Caana, North Hole
@SporkoBug
The two scientists merely smiled their cheshire smiles. The lady spoke, her perfect hair curled around her perfect face.
“Now, now, no need to get so worked up, Director. We're only working in your best interests.”The male scientist beside her chimed in, stepping back to gesture to the tube.
“It's entirely safe. You can't have all the goodness without listening to your faithful associates, Director.”As the scientist spoke, holding Jay's gaze, two more scientists approached Jay from behind. A hand gently, yes firmly, gripped the wrist that held Jay's axe. Another hand gripped Jay's free hand. And yet another hand put pressure on Jay's neck. She would feel a slight prick as a needle was inserted in the jugular vein of her neck, and hands supported her as she began to feel the effects of the medication.
“Now, we wouldn't have had to medicate you if you had just complied. But we need our perfect world. And we want you to be apart of it, my director,” The female scientist and her companion purred.
The female scientist stepped to the side as the three other scientists gently held up the slowly collapsing Jay, placing her into the tube and pressing a button on the console. The glass slide shut with her in it, and clear liquid began filling the chamber.
Axen would see all of this as he swooped into the scene, too late to change the narrative of the story.
The scientists voiced soon became hushed as the scene faded to black, and transformed as Jay, held captive, and Axen, free but too late, were transported to a new area…
Caana, West Hole
@Lexisheeps
Cosy glanced at her father desperately,
“I'm not leaving you here!”Before she threw herself to the ground, barely escaping Buluc's hand as he swept the narrow pit again.
She drew herself to her knees, staring up at the monster hovering over them, half melted in the darkness. Sure, he was blind now, but one of those hits needed to connect to break a rib, or twist an ankle, or smash them into the wall.
She gritted her teeth, scrambling to her feet again. There had to be a way out of this. They needed help, a back up plan, a way to get out of this.
Maybe she really should get Nova. She would know what to do. But, dad, would dad be okay?
She looked over, seeing him desperately hold his own. The bullets he fired were missing, but he didn't let any doubt surface in his face. Of course he wouldn't. He was her dad.
Dad was always strong.
Cosy gritted her teeth, switching the dial on her watch, before pointing to the pit wall above Buluc, and firing. The grappling hook sank in and locked, and she leapt forward, soaring over Buluc and landing against the wall, where she could see light shining down through a tiny hole above. Far above.
Before her gaze lowered, and she saw Buluc growl, each hand zoning in on the source of the sound if the bullets. She gasped.
Buluc had managed to grab her dad in both hands, and he was squeezing,
tight.
“No!”She cried out, pressing a button on her watch so the rope released, and she sank down the the floor of the pit. Another button press, and she had a magnum in her hands. Two shots fired, hitting Buluc in the back.
The monster growled, turing to face her with Nick in his hands.
“Let him go!” Cosy demanded, before she dematerialized the gun, holding her hands out to the side in surrender.
“Take me instead!”Buluc observed her, his blind eyes glowing. A low rumble of a chuckle.
“You would sacrifice yourself for this human?”
“Yes, yes I would!”Buluc broke into open laughter, dropping Nick.
“I like a willing sacrifice. Very well.”His hands searched briefly before finding Cosy, and he picked her up. There was only the sound of his laughter as Nick and Cosy's vision went dark, as the room changed, as they were transported…
Caana, East Hole
@Days,
@WhiteAngel25,
@SporkoBug
As Annalise offered the protein bar filled with meat and blood to Toren, Toren ravenously scoffed it down.
However, with every bite, the protein bar changed. It took on the properties of living flesh. And, within earshot of the three fated ones, they could hear a whistle, or a hiss of air every time Toren chomped down.
It was only on the second or third bite that the hisses and whistles became louder, more defined.
It was the bar.
The bar had come to life in that moment, a sentient being with nerve endings, and pulsing, warm meat.
And it screamed.
It screamed until Toren finished the entire bar. It screamed until it was silenced. And then, it was over.
The drums faded into silence, and the redness disappeared from the water, shimmering blue skies appearing overhead.
They had completed Caana's east hole. And, in their moment of triumph, their vision turned to white as they were transported…
Caana, South Hole
@Days,
@WhiteAngel25,
@SporkoBug,
@Lexisheeps
The group's vision returned as each individual was transported to the final hole in Caana's courtyard. The south hole.
It was a well-lit area that appeared as if it were underground, with no evidence of a hole above them. The walls were plain rock, not CDE. They spanned about forty meters wide, and sixty meters high.
In the center of the room was a stone table ten meters high. Buluc himself sat at one end of the table on the sole stone chair, a giant sitting at a giant table. There was a wooden plate in front of him, where the collapsed, entirely unconscious forms of Cosy and Jay lay. Food for the South, for Yellow. Food, and sacrifice for the god of war.
At the other end of the table, standing on the stone which was a little too high to simply vault off the table, were Annalise, Nick, Nova, Yoren, and Axen.
The task was clear. Stop Buluc before he ate his sacrifices. Buluc, at that moment, had made his first move, picking Jay up, and preparing to plop her in his mouth.
High above along the wall, looking down on the proceedings, was a glass-encased observatory. And… none other than a man in a dark suit watched over the final battle of Caana.
Von Galloes had made his appearance.
Kronshi,
OwO,
Snowdrops,
Irradiant,
Sky Blue,
Ivar,
AtomicEmperor,
Audacious,
Shin Ghost Note,
NoriWasHere
