Escape the Night: The Dark Dimension
A/N: Hello, world and welcome back to Escape the Night!
It's time to find a telephone and call hell of all places. So, who will make the phone call? Onward!
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CHAPTER TWO: CALLING HELL TAKE ONE
Realizing that the Devourer was following, the group ran for the stairs, not wanting it to find a way out and grab them before they could get the final gem.
"Come on, you guys!" Tyler gasped as they reached the top of the stairs.
"We need two more gems," Alex reminded them, "and then we can get the crown to stop the queen!" Just then, the Devourer crashed against the nearest window, scaring them.
"Aah!" Joey cried. "He's following us!" And they fled down the stairs and at the base, they found a red telephone booth waiting for them.
Tyler stepped up to the telephone booth and found a telephone inside it. "This must be where we call hell," he guessed. "Should I do it?"
"Might as well," said Ernie and the others agreed.
Swallowing, Tyler stepped inside the telephone booth and as he was about pick up the receiver, he saw that there was a note on the telephone. "'Please have your telephone billet number ready to operate the telephone'."
"Is it in the book?" Andrea wondered.
Tyler checked the book that he was still holding and shook his head. "No."
Alex looked around and found a chest nearby. "There's a chest over here, too."
Tyler picked up the receiver and held it to his ear, hearing a heavily accented female voice. "Um…"
`"Telephone billet number, please,"` the female voice requested with a French accent, repeating herself. `"Telephone billet number, please."`
"We don't have it!" Joey hissed. "We don't have it yet!" And Tyler quickly hung up the receiver.
"Try to talk back," Alex suggested.
Tyler considered this, but then he noticed a small cabinet next to the telephone. "Wait, you guys," he said, opening it to reveal a folded piece of paper, a bottle of sulfur pills, and a note. "Oh."
Ernie took the note and read it while Alex grabbed the bottle of sulfur. "'The gatekeeper of hell hides his secret words among the living. The ritual to reveal their location must be performed in the lounge by four participants who must first drink the blood of a demon'."
"Four of us have to go in with him?" Joey asked, alarmed as he pointed to the window where the Devourer was glaring down at them.
"And we have to drink demon's blood?" Dawn asked, feeling ill. "That didn't end well for Sam Winchester so…no way!"
Alex wasn't excited either to drink the blood of a demon, but that didn't explain why they had bottle full of sulfur pills. "What is this sulfur for?" he wondered, playing with the lid.
Tyler took the note from Ernie and he read the rest. "'A drop of sulfur in the correct liquor bottle will reveal the one containing demon's blood'. So we have to put those in liquor bottles," he explained, gesturing to the bottle, "to see which ones are the ones with demon blood."
"This is going to be loads of fun," Dawn muttered. "Seriously, can't we just use this phone to call the Winchesters? Or even the Ghostbusters?"
"If only," Joey sighed, not looking forward to drinking demon blood either.
Andrea grabbed the paper and unfolded, finding that it was a diagram with shapes and instructions. "Yep," she said as her friends gathered around to take a look. "We're doing a séance."
Both Dawn and Joey groaned, remembering the last time they had to do a séance that'd lead to Justine being buried alive in a coffin. "Not another séance."
"What does it say?" Tyler asked.
Although not looking forward to doing another séance after the events of last year, Joey took the diagram and read the instructions. "'Place a copper basin at the center and six candles around, forming a triangle'." He sighed, not looking forward to this, but they had to do it to find the next gem. "Ok," he said, taking charge. "So, guys, we need to go in there, and we need to find the basin, we need to find glasses…"
"Well, somebody needs to distract him so we can do all that," Alex pointed out.
"Not it!" Joey, Dawn, Tyler, and Andrea all said at the same time, and this got protests from Alex and Ernie.
"Seriously, we're the decoys?" Alex asked annoyed.
"You guys cheated and didn't warn us that you were going to do 'Not it'," Ernie complained.
Dawn took the bottle of sulfur from Alex while Tyler assured them both that they could do it, for they were the fastest among them. "Just keep him away from the lounge, and if he does head our way, yell as loud as you both can," she advised. "That'll give us a chance to hide or take over if you both get tired."
Alex and Ernie weren't thrilled to be the decoys, but they went back up the stairs, and the moment that the Devourer saw them, it started banging on the windows. Exchanging a look, they headed for the doors to the foyer, and sure enough, the Devourer started following them, trying to keep them in sight. "Guys, he's following us."
"He is?" Joey asked as he, Dawn, Tyler, and Andrea crept up the stairs.
"Yup," said Ernie. "He's following. So get ready." And he exchanged a look with Alex before they both opened the door and stepped inside the mansion.
A/N: I can't decide which is worst, being chased by the Devourer or having to drink demon blood in order to do a séance.
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