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The Abyss Can't be THAT Bad!

Okay. Although my frustrations at Chris have been subsided, I face the impending doom of falling into the abyss with Raziel and Clyde II. The deadly waters draw nearer and nearer and SPLASH!! Water fills my vision and everything becomes a dizzy blur. I hear Raziel screaming in pain. Clyde II seems rather calm.

RAZIEL: (writhing in the water) AAUUUGGGHHHH!!! It burns! It burns!

MIKOTO: Um, Raziel? It's only ankle deep.

RAZIEL: It still burns!

I pull Raziel's kicking body up and hold him out of the water in my arms. He clings to me like a scared child afraid of the ground or something. I take a look around me at the so-called 'Lake of the Dead'. Some lake - only three inches deep and about eight feet wide.

RAZIEL: Please don't drop me!

MIKOTO: I'm not going to drop you! Little baby-

I notice that the waters of the 'abyss' slowly calm to a stop, then suddenly the waters swirl towards the center again before coming back to a pause. The process keeps repeating itself a few times before I notice the sound of an all-too-familiar voice.

GREATER GOD: Vampy go down da hole!!

I wonder what the hell is going on, when I notice one of the Greater God's tentacles reaching out from the abyss, clutching a strange, metallic lever built into the cliff walls. The tentacle pulls on the lever, and the swirling of the abyss begins again.

GREATER GOD: (annoyed) I said 'Vampy go down da hole!!!!' (he 'flushes' the abyss again in irritation)

MIKOTO: Knock it off! We're too big to fit down this hole of yours! See? (I place my foot over the small gap that passes as the vortex between this world and the next.)

GREATER GOD: (in a tiny voice) Your not very nice.

MIKOTO: I know. (to Clyde II) C'mon, Clyde II! Where outa here! (to vamps) See ya guys later! (I begin to wade through the 'abyss' towards the opposite side, carrying Raziel and dragging Clyde II through the water)

KAIN: Rahab! You said you are immune to water, right?

RAHAB: Uh, yeah. Why?

KAIN: Carry me across!

RAHAB: What!? Are you crazy?

KAIN: (angry) No! Take me across now!

RAHAB: (nervously) Uh, okay.

KAIN: The rest of you stay here in case she comes back.

TUREL, ZEPHON and MELCHIAH: Okay.

As I make it to the other side, I notice Rahab struggling to carry Kain across the water. Raziel is glad to be on solid ground again. He whimpers over his burns, though they are only flesh wounds and have already begun to heal. I guess Clyde II is glad I'm not dragging him through the water anymore. But I think he is mad at me for doing so, 'cause he isn't talking to me right now.

KAIN: Hurry up! She's on the other side!

RAHAB: I'm trying!

GREATER GOD: (flush) Vampy go down da hole!!

The abyss swirls suddenly, and Rahab gets all dizzy. He slips on some rock algae. He and Kain plummet towards the water. Rahab falls in, but Kain transforms into his bat form at the last minute, sparing himself.

RAHAB: (getting pulled into the vortex) AAAUUGGGHHH!! (and gets sucked in)

GREATER GOD: (happily) Vampy went down da hole!!!

MIKOTO: Woah! How'd he fit in through there?

Kain flies towards me and once he's cleared the abyss, he transforms back into his normal form.

KAIN: Now I've got you!

MIKOTO: One question first, though.

KAIN: What's that?

MIKOTO: Why didn't you just transform into a bat in the first place? Or use your teleportation spell, for that matter?

KAIN: What? Is there something wrong with being lazy now?

MIKOTO: I guess not, except you taught Raziel how to be lazy. It wasn't easy carrying him across though. But I guess the diet you guys have been on has caused you all to lose weight, 'cause he wasn't too heavy.

KAIN: Ah, yes. In speaking of the 'diet' and the hell you've caused. I suppose I shall kill you now. And I shall drink your blood whether it kills me or not.

MIKOTO: (points to cliff wall behind Kain) Hey look! It's Spiderman!

KAIN: (turns) Spider-who?

With Kain distracted, I push him into the abyss. A splash of water is followed by a howl of pain. I turn and run while I have a chance.

MIKOTO: Raziel! Clyde II! Let's get outta here!

RAZIEL: Okay!

Clyde II: ..

The three of us ran for quite some time, heading northwards through Nosgoth. When I finally thought we were safe, we ran straight into a very ticked off Dumah.