I swim to the top of the pull and start coughing up water when I reach the top. Seth is at the edge of the pool with a soaking wet Brett who is coughing. I swim over to them and pull myself out of the disgusting pool. I cringe as I smell the odor coming off of me and Seth takes it all in stride. Brett looks to me with a raised eyebrow.
"Are you alright?" I ask Brett.
"Yeah. I'm fine. You?" He asks. I nod my head. Seth sighs and starts to move towards me.
"Lift your shirt," Seth commands and I look at him as if he's nuts.
"I am not lifting my shirt!" I snap at him.
"You were hit in front and back by leviathan. You were also flung into a wall. Lift. Your. Shirt," Seth said more slowly, I lift my shirt and Brett winces at what he sees. I know I don't have a six pack but he doesn't have to wince. I look down at my stomach to see a large bruise forming across it.
"You are going to be sore when your adrenaline slows down," Seth exclaims.
I groan in frustration as Brett gets up. I lower my shirt back down and we head towards the door to regroup with the others.
As we open the door Roman walks over to me and pulls me into a hug. I jump in pain and Roman immediately lets go.
"Did I harm you?" Roman asks and I shake my head. His eyes narrow as he sniffs my hair. I pull back and he growls.
"What are you doing?" I ask. I know I stunk from being dunked into the pool but it was weird to have someone I barely knew touching and sniffing me.
"You smell like Lilith," Roman growled.
"Jealous?" A woman said from the corner of the room. The woman's dark hair was in a bun but her purple eyes made me shiver.
"Belial, what do you want?" Seth said looking at the woman.
"Looking to see what has Lilith in a mood," Belial said standing straight up. I reach for my gun not even sure it's going to work when it was dunked in the pool with me.
"Calm down. I mean no harm," Belial said as she nods to me.
"I have a hard time believing that," Sean said looking at the woman.
"I am not my sister. Nor am I my father. I am curious as to why a bunch of humans are in this castle," Belial said walking towards us. Skylar stood holding her scythe, ready for anything.
"Some idiot put this death trap for sale," Brett said. Belial stopped and started laughing like a maniac. Roman and Seth walked in front of us and glanced at the phycotic woman.
"Seems father has been busy," Belial says smiling. Roman growled and Seth glanced towards us.
"Your father?" Sean asked not putting two and two together. I groaned at his stupidity.
"Lucifer," I said in a whisper.
"Awe. She knows something. Maybe there is hope for you yet! But father likes to be called the Dark Prince," Belial said smiling widely at me.
"How do you know that?" Brett asks.
"Have you read ANY part of the bible?" I ask. Roman smirks at this and I run ma hand over my face.
"Yeah but I never heard of any of this," Brett said.
"That's because some of us are not just written in Christian bibles. We come from stories of the underworld. Some from Dante's inferno and many other religious beliefs," Belial said smirking.
"Wait. So we are in the place where the stories of nightmares began?" Skylar asks.
"Pretty much. Your lucky though. Vampires, zombies, and many other creatures are on the lower levels. You are basically on the safest level right now," Belial said. I paled at her words. In the past twelve hours we had been attacked by giant wolves, guys with scythes, a woman who reminds me of Medusa, and leviathan. If that is safe I would hate to see the lower levels.
"Why did your father place this house of horrors for sale?" Sean asks.
"He was bored," Belial shrugs. At this point I wanted to strangle her. If this was his meaning of fun I would hate to see him angry.
"Great. Just let us out and he can go back to his boredom," I say glancing from Seth, who looks bored, to Roman, who winces, to Belial, who frowns.
"I... can't do that," Belial said finally becoming serious.
"Why?" Skylar asks.
"The front door is locked by my father. The only way out is to get his approval," Belial said.
"Are you fucking kidding me?! How the hell are we supposed to do that?" Brett exclaimed rather loudly.
"Win his game," Belial said.
"Game?" I ask.
"Make it to him without being killed," Roman said finally speaking.
A/n: please review! I am curious in what you think of the story. Thank you for reading!