Survival

[Lighthawk]

Mir
0017

Only the first few words seemed to register to the girl. At once she lept to her feet and bolted to the elevator doors, peering out down the hall to the small room. Upon seeing the distant corpse, she let out a startled gasp, and proceeded to take off down the ajoining hall at a sprint.

[Tyyr]

0018

"What the... FRAK!" Mir grabbed his backpack and tried to put it on as he ran off after the girl at full speed.

[Lighthawk]

Gaius
0002

Gaius's next shot catches both remaining monsters, sending one flying back to slam against the wall in a bloody splatter, and blasting the leg off the other, sending it crashing to the floor. Both squirm for a moment, blood spurting from their grievous wounds, before they lay still.

Mir
0020

Ahead, the patch of darkness appears again, the snuffling sound of heavy breathing coming as well. The girl pays it no mind, but runs right into it, the sound of her footfalls on the metal grating cutting off suddenly.

[Tyyr]

0020

Mir keeps after the girl in spite of the sounds he hears. When her footfalls stop he pulls up short as well. "Hey, where the hell did you go?" he snaps.

[Lighthawk]

Mir
0020

There is no reply to Mir's shout. The darkness and sounds draw steadily closer.

[Aaron]

Gaius 0002

Gaius lets out an enormous sigh of relief after the last zombie falls. He takes the time to search the bodies, finding nothing before sitting on the floor nearby to search his pack. He isn't impressed with what he finds but it will do for now. He uses the first aid kit to clean and dress the wound on his leg before having a sudden idea. He uses the bayonet on his shotgun to cut the legs off one of the zombies and stuffs them in his pack, just in case the food he has doesn't last long enough.

Pausing to reload his shotgun, he cautiously peers into the hall beyond the room and then heads out.

[Tyyr]

0021

Mir's grip tightens on his shotgun. He slowly starts to walk towards the darkness. "Come on little girl, this isn't funny."

[Lighthawk]

Gaius
0002

The hallway outside the room seems to be made of poured ceramic, though it is hard to say for certain as it is outrun with creeping vines that wrap about the floor, walls, and ceiling in a tight web, leaves as wide as a man's hand growing from stalks. Here and there flowers bloom with sickly, pale petals, and inch long thorns running down their stems.

The hallway runs straight for about 30 meters before dividing into a pair of stairs, one leading up, the other down, both in tight spirals.

Mir
0021

With no warning, the girl suddenly leaps from the patch of darkness. Even as she does, a clawed hand on the end of a long arm sweeps out and hooks into her shoulder, bringing her up short with a spray of blood. Screaming, she sweeps her knife around, the crackling power blade severing the limb. Off balance, she sprawls out on the floor as a pair of the cyclops beasts burst into the light.

[Tyyr]

0021

"Shit!" Mir screams as the girl jumps out of the darkness, he quickly yanks his shotgun away to keep from pointing it at her. His relief at seeing her again is crushed in an instant as the monstrous arm rips into her shoulder. As the two cyclopes move into the light he brings his shotgun back around and rips back on the trigger as the girl falls to the floor.

His first load of buckshot catches the who's arm was just lopped off in the chest, doubling the monster over. His second shot caught the other one in the face, knocking it's head back in a spray of blood and making it stagger under the assault.

[Lighthawk]

Mir
0021

The armless monster drops to the floor, blood pumping freely from it's ruined chest, only it's rattling breathing indicating it still lives. The whole beast lets out a short scream as it takes the shot in face. It sways on the spot, gaze unfocused, barely staying upright.

Scrambling up, the girl rips the clawed hand from her shoulder, tossing the severed limb aside. With a cry of mingled rage and fear, she falls upon the downed cyclops, cleaving it's head like a melon with her knife.

[Tyyr]

0021

Still breathing hard Mir takes careful aim at the stunned cyclops. He fires once but the adrenaline in his system makes him slap the trigger a bit too hard. The shot flays open the beasts right hip, pulverizing flesh and bone in a spray of gore that severs the limb. With a piteous scream it bleeds out quickly and dies.

"I said I killed one of them!"

[Lighthawk]

Mir
0021

" There was only one of them before!" the girl fires back with surprising venom. Standing upright, her face pales, and she has to put a hand to the wall to steady herself. " I don't think..." she begins, when the creeping darkness washes over her, her voice fading away as if muffled.

[Tyyr]

0022

"Hey, wait!" Mir calls out and he quickly hustles to where she had been.

[Lighthawk]

Mir
0022

Rushing into the darkness, Mir collides with something solid. There is a startled gasp and a hand siezes his shirt, pulling him off balance. He and the girl fall in a tangled heap out the back end of the shadow, which continues on its way down the hall.

" The frak is wrong with you!" the girl exclaims, digging an elbow into Mir's side as she struggles free of him. Sagging against the wall, she clutches at her wounded shoulder.

[Tyyr]

0022

Mir ignores the girl, instead looking back down the hall way at the bizarre phenomenon. "You're the one that disappeared," he grumbled. He quickly gets to his feet and walks towards the dead monsters, stabbing the one who lost it's leg in the head. Confirming it to be dead he turned back to the girl, unlimbering his backpack and digging around in it for his first aid kit. "Hold up, let me see that shoulder."