The Calamity in Remnant.

Part 7: Who's Next?

Y/N POV:

I began to walk towards the 3 Crimson chasms that were protruding out from the ground. The chasms were a lot bloodier than the game made you think, blood poured down from the ceiling, and the Crimson "Pots" were screaming. I began to descend further into the chasms, Blood Crawlers tried to stop me, along with Crimeras and Face Monsters, but they couldn't do jack to me.

I keep forgetting how inferior people from Remnant are compared to me. I really should stop using them as a benchmark for how dangerous something is. This is embarrassing, I could get rid of this infection in 3 hours tops. I wonder how many Brain of Cthulhu's and Perforators I can spawn and defeat before I get rid of the Crimson? That may be a fun challenge to make this more interesting.

Smirking, I dropped into the "Palm" of the chasm. I fell right into a watery blood pool, where it was very dark. To solve this I drank another shine potion, granting me 10 hours of the light aura. It seemed that the closer I got to one of the hearts, the more fearsome the monsters got about protecting it. Soon I reached a dead end but knowing how the chasms formed I knew that the heart was behind this wall. I put my head up against the wall and heard the sounds of a pounding heart. I took the Crystyl Crusher and smashed through the wall and saw the heart hanging from the ceiling. I then proceeded to create a path in between the hearts whilst decimating the Blood Crawlers. But then I noticed something terrifying about the hearts, they had people inside of them. The screams of the people consumed by the Crimson, begging for their god to help them, to save them, made me stop in fear but in the end, it only made me even more determined to destroy this monster.

These people didn't ask for this. They all had a life to live and loved ones to see, and this thing destroyed all their hopes with no reason or remorse. I need to kill this thing and make sure nobody else meets their end to it ever again. This isn't some game to them, this was a massacre without warning, a slaughter. I need to take this seriously for them. I need to get these passageways dug out and begin the massacre of the Crimson quickly, no more distractions.

Iris POV:

I was sitting in the middle of the forest holding a green dagger in fear next to an Atlas soldier that was just about to take my life as I was about to take hers. Before we had pulled the trigger, a man wearing a crimson scarf and pastel brown clothes busted down the reinforced door and carried us here, ordered us to stay, and gave us a dagger and a gun to defend ourselves with. While we sat there still processing the horrors that were that nightmare, both of us were left to die by our individual captains. While I was thinking the Atlas soldier spoke to me.

????: "H-hey, d-d-do you know w-who that was?"

Iris: "AH!"

In a panic, I pointed my knife at her, she pointed her gun at me in the same panic before we both realized what was happening.

Iris: "O-oh, Umm, N-no I-I don't"

Azure: "Oh, I-I expected th-that, my n-name is Azure b-by the way."

Iris: "Oh, My n-name is Iris."

I think I should calm down. That man seemed like he knew what he was doing, he'll come back for us soon. He gave us these weapons as well, there's no way anyone would these to random survivors if they didn't have something better!

???: "Well lookie what we have here?"

We both turned around and saw 3 men with guns and knifes walking towards us. The first one was a skinny man with a stubble carrying a machete over his shoulder. The second bandit was a very fat and hairy man drooling looking at us with lust in his eyes, he had two swords and a rifle. The third one was a muscular and semi-attractive man who had a shotgun in his hands.