time both bullets finding homes in the chest of Alvarid. Lora started to smirk as she watched Alvarid collapse to the ground, but then she saw that the demon was still standing. Her eyes only moved to look at the beast and saw that the skin on the demons head was torn, but the skull itself was whole, and the creature was using its claws to dig the bullet out of its own shoulder.
Lora instantly recognized that if it was that damn tough, she probably shouldn't play with it any longer. Turning quickly, she darted toward the door that she knew would lead her out of this crypt. The demon, realizing that she was trying to escape, took a swipe at her at chest level with its scythe. Dropping into a low roll, the heard the blade pass over her with a whisper and as she came back to her feet, Lora whipped one gun to the side where the demon stood and fired once without looking. She knew where the target once and smiled when she heard the demon roar as the bullet took it in the leg. Then Lora at a dead run through the halls.
A voice that seemed to come from nowhere and everywhere at the same time commanded, "Stop the woman."
Rounding another corner, Lora slammed her shoulder into the wooden door, snapping it off the hinges and barreled into the room. In the room stood three of the lithe onyx skinned people she had seen on her way to the Dungeon Heart. All three reacted instantly to her presence and reached for crossbows they had on their shoulders. Lora was quicker though, since her weapons were already drawn. The echo of the gunfire resounded in her ears, but there were then three bodies on the ground.
To the other side of the room and through the open door there, Lora turned two corners and found her way down the hall blocked by one of the fat, round, red creatures with the horns. The thing was most definitely able to block a hallway with ease. Lora never stopped her run though, firing six shots into the creature as she charged it. The fat monstrosity collapsed on itself, dead where it had been. Leaping over the body, Lora hit the ground, rolled, and was off again.
Three more rooms was all that she had to go through and as she burst into the first of three rooms, Lora instinctively fired at the body in front of her. What she wasn't prepared for was the sound of the bullet reflecting off of the steel plate armor it wore. A quick dart of her eyes took in three bodies, all wearing heavy steel plate armor and wielding large swords. One stood directly in front of her door out. Taking a split second to aim, two more rounds fired off and though the bullets ricocheted again, the man in the armor fell to the ground, knocked unconscious by the impact of the bullets on his helm.
The second 'knight' lifted his shield, just in time to deflect the bullets coming for him, and quick stepped forward, slashing out at Lora. The agile woman leapt to the side and the sword slipped by her stomach by inches.
Ever aware of her weapons, Lora thumbed the clip release on both guns and as the empty clips fell, she slapped the hilts of her guns to the two clips on her belt in their quick reload spot. Ducking under another slash, her thumbs found the slide release and the automatic weapons snapped back into ready. Another dodge of the sword, and the report of the guns echoed through the room again, this time, one finding a knee joint and the other bouncing off the plated thigh.
The knight bellowed and fell to the ground, crippled. Turning to the last warrior, Lora saw that the knight wasn't approaching, wasn't threatening. "Move." Lora commanded simply.
From behind her, Lora heard a feminine chuckle. Before Lora could even turn, she heard the crackle of electricity and was blasted off her feet, landing on her stomach a foot away from the knight. Lora 's body twitched as the blast of electricity shorted her nerves out like a shot from a hundred-thousand volt taser. She felt someone put their foot under her and roll her onto her back. Standing above her was the demon she had shot in the room with the Dungeon Heart. The wound on his shoulder and head already healed over. Standing with her body draped over the demon was a woman that looked equal parts beautiful, insane, and dangerous. Her body was wrapped tightly with leather so tight and so polished, that it looked like latex.
"The Keeper is right." The woman purred as she ran her fingers over the demons chest. "This one is definitely a true prize."
Forcing her body to follow her commands, Lora suddenly shook off the effects of the taser and swiftly rolled away from the two, her eyes locking onto her pistols, six feet away. Again the woman chuckled and pointed her finger and Lora. Electricity sparked from the womans' fingertip and slammed into Lora, this time blasting the Tomb Raider into unconsciousness.