After going down the flight of stairs, she approached another door and opened the door, peering down another dark hallway, clicking on her flashlight.
Quietly sighing, she closed the door behind her back and stood there for a moment, thinking to herself for a moment.
After a moment has passed as she just stood there, she finally took a step forward, stepping into another level.
She took two steps forward for a moment, until she stopped, feeling the same feeling of being followed.
While standing there, she closed her eyes for a moment, listening to the wind as she distantly heard soft, gentle clops of footsteps.
Each step of the creature got closer until it was almost 3 inches away from behind her back.
When the creature was close to her, she opened her eyes and quickly whipped around behind her.
She quickly turned the flashlight, revealing the goat-like creature behind her back.
It growled as it covered its eyes with its long ears.
'Damn light…' It thought to itself bitterly, growling in annoyance.
She turned back around to the front after blinding the goat-like creature, walking carefully down the hallway.
'I have to get closer to her without her noticing I am getting closer… There's got to be another way…' It thought to itself, hissing softly.
She moved deeper into the hallway, as the goat-like creature caught up to her from behind.
Soft growls growled from the hallway Stephanie was standing right next to, and she stopped, knowing there is something inside.
She turned down the hallway and clicking her light on, blinding the wyvern-like creature in the eyes.
It hissed, and covered its eyes with its right wing, blocking the beam of the light.
She turned back around to the front and continued walking forward, but carefully because of the monsters lurking around in the hallway that could or could not kill her in an instant if they become too close to her.
The bird-like creature popped out from one of the hallways that she was walking straight towards, as she stopped, clicking on her flashlight, blinding it as it hissed, moving out of her way, deep in the hallway.
After it moved out of her way, she continued on walking, as the goat-like creature followed behind her, trying to get close to her without her noticing it was getting close.
She continued getting closer to the exit, carefully checking the goat-like creature from behind her back, every time she turned around to look behind her back.
The goat-like creature growled as it covered its eyes with its ears, blocking the light from the flashlight.
After blinding the goat-like creature, she turned back around and continued moving forward.
When she got close to one of the hallways, she stopped at the entrance.
Stephanie waited patiently for something to pop out from inside the hallway.
The bird-like creature popped out from behind the hallway wall to greet her, but only to be blinded by the flashlight she had in her right hand.
It hissed and covered its eyes with its right hand, moving back into the hallway.
After the bird-like creature disappears, she continued walking down the hallway, as the goat-like creature followed from behind.
Until she heard the growling again from the hallway right next to her, stopping in mid-step.
She turned down the hallway the growling came from, turning the flashlight on again.
When she turned the flashlight on, the beam blinded the wyvern-like creature in the eyes, as it hissed, covering its eyes with its right wing, blocking the light.
Before she reaches the exit, the bird-like creature popped out from one of the hallways at the left-hand side, without her noticing.
When it popped out of the hallway, it gave out a terrifying screech.
Stephanie almost jolted when she heard the screech.
She did not have the time to quickly turn on her flashlight to blind the creature when the goat-like creature appeared behind her, growling.
The creature was too fast to notice as she mentally cursed to herself when she felt a presence that something was right behind her.
It grabbed her around the waist with both of its paws, gripping her roughly as she gave out a sharp and pained yelp.
After it grabbed her around the waist with both of its paws, it rose her up from the ground, as she squirmed in startlement from the sudden rise.
She did not even fight back against the two of them, when her feet suddenly rose up from the ground, wisely deciding to let them talk to her.
Stephanie just stood still as the two of them got up close to her, as the goat-like creature's hands wrapped around her waist, as the bird-like creature was in front of her, grinning wildly.
The wyvern-like creature was right next to the bird-like creature, both grinning wildly.
She did not even decide to make smart mouth remarks to both of them because of her thoughts.
Although she did feel uncomfortable about the tightness around her waist.
"Now that we got her, what we do next?" the bird-like creature asked, hissing softly.
"Oh, so you can talk." the female spoke, sounding impressed and mildly shocked.
The two of them glanced at her with a confused look, replacing their grinning and terrifying faces.
She looked oddly calm as she had her arms crossed over her chest, staring at the two of them.
"At first I thought you weren't the only ones in here and that there are other humans in here talkin'." she softly giggled, her shoulders gently twitching every time.
They both glanced at each other in much confusion, confused about her calmly talking to them.
Not even screaming, crying, or squirming in the goat's fierce grip, frantically trying to escape from the both.
"Aren't you terrified of all three of us?" the bird-like creature asked, grinning evilly at her as it smiled.
"No, not one bit." she shrugged, gently moving in the hearty grip a little, not too much to escape through. "I think you all are cute monsters that have an attitude."
All three monsters were shocked that she just said they are cute.
The goat-like creature instantly released her waist in shock and dropped her to the ground, as she landed on her bottom, wincing slightly in pain.
"Ow, ow, ow." she winced as she rubbed her bottom with her right metal hand. "That's going to leave a mark in the mornin'."
Stephanie slowly stood up to her feet after a while of sitting down on her bottom, standing up to the two creatures in front of her.
Then, the bird-like creature gripped the front of her sweater, glaring at her as she gritted her teeth.
"Don't spout that bullshit at us!" the bird-like creature snapped. "You met with that Criminal back at level 7!"
"Because he was hurt and I wanted to help," she calmly explained, without any visible signs of that she is scared. "And I'm not spouting any bullshit at all three of you."
All three glanced at each other, as the goat-like creature felt confused about why she is always calm, even during a terrifying moment in the hallways with all three of them.
"All right," the goat-like creature spoke from behind her back, sounding confused.
He grabbed Stephanie's shoulder and turned her around, as she glanced up at his eyes, still looking calm.
For some strange reason, he felt a strange presence that there is something more than herself.
From where he stands, he can see her eyes were more unique than the other steel-blue eyes he has seen a few times with the few unfortunate people who have entered the building.
To his shock, her left eye is a metal eye.
How did he not notice that before?
Ignoring the confused thoughts rambling about her strange body, he continued with his words.
"You are not scared of us and not bothered by our disturbing staking," he continued talking.
She listened to him talking, without even trembling or frantically glancing around with her eyes to look for a way to escape.
"And yet you continued to walk to the exit without any trouble." he finished, as she cocked her head to the side slightly. "I'm quite surprised such a female like you can make it this far."
She smirked and softly chuckled to herself.
"Yes, not many people can make it this far." she shrugged, as he rose a furbrow.
What does she mean by that?
"It is perhaps they don't have much faith in them of survivin' this hellhole." she softly spoke, crossing her arms over her chest as she stared off into the distance. "I pity them for dyin' a horrible, gruesome way."
Reaching up with her right hand, she gently pushed her glasses up into place, revealing the reflection of the goat-like creature in the lens.
"But, patience comes before practice," she added.
He felt confused about why she calmly spoke about the dead people and pardoned them from the horrible things that have happened to them.
Why so calm at this exact moment too?
She sighed and gently smiled at him.
"Do you have a name?" she asked, moving her right hand towards them, as a mention to them for their names.
He glanced up from her eyes to the two behind her back, as if, "Should I?"
They both glanced at each other for a moment, then back at him, shrugging their shoulders as if, "We don't know."
He sighed and glanced down at her, as she waited patiently.
Knowing he loved the song he kept hearing for a while, he cleared his throat.
" I am the Follower, run with me, and you will see what is coming to thee. " he sang, as both of her eyebrows rose up in amusement.
" I am the Greeter, I'm out the door, don't be shy or I'll kill you more. " the bird-like creature sang, as she glanced over her left shoulder to her.
" I am the Waiter, look at me, turn away from me, bare bones you will be. " the wyvern-like creature sang, as she glanced over at her right shoulder.
" We're three of a kind, really hope you don't mind, just understand, your blood is mine! " all three sang, as she chuckled.
She smiled and giggled, her shoulders moving up and down.
Her eyes were closed too when she started to giggle.
All three stopped and stared at her in confusion, confused about why she did not even notice they were singing something that is not child appropriate.
"I didn't even notice that you three can sing too." she chuckled, as all three glanced at each other. "That is amazing talents you all have."
All three blushed a light red color in slight embarrassment, as she giggled at their reactions.
The Follower shook the feeling away and growled, his eye color glowing a light red color.
"Who and what are you?" he snarled, as she glanced back at him. "I have a feeling in my gut that you are something else than a human."
She smirked again and shrugged her shoulders, replying to the Follower's direct question, with her eyes closed. "Eh."
"Wait until the right moment," she softly spoke, as she opened her eyes.
After she had opened her eyes, they were pupilless along with her left metal eye.
All three creatures felt shocked and a little freaked out from the sudden change of her eyes.
"Right now, we have a little game that just began at the 7th level and could end at any moment," she spoke before winking her left eye. "I'll see you later."
With that, the girl immediately disappeared into thin air.
'How the fuck did she do that?' He thought to himself, as his thought rambled with confused questions.
"'Ey!" A voice suddenly called from behind them, that sounded exactly like the same voice of the human that they encountered before.
They all glanced at the exit behind the Follower, as he glanced behind his back, to see the real female standing there, with the door opened.
She smiled, before moving her right hand up, revealing it is metal to the dim red light of the exit sign.
"I forgot to tell ya, but my name is Stephanie, Stephanie Nova Rose Allen!" she called to them, as she has a smile on her face.
With two fingers at the right temple, and moved away from her temple, as a goodbye mention, winking gently at them.
"I'll see ya later!" she called to them, sticking her tongue out at them.
Then, she ran through the door as her chuckles echoed from inside the staircase, the door closing automatically from behind her back.
When she disappeared, she left behind three shocked creatures, with their eyes the size of saucers, and their mouths practically dropped to the ground.
The noise of the door closing snapped them out of their daze, noticing she is gone, and the door was open.
"Oh, that little-!" the Greeter snapped, before being cut off when the Follower ran first.
They ran to the right-hand side of the hallway, following after her before she reaches the next level.
As for Stephanie, she was laughing to herself, as she walked down the stairs, until stopping for a break.
"Oh, their faces!" she laughed, as she doubled over in laughter. "That is funny!"
"Funny?!" A voice exclaimed from inside her stomach, sounding shocked in disbelief.
She moved back up against the wall behind her back from doubling over in laughter, placing a hand on top, feeling a tiny shaking form inside her stomach.
"You called that funny?!" the voice exclaimed, as she rolled her eyes, still have a smirk on her face from the expressions the monsters had.
"Yeah!" she giggled. "You should've seen their faces!"
"What was not funny!" the voice cried out again from her stomach. "You could get hurt from them if you were not careful!"
She sighed and focused on her muscles, bringing the voice up from inside her stomach, to her mouth as a visible form of a body rose up.
After the form was in her mouth, she moved the being around for a couple of minutes.
Then, she opened her mouth after moving the form inside her mouth for a while, revealing James on top of her tongue, shaking from head to toe as his arms wrapped around her tongue.
With her right hand, she placed him onto her palm, after his arms were unwrapped around her tongue, landing back first.
"What's the point of not havin' a bit of fun?" she asked, using the left sleeve of her sweater to wipe some saliva off. "They needed some of it."
"But they can hurt you!" he exclaimed, wiping some saliva off his face.
"'Hurt me' my ass." she sighed, rummaging through her left sweater pocket. "They are just lost people, like how I said earlier."
He was about to say something sarcastic to her, but stopped himself, understanding what she meant.
Instead, he glanced away from her, as she continued to rummage through her sweater pocket.
After a moment of rummaging, she finally perked when she grabbed something, pulling out a small wrapped food, that looked like a piece of baked bread.
The bread is in a delicious light yellow color, as there were small pieces of chocolate chips inside.
"What is that?" he asked, feeling curious about what is in her hand.
"This is banana chocolate chip bread," she answered happily. "Would you like tryin' some?"
He gazed at the bread for a moment, then back at her, with an unamused look on his face.
"Oh, oops." she sheepishly chuckled, noticing that he could not eat something that is bigger than him. "Sorry."
She thought to herself for a moment, before lifting her arms up a bit, until a second pair of arms popped out from her sides, exactly the same size as her first pair.
Her second right arm is made out of metal, just like her first right hand.
"You never told me you have another pair of arms!" he exclaimed in shock as she placed the bread in her second left hand.
"Yeah…" she trailed off, glancing away from him as her second pair of arms unwrapped the bread. "I didn't want to make a scene and make myself look like a freak."
He glanced down at her arms for a moment, thinking to himself as she split the bread in half.
"I don't see you as a freak." he softly spoke, startling Stephanie as she took a bite of the first half of the bread.
She gagged on the bite of bread in her mouth and coughed.
Stephanie placed the second half of the bread in her first left hand, as her second left hand gently pounded her chest.
After a while, she gulped and said, groggily, "You don't see me as a freak?"
He nodded his head yes, as she cleared her throat.
"You… gotta be kiddin' me, right?" she slowly asked, taking a small bite.
"I'm not kidding with you," he responded, as she used her powers to shrink the piece of bread in her hand to his size, but still edible for him to eat. "I don't see you as a freak and think that you are a different person that people have not seen before."
She glanced down for a moment to think, handing the tiny piece of the bread to him, as he took it off her first finger, taking a bite.
The flavors exploding in his mouth were delicious for him to savor!
The flavor of the bananas is perfect with the chocolate chips.
He took a couple more bites, enjoying the flavor in his mouth as he continued eating.
She glanced up from looking down, noticing he was almost done with the piece of bread in his hand.
"Jesus!" she remarked, as he glanced up at her. "Are you almost done with that?"
He glanced down at the piece of bread in his hands, and back up at her, nodding his head yes.
"Damn! You're almost bad like me." she softly spoke, as he blushed a light pink color and glanced away from her gaze.
'Now I know how Momma feels when I eat around the table…' she thought to herself, feeling completely ashamed for her hunger.
He continued eating the piece of bread as she ate hers, feeling his strength coming back to him slowly.
After a while of eating, he completed the piece of bread in his hands, as Stephanie completed hers.
"Am I going to be in the same stomach?" he worriedly asked, feeling nervous about being in a different stomach than the one he is used to be inside.
"Of course!" she exclaimed, mentally feeling disgusted. "No way you're goin' in my other stomach. Remember, I can control my system."
He sighed in relief, remembering the moment when Stephanie told him about how she can control her muscles inside to take what is food and what is not food to different stomachs.
"Alright, I think I am ready to be eaten." he glanced up, feeling a little timid to be inside her stomach, even with all that banana chocolate chip bread.
She nodded her head, before using her magic to make him a little bigger than 6 inches.
"Uh, Steph?" he nervously asked, feeling himself growing a little big, but to only stop at 7 inches tall.
After a moment, she stopped using her magic and chuckled to herself, before placing him in her mouth, head first as he yelped, startled by the sudden stuffing.
The inside of her mouth smelled a bit of banana, but he sighed, knowing he has to get used to this.
She covered him up in saliva, since he was outside for a while, letting his clothes dry a bit.
Then, she gently pushed him in more, feeling his head almost over the edge of her tongue, almost in her gullet.
After covering his midsection, she took the first gulp, gulping him deeper into her body, as she heard a muffled yelp from him inside.
He squirmed around inside her esophagus to get some room from being tight as she felt a little ticklish.
She ignored the feeling and continued to swallow, until finishing him after gulping his legs.
After finishing, she sighed in relief, feeling his body drop into her storage stomach.
She heard a soft groan of slight discomfort from James as the form of his body made a slight bulge.
"Can your stomach stretch?" he asked, moving a couple of times to get comfortable inside.
His movements made Stephanie blush from the ticklish feeling.
"Yes, my stomach can," she paused as she stifled a laugh. "Can stretch."
He squirmed a bit before stopping as she shakily sighed, containing her laughter inside.
"How are ya feelin'?" she asked, feeling his back with her right hand.
"A little tight, but fine," he responded, flinching slightly at the growling of the digestive system from in front of his legs. "At least I am not in some chewed up food from what you've eaten."
"That's disgusting!" she exclaimed, making a disgusted look on her face.
"I agree." he agreed, squirming a bit. "You might want to keep going. I think we're almost there."
"Ah, I forgot," she remembered. "Thank you for reminding me, James."
"You're welcome, Steph." he granted, squirmed a bit more to get comfortable of sleeping.
She stood up straight and stretched, startling James inside from the sudden stretching.
After she had stretched, she yawned as her jaws opened, getting ready for the next two levels.
When she is done, she took out her flashlight from her sweater pocket, turning it on and walked down the steps.
Heading to the next level of the game she is in with the creatures of the night.