Her ears were ringing and for a moment, she couldn’t remember why. She had been on the guard tower at the Castle all morning, filling in for a sick guard. She wasn’t supposed to be here, there was a bad feeling about it, but it wasn’t her decision. Something felt off but she had ignored it as unfamiliarity with the grounds.
It became clear that wasn’t the case when a loud BANG erupted from the cell room beneath the courtyard. Dee had been knocked to the ground and hit her head but she wasn’t going to let it keep her down. Though her vision was a little blurry, she could see the smoke already seeping from the stairwell below and made the decision to get herself up immediately, checking that her gun was packed into her belt before taking off.
When she got to the cell room entrance, it was the smells that hit her first. Not just the smoke or the burning, but the animal smell. There were unfamiliar scents rushing around down there, up the stairs and all the way past her, through the corridor door. She must have missed them when she was rushing down here, but it didn’t matter, someone else was bound to catch them. She focused on searching the area for bodies. There was one laying against the wall, dressed in a guard’s uniform and bleeding from the head. Dee was ready to administer first aid when she heard a scuffle from the corner and she pulled her gun up, holding it out in front of her. “Show yourself!” She screamed out into the fog of black smoke. Nothing answered. She could hear the breathing of the knocked guard on the floor but nothing else.
Lowering the gun slowly Dionne knelt beside the body and shook it slightly, begging for a response but there wasn’t one. She pulled up her name badge, reading the thing silently. “Come on you shit, are you awake? Kincaid? Can you hear me?” Again, nothing. There wasn’t much she could do for him here so she focused on what she could do, raising her gun again to look through the already thinning smoke and got to her feet. She could see now that the doors to each cell were blown off. Panic began to set in. These were where the Hunters were, but.. she stepped forward, taking a look into each of them, all six.
The prisoners were gone. All six Hunters were gone.
Dee stumbled over her own feet getting to the door way and smashed into the glass over the alarm with the grip of her gun, a loud, piercing siren going on around her. She knew that something wasn’t right.
