Jared is frozen by fear.
Gabriel: "Now give me the key and I'll let you live... for a moment longer."
Jared looks towards the others.
Jade: "(in pain) Don't give it to him!"
Jared jolts back as Gabriel takes a step towards him.
Gabriel: "You want your sacrifice to be swift and painless? Very well."
Gabriel gets behind Jared and grabs him by the back of the neck.
Jared: "(choking) Let go!"
Gabriel: "Now why would I do that?"
Jared tries to rip his grip open, but his fingers won't budge.
Eryth: "Jared! Hold on!"
Jared can tell that Gabriel is trying to shatter his neck.
Gabriel: "Die a martyr, not a hero."
The voice echoes in Jared's mind.
Voice: "Open the door."
Suddenly, a flimsy arrow grazes Gabriel's cheek.
Gabriel: "Still kicking?"
Jason was the one who fired the arrow.
Jared: "(choking) He's too powerful!"
Rocky is trying to help Jamie to her feet, but she's still out cold.
Jake: "(in pain) Shut your mouth and get the door open!"
Jake's arm is wrapped in his whip, but a green light snaps it back into place.
Jack: "(in pain) Get out now!"
A blinding light causes Gabriel's grip to loosen for a moment.
Jake: "Go!"
Jake is healing Jade and Jay as Jared frees himself.
Jared: "I'm on it!"
Jared rushes for the door as Gabriel notices.
Gabriel: "Pathetic."
He tries to follow, but a wall of flame blocks him.
Jack: "(smiling) Wrong fight."
Gabriel looks back as Jade gets on her feet and Jay draws his revolver as Jake moves into James.
Gabriel: "Such a shame I had to cut this short."
He leaps through the flames, but Jared is almost at the door.
Jared: "You won't open the Gateway to Abyss!"
Gabriel speeds towards him as Jared leaps for the door.
Gabriel: "Yes I will."
He grabs Jared by the ankles just before he could supposedly make contact with the door.
Jay: "Dammit!"
Gabriel: "I've wo-"
He can't pull Jared away from the door.
Gabriel: "Huh?!"
James and Jason are back on their feet.
James: "(dazed) What's going on?"
Jared's fingertips are touching the base of the door.
Jared: "(struggling) Get off!"
The door pulls Jared out of Gabriel's grasp.
Gabriel: "I-impossible!"
The door begins to glow as Jared pulls himself up.
Jared: "(smirking) You never answered my question..."
Jamie gets back on her feet.
Jamie: "What's going on?"
James: "Jared is opening the Gateway to Abyss..."
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Between 8: Gateway to Abyss
FantasyBook #8 in the Between series Quola is a small country formed by the families who reject the way the societies of the rest of Reith function, thus they seclude themselves from everyone else on a series of large, interconnected islands to the northwe...
