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[center][h1][u][color=BC3823]Evander[/color] [color=CC5500]Fino[/color] [color=d4af37]Synesti[/color][/u][/h1][/center]
[hr][center][h2]P[color=8D918D]rimitive: 
End of the Tunnel[/color][/h2] (Present)[/center][hr] 
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[color=8D918D]Evander and Benedetto emerged from the portal. They found themselves in a room full of... 

[i]silence[/i].

The soft sand beneath their feet nearly muted their steps. If not for the whisper of air slipping through cracks and the beat of their hearts thumping under their skin, they might have been disoriented to hear. Nothing.  Of course, it did not take long before Benedetto broke the silence with his berating words, [color=36deae]"Stupid girl, can't even get a portal right."[/color] He was referring to Jocasta. As Benny stewed in his defiance and profane attitude, Evander felt a vibration below his feet. 

[color=d4af37]"Do you feel that?"[/color] Evander asked. 

Benny replied, [color=36deae]"Don't tell me you are losing it too! Do I have to carry everyone?"[/color] The earth shook and rumbled; tiny mandibles scraping and grinding against rock could be heard beneath them. A low, steady hum worked its way closer to where they stood and grew louder until a chunk of stone erupted as Threshers chewed their way through to the surface.

[color=36deae]"No fucking way!"[/color] Benny shouted. He sent an atomic spell immediately in their direction. The Threshers were unphased. Evander followed Benny by sending shocks of lightning to no avail. The two casted and casted, hoping to put some dent in their numbers as more erupted out of the walls and floor. One whipped its tail as a cluster of barbs released in their direction. At the same time, Benny sent an atomic spell which sent the barbs in a flurry of different directions, each barb exploding in varying points of the room and knocking some Threshers back. 

[color=d4af37]"That was too close."[/color] Evander said as he bit his lip. [i]It was all too close.[/i]

Sweat beaded down Evander's brow. His face split between determination and a fearful realization. The Threshers were not stopping. With persistence, [I]they[/i] came. Taking hit after hit in the face of Benedetto's atomic spells and Evander's lightning. Suddenly, one Thresher sliced its claw through the smoke and charged, attempting to cut Evander's abdomen. The tip scored, leaving a trace of blood across his flesh with a tear in his clothes. Followed by the Thresher's slice, another spit, but Evander's cape caught it as he dodged from the first attack. Lady Reshta looked upon him twice; twice death clutched at Evander, twice luck pried its hands back open. Evander did not want to trust Reshta a third time. He gained his distance, but his abdomen drew blood. Thankfully, the attack only scraped its mark on the surface, leaving his abdomen intact and his organs within his body. For now.

After leaping out of the way, Evander turned his head to Benny. A Thresher closed in and was about to whip its curled tail around to shoot another one of those clusters of barbed darts that they had avoided earlier. The darts would explode on impact if they hit. 

[color=d4af37]"Benny!"[/color] Evander shouted, [i]no time[/i]. Evander forced a small burst of kinetic energy at Benny to knock him out of the path of the Thresher's barbs. The barbs nearly missed Benny, [color=36deae]"What the fuck did you do that for?"[/color] The wall caught the barbs and exploded, turning Benny's attention and Evander's to the newly formed opening. Benny didn't need Evander to answer his question.

Evander pointed at the opening in the wall, [color=d4af37]"We can't fight them with what we have here, but maybe there is another way through there!"[/color] He shouted at Benny over the chittering of Threshers as he pointed at the opening in the wall. Evander and Benny had a small window of clearing to get to the opening in the wall and exit. Once they arrived, Evander asked, [color=d4af37]"Can you hit the ceiling with your atomic?"[/color] Evander thought they could buy time to escape if they could bring the roof down on top of the Threshers. 

[color=36deae]"You want me to bring the fucking ceiling down on these assholes? Yeah, I can do that, but it's gonna take some fucking time, and I don't know if we have it!"[/color] Benny's eyes scanned the room, but the Threshers were closing in. [color=36deae]"Fuck it,"[/color] he growled. Benny drew as much as he could under the intense circumstances and time crunch, launching a half-assed atomic spell at the ceiling. Its volatile structure exploded before impacting the ceiling, causing an area of effect much greater than anticipated. Instead of a concentrated strike, the explosion disintegrated several critical stones across a wide spread, starting a chain reaction. The entire building began to shake as the load crumbled the supports in their area.

Benny realized what was happening and grabbed Evander, [color=36deae]"Let's get the hell out of here before we end up buried under rubble like a couple of dumbasses!"[/color] Stones began dropping behind Evander and Benny as they raced down a dark corridor that Evander lit up with his Arcane gift. Nearly crushed by rocks above, Benny used his atomic in small doses to blast stones falling in front of them to clear the way, while Evander used his charges to burst stones into small bits that were dropping above. 

[color=36deae]"If this whole damn place comes crashing down, it's not my problem! I did my part in roasting those Thresher bastards!"[/color] Benedetto scowled as he fired another atomic spell, [color=36deae]"In fact, it was your big idea!"[/color] He implied Evander's responsibility. Evander asked in sincerity, [color=d4af37]"Was there a better one?"[/color] Benny didn't have an answer, or he would have chosen differently instead of listening to a stuck-up Noble, [color=36deae]"Fuck!"[/color] 

The two pumped their brakes as rocks collapsed a few meters before them, sealing off their escape. 

The two were stuck between rocks and hard place. They would soon be trapped and pulverized by the structure they were contained in. The two had no idea what to do as they looked at each other in that moment of, [I]this is it.[/i]

Click. Creak. Thud. 

The floor opened a hatch underneath their feet, dropping them down a trap chute door. 

[color=FFFFFF]"Ahhh!"[/color] The two synced in their sound of surprise as their guts punched their hearts, anxiety sprawled across their nerves, and their senses dulled briefly as darkness overcame their sight. Then, the light at the end of the tunnel. Both slipped out from the top of a large room several stories high off the ground. If it were not for Evander and Benny's ability to use their gift in ways that could save their fall, it would have been their end or, at the least, broken bones. 

The two safely landed in a massive room. Impossible to capture the scope of it with two pairs of eyes, and it was not illuminated enough to truly see what was there with them. The good news, they were no longer trapped by falling stones. The bad news, they were trapped in another room.

Evander said sarcastically, [color=d4af37]"So far so good, as planned."[/color][/color]