Jacob's last sight before being sucked under the water by the huge black tentacles was that he couldn't believe Tori actually ran away. Yes of course he'd said 'run' , but that was just something boyfriends generally said to their girlfriends when they were in eminent danger, wasn't it? The truth was that he'd expected her to jump back into the water and use the same pair of cast iron tongs, she had used to dispatch Greg, to help free him from this vile monster that was now successfully drowning him, Instead her fight or flight mechanism took hold and she bolted, tossing the athame tongs. But now he was alone, with something that had the equivalent strength of several anaconda snakes constricting around his body and pushing the air out of his lungs. He was strong, and could fight, but to no avail, the Monster dragged him to the bottom and started to roll him around like an alligator's death roll.<br/><br/>He forced the tongs down in between his body and the monsters, but with his arms trapped he could get no leverage to pry them off. 'So this is how I die..." He thought to himself.<br/><br/><br/>*************<br/><br/><br/>Jacen hobbled over to Fish and helped the damaged man stand, Fish cried out in pain as electric jolts of pain shot up his back from his ass. "Ooooh man...I don't know how Shanna did it...I'm not gonna be able to shit right for weeks!" Fish said and made an uncomfortable laugh. It was good ol' Fish trying to cover his own emotional distress with humor, but even the eyeless Zombie could see how badly he was shaken up by the whole experience. Fish reached up and wiped some of Shanna's blood from his face, and then began to weep. "Ooooh god....ooooh jesus....what have we done?"<br/><br/>"It's alright Albert....You did real good..." Jacen said had as he rubbed his new living friend's back. "But I still need a bit more from you, ok? Can you finish what we started?"<br/><br/>"Oh Tori....Oh thank god you made it! Is anybody else..." Fish started to ask but trailed off, he wrapped his arms around Tori and hugged her tight, unaware he was wiping Shana's innards all over Tori's naked body.<br/><br/>Tori was glad the Fish was still alive, but her driven mind didn't have time for the sentimental reunion, she pushed Fish back and slapped him hard across the face. "FISH!....I AM SORRY.... but you have to pull yourself together, Jacob is in the basement fighting some Caruthe thing....He will die if we can't shut this place down....SO I NEED YOU TO FOCUS.....OK?" Tori said, the authoritative tone snapped Fish back into reality and he reached into his pocket an pulled out the Skull ring that he knew was hers; Jacen flinched, at it's sight, but Tori's eyes lit up and she immediately replaced the ring onto her finger.<br/><br/>"The Cemetery....My Father's Tome....It leads into the catacombs under the house....It's where the portal to their realm is...We MUST CLOSE IT, NOW!!! But the chamber is toxic, it's poisonous atmosphere to dissuade any interlopers....the gas masks Fish and I got from the garden shack aren't made to withstand the powerful methane down there, they are old and rotted, so you two will have to move fast!" Jacen announced and handed each of them a dry-rotted mask. He wouldn't need one as his body no longer drew breath.<br/><br/><br/>*****************<br/><br/><br/>It was then , as the last gasps of air were ripped out of his lungs that Jacob felt the familiar shape of Tori's other skull ring, almost as if it jumped into his hand on it's own. Of course Greg had thrown it in here, and by all right's it should have been gone forever, but here it was, one half of Tori's symbols of power. Jacob squeezed tight and thought hard, about the beautiful face of Tori Morrisette.<br/><br/>At that very second the methane that had been bubbling up from the caverns below and filling up the basement reservoir room reached the lit torches inside the Bone closet.<br/><br/>BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!<br/><br/>Jacob could feel the concussive blast, and see the orange glow of the fire ball that explode above the waters surface, but the water protected him from burning. The creature reeled and retreated, letting it's tentacles loosen from Jacob's form as he clawed his way to the surface.<br/><br/>***********<br/><br/>Upstairs the explosion and resulting fire ball blew the library apart, instantly igniting the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ancient occult tome ablaze. The whole mansion shifted and slid off of it's foundation, the building pitched and large pieces of the ceiling began to give way as the fire spread quickly.<br/><br/>The blast had knocked Fish, Tori , and Jacen to the ground as they were making there way toward the door and they had to bring their arms up to shield themselves form the falling debris.<br/><br/>"Jaaacooooob NOOOOOOO!" Tori screamed reaching out toward the completely engulfed burning library. She tried to get up and make a run, but both Fish and Jacen helped drag her out of the crumbling and burning house.<br/><br/>"He's gone Tori....he's gone....." Fish said, crying as he lifted Tori's frame and burst out through the knocked askew front  doors. They ran out onto the front lawn and collapsed in the cool dew covered grass.<br/><br/>"We still need to get down into the catacombs and close the portal....Can you two do it?" Jacen asked frantically.