On a mysterious island the storm continued. Rain fell from the sky beating the earth without mercy. Thunder boomed as lightning snake across the sky like an unstoppable beast.
However, even in such a storm silhouette could still be seen. voices cried over the thunder and howling wind.
"This one's bleeding out...put some pressure on it"
"Come on...come on! Breathe, god damnit!" Alex cursed as he performed a CPR on Naruto.
"I knew something like this would happen! Where the hell are we?"
"Come on doctor! Help us out here"
Bodies laid sprawled all over the beach whether they were dead or alive nobody knows. The doctor was trying his best to save as many as possible. He was still performing cpr on a person when he heard someone else calling for him.
"Jesus Jonah, what's going on?"
"How am I supposed to know"
"Where's Lara?" Roth asked as he couldn't find her anywhere. His old heart was troubled. Could Lara still be out at sea?
"Lara!" Jonah called out, panic and fear lacing his voice. After making it ashore he immediately went in search of Lara but he couldn't find her.
"She's got to be somewhere around there..." Grim coughed, his voice hoarse from all the shouting. Just like Roth he was filled with worry. After spending so many days with Lara he had come to see her as his surrogate daughter.
"And how do we know if she's not drowning at the bottom of the sea, cause last time I saw her it was at the middle of the fucking storm".
"Take it easy Jonah, she's gonna be fine, am certain of that" Roth reassured as the body they were tending to made a slight movement. "Hang in there, Naruto"
"Lara where are you!"
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On another part of the beach, some kilometers away from Jonah and the others. The person that they had all been searching for stumbled onto her feet. She had just swim all the way through the stormy sea before finally making her way to the shore. However, before she had time to catch her breath she heard voices in the distance
"Lara!"
"Hello!" Lara shouted as she surveyed her surroundings to find the source of the voice before she caught sight of Jonah and the rest of the crew on a cliff.
"Help!..."
"Reyes! Jonah! I'm here!"" She screamed as she got back on her feet. She took a step forward only to black out as something smash into the back of her head.
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Inside an unknown cave somewhere on the island. The creaking sound of an heavy object being pulled echoed inside the cave. Burning candles were neatly arranged around the floor and walls of the cave. Suspended on the middle of the cave hung a person wrapped in thick materials dangling by a rope.
Whether the person was alive or not was unknown. However, after an unknown amount of time the man's eyes slowly fluttered open and the first thing he did after waking up was scream.
It took him a while to calm down and cautiously observe his surrounding. The damp walls and candle lit room was completely unfamiliar to him.
"Where the hell am I?" Naruto couldn't help but question. After falling unconscious into the raging tides below, he had thought that it was over for him. But here he was, tied upside in some sort of cave with no possible way of escape.
"Lara?! Sam?! Roth?!"
Nobody answered back. The only thing that accompanied him was the faint echoing of his own voice in the cave.
"Ah I can't give up, not when my journey just began. I've got to find a way out of here" he turned his head left and right looking for a possible escape route but found none until an idea struck him.
"I'm tied close to a burning candle, why didn't I fucking see that before" If he wasn't tied up he would have facepalmed. Deciding to keep his self loathing for later after he made it out of God knows where alive and focus more on getting out of his bondage. With a mighty heave he swing his body closer to the candle light but missed it by a few inches.
"Again" he took in a deep breath, and with another mighty heave, he swing his body closer to the flame again and this time his bindings made contact with the burning candle and caught on fire.
"Yes!" Naruto jubilated as the flame slowly burned through his bindings but one thing he failed to make account for was how far to the ground he was, but he realized his mistake the moment his body fell and hit the ground and he sprained his wrist.
"Fuck!" He gripped his now swollen wrist then he picked up a sharp rock and cut it open a little to squeeze out the blood before he tore the right sleeve of his Black shirt off with his teeth then tied it around his sprained left wrist.
He got back on his feet as he moved through a dark passage way to his right. "Hopefully this route will lead me out of here"
The sound of water dripping from the roof of the cave and his own footsteps were the only sounds that accompanied him in his dark journey through the cave. He soon stumble upon another space filled with burning candles and torches lining the walls.
The dripping water in the background never stopped. It was already starting to irritate him at this point.
"What's with all the candles?" Naruto frowned as he grabbed a nearby torch and moved down through another passageway to his left only to find it blocked by scaffolding. He set it on fire using the torch setting it ablaze. The fire burned for a few minutes before extinguishing with the last piece of the scaffolding to reveal a pathway. Naruto made it into another area filled with burning candles.
However, that wasn't the only thing. Naruto felt nauseous as he stared at the human skeletons littered the floor with a decaying body suspended in midair by it arms.
"What the hell?"
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