/"Are you sure about this Kim?" The young woman rolled her eyes and tapped her foot on the ground, slightly annoyed.

"Yes, I'm sure about this Zack, now get out here! We need to start rehearsing!" she finished exasperatedly. Who knew being a volunteer choir director was this hard? She was rewarded with all of her hard work when the most skittish member of the school choir finally came out of the dressing room. He was small for a fourteen year old. A little over 5 foot, with hair that made up about four inches of his height.

Yet it was his eyes that made people do a double-take. A clear blue that seemed to have been fashioned from the sky itself and seemed to virtually continue on, deep into those depths, or, that was what they usually looked like. This time, however, they didn't seem that bright. Or even that blue.

Kimber shook her head and looked at him, smiling reassuringly at him. "Ready to go on kiddo? We have to practice before everyone gets here." Zack smiled and Kimber froze, looking at him. This smile...it wasn't his. It looked like his smile, but...there was no warmth. No timidity, no shine, nothing. It looked like it had been painted on and was just a mocking reflection of the kid's smile.

"Yeah...let's do this." Kimber nodded and walked as quickly as she could to the front of the auditorium, walking for several minutes before stopping and realizing something. She had been walking for several minutes. Almost ten minutes, and yet, she still hadn't made it to the front. It shouldn't have taken her that long to reach the front. She finally looked up from her clipboard and took a step back in shock.

Where once there had been clean tile floors and brand new brick walls, no stains, and well furbished wood placed arbitrarily, there was now metal grating, metal walls all connected with bolts, rust, decay, and...death. She didn't know how she knew, but she knew that there was a sense of death here.

'Where the hell...?' she stopped and turned suddenly, feeling something watching her. There was nothing there, at least from what she could see, but then again, there were no real lights anywhere. All there was was a strange red glow that seemed to come from nowhere. She turned back around and continued to walk along the decrepit hallway.

At first, she seemed to be making ground, walking fast and determined through the broken halls. But she began to look around and noticed that she had passed a window similar to that earlier. Passed a grated wall with that same pattern and texture earlier, and a door that had been broken off its hinges like that earlier. 'No...it can't be...its just coincidence. I can't be walking around in circles. That's impossible!' She stopped as she heard a noise and she hid behind one of the metal gratings, looking through it.

She saw a young...person? She couldn't tell the gender of said person, but she could tell that they were scared. Their body language was tense, ready to run, and yet, they seemed willing to stand there. In front of that, door? Vault? Whatever it was, it was important and they were willing to stand there, afraid. She didn't know why they were afraid, until she saw it.

This thing, though blurred, was large, hulking, and muscled. It was carrying a large...something. She couldn't see details, except for the large something it carried and the...helmet? It was large and shaped like a pyramid, or triangle, and was getting closer to the person. The thing stood there and grabbed the person by the neck and lifted them up, higher and higher up by the neck before taking the thing it had been holding, a large sword/meat cleaver, and thrust it into the person's stomach.

Kimber watched, horrified as the person began to cough up blood and as they softly began to mumble something. They then shouted out a choked, wet sounding 'Run!' before the thing took its blade and ripped through the person's stomach, letting them go and leaving them to bleed. She didn't know why it did, but it horrified her. It caused her to scream, and she couldn't stop. Not as the thing heard her and turned to her.

Nor as she turned and ran away from what she had seen before tripping and falling as far down as she could into the darkness that permeated this place, as the wind rushed through her lungs and drowned out her all, as she fell she realized, she was stuck in this Hell./