I shook, filled with terror. My body couldn't move though my mind was screaming at me to run. The smoke didn't stop, seeping into the hallways. I heard more choking and coughing as I felt my legs move. I ran towards the doorway and caught myself on the frame. Peering out I gasped as bodies slumped against the walls of the hallway, crumbling to dust.
The loud siren wailed in my ears as the lights flashed red throughout the dense fog I had created. They'd be onto me soon. I started to run.
I didn't know where I was going. I was lost in a maze of hallways that echoed with the sounds of many footsteps. As I ran I noticed the black charcoal dust fork out on the floor beneath my feet. It spread across the ground, crawling up the sides of the walls. The smoke was thick and I could hardly see through it. It was like stumbling around in the dark.
I felt as though my heart my heart were about to explode. I was panicking too much to concentrate. I couldn't think straight. I couldn't calm down. I couldn't breathe. It was so hard to breathe.
I turned my head towards the heavy sounds of footsteps from down the hallway with voices. Without another thought I summoned a wither bomb and threw it in their direction. They didn't even see it coming as I dashed behind a wall and the loud blast sounded.
I shook from the blast and peered around the side. A small hole in the floor could be seen, the smoke seeping down to the lower level. The debris littered the hallway along with the remains of blown up guards. They hallway gleamed even more red now through the grey.
Icy cold tears rolled down my face as I made a mad dash away from the scene. The HEADs were still following me, and I commanded them them to show me the layout of the building and where the exits were. I wasn't even close to one.
The sound of more guards came. Their voices were muffled behind the gas masks, but I threw more bombs. They came in droves now. I couldn't stop. The building shook as the mini explosions rang out. I felt my heart rattle around in my chest.
I found myself non a lower floor after falling through one of the holes I had made from earlier. I must have back tracked at some point. I stood up and continued to run. I stopped at at a huge group of guards and summoned to wither bombs and threw them. I summoned another as they exploded. The third one was weakly thrown, and the explosion pushed me back.
My ears rang loudly. It was so hard to hear. I felt a liquid run down the side from my left ear. The siren and the flashing lights along with the explosions and smoke made everything so disorienting.
I brought myself back up on my feet and stumbled my way forward. I paused seeing the smoke fill into another area of the hallway on the other side of the exploded floor and infrastructure. A door and been blown ajar. I weakly hovered over the debris and to the other side, stumbling to the ajar door and catching myself on the frame.
My ears still rang loudly as I looked inside and made eye contact with someone inside the room. It was hard to see through the smoke and the dark lenses of his task mask, but I knew the person was terrified. He was backed into a corner, holding himself.
I could tell it was a male from his frame, even though he had medium length curly hair tied back into a mini ponytail. His clothes were dirty and a bit torn, and his hands were cuffed with the same cuffs I had worn before. Something seemed familiar, and it all clicked when I saw the gold and purple pendant he wore around his neck.
"S-Sky?" I weakly asked, and everything went still for a second as he looked at me confused. "Sky.. it's me.. Jason?" I stepped inside and reached out a hand but he shook and tried to push himself further into the corner.
"Wh- who are you?! G-Get away!" He quivered before me. I paused a bit and looked brown at myself. My arms were pitched black, the dust running up my arms. You could see the outlines of the ribbed cage that enclosed around my chest and torso through the shirt I wore. Beneath my feet the charcoal dust creeped outwards and spread slowly.
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