Cassie punched the cultists named Djall and threw him into the inseparable duo of Kallikantzaros and Ora. Gabe lunges and tackles both Fatit and Merkur. Perit and Tomor went charging for Gabe while Lugat and Baloz aimed for Cassie.
Cassie felt a knuckle connect to her jaw and her head snapped back, but in the process, she punches her attacker even harder and knocks Lugat to the ground. Baloz threw a punch to Cassie's temple but she jerked her head back in time and kneed him in the stomach. She uppercuts him before she is grabbed from behind by Lugat.
Perit and Tomor were punching Gabe endlessly in the stomach to the point where he threw up on the floor. Some of the contents spilled onto Tomor's leg however. Djall, Kallikantzaros and Ora did nothing at they watched Cassie and Gabe get the life beaten out of them.
Cassie broke free from Lugat's grip and she punched him in the throat, knocking all the wind out of him. Baloz elbowed Cassie in the back of the head but she did not go down. She kicks him in the knee, knocking him to the ground before she punches him in the jaw.
Then Djall, Kallikantzaros and Ora went to go assist their leader.
Tomor punched Gabe once more in the belly before Perit dropped him to the ground. Fatit and Merkur took turns kicking the mercenary in the stomach.
With Cassie on the ground after being brutally punched by Kallikantzaros, she begins crawling away from them as fast as she could.
"Boss, which one of us goes first with her?" The voice belonging to Ora asked.
Upon hearing what Ora said, she crawled faster to where she could go. Then underneath a boulder in front of her was her AK-47. She gropes for it and pulls it out and rolls onto her back before firing blindly at the cultists.
Twelve bullets went pumping into both Kallikantzaros and Ora. Blood spilled from them before they collapsed to the ground, dead. Baloz, a recovered Lugat went ruishing for cover behind a boulder while the five other cultists went running for their lives and out of sight.
Run like the cowardly pieces of trash you are. Then the one called Djall fired blindly at her while hiding in the shadows. A bullet missed her head by and inch and in return, she shoots at the shadows that Djall was firing from. After wasting seven bullets, she heard the collapse of a body. "Punks." Then she began wondering, where did Djall get the gun. It must be Gabe's. Speaking of which, where is Gabe?
Gabe was still lying on the floor, wounded badly. He had a wound protruding from his stomach, shows that the monsters did some serious damage to him. Keeping her gun at her side, she walks toward Gabe and puts a hand on his belly, nursing the wound. His skin had turned pale and he was coughing up blood. One of the cultists beating him up must have stabbed him with a knife. She began speculating that one of the cultists had a knife hidden in their shoes, which is why he was bleeding. For some reason, Cassie was saddened by his condition. She felt as if someone had stabbed her in the chest and ripped out her heart. Why do I care so much for this mercenary? He would kill me without blinking at all.
Then something blunt had struck her in the back of the head, before she knew it, her world was spinning rapidly. Despite it however, Cassie still managed to not fall down. The person who had struck her, Tomor, watched as Cassie managed to rise to her feet and face her.
This momentary distraction resulted in him getting a bullet up his skull. His skull snapped back and had exposed his boney forehead. He slouched over to the side and fell dead on the ground.
Cassie's vision was slowly, but surely coming back. From her point of view, the world was spinning as fast as helicopter propellers. But helicopter propellers do slowly come to a stop, and that is how she felt when her vision was slowly returning.
The trauma that was inflicted on her head had worn off, but left her in agony. Her tolerance for agony however, was high.
Then she felt being tackled by someone from behind and was shoved face first to the ground and dropping her gun. The person who attacked her was Lugat, one of the five Albanians still alive. Behind him were the other four Albanians, Baloz, Perit, Fatit and Merkur. They watched eagerly as Lugat began beating the life out of the girl. Baloz was actually concerned, his right-hand man was beating Cassie to death and his plan was to make her a breeder so they could have more cultists.
Baloz walked up to Lugat and put a hand on his shoulder. Lugat recoiled and looked at his boss. They then had a conversation in Albanian.
Baloz: "Çfarë dreqin mendoni se po bëni ?!" (What the hell do you think you're doing?)
Lugat: "Ajo vrau miqtë. Ajo duhet të paguajë." (She killed friends. She has to pay.)
Baloz: "Pse të vrasësh?" (Why kill?) "Le të shijojmë trupin e saj të ngrohtë." (Let's enjoy her warm body.) He smiled mischievously.
Cassie was still conscious and she had no idea what they were saying. She could speak twenty-six language fluently, but none of those languages were Albanian.
When the punching had stopped, she felt energy boiling up within her. Her gun was gone so she had to deal with these five cultists all by herself. An idea pops up in her head.
"Excuse me." She says in a hoarse voice. "How do you say sugar in your native language?"
Lugat and Baloz gap in confusion. What did this have to do with anything? Lugat, seeing no harm in it, decided to answer. "Sheqer."
She chuckles. So these guys really are Albanians. Using all of her strength, she punches Lugat as hard as she could and he falls flat on his back and off of her.
Baloz reacted too slow when Cassie got on her feet and attacked him. Baloz was punched and pushed backwards into Petit, Fatit and Merkur. Fatit and Merkur fell to the ground while Petit was shoved down a hole that went unnoticed by Cassie. She did hear a prolonged scream before it disappears into nothing. He must have fallen to his death.
Cassie knees Baloz in the groin before shoving him on top of Fatit and Merkur.
When Merkur got up, he went to attack her, but she punched him in the gut and shoved him down the hole and to his death, doing the same with Fatit as soon as he attacked.
Cassie looks down the hole and sees that it is indeed a bottomless abyss. None of the corpses could be seen at all. They did indeed fall to their deaths.
Now, there was just Baloz and Lugat left alive, she was going to take care of them once and for all. In the corner of her eye, she saw a slowly dying Gabe on the ground, bleeding out. If she could take out Baloz and Lugat, then she can tend to his wounds.
Cassie rushes and punches Lugat in the jaw, he did not budge though. He punches Cassie in the gut and shoves her back. She kicks him in the groin before punching Baloz in the jaw, twisting his head in an unusual angle. He punches her in the temple before kicking her in the chest and sending her a few feet backwards. Lugat charges at her, but this is what Cassie wanted. As soon as Lugat was in reach, she actually kicked him in the jaw, which spun him around so his back was to her and he jumped on his and twisted his neck. A deafening crunch sound was heard and Lugat fell to the ground.
Baloz was enraged that he lost all his people, he was going to kill Cassie on the spot. Cassie had already anticipated Baloz's anger and she was going to use that to her advantage. When Baloz lunged and grabbed Cassie by the arms, he was getting ready to push her down the hole that killed the others, but Cassie punched him in the gut as hard as she could and grabbed his skull. Behind her was a small, but razor sharp stalagmite. Using all her strength, she hammers his skull right onto the sharp stalagmite. His entire head had pierced all the way through. Cassie let go of his corpse and backed away. She did not have to worry anymore because all nine cultists are officially dead. Gabe.
She walks up to Gabe's side and puts pressure on his stomach wound. He was so weak to the point where he couldn't open his eyes. It was a sight that disturbed Cassie. "Wake up man, you'll be alright." She said more to herself rather than him. "You'll be alright." She repeats, this time she was most certainly talking to herself because deep down, she knew that his stomach wound was fatal and untreatable. And then just like that, Gabe gives his last breath and his eyes remained closed, forever.
"Oh crap," she curses at herself, but why was she sad? He was a mercenary who seemed to have no moral qualms with killing her. But she was the better person who would kill and feel remorse for her action. Killing Baloz however, would certainly not affect her.
She gets up and moves away from Gabe's corpse and walks towards the pillars she saw earlier. There was only two of them and they were identical to the first two in every way shape and form. She closes in on them and begins to read of the pillars, not forgetting a single detail. It would actually be much better if she had her journal with her, but right not it was in Rowan's possession. Does that mean I have to go back to the surface and get the journal? Then she turns back at Gabe's corpse. He was a mercenary, surely he would have some kind of paper and pencil on him. Right?
Without a second though, she quickly loots his corpse and finds a pen and paper and she uses it to trace over the Glagolitic script. When both inscriptions were complete, she takes a moment to read them. 'The Unholy Calls For the Devil in the Pyramid' it read.
"Huh. 'The Unholy Calls For the Devil in the Pyramid' I wonder what that means." She says to herself. "The unholy thing is obviously the Cold iron calling the devil, but what pyramid is this thing talking about?" Then something in her mind clicks. Something Derek told her back in the jeep before their whole adventure started.
One of the most visited places in Bosnia is this place called the 'Pyramid of the Sun' which is a pyramid.
Suddenly, everything was becoming pieced together. "Of course. The Cold iron is in the Pyramid of the Sun. Derek man, thanks a lot." She smiles. "How did Baloz not know where the Cold iron was? Unless he lied."
She kisses the paper and folds it up before putting it in her pocket. "All right, if I want the whole picture, I will need the other two inscriptions then maybe it could help us in the pyramid." She look at the ceiling above, looking for a way out, seeing only one hold fifty feet above her that leads to the surface. "I'm going to save Derek, then stop Rowan." She retrieves her gun and some ammo, slugs it over her shoulder and walks to nearest wall and begins to climb. She took very cautious measures to make sure that each handhold and foothold was as solid as the other. Her father teaching her how to climb was probably one of the few things she learned from him that will stick with her forever. She remembered her favorite climb though, Mount Whitney.
Upon finally reaching the top, she stuck her head out and for the first time in a while, she was breathing fresh air. And in the distance, she could actually see Derek, tied up and sitting in one of the trucks with Jack and Gail by his side while Rowan and two mercenaries were searching around for clue. Things were going to get dicey. Real dicey. I don't know why I'm surprised though.
Does anyone know what movie that line was from? An American is asking an Albanian "How do you say sugar in your language?" "Sheqer". I will give you a hint, it stars Liam Neeson.