[Catacombs Event] The Dark Below

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[Catacombs Event] The Dark Below

Post by Niro » Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:30 am

Hibiki steepled his fingers in front of his face before letting out a long, drawn out sigh. The chuunin which had been assigned to watch over the Catacombs for the week had gone missing on his very first shift. There were no signs of foul play at the gate, it had been closed and locked. His post seemed to have been left untouched based on the multiple pieces of mundane paperwork strewn around the desk. He truly had no idea what had happened to the boy; there were apparently two witnesses to whatever had happened to him that night. They were in the waiting room downstairs complacent in the village’s request for them to be interviewed about the events which had happened. With another sigh, Hibiki moved his hands to his temples before rubbing them slightly and then clicking the intercom on his desk.

“Send them up.” He grumbled to his secretary as he re-steepled his fingers and awaited the knock on his door. When it finally came, he gave a curt comment to open it before two teenagers walked into the room. Worry marred their face and immediately Hibiki attempted to alleviate it. “No matter what you tell me in this room today, you will not be punished. There is a missing chuunin within our own walls and you two were the last to see of him. What do you know?”

The girl gulped before looking to the boy at her right. Her dull brown hair was cut short and was swept to the left. A twinge of fear and apprehension was visible in her eyes before she gulped and started on. “We..uh…we hopped the fence of the catacombs the other night. We were alone in there for a good five minutes before we heard footsteps and retreated a little bit deeper into them so as to not get caught by the guard. We took a left at the dead end and he took a right. We waited and waited and waited but he didn’t come down the left tunnel. He went looking for him but couldn’t find the guard so we booked it and ran back to the gates. He wasn’t there when we left so we assumed he was still looking for us in the catacombs.” She finished with the boy next to her nodding to confirm her story.

“So you never saw him exit the catacombs? Just go deeper?” Hibiki asked as he began to arrange several pieces of paper on his desk.

“Correct, sir.” The boy spoke up finally, corroborating his partner’s story. “I went down the right side of the tunnel on our way back to make sure he wasn’t there and when I got to the tomb at the end there was a small tunnel in the wall of the tomb. I swore I saw a torch light in there but…now I’m worried.”

“You’re dismissed.” With a wave of his hand, the two teens scurried from his office and shut the door behind them quite loudly. He guessed it was the nerves and decided to ignore the noise.

‘So he just went deeper in but apparently one of the tomb walls was damaged. Guess he thought the kids did it and decided to check it out.’ Hibiki thought to himself before reactivating his intercom. “Send me chuunin squad 57.” Squad 57 was a search and rescue team, hopefully they’d be able to get to the bottom of this soon. Soon after, a meager squad of two young women entered the room, their Iwagakure head bands shining in the light of his office. The first was of medium height and build with long, bright red hair, more than likely an Enkouten, while the second girl looked like she belonged to the Shoshiki clan with her pale skin and medium length platinum blonde hair.

“I’ll get straight to the point. We have a guard missing in the catacombs and the sole witnesses believe he was trying to find them in a broken section of the tomb. You’re to go and find this section along with the missing chuunin. Any questions?” Hibiki asked as he finished up the mission scroll and handed it to the first girl. She shook her head no before taking the scroll and exiting the room with her partner. Hibiki could only hope at this point that they would find the missing guard.
The two girls got straight to work, heading to the catacombs immediately. Their gear was minimal, consisting of glowsticks, few flash tags for light, and kunai for defense if needed. They entered through the front gate before starting on the path the guard had taken to the tomb of a deceased bannin. Neither girl spoke during the trip, focusing themselves on the mission and already knowing how the other worked.

Chie held the torch high above the two girls as they entered the tomb and looked around. The mausoleum was in tact with no disturbances to it so where was the tunnel? She placed the torch on one of the wall holders before starting to look around. “Check the left, I got the right.” The young woman told her partner who nodded in the affirmative before the duo began checking the tomb in half arcs. Chie’s face furrowed in frustration as she came up with nothing of interest on her end of the tomb but it turned into a wiry smile as her partner called her over.

A medium sized hole hidden behind a banner was the first clue. The first glance revealed it to be dark and dank tunnel that seemed to stretch on for quite a while. Chie girl stepped forward first into the tunnel with her partner grabbing a torch and then following behind her. The two young women began their journey, amazed at how long the tunnel seemed to stretch on for until Chie’s foot found the beginning of the descend.

“What? This continues down BELOW the village proper?” Emi muttered as the two began to pull out and crack their glowsticks before tossing them down the slope in an attempt to measure the distance to the bottom. Their jaws hung open however when they lost sight of their glowsticks. They shot each other a glance before Chie slowly yet steadily began the descent into the shaft.

Like the guard before them, the girls’ torch eventually faded out as it ran out of fuel. “Gimme a sec.” Emi called out before slapping a light tag to the wall of the shaft and activating it. A medium intensity light began to glow from the tag and the two resumed their descent, periodically placing light tags as they went. Finally, the two tumbled out of the shaft and onto stable ground. Inky darkness surrounded them, so black they couldn’t see their hands in front of their faces. Another set of light tags was slapped on either side of the exit of the shaft, providing a bit of light for them to see.

The platform they were on seemed to jut out into the darkness before ending. They were on the lip of a cliffside, the bottom of the area not visible but they could see that there was an underside of the platform they were on before it turned into a sheer cliff face. Chie removed several more glowsticks from her pouch before cracking them and tossing them over the edge. They tumbled and fell through the air, revealing they were indeed on the side of a cliff before they were swallowed up by the darkness.

“This is insane…” She muttered as she cast a Katon jutsu, launching a fireball into the air. Similar to the guard’s jutsu, the fireball continued upwards until it lost chakra and vanished. “This place is huge…we need to report this back to command.” Emi nodded in agreement before she held up her hand and signaled her partner to stop and listen. Multiple clicking sounds were coming towards them from below the edge of the cliff. The two girls stepped back from the edge as three gigantic spiders crawled up and over. The duo’s eyes widened in surprise before the spiders lurched at them.

The pair split off into separate directions as the spiders careened over them. “Go! Down the cliff face!” Chie shouted. The spiders had cut off their path to the shaft and were now turning to come back at them. The two girls channeled chakra to their feet before running to the side of the platform and running down the walls away from the spiders and into the dark below.
#MakeIwaGreatAgain
NameVillageRankTeam
Tatsuo [color=#940839][b]IwaTsuchikageTeam 18 Jousai
Kinomichi [color=limegreen][b]IwaBanninJousai
Kotetsu [color=slategray][b]IwaGeninTeam 7
Ashura [color=coral][b]SunaGenin
Sai [color=#FF14A1][b]Kiri - MND-Rank
Yamato [color=#C71585][b]KiriA-Rank

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