Gormiti Human AU (GHAU)

Going to explore

(TW: Mild Injury)

The yet to be discovered spot was surprisingly easy to find, even with the sloped forest. It was a door, fit into the ground. The group didn't have to look long before stumbling upon it.

'Did it have to be underground? I hate underground.' Eron complained.

'To be honest though, it was smart to put the enterance to a secret place in here,' Trek pointed out, 'It looks like a spot of dirt from a distance.'

Ikor crounched down slowly,planting his foot on the ground and not to fall down the hill. The door looked practically upside down, but it wouldn't budge when he tried to open it. 'Figures, it's locked.' He stood up.

'Let me handle that, anyone got a pin or something?' Riff asked.

'Yeah,' Ao-ki took off on from her hair, leaving a strand of her hair infront of her face (in a cute way if you'd ask him). Riff bent the pin and placed it inside the lock. This lock wasn't nearly the hardest one he dealt with.

'Behold, the power of lock-picking!' and just like that, he pushed the door open. Down underneath was a metallic staircase, then dirty, tiled floor. They decended and took in the dim setting.

The walls were pretty much made of cement, grey and empty. Lines over lines of cables ran on both sides of the long hall, each attached to one of hundreds of sockets lined side by side in boxes. Each socket had a small piece of paper above it, titled with names and numbers

'Those are adresses,' Ao-ki pointed out, inspecting on side closely.

'23-16, Touleen Adams.' Trek read off the other side, 'Wait a minute, that's my house!' He reached towards the cable, but a hand of his arm stopped him.

'I wouldn't do it if I were you,' Ikor warned, 'We don't know what those cables do or what happens if they're removed so let's not risk it.'

'Woah, wonder if I can find mine.' Eron said.

Soon, they heard a call from the far end. 'Found something!'

Riff was standing in front of the wall at the end, inspecting the rusty door in there, similar enough to the one outside except... well, not upside down. He took the knob and it turned around easily. There was nothing visible inside, just darkness, that is until they found the light switch.

Now, it was cupboards on cupboard of arms. Shotguns, handguns, rifles, pistols, targets and others remaining nameless. They were kind of taken back, but they came to the middle of the room nonetheless.

'Wow, wouldn't have thought anyone needs all these... arms.' Eron wondered, reaching out to grab hold of one of them.

'Wait,' Ikor stopped him, 'All those can't be registered. They're trafficked.'

'Well, that's a lot of trafficking done in here.' Riff mocked.

'Then you kids better leave it here.'

They turned to the unannounced newcomer. A man with a mask over his mouth and nose had yet another gun pointed at their general direction. They took a step backwards.

'Now, now, we don't want any bodies here, do we?' His shot swung left- where Riff, Eron and Ao-ki were- to the right, and there stood Trek and Ikor.

Well, since they got stuck, Ikor thought, might as well make use of it.

'You're the one smuggling those weapons, right?'

The stranger turned his eyes on him. 'I see someone's already picking up strings.' In a flash, his gun fired. The bullet passed past Ikor's shoulder, cutting through the clothes as well as a few layers of skin. A yelp escaped him.

In a rush of impulse, Trek grabbed the cupboard beside him, pushing it down with brutal force. The man saw it coming, and shot again in Trek's direction, the bullet again cutting through the flesh in his leg, but the cupboard was already in motion, falling and trampling the man.

'Run!' Eron yelled, more of fright than as a warning. Ao-ki rushed to help Trek straight as he tumbled from the wound. In the panic, Riff picked up a pistol- the same the man used- which had fallen from him at some point.

They crossed the hall to the staircase, pushing the door aside as they exited. In all the commotion around their heads, they ran completely in the wrong direction, noticing only at the top of the hill.

'Dammit,' Ao-ki cursed, looking left and right for anything help full, 'Everyone, get in that cave.' She pointed. One by one they hid in as they heard heavy footsteps on the grass become higher, then slowly returning faint.

Drama: *ensues*