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Eda, Camila, and Luz were sitting at a dining table as they looked at a menu.
"So everyone knows what they want?" Camila asked as Eda was the first to respond.
"Yeah, I know exactly want I want." She said smiling at Camila who proceeded to blush while Luz gagged.
"It's a shame that King couldn't join us," Luz stated.
"Well we already had to pay extra for the pet fee, I'm not paying for him to eat on the floor," Eda said as she drank a glass of apple blood while Camila simply had a glass of purified boiling water. On another side, Lilith was currently eating a scrambled griffin egg with a side while reading a book as she spied on them.
She then thought for a bit. ("Lilith Clawthorne, you and Edalyn are family surely she'd understand what I did was a mistake.") "No, she'll just hate me," Lilith said to herself as Laramie sat next to her.
"Is this seat occupied?" He asked as Lilith shook her head as he took a menu. "Busy time today, hear it's going to be a storm tonight boiling rain."
Lilith then moved away from him only to find herself next to another person, he had a plain shirt from the human realm that read I believe in them and showed a design of a UFO in the stars with lights along with a name tag pinned to it that read Angel.
"Hey, do I know you somewhere?" Angel asked as Lilith quickly covered her face with the menu.
"No, and what kind of witch wears clothing like that?!" She retorted.
Angel looked away. "It was on sale and I just so happen to like the design on it even though I don't understand it." Lilith scoffed before standing up and leaving the morning brunch as the light flickered on and off. "I should probably go fix that," Angel stated before leaving his spot and grabbing his equipment to fix it.
Lilith walked around the halls trying to find her room knocking on multiple doors but no one answered. "Great just great." She stated before heading outside and looking at the five-story hotel as she was wearing a sunhat and sitting in the shade while putting on a headset and turning on a cassette tape that she played she began to relax when the device then turned off all of a sudden.
"Oh for Titan's sake!" She yelled trying to turn it back on only to feel a sharp pain in her arm as she pulled out a nail file. Before she could question anything more stuff began shooting out from nowhere as she ran back inside and shut the door as the window cracked. "Odd, it isn't like any plague I've seen." She stated before heading back to her room and locking the door.
Mateo groaned in annoyance as he sat at a table while slumping around. "Mateo, can't you just ignore our room and relax?" Ava asked trying to get him to enjoy their time together while Philp was busy practicing with a viola.
"Sorry, but..." He stopped as he stared at a painting that resembled an American army recruitment poster. "Does that painting seem odd to you?"
Ava looked at the portrait but shrugged "Mateo are you alright it's just a wall."
Mateo had a face of confusion as Ava shook her head when the small stage curtain near the area opened a young couple stepped out the woman with blonde hair wearing a plain white shirt, a crown of leaves around her head and the man in a black suit had black scruffy hair wrapped in a bun and a beard that was braided.
"Welcome to the El Royale, we are your hosts Joseph and Mary!" Joseph stated holding his partner tightly as Mary gave a forced smile and waved as Joseph contained his speech. "I pray that everyone is enjoying their stay here if not then a shame to you! Anyway, we are delighted to have you as guests in our home. Built by my great-great-grandfather..."
"Other great to make it actuate..." Mary muttered.
"He built this establishment as a place where people could stay and relax off course he couldn't have done without the help of some benefactors, which of course according to family stories he found while on a trip to the knee one night. It was said that he was reached by someone who would help see his dream come true in exchange for a heavy price... the price being his only child Issac."
The lights then turned off and a single light was cast on the stage which now displayed cardboard cutouts as Joseph continued his story.
"He refuse at first but of course, he remembered he could have more children, so he brought Issac to the knee and murdered him with his son's own staff, giving his blood to the stranger which he used to seal a terrible monster inside the grounds of the hotel, and legend says that it still lays dormant seeking more flesh and blood to feast on."
Many of the children present were amazed while Camila simply fainted from the sheer horror of the story as Eda smacked her back to existence.
"Also there will be star gazing tonight at the roof terrace with the chance to see a one-of-a-kind shower of stars!" Mary stated as her hands twitched to which Joseph smacked.
"Now we hope you all enjoy your stay here, and please remember certain floors are off limits to all guests and no exiting your room at not unless it's with a member of the hotel" Joseph added before the two exited the stage while the audience clapped.
"That was very... educational..." Camila stated with a pale face.
Eda snickered. "You really don't believe what he said do you?"
"Of course not, although it's clear that ghosts exist around here, and that doesn't even help it."
Eda laughed again. "Yeah anyway, I'll just stay in bed and wake me up when..." She passed before looking at a poster advertising entertainment in the hotel with the special guest of... "Raine?!" Eda blinked a bit before looking at the poster again and it wasn't lying to her. She turned to Camila and said, "On second thought I'll try to stay awake all night you know how bright the sky is."
"Right..." Camila replied confused as she and Luz headed to the lobby while Eda decided not to get drunk the entire day before hitting her head with someone else. "Watch where you're going, nerd."
Lilith chuckled a bit before quickly leaving Eda alone while she ran off and hid in the bathroom. "Great, you nearly got yourself caught, useless!" She then punched the glass shattering it and cutting her hand which she wrapped in paper towels, if only I could just talk to her without her speaking out of her stupid mouth!"
"Hey someone of us needs the privacy of a toilet!" Someone yelled from one of the stalls.
"Sorry!" Lilith sputtered out before quickly leaving.
At night all the lights were turned off, Laramie stood up from his bed and made a small light to see in the dark as he exited and walked around placing himself near the wall as he pressed his ear near a room and listened in.
"Luz please stop jumping on the bed and... King stop putting your nose in my socks!" Camila said from the other side as Luz spoke.
"Mom what would you be like if you never accepted me?"
"Luz stop getting those thoughts in your head!" Camila yelled as Luz let out a small whimper. "Of come here I didn't mean to yell at you."
Laramie rolled his eyes as he heard the door open he hid behind it as Eda stopped and stared at him.
"Why are you next to my door?" She asked as the man handed her a cigarette which she took and lit with her finger. "I'll stop asking." She walked into the hallway and headed down an elevator. Laramie sighed before hitting himself in the head.
"This isn't going nowhere, I come in and try to figure out why some guests leave and others simply vanish into thin air! But nothing!" He shouted while laying next to the wall before stopping at the elevator which opened, he began to step inside as a few awake guests entered with him as the elevator closed and it rose up till the lights turned off leaving them in the dark until it had stopped off the roof terrace as Larmine and the guests got off.
"So... any reason why you all decided to stay up here?" He asked trying to start a conversation but the others ignored him and watched the night sky. Laramie was confused as in the center was a statue of a sheep with a crown on its head as the elevator dinged with two hodded figures exiting it as the other guests also put on hooded robes one of them removed their hoods showing Joseph who stood near the statue as began speaking in tongue.
"Hey what is going on here!?" Laramie asked wanting answers as the other cloaked figures quickly took hold of him.
"Not part of the flock... he's not part of the flock." One of them muttered.
Joseph stared at him before speaking. "Then he shall be part of the ritual for our God... the lamb!" He exclaimed as the crowd then began a chat.
"LAMB, LAMB, LAMB!" Laramie was then pinned to the floor as a pentagram was drawn made of blood from their arms, Joseph then started a chant to which the pentagram began to glow as arms and tendrils began to wrap themselves around Laramie as the suction cups and small teeth began to bite into his flesh and skin.
Miles checked his watch before heading into the employee's lounge he took off his jacket and sat in a chair before placing a few cards on the table and picking one off the table. "Judgment, Danger, Change, freedom, and end of the cycle..." Miles stopped before repeating his last words as the teen employee walked in.
"You're still doing that it won't change what we did and still do..." She stated as Miles had a confident look on his face.
"It may be Caroline, but I still believe that an end will come for all of us one way or another," Miles said as the lights flickered he and Coral quickly hid under the table as the ground shook when screams and wails echoed around the room almost as if was coming from the walls themselves as Miles held the teen close covering her ears as she began to tear up. "Don't listen to it just don't..." He stated as he looked and saw several faces pushing out of the wallpaper with their arms as blood leaked from their nails and bleeding out of the walls.
Eda went down to the small auditorium which was lit up with candles as she sat in the front row a light shinned at the stage showing a simple viola on the floor a dark figure picked it up and began to play a melody with it, Eda didn't even wait til the performance was over as she ran up to the stage and quickly gave them a large bear hug.
"Oh rainstorm, I can't believe that you hear, obviously I didn't know about that I just so happened to be here and... Hey say something at least." Eda gave the figure a slight punch in the air as it turned around and looked at her causing Eda's eyes to widen in terror. What she thought was her old lover was really nothing like them, instead, it was a figure with weary eyes like it hadn't slept in its entire life, a thin malnourished body that barely fit the clothes it wore which was nothing but a pale shirt covering it, long black rotting fingernails, a set of rotting teeth and scars several claw-like scars on its arms, legs, and face to the point it had a bulging eye and large wings on it's back and pitch black eyes.
"No, no NO!" Eda screamed seeing that she was looking at a twisted version of herself as the creature jumped on her before dragging her into the darkness.
Lilith was in pajamas wearing slippers and for once she didn't care about the embarrassment as she had her own privacy in her room and looked outside the window seeing the night sky there was a knock at her door which surprised her as she looked through the peephole seeing Angel outside as she opened the door for him.
"What is it?" She asked the technician who had a knife in his hand as he quickly closed the door.
"Everything going to shit..." He stated before hiding under the table Lilith was spectacle about his claims until the ground then shook causing her to join him under the table.
Screams, cries, and pleas for help came from almost every room in the hotel she slowly looked out the window and could only whimper as fresh blood and bits of flesh began pouring down the windows as it happened to the other windows in the building as the lights turned off as while a song in slow motion played on the speaker which was for announcements.
"We're fucking fucked!" Angel cried out while looking at the blood dripping from the ceiling and walls as the boiling rain fell from the sky.
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave and then breathe your storylines
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Keep track of the visions in my eyes
While she's deceiving me
It cuts my security
Has she got control of me?
I turn to her and say
Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades, oh no
Don't masquerade with the guy in shades, oh no
I can't believe it
'Cause you've got it made with the guy in shades, oh no
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Forget my name while you collect your claim
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
See the light that's right before my eyes
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses
