Fish reached out and grabbed Tori around her waist, not wanting to see her fall down the well, after all they'd survived so far, he couldn't bare to see another friend parish.<br/><br/>"We must be under the kitchen now, this is the well shaft....We aren't far now..." Jacen said.<br/><br/>Fish poised one hand on the stone wall of the well and looked upward. He could see the orange flickering light as the fire started to overtake the kitchen above. "We had better hurry, I don't think we have very, cough cough, long..." Fish said as he wheezed through the abrasive gas. Tori suddenly pushed backward, shoving herself and Fish away from the well shaft, she'd been looking down while Fish was looking upward and seen something move down in the depths.<br/><br/>"Tori your ring has protected you thus far, but the deeper you go the more powerful the daemon's influence will be....Both of  you should be on your guard, any slip now might spell disaster....This way please..." Jacen  said and then disappeared into a shadowy alcove. Tori and Fish rushed to catch up but realized quickly that Jacen wasn't there anymore.<br/><br/>"Shit....Fuck....Jacen, cough cough....Jacen you lost us, there lil dead buddy...." Fish whispered into the dark cave, but when no answer came, he started to panic again, tugging at Tori's midsection and trying to get her back up the stairs to the exit.<br/><br/>"Fish....cough....cough...Fish I know it sounds crazy, but I can sense Jacob....through the skull rings....I think it's getting stronger the deeper we go...cough cough gag...." Tori said, pulling back toward the deeper tunnels.<br/><br/>"Tori...I am sorry...cough couch...Jacob is dead...Nobody could have survived that explosion...Jacen has forsaken us...We need to leave and let these fucking...cough cough....these fucking demons burn when the flame ignites this gas....Come on please!" Fish said and now he grabbed Tori, trying to pull her up the stairs.<br/><br/>Tori pushed him off hard and started to storm off toward the cavern again, she was going down there with or without him, that much was obvious. Somewhere in the back of Fish's head, he'd kind of hoped that he and Tori might live through this travesty, maybe even find love after a while. It was a pipe dream but one that had given him just enough courage to go after her anyway. "Geez ok....ok...just wait up a second.."<br/><br/>As Tori and Fish slowly made their way deeper in, the walls seemed to come alive, her ring wasn't enough to keep them safe now, and soon they felt the cold demonic claws reach out and slash at them in the darkness. A particularly bad strike to the back of Fish's legs brought him to his knees and he cried out in pain. Tori stopped and turned around, bending over to help Fish up but as the shirt Jacen had given her rode up, her naked ass was exposed long enough for a demon's claws to penetrate her.<br/><br/>"ouch! STOP IT NOW!" Tori screamed out and swatted behind her, but no solid form was there, afterall these things had no physical bodies.<br/><br/>"SSshhe's is....USED TO IT....Master has spread her wide!! heheheheheehheeee!" The cacophony of demon voices laughed.<br/><br/>Tori wrenched Fish to his feet and they started to run. It was extremely dangerous, not only did they have rough terrain to cover, but the running made their lungs heave large amounts of the gas into themselves, and the were both gagging and rasping for breath after only 25 yards or so, the whole time the demon claws raked them, and started to shred most of the small amount of clothing Jacen had lent them.<br/><br/>"Don't COUGH COUGH COUGH....DON'T STOP FISH!" Tori cried out as they rounded the last corner and had to come to a screeching halt, almost tumbling over the edge of the large cliff. This room was a massive cavern, it's floor was atleast 40 feet down with a massive lake of methane filling the room. Tori switch off the flashlight because a huge portal at the chamber's center was a giant  green swirling vortex of energy gave off enough eerie green light to illuminate the entire place. Through the vortex they could both see giant demonic presences waiting patiently to be released.<br/><br/>"Holy cough shit!" Fish said as they looked down over the massive lake, and huge evil doorway to the 'other side'.  "Hey look....!" Fish pointed to a small island at the center of the lake of methane, just below the portal to the dark dimension, there two figures were posed. One was wearing crimson robes, it's face little more than a skull with shreds of meat attached, the other was not much better, but atleast they recognized him, it was Jacen and he was bound to a sacrifical chamber, the red robed figure held another athame above it's head, ready to bring it down on Jacen's chest.<br/><br/>The evil red robed figure looked up at the two interlopers, "This is MY HOUSE AND YOU FOOLS ARE  too late! My destiny has always been to release the dark lords, and today is the day I shall fulfill it! " It announced as it brought the dagger down and plunged it into Jacen's undead chest. "nnnoooo father!" Jacen screamed out in agony. The vortex begins to spin and huge tentacled beasts start to creep out into our world.<br/><br/>***********<br/><br/><br/>In the basement of the burning and crumbling Crenshaw mansion, Jacob, still submerged in the water, as a rafter had fallen and pinned him. He pulled the skull ring up to look at it, knowing it might well be the last thing he ever sees, "Tori....I love you!" He announces but just then the floor of the basement gives way and he is sucked down through the massive hole in the floor.  Thousands of gallons of water and tons of debris are suddenly falling down into the catacombs below, just as the open flame ignites the chamber's explosive atmosphere.<br/><br/>Fish acts out of instict, as normally he isn't a brave man, but with the growing fireball coming at them, he does the only thing he can, grabbing Tori by the waist again and jumping them both off of the cliff, toward the lake of methane below. "Hold your breath!" he screams.