Finn slowly started to regain consciousness he was being dragged on the floor his hands were tied behind his back and his legs were tied in a way where he can walk but he couldn't stretch his legs far enough to run.
'That man... those ears he's a foreign but, what is he doing here?'
A foreign is someone who comes from another region, a long time ago some people started mutating some had longer ears and some had bigger body parts, some even had a much longer life expectancy but finding someone like that was very rare. That man came from the Northern region the region of the elven people.
'But what is an Elven doing here in the human nation?'
'There must've been a deeper reason behind the existence of this bunker'
"Oh.. He's awake."
Finn's dragger had finally noticed that he had woken up.
He halted and turned around to face Finn.
"Get up and walk Infront of me" The man was kicking Finn's side.
The boy slowly rose to his feet, Finn was tired his skin was pale due to how starved and dehydrated he was right now. He wasn't sure how long he had been in the bunker but it must've been a long time maybe a day and a half.
'I... don't have much time.'
Right now they were headed towards the living quarters , they had all separated into groups the guy that S.B.A tied up was freed and reunited with the rest of them again. He also realized that his person was searched judging by how that man had his knife again , they didn't take away his bag though probably because it had nothing more than some scraps inside.
'... they're not here for scraps?'
[They might be here for me.]
'...Ah, that makes more sense.'
In truth Finn could just hand over S.B.A and be done with this place... but people like them who wouldn't even hesitate to kill a kid? Finn had felt he saw these people before they were a group of mercenaries and judging by how one of them was going to kill a kid so casually he deduced that they had to kill any and all kinds of people at some point.
'Were they that desperate for credits?'
...No, they weren't.
judging by their gear it was clear they do this because they like killing, the only reason they hadn't killed Finn yet was because of that elven... probably. That elven was probably who hired these guys as well, but an elven at his speed and power shouldn't need help from these mercenaries no?
'Unless... he knows there is a threat in this bunker, he knows there is something in here with us slowly stalking us until the perfect moment.'
'... Or it was just asleep and only when it was bothered would it attack.'
After some moments of critical thinking.
By that point each group divided off into rooms to thoroughly look through them for anything that might prove worthy in their search for S.B.A .
And now Finn was alone in a room with one of the mercenaries. While the elven was in the room opposite to them.
"So why didn't you guys kill me yet?" Finn mockingly smiled at the mercenary.
He ignored Finn's taunted and continued looking.
'Hey, when you told me I wasn't in the bunker alone... you didn't mean these guys did you.'
[Yes and no I meant both, the creature noticed the elven's Tree Ether so it will wake up soon]
'Well why don't we hurry it up then... I'm tired of this damn place anyway'
With a sigh he turned to the man in the room with him.
"Are you guys looking for that suit? In any case you guys wo-"
Finn was cut off because at that moment a knife was right at his neck.
'Perfect he's on the hook now to reel him in.'
"uh uh uhh, you don't want to do that... or else your daddy will get very frustrated with you and cut your pay."
Although the look on Finn's face was a mocking one but in truthfulness he was almost at the end of his wits, he was about to drop the act and fall to his knees but he didn't have to.
"I thought I remembered that pathetic face from somewhere you're that kid that lives in that tree house with that little girl, well you know what" he moved his mouth closer to Finn ear and started whispering "after we're done with you and this damn bunker I'll be sure to pay her a visit" he fell into a fit of laughter and had a wicked smile drawn on his face "oh I wonder what kind of fun activities we'll do together."
Finn had a dejected look staring at the mercenary.
"You won't be making it out of here you animal."
In the next moment Finn bit into the mans hand making him subconsciously let go of the knife and take a step back which. S.B.A had connected a thread before hand while Finn was distracting him and so when he took a step back he tripped and fell back wards.
S.B.A used a thread to pull the knife up to Finn's mouth he then bit hard on it and used it to quickly cut loose his hands. Finn held the knife firmly in his hand. Wile the mercenary got up and was unsheathing his sword.
'They'll be here any second now...'
A grin appeared on Finn's face
'...Let's start the show then, shall we?'
Throughout the bunker there was something recurring in every section in every room and even on the elevator walls. At first Finn thought the door shut due to a malfunction but in reality the door didn't shut on its own the vines on the walls forced it shut, it all made sense now when the creature realized the existence of a high level of tree ether it shuts the gate closed and later hunts them when they are in a weak state in truth that was a very shameful way to hunt but it was smart and in this world the smarter and more tenacious creature was the one whom survives.
And so Finn was about to slash the knife at the vine next to him when the mercenary tackled him.
They both fell to the ground and the knife fell out of Finn's hand.
The mercenary was punching at Finn while he covered his face to shield the punches.
A thread was released from the tip of his finger and latched on to the knife and reeled it back into his hands. Finn then stabbed the vine multiple times until the bunker shuddered.
"What have you done!" The man was distressed his eyes shaken and his body weak, Finn pushed him off.
The vine was filled was a purple liquid which probably resembled blood. Some drops of the purple blood spilled on Finn's shirt dissolving it and making the shirt have holes in it.
The vine's blood was acidic.
Finn was brought to his sense because of another shudder in the bunker the lights then flickered multiple times and then shut off completely.
It was dark and completely silent for a second until the sound of cracking walls sounded through the bunker and then Finn saw light white light a very bright one actually coming from outside the halls to the right of the room he was in.
It was approaching at an unfathomable speed. Finn quickly dove and hid behind a counter. He also cut loose his legs which didn't take much time because the acid sped up the process.
The creature was upon them, the sounds of walls cracking had reached its peak stopping at their door the white light now shone into the room.
Finn couldn't see it but he could feel a massive figure had made it into the room.
The white light was now also shining onto the mercenary on the ground whom was frozen in shock. Finn was carefully looking at this peeking one eye from the side of the counter. The creature resembled a plant or a flower with its petals where inside of the petal there a miscellaneous amount of sharp pointy teeth and around 8 black eyes with a white circular line in the middle of the eye that illuminated the place with light.
Suddenly Finn felt some sort of compulsion towards the eyes.
'Maybe... I should observe the eyes from up close.'
As he was standing up to go look at the eyes the glass window to his right was smashed open a shard from the glass scratched Finn's cheek making him return to his senses.
The elven warrior had smashed through the glass and was now fighting the eyed creature. Finn didn't dare to look at the eyes again after what just happened so he couldn't see if the elven was winning or losing. All he heard was the clattering of a sword that was so loud it was deafening.
The generator seemed to have shut off again making escaping using the elevator impossible. Finn realized this and jumped out the window that the elven used to get in and ran towards the elevator room.
All he could do was run and pray that the elven doesn't lose.
Behind him the massive body of the creature was making it difficult for the other mercenaries to make it out of their rooms.
'Is there a way to help me see in this darkness?'
[I can activate dark vision on your left eye, it is a bit taxing though in the long run.]
'Who cares this is an emergency I need to see to get there.'
Suddenly Finn was a little disoriented until he closed his right eye now he was able to see well enough to make his way to the generator room.
After some running he finally made it to the generator room.
He refilled the generator with more fuel and poured a lot of it on the ground and and on the vines if the blood was acidic then it could be flammable he made some more cuts on the vines to let out more of the acid.
He took one more look at the generator room and asked.
"So... if I light this place on fire how long will the generator hold before exploding?"
[For this model I'd say maybe fifteen minutes until the fire catches on to the fuel tank so you'll have to hurry!]
'If i jumped through the glass will it break?'
The generator room had a viewing glass pane.
[With enough force yes.]
Finn didn't say the last part aloud because he could hear sounds of footsteps approaching.
He turned around the generator working behind him and light finally working again in the place the man who was dragging had caught up with him. Probably ordered to by the elven.
He slowly made his way towards Finn.
"You'll pay for what you've-"
Finn cut him off with a disgusted look "just burn in hell you filth."
In the next second Finn lit a match and dropped it and ran towards the glass window.
The mercenary tried intercepting him but he was too late the sudden ignition of the fuel made a rapid chain of explosions that pushed Finn forwards into the glass and engulfed the man in flames.
***
Stein an elven whom spent his whole life trainer under the military of the elven nation and was recently excused was now faced was true dread. Not in his whole time serving had he faced a more harrowing foe. The creature that dwelled in the bunker was a blight but when he took on the job it was registered as one of the weakest blights which was fair any regular blight would've obliterated him in a second.
In anyway his situation was dire a random kid had just awakened the bunker creature and ran away to the generator probably planning to escape and leave them all behind.
He had to hurry up and catch up to him.
While fending off the blight he turned his head to the mercenary on the ground.
"You hurry up after that kid.. don't let him escape!"
The mercenary quickly made his way out through the window and ran towards the generator room.
Stein was doing his best at holding off the creature he'd block when needed dodge when necessary and attack at the perfect moment.
Suddenly out of no where he heard a loud explosion and at the same time the creature shrieked and borrowed into the ground and escaped.
That gave him the chance to reach the generator room...
But when he arrived he saw the room and even the hall were on fire.
Through the yellow and red fire a human figure was casually walking out of hit.
That boy had survived the explosion he had covered his head so his raven black hair didn't catch on fire his clothes weren't as lucky his shirt caught flame and burnt but he was able to put out the fire before it reached his pants.
Stein realized something the kid was wearing a black body suit with white stripes and linings.
'That's the suit in the job description!'
Stein quickly leaped forwards aiming to kill the kid with one slash.
'I'll go for his neck.'
As his sword was about to cut the boys head it was intercepted. It felt as if the whole momentum of his sword was gone he couldn't drive it further.
Stein quickly jumped back because in the next second a thin thread was going to slash his side open.
The boy tilted his head and stared at Stein with an emotionless face his icy grey eyes that felt like they could freeze you with one glare.
Stein looked back at him the yellow and red flames dancing in front of him with a slim figure standing tall unhinged.
A grin appeared on stein's face followed by a crazed smile as he readied his blade.
'Who is this boy?!'