I lay absolutely still, not moving a muscle, barely breathing; the ticker was only centimetres away from my face, my eyes darted from side to side to see more of them shambling around the room, lashing out in random directions and screeching to themselves. The ticker on my bed began to slowly extend its antenna towards me, I had no choice but to hold my breath and stay put as they made contact with my face and flinched, before feeling all over my face. There was a sound of a door closing and the creature jumped back, I looked across the room to see a man in a black metal suit, he looked like Master Chief from Halo, only in jet black, and I could have sworn he had a pair of wings...

He pulled out a sniper rifle and shot the tickers before they could reach him; one last ticker jumped at him and he rifle butted it to the ground and stomped on his head until it caved in; I lay there, absolutely speechless, it was the sniper…

"Who are you…?" I muttered.

The suited man turned to face me, before he spoke.

"Ignore the power plant and go east." He ordered.

The accent was English and sounded a bit like me, besides being a bit deeper and had the filter through his helmet.

"Why?" I asked.

"They need you." He replied.

I stood up and walked over to him, confused.

"Twilight and Rainbow Dash?"

He nodded.

"How do you know?"

"I just do." He growled.

"Who even are you?" I demanded.

He lifted his wrist and tapped a button on his suit, and his suit began to dismantle itself, a lot like Iron Man's would. As his bare chest was revealed, I instantly recognised the large black skull and crossbones; the man lifted his helmet off and I saw his face.

"Ingeo!?" I cried in disbelief.

Before I could move, he pulled out a knife and thrust it into my chest; I felt the excruciating pain flood through my body as my vision went fuzzy.

"Hey Callum, you miss me?" He growled.

I stumbled backwards, and fell backwards and hit the ground.

I shouted out in fear and panic as I sat up, and opened my eyes; I was still in the hotel bed, in the empty room. I felt sweat on my forehead and I was breathing a lot faster than normal; I looked down to see no knife wound, and no blood. I took a deep sigh and flopped back onto the pillow.

"Stupid dream…" I muttered.

I stretched and slowly got out of bed and rubbed my eyes, before standing up and grabbing my shirt and putting it on. I checked Wrinkleboom and found it still fully loaded, so I attached it to the bag and reloaded Ingeo's pistol, I had seven magazines left so I didn't want to waste any ammo, I'd stick with using the shotgun as my bag was stuffed full of rounds; I had at least two hundred shots. I took my phone out of my pocket to find it was on thirty percent battery, that would last me two days if I didn't over-use it; thank god I didn't get an iPhone, or I'd have run out of battery last month! Android all the way…
I left the room to find a zombie had made its way down from the top floor and was wandering aimlessly until it noticed me and started growling and began running towards me.

"Morning." I growled with a smirk, pulling out Wrinkleboom.

I aimed for the head and pulled the trigger, and the zombie's head exploded, coating the walls around it to gain a lovely coat of dark red and a few lumps of brain; absolutely glorious…
I heard a screech from behind me to find a ticker had made its way downstairs as well and was charging towards the sound of the shotgun blast.

"He-e-e-ere zombie, zombie ZOMBI-I-E-E!" I sang.

It screeched a second time and sprinted towards me, where I stood waiting with Wrinkleboom.

One emptied zombie skull cavity later, I went into the kitchen and made myself breakfast; baked beans with a side order of more baked beans. After eating and reloading Wrinkleboom, I went to the reception and unlocked the front door and left the building.

Now that I was outside I needed to stay quiet and draw as little attention as I could, I didn't want to end up with another horde on my tail.
I went around the building and headed down the road to find a group of tickers running towards a normal zombie, who was unsuspectingly standing around, taking no notice of them. Before he knew what was coming, they swarmed around him and brought him to the ground and began eating him alive.

"Oh that's nasty…" I whispered.

Thanks to the gore-fest, I was able to sneak by with ease and head along the long road; when I reached the end I was at a T-junction, I could go either left or right. I initially wanted to turn left and head straight towards the nuclear silo, but my dream had stuck in my head all day, and some part pulled at me to head right.

{It's just a dream, ignore it and turn left.} I thought to myself.
{But what if I should turn right?} I continued to think.

Eventually, I shrugged the thoughts aside and stuck with my mission and turned left; I was walking for a few minutes when I stopped abruptly; I don't know why I stopped, I just, did. I looked around and felt like something was wrong, really wrong. I wasn't one to believe in visions, but my heart told me that I needed to go back.

"Oh for fuck sake…" I muttered.

I turned around and headed back the way I came, and went down the right road…

I had been walking for a while when I heard a low growl; I was being watched.

"I don't have time for this shit… Come on!" I growled angrily.

There was a loud roar, and before I knew what was happening I was on the floor; I was able to roll over as I fell and looked up to see another hooded zombie, his eyes were pure black along with his teeth; he lifted his arms and I saw large claws replacing his fingers, he was about to claw into my chest when I grabbed his wrists and was able to hold him back as he thrashed about on top of me. I pushed his arms back and was able to slide my legs back and kicked him with both my feet, sending him flying back. He got back up and crouched low, growling, and then he leapt at me, roaring again; I'd never seen a creature jump so high and so fast in all my life, it jumped like a human sized flea, only with more coordination. I was able to dodge the zombie's pounce only by mere centimetres and it shot past me and crashed into a bin. While it got up and recovered, I whipped Wrinkleboom from my back and aimed; by then it was ready to pounce and leapt at me as I pulled the trigger; the force of the shotgun blast prevented it from coming forward, and so it flew a good ten metres into the air; it came back down and hit the ground with a loud smack.

"Well that's the end of that…" I muttered.

I was about to reload the shotgun when I heard a hiss from behind me; I turned to see the creepiest mutant so far, the human that once was had a second body, like a Siamese twin, except there were no legs, just a third set of arms. It walked on two sets, like an animal, and the remaining arms had elongated into large scorpion-like pincers.
There wasn't a hair on the creature, leaving it to be a dark pink fleshy freak-bag; so mutated I couldn't even tell if it were a male or female.

"And I thought the tickers were ugly…" I muttered.

The creature outstretched its arms and began to run towards me, snapping the pincers viciously at me. I still had another round in the shotgun and shot the beast in the head, completely decapitating it; the creature flopped onto the ground and stopped moving. I was going to reload Wrinkleboom when it started moving again, it stood up and continued walking towards me, hissing loudly and spurting black blood from the headless neck.

"OH HELL NO!" I screamed and bolted.

The mutant sprinted after me, and instantly began to gain on me, it was evidently faster. I hopelessly sprinted at my absolute maximum down the long road, I could hear the thudding of the mutant's hand-feet and I knew it was about to catch me. Suddenly there was a loud yelp and I glanced behind me to see the creature was gone, I skidded to a halt and looked across the road to see the mutant being torn to pieces by something much bigger; it was tall, very tall; it stood on two legs and had a long lizard-like tail, there were large horns upon its head and its mouth was elongated like a crocodile's muzzle. None of these features compared to the foot-long claws it had on each of its fingers, currently tearing the headless mutant into several individual pieces.
I gulped and slowly walked backwards away from the creature, only to hear more hissing from behind me, I turned to see five more multi-armed mutants approaching, they hissed and clicked their pincers at each other before they ran towards me, it seems they could communicate. I was surrounded and had no choice but to fight, I pulled out Kroksbane and prepared myself; I was taken aback when they all ran around me and all attacked the larger mutant, it took me a few seconds to realise there was a food chain amongst this radioactive city, each different species seemed to gang up against each other, much like how the tickers took down the ordinary zombie earlier.

{Something tells me that humans are at the bottom of this food chain, so let's move…} I thought to myself.

I ran down the road where the mutant pack had come from and turned right, thankfully the road was empty. I strolled down the lane at a brisk pace, not daring to look back.

After a few minutes of walking I was certain that I was safe and walked into a nearby clothes shop. I reloaded Wrinkleboom and then decided to explore the shop; there were some really nice clothes around, there were loads of big brand names on the items, I guessed this was Ukraine's version of Primark or something...
While my backpack was full of shotgun shells, there was enough room for about four items of clothing, so I thought it wouldn't hurt to browse for some new clothes, seeing as I was going to be travelling for a long time and my current outfit would eventually get over-worn. Nearly all the items in the shop were in perfect condition and seemed unaffected by the radioactive apocalypse; then again I didn't think zombie's really cared about their sense of style.
I decided to get two heavy duty clothes, and two fancy clothes; I picked out some camo trousers and a long-sleeved baseball tee-shirt; the shirt had padded shoulders and would be perfect for any outdoor need.
For my fancy, relaxed clothes choice, I went and took some dark red chinos and a beige shirt from Fat Face; I finished off my little shopping spree by taking some Ray Ban aviators. I packed everything into the bag except the aviators, which I decided to put on for some style; I looked in the mirror and grinned, the aviators made all the difference and I looked pretty damn sexy, (if I say so myself…)

"Now then, to business." I said to myself.

I left the shop, took a breath of air, and started heading down the road, when I heard loud thudding footsteps coming from behind me. I ran to the closest car and squatted behind it; I looked through the car's window and waited as the steps grew louder and louder. The nine foot tall creature came around the corner and sniffed the air; its muzzle and enormous claws were still dripping with the black blood from the other mutants.

{Shit.}

I took off my backpack as quietly as possible and crawled underneath the car, I looked across the road from my hiding place to see the big clawed feet approaching; it wouldn't be long before the beast reached me. After seeing the way it completely tore the other mutant apart, I knew I wouldn't be able to outrun this creature, let along fight it. I just lay completely still and hoped that it wouldn't find me; it reached the car and a large clawed foot hit the ground only a metre away from my head, I gulped as the creature's shadow grew larger as it began to squat lower, growling deeply. I held my breath and kept my eyes wide open, the bloody muzzle came into sight as it began sniffing the air, searching for its prey… Me…
A few sniffs later, it stood up properly and walked off down the road, where I needed to go. I groaned, wondering how to get past the monster without getting caught; that's when I had the stupidest idea since my attempt to cook rice by eating it raw and drinking boiling water; except this time my plan was going to work…

I crept back into the clothes store when the clawed monstrosity wasn't looking, and picked up one of the mannequins and brought it to the shop door. I then looked out the window and watched the creature turn the corner and head down into another road; that's when I picked up the mannequin and took it out into the middle of the road further back where I had come. I propped up the mannequin on its stand and ran over to the car I hid under beforehand, I picked up my bag and put it on before taking a deep breath.

"COOIE! MISTER SEXY-CLAWS!" I sang as loud as I could.

I squatted down as low as I could, and half a second later there was a loud roar as the beast skidded around the corner and instantly pinpointed the mannequin; it dropped on all fours and bolted towards the mannequin, hissing loudly. As soon as it whizzed past the car, I left my hiding place and ran as fast as I could towards the next road and shot down it like a bullet; I didn't stop there and ran down the next two empty roads until I was sure I was far, FAR away from that thing.

The next road I turned into had four ordinary zombies walking around aimlessly, they all spotted me as I was jogging. I came to a halt and bent over with my hands on my knees.

"Give me a moment guys, I need a breather…" I panted, exhausted.

The zeds all began running towards me, yelling their undead gibberish; I didn't have the time for Wrinkleboom, nor did I have the energy to take them on with melee combat. I pulled Ingeo's pistol from its holster and shot them all to the ground and went back to catching my breath.
After that, I made my way across the road with pistol in hand; making sure I was armed in case I was ambushed. After venturing down another two roads and killing three more zombies, I reloaded the pistol and put it back into its holster, replacing it with Wrinkleboom to conserve ammunition.

I was rather confused as to why there were so few zombies in this area, when my exact thought was answered.
By a loud scream.
The scream of a terrified girl.

"Twilight…" I breathed.

I clutched Wrinkleboom to my chest and burst into a sprint; I shot down the road faster than I've ever run before. Thankfully the scream's origin wasn't too far away and I was able to find it in mere seconds, only two roads away; I came across a large police station, there were two large double doors wide open as a zombie horde poured in. I looked up to the third floor to see a light blue face in the glass, looking down at the zombies below her.

"Dashie!" I gasped.

I stood there, frozen in panic; I didn't know what to do. I had to figure something out, and fast; next to the police station was a large garage, perhaps there was a side door to escape from, or something… Anything!?
I ran down the road towards the zombies, Dashie hadn't noticed me so I assumed she thought I was just another zombie. I veered off left and reached the garage; a few zeds had seen me and had gone after me. I pulled out my knife and turned to face them. As the first one ran at me I punched him square in the face, knocking him to the ground unconscious, I dodged the swipe of the second one and stuck the knife into his back, severing hiss spinal cord. I quickly pulled the knife out and stabbed the third in the eye; the zombie shrieked in pain and rage until I thrust the knife deeper and twisted it, rupturing her brain. The fourth zombie got to me as I pulled the knife out and was able to grab me, before it could bite me I stuck the knife up into the underside of his jaw, shutting his mouth and killing him instantly. Thankfully there were no more after that and I went back to looking for a way to help the girls.

"There's got to be a way out!" I heard Rainbow Dash shout.

"The only way out is through this door! Which happen to have over a hundred zombies on the other side of it!
Just keep pushing back on the damn wardrobe or we're both dead!
" Twilight yelled back.

I looked around frantically, looking for something that could possibly help.
That's when I noticed the chainsaw sitting in the corner of the room,

"Oh… Yeah…" I growled with a large smirk.

I went over and picked up the chainsaw, the tank was full of fuel. Next to it was a pair of goggles and an apron, no doubt it was there for chopping wood, and the apron was for woodchip protection, but here and now it was for making zombie mush, and splatter protection.
I put on the apron and goggles, and picked up the chainsaw; thankfully I knew how to use one as my brother had taught me while he worked as a tree surgeon. I revved her up and lifted it up as the engine started running, I pulled the trigger quickly to check the blade, it was in perfect condition.

A lone zombie had been attracted by the sound and walked into the garage, I ran towards him and brought the blade down onto his neck as I pulled the trigger, the zombie opened his mouth as his eyes began bulging out of their sockets, the chainsaw glided down into his chest as it sprayed blood all over the place, it was more effective than I had expected, I guess the blade was new. I pulled the saw up and released the trigger, allowing the zombie to flop to the ground.

{That was one zombie, now imagine a hundred…} I thought.

I didn't need to imagine it for long, I left the garage and charged towards the zombies with my finger held down on the trigger. The saw cleaved through them like butter as I coated the walls of the police station with blood.

"What's going on!?" I heard Twilight shout over the sound of the chainsaw.

"I don't know!" Dash cried back.

I grinned as I called up to them.

"I'M MAKING SOME FREAK MEAT STEW! WHO WANTS SOME!?"

I rushed into the building and began to paint everything the light touches crimson….

The last zombie jumped back as I swung the saw at it, he then came to grab me; I pulled the saw upwards into his groin and the chainsaw roared as it cut through the pelvic bone and then through numerous organs, followed by the ribs, which was followed by the skull. I gave the saw a final yank upwards and the zombie split into two halves.
As the adrenaline died down I began to realise how many zombies I had killed; I looked around to see the ground littered with bodies, there was blood everywhere, and this was just the upstairs. The rooms downstairs were at least two inches deep with blood. I looked at my hands to see they were plastered with the stuff, my skin wasn't at all visible.

{Hm, should have worn gloves…} I thought to myself, slightly amused and slightly disgusted.

I dropped the chainsaw and began wiping the blood from my hands, I looked down at my feet to see my shins were absolutely soaked with blood, thankfully my work boots had kept the blood out, my socks were still nice and dry.

"Is it safe to go out?" I heard Rainbow Dash whisper on the other side of the door.

"I don't know, and I don't want to risk it." Twilight replied.

"But I heard someone shouting, what if that was Callum?"

"Callum's dead Rainbow Dash, nobody would be able to take on a horde like that."

"Do you not care, at all?" Dash growled.

"I never said that; while I hate his kind, his sacrifice was very admirable." She replied.

{Yay! Progress!} I thought merrily.

"Why do you hate him? I still don't get it." Dashie asked.

"Reasons you wouldn't understand, I've seen things that you haven't; I know what his kind will do if they discover us. Callum would have led them to us if he believed he had our trust and friendship, so one of us had to remain his enemy, no matter what." She explained.

{Yay! More progress!}

It appeared Twilight had been given some misleading information about me and the human race; I needed to find the source of this information and prove Twilight wrong.

"How can you be so sure?" Rainbow quizzed curiously.

"I was shown the future." Twilight answered bluntly.

{Clearly a wrong future.} I thought angrily.

If there's one thing I hated more than anything, it was being accused of things I haven't done, or in this case, things I won't do; I had to find a way of making Twilight see me eye to eye.

"It matters not, he's dead now; and we must continue without him." Twilight muttered.

"Until I see his body, I believe he's still alive." Dash retorted.

I decided to play a prank on the ponies for shits and giggles, and began to growl like a zombie.

"Sshh, there's still one out there…" Twilight whispered.

I roared and began hitting the door, clawing at it in attempt to break it down, causing Twilight to squeal in fear.

"Raahh! Brains!" I growled as I kept hitting the door.

I took a few steps back and charged at the door, breaking the hinges and moving it back a few inches, only to be stopped by a wardrobe barricade; Twilight and Dashie both screamed.

"Roar! I'm a scary zombie! I'm gonna eat your butts! But not Twilight's because it smells!" I shouted.

The screams went silent, and I stopped clawing at the door, after a moment of silence Dash came to the wardrobe.

"I swear to fucking Celestia… If that's you out there…" She said as she began pushing the wardrobe out of the way.

I stood back and leaned against the wall next to me, just to look extra awesome. The door opened and Twilight and Rainbow's faces appeared both in shock.

"You're alive…?" Twilight exhaled with awe.

"I'm afraid so." I replied.

Rainbow Dash squealed and started to run towards me for a hug.

"Ah-ta-ta-ta, wait!" I ordered.

She stopped just before she reached me, her face now confused; I took off my goggles and apron so she didn't get a new coloured coat. I opened my arms and she leapt at me, I caught her and held her tightly as she started choking up.

"I thought you were dead!" She whimpered.

"Naah, you can't get rid of me that easily; takes more than a giant zombie horde to stop Callum Horncastle!" I chuckled.

"You're a tough one to kill, I'll give you that." Twilight said.

"And don't you forget it!" I teased.

I let go of Dashie and she walked back, absolutely beaming; unfortunately her neck and hooves were now quite bloody, but it didn't seem to bother her.

"Right, where to now?" Twilight asked.

"Hang on a second; I have a bone to pick with you." I said, frowning at her.

"What have I done?" She asked innocently.

"I've saved your life five times now, and that doesn't include the times I've prevented your life from needing saving. After overhearing your conversation with Rainbow Dash, I think you owe me an apology. You seem absolutely desperate to get rid of me, when I'm the only reason you're still standing. I think you need to start putting a little more trust into me, and less trust in that stupid vision you call the future." I spoke, calmly yet sternly.

Twilight was speechless for a moment, trying to find a point to argue, while Rainbow Dash smirked at Twilight smugly; eventually Twilight found words.

"I was shown the future by reliable sources, with magic; magic doesn't lie." She explained.

"Princess Celestia isn't a reliable source Twilight," I retorted the second she stopped talking, "you're just extremely loyal to her, which is very respectable. Your loyalty to her is outstanding, honestly. But I'm telling you in the nicest way possible, Celestia has made a mistake. Showing the future is pointless, because the outcome changes as soon as you've seen it. It's a scare tactic Twilight; Princess Celestia wants you to hate me, because she's scared, and rightfully so, humans are scary creatures, I sure don't like the majority of them, and I AM one!
Look, I'm not calling Celestia a liar; I'm just telling you that she's made an honest mistake. If we have any chance of finding the rest of the orb shards, you and I need to be on the same side, so can we just try to get along? Yeah?"

Twilight looked down at her hooves, unsure if she should listen to me, or stick with her mentor's teachings.

"We don't have time to discuss your decision here, let's get a move on." I ordered, beckoning both ponies to follow me.

We headed down the stairs and both ponies gasped at the mess I had made; the floor was stacked with mutilated bodies and was at least two inches deep with blood, the walls of the police station were soaked with the stuff.

"Fucking Tartarus… You're a killing machine…" Rainbow Dash muttered.

"Yeah… I kinda went ape-shit on them…" I replied, nervously chuckling.

"You're probably the most dangerous creature amongst everything else in this city." Twilight said teasingly.

"Oh no, trust me I'm not. I've seen something out here more dangerous than any living thing I've ever laid eyes upon." I replied, shivering.

"Really? What is it?" Dash asked.

"Some big lizard thing, stands about eight feet tall, it's got two big horns on its head, with claws as long as my forearm…" I told them.

Dash and Twi looked at one another, then back to me.

"Yeah, this is where we leave." Twilight ordered.

"You don't have to tell me twice." I laughed and led them out of the police station, where there were more bodies.

We headed away from the station, now leaving a trail of bloody hoofprints and footprints as we walked, I decided to leave the chainsaw behind, as it was heavy and made too much noise, it would only bring more unwanted attention.

We'd been walking for a good half-hour without any more zombies or mutants in our path, when we finally reached the nuclear power plant. The great towering vent still stood, although I doubted it would billow out smoke any time soon. The plant was surrounded by a chain-link fence; the top of the fence was layered with barbed wire.

"Barbed wire… Why does every metal fence we find have barbed wire!?" Dashie growled.

"Because we keep entering important places that need to keep trespassers out." I told her.

"Dude, I didn't actually want an explanation." She said dully.

I shrugged as we continued walking to find the gate, which thankfully we found a short way down the road; the large padlock was rusted to hell, and would be easy to break. Behind us was a crumbled building with bricks scattered everywhere, I picked one up and hit the padlock a few times before it broke off. I removed the chain holding the double gate shut, and pushed it open.

"Ladies first…" I said to the girls with a bow.

"Dudes just before." Rainbow Dash retorted with a smirk.

I rolled my eyes and walked into the courtyard, making sure my shotgun was in hand. The area was empty, not a creature was to be seen, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"I have a bad feeling about this…" I muttered.

I tightened my grip on Wrinkleboom as I approached the double doors to the power plant; the others cautiously tiptoed behind me. I used my foot to slowly push the door open, and I walked in; there was a long hallway with rooms either side, and much like the outside there was nothing to be heard.

"Is it safe?" Twilight whispered.

"I don't know…" I replied.

I looked in the rooms along the hallway to just to find loads of old broken computers and control panels, there were no bodies or blood, just a load of dusty old hardware.

"Well, are we safe?" Twilight asked.

"I think so, but keep an eye and an ear out for trouble." I answered.

At the end of the hallway was another double door that appeared to be locked, I gave it a push but it wouldn't open. Above the door was a large panel with some text I couldn't translate, but I assumed it led to the reactor core, where we'd most likely find the orb shard.

"We need to get through here." I told Twilight.

"How? It's locked."

"Do you have any mana left?"

"I have enough to cast one more Radskin spell, which I'm saving for emergencies." She replied.

"Well we need to get through this door, so can you use a laser spell, and we'll just take everything carefully on the other side." I suggested.

"Are you forgetting that we need to get all the way back across the town after getting the shard?" She reminded me.

"True…" I mumbled.

"Well, let's go find the key." She muttered back.

Twilight went left, and I went right, as we searched room by room. No key was to be found.

We were both at the entrance of the plant when we heard Rainbow Dash giggling loudly. We went back across the hallway towards her and stopped in front of her.

"You think this is funny do you?" Twilight growled.

"Yes!" She cried and began laughing to herself.

"What's so funny, may I ask?" I quizzed.

She walked over to the double door and put a hoof on the handle and pulled, and with a rusty squeak, the door opened.

"Did you guys ever think to try the door?" She chuckled.

I looked at Twilight, and Twilight looked at me; both of us had the exact dumbfounded expression.

"I never thought I'd see the day that I was smarter than you eggheads." She teased as she walked through the door.

Twilight and I both decided to avoid eye-contact as we entered the next room, which had a large stairwell which led underground; thankfully there were a few holes in that opened up the section to daylight, giving us some vision where to go.

"The shard's down here, I can sense it." Twilight said quietly.

I nodded and picked up the pace as we walked various hallways and descended more stairs, taking us deeper into the heart of Chernobyl; as we moved closer to the heart I could feel the temperature rising quite significantly.

"It's getting pretty warm isn't it?" Dashie pointed out.

"I think it's because of Elephant's Foot." I replied.

"What's that?" She asked.

"Basically a gigantic mass of molten radioactive waste that was created when this place had the meltdown." I explained.

"Hm…" Dash hummed.

We all suddenly stopped as we heard a sound; there was a clang of metal in the distance.

"What was that…?" Twilight whimpered.

"Only one way to find out…" I sighed.

I held Wrinkleboom tightly and headed down the corridor, we then started to hear a deep humming sound. We could feel the vibrations through the floor, whatever it was, it was beneath us…

"I don't like the sound of that…" Dash groaned.

"Nor do I…" I replied, shivering.

We kept walking until we found a large staircase that led to the lower floor; we headed down slowly and quietly. At the bottom of the stairs was a small compartment room, which had a door to the core reactor, where Elephant's Foot would most likely be found, along with the orb shard. I took a deep breath, and opened the door, we walked into the massive room and I saw the core reactor in the distance. Before I could take another step, the floor began to vibrate, and the loud humming emitted from somewhere in the room.

That's when I saw it; slowly rising up from a giant pit in the middle of the room, and it kept rising up and up and towered above the three of us; it was at least the size of a house. A small section of it was glowing brightly, and I soon recognised the orb shard, lodged in the indescribable mass.

"C-C-Callum…" Dashie stuttered.

She went silent for a few seconds, before finishing.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?"