Lucien and Lydia awoke to see Nergal Sr. "AHH!" Lucien screamed, sitting up quickly and flinching, flailing his arms at his best friend's father's ugliness. "Take Lydia! She tastes better! Just don't eat me!" He exclaimed, hiding his face in his hands.
"Your friends are very odd, son." He stated, shaking his head in bewilderment. "Why, hello, you must be Lydia! Nergal's spoken all about youu."
Lydia blinked slowly, then moved to sit closer to Nergal Jr, clinging to his arm. "Who the crap is that thing?" She whispered loudly.
"This thing is his daddeh!" Nergal Sr. answered, "Or, daddeo, if that's more hip. You know I'm all about the hip slang of you youngins these days, with your hopscotch and your hula hoops and your Sony Playstation! Am I a cool dad or what?"
"Well…you kinda got us all captured here…" Lucien answered.
"Oh, well, I've got the key right here." Sr. stated. They all turned to look at him, angry eye twitches rampant.
"You..what…Oh my gods, Dad." Nergal Jr. frowned. "What..I don't even.. How long have you had that key?"
"The whole time! I just thought you'd like some family time with your dear old pops. I never see you these days; you're always at band and school and at Lucien's house and working and at the mall and at Walmart buying children's trading cards, and at the creepy anime store, and-"
"We could have died!" His son exclaimed.
"But we didn't! That's all that matters! And I got to share my pineapple story!" Nergal Sr. beamed. "It all worked out in the end."
"We're going to die!" Lydia proclaimed, beginning to sob into Jr.'s arm.
"We…hey guys…we could be escaping…before they come back, you know.." Lucien suggested, standing up.
"Oh, so we could, so we could!" Nergal Sr. smiled. "What a clever young man! How proud I am for my son to have such a nice friend."
"Well, you know, I am pretty amazing." Lucien stated, taking a superhero pose.
"He's also modest." Jr. stated, snuggling his bear doll.
"Whatever. Let's just go. Give me the damn key." Lucien marched over to Sr. and held his hand out. "Give it."
"You already have it. It's your friendship with my son!"
"…Really?"
"No."
"Oh…jerk…GIVE ME. THE. KEY."
"Alright, no need to be so pushy!" Sr. exclaimed while a black tentacle gave him the key.
Nergal Jr. arched an elegant eyebrow at the small skull head on the key, looking quite like the Grim Reaper. "I thought Boogey hated Grim…"
"He does, he turned me into a key, you dang dingdong!" The key exclaimed, making Lucien shriek and drop it.
"Holy crap! Grim! Oh nooo! They got GRIM!" Lucien exclaimed in horror. "What do we do?"
"Unlock the door, mon. Then I can get outta here. This be me stupid day off. Not fair, mon…this crap always happens to me-" He was cut off as Lucien crammed him into the force field.
Grim screamed and exploded into a glittery black goo.
"Ooo…" The group said in unison, blinking slowly.
"Uhm..Let's get out of here." Lucien suggested.
So the group ran away!
"Let's try that door!" Lydia exclaimed, running down a corridor. The others followed. When she opened the door and they stepped in, flames encircled the group, making Lydia shriek. Luckily the fire vanished before she could have a panic attack, and a tall male with flaming red hair stood before them, his green eyes intense and his gaze calculating.
"Where do you think you're going?" The god asked.
Nergal Sr. gasped, "Loki! You..you work for Boogey?"
"I work for no one. But I assist; however..I do not really like him. So I will help." Loki decided.