Rising from the Ashes BY Only For You

Just as the group turned back, a swarm of Blood Ghouls burst through the tomb's main entrance. Logan and the others froze, eyes wide with terror.

The creatures wasted no time, launching straight into a frenzied massacre. There had to be hundreds of them, and they were tearing into anything that moved.

The Driscolls' guards, who had been focused on rescuing Rafael, were completely blindsided. The Blood Ghouls plowed into them like a tidal wave, shredding through their formation and sending bodies flying amid blood-curdling screams.

Gunfire exploded in every direction, turning the tomb into a warzone.

Meanwhile, Rafael—still tangled in the Night Hag's hair-was dragged slowly toward her ghoulish face.

"No! I don't want to die! Please, no!"

His scream echoed across the chamber.

The black strands wrapped tighter, layer after layer, until his fat body was completely mummified by the living hair. From within the cocoon came the sickening sound of bones being crushed, enough to make anyone's scalp crawl.

A loud thud echoed as Rafael's body fell from above. From the neck down, everything was crushed.

And his head? Nothing but a clean, bare skull.

beneath them surged with even greater force.

corridors, searching desperately for an exit, but found nothing. The only way in or out had been the tunnel he

to be buried alive down

giving way. The hidden river below roared with unrelenting force, flooding every inch of

and the others were backed

do something!" Tiana shouted, panic

the center of the lake, where the river water continued to erupt.

one

not hesitate and shouted, "Everyone-grab onto one another and stay close.

linked themselves together in a chain. Without another word, Andrew dove straight into the surging

lake connected directly to the flowing river below. If there was any way out, it had to be through that

spotted a submerged opening large enough for a person to

beneath the water and were immediately caught in the force of a rising thermal current-an underground hot spring had erupted.

behind him. To his relief, the

minute, one person

one in the group.