The opening act finished, and everyone reparing to go their separate ways. Hamz and Nasri took a 'Ryde' together, which is an app that calls a taxi.
Ace wao talk to Ax about both of their performances and how the crowd affected them and just wao catch up one more time before they called it a night.
He looked around; after watg Nasri and Hamz leave through the exit, he saw Ax slowly walk towards the same exit.
Ace ran towards Ax, his own gig on his shoulder.
Ace saw Ax walk through the door."Was... this always bck?" he asked himself.
Ace looked through the door frame to see...
"Red?" he asked himself.
"Why is everything red?" he tinued.
As he took a few steps ihe door smmed shut, all by itself.
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Ax looked behind him, towards the door where the noise came from.
His eyes widened in shock."Ace?!," Ax screamed.
"Why are you here?! Did you follow me inside!?" Ax asked Ace over and ain."Where... am I? Did we get lost or something?" Ace asked Ax, fused.
Ax ran past him towards the door. He shuffled for the door to open."You're kidding me!" Ax screamed."You okay? Ax? There's another dht there we "—Ace's words stopped mid-sentenbsp;
A bony haed from the red grass, grasping the ground right in front of Ace.
Ace fell backwards in fear. "What... is that?!" Ace asked Ax as the skeletorying to climb out of the ground.
Ax dropped his bag on the ground and ran to Ace's side. As the skeleton's head opping out of the grass, Ax kicked it after getting a running start, dislodging it from its neck, causing the skeleton to stop moving.
"No time to expin," Ax said as he ran towards the gun and dagger on the ground.
Ax picked them up and threw the revolver at Ace.
"What the hell am I supposed to do with this?" Ace asked, his heart beating as fast as a hummingbird's, the fear adding to his already caffeinated blood.
Dozens of bone hands escaped the grass from below. The skeletons are crawling out of the grass aing up owo feet, preparing to lu Ax.
"Aim for the heads, cover me," Ax said as he rushed a skeleton.
"What?! Are you crazy?" asked Ace, worried for Ax.
A skeleton tried grabbing Ax's arm; Ax swatted it away and lodged his dagger into the elbow crease of the bony figure and twisted.
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Ax dislodged its arm, the arm falling on the ground, its skull lunging at his neck.
Ax shoved his thumb into one of the eye sockets and grabbed the top of its skull and pulled it up, exposing the skeleton's neck, giving Ax a better view.
He shoved his dagger in there and dislodged the skull swiftly, causing the skeleton to drop.
He then threw the skull at another who was running at him.
This caused the skeleton to lose bance. As the skeleton was trying to get ba track, Ax picked up the arm on the ground and hit its skull as hard as he could, causing it to fly off. The skeleton is falling forward.
"What the hell..." Ace muttered to himself.
He was looking at what looked like two dozen bony skeletons, running around with the io kill. Ace was shocked to the core, but what made it even more shog was the fact that they were actively trying to kill Ax... and were losing.
Ace was looking at Ax, winning a fight where he was outnumbered, two dozen to one, and he was winning?
A skeleton was able to sneak up on Ax as it luo bite the back of his head.
"AX!" Ace screamed out at the top of his lungs.
Ax looked back to see the skeleton, already in his face.
"Shit," he muttered.
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The skull became encased in ice. Freezing over, causing the body of the skeleton to fall to its side and the skull to shatter into shards of ice.
Ax looked in the dire the crag sound came from, and he saetrified Ace, holding up the silver gun.
"You did that?" Ax asked Ace."I—I guess so?" Ace replied to Ax.
"Well damn, good jo—" Ax got cut off; he looked down to see a red bony hand stig out of his chest, through his heart.
He looked back up at Ace, his eyes losing vision."Shoot..." Ax tried to speak to Ace more before dying.
"AXTON!" Ace screamed out to his friend, who was now bleeding on the ground, dead in his own pool of blood.
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Ace shot the red skeleton as he quickly stood up.
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Ace kept shooting the head of the skeleton over and ain till he ran out of bullets, even though its head got encased ih the first round.
"Damn it!" he screamed out as he ran out of bullets.
Ax hid the red skull encased ih the bad of his handle, shattering it into a million shards. He then pulled off the arm of the red oh all his might, dislodging it. He then started to attack the other skeletons with that arm.
"AX!? You're alive?" Ace screamed as he asked him.
"But I saw you—" Ace looked at Ax's body on the ground. He was silent."Well? Air out yun and keep shooting; we're not do," Ax anded Ace as he was fighting off the skeletons.
Ace opehe etal der of the gun; as mist escaped the chamber, he closed it shut and started shooting the skeletons.
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After around thirty minutes, all the skeletons were dead on the ground, with a dead Ax with it.
Ax walked towards the red tree.
Ace ran towards him, getting ready to ask a millioions.
"Ax!? How did we end up here? Did you die? Since when you fight like that? How were you so cal?" Ace kept asking more and more questions.
"Ace. I need you to keep shooting that tree," Ax demanded of Ace."Alright...? Why though?" he asked as he shot the tree with his icy bullets.
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Ace spread his shots out all over the tree.
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"Who said that?!," Ace asked Ax.
"No clue, it just happens when you kill the main enemies and you clear a room," replied Ax as he picked up a sheathed katana that was lying on the ground.
"What do you mean by... 'Room'? Are there more? How long have you—" Ace got interrupted again.
A bck door appeared in front of Ax, separate from the door at the end of the room.
"I'll... expihing on the way back..." replied Ax.
"Okay...?" Ace aowledged Ax's ent.
As Ax opehe door, he walked bato his apartment, his own room.
Ace followed him inside... with his eyes even wider open."What the f@ck?" he reacted.
"Wash the paint off your face. How do you feel about a sleepover? Haven't dohat in a while," Ax asked Ace.
"I feel like you're brushing off a major detail, no, a dozeails, Ax, including that sword you just happeo pick up from the ground." Ace looked into Ax's eyes while talking.
"We'll get to it; I'm just tired, and so are you. I'll fetch you some spare clothes," Ax replied.
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Both of them took turns washing their faces aing ged; Ax gave Ace a spare T-shirt and a pair of sants.
"You calmed down a bit?" Ax asked Ace as he was going through his fridge.
"A little. Are you going to expin to me now or what? Also, why are you going through your fridge?" Aswered Ax with a few other questions.
"A while ago, I walked through a back door the same way you did, kinda. It just appeared in front of me. I walked through it, had to kill a goblin with a rusty dagger, and got a gun of my own," Ax expio Ace as he pulled out a carrot.
"Ace, grab the dagger again," Ax tinued.
"Alright, I guess." Ace followed his instrus.
"I'm going to toss this carrot, and I need you to try and hit it when you throw the k it." Ax expined."Alright... sure, I guess." Ace was ready to throw it.
Ax threw the carrot towards his closet.Ace talked to Ax while throwing the silver dagger, "Okay, but I swear I saw you die; what was—"
Ax hit the moviable straight through the middle.
"...that ...about?" Ace trailed off as he stared at the dagger that was stig out of the closet door and the two halves of the carrot on the ground.
"You... never had that good of an aim, did you?" Ax asked Ace.
"No... I always had trash aim," Ace replied.
"Yeah, for some reason. When we walked through those doors for the first time, we got a random superpower," Ax expined.
"Mines... never missing a shot?" Ace asked.
"It seems so... yeah," Ax replied.
"My power is the fact that... I ever die," he finished.
