The City Of Ideals (II)

My feet begin moving backwards. Joshua leans into me, his foot hardly moving due to what had just occurred. I grit my teeth, doing my best to maneuver around the urns.

"Hmm? The hell?" The buff man stops, looking around.

"What's wrong?" The skinny man unfolds his arms, his eyebrow raised.

"I heard some shit." The buff man says.

"I-IDIOT! DON'T LET THEM KNOW THAT!!" The skinny man covers his face. "I'm gonna fucking kill myself…" Shit. They can hear us? I grit my teeth. Fuck, now what do we do? I notice that the buff man is making his way over, when Joshua stomps his foot, causing some of the roof to rise up, blocking the man. Unfortunately he can't make anything bigger without knocking over another one of the urns. "Found you bastards!" The skinny man touches the ground, creating holes of pitch black. Out from them, the arms of skeletons begin pulling their pale white bone frames into the world. Their jaws begin snapping against their top teeth as they begin looking over the roof. "Death's judgment, begin your hunt." The skinny man whispers.

"Joshua, think of something, now." I whisper with fear, watching the skeletons begin moving toward us. Joshua grits his teeth, removing his old pillar to create one under us, lifting us up into the air. "JOSHUA THIS DOES NOT HELP!" I yell at him as a bloody spear whirs past us. Damnit, there's no way we can get past both of them. Think…I don't know the real dangers of this skinny guy's powers, but that buff guy…he's an idiot, and he could do a lot of damage if he gets lucky with one of his throws. He's gotta go, and we gotta get away while he does. That just leaves the question of how the hell do we handle him? I bite my lip. My head is really starting to hurt. How much longer can I keep this up…I got it! "Joshua, beat his ass, got it?" Joshua looks at me with confusion before I push him off the pillar, letting my ability fade. The look on buff fuck's face when Joshua suddenly appears, delivering a kick to his face. Joshua lets his feet turn to cinder blocks as they descend, dealing massive damage as they hit the ground.

"Huh?" Multiple urns get knocked over, and rather than the expected pokers coming up, what follows is…much more bizarre. From the urns, black ash comes pouring out, turning to a gross looking liquid. As Joshua's pillar completely descends, I find myself unsure of anywhere I stand. It seems to be spreading. Trying to turn around, I'm confronted by one of those skeletons, grabbing hold of my throat as it starts cracking each one of its bones. I desperately grab onto the bony hand holding my neck in a deathgrip when I see the blackness oozing underneath us, and I feel us both descending, more and more, until our whole bodies are engulfed in it.

Instinctively holding my breath, I violently kick the skeleton holding onto me as I fall slowly down. Looking to my left, I can see a fire burning, and a swarm of skeletons all together, surrounding it like it's their lifeline. What the hell am I looking at? I don't have time to process, as I suddenly feel myself fall faster, landing on something. Something hard. I open my eyes to see a hallway overgrown with a black mold. Not, like, actual black mold. More so just a regular mossy substance painted black. I groan, sitting up. The hallway seems to be absolutely endless. Trying to consider just how long it is feels pointless. Standing up, I groan.

"...alright…I guess this is just my life, huh?"