At the bottom of the staircase, they saw a huge fire burning! Defender:"The Messengers just informed me that there are people down here!" Martyr:"What! How many?" Defender:"Five." Judge:"Split up and search the entire floor. There are five of us, so we'll be able to beat the odds!" Avenger:"Yeah, but we have only about six minutes before that fire eats through the supports!" Matt:"Then let's move! The more time we spend contemplating this, the less chance we have to escape!"
With that, they split up. Martyr finds an innocent behind a glass barrier and frees her. Then she runs off and catches up to Avenger. The others went down separate corridors; Matt went down a corridor that had an elevator branch off. Matt flew above the large mob of rot and went into the deep recesses of the room. When he gets to the deepest portion, he spots an innocent young girl trapped behind a burning piece of ceiling structure. Matt swoops down and rescues her. From there, Matt stands before great army of deadmen. Matt:"Necro Blade Dragon!" Matt's dragon had a tremendous feast, annihilating over 150 dead guys in its wake. The hallway was now clear for the other Hunters to pass through. With that, Matt starts to walk towards the elevator branch-off.
Over in the next corridor, Judge and Defender were fighting through mob after mob of undead prisoners. However, in order to beat the odds against them, the two Hunters recklessly charged into the fray, killing only the rot that got close to them. With the limited amount of time they had, they'd have to run faster than they ever had in their lives. They ran through the mob, suffering a few blows and cuts along the way, but otherwise unharmed. The Hunters spotted a man hiding in fear from what he deemed to be crazed inmates, so they went over and rescued him before anymore rot could harm him. Just to be certain, the two Hunters went into the deepest portion of the corridor and found a teenage girl, being beaten half to death in the center of the room by the dead inmates!
Judge cast the Word of Power Edge and eliminated the inmates surrounding the helpless young woman. After that, the two freed her and turned around. The two headed back towards the entrance of their corridor, fighting off any rot that got in their path. Defender cast the Ward Edge to help ensure their safety. After a long run, they finally made it back to the exit of their corridor. From there, they went down Matt's corridor and into the elevator branch-off.
Else where, Avenger and Martyr were in a similar boat as Judge and Defender; they were running with all the speed they could muster while fighting off rot. Martyr could run rings around Avenger, however, so she was very far ahead of the giant. Martyr also activated her Demand Edge, which increased her speed even more. She was running so fast that she was at the end of the corridor and in a large room before she even knew it. Meanwhile, Avenger stayed behind and was hacking up every deadman foolish enough to get in his way. Martyr scanned the large room for signs of life. Eventually, she spotted a teenage boy trapped behind a wall of flames. She freed him, however, after doing so an army of the Razor-eyed Fleshcraft appeared and surrounded the poor girl!
Avenger was having the toughest battle of his life in the more shallow portions of the corridor. He was battling off an army of at least 150 rot by himself. The sad thing was, he was winning! And with very few scars to show for it! Deeper in the corridor, Martyr activated her Retribution Edge. Demand was still active, so she ran through the crowd of monsters without worry, her Retribution shield protecting her from all physical damage. When Avenger saw her coming, he cast Smite and obliterated the wall of rot around him then turned and ran towards the gateway. Once the twosome was out, they sealed the gate and ran for the corridor Matt had under control.
All five of the innocents on the burning floor were safe and sound in the train station; however, despite the split-up plan the Hunters concocted, they had only twenty seconds left before the roof collapsed! They all were in the elevator, with Matt just beginning to enter, when suddenly an army of rot and Fleshcraft broke through the gate and threatened the Hunters! There were too many to fight and still survive, so Matt turned back towards the army of rot! Matt:"Go! I'll hold them off!" The other Hunters were quite hesitant, considering that there was only about ten seconds left.
Unknown to them, however, something else was affecting Matt's decision. Matt stopped fighting the Vampire Venom and started to shriek, as if in immense pain! Shortly after, the Hunters saw their greatest ally take on a gothic appearance and started to walk towards them, with evil in his coal-black eyes, along side the rot! Matt's black armor had changed into white flesh, and he was morphed into a vampire! As if answering to this evil glare, Judge activated the lift, and the Hunters were carried below ground. Five seconds later, the roof collapsed, crushing everything on the floor! The other Hunters, however, made it down to the lower floors of the hospital section of the penitentiary with a little turbulence, but no injuries. Although they had some slight worries as to Matt's safety, they pressed forward into the cursed prison, unhindered!
The Hunters exited the lift and looked back at it. The wires that lowered them down were completely ripped apart, meaning the lift was completely inoperative! However, the Hunters had bigger problems at the moment; a small army of raver Fleshcraft decided to drop on by. The Hunters charged at them, killing them all rather quickly. They went through a doorway to their left and came into a sort of library. Fleshcraft were appearing in moderate numbers from in between rows of shelves. The Hunters fought back against them, killing any that got near enough to them to hack with their melee weapon. In between the third and fourth rows of shelves, Avenger spotted a young woman cowering in fear. He went over and freed her and, in the process, eliminated three raver Fleshcraft.
Eventually, the Hunters were successful in eliminating all of the Fleshcraft in the room. They discovered a silver key in amongst the mangled bodies of the vile creatures. After grabbing the key, they used it on a nearby door and unlocked it. They passed through the doorway and came to a room that was similar in shape to an ice hockey ring. The floor was a little slippery and their were two levels of seats, looking in towards the center. The Fleshcraft armies were growing in strength; a few of the razor-eyed Fleshcraft appeared amongst the ravers! Though they were deadlier, those particular Fleshcraft had relatively low stamina and fell after just one swing of Avenger's axe!
The Hunters were successful in destroying all of the Fleshcraft, but they weren't able to do it unharmed. However, Defender Rejuvenated them all, and the group of zombie killers pressed forward. Avenger:"Hey, why do I get the feeling that with Matt gone, the attacks of the undead have lightened up?" Martyr:"Yeah, I was beginning to wonder the same thing, Deuce." Defender:"Perhaps whomever is controlling these creatures feels that we aren't worthy to challenge it..." Judge:"Or, perhaps it is saving the largest army of all beyond this doorway..."
When they went into the next room, the Hunters discovered that it was Judge who was correct; huge, nearly limitless numbers of raver Fleshcraft appeared in the long corridor ahead! Avenger:"Alright, Esteban, I hate to say that your were right, but you were right. Now let's show these undead freaks what we're made of!"
With this, they charged into battle, Judge and Avenger leading the way. By using 360 degree attacks, the Hunters were triumphing over impossible odds. The Fleshcraft fell one after another. Some would fire acid balls out of their mutated hands, but the Hunters were able to dodge them, and the Fleshcraft would only hurt one of their own! Finally, however, the corridor was clear of infestation. The Hunters were very worn out, but came out of it almost completely unscathed. They walked cautiously towards the end of the corridor. There, they came to a large room where small numbers of razor-eyed Fleshcraft appeared. Avenger took them out, one creature at a time, with a single swing of his mighty axe. After it appeared as though Avenger had killed all of the monsters, the Hunters continued towards a small staircase, which lead to another long corridor.
That's when things got really ugly; the Hunters reached to bottom of the staircase and found themselves completely surrounded by raver Fleshcraft! And all of them were spewing out acid! Defender activated Ward and created a barrier of pure magic around the group. Judge cast his Word of Power Edge as Avenger activated Smite. This ultimate onslaught eliminated several of the approaching Fleshcraft, but many more were still appearing! So, Martyr activated both Demand and Retribution to protect her. She left the protection of the Ward barrier and started to hack away at her enemies with lightning-fast speed and increased strength.
The Fleshcraft attacked with increased ferocity, but Martyr's Retribution shield absorbed all the damage that was inflicted upon her and sent it straight back at the Fleshcraft! Thanks to Martyr's brave attack, the Hunters regained the upper hand, and finished what they started. Finally, after suffering many injuries and swing many, many times, the Hunters were victorious. Once the group ascertained that no more vile creatures were appearing from either corridor, Defender used Rejuvenate once more. Once the group was healed, they slowly and cautiously went down the corridor.
No more creatures were appearing in the corridor, but then they came upon an extremely bizarre sight; the floor and walls of the corridor were covered in what appeared to be flesh! That's when they saw an man of average height, with a cane and blood all the way up his left arm, working on something; that something was a human carcass! The man spotted the Hunters and screamed! Then, he lifted his bloody arm and the body he was working on and two others disappeared deeper into the "Flesh Tunnel!"
Hadrian:"Too soon! Too soon! How does he expect me to be finished in time, if he allows me to be interrupted! Can you tell me that? Can you? Of course not, heheheheheh. STUPID FLESHBAG! You know nothing; if you did you would've left Hadrian alone to do his work, but you did not." At this the man turned around. What the Hunters thought was a bloody left arm, was really a mutated Fleshcraft arm! The man's mouth was on this arm, and the arm was talking to the Hunters! Hadrian:"You have disturbed me; now, I will disturb you!" With this, Hadrian slammed his cane on the ground was a load boom, and three of the gargantuan Fleshcraft appeared! Avenger:"Oh, you've got to be freakin' kidding me!"
