Chapter 5: Hope is dead

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They went back inside the prison and found more dead teens

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They went back inside the prison and found more dead teens. Massacred and slaughtered like animals. Someone wrote a lot of warning messages with their blood. One of the bodies was a dead teenage girl with half her brains oozing out. In her hand was an audio recording. Her last message.

Recording: Hello. The creatures are outside the door, I can hear them banging on it. And while I wait to die, I wanna tell whoever finds this recording. I've been looking for some answers to this apocalypse and.... Well, there isn't any, there's no answers, there's no explanation. It just is what it is. We are at its mercy. I've seen the unspeakable and I won't be at its mercy anymore.

The recording ended with the sounds of the girl screaming from the demons slaughtering her. Everyone but Isaac felt sorry. Now they kept moving inside the prison to look for a way out. They passed by another room full of cell blocks but paused after what they saw.

It was a huge hole in the floor that looked as if it was a portal to Hell, which was continually releasing a red mist. Inside there was electricity that can be seen, and demonic chanting can be faintly heard from within. All around the room was even more spilled blood and a pile of debris from the roof caving in.

Tanisha: God damn. So this must be where they came from. Is this a doorway to Hell?

Felicia: Nah. It's a Hellmouth, it's only meant for them to pop up and kill us if we fall in. And I'm betting there are hundreds of these everywhere.

Tanisha: Can you imagine being right near this when it first appears? You'd be torn apart before you could run. And what's with the demon chanting?

Felicia: Nothing good. Let's not stick around to find out.

Tanisha: Seriously, how many more of these cell blocks do we have to pass in order to....

Suddenly a demon ogre busted down the entire wall while carrying a power pole. Isaac and Felicia quickly shot the head multiple times before it could swing the pole. Tanisha delivered the finishing blow by slashing the stomach with her sword. The demon ogre fell down dead after that. But now they have a way out. Isaac then looked up the map on his phone.

Isaac: This path will lead us to the radio building, it connects to the gate that leads outside of the prison. Once outside, we can cross the bridge and be off this island.

Felicia: My hero! I can always rely on you to protect us!

Tanisha: Lady, you scare the hell outta me more than my brother does. But whatever, let's move!

Everyone was about to run but then giant mutant tentacles popped up from the ground. They didn't grab anyone; they just blocked the way out. Isaac tried shooting them, but the plasma bullets did nothing. And then Dr. Jessie appeared from a poof of smoke, smiling and taking a bow. Felicia was about to shoot but Isaac pointed her gun down, knowing that attacking would be a bad idea.

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