Escape the Night: Unexpected Events

A/N: Hello, world and welcome back to Escape the Night!

Now, before I post the first installment of this story, I have something to say that involves an incident that occurred back on Saturday. So, I was at the mall with my client, and this guy walked up to our table, asking if he could have a sip of my drink. I told him 'no, thank you' while shielding my drink with my hand, and he walked away. That left me weird out, uncomfortable, and scared to the point that I didn't dare leave my drink unattended.
My client does have a mild form of Autism and she gave me more supportive hugs that day then at any other point during the four years that I have been her caregiver. The guy did come back with his friend when he realized just how freaked out he'd left me, and I learned that they were doing a social experiment involving breaking social norms.
They both apologized, and I did feel a bit better, but that fact that this happen at all is just really annoying, and the parents of my client were livid when they heard about it from their daughter. My family wasn't happy with what happen either when I texted them about it.

Please, before you do that kind of experiment to record and upload on YouTube, please first consider how it'll affect your target if you do it without their consent.

Ok, rant mode off, and now it's time to start of the pre-series story. Onward!

Read, review, and enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Escape the Night. I just own any and all characters that I just happen to create.


PROLOGUE: A NEW LIGHT

Utah Valley Hospital

Provo, Utah

October 19, 1982…

In one of the delivery rooms of the hospital, a doctor and three nurses worked on helping a young woman with long dark hair that was soaked with sweat and hazel eyes with the birth of her first baby, and holding her hand was her husband, who had short brown hair and light blue eyes. The sky was just starting to lighten outside the window when the woman let out a scream of pain, and the doctor helped deliver a baby girl.

Finding that the baby was asleep, one of the nurses poked her backside with a needle and the newborn baby girl started crying and screaming. As the doctor spoke with the parents about what they would name their daughter, and two of the nurses worked on cleaning and wrapping the baby in a clean blanket after the umbilical cord had been cut, the third nurse slipped out of the room with the claim that she needed to get some supplies for the delivery room.


Once she was out of sight of the delivery room, the nurse headed for a stairwell instead of the supply room, and she descended the stairs until she reached the ground floor, having removed the smock, the cap, and the gloves in the process. Stuffing them into a bag that she then stuffed into a trash bin, she went out into the lobby, and crossed the area while nodding to passing other nurses and doctors as she headed for the front desk.

"Checking out for the morning, Susan?" the nurse at the desk inquired.

"Yup, I sure am, Debbie," Susan agreed, clocking out by signing the form that Debbie handed her. "Another long night is over." Saying bye the nurse, she headed out the door just as the sun started rising over the mountains.


Reaching her car, Susan got in, and opened a compartment by the steering wheel, revealing an unusual steampunk-like device. Turning it on, she turned a few knobs and then picked up a circular device that was connected to the device with a cable.

"Agent Costa to base, Agent Costa to base."

A minute passed, and then a voice responded over the device. `"Agent Costa, this is base. What do you have to report?"`

"A successful delivery, sir," Susan answered. "They had a baby girl, and she's beautiful. I can already tell that she has a certain Light about her."

`"Excellent,"` the voice said with approval. `"The Council of Elders will be informed. Do you have a name for the baby?"`

"The Hatcher's have chosen to name their daughter Dawn Diana Hatcher," Susan replied.

`"Understood."`


In a hidden and secure location, six men and six women of various ethnics and ages, were seated at a circular table in a large chamber and going over some reports when there was a knock on the doors to the chamber.

"Enter," the First Elder ordered and the doors opened to let in a man, who was carrying a folder under one arm. "Yes?"

"A report from the field office in Utah, sir," said the man, handing over the folder. "We have confirmation on the Hatcher's new baby."

The First Elder nodded and the man left as he opened the folder that had the report in it, and he took out a small blue crystal that he inserted into a slot on the table. Above them, a large circular blue crystal orb started glowing, and a beam of light shot out of it, transforming into the face of the newborn baby girl. "Gentlemen, ladies, this is the newest potential Light-bearer, and her name is Dawn Diana Hatcher."

"Was there any complications with the birth?" one of the male Elders asked. "For I thought she was suppose to be born sooner."

"Unlike the miscarriage the year before, there was no serious complications according to the report," the First Elder informed them. "However, with her being a post-term baby, there might be the possibility of her developing a disability, but as for serious health problems, it's too soon to say for sure."

"Being born a week and a half late isn't as serious as it could be," remarked one of the female Elders. "She is healthy and she has the potential to be a powerful Light-bearer should she discover how to summon the Light when the time is right. For her parents come from two of the most powerful Light-bearer bloodlines."

"And as we have done for centuries, the new baby will be watched over," the First Elder agreed. "Now, where are we in locating the minions of the Cursed God? There are reports that some of them are hidden in parts of California."

Nodding, the Elders resumed going through the reports that came from the various leaders and agents of the Society Against Evil, and their ongoing battle against the Cursed God and its' minions.


A/N: Interesting way to start the story right? Anyway, I will see you all on Thursday for the next chapter. Bye for now! R&R everyone!