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I woke up in an elevator, and didn't remember how I got there. I couldn't remember a lot about my life for some reason. I looked around and saw four other people in the elevator. Three of them were asleep, but one was awake and looked at me.
"Hello there." He said.
I groaned and laid slumped against the wall. There was a fun little song playing, and the other was humming along with it. Two of the others woke up. They were both girls, and had no issue getting up fast. I had been up for a minute and hadn't made any progress. I sat up against the wall and slowly stood up. There was a sudden ding and the elevator stopped and its doors opened, revealing... a hotel lobby. It was at this moment that the last person woke up. He did so with a yelp of surprise, which surprised us as well.
"Oh god." He said. "Not people."
The back wall of the elevator pushed forwards and shoved us into the lobby, then the doors closed. We all took a moment and looked at each other. All of us were teenagers, and looked to be in the early teens. There were two other girls and two boys.
"So." Said one of the girls. "Hello, my name is Daisy."
"I'm Opel." Said the other.
"I'm Max." Said one of the boys.
"Aero." Said the other.
"I'm Nova." I said.
"Alright." Max said. "Well I'm hungry, let's find something to eat."
"Don't think we're going to find food." Aero said. "It's late."
We walked around the lobby for a bit and looked in drawers and on bookshelves. I climbed through a luggage carrier and behind the big desk. I looked in the drawers and found a few gold coins that I pocketed. As I was doing that I heard a ring and looked up to see Aero in front of the bell. He looked up at me, then at the bell, then back at me and said;
"It rings."
Then he walked away. There was a key behind the desk where I was on a board. I grabbed it and crouched back through the luggage carrier.
"Guys." I said. "I got the key."
Everyone walked over to the door and I unlocked it revealing another room. It wasn't locked, however. We all walked in and Max looted some drawers.
"Money!" He yelled.
There were a few paintings, but nothing exiting, so we moved on to the next room. There were some cool looking wardrobes in there.
"Those look lovely!" Said Opel
"Looks like somewhere you would hide from a killer in." Said Aero.
"Looks like a place you could hide a body." Said Max.
Three types of people.
There were more drawers in that room that me could loot, but it looked about the same. The next room had some bookshelves as well as everything else. None of the books looked exiting and we didn't have time to read. We kept going and nothing really happened. There were just normal hallways filled with the things we had seen before. There was a new room, though. Door 9 gave us a hallway with eight doors off to the side and a locked door at the end. We all went into one and laughed. The beds were nice, and was the rest of the rooms. There were nice lamps and chairs and everything else. The beds were also high enough off the ground that you could hide under them if you wanted to. We found the key and walked into the next room. As soon as we walked in, the lights started flashing.
" I don't like that." I said.
We all heard the noise at the same time. It was a slight raspy screaming noise, and it seemed to be getting closer every second.
"Closets!" Aero yelled.
We each got in the closet and stayed in there. The screaming got louder and a large misty creature swept right past the closets and into the next opened the door for the next room. The creature had smashed all of the lights, so we couldn't see and ran to the next room.
"What the hell was that?!" Max asked.
"Do you expect us to know?!" Opel yelled nervously.
"I mean..."
"That thing nearly killed us!"
We were back to the normal rooms, and we kept going through doors, now worried of the rushing thing. We assumed that it was the only thing that could hurt us here, so we kept going, ready for flashing lights. Door fourteen showed us that there were more monsters trying to get us. As we opened the door we saw thing bright blue glow, then a bunch of floating eyeballs. We all looked directly at them. We soon found out that was a very bad idea. When I looked at it it felt as though it was burning my in my eyes, then up to my brain, then pain coursing through my entire body with a second. We a screamed in pain and looked away.
"What is that?" Daisy asked.
I didn't know, I couldn't think, I fumbled around for the door and flung it open. The eyes in the previous room vanished.
I collapsed onto the ground and laid there, numb. I was in the most pain I had ever felt in my entire life. My eyes could still barely function, my brain was fried and I felt like I had been set on fire. Everyone else was having problems of their own, but I had the least tolerance for pain, or got hit worse then everyone else.
"Let it end." I whimpered, curled up on the floor, quietly sobbing. "Let it kill me, anything to make the pain stop."
"Nova?" Someone said. "Nova!"
Daisy kneeled besine me.
"Nova!" She said. "Are you okay?"
"No." I whimpered.
She leaned me against a wall and hugged me.
"Everything is going to be fine." She whispered in my ear. "You're going to be okay."
I hadn't know Daisy for very long, but I was grateful. It she hadn't helped me cope, I might not have made it past that point. She helped me up and we all continued on. As I walked to the front of the group, Daisy pulled me to the back with her. It was only couple more doors before we found something else. It wasn't another entity, just a dark room. A really dark room. We all backed up when the door was opened and hovered around it.
"We need to go in there." Opel said.
Max was rummaging around in drawers and found something.
"Guys!" He yelled.
"Hold on." Said Opel. "So we need to figure out how to get to the other side."
"Guys!"
"Hold on! So I was thinking we could-"
"I found a lighter!"
"Oh."
Max turned it on and nearly set his face on fire, then we ventured into the room. The lighter didn't provide as much light as we hoped, and we all had to huddle around it. Out of nowhere, Daisy screamed and collapsed, clutching her face. I quickly ran over there and knelt down. Everyone else ran over as well.
"What happened?" I asked.
"There was another monster of some sort." She said. "I heard a noise, but I ignored it. A few seconds later, this thing spun me around and bit my face."
She moved her hands and showed her face. It was covered in blood, and there were marks on her cheek.
"What noise did it make?" Asked Aero.
"It went 'psst', or something."
As I was trying to console her, I heard it.
"Psst." I turned around slowly and saw a round ink covered thing.
It had small tentacles around its body and a large mouth and eyes. The moment I looked at it, it screeched in my face and disappeared. I screamed and fell on my butt. Everyone looked at me in confusion.
"Did you not see it?" I asked.
They all shook their heads.
"What should we call it?" Aero asked.
Max suddenly turned around and screamed.
"Good idea." Aero said.
"There was a thing!" Max yelled and bolted to the door.
I grabbed Daisy and supported her as we walked to the doorway. Opel and Aero walked slower, and were still confused, as they hadn't seen the Screech. They did though. Just like everyone else, their response was to scream and run. Me, Max and Daisy were already in the next room and got to see them freak out. They ran into the bright room and panted.
"I did not enjoy that." Opel said.
We walked through the room quietly, and the next room was a pretty cool one. It was a plus shape and had bedrooms in each of the corners. The door to the left was boarded up, but the door to the left looked fine it didn't have a number, but that didn't stop me. While everyone else looked around in the bedrooms, I opened the mystery door to find... a small room with a box.
"This is it." I said. "Really?"
I opened the box, and inside was a bunch of gold and some lockpicks. I grabbed all of it and stuffed them into my pockets, then went into one of the rooms. I found Daisy sitting on a bed, her face still covered in blood. I walked over to the closet to find something like a shirt that Daisy could clean her face with I opened it, and a what looked to be the head an shoulders of a black and white guy screamed in my face and shut the closet. I screamed, very loudly.
"What the hell?!" Daisy yelled and nearly fell of the bed.
Everyone ran into the room we were in.
"What happened this time?" Max asked.
"There was a guy in the closet." I said, trying to calm myself down.
"A... guy in the closet." Opel said. "Really?"
Me and Daisy nodded. I opened the closet doors and nothing was there.
"He was here." I said.
"You can't disappear from a closet." Aero said.
I just shrugged and walked out of the room. The others followed, but not before Daisy cleaned her face on the bed blankets. The net room was locked, and had a large windowed office to the side, revealing what was outside. It was rain. A lot of it. I walked behind the desk and started looking around, and Max popped the top.
"Oh look." He said. "Performance enhancing drugs."
I stood up and looked at him. He was holding a bottle of pills.
"Excuse me?" I said.
"Performance enhancing drugs." He repeated and shoved them into his pocket.
I grabbed the key and we unlocked the door. In the next room, the lights flickered. There weren't enough closets for all five of us, So Max and Opel quickly backtracked to the previous room to find some there. We got in and waited. The Rush was taking a little while, and after five seconds or so, my vision started turning red. It got brighter, and I saw dark red hands in lining my vision. No matter where I looked, I saw the same thing. Get out. Get out. Get out. The rush passed, and I threw myself out of the closet and ran into the next room. Aero and Daisy came into the room a second later, and Max and Opel came a few seconds after them.
"Was anyone else told to get out?" Daisy asked.
We all nodded. That meant that we had to wait before we got into the closet, and that meant everything was going to be a lot harder.