TWELVE: KRYPT SWEEPERS
(Tyrone Lee)
"Lee! This way!"
I ran towards Alex, who was leading the way out of this creepy dungeon. Nolan blasted the door away with his body. Even if he couldn't use super strength, he was still strong enough.
Alex looked around and shouted back to me, "I bet Jenny is somewhere within the top two floors! Can you use your new Skill to fly us up there?"
"Alright but I can only carry one of you up there."
"Nolan, you go with Lee, I'll Sprint up the stairs!"
We landed on the sixth floor. Nolan was too heavy to carry all the way up there. I smashed in through the glass windows of a gym. There were some muscular dudes lifting and training in here. Nolan whispered to me, "Stay quiet and follow my lead, I'm sure I can talk us o-"
"NOLAN!!! WHY ARE YOU HERE BOY?! AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE DOWN IN QUARANTINE?!!"
A blonde, muscular guy made his way towards us, with a barbell in his hand, as if it was made of plastic!
He spun the barbell like a staff, and threw it like a javelin. A weird combo, but no less fearsome. I froze for a second as the 20 kilogram stick spun towards us with shocking speed.
Nolan tackled my feet from behind, not too hard to hurt me, but enough to make me lose my balance. I fell on the floor as the barbell flew over us and hit the wall behind. With an explosive noise, the wall crumbled.
"Thanks for the save!"
I took out my Spear, as Nolan took a fighting stance. I willed around 60% of my Mana into my Spear. It burnt a shade of turquoise. I used the rest of the Flames to engulf an armor around me and Nolan. I had more Mana left since I leveled up to 12 after taking down the Director.
"Remember Lee, avoid touching anything. His power is to control Gym Equipments, manipulate their weights and weaponize them."
I nodded to his warning, as we stood back to back. The other dudes had joined in by now too. It was really unfair for a right against two fight.
"On three, you take the small fries on the right, and I'll burn up the rest, got it?" Nolan grunted positively. "One. Two-"
Before I could get to three a weight shot at me like a disc. I dodged it just barely and pushed Nolan down as the disc shot over our heads. It stopped in mid air and swiveled around towards us again. Nolan hook kicked it out of the air as it shot and hit a dude.
One down. Seven to go!
I leapt at another guy on the left as Nolan dashed right. I swung my Spear and burnt the face off a dude. He yelled in pain and fell backwards as two others charged. I used my Armor to conjure up a Firestorm. With roaring fire, I charged and burnt down everyone. But the Leader was a tough nut. He had created a fortification with equipments to protect himself. I dashed at him and rammed my Spear down on a bench he used to cover his head.
With a series of BOOMs his fortifications blew up. The heat and fire didn't affect me of course. But the same couldn't be said about the force. It blasted me away as I fell hard on my back.
The leader got up and let out a roar. "Is that all you got, punk? You thought you could bring me, Jason Shire, down with some circus tricks?"
Nolan smashed the last guy in the floor, and ran like a mad bull to Shire. Before they could make contact, ROAR!
I had willed all of my fire, including the one in my Spear to Nolan. He was protected of course, but Shire wasn't. My flames burnt high and bright as Nolan pounded the burning man. Within half a minute Jason Shire was just ashes.
I stood up, dusted off my jacket and called Nolan. He was a bit shocked at the unexpected events, but he regained himself quickly. We then finally made way to the next floor, where Alex was fighting alone.
We dashed upstairs, from the previously gym floor. The gym had disappeared with Shire's death. We could hear vicious fighting from the floor above. I hoped Alex wasn't getting his ass handed to him. Nolan was the first one on the scene. He stood still at the top of the stairs, blocking the way. I shoved him aside as I was about to rush in.
What I saw, made me stand still as well. It was a bloodbath. There were pieces of Counselors flying all across the room. Blood splattered on the walls and organs splurted all over the floor. Heads rolled and limbs twitched, as a blur streaked across the room. Alex was slicing and dicing before anyone could realise where he was.
He was too unpredictable. But it seemed he had an excellent level of control over the speed. He wasn't spiralling out of path. Limbs and organs flew as he gutted every counselor to sure death. He left no survivors. He even killed and re-killed just to be sure.
The final Counselor fell, or rather what was left of him. Alex finally slid to a stop and faced us. He was covered with blood and gooey stuff, which I didn't even want to know more about. He grinned as he said, "You guys are late! I bet Jenny is in the Director's room."
I couldn't say anything. I opened my mouth, made a gurgling noise and closed it. Then I just nodded at the psychopath in front of me. It was a good thing he was on our side.
Jenny was trapped in the Director's room as predicted. She was partially unconscious. She mumbled a bit as Nolan picked her up. Alex went for a shower in the Director's room. I looked around, hoping to find something that could help us. All I found were a hell lot of Shards and some Leprechaun gold. I divided the Shards fairly among all of us. Jenny was still asleep.
Alex came out of the shower, and I shot some flames at him to dry him up. We sat down in a circle, and they filled me in about how Leo betrayed them and how they might secretly be working with the Leprechauns. They told me about Lucien with Shadow powers and Zachary with Earthquakes.
I decided the best course of action was to stay here, till the Quest ended. We had like 2 days left only now. Since this Camp no longer had any leader or Counselors, we decided to let everyone know the truth as much as we figured it out.
Two days passed by easily, we hunted Leprechauns, leveled up, Nolan unlocked the Class, The Reaper and the ability of Weightless. He could now remove the weight from any body. Jenny became The Plague. Her new Skill was Antidote. She could cure any simple disease instantly. However the issue was with Alex. He couldn't get a Class since he was originally disqualified. But that didn't put him down. He started practicing his Sprint and leveling up.
By the time the Quest ended, I was Level 18, Nolan was 16, Jenny was 14 and Alex was Level 17. We all got 1,000 Shards each from the Leprechauns Pot and a mysterious item was added to each of our Inventories. We finally parted ways with the Camp and Started on the next Quest.
QUEST #3
Scavenger Hunt
Difficulty: C
Possible Rewards:
[???]
XP
Briefing: Collect the 8 Elemental Orbs In Your Area For Quest #4