Gremio kept true to his word, they left the cam right after breakfast. The scent of the stew and male sweat will hunt her for a couple of days. But she needed to go on, there was no time for her to stop and think about everything that has happened since she entered this prison. Gremio took the lead, followed closely by Orisino. Jackel on the other hand walked next to her, but he said nothing to her. All of them said nothing, because once again they traveled in silence. There was no sound other than the cracking of the snow under their boots. Gremio took them straight to a mountain, and Orisino didn't contradict him. Which meant that he was going in the right direction. Jackel was holding a double-sided axe, and Gremio a crossbow. Both impressive weapons, but they didn't carry them on their back. No they had the weapons in hand ready to attack anything, that might attack them. Which was maybe not that strange, they lived in this area. They knew it better than any other, maybe even better than Orisino. She looked at the glaive in her hands, it felt strange to held her weapon again. She looked up and saw that Gremio wildly motioned towards the mountain, it didn't look far. But then again maybe this was something like that door in a dark hallway. It those not get any closer, no matter how many steps you take or how fast you run. She blinked a few times with her eyes, what was wrong with her. They were so close to get some answers, and now she was thinking about something that only happens in cartoons, and bad movies. She frowned, at least she thought that thing appeared in there.

"Are you alright?" Jackel whispered, so softly she almost mistook it for a breath of air. She nodded, and quickened her step. Until she walked next to Orisino, his presence comforted her. Something she needed right now. Without thinking, she took one hand from her glaive and grabbed his free hand. He looked shocked at her and then to their hands. She squeezed it a little, and he squeezed back.

"Are you alright?" He repeated Jackel's question, and she shook her head. "Getting second thoughts?" He asked and this time she nodded. She didn't know why, but she was afraid of what the data bank would tell her. If it recognized her DNA, then she would find out what she had done to get in here. Or worse she could find out that she has a family. But what if it those not recognize her, that means that she was running for something, something terrible. "No matter what happened I will be there." She nodded again. Gremio looked over his shoulder and smiled.

"We are almost there shield maiden." He said, his voice sounded so loud in the world of silence. Orisino and Jackel had whispered to her, but Gremio seemed not to care that creatures nearby could hear him. And what the hell was a shield maiden? But before she could ask him, he again turned around and kept on walking. Leading them towards a hole in the mountain. "This here was a mine, or at least we thought it was one. Could you imaging, here we are inside this prison and there would be a gold mine just on the edge of this world?" No she could not, that would mean that the Designers would give the prisoners something for free. Something that would not happen, not in here. "So of course there were a few members of our group understandably pissed off, when we found out that this was just a tunnel leading towards the center of the mountain." They now entered the tunnel, it was so dark that Tamora needed to do her best not to trip over her own feet. "Which is nothing more than a death volcano, with in the center a small building." Gremio continued his story without missing one bead. "So numerous members of our group turned around and left. But not Orisino and I, no we went inside and there we got eaten by one of those stupid plants." He started to laugh, loudly. His laugh also echoed against the tunnels walls.

"Nice story, but can you please shut up." Jackel said. Tamora agreed with him, but Gremio scoffed.

"Do not worry, Jackel these tunnels are safe. No monster has entered them, when we were looking for gold." Orisino said. Which didn't calm her nerves at all. She was so glad when she saw light at the end of the tunnel. "Hold your weapon ready." Orisino whispered in her ear. She wanted to roll with her eyes, but he couldn't see it. Still she let go of his hand and grabbed the glaive with both hands. She was blinded by the light when she stepped out of the tunnel, but she could hear the growls. So she closed her eyes, and waited until the growls came closer. Which didn't take long.

"Orisino, left." She said, opening her eyes. They were facing a pack of wolves. Orisino already had slain one of them. The others were low by the ground, which was not covered in snow, showing their teeth. They were ready to attack, and they were with many. Jackel looked at them and cursed, and again she agreed with him. "Is it too late to go back?" She asked.

"Go back, are you crazy?" Gremio asked and let one of the arrows fly. She cursed and, the wolves all jumped up and attacked them. It was so similar to her fight last night. Only this was with actual beast programmed to kill them, the other was, well with another type of animal. She swung with her glaive, killing one wolf after the other. This time it was not her virtuous on the line, this time it was one of her lives. She kicked one of the wolves, before piercing another with her weapon. Gremio let his arrows fly, how many does he got? She rather didn't want to find out, but for that they needed to end this fight quickly. She killed another wolf that came too close.

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"Try to make a path towards the building!" Orisino screamed above the noise. She nodded and placed the first step forward, not looking at what she was standing. She really didn't want to know, but she could guess it was a dead wolf. It was a slow process, but the building at least came closer with every wolf they killed.

"By the Designer, I am almost out of arrows!" Gremio said, which made her grince. She really did not want to know that.

"You should have brought a second weapon with you." Orisino snapped at him and she nodded.

"How could I have known...." Gremio started.

"Stop talking crap, Gremio! We have being here before, you knew the pack was here. So keep that mouth of yours shut!" Orisino said. Tamora killed another wolf, and she was almost at the door. That is when she heard it, a loud scream from behind her. Quickly she glanced over her shoulder, to see Jackel disappear in a large pile of wolves. The group around her and the others slimmed down.

"This is our chance." Gremio said and stormed past her. Jackels screams still filled the air, and they will hunt her for the rest of her life. Of this she was sure. "Come on shield maiden." She looked at him in horror, this was his friend, or at least she thought Jackel was his friend. Orisino growled, but grabbed her by the arm and dragged her inside. Gremio closed the door, which stopped Jackel's cries.

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The building was not large, it was nothing more than a single room. The large servers made a soft zooming sound and produced a lot of heat. She could feel the sweat streaming down her back. Now those warm clothing were simply too warm. But there were no plants, no other creatures inside the building except for them. In the middle of the room was a small podium, with a desk. On that desk stood an old-fashioned big monitor. One that they would have used in the 1980-ish or somewhere in that period. They walked towards it, next to the monitor was a simple square, with a hand depicted.

"I think you need to place your hand on that, to scan your DNA." Gremio said. Tamora rolled with her eyes. But she said nothing, got up the podium and placed her hand on the square. It became hot under her hand. It became even hotter inside the building, all the servers decided to start working. The monitor light up and there was not much to see then a blinking green stripe, for several minutes. She looked at it while holding her breath, afraid to move even an inch. All of them looked at it with the passion to know. But the blinking stripe kept on blinking, she almost lost it. But then the blinking stopped, the dark green screen kept itself empty for a couple of seconds, which looked like minutes. The servers went back to their soft zooming. Then finally the screen flickered and the words 'NO DATA' appeared.

"Fuck." Orisino cursed. She started to breathe again, it was as if a weight was lifted off her shoulders. The feeling of feeling guilty of not remembering her past. Now she knew for sure that she used the prison to get away from something, or maybe even someone. She did not know.

"Well that is a bummer." Gremio said with a sigh. She looked at him and just shrugged. But then she saw Jackels double-edged axe in Gremio's hands. Before she could ask how he got it, he started to swing with it. "Our agreement is over, Orisino!" He yelled. Orisino ducked away from the axe just in time. "I told you to never come back North." He swung again, this time the axe landed in one of the servers. "I will kill you, and then I will do my best to keep the shield maiden happy." The axe slammed again in one of the servers, small sparks of electricity started to spring out of the gap. But Gremio's words set Orisino off.

"The hell you won't!" He screamed, he blocked the axe with his machete. Sparks started to fly of that as well. Tamora jumped from the podium, with her glaive ready to defended her own honor. Hell she didn't need Orisino for that. Gremio swung with his axe again. This time she blocked it, like Orisino showed her all those days ago. She even kicked Gremio inside the crown jewels. Only that didn't slow him down, because he swung the axe again. Orisino pushed her behind a server, not much later the server got hit by the axe. What was he thinking, if he kept this up. The whole building would explode, with them still in it. She didn't know how she knew that, but she did.

"Stop fighting!" She started screaming, but it was to late Orisino's manchete was inside the monitor. He duck out of the way of the axe once more. But this timne he was to late. "NO!!!" He shunk to the ground, and fall face down. She started crying.

"Do not cry shield maiden. Orisino is a weakling, a strong woman like yourself is wasted on a guy like him." Gremio said, with a smug on his face. "You are better off with a guy like...." He could not finish his sentence, because he was gone. No where to be seen. The axe was still in Orisino's chest, but Gremio was gone. Where could he be? She started to look around, but then she got hit by a memory of Frank who also vanished after he killed Orisino.

"Wait a freaking second." She said. And then everything exploded, she only felt the intense heat on her skin for a brief seconed.