Chapter 13
A lonely place to die
"In the end none of it matters: the size of our family, how much we have, or who we count as friends. In the end we all die alone. It's not death I fear, it's dying here." RT
Luther sat in the radio building, waiting desperately for the voice on the radio to end so he could send out a distress signal. Eventually the voice went away and Luther began to call for help while also hoping nothing happened.
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Meanwhile as the group left the asylum, it was still raining but not as hard. Deciding to investigate the area the group began to explore, while doing so he found some ammo and other supplies. As they were looking around, Torque was suddenly drawn towards a hedge maze, the rest of the team noticed this as well began to follow him. Once inside they began to explore, that's when they saw Corey and Malcolm and began to follow them. As they did Corey said, "He'll never find us in here…" When they turned around the corner, they saw the two boys again and Corey said, "He may be bigger, but were smarter."
Turning in another corner, they continued following the boys as Corey spoke to Malcolm, "Cover your tracks!" He said to him. Eventually they caught up with the boys only they were nowhere to be found, when they turnaround they saw the same two girls they met earlier they then spoke at the same time to Torque, "Do you want to play with us, Torque?" They asked then they disappeared. When that happened Yang spoke up, "Okay, that was really creepy." Weiss agreed with her by saying, "Yeah and I don't know about you, but I want to get out of here."
"Agreed." Torque replied.
As they began to leave the hedge maze, a Burrower popped out of the ground in front of them. Ruby immediately took aim at the creature and fired her weapon off, she struck the creature in the shoulder and its torso just as it lashed its bladed chains at her. Ruby quickly jumped out of the way, and Weiss froze the creature in place. Then Yang blew its head apart with her shotgun gauntlets. The creature then fell to the ground dead, but a second Burrower appeared and spun its bladed chains, at them. Torque and Blake opened fired on the creature, Torque with his Tommy gun and Blake with her handgun. The Burrower then fell to the ground dead from the bullet wounds it received.
As the group near the exit a third Burrower appeared but the group quickly took care of that and continued.
Finally leaving the asylum grounds the group began to walk down the path they were on and as they did the spotted rats running across from them. That's when they heard a fiery explosion and saw it old man throwing a Molotov cocktail at a fat bloated and creature setting it on fire and as the creature fell, the old man spoke, "It'll be a cold day in Hades before I relent to you fiends!" He then ran and as he did the fallen creatures stomach burst open and rats sprung forth. They then headed into the direction of the group and they did the group rolled out the way. As they did so the rats exploded.
When the rats were gone, Yang spoke up, "Okay, now were dealing with exploding rats. What else can this island throw at us?" Weiss then responded by saying, "Do you really want to know? Because I don't." Torque spoke up next, "I don't think it doesn't matter what we face, we need to keep going." The group then continue to move forward and a they did they heard giggling. Creeped out by this they moved on; they then spotted a pit filled with old dry corpses, when they spotted it, they were hit with another vision and Dr. Killjoy appeared to them and spoke. "I offered them a bright new world. A pity so few of my patients lived to see it." Then he disappeared.
When he was gone Weiss spoke up, "That better be the last time I see him." Blake agreed by saying, "You're not the only one." The group then moved on and came across a stone bridge. As soon as they crossed it, Slayer's appeared and the group got ready for another fight. The first Slayer launched itself at Ruby. She quickly blocked the attack with her weapon and shove the creature back she then opened fired on the creature hitting it in the chest and leg. She then transformed her weapon into its scythe mode and swung it slicing the Slayer in half.
Suddenly the ground exploded upward and Marksman strapped to wooden poles appeared, the Marksman then broke free and began their attack. One took aim at Blake and open fire, but she quickly dodged out of the way and return fire, she struck the creature in the shoulder and in the foot. She then used her sword to cut the creature apart, when she was done the creature fell to the ground in pieces. Another Marksman took aim at Yang, but it was quickly frozen solid by Weiss. Yang then launched herself at the creature and shared it to pieces.
Suddenly, a Slayer appeared behind Weiss and was about to attack her only for it to get shot in the back by a shotgun wheeled by Torque. The creature quickly spun around to face him only to have its head blown off, this however didn't bring the creature down as it launched itself at him. Torque quickly rolled out of the way and the headless Slayer screeched to a stop. The creature turned around again only to be set on fire by Weiss. The Slayer went crazy and started moving erratically, Torque however finished it off by blowing it apart with his shotgun.
Soon more Slayer's appeared and the group got ready. One Slayer try to attack Yang only for it to get it explosive shell that blew it apart. Another one made a leap at Weiss, only for it to be sliced pieces by Ruby. A third Slayer swung its bladed arms at Blake but she quickly blocked every attack. She then transformed her sword into a its gun mode and opened fired. She struck the creature in the chest several times before finally slicing its arms off, then destroyed the head.
Then a third Marksman appeared but it was quickly dealt with.
When creatures were all gone the group moved forward. They then spotted some abandoned stone structure and began to look around. That's when they heard Carmen's voice coming from a well.
"T? Can you hear me? I can't remember how I got down here. You weren't there to save me but… it's OK, you tried, you always tried. There's no way out now, but I still love you…" Then everything went silent again. Torque was clearly shaken by this, but kept going. The group were about to leave when they noticed a fire burning inside a fireplace of the old abandoned house. "What in the world?" Blake asked herself. The group went up to investigate when they were hit by another vision, and the vision they saw was one of the girls in pink sitting in front of the fire, then she spoke. "You should never play with fire. It's not safe…" Then the vision ended and the girl disappeared and when that happened the group was completely surrounded by fire.
"Where the hell did this fire come from!?" Shouted Yang. "I don't know!?" Responded Ruby. That's when they heard the sounds of a Slayer approaching. The creature then jumped in front of them and prepared to attack, only for Torque to fire on his shotgun and knock the creature into the flames from the shotgun's blast. The Slayer was instantly set on fire but it did not take notice of it, it simply got back up and got ready to attack again. Only for Yang to blow in half with her shotgun gauntlets. Then a Slayer captain appeared but it landed right in the flames and was set on fire, this however didn't stop it from attacking.
With its double bladed right arm it swung its deadly blades at Blake, who quickly block the attack with her sword sheath and transforming her other sword into its gun mode she opened fired striking the creature in the head several times before it exploded to pieces, the creature then fell to the ground as the flames finished it off. Then another Slayer came rushing through the flames and that the group, however Torque quickly dealt with it with a single blast from his shotgun and that single blast blew the creatures half apart.
Then another Slayer captain appeared along with a couple of Burrower's. The group then went on the offensive and began for another fight. The Slayer captain attacked first but Torque fired off his shotgun knocking the Slayer captain into the flames. The creature was lit on fire but got back up, only to be blasted again by Torque's shotgun and it was with the second blast that finished the creature off. Then a Burrower popped out of the ground and swung it chains at the group, the group however quickly on job the way Ruby returned fire on the creature. The first round struck the Burrower in its shoulder, but the second round took the creature's head off killing it.
Then a second Burrower came out of the ground and spun its chains at the group, Weiss however froze the creature in place a Yang shattered it to pieces. Then a third Burrower appeared and popped out of the ground, but before it could attack Blake severed its head off with a quick slashing move. With the creatures now dealt with the group climbed over the ruins of the stone house and onto what may have been a second floor or the attic, they then jumped off the edge of the ruins and onto solid ground and kept moving.
They then found two small cave entrances and decided to explore the left one first, when they entered it, they found a large hole filled with ammo. Not wanting to pass this up the group hopped down and grabbed all the ammo that was there. When they finished grabbing all the ammo a green noxious gas appeared in the all realize what it was. Quickly climbing out of the hole the group escaped the green gas, but when they did, they heard the voice of Hermes. He then spoke to Torque. "So easily seduced. But you know Torque, nothing worthwhile is easy..." Then everything went quiet again.
The group were clearly shaken by this, but they moved on. Exploring the next cave, the group found nothing of interest, when the reach end they saw that it was blocked off by tree roots, then the old man they saw earlier came running and stopped to catch his breath, when he did, he began to speak.
"Everywhere I go I find more of these monstrosities. I shall never get off the island!"
He then ran off and the group moved forward. When they exited the cave, they then saw the old man on top of a hill and shout at a couple of Slayer's. "Retreat you upstarts! Maybe this will hold you back!" He shouted as he threw some Molotov cocktails at the creatures setting them on fire. He then ran off again and before the creatures could notice the group, they were quickly taken care of. They then climbed up the hill and moved on, only to be stopped by a group of Slayers, one regular and three captains.
The group got ready for another fight as the Slayers went on the attack. The first Slayer captain swung its bladed right hand at Blake but she quickly block the attack and pushed the creature back, the creature stumbled a few steps back but regain its balance, then got ready to launch itself, only for Yang to strike the creature in the head with a blast from her shotgun gauntlets. The blast took the creatures head off and Blake fired multiple rounds from her gun and into the creature, the rounds hit the headless creature in the chest and stomach multiple times before it fell to the ground dead.
The second Slayer captain attacked Ruby by swinging its bladed hands at her, Ruby however blocked every attack with her scythe, then the Slayer captain raised both its arms and swung them down, Ruby quickly block the strike but the creature began to apply pressure onto the girl. Ruby then began to push back at the creature but she was quickly starting to lose her strength, that's when a shotgun blast struck the creature in the back, causing Ruby in the creature break standstill. The Slayer captain quickly turned around to face the person that shot it, that person was Torque.
Torque then cocked his shotgun and fired another round into the creature's chest, the blast knocked the creature off its bladed feet but it quickly rose up from the ground, before it could attack Torque however, Ruby blew its head apart from behind she then charged at the headless creature and sliced it in half. The creatures two half's fell to the ground in the bottom half let out a death twitch then went still.
The last Slayer captain and its smaller counterpart attacked Weiss. The smaller Slayer attacked first, but Weiss quickly created a glyph and stop the creature dead in its tracks by freezing it solid, then the Slayer captain lunged itself at her with great speed, Weiss did so as well, the two charged at each other and the creature raised its bladed arm strike the girl. But Weiss was faster and with one quick strike she severed the creature in half. The Slayer captain's top half went flying and crashed into its smaller frozen counterpart and shattered it, while the lower half fell to the ground still.
When the Slayer's were finished the group move on. Finding it destroyed Stonebridge the group is difficult another way by following a small river, as they walked along the flow of the water, they entered a cave but soon found the exit, and as they neared exit a saw Torque's two sons Corey and Malcolm standing in the water at the ocean. As I got closer the two boys ran off deeper into the ocean until they couldn't be seen anymore. Seeing that their alternate path was a dead-end group backtrack the destroyed bridge and decided to climb up. Once they were on the other side of the bridge, the group continued forward and onto the sandy beach of the island. That's when they heard the old man again, "Back to the sea, you aquatic atrocities!" Shouted the old man. Continuing to the beach so they could find the old man and help him, the group were about to face a new enemy.