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So, we were crawling through the tunnel once again. The three of us were coughing in the damp air this tunnel was giving off. It seemed to be weirder every time we went in it. This time we seemed to be in the tunnel for almost ten minutes. None of us were sure what kind of a world we would be in once we got to the end. There was a howling noise coming from the other end. It almost sounded like wind blowing through from the other side. This gave me hope that it lead outside of the hotel, but we were soon to find out that it didn't. " Are we almost there?" Eric cried. " I can't stand it in here anymore." " We're almost there," Tim replied. " Just hold on, we're almost there." The tunnel was large enough for us to look over each other's shoulders, so I could see the light up ahead like we had seen before. " There's the light up ahead," I tol Eric. " We're almost there. Just hang on."
We finally got to he end after a long cawl through that tunnel. There was a red room on the other side of the grate this time. It almost looked like rusty walls or something. I helped Tim kick the grate in. " Finally," I heard Eric say. " I thought that we'd never get here." The three of us exited through the hole to the red room. The room was small and all of the walls and ceiling were covered with rust. The floor was hardwood, though. There didn't seem to be any rust on it. In the corner, there was a skeleton laying on the floor. " Do you think he died here?" Tim asked. " It looks like whoever that is, they've been here for a long time." The skeleton was chained to the wall, so it looked like he had been taken captive here. " Well, what about us?" Eric asked. " We could turn out like him if we don't find a way out of this." There didn't seem to be any doors in this room, so it seemed like the only way out was back through the hole. " Try pushing on the walls," I suggested. " There might be a hidden door or a secret passage somewhere." The three of us started pushing on the walls. I really hated having to touch that rust on the walls, but it was the only way to find an exit. " Look!" Tim explained. " I think I found something!" Eric and I went up to him. Tim had scraped some of the rust off. There was brown wood showing hrough. " The door's hidden from the rust!" he explained. We all pushed it together. The door swung open.
On the other side, there was a cavern sort of place waiting for us. The walls were are rocky and wet. There was water dripping from the ceiling, but it could have been blood. There were torches lit on the cavernous walls and there was red light up ahead at the other end of the room. " Let's check it out," I said. We continued walking through the room. The sounds of a ritual type of thing were echoing against the walls as we approached an opening in the cavernous wall. This was the strangest thing we had seen all night so far. Before our eyes, we saw a huge room with a ceiling high, high above. There were campfires set up around the floor and a huge campfire was in the center of the rom. There were thousands of people down there. They were all crying and screaming in horror. On the walls, there were chains trapping the people. Then we knew that they were all prisoners. " My God," Tim muttered. " What on Earth is this?" " This is hell," Eric said. " I've never seen anything so horrible or evil like this before." Among the thousands of people, there were some dead, some already skeletons, some wounded badly from whatever came there to hurt them.
" We have to get out of here, Tim said. " Right now!" " That's what we've said every time we went through that hole," Eric explained. " But it is true. Every time we go through it, something worse happens." Suddenly, a loud noise from the huge room stopped us from talking. The three of us looked down through the opening at the room. Two doors at one end of the room had opened and a man came walking through with long hair. He was all bloody and it looked like he could be a prisoner himself, but he wasn't. He was carrying a sword in one hand. All of the prisoners started whimpering and shrieking as he walked by them. An evil smile crawled across his face as he came towatrds the back of the room. A man was already crying as he swung the sword at the chains he was tyed up with. The man was still crying as the man with long hair carried him to the front of the room again. Tim, Eric, and I were afraid that something really bad was going to happen. There was a hole in the floor towards the front of the room with an elevator that went down. There was an orange glow coming from the hole as the man was placed on the elevator and tied down to it. The man was whimpering. The man with long hair continued laughing as he pushed a button. The three of us watched as the elevator was lowered down into the hole with the orange glows coming from it. " Oh, God!" I heard Eric explain.
We all heard a horrifying scream as the man was burned alive in a firey pit. The man with long hair continued laughing and laughing. Tim's eyes widened as smoke billowed from the hole. They began elevating the elevator again. Nothing was left in it, but a pile of ash. " Let's get out of here!" Tim screamed a little too loud. Someone heard us and fired a gun at us. It missed and ended up hitting the wall, blowing rock all over. The three of us ran to a stairwell on the side of the room. " We have to run!" I screamed. " They've spotted us!" At the bottom of the stairs, we came to a long hallway with red rusted wealls. It smelled disgusting. It was almost like it hadn't been visited for over a thousand years. " Where now?" I asked, coughing. " Let's try these doors," Eric suggested. We opened a door to the side of us. Inside, there were rotted corpses chained to the wall in a musty, disgusting smelling room. We closed the door as quickly as possible. There was suddenly the sound of a heart beating. " What is that?" Tim asked. The three of us looked around. The rusted walls seemed to be moving and the rust seemed to be getting redder. " Come on!" Eric urged us.l " We need to find a way out!"
I ran to the net door. Tim and Eric caught up with me as I opened it. Inside, there were bloody corpses hanging from the ceiling in front of a bloody white sheet hanging from the wall. The three of us held our noses in disgust before slamming the door shut. There were no more doors, just a long hallway stretching out in front of us. The three of us ran as fast as we could down the hallway. The walls were getting redder. It seemed as if they were alive. Behind us, we heard voices like an army or something. I didn't look back. It must have been the evil people that had seen us. " They're coming!" I heard Tim shriek as we came to the end of the hall. It was a dead end. " Trapped!" a voice muttered. We all looked up. There were several men covered with blood coming toward us. " Please, make it stop!" Eric screamed. " I can't stand it anymore!"
They were smiling. It scared us to death. They were smiling and they were carrying pistols. Eric held up the piece of glass in warning to them. I held up the steel pipe even though they would get us with the gun first. Then Tim held up the gun. He could shoot them first, but he was too late. The bloody men grabbed us and I suddenly couldn't remember anything for a while.
I woke up soon afterwards. Everything that had just happened was so strange. I was cornered in that hallway a moment ago and now I was in a strange room. A single lightbulb illuminated the room. It looked like a dungeon of some kind. " Hello?" I called as I wiped away some cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. " Tim, Eric?" There was no answer. Then I realised they had caught me and locked me up, just like Maria had said. On one side of one of the stony, dusty walls, there was a sink and mirror. I went over to it. I was out of breath. Over the sink, I looked at myself in the cracked mirror. My brown hair was drenched in sweat. I couldn't believe how much I had been through this night so far and I had no idea what was up ahead of me.