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Joe was soon joined at the abandoned ticket booth by Tony, Biff, Chet, and Phil. They had come running upon hearing Iola's screams.

"What happened?" Tony demanded.

"The lights went out, and Iola screamed and they came back on and she was gone." Joe exclaimed worriedly. "I don't know where she is, Chet, I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault, Joe." Chet reassured him. "We'll find her, we'll search the park from top to bottom."

"Where are Frank and Callie?" Phil wondered. "Not to change the topic or anything, but Iola was screaming pretty loudly and they should have been able to hear her which begs the question, where are they?"

-Story Break-

"Is there another exit?" Callie wondered.

"Not that I can see." Frank replied scanning the room with his flashlight.

"We need to get out of here and find out what's going on." She continued.

"So eager to leave already?" The voice seemed to come from the ceiling and caused Callie to back away knocking into Frank. "I must warn you that escape is not so simple. Run while you can, but no one leaves alive. Magister mundi sum! Mors ultima linea rerum est."

"It's coming from the loudspeakers." Frank noted pointing out the speakers to his girlfriend.

"Do you know what he said?" Callie asked.

"I'm not as good at Latin as Phil, but I'm pretty sure he said 'I am the Master of the Universe, and death is everything's final limit.'" Frank answered.

"Very good, Frank." The voice sounded amused. The door swung open soundlessly on its hinges. "Run away while you still can, but you will not get far."

Frank and Callie did not need to be told twice, they swiftly headed off in the direction where they had heard Iola screaming.

-Story Break-

"We're right here!" Callie exclaimed arriving just in time to catch the end of Phil's question.

"What happened to you two, you look like you've seen a ghost?" Biff asked seeing their pale faces.

"We found an office and we went inside, the door shut and locked behind us." Frank explained.

"We heard Iola scream and we tried to get out, the door wouldn't open and then a voice came on the loudspeaker and said 'so eager to leave already?" Callie continued.

"He said that escape wouldn't be simple, and told us to run while we could, and then he said 'magister mundi sum! Mors ultima linea rerum est." Frank recited.

"I am master of the universe. Death is everything's final limit." Phil translated for the group.

"That's what I thought." Frank agreed.

"Then the door opened, and he said run away but you won't get far." Callie concluded. "We obviously left and headed over here, which begs the question, where is Iola?"

"The lights went out, and I heard Iola scream, we were looking in the ticket booth for a phone. When they came back on she was gone." Joe answered his voice shaking as he spoke.

"Something very strange is going on here." Tony noted.

"We need to comb every inch of this place for Iola and then we need to get out of here." Callie exclaimed.

"Agreed." Chet seconded.

-Story Break-

"Don't cry, little girl." The man said to the tied-up brunette girl.

Iola Morton was bound tightly to a wooden chair, her mouth taped shut with duct tape. She was shaking in fear, but not actually crying, and she glared fiercely at him cursing at her inability to express her hatred for him.

"Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis (1)." He whispered gleefully her. "You don't understand me do you, little girl?"

She glared at him attempting either to kill him from the ferocity of it or else to express her dislike of being called little girl.

"No matter, in the end you will understand." He replied. "We all do."

A/N (1) The phrase he says to Iola is "it is best to endure what you cannot change."

This story will be updated next Thursday in compliance with my update schedule. I am sorry for the slight lateness of this update.