I whipped around my flashlight as I adjusted my goggles. It's freaking dark in here, dammit!

I am Redback, the most notorious drug lord of the Underground. Well, yeah, I'm Izm, but my codename is Redback. Zeke is also a drug dealer ('Arrow' or 'Ro'), but it's more of a hobby for him than a business.

Caleb's part of the Underground too. He's known as Atrox. He usually has a group of his mini-me's with him.

We're all competition. The three of us don't work together (except for Caleb and his cronies). There are a lot more dealers, but I'm just trying to focus you on us three. Cuz we're better than them, of course *laughs*.

*Sigh* I'm still pissed at myself for hurting Dare. I was planning on telling her myself, but Desmond got to her before me, that bastard.

AND I WASHED MY PANTS.

Just if you were wondering, LOL.

I saw another flashlight at the end of the cave. I thought that the person would know how to navigate through the rest of the caves. I tried to run to it.

I smacked into a wall.

Damn depth perception.

I brushed some dirt off of my vest and turned right into another one of the endless tunnels.

The flashlight blazed into my eyes, almost blinding me.

"What're you doing here, Izm-shit?"

Aw shit, Caleb. But he didn't have his worshippers with him this time, unusually.

"Oh I'm sorry, Atrox; am I not welcome in here?" I rubbed my eyes as he brought the light from them.

"You're not welcome anywhere, Redback," he growled. "Get out."

"What is with you and ordering people around?" I grinned evilly at him.

"I said get out."

"This is the Underground, stupid. All druggies and drug dealers are welcome here."

"Why I oughta-"

Caleb was this close to grabbing the collar of my shirt when we heard a girly scream from closer to the entrance. Both of us turned our heads to the little girl.

Oh wait nevermind it was just Zeke.

Zeke screams like a girl sometimes.

"GUYS YOU GOTTA SAVE ME!" he pleaded, panting and sprinting to us.

"Oi, what the hell happened?" I asked as he stopped.

"Something, something," he repeated frantically, "Something grabbed the back of my shirt! And wouldn't let go! IT WASN'T HUMAN!"

"Baby," Caleb snorted, "It was a branch or something!"

"DUDE!" Zeke yelled, "I SAW IT! The thing was all-"

We all heard a giant crash from the entrance. I think Zeke was about to wet his pants. The three of us wandered toward the entrance.

All of us had the same face of shock.

Giant boulders blocked the way of the exit. We couldn't escape.

However, there was a tiny hole of light big enough for a bat or something small to escape.

"HOLY SHIT THAT THING THAT GRABBED ME MUST HAVE DONE THIS!" Zeke flailed his arms in the air.

I sighed in despair.

"Ro," Caleb barked, "Shut the hell up about the branch!"

"We need to find a way out of here guys," I muttered. "We'll probably have to... work together." I mumbled the 'work together' so much they could barely hear it. I don't WANT to team up with Caleb! But if that means that I'm stuck in a hole... Count me in.

"No way!" Caleb's sturdy voice echoed through the caves. "I'm not getting out of here with you! I'll find a way myself!"

"We'll have to," I mumbled reluctantly, "Honestly, I hate it as much as you do, but neither of us wants to be stuck in this hell, do you?"

Zeke had a permanent face of terror streaming across his face. His light blue eyes glared at the blocked exit.

"We are so screwed..." he muttered.

"SHUT UP! I'll get us out of here," I called.

"If anybody, I should lead," Caleb stomped in front of us leading in a random direction.

"Do you even know where the hell you're going?" I snapped.

"Yeah! I think one of my friends said... This way?"

"Oh my GAWD! We're lost here!" Zeke scrambled up the words.

"OK," I tried to calm everyone down, "Let's go in one direction; then maybe, it'll lead us to the exit."

Zeke calmed down a little. It's not getting us anywhere if we freak out.

We all started walking with our flashlights, Caleb pretending to lead. Zeke wouldn't let himself strand too far away from either of us. A few minute later, he just lost it and grabbed my arm. I rolled my eyes.

I think Zeke heard something behind us. He shined his flashlight into the bleak darkness that was rear of us three.

He clutched my arm so hard, I couldn't feel it circulating.

"Dude! Ro, let go!" I turned to where he faced.

Staring at us was the cloudy gray eyes of something that looked human, but obviously wasn't.

I squinted a little bit. "Oi, Atrox, does that look suspicious to you?" I asked.

He turned and saw the eyes, too.

Zeke turned his eyes away and whispered in utter terror, "I've heard of that. That's the thing that grabbed my shirt."

The eyes blinked. Almost as if its body was frozen there, it didn't move.

"Well then what the hell is it?" Caleb snapped.

"It's a cave demon..."

"Redback, snap some sense into him, would ya?"

"They prey on human men, half bat and half human... All of them are female, and they live in giant packs." Zeke continued, "If we don't harm it, we can probably escape here alive."

The eyes blinked again. This time, the 'demon' stepped towards us a few feet.

"Forget what I said," he ordered, "JUST RUN!"

Caleb didn't know squat of what was happening. We all took off running in the opposite direction of the thing. It didn't follow us at all, though.

We all stopped about a hundred tunnels away from it and panted.

"I think we just got lost some more." I glared at Zeke.

"With the cave demons!" I think he's losing it.

Well, he has severe cases of insomnia sometimes, so this might be an effect of that.

"You bastard; you made me lose track of the caves," Caleb jolted at Zeke with a fist, but I stopped him.

"Fighting is getting us nowhere," I explained, "And whatever that was, we lost it. But where the hell did you learn that, Ro?"

"I was watching Lost Tapes on TV with A.E.D one night... The episode was about cave demons and the Southern Sasquatch."

"Paranormal crap isn't real," Caleb snapped.

"I'm officially scared OUT OF MY MIND," Zeke was halfway to pulling his hair out.

"OK, Arrow, calm down," I tried to sooth him a bit, "Cave demons may or may not be real. But, our first priority is to find a way out of here, you got it? And we will get out of here, do you hear me?"

He nodded his head slowly, more calmly.

"Now just follow me and Atrox and we'll find the original entrance, OK?"

"OK," he replied, "Thanks Redback."

I nodded once.

Something, I think it was a tiny lizard, scurried across the wall in the direction of where we were going. Zeke was weirded out, but he kept cool.

We froze in our tracks when we heard a loud screech from the tunnels in front of us.

"Should we turn and run?" I wondered aloud.

"I say keep going," Caleb replied, "If someone's dead, then that's their own fault."

"Whatever,"

We kept walking in that direction, even though I had a horrible feeling about it...