CHAPTER EIGHT

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Explosions rocked above them, as pieces of debris rained down and scattered across the floor. Dust billowed in the air as Claire and Rebecca ran to take cover from the unrelenting attacks. Seraphina joined their side and regrouped, watching as Leon run to join Chris as he had a much different plan in mind. He hopped inside a military car, one adorned with a intimidating machine gun on the side.

"Claire!" Leon yelled.

"What?" Claire shouted back as she covered her ears from the thunderous noise. Leon hung over the car door, peering at his head at the three of them. The truck had a large body, a vehicle meant to transport gasoline. A perfect ticking bomb.

"You got that password Taylor gave you?"

Claire's hand shifted inside her pockets. "Yeah, right here."

"Fantastic. Take the other two and stop those drones! We'll keep this guy busy!" Leon pointed towards the mass of a monster that used to be Dylan. His eyes flickered back to Seraphina, a ghost of a smile on his face. For someone about driving straight into an monster, he looked a little too elated in the face of danger. "You better not do anything reckless!"

"Don't have to tell me twice!"

"Don't die!" Rebecca added as the three of them ran to find somewhere else to get cover and locate the drones. Claire motioned the group to hide behind the stairs before more explosions rocked underneath their feet. They all struggled to walk up the stairs steadily and found the control tower quickly.

Claire's hands shot out to made sure the other two were staying balanced, her hands gripping their arms. In the distance, Leon drove off with the military truck full of gasoline and let go of the wheel, hopping onto the roof of the vehicle. What a hypocrite, Seraphina thought as she watched his rash actions. Calling me reckless, when he does exactly that.

He slipped out a grenade and pulled the string, throwing it straight into the monster. Leon ran across the body of the truck and hopped off with a groan. Rolling onto the floor and onto his back, the truck slammed straight into rotten flesh and blew up into a pile of flames. From the control tower, Seraphina watched the battle below anxiously before peeling her head away from the window.

"Alright," Claire bent over the table to peer at the screen closely and sighed. Weaves of complicated text and code decorated the screen and each word was more complicated than the last. What Taylor gave her should work...if they aren't too late. Her hands furiously typed away at the keyboard. "I got this. Okay...and, we're in."

A pop up on the screen displayed the word processing before a loading bar appeared. Rebecca breathed a sigh of relief before taking over and typed on the keyboard. Seraphina watched them carefully with a slight nod. Watching as they figured out the complexity of Taylor's notes what he left, it left an unnerving feeling.

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