They moved slowly through the place until they came by the vans that had taken them out of there nine months earlier. In total there were ten vans in the place. She couldn't help but shiver at the sight of them. She had been in the back on one of them, leaving this horrible place behind. She felt Roman's hand on her lower back and he leaned in to her ear.
"Easy," he spoke softly. "I'm not gonna let anything happen to you."
"Don't make promises you can't keep," she said.
"I'm not," he said. "I found you again and I'm not letting you slip through my fingers this time around."
"Technically Seth found me," she said.
"Now it not the time for jokes," he chuckled lowly.
They stopped and looked at eight steps leading up to a door.
"All hell breaks loose behind that door," she said.
"Let's storm the place," Dean raised the harpoon.
"I'll go for Jeff right away since we know he's armed. Keep everyone down and I'll tie them up afterwards," Roman said.
"I'll open the door," Seth said.
They moved up the stairs and once on top, Seth looked back to make sure everyone was ready. Three nodding heads waited for him and he turned back and put a hand on the handle. He took a deep breath and pushed the door open.
"No one move!" He shouted.
They all stormed into the room where they were met by a bunch of confused faces. Roman jumped Jeff just as the man reached for his gun.
"Not a fucking chance!" Roman shouted.
He had Jeff's gun and knocked him in the head with the handle.
"Everyone down on your knees," Seth said.
The men dropped down and Seth looked around at the ten crazy people. He only knew the names of two of them and he didn't care to know the others.
"Tie them up," he said.
"Alright, hands behind your backs," Roman said.
"What are you planning on doing to us?" Matt asked.
"Payback!" Dean growled.
Shortly after all ten men had their hands and feet tied together behind their backs, all of them lying down and bound like reversed longbows.
"Now what?" Seth asked.
They hadn't thought it through completely. They knew if they let Dean, he would have some fun with his harpoon. They couldn't let him do it, at least not yet. There had to be some sort of way to not get blood on their hands so they started to look around. Beverly opened a fridge and found dead fish in there. Food for Nessie.
"Holy fuck!" Seth said. "Look at that."
He pointed to a big red button saying "Emergency only" on it.
"What does that button do?" He asked.
"Answer him!" Roman grabbed Matt's hair.
"It burns everything down," Matt said.
"Literally? With flames and everything? It'll burn the entire world down you created?" Seth asked.
"Yes," Matt answered.
"Let's do it," Roman said.
"Wait! Wait!" Beverly said.
Still standing by the open fridge, she looked over at the screens that showed the entire world. She could see Medusa - they had actually created a new version on her - the sirens, Nessie, Kraken and even the dragon sleeping up in its lair in a mountain somewhere. The werevolves and the vampires were in dark places, also sleeping. There was daylight outside.
"Is there any other way out of that world?" She asked.
"The ocean," Jeff piped in. "If you can swim far enough out to get past our mountains but no one can."
"What about ships?" She asked.
"We own that part of the sea. No one can cross our lines," Jeff said with a hint of a smile. "If you want out, you use the same door you just walked through. That's the only way out."
"For humans maybe," she said.
"Fuck it!" Seth said. "Let's burn the place down."
"You can't burn it down!" She shouted.
"Oh, I can. Watch me," he said.
He moved his hand towards the button but was stopped by her scream. She grabbed a fish from the fridge, ran to the glass door that led into the fucked up world and pressed the button to open it.
"Beverly!" Roman shouted.
"I can't let her die!" She shouted.
She ran through the hardly lit cave and she could hear feet chasing after her. All three of them were trying to stop her. Soon she was out of the cave, looking down at the split lake with Nessie and Kraken.
"Get back here!" Roman grabbed her. "We need to shut this down!"
"She's innocent!" She cried.
"So were we!" He yelled.
"So go burn it down all you want but I'm gonna burn with her!" She yelled back.
She yanked herself free from his grip and jumped into the lake on Nessie's side. Nessie watched her the same way she had done nine months earlier. She swam across the lake and got up on the other side before holding up the fish.
"Here, girl! Come here! Look what I got for you!" She called.
The three men watched as Nessie started swimming towards Beverly and climbed up on dry land.
"Fuck!" Roman muttered.
"Go help her," Seth said. "Dean, we have to get back inside before any of the fuckers figure out how to crawl to each other and get free."
"Hurry, Roman," Dean said. "You got a lot of hours until nightfall so you can do it. I expect you to bring her back with you."
"I won't fail," Roman said.
He jumped in the water and swam as fast as he could. He pulled himself up on dry land and ran to Beverly that had already led Nessie halfway to the church.
"I told you she was friendly," she said.
"You're fucking crazy," he said.
"I can't let her die, Roman. She's not evil," she said.
"Your mind is an artwork on its own, baby girl," he took her hand. "I can't wait to get to know it even better."
They moved as fast as they could, passing the church and getting through the forest that wasn't as scary in daylight as it had been with the full moon and the werewolves. Soon they were getting close to the sea and they had to stop before they got close enough for the sirens' song to reach them.
"Here you go, girl," she said.
She threw the dead fish as far as she could down on the beach. Nessie happily moved after it, swallowing it down and raising her head to look at the ocean.
"Go on," Beverly whispered. "Swim. Be free."
She sighed in relief as Nessie moved out in the ocean and started swimming away. It was a beautiful moment that even took Roman's breath away for a second.
"Now what?" He asked.
"Now we burn this place down," she said.
"Right," he said. "We better hurry because I'm not fighting the nocturnal beasts again."
They hurried back the same way they came and were surprised when they reached the lake. On the other side they could see that Seth and Dean had untied the feet of the ten men and brought them outside. Roman and Beverly swam across once more and got back up on dry land.
"We did a bit of thinking," Seth said.
"And we can't technically go free no matter what but we actually don't have to kill them ourselves," Dean nodded towards the water. "We got our boy Kraken here."
"Sounds like justice to me," Roman said. "Beverly?"
"You can't fucking kill us!" Matt whimpered.
"Why not? How many people have you killed in here?" Roman asked.
"It was an experiment. We did it for the greater good," Matt said.
"What greater good?" Beverly shouted. "You're fucking psycho! You like watching people die in the most horrific ways and now it's your fucking turn!"
"Beverly?" Roman asked again.
"Feed the fucking Kraken!" She growled. "And let's burn this place to the ground!"
Dean moved over and started untying Jeff's hands.
"What are you doing?" Roman asked.
"Giving him a fair chance like we had," Dean winked. "Let's see how fast you can swim, little man."
Jeff screamed as he was thrown in the water. The scream woke Roman, Seth and Beverly up too and they hurried to help untie and throw the other nine in. They slowly backed away as they watched Kraken swim almost gracefully through the water to wrap its tentacles around the ten fighting men.
"Justice," Roman said lowly.
"Let's go," Seth said.
They moved back into the cave and found themselves back in the room shortly after. Seth moved to the "Emergency only" botton again.
"I don't think it's only gonna burn down the world out there. I think everything, including this room, will go up in flames. We need to shut down the stone wall again. That's on you, Beverly," he said.
"Got it," she said.
"Are you ready to run?" He asked.
"Burn it down," Dean smirked.
Seth pushed the botton and a loud alarm sounded. They sprinted out of the room, down the stairs and past the vans again. They could already hear the flames roar in the background as they sprinted through the still open stone wall.
"Beverly!" Seth shouted.
"I'm on it!" She shouted back.
She threw herself down on her knees and pressed the buttons once again. Medusa, siren, werewolf, vampire. The wall closed and a pair of arms grabbed her from behind. Roman held her tight as she started crying and shaking. He pulled her up from the ground and moved her towards Seth's car and into the back seat. The car started moving and she felt Roman's hands on her cheeks.
"Hey, hey, breathe. Come back to me, baby girl," he said.
He placed his lips on hers and she grabbed his shirt in a tight grip. He broke the kiss and smiled at her.
"There you are," he said. "Look, we're leaving. We all made it out. The world is gone and you saved Nessie. No more nightmares or days of hiding. We're free."
"We're free," she repeated in a whisper.
"We're fucking free!" Dean shouted and shook Seth's shoulder. "We're fucking free, Seth! We did it! You did it!"
"Thank you, Seth," Roman said.
"I had to do something. I was losing you both," Seth said.
"We're back," Roman pulled Beverly close. "All of us."