Thread: Last of Us: A Story of Two Souls (BMD x EldritheWhisperwind)

We have an hour and three minutes left. Informed Andy. It took us almost an hour just to clear two floors and we still have four floors to check out. Plus we still need to find Damien and James. Mariah groaned in frustration, I know, I know. We will find them. But we need to start from the first floor and work our way up because Im guessing that they didnt stick us close together. Mariah sits down on one of the chairs that was lying in the room. Leonard was passed out on the floor so there wasnt any rush to hurry up and high tail it out of there. Mariah scratched her head, We could just take the stairs, but that would be to easy and more than likely they would be waiting for us to do that. We got lucky with Caitlyn and her nervousness. We could climb down from outside. Offers Andy. We could, but thats way too dangerous. Plus it would take too long to reach the bottom safely and work our way back up from the inside. Mariah starts spinning around in the chair, half impressed that the chair was still able to spin on its screeching hinges. I wonder if there is an elevator in this building. We could just grapple onto the cables and slide our way down. It might not be completely safe but it would be easy and fast. Both team members left the room in search of the elevator. Further down the hall from where they started was where the elevator was located. Andy and Mariah found a metal rod that had fallen from the ceiling and used it to jar the rusted elevator doors open. The loud screeching noises echoed through the hall and elevator shaft. Damn it, I hope they didnt hear that. Says Andy as he peaks his head into the shaft. Lets hope they didnt. Replies Mariah as she sneaks a peak for herself. From shear luck, the elevator was somehow still in tact and hanging on the 5th floor. Andy looks at Mariah, fear dancing on his face, That doesnt look too safe if you ask me. Mariah could see where he was coming from, but there really wasnt any other faster way. Everything will be ok. Look at it this way, if those cables can hold that heavy elevator up then it can hold us up with no problem. Andy scrunches up his face and nods to her. Ok, what we can do is take a running jump and grab a hold of one of the cables and slide ourselves down onto the elevator. Ill go first. Are you ready? As ready as Ill ever be. He replies. Backing up against the opposite wall, Mariah took a deep breath before propelling herself forward. Running as fast as she could, she launched herself off the platform in the elevator shaft and grabbed a hold of one of the thick cables. Sounds of multiple reverberating cable springs filled the shaft. Once she was able to wrap her legs around the cable, she slid herself down. On top of the elevator she looks up toward Andy, Its your turn now. You can do it Andy! Seconds later she sees Andy jump and grab a hold of the same cable. But his momentum sent his body rocking too much and he started to loose control. Suddenly he was falling at least he was able to use his grip on the cable to slow down his decent. He landed aggressively on top of the elevator causing it to teeter and clang against the wall. Andy abruptly stood up on shock-ridden legs. Screwyou. He stutters. Mariah smiles at him and pats him on the shoulder. Alright, now all we have the sound of ripping cables causes her to look up. Oh no. She whispers as the elevator starts stuttering. Grab onto something! she yells. Mariah drops down on her stomach with Andy right next to her. The metal box beneath them is plummeting to the ground, air rushing past. Suddenly it jerks to a stop between the 2nd and 1st floor. Dizziness envelops the world around her, Im not dead? Shaking her head clear, she turns over on her back and closes her eyes, relieved that shes still alive. Hey, come on. We have to go. Groans Andy as she sits up and looks at the watch on his wrist. We have 56 minutes left. Grinning, Mariah flutters her eyes open and pushes her self into a sitting position. I told you it would be fast. Andy shakes his head and starts climbing down the backside of the broken elevator, Mariah is quick on his heels. Thankfully they are close enough to the 1st floor and they are able to jump down to the ground without risk of any serious injury. The sliding doors to the 1st floor were bent open, the hole big enough for both of them to fit through. At least something is going our way. Says Andy as he helps Mariah down. Both of them squeeze through and drop into crouches. The 1st floor is the receptionist hall with some office rooms catacomb behind the front desk. An ornate arched staircase centered in the middle of the room is collapsed, demolishing one of the offices, splinters of wood, glass and plaster litter the floor. Overgrown vegetation covered the floor and hung from the ceiling, draping itself over the ground underneath it. Disturbed birds abandoned their hiding spots in the foliage. Blues, greens, reds, browns and whites blurred past the two stunned humans. It was beautiful. Looks like nobody else is down here, but it wont hurt to check anyway. Informs Mariah. Andy looks over at her, How do you know? The birds, we spooked them. If anybody else was here then the birds wouldnt have been. She answers. They both quickly search the floor and find nothing useful, only wasting five minutes. It was time to climb over the rubble and explore the second floor. On the 2nd floor, the sounds of hushed voices caused Mariah to drop into a crawl. Andy didnt hesitate to follow suite. The 2nd floor was another floor of the building that was laid out in disoriented gray cubicles. Mariah and Andy slowly crept their way around the room, using the cubicles to hide and slither around being careful to check each empty square as they passed. Half way through the maze they heard grunting, Mariah signals for Andy to stop as she checks around the corner into one of the gray squares. Inside hiding under a table squatted Damien and James who were whisper fighting over how cramped it was and who should leave. Damien youre the biggest one, your fat ass should leave. Grunts James. No, you leave. says Damien. Why dont you both just shut up and get both of your asss out of there. Hisses Mariah, causing both of them to yell and almost jump out of their skins. Mariah, what the hell man, where did you come from? asks Damien. Long story, have you guys found a trophy yet? Not yet. We started out on the 1st floor, nothing there. So we came up here and found nothing, we then went up to the 3rd floor and we saw Sarah waiting there with a muscle monster. Retorts James. We booked it back down here to wait for you. Theres no way we were going to try and fight them by ourselves, they would crush us. That must be Steven. Explains Andy who had stood up and was standing behind Mariah. What do we do now? We have to get up there, they must be guarding the trophy. Answers Mariah. You three, follow me and stay close and for the love of god, keep your traps shut. We dont want them to know we are coming. She snaps. They all nod in agreement to her. Good, now lets get going. Since we know that there are no trophies down here theres no need to keep looking. Did you guys find a way to the 3rd floor without using the stairs? Theres a collapsed part of the ceiling over here, it makes a good ramp to the next floor. Damien points to the right of them. Its in the bathroom. Andy scratches his chin, Whats on the 3rd floor? James finally crawls out from under the desk, Its the cafeteria and recreation area. Sarah and Steven? Are hiding out in the cafeteria. I think the trophy is in the kitchen. Mariah nods her head, Alright then, lets get going. She grabs Andys wrist, Looks like we have thirty three minutes left. So no pussy footing around, got it? The three men follow Mariah without any complaints, first they go to the bathroom and climb the caved in ceiling. On the 3rd floor they precede into a stealth walk while winding their way through the hallways to the cafeteria. James points to the door leading to their destination. Mariah nods in acknowledgement and slowly opens the door and crawling inside. Inside was a large cafeteria dusty circular wooden tables and chairs decorated the room. In the far back was the kitchen, red plastic trays were scattered around the floor. Standing in front of the kitchen stood Sarah and Steven. Both of their arms crossed, alert and ready for any sight of movement. There was no way they could sneak in there without some confrontation. We are going to have to fight them, she breathed. James and Damien, I want you two to distract Steven. Andy, I want you to run straight into the kitchen and grab the trophy. Ill handle Sarah. James and Damien nodded and acted like they were going to sneak up on Steven, they made it painfully obvious. Steven zoned in on the two guys and turned toward Sarah, Ill handle this. These mentally handicapped retards wont be a problem. James and Damien jump up and start running towards another door metal at the other end of the room. Once both guys and Steven were out of sight, Mariah hands Andy the trophy that she attached to her belt and sneaks her way over to Sarah whos back is turned away from her. She crawled up behind Sarah and wrapped her arm around Sarahs neck. Sarah thrashed around managing to break herself free. Finally you showed up. She spat. Without hesitation, Sarah launched herself at Mariah knocking her to the floor. Once Mariah was lying on the ground, Sarah crawled on top of her and delivered a barrage of punches to her face. Mariah shielded her face with her right arm and using her left hand to grab a rock that was next to her. She smashed the rock over Sarahs head as hard as she could, causing Sarah to grab her head in a painful scream. Mariah forcefully pushed the muscular woman off of her. You stupid bitch. That hurt! Sarah screeched. Youre going to pay for that! This time Mariah was ready, she dodged the woman as she rushed toward her. Sarah may have had huge muscles but she was slow, that was her physical weakness. Andy, saw an opportune moment and made a dash for the kitchen doors. Sarah saw him coming and directed her attention on him, as he ran past she whirled around and slammed him into the ground. Andy erupted into a fit of grunts as Sarah beat down on him with a series of kicks darkness crept into his vision. During the struggle, Mariah could hear a loud clicking noise. Uh, guys? She stammers. Sarah is continuously kicking Andy while screaming. Fear glazes over Mariahs vision there is an infected nearby. She runs over and jumps on Sarahs back in an attempt to stop her from beating on Andy. Sarah tries her best to buck her off but fails. Mariah punches Sarah in her left temple, causing her to collapse. She Pins the groaning woman and covers her mouth. Shhhh Hushes Mariah. The sound of a Male scream bounces off the walls Mariah was right, there were infected in the building.