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I watch as Lara sneaks forward quickly and quietly, using her pry ax to silently kill the man in front of her. He let out a small yell as he fell to the ground, but nobody seemed to notice, and if they did, they didn't seem to care that much. Afterwards, I notice that there were two guys on a higher platform that we could snipe from down here. I show Lara, and she smiles and nods at me as I get the guy on the left and she gets the one on the right.

Nobody noticed anything, so I guess we were all clear as we drop the crate onto two people, causing it to explode. We gave away our cover, but it was too freaking fun for me to even care. We quickly whip out our guns, using them to take care of the remaining guys. I let out a sigh of relief as I realize that we had cleared all of them out.

Lara told me to start searching for ammo since we were going to need it soon, and I gladly obliged. I start looking around and find quite a bit of ammunition in the back rooms. I hadn't even noticed any of the rooms before, but I guess I was too busy focusing on staying alive at that point to even care.

I smile happily as I find a book on the table. Due to the fact that it had no cover on it, presumably it was a diary or a journal someone had written in. It looked similar to the Priestess' from earlier, but a little bigger and a lot more dirtier. As I open it up, I soon found out why. There were drops of blood on every page. In fact, it looked like it bled through. As I look through, I discover that it belonged to a scientist that was in search of some kind of star. They headed inland, to the monastery, but I don't think their mission was successful.

'Our coastal base has been attacked by unknown assailants. We suspect the American have arrived and are attempting to sabotage our operations. Communications have been disrupted across the island and we've sustained heavy losses. Many of our soldiers have simply disappeared.

All remaining personnel are proceeding to the ancient monastery to ensure control of the weather phenomenon. We expect to meet heavy resistance enroute. Request reinforcements as soon as possible.'

As we head upstairs, we come face to face with a couple more guys who attempted to roll a barrel of fuel down the stairs and shoot it, hoping that it would catch us on fire and we would burn to death. Unfortunately for them, we are not stupid. We easily dodge and step around the flames to fire our guns quickly, killing all of the men before moving forward. On the second floor, there were more guys, but we just kept pushing forward until we made it to the roof before jumping down.

I look out onto the horizon as the sun was setting, and we still hadn't heard anything from Alex over the radio, which was really making me very nervous. "Oh, Alex." I hear Lara mumble under her breath. "What kind of trouble have you gotten yourself into?" I silently agree as Lara looks around, seeing zip lines. She doesn't say a word as she looks at me, jumping up and taking them down. I sigh, following her as I groan.

"You know, I don't exactly-" I start to say to her as soon as I land down, but she immediately shushes me, and I listen to the voices, immediately shutting up as well. We both step out onto the deck, hidden behind a box so that they could not see us. There was one guy that was insanely huge, and then two more that were attempting to lift something by use of a pulley. I don't even hesitate to pull a fire arrow on the huge guy, and while I took care of the two guys, I hear Lara yelp.

The huge man had her pinned, so I take my pry ax in my hand, preparing myself to take the swing at his head. The ax sticks into his skull as the force causes him to roll off of Lara, unpinning her. "Thank you." she says as she shakily gets up, dusting herself off as she stares at the gigantic man laying in a bloody mess on the floor. She leans down, searching his pockets for anything useful before she finds a rope ascender. "Here, take it." she tells me, handing it over. "I'm sure we'll find another one somewhere.

"Yeah. I'm sure we will." I smile, letting out a small giggle as I bring her into a hug. That small giggle turned into full blown laughs until we were cracking up for no reason whatsoever. It felt nice to just let loose, especially after all the shit that we had been through today.

I pull away from the hug, getting my new equipment ready to use as I fire an arrow into the heavy metal crate that they had just lifted. I use my rope ascender to pull it forcefully into our direction, and as it snaps to a stop, the metal crate is forced off of the pulley and it falls to the floor, leaving a gaping hole in the floor. "How did you know that would happen?" Lara asks with an astonished look on her face.

I give her a sly smile as I walk over to the hole, getting ready to drop down. "I didn't. I just wanted to try it out." I hear her laugh as I drop down into the hole, and I smile to myself. We walk down the hallways, until I finally recognized where we were at. "Oh." I say with a small smile on my face. "We're back here again. Never thought I'd see this place again, actually."

Lara cracks a smile as we find our room. She smiles as she sees a picture of us from our graduation day. We were wearing the normal black cap and gown, cheesy smiles plastered on our faces, obviously very happy. That was probably the best day of my life so far, and it wasn't even that long ago.I smile at the memory as she takes the picture off, sticking it in her pocket. "Might as well keep it." She closes the cabinet to reveal the mirror that we had looked in so many times as we were getting ready.

I let out a groan of disgust before we both turn away, exiting the room as quickly as possible, leaving all the memories – well, besides our graduation day – behind, never to be seen again. "So much has happened." I say as we exit the room together, and Lara nods her head in agreement.

We hear whistling, which alerts us to the fact that there were more men still on the Endurance. They were talking about survivors. I assume they mean us. I take the guy on the other side of the zip line while Lara gets the one closest to us. We fire at the same time, making it safe to go down the zip line.

We walk down a few hallways before making it to one that was filled with water. I grimace as we jump down, causing me to become soaking wet. Right about now, I was wishing that I had kept Riley's hoodie. The water was probably the coldest thing ever.

"Alex!" I yell into the darkness that was only illuminated by red lights that flash every once in a while. "Are you in here?" I didn't get an answer so we keep moving forward. After a far enough distance, I ask again. "Alex? Are you here?" It took a second as we kept moving in the cold water, but we finally got a response.

"Lara! Ashton! I'm down here!" We sigh in relief as we hear his voice. "Come on...come on. Ah, goddamn it! Ow!" As soon as we hear his signs of struggling, we pick up the pace walking even faster now that it was clear he was not perfectly fine. We make it to a room completely flooded with water, and I let out a gasp as I see some wires had fallen down, and they were in the way of us getting to Alex. "What are you doing here?" he asks us with a strained voice.

I ignore his question as I step forward, attempting to grab the wires but yelp in pain as I realize they were on and working as I was touching water. Yeah, I probably should have thought of that. "Just hold on!" Lara says to him, trying to comfort him the best that she could from this distance. "We're going to get you out of there." We work to get the door unblocked as Alex starts to apologize.

"Guys, I'm sorry for dragging you into this mess. I don't know what I was thinking coming out here. I thought I could be the star in my own goddamned action movie. Guess it doesn't always work out like that." I felt sympathy for the guy, but I couldn't help but roll my eyes. I wanted to joke with him about this right now, but as I knew that would definitely not be appropriate in this situation, I held back, even though I had a couple jokes racked up in my brain already.

Lara and I walk in to see that a pipe had landed on his leg. I let out a gasp as Lara works to get him out and I keep watch. It's not exactly what I wanted to be doing right then, but it would have to do. I took out every guy that came our way before they could even pull the trigger. It was a piece of cake. Or so I thought. We quickly became surrounded. "Lara, I need you to hurry up!" I yell over the gun fire in the room.

"I'm working on it!" I duck to the ground as a bullet flies past my head. I land on something hard, causing me to groan. I pick up the object, only to find a rope ascender like the one that I had, only for Lara. I slide it across the floor to her, and realize that I need one more. I look around coming up short. I curse under my breath as another bullet flew by my head. "Ash, I'm done! We need another one. He's going to be okay, his leg is just badly bruised." I let out a sigh of relief as the guy I was fighting drops to the floor.

I quickly go with him, searching his pockets to see if he had one on his person. Just my luck, he did. Luck was totally on my side today. I figure I better cherish this moment because it sure as hell is not going to happen again.

I throw it to Lara who gives it to Alex. Fortunately, he could walk, but he had a terrible limp. "We have to go!" I yell as Lara tosses me the tools, and I stick them in the back of my pants. Reyes would just have to deal. We run through the hallways to get to a rope, and I go first, ascending the rope first. It took a while, and I was worried about Alex the whole time, but we made it okay.

As we drop down into the hole, Lara assisting Alex, we notice some logbooks lying on the table. I pick one up and start to read. It was from some scientist, and if I had to guess, it was probably the same scientist from that first journal that I had picked up.

'Months of excavation has at last yielded new information concerning the weather patterns gripping this island. The tomb of an important General dating from the Kamakura period was discovered in our coastal dig site.

This discovery is the missing piece of the puzzle. It will allow us to finally gain control of the storm.'

"We need to find this tomb of the General. If this scientist guy thought that it was important to their research, then it must be important." I say as Lara and Alex both nod in agreement to what was spoken. "We need answers."

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