The next morning…
Once again opening her eyes, Amanda noticed that Zosha was on the edge of the bed and watching Tv.
"...and it doesn't seem like the heat will relent anytime soon, today's high is 95° with the index at 110°…" The news reporter says.
"Early August in Florida for ya." Amanda mutters, Zosha turning to her as the door opened and Finn walked into the room, sitting down and kissing Amanda on her forehead.
But Amanda had a feeling something was off and checked her phone, seeing several missed calls from Roman and dialed his number.
"You okay, kiddo?!" Roman asks.
"A bit hungover but okay… why did you call several times and not leave a voicemail? What's wrong, someone go missing?" Amanda says.
"Yeah… Seth as well as Chris Jericho." Roman says.
"Damn… Jess has to be worried sick and so do the kids, it's not like Chris to just drop off the face of the earth. And when was the last time you heard from Seth?" Amanda says, Zosha listening closer to a distant conversation.
"So damn dark in here… where the hell are we?! Seth, you stupid idiot, wake your ass up!"
"Damn it, Chris, what you kick my leg for?!"
"We gotta get outta here and find Amanda so you can apologize!"
"If I find her in Balor's bed, an apology's going straight out the window and so is he!"
"Zosha… you okay?" Amanda asks, lowering the phone.
"Yeah, just…" Zosha says before holding her hands either side of Amanda's face. "Listen." She says, in a low voice and halfway hissing, a touch aggressive… and quite quickly, she was seeing what Zosha was.
"Ow, what the hell was that for, fuckwad?!" Seth shouted after Chris punched him.
"You need to get a grip! Amanda didn't tell you and why was that?! Because you go crazy overprotective and try to kill any other man who tries to be friends with her!" Chris yells.
"Oh and you don't?! You said it yourself that she's like a niece to you!" Seth yells.
Amanda tried to close her eyes and shut it out, Zosha knowing that it wasn't easy to see.
"Do you want it to stop?" Zosha asks.
Amanda nodded, Zosha shutting the image off.
"Where are they exactly and how did they end up there?!" Amanda asks after opening her eyes, tears streaming down her face.
"I don't know…" Zosha says, Amanda managing to stand up on numb legs.
"We have to find them." Amanda says, Zosha and Finn stopping her as they knew that Amanda's mind was still jumbled up like a jigsaw puzzle.
"There's some kind of…" Zosha starts to say, pausing before her eyes clenched shut and she was screaming in agony, her hands pressed to the sides of her head.
"Zosha, what's wrong?!" Amanda asks, instinctively picking Zosha up in her arms and trying to comfort her as Finn helped Amanda sit down and lightly rubbed Zosha's left shoulder to calm her screaming.
"Something's… attacking me… he's crushing my mind!" Zosha manages to say, still in agony… before what happened next made everyone step back as her head shot up, her eyes shining red as she jumped out of Amanda's arms. "YOU ARE ALL HELPLESS! PATHETIC MAN AND WOMAN, IGNORANT TO THE REAL WORLD AROUND YOU!" She yells in a growly demonic voice.
"Zosha, calm down-" Amanda says, cut off by Zosha kicking her and sending her crashing into the wall.
"Hey, what the hell was that for?!" Finn yells, running to Amanda and helping her up as the red faded from Zosha's eyes. "Mandy, you alright?" He asks, an arm around her back and his hand on the side of her face.
"I can't…" Zosha struggles to say, collapsing to her hands and knees gasping for air with tears in her eyes, a small trail of dark purple blood flowing from her nose.
"Zosha…" Amanda says, reaching out to her and Zosha looking up, cringing as she realised that the force of the petite brunette hitting the wall had jarred her back.
"Get her to the hospital… I'm gonna go find those two." Zosha says.
"By yourself? You're bleeding and you were talking like a damn demon!" Finn says.
"And I just nearly broke your friend's spine! Hospital, go!" Zosha says, the last part being authoritative and Finn helped Amanda outside and into the car as Zosha took off on her own.
"She'll be okay…" Finn says as he started up the car and drove to the hospital, Amanda looking back.
"She was bleeding, what if she has a brain aneurysm or a fractured skull?!" Amanda asks, remembering that the last time she saw someone bleeding from their nose, it was Rey Mysterio and his head had been trapped in a vice like grip.
Amanda's phone rang, her answering it.
"Where are you guys? The room is trashed!" Natia says.
"That little drifter we helped… she flipped out for a second, sent Amanda flying into the wall. She found out where the others are and something took over." Finn says.
"Fuck! Where'd she take off to?" Joe says.
Meanwhile…
'Okay… where are you two?' Zosha thought as she looked around where she had ended up at… before hearing Seth shout "SOMEONE GET US OUTTA HERE!" and running to where he and Chris were.
"Who the hell are you?!" Chris asks, hiding behind Seth.
"A mutual friend… look, I'm gonna help you guys get out of here and to Amanda." Zosha says.
"Is Mandy okay?! Where is she?!" Seth asks.
"There was a minor accident, she hurt her back-" Zosha says.
"Someone hurting their back is not a minor accident!" Seth says angrily, Zosha slapping him. "What was that for?!" He demands, rubbing his face.
"You need to get a grip! She's as worried about you as you both are about her so we're getting out of this place! Got it?!" Zosha says.
"Yeah… but just how in hell's name are we getting out of this place?" Seth says.
"Well… I was kind of hoping you could answer that for yourselves. I've got work here, something hit me with impossibly strong telepathic abilities, completely took control of me for a good half minute." Zosha says.
"We don't even remember ending up here, let alone how we got here!" Chris says.
"Well then… first let's see where here is." Zosha says before raising her gun and firing into the darkness, forming a levitating glowing ball of energy… which illuminated the massive stone world they were in. It was like a dormant city built into the rock, bridges joining between the walls and on the ground behind them, a pit so deep that the bottom was distantly shrouded in darkness.
"Where exactly are we, little lady?" Seth asks.
"Ancient legends of Zorol spoke of this place… I don't think that this is Earth, you two." Zosha says.
"Well how do we get back to Orlando?" Chris asks.
"That, I'm not sure about yet… I've pulled off some impressive things before in my life, especially in my war years." Zosha says.
"War years? You look like you're how old, 10? 11?" Seth says, Zosha slapping him on his arm. "Hey, I'm 30 years old! I don't need to be slapped on the wrist like a child!" He says, rubbing his right arm.
"Ignore him, he's driven Mandy past the point of madness… and into the arms of another man." Chris says, Seth hitting him.
"It's not that far into their relationship… yet." Zosha says.
"Yeah, you say that now and then the next thing I'll hear is that they ran off and eloped!" Seth growls.
"They'll only do that if you push them to that point, Seth." Chris says, him and Seth following Zosha and Zosha listening to a distant thought trail.
"Cause I know what it means… to walk along the lonely street of dreams."
"Hey… snap outta it!" Seth says, Zosha turning to him. "What the hell happened just a second ago with you?" He asks.
"Your injured friend distracting herself with old music." Zosha says.
"Whitesnake?" Seth says.
"Yeah… now where…" Zosha says before all three heard a loud screech and Seth and Chris screamed in fright, Zosha clamping her hands to their mouths. "Quiet! Do you want it eating you?!" She hissed, the two mumbling no and Zosha dropping her hands to her sides.
"What is that thing, why is it angry?!" Seth whispered.
"Because… if the legends are true, that is the Devil." Zosha says.
"The… the devil?! Then we need to get back on Earth!" Chris says in a low and panicked tone.
"Yeah… you'll need a lot of rope to climb up that 12 mile tunnel first." Zosha says, pointing up to a seemingly never ending vertical tunnel.
Looking around, Seth found the rope and handed it to Zosha, who swung it up and started climbing, Seth and Chris following her.
"Starting to wish I had taken Mandy's suggestion to go rock climbing with her last week!" Seth growled as his healed up knee hit the tunnel. "How you two holding up?" He asks.
"Not so bad… you think you're hurting now, wait til you're my age, I'm nearing 50." Chris says, which confused Zosha as she thought Chris was only 35.
"You sure as hell don't look it." Zosha says.
"And how old are you, if you don't mind me asking again?" Seth says.
"Well… 280." Zosha says.
"The fuck?!" Seth says, brown eyes wide with shock.
"I'm not human and I'll explain it all later." Zosha says.
Climbing up further, all three saw hints of sunlight and Zosha pushed the covering up and aside, all three climbing up and covering up the portal.
"Underground… pit. What the hell?!" Seth manages to say.
"12 miles deep… my planet's legends name it The Hell Hole." Zosha says.
"Well, I never want to see that place again!" Chris says as Seth got a signal on his phone and dialed Amanda's number.
"Seth-" Finn starts to say.
"Put her on the phone, Balor!" Seth yells.
"I would but they just gave her strong painkillers and she's out cold. Her spine is okay but her back is bruised and so are a few ribs." Finn says, Zosha hearing Amanda's soft breathing over the phone.
"Out cold, what did you-" Seth starts to shout, screaming in pain and looking down as Chris pulled Zosha back. "She just bit me!" He yells, seeing blood trail down his right leg.
"What the hell's going on? Who bit who?" All three heard a half awake Amanda ask once the phone was on speaker, Zosha snatching Seth's phone from him.
"Your idiot friend was mouthing off." Zosha says, Amanda waking up completely.
"Are you all okay?!" Amanda asks.
"We're fine… we ended up in a pit. A very deep and… Scary pit." Zosha says.
"And now that we're outta there, we're not telling anyone else what happened! They'd lock us in a mental ward!" Seth says.
"Maybe just him." Finn says quietly, Amanda snickering and playfully hitting him. "Hey, watch it!" He says, Zosha smiling slightly.
"You two make sure you never lose touch." Zosha says.
"And what about-" Seth starts to say, Zosha glaring at him and Seth shutting up. Zosha hung up and her and the others headed to the E.R in Florida Memorial, finding Amanda in one of the rooms and scratching at her I.V, Finn stopping her and lightly tracing his thumb over the back of her right hand.
"Going crazy here?" Chris asks as they hug, Amanda nodding.
"Massive pileup on I-4, happened 20 minutes ago." Amanda says, the two letting go and her and Seth hugging but it was a tense hug and Zosha knew that things weren't patched up between the two friends.