The sky was dark and rainy, and thunder shook the land. Alex had just crossed into the Guillotine PvP zone a few hours ago and was making herself north-west. She was using stealth to not be seen as there was a gang of hostile people nearby savagely hunting down and ganking everyone they come across.

She was laying low on her back, inside a shallow ditch that was filling up with water quickly. Alex was breathing through a hollow reed while her face was barely submerged underwater. She was being eaten up by waterlogged fire ants but kept her composer. She was listening intently as everyone in this group was walking away from her. Instead of waiting to pop up immediately, she chooses to wait 10 minutes to help give her some distance from this group.

Alex had just learned some new defensive and attack spells from her trainer, and also did excessive research on the landscape of this zone. She learned from a book at her town’s library of this “Black Rose” Simon tasked her with getting was going to be in some ancient catacombs chamber near an old Bunnellian church. She was 10 miles away but had to duck for cover when this group showed up.

Alex was now getting out of this shallow ditch and heading west toward this church.

When Alex arrived at this church, she felt a little creeped out about this dark eerie place. The church looked like someone set fire to it an awfully long time ago, and the wood supports that were left were heavily rotted. The stone and marble features were collapsed on the ground and still had black soot on them.

The graveyard in the back of it seemed littered with trash and demonic footprints seem to lead up to a very old hatch in the ground. Alex who was a little nervous about this takes a deep breath and lifts the hatch up. The rusty squeak of the hinges sent a gloomy feeling through her, but Alex was committed to getting this task done. She grabs hold of a very rusty ladder and starts crawling down slowly into the darkness. When she climbs down 11 feet, she can no longer see her hand in front of her. She decides to take Ryan’s phone and turn on the flashlight. When the light illuminates the wall around her, she sees scores of skills and bones embedded into the wall. Alex then Shrieks in fear and falls off the ladder and falls 10 feet down to the ground.

After the painful fall, Alex gets up and decides to collect herself. The sight of the skulls and bones terrified her, and with the fact she was now in an underground tomb encased in millions of them in the walls, she was extremely freaked out. Alex practiced her breathing to remain calm, and slowly marched forward into the chamber. Unbeknownst to her, a shadowy spirit was on the roof stalking her.

As Alex takes her steps forward, she starts shacking in fear. She really hated this place and wanted to get to this flower and leave. When a Guest of cold air hits the back of her neck she twitches and starts running forward manically. She zig zags through different rooms and eventually finds herself at a dead end with a small hole in the wall.

The room she stopped at didn’t have anymore bones in it and felt more relaxing. Alex plops down on the ground and breaths heavily in relief. She then notices there was a whole new room on the other side of the hole in the wall by notices some sort of light emitting from the wall.

“Okay it’s got to be in there” Alex says to herself as she crawls on, he arms and knees toward the opening.

Alex measures the opening mentally and realizes this is going to be a tight squeeze. She then starts crawling through the jagged rocky passage. Once she reaches the other side of the walls she looks up and can see moonlight through what looks like a whole in the ceiling. When Alex stands up in this new room, she shines her light up and can make out this area she was in is an old well. The ancient rotted out well bucket by her feet gave it away.

She then scans the area some more and can spot a sealed door in this chamber. The runes over it were glowing with a crimson hue in the shape of what looked like a Rose.

Alex walks over to the door and touches the ruins. The door then magically opens. Alex then removes her sword and holds it tight and walks right on through to the next chamber. As she passes through the door slams shut.

Alex then panics and starts screaming and tries to get the door open.

She shoulder bashes the door and tries to get it open but to no avail it stays locked.

Alex then rotates around and chooses to keep moving forward. When she gets into a big chamber, she feels another pocket of cold hair that makes the hair on the back of her neck stand up.

She scans this huge chamber thoroughly with her light and sees this place was huge and filled with old ancient artifacts all around her. Some of the things that caught her attention was a Tapestry of Yulee standing on top of Bunnell’s dead body with a sword in her hand.

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As she examines this tapestry, she hears something slithering near her feet.

She quickly shines the light on the ground and sees a beetle. As she looks down at it, she hears a dark scream of laughter erupt in the room. This makes Alex jump in fear and scream. It also makes her ready her sword.

As Alex scans the room in a hurry to find out who or what is in this room with her, but she doesn’t find anything.

She then hears “Psst, you’re not alone little girl” From somewhere.

Alex twitches in fear and rapidly flashes the light of the phone around the room but doesn’t see anything.

“Hey little girl, you’re not going to belief this” The voice calls out to her.

“Who are you! Show yourself! I will slay you!” Alex screams into the darkness.

“I am showing myself. Look down” The mysterious voice calls out.

Alex then looks down and sees that beetle randomly crawling away from her. The beetle then takes off and flies around the room. Alex rapidly scans the room for this mysterious unknown figure. The beetle lands on her arm and freaks her out and shacks it off of her but it lands on her again.

Irritated by this pest on her, she decides not to swat at it and keeps scanning the chamber with the light.

The beetle then crawls up to shoulder and stands still.

“Psst little girl. You are really not going to belief this. Look down and Look closely” The voice shouts in the room.

Alex looks down and sees a Black Rose growing on the ground.

Excited she found it; she hears a whisper coming from her left shoulder.

She sees that pesky beetle again and shines a light on it. It looks normal to her, and she turns around to make sure nothing was creeping up behind her. He then hears the words “I’m not special I’m just, broken, and I don’t wanna be fixed.” Being whispered harmonically from her left shoulder. When Alex looks at the beetle again the beetle had the face of a man on its head. The sight of this scared her and makes her scream and fall backward.

The beetle then flies off and lands on the ground. Alex shines the light on it and watches this head of this bug morph bigger into a bigger and more visible human head. The body of this Beetle then morphs into a snake, and it begins crawling toward Alex. Alex gets up and screams again and runs away from it. The human face on this snake smiles sadistically and morphs into its full human form. When it did that Alex knew exactly who the boss of this chamber was.

Standing before her was Marylin Manson.

Alex upon realizing this takes her sword and charges right at him. He sees her and giggles at her silly actions and puts up a magical dark force field around him. This sends Alex flying into the wall.

“Oh little girl. You can’t kill me. Like thousands before you who have come down here to defeat the shadow of death, you will utmost fail like all the others. Make it easy for me and just surrender. If you don’t, I will destroy you from the inside-out with all your regrets. Make it easy for me and just surrender. Don’t worry, your blood from your dead body won’t go to waste. I will use it to water my death rose” he says while pointing toward the rose in the middle of the room.

“That’s not going to happen! Prepare for the fight of your life!” Alex screams while she gets up and charges at him again.

He stood there unphased and waits for her to get close and gets ready to activate his dark magical force field. But just before Alex gets 10 feet of the effective range of that force field, she throws her sword at him and dives toward the ground. He activates the field, and it goes flying toward the wall. Alex who was out of range of the spell pushes herself up and charges at him and knocks him to the ground. She then starts punching him in the face.

Annoyed at this lucky shot, he vanishes into his shadowy form and becomes intangible. He then flies into the air above her. Alex then rolls over and gets to her feet and grabs her sword.

“I will not fear him. Just pretend he is Roswaal from Re: Zero” Alex thinks to herself while extremely scared at this moment in time.

“Oh, hang on, your still partied with someone? And that item is soulbound to your friend? That is delightful!” The demon laughs “The more suffering, The merrier!” The demon cheers.

He then charges toward Alex and grabs Ryan’s phone from her hand. The spirits wisps around the room and starts casting a spell onto the phone and a tangerine-colored light starts appearing from the phones LED light port.

“Soulbound Items work both ways hun!” The demon laughs excitedly.

Meanwhile

2 miles from Simons Grotto Ryan was walking through the black forest in a relaxed and accomplished state. Ryan was thinking about what other task Simon would offer them after this when suddenly he started feeling lightheaded. He falls to the ground feeling extremely weird and notices his hands and arms are becoming transparent.

“What the hell? What is going on!” Ryan screams.

Back in the catacombs area in The Guillotine PvP zone, that orange light projecting off of Ryan’s phone was materializing Ryan body right in front of Alex.

Marylin Manson was reversing the Soulbound effect of Ryan’s phone to summon him into the room.

When Ryan fully arrives in the room, he throws the phone at Alex and smiles. Marylin Manson then magically lights up all the torches around the room with magic.

When Ryan comes through with a major headache, he sees Alex and looks around this chamber. Unaware what was going on, he then spots dark and creepy Marylin Manson floating in the air above him.

“Alex? What the hell am I?” Ryan asks.

“I did not do this dude, now get up! You don’t want to underestimate this guy” Alex yells.

Upon hearing the warning, Ryan pushes himself up off the ground and Alex jogs over to his side.

“Ahh now your friend is here, let the torment begin!” Marylin Manson screams while charging over to them with a magic spell charged up in his hand. Ryan and Alex pull out their blades and try to hit him, but their blades go right on through him. Marylin Manson then casts his spell at the roof and a dome of red light bounces off of it and hits the ground around them, trapping them in this magical dome.

Inside this red hued prison dome, they start to feel sleepy and collapse to the ground.

“Night terrors and Regrets. Sweet dreams are made of these” Marylin Manson whispers softly while manically smiling and touching the magical dome they were trapped in in a crazy way.