Defender:"I guess we have no choice but to go down." Martyr:"I guess not." The group then noticed a woman standing at a far corner of the church. Matt talked to the woman. Woman:"The little girl and her babysitter already left and went toward the train station. But, before they left I saw a woman in black leather drag my two sisters into the sewer. Please help them!" Judge:"Very well. We have work to do. Come on!" At this, the group followed Judge down into the tunnels, continuing their mission against the vile creatures of the night!
On the way down into the catacombs, the Hunters asked Matt a question, involving his powers. Judge:"How in the world did you send that Demon Bear flying that far with one punch?" Matt:"Well, having the strength of 1,000,000 men helps." All:"WHOA!" Now that they knew that they had such a powerful ally, the Hunters were at ease when they entered the catacombs underneath the church. As soon as they were underground, a bunch of rot appeared before them and started to attack. That wasn't the least of their problems; the vengeful spirits of Ashcroft Penitentiary were able to possess anything and anyone, other than a Hunter. The spirits possessed sewer rats, which made the beasts larger and stronger than any normal rat. The Hunters pulled out their ranged weapons and began to fire at the rats, while Matt was slashing his way through the rot.
After a short battle, the way was cleared, temporarily. After a few feet, they came to a "T" in the tunnel. One of the branches went to the right, while the other continued onward. Matt:"The two girls are down this way." Matt pointed down the corridor leading to the right. Martyr:"How would you know?" Matt:"God blessed me with the ability to sense the Life Force of other people. My gut tells me that we should go this way." Avenger:"Can't argue with that. Let's go."
They went down the corridor and the Hunters were forced to gun down a few more possessed rats. After taking care of business, the group went deeper into the corridor until they came to a large iron door. They could hear two teenage girls whimpering on the other side. Matt slowly opened the iron door. When the group went inside, all they could see were the two girls cowering in the corner of the round room. Suddenly, two women dressed in black leather appeared out of nowhere to attack the group! The both of the women's skins were a pale, ghostly white and two teeth were visibly longer than the rest. Defender:"Vampresses!"
Matt:"Esteban! Ever hear of the `stake a vampire' legend!" Judge:"Of course!" With that, Judge pulled out his Crossbow and shot each of the two vampresses in the chest. Instantaneously, the two women screamed with pain and disintegrated into dust. Martyr:"Hey, we should start calling you the `stake-o-matic'!" Everyone got a quick chuckle out of the joke. Following it, Judge went up to the frightened teenagers. Judge:"You're free. Return to the surface as quickly as you can. Your sister is worried." With this, they stood up and ran out of the room, screaming with fear. Defender:"Poor children. Probably so scared that they don't know where their going. Hopefully, they'll get to the train station with their sister in time." Martyr:"I hate to say it, but we have more important things to worry about."
They started to leave the room, but then they heard noises; very scary noises. They were coming from within the room, but they could see nothing. Then Matt saw a wall that looked a little lighter than the rest of the walls. Matt lightly tapped on the wall and he heard a hallow sound. Matt:"I think we know where the noises are coming from now." With that, Matt extended his Blades and slashed the wall, sending rubble everywhere. Before the others could ask him anything, Matt:"My Adamantium Blades can cut through anything, except more adamantium, just in case you were wondering."
Matt continued to hack away at the wall. The wall fell inward and crushed a few zombies in the process! Behind the wall was a tunnel filled to the rim with rot! Fortunately, there were no more vampresses within the tunnel. Matt and the Hunters charged into the fray, hacking and slashing their way through the mob of zombies. A few rats inhabited the tunnel as well, but Matt was already slashing them to pieces before they could unleash any of their toxic breath. Up ahead a little ways, two statues laid dormant. Matt and the others know better, though. As soon as they walked past the two statues, they all spun around and hacked away at the stone creatures before they even knew what hit 'em!
Avenger:"They don't know that we learned our lesson in the graveyard. No gargoyle is going to get the jump on us again!" They continued to fight their way trough rot and rats until they came to a dead end. Avenger took his axe, and swung it as hard as he could into the wall ahead. A large chunk of the wall fell forward, revealing a way out! Matt went forward and started to help Avenger with the wall. Soon, the two of them broke through and lead the others out into the catacombs.
When they reentered the catacombs, they were immediately jumped by all the rot that they didn't kill before! There were more than one hundred zombies coming from the other end of the catacomb hallway! Martyr:"Shall we?" She motioned at Avenger. With a smile he said, "After you." With Martyr in the lead, they all bum-rushed the slow moving undead. With two Fortress Beams, Matt was able to pierce through two zombies and plow down several more behind them. That alone took out twenty-five rot! The others were dealing out equal amounts of pain on the zombies. After he used Smite, Avenger continued to slash away at his enemies. Just before a zombie could attack her, Martyr activated her Retribution Edge. This edge made her invulnerable to harm, and it would reflect 3/4 of the physical harm any enemy tried to give her right back! Martyr continued to slash away with her daggers, while Defender was doing the same with her Katana. After a short, but bloody battle, the Hunters were victorious. After the fight, Defender used her Rejuvenate Edge to heal the five of them; with this, they continued deeper into the catacombs.
After moving through the catacombs a little bit, they rounded a corner and came face to face with two gargoyles! They were able to fight past the gargoyles with some effort. After killing the gargoyles, they came to a large round room. A rather traumatized man was curled up in the corner. In an instant, Matt went over to him and touched him. The man suddenly sprang to his feet and ran screaming in the opposite direction. Then, he disappeared from sight! Matt:"How in the world?" Judge:"The Messenger's White Magic transports any innocents we touch back to the Train Station. The engineer needs help to repair the crippled train. If he doesn't get at least fifty people to help with the work, then the train may not leave town in time to avoid the Hole's evil effect." Matt:"Then I suppose we'd better find as many of them as we possibly can."
They started to go forward, when suddenly a few rot and two vampresses appeared out of thin air! The vampresses hissed with rage at the Hunters! Unfortunately, Judge was busy battling with the rot, aided by Martyr and Defender. Matt and Avenger each go after one of the vampresses. Before entering the battle, Avenger slams his Axe on the ground, causing it to burn with Cleave's supernatural power. Matt was already engaged with one of the demonic woman. Before either of them could react, the two vampresses pulled out high powered machine guns and started firing! Matt leaped in front of Avenger, taking all of his friend's bullets. Matt then lunged forward and extended his Adamantium Blades straight in to one of the vampress's heads, decapitating it. The headless body disintegrated into dust. As for the other one, Avenger was hacking away, his powered up Axe delivering massive amounts of damage to the vampress. After only a few hacks, the woman screamed with agony and slumped to her knees; dead.
Judge:"Anyone who can kill a vampress with only a hand-hand combat weapon is most certainly skilled. Matt. Creed:Brawn. You are now a Hunter! You've been imbued by God with second sight, as have all of us, and you've put it to excellent use. You've saved our lives several times this evening and the life of a frightened little girl. For that, this is the only way I can possibly thank you." Matt was silent for a while. Matt:"I would be honored to accept such a title!" With this, the five of them had a huge group hand shake. Defender:"No matter what happens, evil shall NOT break us!" With these, powerful words, the group continued deep into the tunnel. Eventually, they came to a large iron door, which lead out of the catacombs.
Unfortunately, the scenery didn't get any better. As a matter of fact, they got worse. The iron door lead into a sewer system, crawling with the undead. Martyr:"The Messengers are trying to tell us something. Five renegade spirits are blocking the way to the upper sewer levels. The only way to open the way forward is to calm the spirits." Judge:"I believe the only way to do that, is to find the skeletal remains of these spirits and bury them for good." Defender:"Very well. Let's get started then; no telling where the bodies are."
