Chapter 7:
Lost
Don't ask me how I ended up in some sort of basement thing. I honestly couldn't tell you. All I know is I was there, curled into a ball with my back to the wall, breaking down over what had happened.
Stephano… how could you, of all people… not recognize me?
I stayed there for who knows how long, but after a while I finally calmed down… and realized what a mess I was in. I had no idea where I was, how I got here, how far away the others were… or if they were even still where they were when I ran off. I kinda doubt they're still there, though. If they really don't remember me, why would they wait for me?
I must've dropped my lantern at some point, because I realized I didn't have it with me anymore. Well, that sucks. How am I going to see where I'm going now? I guess I'll just have to figure something else out.
I searched the room for anything useful; a Ladinananadinum, another lantern, sanity potion, anything of use. Just my luck, though; I found nothing. I looked around the room one more time, and realized there was a tinderbox on the table. Well, I don't see how that's useful at all, but I took it anyway. Maybe it'll end up having some use after all, but I doubt it.
I left the basement-thing, and entered a room with some stairs leading downwards. I don't really like stairs that much, but I'm not going to get anywhere by just sitting here. I walked down the stairs, wishing I had my lantern or something.
At the bottom of the stairs, there was a pretty big room… and the floor was covered in water. And I bet the water monster is in there. I really don't want to go there… but I have to. Maybe I'll get lucky, and the others will be down here…
I took a deep breath, and started walking around the room. I stayed as close as possible to anything I could jump on if the water monster showed up, but for now, it wasn't around. I searched the room, and found some Ladinananadinum, a few Sanity Potions, and some oil… but no lantern. Without the lantern, the oil is pretty much useless. I'll probably end up getting a lantern again sometime, though, so I kept the oil. I found a couple of tinderboxes as well. And I technically found a key, but it was out of my reach, and there was nothing around here I could move to get at it.
I looked at it. It was on the top shelf, right by a stack of books. It looked like there was a note there, too, but I couldn't tell for sure. I tried jumping up to get it, but that didn't work. And the shelves didn't look sturdy enough for me to try to climb up them. I tried jumping from nearby objects, that didn't work. I tried to use another object to knock it down, that didn't work, either. I tried jumping from another object while trying to knock it down, but that just moved it more out of my reach. Completely out of ideas, I finally tried to climb the bookshelf. It creaked a bit, but it ended up being sturdy enough to climb. As soon as I grabbed the key, though, the Water Monster appeared.
I scrambled up the bookshelf and sat on the top of it, where he key was. Good going, Pewds, I thought to myself, now you're stuck on top of a bookshelf, no idea where you are, and your friends are nowhere to be found. Good fucking decision. I looked around, trying to find something to distract it. On the shelf right under me, there was a torso. I'm not sure if it'll work but…
I grabbed the torso, and threw it into the water… and the water monster went after it and started to eat it. I took this chance to run to the farthest door I could find… but, of course, it was locked. I started to turn around to go back when I realized I had a key.
"Please work, please work, for the love of Stephano, work…" I said as I jammed the key into the lock.
I turned the key, and I heard the unmistakable *click* of the door unlocking. I quickly ran into the room and closed the door. Just in time, too; I closed the door just before the water monster got to it. But it might be able to go through doors. Can it go through doors? I don't know, best to assume it can. Luckily for me, though, there were some stairs going up right in front of me. I walked up the stairs, and at the top, something caught my eye;
A lantern. My lantern, now.
I picked it up, and saw that it was halfway full already. Well, things are starting to look up, at least. I started walking for a while, when I thought I heard someone… or something, behind me. I turned off my lantern and kept going. But whatever it was, it was still following me. I started to freak out a bit... okay, started to freak out a lot.
"Dude, chill," I heard the person behind me say, "It's not like I'm gonna eat you."
I turned around… and saw the girl that had saved me earlier. I was pretty relieved that it wasn't some sort of monster.
"Uh… Stephany, right?" I asked; I wasn't sure, but I think that was her name.
She nodded and said, "Yep. And you are PewDiePie, right?"
"Yeah," I replied, "but you can just call me PewDie if you want. Everyone else does."
"Well," she said, "do you have any clue where we are?"
"Uhhhh…" I said, putting one hand behind my head, "Just don't go down those stairs over there."
I motioned in the direction that I came from, and she nodded.
"The door over there was locked, anyway," she said, "and the floor was all wet. I wouldn't be surprised if that splashing… monster… thing is down there."
"You mean the water monster? Yeah, it's down there. I just got away from it," I explained.
"Well," she said, starting to walk down the hall the other way, "Let's see what's down this way. I kind of know where I should be going."
I looked at her, a bit confused, and she produced a key from one of her pockets. The key had "Main Hall" written on it. So it looks like that's where we should be going. But… if she had tried the door that I had come from a moment ago… wouldn't that mean she came from the opposite side of the corridor?
I followed her, anyway, even though it seemed a bit fishy to me. What else was I supposed to do? I was lost, and had nowhere else to go. Besides, she seemed like she could handle herself if we came across a Bro.
