"Remember when we first met?" Seth started off, sitting in the middle of a ruined street.
"Yeah, I do." Nixon is laying down right next to Seth, looking up at a smog covered sky.
"It was in the middle of Washington in winter. I was nineteen then and you were twenty-one. You had Hunter with you, she was really cute then. I... 'accidentally' killed some people who worked under you." Seth pauses, looking over to Nixon. "You know that was self-defense right?"
Seth doesn't even let Nixon open his mouth and continues on.
"Of course you do," Seth pauses again, trying to remember what happened after that. "Then you invited me into your crew... I had the book and I was the only one good enough at navigating to bring us where we wanted. We went across almost all of the midwest. A lot of shit happened then. Everyone wanted this map, all we wanted was some treasure since we didn't really believe that shit was real, and well, we couldn't really give up even if we wanted to. We went too far already, 'What would be the point if we gave up now.'
That was always the point we'd make continuing down that journey into the south. We got to Florida, we left Hunter in Miami and we sailed away to... god knows where. We only managed to happen upon it by chance after all." Seth looks at Nixon. "Why aren't you saying anything?"
***
Seth wakes up, covered in sweat. Seth looks over to see Nixon laying asleep in the bed across from him making Seth sigh in relief. "Don't ever die on me man."
***
The smell of flesh burning fills the labyrinth walls. Logan and Yua repress their vomit while Andreas watches a staircase unphased. Logan and Yua look confused as to why he's not moving. A wicked smile goes across his face. A man covered in flames slowly descends the staircase.
This was their escape route and they're immediately encountering an oddity such as this. A man who cannot die by even flames themselves wearing an awful scowl on their face.
"WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY!!??" The man screams, forcing Logan and Yua to cover their ears in pain. The man looks back over to them. "I can't even fucking see... ARE YOU THE ONES!?"
"Shit, we have no fucking clue what you're talking about!" Yua yells back, Andreas grabs onto her shoulder.
"He can't hear you, he's on fire y'know. I don't know how he isn't dead but I'd assume that anyone on fire wouldn't be able to see or hear shit, to him we're probably just formless objects and our words are just muffles between walls." Andreas holds his hand out near Yua. Andreas holds out his hand, "Give me the gun you picked up earlier."
Yua nods, handing Andreas the gun who quickly fires into the man's legs, dropping him to the floor.
"RUN!"
Andreas, Logan, and Yua book it up the stairs, Logan clipping his foot against a nail wedged haphazardly into the staircase. Logan falls against the stairs and Andreas quickly grabs him by the collar and chucks him into the lobby of the hotel.
***
One hour ago...
A man by the name of Henry Gold is protecting the front door of the hotel, waiting for people to come. A man from the uppermost floors of the hotel comes down, this man's name is Joseph Faust, a tall blonde man wearing turtle shell sunglasses, a dress shirt, cargo shorts, and sandals.
The man came down with two Molotov cocktails, lit the cloth shoved inside on fire, and had thrown them onto Henry Gold. After catching on fire, he sees the silhouette of the Joseph go inside somewhere in the vicinity of the basement wherein the labyrinth is. The Molotov's did not kill him though.
Henry Gold.
Nobody knows how or why, but Henry Gold has a body that is comparable to a demi-god's in durability alone. He's not particularly strong nor is he even that impressive in being smart in combat. But his body alone has saved him from a variety of situations completely out of his control.
The pain is the same for anyone but he is able to withstand it and it outright can prevent him from dying. He doesn't know if it was some sort of experiment put on him by his parents or if he was just born with it.
This man was the same man who was torched by Joseph Faust and temporarily crippled by Andreas Valerius Hunt.
It took an hour for Henry to regain his composure. Since the last place he remembered Joseph go down to was somewhere near the basement, Henry went down there.
Skip ahead by a few minutes.
Andreas, Yua, and Logan have finally made it to the lobby of the hotel.
Henry flies up the stairs in a rage, Andreas fires upon Henry three more times before completely running out of ammo, but firing onto Henry caused him to fall back down the stairs, stunned by the pain.
"We've made an alliance with someone named Seth, and another dude named Nixon, we'll take you to them."
Andreas nods, following behind Yua and Logan to Seth's room.
They knock on the door and Eremita opens.
"Oh! Nice to see you, boss."
Andreas nods with a smile spread across his face. "Glad to see you still alive."