[4] The Waterways

[Friend or Foe]

The door finally opened. It was a bit anticlimactic, considering there was no code to put in or a tool nessecary to break in. After everything that had happened, both in and out of the room that was now a goblin tomb, there was no reason to keep it locked.

The man named Oliver Nash stepped through the door to peer at the bodies laying around. It was a massacre of goblins just laying around. There was a bloodied blade stabbed through one of the operating tables near the center of the laboratory. He looked around, trying to find a human body, but there was none.

"Guess they made it out..." he said, but then stopped. "Oh, no," he said, pausing as something new came into view. A body that was clearly not a goblin.

There was no need to check the pulse. The samarai was dead. Kazuya Uzumaki, with her terrible power and uncanny beauty, had fallen in battle. Just how Wizard would figure she would have wanted to go out. Her body was bruised and bloody, seered with bites and scratches. Though none of the scars were fatal. It was clear that her death had come from something else.

But it was death. Something that Oliver Nash didn't realize until now. This wasn't Hell, though probably a very good simulation of it.

"I should have died like that," a voice said. Nash turned to see Jackson Pride in the doorway with his dog, Champ. "Going out in a blaze of glory. Death by while fighting. But you denied me. You beat me, Wizard, yet I still live. Why?"

Nash looked down at Uzumaki. She was weird, sure...but she was a good leader, and a fighter. She had gained his respect. Then Wizard looked up at Jackson again.

"I've got questions," he said, "And you're going to answer them for me, Jackson."















(Kazuya is eliminated, but not dead, as Kai's toxic gas only rendered her in a coma. She'll wake up after the game is over, already off the island.

Everybody else survives, but no one wins the reward)