Dark Depths by Ryan Attard

Author:Ryan Attard [Attard, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

“There!”

As soon as Nick and Excalibur ran out of the temple, they were spotted by security. Now, a team of eight soldiers aimed their rifles at them.

Nick and Excalibur slid beneath cover. She sprayed bullets quickly, catching one in the chest and knocking him down. Nick pointed ahead.

“It’s just over there!” he yelled over the gunfire.

Excalibur couldn’t answer him — in fact, few could over the sound of a soldier pulling out a revolving grenade launcher and blowing up the rock he and Excalibur were hiding behind.

Smoke filled the area.

“Go, go, go,” Excalibur said, firing.

They tore through the caved in wall while the smoke covered their movements. Once inside the mausoleum, Nick found himself staring at a large door that was partially caved in.

“Shit,” he yelled. “We can’t get in.”

Excalibur swore. “We’re stuck out in the open,” she said.

Nick joined her, both of them gripping their guns and ready to fight a losing battle. They watched as the soldiers got up, ready to fire once more. The guy with the grenade launcher took aim, but dust upset his aim and the grenade fell short. Rather than blow up the mausoleum, it hit the ground and suddenly Nick and Excalibur were sucked down into a shaft.

The fall was bumpy and short, and they fell heavily.

“Where are they?” Diana’s voice was unmistakable. Her head poked comically from the hole. “I want egress into there,” she snapped at her men. “Do it!”

“Nick, duck,” Excalibur said. She aimed her rifle high and began firing with abandon.

Bullets tore into the rock and wooden beams, and suddenly the shaft’s walls collapsed on them, sealing in the hole.

Nick panted in the darkness and reached for a flare. Igniting it, he came face-to-face with Excalibur as she discarded her rifle and pulled out a flare of her own.

“That should delay them a bit,” she said.

“Yeah,” Nick said. “But we have no where else to go.”

“There’s always a second entrance,” Excalibur said. “If not, then they will make one. We can lay a trap for them long before they come in.”

He nodded. “Good thinking.”

“Not my first time,” she answered. Then she nodded ahead, towards a long, dark, musty corridor. “All yours.”

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